Feb 18

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Feb 18, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 49
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1977]   Record Low: -11°[1942]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
  Ansel Adams

Harper’s Index
2- Number of Irula tribesmen the state of Florida hired from India in February last year to hunt invasive Burmese pythons

33- Number of pythons they helped capture
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Observances This Week
12-18
Love a Mensch Week

14-21
National Condom Week Link
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

15-19
American Association For The Advancement of Science Week  Link

16-25
Date (Fruit) Week

16-19
Great Backyard Bird Count Link

17-24
National Entrepreneurship Week Link
National FFA Week Link

18-24
Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link

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Observances for Today
National Battery Day (Volta's birthday)
Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day
Daytona 500
Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day 
Link
National Drink Wine Day Link
National Hate Florida Day Link
Pluto  Day (Planet is Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh)  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1400’s                                          
1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London (allegedly by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine).


1500’s
1503 Henry Tudor (later Henry VIII) created Prince of Wales
1519 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with 11 ships and 500 men

1600’s
1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in Holborn, London, by Nathaniel Ponder
1685 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.

1700’s
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness, Scotland

1800’s
1804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
1856 The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.
1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davisinaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)
1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty
1885 Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US

1900’s
1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
1908 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
1913 French modernist painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel Duchamp causes an uproar when shown in New York
1930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California
1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California
1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1968 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
1988 Anthony Kennedy, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
1998 Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.
1998 Andrea Bocelli makes his operatic debut as Rodolfo in "La bohème" at the Teatro Comunale in Cagliari

2000’s
2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison
2009 English fantasy author Terry Pratchett receives a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace
2013 $50 million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium
2014 Police clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand
2016 Pope Francis questions US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border
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My Rambling Thoughts
Quiet and beautiful day here. Light jacket is all that was needed for a walk around. Then some light cleaning.

Still enjoying the Olympics. Americans having a few bumps, but I am watching the top athletes of each sport. Back story for athletes is also very informative. The intensity is outstanding.
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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

90’s
@90- Enzo Ferrari,
racing car manufacturer,
(d. 1988)
@90- Helen Gurley Brown,
American author/publisher and
editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan,
born in Green Forest, Arkansas,
(d. 2012)

80’s
@87- Jack Palance [Vladimir Palahniuk],
American actor (City Slickers, Contempt, Batman),
born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania
(d. 2006)
87- Toni Morrison,
novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
85- Yoko Ono Lennon [Mrs John Lennon],
Japanese singer and artist,
born in Tokyo
@82- Alessandro Volta,
Italian physicist and inventor of the 1st battery,
born in Como, Italy (d. 1827)

70’s
@79- Jacques Cassini,
French astronomer (rings of Saturn)
(d. 1756)
@76- Johnny Hart,
cartoonist (B.C., Wizard of Id),
born in Endicott, NY
while at his drawing table (d. 2007)
@70- André Breton,
French writer and poet,
founder of Surrealism,
born in Tinchebray, France
(d. 1966)
@70- Bill Cullen,
TV game show host (over 20 different games)
lung cancer (d. 1990)

60’s
68- Cybill Shepherd,
actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show),
born in Memphis
66- Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen],
American vocalist (Angel of the Morning),
born in Virginia
64- John Travolta,
American actor (Grease, Pulp Fiction),
born in Englewood, NJ
61- Vanna White, [Rosich],
TV host (Wheel of Fortune)

50’s
@59- John Hughes,
American film director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller),
born in Lansing, Michigan
(d. 2009)
54- Matt Dillon,
actor (The Outsiders, Crash),
born in New Rochelle, NY
53- Dr. Dre, [Andre Romelle Young],
American rapper and record producer
(Still D.R.E., The Next Episode),
born in Compton
50- Molly Ringwald,
actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)

40’s
@42- Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary],
Greenwich, queen of England
cancer?\influenza (d. 1558)
44- Jillian Michaels,
American fitness instructor and television personality
(The Biggest Loser),
born in Los Angeles

20’s
@25- George "The Gipper" Gipp,
football star (Notre Dame)
strep throat (d. 1920)
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Historical Obits Today

90’s
@99-2014 Maria Franziska von Trapp,
Austrian-born American singer
@90-1902 Charles Lewis Tiffany,
American founder of Tiffany & Co.

80’s
@88-1564 Michelangelo,
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and
poet of the High Renaissance
(David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel)

70’s
@78-1294 Kublai Khan,
Mongol Emperor (1260-94) and
founder of the Yuan dynasty in China (1271-94)
@75-1906 John Batterson Stetson,
American manufacturer hatter
@71-1977 Andy Devine [    Andrew Vabre Devine],
American character actor
(Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Stagecoach)
leukaemia

60’s
@69-2017 Norma McCorvey,
American abortion activist (Jane Roe in Roe vs Wade)
later became pro-life,
heart failure
@62-1967 Robert Oppenheimer,
American theoretical physicist
father of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project)
 throat cancer 
@62-1546 Martin Luther,
German theologian
key figure in the Protestant Reformation
stroke

40’s
@49-2001 Dale Earnhardt,
American race car driver
car crash at Daytona 500 race
@49-1957 Joseph G. Hamilton,
American Physician
pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment radiation induced leukemia 

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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