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Feb 22, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 53
86004 Today: H
32° \ L 9° \ Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave.: 6mph\Gusts:
18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 64°[2002] Record Low: -10°[1955]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
To the mind that is still,
the whole universe surrenders.
Lao Tzu
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Observances This Week
16-25
Date
(Fruit) Week
17-24
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
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link
20-23
22-25
American
Birkenbreiner Race
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Observances for Today
Introduce A Girl to Engineering
Day
National Chili Day Link
National Margarita Day Link
Tex Avery Day Link
The Great American Spit Out Link
Walking the Dog Day
National Chili Day Link
National Margarita Day Link
Tex Avery Day Link
The Great American Spit Out Link
Walking the Dog Day
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
≈Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1300’s
≈1349 Jews
are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland
1600’s
1630 Native
American Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1700’s
≈1746 Jacobite
troops vacate Aberdeen
1784 1st US
ship to trade with China, "Empress of China", sails from NY
1800’s
≈1821 Spain
sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
1854 1st
meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
1878 Greenback
Labor Party forms (Toledo, Ohio)
1879 1st 5
cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W. Woolworth in Utica, New York
(failed almost immediately)
≈1881 "Cleopatra's
Needle", a 3,500-year-old Ancient Egyptian obelisk is erected in Central
Park, New York
00’s
≈1907 1st
cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
≈1911 The
Canadian Parliament resolves to maintain union with the British Empire, while
controlling domestic fiscal affairs
1923 1st
successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California)
1932 Purple
Heart (the Badge of Military Merit) award reinstituted
≈1958 Egypt
& Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
≈1967 25,000
US & South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against Viet
Cong. Largest US airborne assult since WWII
≈1972 The
Official IRA bombs Aldershot military barracks, the headquarters of the British
Parachute Regiment, killing seven people; thought to be in retaliation for
Bloody Sunday.
≈1979 St
Lucia gains independence from Britain
1980 USA
beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3, referred to as "Miracle on Ice".
USA captain Mike Eruzione scores winning goal in 3rd period
1988 Bonnie
Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1989 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
≈1995 Steve
Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
≈1997 Dolly
the Sheep, world's first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) is announced by the
Roslin Institute in Scotland
≈1998 18th
Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
2000’s
≈2016 10
million people are without water in Delhi after caste protests in Jat sabotage
the Munak water canal
2017 Jay-Z becomes
1st rapper to be inducted into Songwriters Hall of Fame
2017 US
President Donald Trump overturns Obama directive on Transgender
rights to use toilets
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Dr.’s visit was
encouraging. I didn’t need another bloodletting. Like so many things in
medicine, he doesn’t know why the CPAP works most of the time, but doesn’t work
some of the time. Life’s mystery I guess.
Got my shopping
done. Decided to use the self-checkout rather
than stand in a long line. Mistake! I bought two bottles of fresh grapefruit
juice. Scanned one, put it in the bag. Scanned the next one and the machine
said remove the unknown item. Lady comes over, waves her magic wand. I
continue. She had to come over three more times for my 15 items. Then when I
touched the Pay Now button the damn machine froze and said ‘help is on the way’.
WTH? She came back for trip number 6. I told her I’m not an idiot and know how to
scan, she smiled and said ‘don’t worry, this machine does it’s own thing all
the time.’ When I got home I looked at the receipt and it only charged me for
12 items, not the 15 I bought. I thought about going back to pay, but decided
their stupid machine had cheated them, not me. So I moved on with my day. Only with limited guilt.
Over the weekend
I was reading that the students in Florida were planning walk-outs and that many
walkouts were being planned across the country. As an educator I was not sure
this was the best idea. My thought was to let the students discuss in class. Then
I listened to the students. These are highly articulate, passionate students
who have lived through facing death, in their school, during school time. The
walkout makes sense. The time for change is now.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@91- Robert
Young, American actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby, M.D.), born in Chicago
(d. 1998)
80’s
@89- Gale
Gordon, American actor and comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), born in Los
Angeles (d. 1995)
@89- Sheldon
Leonard, American actor, producer and director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie),
born in NYC (d. 1997)
@88- Olave
Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (d. 1977)
@83- Robert
Baden-Powell, British officer and founder of the modern scouting movement, born
in Paddington, London (d. 1941)
@82- Alfred
J. Gross, American inventor (invented the walkie-talkie), born in
Toronto (d. 2000)
70’s
@77- Edward
M "Ted" Kennedy, Politician (Sen-D-Mass 1962- 2009) born in Boston cancer
(d. 2009)
60’s
68- Julius
Erving, American basketball forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Philadelphia
76ers), born in Nassau County, NY
@67- George
Washington, 1st President of the United States (1789-97) and Commander-in-Chief
of the Continental Army, born in Westmoreland, Virginia after bloodletting (d.
1799)
50’s
@58- Edna St
Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize), born in
Rockland, Maine heart attack (d. 1950)
@54- Oliver
[William Oliver Swofford], American pop singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean),
born in North Wilkesboro, NC cancer (d. 2000)
40’s
46- Michael
Chang, American tennis star (1989 French Open), born in Hoboken, NJ
@44- Steve
Irwin, Australian naturalist and TV personality (The
Crocodile Hunter), born in Melbourne, Victoria stingray bite (d. 2006)
43- Drew
Barrymore, American actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy), born in
Los Angeles
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Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@92-2017 Fritz
Koenig,
German
sculptor (Sphere at World Trade Center)
80’s
@88-2016 Wesley
A Clark,
American
computer designer (first personal computer - LINC)
@85-1827 Charles
Willson Peale,
American
painter remembered for his portraits of leading
figures of
the American Revolution (George Washington)
@82-1965 Felix
Frankfurter,
Justice of
the U.S. Supreme Court
@82-1832 Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe,
German
social philosopher (Faust)
@81-2012 Billy
Strange,
American
singer-songwriter
60’s
@66-1987 David
Susskind,
TV host
(Open End, David Susskind Show),
heart
attack
50’s
@58-1987 Andy
Warhol,
American
pop artist and film producer (Frankenstein, Bad),
heart
attack
@57±- Amerigo
Vespucci,
Italian
explorer (America)
30’s
@32-1976 Florence
Ballard,
rocker
(Supremes),
heart
attack
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All
for Now…☼☼☼☼
