Jan 6


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Jan 6, 2019 Week: 01  \ Day: 6
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 
Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 61°[1969]   Record Low: -18°[1910]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

The art of being happy lies in the power of
extracting happiness from common things.
Henry Ward Beecher


Random Tidbits

It's good luck to eat foods like black eyed peas, ham and cabbage because it is thought they bring prosperity. But if you want to have a happy new year, don't eat lobster or chicken. Lobsters can move backward and chickens can scratch in reverse, so it is thought these foods could bring a reversal of fortune.

January: named after Janus, the god of doors and gates.


Observances This Week
           
1-7
Diet Resolution Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
Silent Record Week

2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

6-12
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week


Observances for Today
           
Armenian Christmas
Epiphany
National Shortbread Day
National Technology Day 
No Pants Subway Ride Day 
Three Kings Day


My Rambling Thoughts
Finally, it has warmed up enough to enjoy being outside. I made a quick trip to the store for groceries. I hate shopping on weekends, but sometimes I have to.

Our next snow storm (6”-8”) is due tonight. Some of the last remnants of the last storm are still on the ground. Gotta love living at 7000’.

The craziest idea about this shutdown: Government workers are being told to work for free until there is money for the wall. Back when the Republican ‘God’, Reagan, had our first modern shutdown, everyone went home except a small number of ‘essentials’ employees. At a school with 950 K-8 students where I worked, that was everybody except the principal. At the Agency office it was everybody except the Superintendent. And the principal’s duty was to be sure all the children got home safely, all the doors were locked before going home. We did have a three-hour time to get all the students home.  Times have sure changed.


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s
1861 NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading
            with North and South

1893 The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by
            Congress. The charter is signed by President Benjamin
            Harrison.

1900’s
1907 Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school
            (Rome)

1912 New Mexico becomes 47th state of the Union

1912 Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist,
            presents his controversial theory of continental
            drift in a lecture at a the Geological Association
            (Geologischen Vereinigung) at the Senckenberg-
            Museum, Frankfurt.

1914 Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded

1941 US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four
            Freedoms" speech (freedom of speech and worship;
            freedom from want and fear) during his US State of
            Union address


1974 In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving
            time commences nearly four months early in the
            United States.

1979 The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK
            No.1 single. At it's peak it sold over 150,000 copies a
            day



Birthdays Today

1811 Charles Sumner,
American leading Reconstruction senator, born
in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1874)@63-heart attack

1822 Heinrich Schliemann,
German archaeologist who rediscovered Troy,
born in Neubukow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
German Confederation (d. 1890)@68

1878 Carl Sandburg,
American poet & biographer of Lincoln (The People,
Yes), born in Galesburg, Illinois (d. 1967)@89         

1880 Tom Mix [Thomas Hezikiah Mix],
American silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin),
born in Mix Run, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
@60-auto accident

1882 Samuel Rayburn,
American politician (Rep-D-Tx), born in Kingston,
Tennessee (d. 1961)@79

1883 Khalil Gibran,
Lebanese mystic & poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings),
 born in Bsharri, Lebanon (d. 1931)@48 cirrhosis

1912 Danny Thomas,
American comedian (Danny Thomas Show),
born in Deerfield, Michigan (d. 1991)@79

1913 Loretta Young,
American actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger),
born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2000)@87

1924 Earl Scruggs,
American musician (& Flat-Ballad of Jed Clampett),
born in Cleveland County, North Carolina (d. 2012)@88

1930 Victor "Vic" Tayback,
American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore "), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
@60 heart attack

1938 Mario Rodríguez Cobos (aka Silo),
Argentine writer and spiritual leader, born in Mendoza,
Argentina (d. 2010)@72

1944 Bonnie Franklin,
American actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time), born in
Santa Monica, California (d. 2013)
@69-pancreatic cancer

1946 Syd Barrett,
English guitarist and early vocalist of the band Pink Floyd,
born in Cambridge, England (d. 2006)
@60-pancreatic cancer
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74- Pepé Le Pew,
Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Chuck Jones
 and Michael Maltese (Looney Tunes and Merrie
 Melodies series), first debuts in "Odor-able Kitty"

65- Malcom Young,
guitarist, back up singer AC/DC

64- Rowan Atkinson,
English comedian and actor (Mr Bean, Blackadder),
born in Consett, County Durham, England

49- Julie Chen,
American television presenter, born in New York City

35- Eric Trump


Historical Obits Today

@86-2016 Pat Harrington Jr,
American actor (Danny Thomas Show, One Day at
a Time)

@81-2015 Lance Percival,
English actor and comedian (That Was The Week
That Was)

@75-1993 John B "Dizzy" Gillespe,
blues trumpeter, dies of cancer

@72-2006 Lou Rawls,
American vocalist (Dean Martin's Gold-diggers,
Natural Man) dies of cancers

@61-1884 Gregor Mendel,
Austrian monk and geneticist (discoverer of laws
of heredity)

@60-1919 Theodore Roosevelt,
26th US President (R: 1901-09; Nobel 1906),
dies of blood clot

@59-1949 Victor Fleming,
American film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone
With Wind), dies from heart attack

@43-1852 Louis Braille,
French educator and inventor of a system of reading
and writing for the blind, dies of tuberculosis



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