December 17th, 2021

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Dec.17th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
National Maple Syrup Day

Today in History:
1903-The Wright brothers make the 1st sustained motorized aircraft flight at 10:35 AM, piloted by Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
1965-David Levy begins his search for comets
1965-Largest newspaper-Sunday NY Times at 946 pages (50 cents)
1969-USAF closes Project Blue Book, concluding no evidence of extraterrestrial spaceships behind thousands of UFO sightings
1976-Superstation WTBS in Atlanta went national
1977-Bobby Simpson scores 176 Australia v India at the WACA, aged 41
1993-Kevin Scott skates world record 1000 m (1:12.54)
2012-NASA completes a successful mission to map the Moon’s gravity field
2019-Australia has its hottest day ever with average temperature of 40.9 across the country
2019-China's 1st domestically built aircraft carrier, the Shandong, enters naval service
2020-China's Chang'e-5 mission successfully returns from collecting rock samples from the Moon, landing in Siziwang Banner, Mongolia
Celebrities Birthdays:
Mackenzie King, 10th Prime Minister of Canada
Benedictine, A St. Bernard dog who grew to become the heaviest known dog (137 kg)
DJ Homicide [Craig Anthony bullock], American DJ
Dave Madden, Canadian-born American actor
George Lindsey, American actor
Ernie Hudson, Benton Harbor MI, actor
Bill Pullman, American actor
Laurie Holden, American actress
Sarah Paulson, American actress
Paul Rodgers, English-Canadian rock singer and musician
Robert "Bob" Stinson, American rock guitarist
Neil Sanderson, Canadian drummer
 
Movies Released on this day:
1964 "Goldfinger",
2014 "The Interview",

Songs Released on this day:
1996 "In My Bed" Dru Hill
 
Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.