Tidbits of Trivia to start the week.

11 Jul Tidbits of Trivia to start the week.

On this day in….

We thought you might enjoy a bit of trivia.  So here are a few exciting dates we discovered.  On July 11th….

* 1750 – Halifax NS is almost completely destroyed by fire.

* 1776 – Captain James Cook begins his third voyage.

* 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

* 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico is founded.

* 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

* 1914 – Babe Ruth makes his debut in Major League baseball.

* 1919 – The eight-hour working day and free Sunday become law in the Netherlands.

* 1922 – The Hollywood Bowl opens.

* 1930 – Australian cricketer Don Bradman scores a world record 309 runs in one day, on his way to the highest individual Test innings of 334, during a Test Match against England.

* 1936 – The Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.

* 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

* 1962 – First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

* 1977 – Martin Luther King Jr. is posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

And another interesting tidbit is that today is World Population Day.  It is an annual event which seeks to raise awareness of global population issues. The event was established by the Governing Council of the United Nations Development Program in 1989. It was inspired by the public interest in Five Billion Day on July 11, 1987, approximately the date on which the world’s population reached five billion people.  The world population on the 20th anniversary of Five Billion Day, July 11, 2007, was estimated to have been 6,727,551,263.

As Canada’s Flower City, Brampton is the second fastest growing and 11th largest city in Canada. In 2006, Brampton had a total population of 433,806, an increase of 33.3% from the 2001 Census.  Combined with an aging population, we are expecting the need for nutritious meals from Brampton Meals on Wheels to grow.

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Georgia Mouka, Brampton Meals on Wheels Volunteer Blogger