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Jan 4, 2018 Week: 01\ Day: 4
86004 Today: H 53° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: overcast
Wind ave.: 2mph\Gusts: 6mph Visibility: 9 mi
Record High: 64°[1927] Record Low: -22°[1971]
Jan Averages: 50°\23°
Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)
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Today’s Quote
Harper’s Index
44: Percentage of white-working-class Americans
who believe that college is a good investment
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Observances This Week
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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Observances for Today
Dimpled Chad Day
I Am A Mentor Day Link
Pop Music Chart Day
Tom Thumb Day
World Braille Day Link
World Hypnotism Day Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
1698 Most of the Palace of Whitehall in London, the main residence of the English monarchs, is destroyed by fire
1700’s
1754 Columbia University founded, as Kings College (NYC)
1800’s
1847 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government
1847 Manuscripts of Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" and Anne Brontë's "Agnes Grey" sent to publisher T.C. Newby (published December 1947)
1853 Solomon Northup, author of the memoir "Twelve Years a Slave", regains his freedom
1863 4 wheeled roller skates patented by James Plimpton of NY
1884 Last sighting of an eastern cougar (Ontario)
1887 Thomas Stevens is 1st man to bicycle around the world (San Francisco to San Francisco)
1896 Following Mormon abandonment of polygamy, Utah admitted as 45th state
1900’s
1902 The French Panama Canal Company offers to sell its right to build a canal to the US for 40 million; this will tip the balance away from those favoring a canal through Nicaragua
1936 Billboard magazine publishes its 1st music hit parade
1944 Ralph Bunche appointed 1st African American official in US State Department
1962 1st automated (unmanned) subway train in New York City
1965 LBJ's "Great Society" State of the Union Address
1971 Ohio agrees to pay $675,000 to relatives of Kent State victims
1974 Nixon refuses to hand over tapes subpoenaed by Watergate Committee
1984 "Night Court" starring Harry Anderson premieres on NBC TV
1991 Fu Mingxia, 12, of China wins World Swimming Championships gold medal
1995 Newt Gingrich (R) becomes speaker of the US House of Representatives
2000’s
2007 The 110th United States Congress convenes, electing Nancy Pelosi as the first female Speaker of the House in U.S. history.
2010 The Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed HIV infection from its list of communicable diseases of public health significance.
2010 The Burj Khalifa, world's tallest building at 829.8 m (2,722 ft), officially opens in Dubai
2016 Colombo's Gemology Institute certifies world's largest ever blue star sapphire at 1404.49 carats, found in a Sri Lankan mine in August 2015
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My Rambling Thoughts
Saving money at old people’s day at the grocery store. Stocked up and saved 10% on everything…including the sale items. My dad would be so proud.
As I listen to the news on 45’s tweets, I feel like I am living in one of the spy-spoof movies from back in the 70’s. Really, who cares who has a bigger button? And most of educated Americans already knew that Bannon had ‘lost his mind’…
I got a bag of ‘double chocolate’ M&M’s for Christmas. They are awesome! Hope they are still available and not just a holiday thing!
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
88- Don Shula,
American NFL coach (Miami Dolphins),
born in Grand River Ohio
81- Dyan Cannon [Samile Diane Friesen],
American actress, director and producer (Heaven Can Wait),
born in Tacoma
70’s
@78- Jacob Grimm,
German philologist, folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales",
born in Hanau, Hesse-Cassel, Holy Roman Empire
(d. 1863)
78- Gao Xingjian,
Chinese-born French novelist and dramatist, Nobel laureate
@73- Everett Dirksen,
American politician (Sen-R-Ill)
cardiac arrest (d. 1969)
@71- Floyd Patterson,
American heavyweight champion (1956-59, 1960-62, Olympic gold 1952),
born in Waco, North Carolina
Alzheimer’s (d. 2006)
50’s
55- Dave Foley,
actor and comedian (Kids In The Hall, Dave Nelson on NewsRadio)
40’s
@45- Charles Stratton, [General Tom Thumb]
(famous short person)
stroke (d. 1883)
@43- Louis Braille,
French educator and inventor of a system of reading and writing for the blind,
born in Coupvray, France
TB (d. 1852)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-1999 Iron Eyes Cody [Espera Oscar de Corti],
Italian-American actor (Keep America Beautiful, Black Gold,
Ernest Goes to Camp),
NOTE: not a Native American, but played one on TV
80’s
@87-1997 Harry B Helmsley,
owner (Empire State Building)
@83-1761 Stephen Hales,
English vicar/inventor (ventilator)
@82-1877 Cornelius Vanderbilt,
US robber baron
70’s
@76-1965 T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns),
American-born British poet (The Waste Land) and Nobel laureate (1948),
emphysema
@73-1961 Erwin Schrodinger,
Austrian physicist and Nobel Laureate (wave mechanics),
TB
@72-1961 Barry Fitzgerald [boarn William Joseph Shields],
Irish actor (Academy Award, Going My Way)
40’s
@46-1960 Albert Camus,
French author (Stranger),
auto accident
@46-1821 Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton,
1st native-born American saint
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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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