January 07th, 2022

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Jan.7th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
National Bobblehead Day

Today in History:
1610-Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede
1929-"Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance in a newspaper
1929-"Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1929-French inventor Robert Bureau launches the 1st radiosonde - a battery-powered telemetry instrument carried into the atmosphere to measure various parameters and transmit them by radio to a ground receiver
1934-"Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1963-1st class postage raised from 4 cents to 5 cents
1968-Surveyor 7, the last spacecraft in the Surveyor series, lifts off
1985-Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1990-Tower of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
2018 Sydney, Australia has its hottest day for 80 years as Penrith reaches 47.3 degrees
2018 It snows in the Sahara desert - 15 inches reported in Aïn Séfra, Northwest Algeria
2019 Amazon overtakes Microsoft to become the world's most valuable listed company for the first time, worth $797 billion
 
Celebrities Birthdays:
Charles Addams, American artist and cartoonist
Peter Mokaba, South African politician
Thalassa Cruso, English-American gardening expert
Alain de Rothschild, French banker
Lionel Alexander Bethune [Alastair] Pilkington, British engineer/Industrialist
Hugh Kenner, Canadian literary critic
Roloff Beny, Canadian painter and photographer
Gerald Durrell, British naturalist, zoologist and writer
Ben Cropp, Australian shark hunter and photographer,
 
Movies Released on this day:
2011-"The King's Speech"
 
Songs Released on this day:
2003-"In Da Club"-50 Cent
 
Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.