Mar 17

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Mar 17, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 77

86004 Today: H 54° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1010 miles away

Record High: 73°[2007]   Record Low: 3°[1991]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

Avarice is a deadly sin.

  Saint Patrick

Harper’s Index

15-Minimum percentage of inmates in local US jils who have been homeless

$1-Daily wage paid a prisoner in Portland, Ore. Is paid to clear out homeless camps

2-Factor by which a US Christian is more likely than a nonreligious person to think poverty is a personal failure

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Observances This Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

16-18

Sherlock Holmes Weekend

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Observances for Today

Corn Dog Day Link 
Corned Beef and Cabbage Day

International Sports Car Racing Day Link
National Quilting Day

Saint Patrick's Day  Link
Submarine Day  Worldwide Quilting Day  Link
Play The Recorder Day  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

400’s                                            

≈432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)

1700’s                                          

1756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern

1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC

1800’s                                          

≈1845 Bristol man Henry Jones patents self-raising flour

≈1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London

1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts

1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued

1900’s                                          

≈1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics

1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick

1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis

≈1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

≈1947 Arnold J. Toynbee appears on the front cover of Time magazine

1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA

≈1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)

≈1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM

≈1973 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday

≈1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patrick's Day parade

≈1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House

2000’s                                          

≈2016 Archaeologists announce discovery of iron age warrior king burial ground with 75 graves 2,500 years old in Pocklington, Northern England

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My Rambling Thoughts

Medicare yearly is just around the corner. Had the blood drawn. Had to use my arm as my hands have had it. All went well.

Had a great lunch yesterday with our retirement group. The falling snow, not sticking, made me very lazy. Enjoyed just watching the snow fall after lunch at a local Italian restaurant.

Each of the local high schools (public and charter) had walkouts yesterday for the safety of schools. No problems. Activism is alive and well here. Trying to find out if the Farmers (WRHS) did anything. We were a very active class some 50 years ago.

Great, my angioedema has reared its ugly head. Lip swollen and hot, pill taken, just a few hours more.  

WTF? Russia hacked our electric and water grids. Come on. This is not cute, or funny…and not very friendly.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

@75- Bayard Rustin,

American civil rights leader

(March on Washington organizer, Social Democrats USA),

born in West Chester, PA

burst appendix (d. 1987)

74- John Sebastian,

American singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter),

born in NYC

60’s

67- Kurt Russell, 

actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons),

born in Springfield, Mass

63- Gary Sinise,

American actor (Apollo 13, CSI: NY, Forrest Gump),

born in Blue Island, Illinois

@60- Shemp Howard [Samuel Horwitz],

American actor and comedian (3 Stooges),

born in Brooklyn, heart attack

(d. 1955)

50’s

@55- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,

Founding father of Bangladesh and

1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (1971-72 and 1975-76),

born in Tungipara, Bengal Presidency, British India

assassination (d. 1975)

54- Rudolf Nureyev (Рудо́льф Хаме́тович Нуре́ев),

Russian ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov),

born on a train near Irkutsk, Soviet Union

AIDS (d. 1993)

54- Rob Lowe,

actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class),

born in Charlottesville, VA

51- Billy Corgan,

American musician (Smashing Pumpkins),

born in Chicago

40’s

46- Mia Hamm,

soccer forward (Olympics 1996)

@45- Nat King Cole,

American singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa),

born in Montgomery, Ala

cancer (d. 1965)

40- [Lee] Alexander McQueen,

English fashion designer,

born in London

suicide (d. 2010)

20’s

26- John Boyega [Adedayo B. Adegboyega],

English actor (The Force Awakens), born in London

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-2006 Oleg Cassini,

American fashion designer

@92-1993 Helen Hayes,

American actress (Airport, Caesar & Cleopatra)

80’s

@87-2017 Derek Walcott,

Caribbean poet (Omeros), Nobel Prize for Literature 1992

70’s

@74±-461 Saint Patrick,

patron saint of Ireland,

dies in Saul (according to legend),

50’s

@55-2007 Jim Cronin,

American Animal welfare campaigner and

founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England

liver cancer

40’s

@49-1853 Christian Doppler,

Austrian physicist, (Doppler Effect)

pulmonary 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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