Daily Calendar for Saturday, December 27, 2025
Question of the Day
We’ve just moved into a new home, and the yard is overrun with bamboo. Is there anything we can do (besides just yanking the plants out) to get rid of it?
If you have a patch of bamboo that you want to get rid of, cut the stalks about a foot above the ground and clear away the cuttings. Fill a plastic pail roughly one-quarter full of rock salt. Fill the rest of the pail with boiling water and stir well. Pour the hot mixture into the hollow stalks. Wait a week, then dig out the bamboo stalks and roots. You may need to repeat the process. It’s tough to dig out a complete bamboo root, but this way you know you’ve killed the plant.
Advice of the Day
Use clean, empty milk jugs to store sand or commercial ice-melting products.
Home Hint of the Day
Keep a bucket of sand or kitty litter outside the door (and another in the trunk of the car) to spread for traction.
Word of the Day
Brontophobia
Fear of lightning/thunder
Puzzle of the Day
What is that which everyone likes to have but wants to get rid of as soon as possible after he gets it?
A good appetite
Born
- Johannes Kepler (astronomer) –
- Sir George Cayley (Father of Aviation) –
- Louis Pasteur (chemist) –
- Louis Bromfield (writer) –
- Charles Olson (poet) –
- Cokie Roberts (journalist) –
- Tovah Feldshuh (actress) –
- Heather O'Rourke (actress) –
- Carson Palmer (football player) –
- Emilie de Ravin (actress) –
- Timothée Chalamet (actor) –
Died
- Gustave Eiffel (architect) –
- Lester Pearson (Canadian prime minister) –
- Hoagy Carmichael (composer) –
- George Roy Hill (director) –
- Sir Alan Bates (actor) –
- Norman Schwarzkopf (Army general) –
- Carrie Fisher (actress) –
Events
- An ill youth in Rochester, New York, wrote in his diary: I don’t see no need of being sick now that school is out. Darn it! –
- Prohibitionist Carry Nation carried out her first public smashing of a bar at the Carey Hotel in Wichita, Kansas –
- J. M. Barrie’s play Peter Pan premiered in London –
- Radio City Music Hall opened in New York City –
- Rubber rationing began in the U.S. with restrictions placed on rubber tires –
- The first episode of The Howdy Doody Show aired –
- ALH 84001 Mars meteorite found in Antarctica –
- Steve Largent’s 752nd career catch set NFL record –
Weather
- Parts of Tennessee had the heaviest snowfall seen in that state in 25 years –
- 12.5 inches of snow fell in Dumas, Texas –
