Mar 26

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Mar 26, 2018 Week: 13\ Day: 85

86004 Today: H 58° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 45% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  25mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  868 miles away

Record High: 73°[1998]   Record Low: -8°[1902]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Today’s Quote

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil,

and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

  Sitting Bull

Harper’s Index

59,300-Minimum number of suicides in India

      since 1980 attributable to climate change

Observances This Week

20-4/5

National Cherry Blossom Festival

21-27

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

24-4/1

World Irish Dancing Week1

25-31

Holy Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
National Physicians Week Link

Observances for Today

Legal Assistants Day
Live Long And Prosper Day
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
National Spinach Day

Purple Day Link
Spinach Day 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                          

≈1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables

1700’s                                          

≈1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)

1790 US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency

1800’s                                          

≈1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela; about 20,000 die

1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)

≈1886 1st cremation in England

1900’s                                          

≈1909 In support of Mohammed Ali Shah's coup d'etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz

1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick

1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously

1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America

1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska

≈1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed

1951 United States Air Force flag officially adopted by President Harry S. Truman

1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio

1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms

1958 30th Academy Awards-"The Bridge on the River Kwai" wins Best Picture, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness win Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively

1962 US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legistature

1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945

1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl

≈1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares its independence from Pakistan

≈1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

1977 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson

≈1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK

1987 National Federation of State High School Associations adopt the college 3 point shot (21 feet)

≈1989 1st free elections in USSR; 190 million votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins

1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)

≈1997 Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides

2000’s                                          

2000 72nd Academy Awards: "American Beauty", Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win

≈2005 The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.

≈2012 Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years

≈2017 Carrie Lam is first woman elected to lead Hong Kong by Beijing-influenced electoral commission

My Rambling Thoughts

Windy Sunday…gotta love those 25mph winds bringing in ‘new’ weather. Can’t wait.

I forget how difficult life is on the Rez. One of my former students (now in his early 40’s) was killed in an auto accident Monday. His mom had worked as an aide at our school. He lost one brother a few years ago, but still has three brothers and a sister. The mom now works at Tuba Boarding School. The former student was driving to work with his girlfriend at the time of the accident that killed them both. The family has held three ‘meetings’ where friends and family come together, share stories, and help with funeral arrangements and costs. Yesterday I read that the funeral is delayed until they can raise money for it. The cost is around $5000 and the family digs the grave. All I can say is thank goodness for refrigeration at the mortuary. This case is taking place in the small community of Tonalea, but it happens in many small communities on many reservations in the US in 2018. Sad.

If all goes according to CenturyLink’s plan, I will have double my internet speed by 6p tomorrow. I’m not holding my breath, as one lady said I needed a new modem, the next guy said I didn’t. Tomorrow will be the final decision.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- William Westmoreland,

American general

(commander of American forces in the Vietnam War, 64-68)

born in Saxon, South Carolina

(d. 2005)

80’s

@88- Robert Frost,

American poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken),

born in San Francisco

(d. 1963)

88- Sandra Day O'Connor,

1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- 2006),

born in El Paso, TX

@83- Leonard Nimoy,

American actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 2015)

70’s

@78- Duncan Hines,

American restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)

(d. 1959)

78- James Caan,

American actor (Misery, The Godfather),

born in The Bronx

78- Nancy Pelosi,

(Rep-D-California)

@76- Rudolf Dassler,

German founder of sportswear company Puma,

born in Herzogenaurach, Germany

lung cancer (d. 1974)

75- Robert "Bob" Woodward,

Washington Post investigative reporter (

Watergate, CIA crimes)

74- Diana Ross, [Earle],

(Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany),

born in Detroit

72- Johnny Crawford,

actor (Mark-The Rifleman),

born in Los Angeles

@71- Guccio Gucci,

Italian founder of Gucci fashion house,

born in Florence

(d. 1953)

@71- Tennessee Williams,

American playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof),

born in Columbus, Mississippi

choked on bottle cap (d. 1983)

70- Steven Tyler,

American rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun),

born in NYC

60’s

69- Vicki Lawrence,

actress (Carol Burnett, Mama's Family),

born in Inglewood, CA

68- Martin Short,

Canadian comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos),

born in Hamilton, Ontario

@61- Strother Martin,

American actor (Sherriff: Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot),

born in Kokomo, Indiana

heart attack (d. 1980)

61- Leeza Gibbons,

TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)

50’s

58- Jennifer Grey,

actress (Dirty Dancing),

Joel Grey's daughter,

born in NYC

50- Kenny Chesney,

country singer

40’s

@49- Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard],

American writer (Egg & I)

uterine cancer

48- Martin McDonagh,

Anglo-Irish playwright, screenwriter and film director

(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri),

born in London, England

45- Larry Page,

American computer scientist and businessman

(co-founded Google with Sergey Brin),

born in East Lansing, Michigan

30’s

33- Keira Knightley,

English actress 

(Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean),

born in London, England

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@78-2016 Jim Harrison,

American poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall),

heart attack

@78-1923 Sarah Bernhardt,

French actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth),

uremia

@73-1973 Noel Coward,

English playwright (Private Letters),

heart failure

@72-1892 Walt Whitman,

American poet,

pleurisy, TB

60’s

@62-2004 Jan Berry,

American musician (Jan and Dean)

seizure

@61-1649 John Winthrop,

Puritan & 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony,

natural causes

50’s

@56-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven,

German composer (Appassionata),

liver damage

40’s

@48-1902 Cecil Rhodes,

British businessman, diamond merchant and

imperialist politician: Prime Minister of the Cape Colony

heart failure 

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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