TUESDAY JANUARY 29TH.2013

Good Day folks....hope you had a good week-end...We have a mild -3 at present and very crusty snow on the ground. We had a few avalanches from our metal roof overnight making quite the booms. It looks like we are in for quite a mixed bag of weather over the next couple of days. Some very interesting things happened on this date including Yonge St. being named in 1796. Imagine the potholes back then.
In 1885 Karl Benz patented the automobile.
In 1946 The Bluenose sank...ON THIS DATE...it had been built in Lunenburgh Nova Scotia. She was built to be a racing ship and fishing vessel, in response to the defeat of the Nova Scotian Fishing Schooner Delawana by the Gloucester, Massachusetts fishing schooner Esperanto in 1920, in a race sponsored by the Halifax Herald newspaper. She lost a race in 1930 but after that, no challenger, American or Canadian, could wrest the International Fishermen's Trophy from her for 17 years .She was no mere racing ship, but also a general fishing craft that was worked hard throughout her lifetime.

Fishing schooners became obsolete during the 1930s and unfortunately she was Sold out-of-country in 1942 to become a tramp schooner in the Caribbean Laden with bananas, she struck a coral reef off Haiti on January 28, 1946. Wrecked beyond repair, with no loss of life, she was abandoned on the reef. In 1963 a replica of Bluenose was built at Lunenburg using the original Bluenose plans and named Bluenose II. One thing that is little known is The "Bluenose could STOP ON A DIME.
In 1936, The Baseball Hall of Fame opened in Cooperstown NY. The first inductees were Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and Honus Wagner. No one was elected to the Hall of Fame this year. When voters closed the doors to Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa, they also shut out everybody else.For only the second time in four decades, baseball writers failed to give any player the 75 per cent required for induction to Cooperstown, sending a powerful signal that stars of the Steroids Era will be held to a different standard.
On this date in 1980, the world first learned The Canadian Embassy hid 6 Americans from Iranian Militants for more than 2 months, then smuggled them out of Iran. In 2003 the Americans screwed up what happened just to make a movie slanted more their way. With friends like that who needs enemas.
In our birthday file today....Tom Selleck is 68 and still on TV..hockey's Pat Quinn is 70, Oprah  is 59 and W.C. Fields was born on this date in 1880...no trew to the rumour the english call their Septic Beds..... W.C. fields.
Have a super day....Mornin' everybody...Mornin'