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A Very Merry Christmas to You

2012 will be a some what unusual year because there are a number of things that occur in 2012 that makes this year interesting as well as unusual. Starting this January, Sunday, January 1 is the first of two "1st Sunday after Christmas" to occur in 2012. The second "1st Sunday after Christmas" will of course, be in December. As we know, 2012 will be a Presidential Election Year, a Leap Year and a year with 53 Sundays. We will tell you all about these things as they happen during the year.

There are a number of birthdays of well known people this month. Those listed in our Notable Days, begin with Martin Luther King, Jr. who was born January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. Rev. King was a Baptist minister and a prominent civil rights activist beginning early in his career. Among other things he led the march on Washington in 1963 where he delivered his now famous "I Have A Dream" speech. In 1964 King became the youngest person to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his work to end racial segregation and discrimination through non-violent means. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was established as a U.S. Federal holiday in 1986.

Robert E. Lee was born January 19, 1807 in Stratford Hall, Virginia. He was the son of Revolutionary War officer Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee III and a top graduate of the U.S. Military Academy. Lee distinguished himself as an exceptional officer in the U.S. Army for 32 years. He served throughout the United States but when Virginia declared its secession from the Union in 1861 Lee chose to follow his home state despite the fact that President Abraham Lincoln had offered him command of the Union Army. After the Civil War, Lee became President of what is now Washington and Lee University and supported President Andrew Johnson's program of Reconstruction. Lee's popularity grew even in the North especially after his death in 1870. Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882 and became the 32nd President of the United States serving from 1933-1945 after serving as the 44th Governor of New York from 1929-1932. After 1938, as World War II loomed, FDR, while remaining officially neutral, gave strong financial and diplomatic support to the Allies. After the 1941 Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor FDR called it "a date which will live in infamy". The declining health of FDR in the later years of his presidency was not well known and on April 12, 1945 President Roosevelt died of a massive stroke. Less than a month after his death, the war in Europe ended and soon after, Japan surrendered. Roosevelt was honored in a number of ways after his death. In 1966 the U.S. Postal Service honored FDR with a Prominent Americans series six cents postage stamp.

As Blum's Almanac begins its 184th year of publication we wish for each of you a very happy and prosperous New Year!

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