Feb 21

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Feb 21, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 52

86004 Today: H 30° \ L 11° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  21mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 60°[1995]   Record Low: -9°[1955]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Every man has his follies - and often

they are the most interesting thing he has got.

  Josh Billings

Harper’s Index

98-Number of the 100 highest paid city employees

in Boston last year who are members of

the police dept.

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Observances This Week

14-21

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

16-25

Date (Fruit) Week

17-24

National Entrepreneurship Week Link
National FFA Week Link

18-24

Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link

20-23

American Camp Week Link
International Petroleum Week  Link
Learning Disabilities Week

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Observances for Today

Card Reading Day

International Mother Language Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s                                          

1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury

1400’s                                          

1431 Joan of Arc's first day of interrogation during her trial for heresy

1700’s                                          

1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: British forces surrender Inverness Castle to Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite forces

1800’s                                          

1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix", published

1842 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington, D.C.

1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Massachusetts

1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto" in London

1852 George Bancroft becomes the American Geographical Society's first president

1858 Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston, Massachusetts)

1861 Navaho indians elect Herrero Grande as chief

1882 NYC's 24 hour race begins, winner with most mileage in 24 hours

1885 Washington Monument dedicated (Washington, D.C.)

1887 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)

1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday

1895 NC Legislature, adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass

1900’s                                          

1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, performs his 1st brain operation

1904 National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich

1918 The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo

1922 Irish Nationalist Eamon De Valera calls a convention of the Sinn Fein, declaring the Republican Government the only legitimate one in all Ireland

1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published

1931 Alka Seltzer introduced

1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated by Edwin Land in NYC

1948 NASCAR is incorporated.

1952 Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition

1953 Francis Crick and James Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule

1958 Egypt-Syria as United Arab Republic elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)

1965 Rights activist Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers at Audubon Ballroom in NYC

1971 The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.

1972 Richard Nixon becomes the first US President to visit China, normalizing relations between the countries

1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44

1982 "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 performances

1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School

1988 Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation

2000’s                                          

2003 Bill Maher's political talk show "Real Time with Bill Maher" debuts on HBO

2014 US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama
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My Rambling Thoughts

Made it to the blood draw at 8a…it was 18° outside. Only icy road was the parking lot…everything else had cinders. I wore gloves so my hand would be semi-warm. Didn’t work that well, but the great lady did the blood draw and I was home and in my warm home by 8:40. Not bad. One of the joys of living in a small town.

Snowfall was yet another bust. While it remains cold (wind drops ‘feels like’ temp by a good 10°), we got about an inch of snow instead of the 3-5” forecasted. So very dry here…spring looks like it too is going to be a bust. These cold days are staying around for the remainder of this week… with no moisture in the forecast. Sigh…

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

@122- Jeanne Louise Calment,

French world's oldest woman

(d. 1997)

90’s

93- Robert Mugabe,

Zimbabwean revolutionary dictator,

Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-87) and

1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017),

born in Harare, Zimbabwe

70’s

@76- Rue McClanahan,

actress (Maude, Golden Girls)

stroke (d. 2010)

75- David Geffen,

American record producer (Geffen Records, Asylum) and

film studio executive (DreamWorks SKG),

born in Brooklyn

@73- Anaïs Nin,

French writer

cervical cancer (d. 1977)

72- Tyne Daly,

actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained),

born in Madison, Wisc

@70- Nina Simone [Eunice Waymon],

American singer and civil rights activist (I Loves You, Porgy),

born in Tyron, North Carolina

breast cancer (d. 2003)

60’s

@69- Erma Bombeck,

humorist (The Grass is Always Greener over the Septic Tank),

born in Dayton, Ohio

complications of kidney transplant (d. 1996)

@69- Alan Rickman,

English actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Die Hard,

Harry Potter),

born in Hammersmith, London

pancreatic cancer (d. 2016)

63- Kelsey Grammer,

American actor (Fraiser Crane in Cheers, Fraiser),

born in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands

60- Mary-Chapin Carpenter,

country vocalist (This Shirt)

born in Princeton NJ,

50’s

@59- Sam Peckinpah,

film director (Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs),

born in Fresno,

heart failure (d. 1984)

@59- Barbara Jordan,

(Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78),

born in Houston

pneumonia (d. 1996)

54- Scott Kelly,

American astronaut,

born in Orange, NJ

30’s

39- Jennifer Love Hewitt,

American actress (Sarah Reeves-Party of Five),

born in Waco, Texas

31- Ellen Page,

Canadian actress (Juno),

born in Halifax, Nova Scotia

20’s

29- Corbin Bleu,

American actor and singer

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2017 Stanislaw Skrowaczewski,

Polish-born classical conductor and composer

80’s

@81-1999 Gertrude B. Elion,

American biochemist and drug researcher

developed groundbreaking leukemia and herpes drug

treatments

(Nobel 1988)

60’s

@69-1968 Howard Florey,

Australian pathologist and pharmacologist

purified penicillin (Nobel 1945),

heart attack

@69-1513 Julius II,

Italian Pope (1503-13) and

patron of Michelangelo, Bramante and Raphael

@67-1961 Frederick McKinley Jones,

American inventor (developments in refrigeration),

lung cancer

40’s

@49-1941 Frederick Banting,

Canadian physician,

recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine,

plane crash 

@42-1437 James I, King of Scotland (1406-37), murdered in a coup attempt

30’s

@39-1965 Malcolm X [Little],

African American human rights activist and

Muslim minister, 

assassinated in NYC

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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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