Apr 20

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Apr 20, 2018 Week: 16\ Day: 110

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Nearest Lightning:  1782 miles away

Wind ave.:   12mph\Gusts:  40mph Visibility: 10 mi

RED FLAG WARNING          

Record High: 78°[1989]   Record Low: 8°[1966]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

No matter what people tell you,

words and ideas can change the world.  

  Robin Williams

Harper’s Index

1 in 10

            Number of voting-age Floridians who have

  been disenfranchised because of felony convictions

More Observances This Month

National Rebuilding Month
National Safe Digging Month Link
National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month Link   
Nationally Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Month
National Sexual Assault Awareness & Prevention 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

18-24

American Quilters Society Week
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week

20-22

Global Youth Service Days 

20-28

National Dance Week Link 

Observances for Today

Chinese Language Day Link
International Cli-Fi Day
Look Alike Day

National Cheddar Fries Day Link
National Pot Smokers Day Link
National Teach Children to Save Day
Volunteer Recognition Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

✪1611 First known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth at the Globe Theatre, London recorded by Simon Forman

1700’s                                          

✪1736 French mathematician Pierre Louis Maupertuis begins Lapland expedition to measure latitude and shape of the earth, joined by fellow scientists Anders Celsius, Charles Etienne Louis Camus, Alexis Clairaut, and Pierre-Charles Le Monnier

1800’s                                          

1836 Territory of Wisconsin created

✪1862 First pasteurization test completed by Frenchmen Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard

✪1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus

1896 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres in NYC

1900’s                                          

✪1918 Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day

✪1920 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium

1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa

✪1969 Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the Ulster Volunteer Force and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode at Silent Valley reservoir in County Down and at an electricity pylon at Kilmore, County Armagh

1971 Barbra Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"

1971 US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation

✪1974 'The Troubles', the Northern Ireland conflict between republican and loyalist paramilitaries, British security forces, and civil rights groups, claims its 1000th victim

1977 "Annie Hall", directed by Woody Allen and starring Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1978)

1979 President Jimmy Carter is attacked by a swamp rabbit which swam up to his fishing boat in Plains, Georgia

✪1980 Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel boatlift

1983 President Reagan signs a $165B bail out for Social Security

1986 Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game

1999 Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School, Colorado

2000’s                                          

2007 Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself.

2013 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, Colorado

✪ 2015 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Anthony Doerr's for his novel "All the Light We Cannot See" and to Elizabeth Kolbert for "The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History"

✪2017 Terrorist attack on police van on Champs Élysées, Paris 1 police officer killed, 2 injured

My Rambling Thoughts

When spring arrives in our little mountain town it means many days of wind and Red Flag Warnings. Today is another one of those days.

Headed out early today to get some shopping done before the wind started. Picked up my tipping cash for the Amazon, some sun-block and figure I am now ready for the trip. All that is left is packing and getting my last trip pictures off my iPhone. The last part should be easy, but is turning into a battle between me and my PC.

Miguel Diaz-Canel is the former VP and now President of Cuba. Not as much as hoped for as Raul still leads the Party. He admits he is not a reformer, opposes small private business. While in Cuba a few years ago we were led to believe that when Raul stepped down, lots of reform would happen. I’ll wait and see but this is certainly not what the Cuban people had hoped for.

Nice to see that Texas is having many ‘Celebrations of Life’.  They are saying it is time to rejoice in her many accomplishments. True that!

 

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

98- John Paul Stevens,

American lawyer, 103rd Supreme Court Justice (1975-2010),

born in Chicago

80’s

81- George Takei, 

actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets),

born in Los Angeles, CA

70’s

77- Ryan O'Neal,

actor (Love Story, Paper Moon)

60’s

69- Jessica Lange,

American actress 

(King Kong, Tootsie, American Horror Stories),

born in Cloquet, Minn

@65- Paul Poiret,

French couturier,

the most fashionable dress designer of pre-World War I,

born in Paris

(d. 1944)

50’s

@54- Adolf Hitler,

Austrian-born German dictator and

Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45),

born in Gasthof zum Pommer, Braunau am Inn, Austria-

Hungary

suicide (d. 1945)

@54- Luther Vandross,

American rock vocalist (Dance with my Father),

born in NYC

strokes (d. 2005)

40’s

48- Shemar Moore,

actor (Young & Restless, Criminal Minds),

born in Oakland, CA

46- Carmen Electra [Tara Leigh Patrick],

American model and actress 

(Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans),

born in Sharonville, Ohio

42- Joey Lawrence,

actor (Gimme a Break, Blossom, Summer Rental),

born in Philadelphia, PA

30’s

@31- Saint Rose of Lima [Isabel Flores de Olivia],

Peruvian saint,

a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic,

born in Lima, Peru

(d. 1617)

20’s

29- Carlos Valdes,

TV actor (Flash; Arrow)

born in Columbia

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@98-2010 Dorothy Height,

American civil rights and

women's rights activist (National Council of Negro Women)

@93-2016 Guy Hamilton,

British director (Goldfinger)

80’s

@81-1993 Cantinflas [Mario Moreno],

Mexican actor (Around World in 80 Days, Pepe)

70’s

@78-1990 Alex McCrindle,

Scottish actor (Star Wars, Eye of the Needle)

@76-2014 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,

American boxer whose murder convictions were overturned

 after 19 years in prison,

prostate cancer

@72-1812 George Clinton,

4th US VP,

1st VP to, die in office

60’s

@68-1992 Benny Hill [Alfred Hawthorn Hill],

British comedian (The Benny Hill Show),

heart attack

@64-1912 Bram Stoker,

Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula)

stroke

40’s

@48±-1769 Pontiac,

Ottawa Indian leader,

assassinated  by a Peoria warrior

20’s

@28±-1534 Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent],

English nun and prophet

(only women whose head was on a spike on London Bridge),

hung for treason

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…☼☼☼☼