Apr 16

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Apr 16, 2018 Week: 16\ Day: 106

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Nearest Lightning:  1588 miles away

Wind ave.:   12mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 77°[1948]   Record Low: 13°[1995]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

He who lives in harmony with himself

lives in harmony with the universe.

  Marcus Aurelius

Harper’s Index

61

            Percentage of 2016 Clinton voters who think

it’s hard to be friends with Trump voters

34

Of Trump voters who think it’s hard to be friends with

 Clinton voters

More Observances This Month

National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month  Link  Link  Link
National Garden Month Link
National Heartworm Awareness Month Link
National Humor Month
National Kite Month Link

Observances This Week

14-22

International Wildlife Film Week Link
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link 
National Coin Week 
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week Link  Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Volunteer Week
Spring Astronomy Week
Week of The Young Child Link

Observances for Today

American Fancy Rat & Mouse Days: 14-16
Boston Marathon  
Emancipation Day  Link
Foursquare Day  Link
Mushroom Day

National Bean Counter Day  Link
National Eggs Benedict Day

National Health Care Decisions Day: 16-22 Link

National Librarian Day

National Orchid Day Link
National Stress Awareness Day

Save The Elephant Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1582 Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta in Argentina

1700’s                                          

✪1705 Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge

✪1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: Battle of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite army.

✪1780 The University of Münster in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded

1800’s                                          

✪1854 San Salvador destroyed by earthquake

1861 US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states (US Civil War)

1900’s                                          

1900 US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps

1908 Natural Bridges National Monument forms (AZ-Utah border)

1922 Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row

1932 Short film "The Music Box" starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy (1932 Academy Award Best Live Action Short Film)

1935 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"

✪1938 Great Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

✪1943 Swiss scientist Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD

1947 Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)

1956 1st solar powered radios go on sale

1962 Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News

1972 1st Colgate Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Jane Blalock

✪1972 Two giant pandas arrive in US from China

1979 Pulitzer prize awarded to Sam Shepard for "Buried child"

1980 Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis

1987 Michael Jordan becomes the second NBA player in history to score 3000 points in a season

1987 Pulitzer prize awarded to August Wilson for "Fences"

✪1992 The Katina P runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.

2000’s                                          

✪2003 Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union

2007 Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 people and injures 23 others before committing suicide.

2015 Elizabeth Holmes, American entrepreneur, inventor, and founder and CEO of Theranos, is named one of TIME's "100 Most Influential People" of 2015

2017 World record for gathering of Charlie Chaplin lookalikes - 662 at Manoir de Ban, Chaplin museum in Vevey, Switzerland

My Rambling Thoughts

Warming up for a great spring day…and little wind.

Last night’s discussion was very good. We made it for 2 hours without saying how 45 had messed up some element of the discussion. Modern medicine is totally amazing. One of our participants, a nurse who has been working in Liberia teaching nursing students, had a stoke while doing water aerobics here in Flag. She was taken to the hospital, determined she needed to be airlifted to Phoenix for a procedure that puts a laser though an artery directly to the clot in the brain. Zap, Zap. The clot is gone. She had a week of rehab and is doing good now. Her husband had called early yesterday to say that he didn’t think they would come, but then called about 30 minutes before the meeting and said that Marge really wanted to be there, so they came. She participated very well. Her biggest problem in recovery is the lack of oxygen in our air and the while the Dr. suggested oxygen, the Medicare needs more forms before accepting the prognosis.

Got an email from a Focus Travel Buddy that she had twisted her leg/ankle, was in a wheelchair for a while, and won’t be going to the Amazon with us. Sally will be greatly missed. She is a great traveler and always has a good story or two or more. Hope she heals quickly.

Haircut and pedi on this week’s schedule. Also, will let the CPAP people that the new headgear is fantastic. So nice to awake with no markings on my face and not being awakened when the old huge mask moves off my face. All is good.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

91- Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger],

Catholic Pope (2005-2013),

born in Marktl, Bavaria, Germany

80’s

@88- Charles 'Charlie' Chaplin,

British actor and comedian (City Lights, Gold Rush),

born in London, England

(d. 1977)

@84- Garth Williams,

American illustrator (Charlotte's Web),

born in New York City

(d. 1996)

83- Bobby Vinton,

singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue),

born in Pittsburgh

@82- Peter Ustinov,

British actor, author, journalist, comedian

and broadcaster (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd),

born in London, England

(d. 2004)

@81- Edie Adams [Edith Enke],

American businesswoman, singer, actress

and comedian (Murial Cigar),

born in Kingston, PA

(d. 2008)

70’s

78- Margrethe II, 

Queen of Denmark (1972 - present),

born in Copenhagen

71- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, [Lew Alcindor], 

NBAcenter (Mil Bucks, LA Lakers),

born in NYC

@70- Henry Mancini, 

composer/conductor (Pink Panther),

born in Cleveland

pancreatic cancer (d. 1994)

60’s

@63- Gerry Rafferty,

guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street)

born in Paisley Scotland

multiple organ failure (d. 2011)

@61- John Hadley,

mathematician/inventor (1st reflecting telescope)

(d. 1744)

50’s

@59- Dusty Springfield, [Mary O'Brien],

vocalist (Growing Pains),

born in London

cancer (d. 1999)

53- Jon Cryer,

actor (Pretty in Pink, Superman IV)

53- Martin Lawrence,

American comedian (Martin),

born in Frankfurt, Germany

40’s

46- Tracey K. Smith,

American poet (Pulitzer prize 2011, Poet Laureate),

born in Falmouth, Mass

@45- Wilbur Wright,

American aviator (Wright Brothers),

born in Millville, Ind typhoid fever

(d. 1912)

20’s

25- Mirai Nagasu,

Olympic figure skater,

1^st triple axel in Olympics

23- Selena [Quintanilla-Pérez],

Mexican-American singer-songwriter

Queen of Tejano music (Grammy-1994),

born in Lake Jackson, Texas

killed by fan (d. 1995)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88-1850 Marie Tussaud,

French founder of Madame Tussaud's wax museum

@83-2010 Daryl Gates,

LAPD Chief, (D.A.R.E)

@83-1991 David Lean,

film director (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia)

@82-2013 Pat Summerall,

American NFL player and sportscaster

@82-1997 Mae Boren Axton

["Queen Mother of Nashville"],

American song writer (Heartbreak Hotel)

@82-1968 Edna Ferber,

American author and playwright

(American Beauty, Cimarron)

70’s

@79-1756 Jacques Cassini,

French astronomer

50’s

@55-2002 Robert Urich,

American actor (Spencer for Hire)

cancer

@53-1859 Alexis de Tocqueville,

French historian

TB

30’s

@37-1958 Rosalind Franklin,

English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA

ovarian cancer 

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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