Apr. 1

Happy Easter

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Apr 1, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 91

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Nearest Lightning:  1586 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1966]   Record Low: 2°[1970]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Change in the world comes from individuals, from the inner peace in individual hears. Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

  Dali Lama

Harper’s Index

1/2  Estimated portion of Internet users in China

who have livestreamed themselves.

560,000  Number of teenagers who participated in the

Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in 2017

NEW Observances This Month

Adopt A Ferret Month
Adopt A Greyhound Month Link
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Arab American Heritage Month Link

Observances This Week

1-7

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Bat Appreciation Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
National Blue Ribbon Week  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link 
World Hula Week
Explore Your Career Options

Observances for Today

April Fool's Day or All Fools Day
Atheist Day Link
Boomer Bonus Days
Easter Sunday  for Christians
International Fun at Work Day

International Tatting Day Link
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Fun Day
Plum Pudding Day Link 
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day Link
US Air force Academy Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1693 Cotton Mather's four-day-old son dies, and witchcraft is blamed

1700’s                                          

✪1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre

1778 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol

1800’s                                          

1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to employ fulltime professional firefighters

1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect

✪1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris

1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)

✪1891 French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti

1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

1900’s                                          

✪1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government

1916 1st US national women's swimming championships held

✪1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated 

1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice

1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo

✪1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2

✪1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow

1954 US Air Force Academy established

✪1966 Loyalist led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee to challenge the civil rights movement; it set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers

1967 The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.

✪1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California

✪1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama

1991 US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race

2000’s                                          

✪2002 The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.

✪2004 Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date.

✪2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

✪2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm

My Rambling Thoughts

I’m looking forward to our local paper tomorrow. Every year they have a great April Fool’s story for locals.

Speaking of April Fool’s Pranks, I remember when KOA Denver radio did apiece on taking the gold leaf off the Capitol building to pay its debts (back in the 70’s), and the 50’s video announcing a bumper spaghetti crop because of a hard working women in Switzerland…it even showed Italian women picking spaghetti off their ancient spaghetti trees during better times.

And Happy Easter to all my Christian friends.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@84- Debbie Reynolds,

American actress

(Kathy Selden-Singin' in the Rain,

The Unsinkable Molly Brown),

born in El Paso, Texas

(d. 2016)

@84- Stan Weston,

US toy licensing agent,

had concept for G.I. Joe,

born in Brooklyn

(d. 2017)

@83- Otto von Bismarck,

German chancellor (1866-90)

helped unify Germany,

born in Schönhausen, Prussia

(d. 1898)

70’s

@79- William Harvey,

English physician (discovered blood circulation),

born in Folkestone, Kent

(d. 1657)

@71- Gordon Jump,

actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains),

born in Dayton, Ohio

respiratory failure (d. 2003)

@71- Wangari Maathai,

Kenyan environmentalist and political activist,

founder of the Green Belt Movement,

recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) and

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2006),

born in Ihithe village, Kenya

ovarian cancer (d. 2011)

60’s

68- Samuel Alito,

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

61- Andreas Deja,

major animator at Disney

50’s

57- Susan Boyle,

singer

@56- Edgar Wallace,

English novelist, playwright and

journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men)

created King Kong,

born in Greenwich, England

sudden severe headaches(d. 1932)

40’s

@47- Lon Chaney,

American actor, "man of 1000 faces"

(High Noon, Phantom of Opera)

born in Colorado Springs, CO

hemorrhage (d. 1930)

45- Rachel Maddow,

American radio personality and political analyst

Historical Obits Today

100’s

@101-2004 Aaron Bank,

American OSS officer and

founder of the US Army Special Forces

90’s

@92-1965 Helena Rubinstein,

Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer

50’s

@58-2004 Carrie Snodgress,

American actress (Diary of Mad Housewife),

liver/heart failure

40’s

@48-1917 Scott Joplin,

ragtime composer (The Entertainer),

syphilitic dementia

@45-1950 Charles R. Drew,

American surgeon (developer of the blood bank concept),

car crash 

@44-1984 Marvin Gaye,

singer (Sexual Healing), 

shot by his father

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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼

Mar 31

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Mar 31, 2018 Week: 13\ Day: 90

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 30° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  1337 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1966]   Record Low: 3°[1912]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Today’s Quote

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

  George Sand

Harper’s Index

92-Percentage of Americans who spend more than 90%

indoors or in vehicles

Observances This Week

20-4/5

National Cherry Blossom Festival

24-4/1

World Irish Dancing Week1

25-31

Holy Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
National Physicians Week Link

31-4/8

NanoDays  Link

Observances for Today

Bunsen Burner Day
Cesar Chavez Day Link
International Hug A Medielvalist Day
International Transgender Day of Visibility  Link
National Clam on the Half Shell Day

National Crayon Day Link Link
National Prom Day Link
National "She's Funny That Way" Day
Terri's Day  Link
World Backup Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan takes possession of Homohon, Archipelago of St Lazarus, Philippines

1700’s                                          

✪1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy

1736 Bellevue Hospital founded in a New York City almshouse - 1st public hospital in the US

1800’s                                          

✪1831 Quebec & Montreal incorporated

1880 1st town to claim to be completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana)

✪1889 Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris. Built for the Exposition Universelle, at 300m high it retains the record for the tallest man made structure for 41 years.

1900’s                                          

1918 1st daylight savings time in US goes into effect

1930 The Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty eight years.

1932 Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine

1933 1st newspaper published on pine pulp paper, "Soperton News" (Ga)

1933 Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps

1939 "The Hound of Baskervilles", starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson for the first time, is released

✪1943 US errantly bombs Rotterdam, kills 326

1945 Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in NYC

1953 US Department of Health, Education & Welfare established

1966 25,000 antiwar demonstrators march in NYC

✪1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)

1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson announces in an address to the nation that he will not seek re-election

1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson authorizes a troop surge in Vietnam, bringing the total number of US soldiers to a peak of 549,500

✪1970 Following an Orange Order parade, intense riots erupt on the Springfield Road in Belfast; violence lasts for three days, and the British Army use CS gas for the first time in large quantities

1980 President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry

✪1988 Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for "Beloved"

✪1994 The Journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull

1995 1st game at Coors Stadium Colo

2000’s                                          

✪2004 In Fallujah, Iraq, 4 American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed and their bodies mutilated after being ambushed.

2009 "Boom Boom Pow" single released by The Black Eyed Peas (Grammy Award for Best Music Video 2010, Billboard Song of the Year 2009)

My Rambling Thoughts

I was one of at least 100 who attended the gravesite service for well-known young (41yo) Bahe Whitehorne, Jr.  Saw a lot of Rez friends and co-workers. Bahe, Sr., an artist in his own right, walked through the crowd, thanking everyone for coming. A sad day, but glad I was able to attend.

Yesterday Mary and I had a nice lunch. She is undergoing medical tests but taking it like a trooper. I got busy shopping after our lunch and when I got home I was too tired to do this post.

For those who don’t follow tweets, 45 touted the beginning of his wall in CA. Turns out there has been a barrier there for decades, and this ‘wall’ project was funded in 2009. Oh well, he believes what he tweets and sadly so do his followers. This project wouldn’t even be on the news without 45.

It’s another really nice spring day. Even have my office window open to let in the fresh spring air.

A satellite, the size of a school bus, will re-enter the atmosphere sometime soon…Saturday or Sunday. Before you panic, most of it will burn up in our atmosphere, and the pieces that do find their way to earth will be small. The chances of being hit are about the same as winning two lotteries in a lifetime.

The cheetah video in the safari vehicle is awesome. One news commentator said that those in the vehicle were watching another cheetah on the hood of the vehicle and didn't notice it climbing in with them. Everyone remained calm and no one was hurt. A friend asked me 'how that could happen?' My response was ‘you’ve never been on a safari’. Reminded me of the time we were watching elephants, when one trumpeted close to our vehicle…a sign they are upset. We took off fast, and none of us had seen her coming up on the vehicle. It happens very easily, even with a great guide.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

84- Shirley Jones,

American actress (Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry),

born in Smithton, PA

83- Herb Alpert,

bandleader/trumpeter (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M)

70’s

@78- Liz Claiborne,

American fashion designer, entrepreneur and

founder of Liz Claiborne Inc,

born in Brussels, Belgium

cancer (d. 2007)

78- Barney Frank,

(Rep-D-MA)

@77- Franz Joseph Haydn,

prominent composer of the classical period

(The Creation/Die Schopfung),

born in Vienna

(d. 1809)

75- Christopher Walken,

American actor (The Deer Hunter, Brainstorm),

born in NYC

73- Gabe Kaplan,

American comedian and actor (Welcome Back Kotter),

born in Brooklyn

70- Al Gore,

American politician and environmentalist

(Vice President: 1993-2001),

born in Washington, D.C.

70- Rhea Perlman,

American actress (Zena in Taxi, Carla in Cheers),

born in Brooklyn

60’s

@68- Andrew Lang,

Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and

anthropologist (Andrew Lang's Fairy Books),

born in Selkirk, Scottish Borders, Scotland

heart disease (d. 1912)

@66- Cesar Chavez,

American farm labor leader (United Farm Workers),

born in Yuma, Arizona

natural causes (d. 1993)

@65- Johann Sebastian Bach,

German composer(Mattheus-Passion) [OS 21 Mar],

born in Eisenach, Germany

complications from treatment (d. 1750)

63-Angus Young,

musician (AC/DC)

50’s

@53- René Descartes,

French philosopher (he thought, therefore he was),

born in Descartes, Indre-et-Loire, France

pneumonia (d. 1650)

40’s

47- Ewan McGregor,

Scottish actor (Trainspotting, Star Wars Episodes I, II, III),

born in Perth, Scotland

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-1727 Isaac Newton,

English physicist/astronomer

70’s

@79-1978 Charles Herbert Best,

American-Canadian physiologist/co-discoverer (Insulin)

@77-1998 Bella Abzug,

American politician complications of open

heart surgery

@75-1913 J. P. Morgan, Sr. [John Pierpont],

American financier and philanthropist

(General Electric, Steel Corporation, AT&T),

in his sleep

60’s

@68-1850 John C. Calhoun, American politician, TB

@66-1980 Jesse Owens,

American track and field star

spoiled Hitler's 1936 Olympics with 4 gold medals,

lung cancer 

@65-2017 Gilbert Baker,

American gay activist, designed the rainbow flag,

heart disease

40’s

@43-1931 Knute Rockne,

football player/coach,

plane crash

30’s

@38-1855 Charlotte Brontë,

English novelist (Jane Eyre),

TB

20’s

@23-1995 Selena [Quintanilla-Pérez],

Mexican-American singer-songwriter

known as the Queen of Tejano music (Grammy-1994),

killed by a fan

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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼