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Jan 3, 2018 Week: 01\ Day: 3
86004 Today: H 52° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: overcast
Wind ave.: 10mph\Gusts: 24mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1918] Record Low: -19°[1937]
Jan Averages: 50°\23°
Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)
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Today’s Quote
Harper’s Index
27: Percentage by which a young Republican is more likely to know a millionaire than a Muslim
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Observances This Week
Drinking Straw Day
Earth at Perihelion
J.R.R. Tolkien Day
Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day
National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day Link
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Observances for Today
1-8
Diet Resolution Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
Silent Record Week
2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1400’s
1431 Joan of Arc handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon
1496 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine.
1500’s
1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Pope Leo X from the Roman Catholic Church
1700’s
1746 Bonnie Prince Charlies army leaves Glasgow, [NS=1/14]
1749 Benning Wentworth issues the first of the New Hampshire Grants, leading to the establishment of Vermont.
1777 General George Washington's revolutionary army defeats British forces at Battle of Princeton, NJ
1800’s
1825 Scottish factory owner Robert Owen buys 30,000 acres in Indiana as site for New Harmony utopian community
1842 Charles Dickens and his wife Catherine leave Liverpool, England for America on board the RMS Britannia
1852 1st Chinese arrive in Hawaii
1870 Construction begins on Brooklyn Bridge in New York; completed May 24, 1883
1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, NY
1889 German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche suffers a mental breakdown after supposedly witnessing a horse flogging
1899 The first known use of the word automobile, was seen in an editorial in The New York Times.
1900’s
1933 Minnie D. Craig becomes the first female elected as Speaker of the North Dakota House of Representatives, the first female to hold a Speaker position anywhere in the United States.
1938 March of Dimes established to fight polio
1945 Admiral Chester Nimitz begins planning assaults on Okinawa and Iwo Jima in Japan
1946 As a reward for his wartime cooperation, Governor Thomas E. Dewey commutes Charles "Lucky" Luciano's pandering sentence on condition that he does not resist deportation to Italy
1952 "Dragnet" with Jack Webb premieres on NBC TV
1956 A fire damages the top part of the Eiffel Tower.
1958 Edmund Hillary reaches South Pole overland
1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state
1962 Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro
1967 Carl Wilson of the Beach Boys is indicted for draft evasion
1970 "Mame" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 1508 performances
1977 Apple Computer, Inc incorporates
1984 Syria frees captured US pilot after appeal from Jesse Jackson
1985 Mitch McConnell becomes Senator of Kentucky
1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist, Aretha Franklin
1988 Margaret Thatcher becomes longest-serving British PM this century
1992 32 Cubans defect to the US via helicopter
1993 In Moscow, the Start II arms reduction treaty is signed by George H. W. Bush (USA) and Boris Yeltsin (Russia)
1996 1st clamshell flip mobile phone, the Motorola StarTAC, goes on sale. Eventually, 60 million are sold.
1997 The People's Republic of China announces it will spend $US27.7 billion to fight erosion and pollution in the Yangtze and Yellow river valleys
2000’s
2004 After hosting the show for over 30 years, Casey Kasem gives up the hosting duties of "American Top 40" to Ryan Seacrest
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My Rambling Thoughts
Woke to overcast sky. My neighbor asked me last evening to give him a ride to his worksite at 6:30a this morning. That’s before, way before, the sun is even thinking about lighting my world. Got up at 6a, stumbled around the dark room to the light switch, and got him to work on time. I was surprised how many people are actually out driving somewhere at that early hour. I passed the AZ Shuttle bus that I use to get to the Phx. Airport. Glad I could help out my neighbor.
Today really feels like Monday, and hopefully tomorrow will feel like Wednesday as I head out to buy groceries. That should finally get me back on my schedule.
WOW—Sara just said that 45’s time on the golf course has paid off well for his legislative agenda. Seems he plays with Senators from time to time.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@91- Victor Borge, [Borge Rosenbaum],
pianist/comedian,
born in Copenhagen Denmark,
(d. 2000)
80’s
@85- Robert Loggia,
actor (Officer & a Gentleman, Scarface),
born in Staten Island,
(d. 2015)
@81- J. R. R. Tolkien,
British author (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings),
born in Bloemfontein, South Africa
(d. 1973)
70’s
@79- Ray Milland (Alfred Reginald Jones),
Welsh actor (Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945),
born in Neath, Wales
lung cancer (d. 1986)
@78- Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge,
US First Lady (1923-29)
(d. 1929))
@77- Glen Larson,
American television producer & writer (Battlestar
Galactica, Magnum PI, & Knight Rider),
born in Long Beach, CA,
esophageal cancer(d. 2014)
73- Stephen Stills,
songwriter/guitarist (Cosby Stills & Nash),
born in Dallas, Texas
72- John Paul Jones [John Baldwin],
English rock bassist and songwriter (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven),
born in London
60’s
@69- ZaSu Pitts,
American actress (Life With Father, Dames, Wedding March),
born in Parsons, Kansas
poor health (d. 1963)
@63- Cicero,
Roman statesman and philosopher, born in Arpinum
beheaded (d. 43 BC)
62- Mel Gibson,
American actor (Mad Max, Mrs Soffel, Lethal Weapon) and filmmaker,
born in Peekskill, NY
@60- Sergio Leone,
Italian director (Fist Full of Dollars)
heart attack (d. 1989)
30’s
37- Eli [Elisha] Manning,
American football quarterback (NY Giants - MVP Super Bowls
XLII, XLVI),
born in New Orleans
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@94-2012 Robert L Carter,
American civil rights activist and judge
@91-1979 Conrad Hilton,
US founder (Hilton Hotels)
80’s
@85-2007 Michael Yeats,
Irish Fianna Fáil senator 1961-1981 and son of W.B. Yeats
70’s
@74-2014 Phillip "Phil" Everly,
American musician ("The Everly Brothers"),
lung disease
@70-2012 Wylie Walker Vale,
American Endocrinologist who discovered the stress hormone
60’s
@69-1980 Joy Adamson [Friederike Viktoria Gessner],
Austrian naturalist and author (Born Free),
murdered by her servant
@67-1945 Edgar Cayce,
American psychic,
complications of stroke
@64-2012 Bob Weston,
British guitarist and songwriter (Fleetwood Mac),
gastrointestinal hemorrhage
@64-1795 Josiah Wedgwood,
English pottery designer and manufacturer (Wedgwood),
cancer of jaw?
50’s
@55-1967 Jack Ruby,
American assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald,
pulmonary embolism
40’s
@43±-1543 Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo,
Portuguese-Spanish conquistador who conquered Central America and later discovered California,
gangrene
30’s
@39-1946 William Joyce, (Lord Haw Haw),
hanged in Britain for treason
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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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