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Dec 8, 2018 Week:
49 \ Day: 342
86004 Today: H 34° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 85%
Foggy
Wind: 7mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 63°[2015]
Record Low: -23°[1978]
Nov Averages: 43°\17°
Today’s
Quote
The most worth-while thing is to try to put
happiness
into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
Random
Tidbits
Piranhas'
bad reputation is at least partially Teddy Roosevelt's fault. When he journeyed
to South America in 1913, he encountered several different species of piranha,
and described them as "ferocious fish" in his bestseller, Through the
Brazilian Wilderness.
***
Today,
piranhas inhabit the fresh waters of South America from the Orinoco River Basin
in Venezuela up to the Parana River in Argentina. Though estimates vary, around
30 species inhabit the lakes and rivers of South America.
***
Piranhas
attract a certain type of pet lover, and sometimes when the fish gets too large
for its aquarium said pet lover decides it’s much better off in the local lake.
In this manner, piranhas have shown up in waterways around the globe from Great
Britain to China to Texas.
Observances
This Week
3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet Week
Clerc-Gallaudet Week
Observances
for Today
National Day of
Lard
National Brownie Day
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1600’s
1659
Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
1800’s
1886
American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers
elected AFL president
1900’s
1909
Bird banding society found
1915
John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in
"Punch" magazine
1936
NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1941
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to
US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
1965
Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in NYC
1982
Norman Mayer holds Washington Monument hostage, demanding an end to nuclear
weapons. Is killed by police after 10 hrs (he had no explosives)
1982
Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez receives the Nobel Prize for Literature
1987
US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty
eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1992
Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
2000’s
2002
The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba
and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate
diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2010
With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately
held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
My
Rambling Thoughts
Mucinex
is working its wonders. Much better off today.
While
it is chilly and foggy, I still headed out to Sam’s and Walgreens for some regular
scripts. Nice day.
Fool
me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Listened for days that the Mueller
probe would be releasing information. And they did, but it was mostly redacted.
Now the news channels are saying more coming. Sorry, not listening. When
something of import actually comes out, I’m sure I’ll hear about it.
Focus
is in NYC with Group II. No postings on this trip. Guess there are no FB poster
people on this trip.
Birthdays
Today
@-
indicates age at death
80’s
@83-
Maximilian
Schell,
Swiss-Austrian
actor and director (Odessa File, Julia), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2014)
70’s
@77-
Richard
Llewellyn,
Wales,
novelist (How Green Was My Valley) (d. 1983)
@72-
James
MacArthur,
actor
(Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), born in Los Angeles, (d. 2010) cancer
@70-
Diego
Rivera,
Mexican
painter (En el Arsenal) and married to Frida Kahlo, born in Guanajuato, México
(d. 1957)
70-
Jimmy
Lai [Lai Chee-Ying],
Chinese
businessman (founder of Giordano), born in Guangzhou, China
60’s
65-
Kim
Basinger,
American
actress
@64-
Samuel "Sammy" Davis Jr.,
American
singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man), born in NYC, New York (d. 1990)
throat cancer
@64-
Lee
J Cobb [Leo Jacoby],
American
actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), born in NYC, New York (d.
1976) heart attack
@64-
Flip
Wilson, [Clerow],
comedian
(Flip Wilson Show), born in Jersey City, NJ (d. 1998) liver cancer
50’s
@59-
Eli
Whitney,
American
inventor (Cotton Gin), born in Westborough, Massachusetts (d. 1825) prostate cancer
59-
Jim
Yong Kim,
South
Korean-American physician, anthropologist and President of the World Bank, born
in Seoul, South Korea
57-
Ann
Coulter,
American
author, political commentator, and attorney
53-
Teri
Hatcher,
actress
52-
Sinéad
O'Connor,
Irish
singer-songwriter (Nothing Compares 2 U), born in Glenageary, Ireland
40’s
@43-
E.C.
Segar,
American
cartoonist (Popeye) (d. 1938) leukemia
30’s
@38-
Sam
Kinison,
American
screaming comedian and actor (Back to School, Charlie Hoover), born in Yakima,
Washington (d. 1992) killed by drunk driver
36-
Nicki
Minaj,
Trinidadian-American
rapper and singer (Super Bass, Starships), born in Saint James, Port of Spain,
Trinidad and Tobago
20’s
@27-
Jim
Morrison,
American
singer-songwriter (The Doors) and poet, born in Melbourne, Florida (d. 1971) OD
Historical
Obits Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@95-2016
John
Glenn,
American
astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio)
80’s
@80-1978
Golda
Meir [Mabovitch],
Israeli
teacher, stateswoman and 4th Prime Minister of Israel (1969-74) "Iron
Lady" of Israeli politics
60’s
@64-1983
Slim
Pickens [Louis Burton Lindley Jr],
American
rodeo performer and actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles), following surgery
50’s
@57-1982
Marty
Robbins,
American
country singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone), complications following cardiac
surgery
40’s
@40-1980
John
Lennon,
British
musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), shot and killed
30’s
@32-1967
Robert
Henry Lawrence, Jr.,
1st
African-American astronaut and U.S. Air Force major, crash of an F-104
Starfighter while training
