January 21st, 2022

Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Jan.21st through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories. 

It's National:
International Sweatpants Day

Today in History:
1903-Harry Houdini escapes from Halvemaansteeg police station in Amsterdam
1941-1st commercial extraction of magnesium from seawater, Freeport, Texas
1962-Snow falls in San Francisco
1967-US male Figure Skating championship won by Gary Visconti
1979-Neptune becomes outermost planet (Pluto moves closer)
1985- -19°F (-28°C), Caesar's Head, South Carolina (state record)
1985- -34°F (-37°C), Mt Mitchell, North Carolina (state record)
2004-NASA's MER-A (the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February 6.
2007-Awashima Marine Park in Japan catches a video tape of the rare frilled shark.
2020-World's oldest asteroid impact at 2.2 billion years old found in Yarrabubba, Western Australia, may have ended an ice age, reported in "Nature Communications"
 
Celebrities Birthdays:
John Doucette, American actor
Paul Scofield, English actor
Geena Davis, American actress
Charlotte Ross, actress
Barney Clark, 1st to receive a permanent artificial heart
Emma Bunton [Baby Spice],
Chris Britton, British rock guitarist
Richie Havens, American singer-songwriter, and guitarist who opened the Woodstock Festival
Plácido Domingo, Spanish opera and Latin tenor, conductor and artistic director
 
Movies Released on this day:
1982 Shaolin Temple"
 
Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.