Bethel Daily Briefing: Friday February 17, 2012

TODAY IS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2012

WEATHER from National Weather Service

Friday: A chance of rain or drizzle before 7am, then a chance for drizzle before ending. Mostly cloudy, then gradually becoming sunny, with a high near 48. West wind between 5 and 11 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30 percent.

Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 24. West wind between 6 and 10 mph.

DEEP THOUGHTS from Webster's Quotationary 

I am not young enough to know everything.

J.M. Barrie, The Admirable Crichton

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Teen Center will be holding a Sleep Over tonight.  Check website for details. www.bethelproaccess.org

66 Days Until Earth Day. Submit your Earth Day events here.

Did you know that parent involvement in education is the one of the strongest indicators of whether a child will succeed in school? Danbury Children First

New Business? Planning an event? Proud of someone? Send in your announcements and we will let the world know!

MUNICIPAL MEETINGS:

No meetings tonight

GARDENING HINTS from Old Farmer's Almanac

 Do not prune spring-flowering plants until after they bloom. When pruning, never remove more than 1/4 of the total plant.

TODAY IN HISTORY from On This Day

1801 - The U.S. House of Representatives broke an electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr. Jefferson was elected president and Burr became vice president.

 1817 - The first gaslit streetlights appeared on the streets of Baltimore, MD.

 1865 - Columbia, SC, burned. The Confederates were evacuating and the Union Forces were moving in.

 1876 - Julius Wolff was credited with being the first to can sardines.

 1878 - In San Francisco, CA, the first large city telephone exchange opened. It had only 18 phones.

 1897 - The National Congress of Mothers was organized in Washington, DC, by Alice McLellan Birney and Phoebe Apperson Hearst. It was the forerunner of the National PTA.

 1924 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 100-yard freestyle. He did it with a time of 57-2/5 seconds in Miami, FL.

 1933 - "Newsweek" was first published.

 1933 - Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead three years after Chic Young’s popular strip first debuted.

 1934 - The first high school automobile driver’s education course was introduced in State College, PA.

 1964 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that congressional districts within each state had to be approximately equal in population. (Westberry v. Sanders)

 1965 - Comedienne Joan Rivers made her first guest appearances on " The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson" on NBC-TV.

 1968 - The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA.

 1985 - U.S. Postage stamp prices were raised from 20 cents to 22 cents for first class mail.

 1992 - In Milwaukee, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to life in prison. In November of 1994, he was beaten to death in prison.

 1997 - Pepperdine University announced that Kenneth Starr was leaving the Whitewater probe to take a full-time job at the school. Starr reversed the announcement four days later.

 2005 - U.S. President George W. Bush named John Negroponte as the first national intelligence director.

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