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Feb 17, 2018 Week: 07\ Day: 48
86004 Today: H
46° \ L 21° \ Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave.: 3mph\Gusts:
9mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[1996] Record Low: -3°[1990]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
During
all these years there existed within me
a
tendency to follow Nature in her walks.
John James Audubon
Harper’s Index
320-Number of
immigrants Canada has rejected since 2013 for having disabilities
0.26-Percentage
of asylum seekers Japan accepted last year
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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
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
12-18
Love
a Mensch Week
14-21
15-19
16-25
Date
(Fruit) Week
16-19
17-24
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Observances for Today
Champion Crab Races Day Link
My Way Day
National PTA Founders Day Link
Random Acts of Kindness Day Link
World Human Spirit Day
World Whale Day Link
My Way Day
National PTA Founders Day Link
Random Acts of Kindness Day Link
World Human Spirit Day
World Whale Day Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1500’s
1568 Holy
Roman Emperor Maximilian II agrees to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire for
peace
1600’s
1621 Myles
Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony
1700’s
1776 1st
volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
1800’s
1801 US
House of Representatives breaks electoral college tie, chooses Thomas
Jefferson President over Aaron Burr
1817 1st US
city lit by gas (Baltimore)
1837 Charles
Lyell makes his presidential address to the Geographical Society, London
and announces that Richard Owen has concluded from Darwin's fossils that
extinct species were related to current species in the same locality
1854 Britain
recognizes independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
1870 Esther
Morris appointed first female in Justice of the Peace in the United States
1876 Sardines
first canned by Julius Wolff in Eastport, Maine
1897 National
Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
1900’s
1904 Giacomo
Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" premieres in Milan
1913 1st
minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
1931 1st
telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1934 1st
high school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
1936 The
world's first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, makes his
first appearance in comics.
1943 Dow
Chemical and Corning Glass Works form a joint venture to explore and produce
silicon materials, based off of the work of J. Franklin Hyde
1959 1st
weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
1962 Beach
Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
1967 Beatles
release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
1969 Bob
Dylan and Johnny Cash record an album; it was never released.
1969 Golda
Meir sworn in as the first female Prime Minister of Israel
1972 TV
comedy M*A*S*H, adapted from the movie, starring Alan Alda, Loretta Swit and
Wayne Rogers debuts on CBS in the US
1972 Italian
tenor Luciano Pavarotti receives record 17 curtain calls after his
performance in "La fille du régiment" at New York's Metropolitan
Opera
1974 Robert
K. Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a
stolen helicopter.
1981 Chrysler
Corp reports largest corporate losses in US history
1989 6-week
study of Arctic atmosphere shows no ozone "hole"
2000’s
2004 "If
I Ain't Got You" single released by Alicia Keys (Grammy Award
Best Female R&B Vocal Performance 2005, Billboard Song of the Year 2004)
2012 Approximately
70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of
Greece
2014 US
Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent
action and that only a small "window of time" remained open
2016 Nike
ends endorsement deal with Filipino boxer Manny Pacquiao after he
made TV comments gay people are "worse than animals."
2016 Oldest
known case of human-Neanderthal sex (100,000 yrs ago) revealed by Max Planck
Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), 50,000 yr old Neanderthal
woman's remains from Altai mountains show traces of Homo Sapiens DNA
2017 Discovery
of a new mostly underwater continent Zealandia in the South Pacific announced
in research journal "GSA Today"
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Still cloudy, but
no moisture. Should clear up soon. Then we get wind to bring in the next storm.
The Washington
Post had an article this morning that many are reporting that the Florida
shooting was number 18 this year. Well, yes and no. A gun has been fired on a
school campus 18 times. One was a suicide in a car at an abandoned school, one
was a shot through a window at night when no kids were present. Well, as a
former teacher, anytime a gun is discharged on a school campus, it is a school
shooting in my book. While there is certainly more trauma when students or
teachers are injured or killed, there is still concern by students and teachers
whenever it happens.
The idea of
arming school staff and teachers has reared its ugly head again. This is not
the answer. I don’t want future generations growing up knowing or wondering if
their instructor is carrying. I do know a few teachers who could be armed, but
most of the teachers I worked with would not want to be armed. They went into
education to prepare the next generation, not to kill anyone.
Again I was
shocked to learn that an 18- year-old could purchase an AR-15 assault rifle but
could not buy a handgun or hunting rifle until they were 21. That is insane.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
93- Hal
Holbrook,
actor (All
the President's Men, Mark Twain),
born in
Cleveland
@90- William
Cadbury,
British
chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury),
born in
Edgbaston, England
(d. 1957)
80’s
@84- Walter
L "Red" Barber,
sports
announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
(d. 1992)
81- Jim
Brown,
American NFL
Running Back(Cleveland Browns),
born in
St. Simons, Georgia
70’s
@75- Arthur
Kennedy,
American
actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place),
born in
Worcester, Mass
brain
tumor (d. 1990)
@70- Jock
Mahoney [Jacques Joseph O'Mahoney],
American
actor and stuntman
(Dallas,
Yancy Derringer, Day of Fury),
born in
Chicago
stroke (d.
1989)
60’s
@66- Gene
Pitney,
vocalist/songwriter
(Town Without Pity),
born in
Hartford, CT heart attack
(d. 2006)
50’s
55- Michael
Jordan,
American NBA guard/forward
(Chicago Bulls)
sports
superstar,
born in
Chicago
55- Larry
the Cable Guy [Daniel Lawrence Whitney],
American
comedian (Blue Collar Comedy Tour),
born in
Pawnee City, Nebraska
@51- Raphaelle
Peale,
American
painter (After the Rain-1823),
alcohol
disease
40’s
@47- Huey
Newton,
Black
Panther leader
murdered
during drug deal (d. 1989)
47- Denise
Richards,
American
actress
singer/musician
(Green Day),
born in
Oakland, CA
30’s
37- Paris
Hilton,
American actress and
heiress (The Simple Life),
born in
NYC
37- Joseph
Gordon-Levitt,
actor
(Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
20’s
26- Bonnie
Wright,
British actress (Ginny
Weasley in "Harry Potter" franchise),
born in
London
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Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@94-2018 Arno
Motulsky,
German-born
founder of medical genetics,
known as
the "father of pharmacogenomics"
80’s
@85-2005 Daniel
"Dan" O'Herlihy,
Irish
actor (Twin Peaks, Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)
@80-1982 Lee
Strasberg,
Austrian
acting coach and actor
(The
Godfather: Part II, Somewhere in the Night)
70’s
@79-1909 Geronimo [one
who yawns],
Apache
chief, pneumonia
(deathbed
quote: "I should have never surrendered.
I should
have fought until I was the last man alive.")
@74-1907 Henry
Steel Olcott,
US
co-founder (Theosophist Society)
50’s
@57-1980 Jerry
Fielding,
composer
(Bewitched, Hogan's Heroes)
heart
attack
@57-1924 Henry
Bacon,
American
architect (Lincoln Memorial)
@51-1673 Molière,
[Jean Baptiste Poquelin],
French
playwright (The Misanthrope),
TB
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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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for Now…☼☼☼☼
