Rosalinda Morgan, "The Rose Lady",'s Blog

 

Copyright © 2010.  By Rosalinda Morgan, "The Rose Lady".  All rights reserved. *"JAKE" SWIMMING IN THE SNOW* 

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The first day of the year is always a day of roses and music for me.  I watch the Tournament of the Rose parade in the morning and then the New Year's Celebration in Vienna in the evening.  This is probably the only day I watch TV most of the day.  I don't usually watch TV but on New Year Day, I indulge myself.  

I was awed by the spectacular rose parade this morning and the flowers on those floats were phenomenal and beautiful, I could almost smell the fragrance.  Capt. Chelsey "Sully" Sullenberger was the Grand Marshall and the theme this year is "Cut Above the Rest" which fits the bill for the pilot who landed his plane on the Hudson River and saved all 155 passengers.  Last year, I posted a blog on the history of the Tournament of Roses Parade.  Here is the link to it:

http://activerain.com/blogsview/855680/history-of-the-rose-parade

At night I watched the New Year's Celebration in Vienna at 9 PM on Channel 13.  I've been a fan of this show from way back when Walter Cronkite used to do it.  Julie Andrews is now hosting it.  It was a wonderful program full of Strauss music.  Traditionally, there are three selections to the encore and Radetsky's March is part of the encore and ends the program. Having been to Vienna and saw some of the sights there and even went to a Ball at Hapsburg Palace, Vienna has a soft spot in my heart for me.  Those waltzes and polkas make me want to go back.

Copyright © 2010.  By Rosalinda Morgan, "The Rose Lady".  All rights reserved. *NEW YEAR'S DAY - A DAY OF ROSES AND MUSIC* 

If you are interested in selling or buying a home in Brookville, Muttontown, O yster Bay, East Norwich, Oyster Bay Cove, Syosset, Laurel Hollow, Bayville, Centre Island and Mill Neck, please contact Rosalinda Morgan, "The Rose Lady". 

Ph - 516-385-0584

Email - linda@rosalindamorgan.com

Website - www.rosalindamorgan.com

Throughout history, there are some significant events that happened on the first day of the year.  Here are few of them:

1583 - 1^st day of the Gregorian calendar in Holland and Flanders

1622 - Papal Chancery adopts Jan. 1 as beginning of the year

1673 - Regular mail delivery begins between New York and Boston

1772 - First traveller's check issued (London)

1776 - General George Washington hoists the Continental Union Flag

1788 - Quakers in Pennsylvania emancipate their slaves

1797 - Albany replaces New York City as capital of NY

1808 - Congress prohibits importation of slaves

1818 - Official reopening of the White House

1847 - Michigan becomes the first state to abolish capital punishment

1852 - First U.S. public bath opens in New York City

1862 - First U.S. income tax goes into effect

1863 - Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery issued by President Lincoln

1880 - Building of Panama Canal begins

1892 - Ellis Island becomes reception center for new immigrants

1907 - Theodore Roosevelt shakes a record 8513 hands in one day

1908 - First time ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square

1913 - Post Office begins parcel post deliveries

1914 - First scheduled airline flight, from St. Petersburg to Tampa, Florida

1934 - Alcatraz officially becomes a federal prison

1960 - Johnny Cash plays first of many free concerts from behind prison bars

1968 - Evil Knievel fails in his attempt to jump the Caesar's Palace fountain

1971 - Cigarette advertising banned on radio and television

1975 - Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell, and Mardian convicted of Washington Watergate crimes

1977 - First woman (Jacqueline Means) is formally ordained as Episcopal priest

1985 - U.S. first mandatory seat belt law goes into effect (New York)

1990 - David Dinkins is sworn in as the first black mayor of New York City

1995 - Last "Far Side" by cartoonist Gary Larson

2002 - The Euro becomes the official currency for most of Europe

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

 

If you are interested in selling or buying a home in Brookville, Muttontown, Oyster Bay, East Norwich, Oyster Bay Cove, Syosset, Laurel Hollow, Bayville, Centre Island and Mill Neck, please contact Rosalinda Morgan, "The Rose Lady". 

Ph - 516-385-0584

Email - linda@rosalindamorgan.com

Website - www.rosalindamorgan.com