Feb 14

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❤Feb 14, 2018 ❤Week: 07\ ❤Day: 45

86004 Today: H 48° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 9 mi

Record High: 64°[1957]   Record Low: -15°[1949]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. ~Author Unknown

Harper’s Index

35-Number of books on a list that a Virginia judge assigned to five teens for defacing a historic black schoolhouse.

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Observances This Week

11-17

Celebration of Love Week Link 
Children of Alcoholics Week Link
International Friendship Week Link
Jell-O Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link 

International Flirting Week

12-16

National Green Week Link

12-18

Love a Mensch Week

13-15

World AG Expo

14-21

National Condom Week Link
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
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Observances for Today

Ash Wednesday (Christian)

Ferris Wheel Day

International Book Giving Day Link
Frederick Douglass Day  Link
League of Women Voters Day
Pet Theft Awareness Day  Link
Library Lovers Day
National Have A Heart Day
National Organ Donor Day

National Women's Heart Day Link
Quirky Alone Day Link
Race Relations Day
Singles Awareness Day or Singles Appreciation Day Link
❤Valentine's Day ❤

(World) Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day Link
World Sound Healing Day Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                          

1794 1st US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Philadelphia

1797 The Battle of Cape St Vincent: British fleet under Admiral Sir John Jervis defeats larger Spanish fleet under Admiral Don José de Córdoba y Ramos near Cape St. Vincent, Portugal. Captain Horatio Nelson distinguishes himself.

1800’s                                          

1803 Chief Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that conflicts with the Constitution is void

1849 In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady)

1859 Oregon admitted as 33rd state of the Union

1867 Morehouse College organizes (Augusta Georgia)

1872 1st US state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt, California)

1900’s                                          

1903 US Department of Commerce & Labor forms

1912 Arizona was admitted to the Union as the 48th state

1919 United Parcel Service forms

1920 League of Women Voters forms in Chicago

1921 Little Review faces obscenity charges for publishing "Ulysses," in New York

1924 Thomas J. Watson renames the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) as International Business Machines (IBM)

1929 St Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al Capone's orders

1931 The original "Dracula" film starring Bela Lugosias the titular vampire, is released

1941 One millionth vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel

1952 6th Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway

1957 Georgia Senate unanimously approves Sen Leon Butts' bill barring blacks from playing baseball with whites

1959 $3.6 million heroin seizure in NYC

1962 US 1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV

1963 "8½" film directed by Federico Fellini, starring Marcello Mastroianni and Claudia Cardinale, is released (Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film 1964)

1967 "Respect" single recorded by Aretha Franklin(Billboard Song of the Year 1967)

1980 13th Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, New York

1989 Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster

1989 Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeiniissues a fatwa calling for the death of Salman Rushdie and his publishers due to his novel "Satanic Verses". A bounty was also place on his head.

1991 "The Silence of the Lambs" film based on the book by Thomas Harris, directed by Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released (Best Picture 1992)

2000’s                                          

2008 Northern Illinois University shooting: a gunman opened fire in a lecture hall of the DeKalb County, Illinois university resulting in 24 casualties; 6 fatalities (including gunman) and 18 injured.

2014 Actress Ellen Page comes out as gay in a speech at the Human Rights Campaign's "Time to Thrive" conference

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My Rambling Thoughts

Interesting times…Valentine’s Day falls on Ash Wednesday and Easter falls on April Fool’s Day. Hmmm

Worked on the Focus website, but couldn’t finish as I needed some stuff from Tumlare so I could add pictures from their outstanding paper announcement. They make their announcements on Word, then convert it to a PDF file when emailing it. That is great, except I can’t steal their pictures and the PDF changes the way text is placed in the file, so I can’t copy that either. I used to be able to simply open it in word and after a few clicks it was available to steal whatever. Times change and my trick doesn’t always work. So hopefully tomorrow or Thursday I’ll finish up.

An interesting text from 45 stated that DACA is really a Dem problem because they controlled all three branches of government. Then he listed Executive, Senate, House as the three branches. It used to be common knowledge that was taught in schools across the country that the three branches of government are Executive, Legislative, Judicial. Guess 45 never learned that. Sad.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

96- Hugh Downs,

TV journalist (20/20, Concentration),

born in Akron, Ohio

80’s

@82- Florence Henderson,

actress and singer (Carol in The Brady Bunch),

born in Dale, Indiana

(d. 2016)

@80- Jack Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski],

Actor/comedian "Oh! Rochester!"

(d. 1974)

70’s

@77- Frederick Douglass,

African-American abolitionist, lecturer and

editor who was also an escaped slave

(exact birth year unknown),

born in Talbot County, Maryland

heart attack (d. 1895)

74- Carl Bernstein,

American investigative reporter who covered Watergate

born in Washington, D. C.

70- Raymond Joseph Teller,

magician (Penn & Teller),

born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

60’s

67- JoJo Starbuck,

American ice skater

@66- Thelma Ritter,

American actress (Miracle on 34th Street),

born in Brooklyn, New York

heart attack (d. 1969)

@62?- Jimmy Hoffa,

Teamsters leader who disappeared in 1975,

declared dead 1982

50’s

@57- Gregory Hines,

American actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps),

born in NYC,

liver cancer (d. 2013)

53- Vic Morrow,

American actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie),

born in NYC,

drowned while filming (d. 1982)

20’s

26- Freddie Highmore,

actor (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, A&E’ Bates Motel)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2015 Louis Jourdan [Robert Gendre],

French actor

(The Paradine Case, Count Dracula, Gigi, Octopussy)

@93-1975 P. G. Wodehouse,

English-American writer (Bertie Wooster novels)

80’s

@86-2012 Dory Previn, American singer-songwriter

70’s

@71-1891 William Tecumseh Sherman,

American Major General in the Union Army

pneumonia

50’s

@50-1779 James Cook,

British explorer, navigator and cartographer, discovered and

 explored Australia, Pacific Islands and New Zealand for

 Britain,

killed in a fight with Hawaiians

40’s

@48-1831 Vicente Guerrero,

Mexican revolutionary hero, general and

2nd President of Mexico

(d. 1829)  firing squad 

@43±- St. Valentine

marking Valentine’s Day

beheaded

20’s

@22-1884 Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt,

1st wife of Theodore Roosevelt,

Bright's disease

0’s

@6-2003 Dolly the Sheep,

first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell

progressive lung disease

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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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