I'm guessing that people are going to pay more attention to the flight attendants demonstrations in the beginning of each flight.
Here is your Today in History
January 16, 1547 -
Ivan IV was crowned Tsar of Russia. . He is better known by his nickname: Ivan the Terrible. He was the first king of Russia to call himself a Caesar, probably in the hopes that Shakespeare would write a play about him.
He couldn’t pronounce Caesar, however, so he simply called himself "zar," and subsequent arguments over whether that should be spelled czar, tsar, zar, or tzar became so heated that they eventually resulted in Russian History.
January 16, 1908 -
Ethel Merman, actress, singer and the woman who learned love at the hands of Ernest Ernest Borgnine, was born on this date.
January 16, 1920 -
Kids, as you begin this long weekend with binge drinking, save a small set of brain cells and remember that Prohibition went into effect in the U.S. on this date.
On January 16, the McClure Syndicate begins distributing a Superman newspaper comic strip, which lasts until 1966. The strip written by Jerry Siegel had the first use of the name Krypton, and Superman's parents being originally called Jor-L and Lora.
January 16, 1942 -
Raising money for the war, actress Carol Lombard and her mother are killed along with a score of others in a Las Vegas airplane crash.
January 16, 1991 -
Operation Desert Storm commences as Baghdad is pummelled live on CNN. Targeted with smartbombs are "command and control facilities" and Saddam Hussein himself.
We seem to miss both, but do manage to kill about 100,000 Iraqi soldiers in the surreal bombardments that follow.
January 16, 1959 -
Helen Folasade Adu, OBE, singer-songwriter, composer, and record producer, was born on this date.
Hopefully she record another album some day.
And so it goes.
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