Today is Monday, January 30, the 30th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 335 days remaining.
There are:
3 days until Groundhog
Day;
15 days until Valentine's
Day;
21 days until Presidents'
Day;
29 days until Mardi
Gras;
30 days until Ash
Wednesday;
41 days until Daylight
Saving Time begins;
46 days until St.
Patrick's Day;
49 days until the
arrival of Spring;
69 days until Palm
Sunday;
71 days until First
Day of Passover;
65 days until April
Fools' Day;
74 days until Good
Friday;
75 days until Easter
Sunday;
77 days until US Federal
Income Tax filing day;
78 days until Last
Day of Passover;
82 days until Earth
Day;
87 days until Arbor
Day;
644 days until the
2018 mid-term elections; and
1,451 days until the end of Donald
Trump's term as President, assuming he isn't impeached.
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On this date in 1969, the Beatles performed in public for the last time in a 45-minute gig on the roof of their Apple Records headquarters in London.
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Among other things, today is also Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day. Click here for virtual bubble wrap!
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Underwear-clad Florida man runs through hotel pulling fire alarm.
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As of this writing, The KGB Quotations Database contains at least 45,600 entries. Check it out.
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Some persons born on January 30 who said interesting things:
- Lloyd Alexander (1924-2007), American author;
- Saul Alinsky (1909-1972), American community organizer and writer;
- Andy Barrie (1945), Canadian radio personality;
- F.H. Bradley (1846-1924), British idealist philosopher.;
- Richard Brautigan (1935-1984), American novelist, poet, and short story writer;
- Gelett Burgess (1866-1951), artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist;
- Brett Butler (1958), American actress, writer, and stand-up comedian;
- Dick Cheney (1941), American politician and businessman who was the 46th Vice President of the United States;
- Vanessa Regrave (1937), English actress and political activist;
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945), American statesman and political leader, 32nd President of the United States from 1933-1945; and
- Barbara Tuchman (1912-1989), American historian and author.
Quote of the day:
"Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government,
and when combined with a position of power even more so."
-Barbara
Tuchman
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Watch planets orbit a star 129 light-years away.
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Scientists have confirmed a brand new form of matter: time crystals. Better hold on to your flux capacitor, though...
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For your OCD friends... Kyocera has a smartphone that can be washed with soap and water.
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In 2016, the most UFO sightings, over 150, were in Illinois. And they're apparently hanging around this year. The last sighting was January 18 in Chicago.
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Credit Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk for the use of "snowflake" as an insult.
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The former KGB general who helped a former MI6 spy compile the Donald Trump "dirty dossier" was found dead in the back of his car in Russia. Pure coincidence, undoubtedly.
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On the internet, you can find all kinds of fix-it sites. And then there's this one.
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Yeah, those kids in the 90s were really kind of dicks.
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Who's to blame for the backlash over Trump's anti-Muslim immigration policy? Why Obama, of course.
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We're still limping along with software problems, but at least we're up and running.
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