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Mar 21, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 80

86004 Today: H 59° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1325 miles away

Record High: 70°[2004]   Record Low: 5°[1948]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Most people have the will to win;

few have the will to prepare to win.

  Bobby Knight

Harper’s Index

+34-Percentage change in the length of time someone

        can withstand pain in they use profanity

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Observances This Week

18-24

American Chocolate Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Professionals Week Link
National Button Week Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week

19-25

Act Happy Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link
National Fix A Leak Week  Link

National Introverts Week Link
Wellderly Week

20-4/5

National Cherry Blossom Festival

21-27

Internat’l Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

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Observances for Today

Afghanistan Day Link
Credit Card Reduction Day

Fragrance Day

Gallo Wine Day
International Colour Day  Link
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day of Forests and The Tree Link
International Day of Nowruz Link
Kick Butts Day Link 
Memory Day
National Common Courtesy Day
National Day of Action On Syringe Exchange Link
National Healthy Fats Day
National Renewable Energy Day
Poetry Day Link
Twitter Day
WE Day Link 
National Single Parent Day Link  Link
World Down Syndrome Day Link
World Poetry Day  Link
World Puppetry Day Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                          

1788 Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana

1800’s                                          

≈1859 Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh

1859 Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated

1866 US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes

1868 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC

1900’s                                          

1924 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)

≈1925 Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens

1925 The Butler Act, a Tennessee statue, is enacted prohibiting the teaching of evolution

≈1935 Persia is officially renamed Iran

≈1946 UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)

1947 US President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have allegiance to the United States

≈1951 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea

1953 NBA record 106 fouls & 12 players foul out (Boston-Syracuse)

1956 28th Academy Awards: "Marty", Anna Magnani& Ernest Borgnine win

1963 Alcatraz prison in San Francisco Bay is closed

1965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama

≈1970 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's Wide World of Sports.

1972 US Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote

≈1975 Ethiopia abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years

1983 Only known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled

1994 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force after being ratified by the required number of nations

2000’s                                          

2002 In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.

2006 Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage.

2013 The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is 13.82 billion years old

2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation

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My Rambling Thoughts

A nice first day of spring here at 7000’. Enjoying it now as another storm is a brewin’. Here spring never means the end of snow.

When DACA was issued, many in AZ lost their minds, their compassion, their empathy, and therefore passed a bunch of laws. Now all these years later the US Supreme Court has refused to hear an AZ suit that stopped DACA people from getting a driver’s license. So now DACA people can get a driver’s license in AZ. Not that easy to be a productive member of society without a driver’s license.

Having trouble with some policies…one guy gets on a plane with a bomb in his shoe and for decades everyone must take off their shoes to get on a plane. One Uber self-driving car kills a woman in Phoenix area who was not in a crosswalk, and appeared quickly on the street and all self-driving tests are halted. But rapid-fire high capacity rifles are continually used in school shootings. And now there was another school shooting today.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@84- Henry Ossian Flipper,

American soldier, former slave and

first African American to graduate from West Point in 1877,

born in Thomasville, Georgia

(d. 1940)

70’s

74- Timothy Dalton,

Welsh actor (James Bond),

born in Colwyn Bay, Wales

@73- Albert Kahn,

American architect (architect of Detroit),

born in Rhaunen, Kingdom of Prussia

(d. 1942)

@72- John D. Rockefeller III,

billionaire philanthropist (oil)

auto accident (d. 1978)

60’s

69- Eddie Money, [Mahoney],

singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight),

born in Brooklyn

@66- Benito Pablo Juarez,

president of Mexico (1858-72),

born in Oaxaca, Mexico

heart attack (d. 1872)

@65- Florenz Ziegfeld,

producer (Ziegfield Follies)

pleurisy (d. 1932)

60- Gary Oldman,

English actor (Sid & Nancy, The Darkest Hour),

born in London, England

50’s

@56- James Coco,

actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death),

born in The Bronx,

heart attack (d. 1987)

56- Matthew Broderick,

American actor(WarGames, Biloxi Blues),

born in NYC

56- Rosie O'Donnell, 

comedienne, actress and TV host

(League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie,

born in Commack, New York

40’s

@42- Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky,

Russian composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt) [NS]

seizures (d. 1881)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2017 Chuck Barris,

American TV game show producer and host (Gong Show)

@80-2016 Peter Brown [Pierre Lind de Lappe],

American actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold & Beautiful)

70’s

@79-2016 Andrew Grove,

Hungarian-American pioneer in the semiconductor industry

one of the founders and CEO of Intel

@78-1992 John Ireland,

Canadian actor

(All the King's Men, Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral),

 leukemia

60’s

@68-1987 Robert Preston [Meservey],

American actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter),

lung cancer

@66-2017 Martin McGuinness,

Irish Sinn Féin politician and IRA member,

heart condition

50’s

@52-1994 Dack Rambo,

American actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas),

AIDs

20’s

@25-1987 Dean Paul Martin,

American actor (Misfits of Science),

plane crash

@21±-1617 Pocahontas,

American Indian princess and

daughter of Powhatan,

possible 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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