Feb 3


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Feb 3, 2019 Week: 05  \ Day: 34
86004 Today: H 44° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 
Wind:   22mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 8 mi
Record High: 64°[1953]   Record Low: -22°[1922]
FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill


Random Tidbits

The Inventor of Frisbee Golf Was Turned Into a Frisbee
Edward “Steady Ed” Headrick, who invented the game of Frisbee golf, made as one of his dying wishes that his family would cremate him and mold his remains into a Frisbee. “When we die, we don’t go to purgatory,” Headrick reportedly said shortly before his passing. “We just land up on the roof and lay there.”


More Observances This Month
Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month Link
National African American History Month Link
National African American Read-In  Link
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Condom Month  Link
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Enrolled Agents Month Link
National Haiku Writing Month Link
National Hot Breakfast Month Link  Link
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Prevent A Litter Month Link
National Self Check Month Link
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Link
National Therapeutic Recreation Month Link
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Women Inventors Month
North American Inclusion Month (NAIM) Link

Observances This Week
Cordova Ice Worm Day: 1-3
US Snow Sculpting Week: 1-5 
Women's Heart Week: 1-7
Publicity for Profit Week: 2-8
African Heritage & Health Week: 3-9
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week: 3-9
Burn Awareness Week: 3-9 Link 
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week: 3-9

Observances for Today
Feed The Birds Day
Four Chaplains Memorial Day
National Missing Person's Day 
National Women's Physicians Day 
Popcorn Day 
Superbowl  LIII (53)


My Rambling Thoughts
Weather change: the storm I was expecting for today has decided to arrive late tonight and tomorrow. While I wait the storm, it is now bringing 1”-4” instead of the 1”. Gotta love life at 7000’.

If that storm arrives, I am spending tomorrow cleaning out closets. If it fizzles, I am spending tomorrow cleaning out closets. At least until the Super Bowl starts.

In 1970 I was sitting in an auditorium at the Univ. of Colorado to hear S. I. Hayakawa speak. At the time he, as college president, had just been embroiled in SF State College demonstrations regarding the Univ stance on Viet Nam and on Ethnic Studies. He was also a well-known linguist. The BSA [Black Student Alliance] were seated, with protest signs in the first few rows. When he came out on stage, the BSA raised their signs and started chanting. He attempted to speak several times but was out-shouted. After a few minutes he said he would not speak until the ‘jungle bunnies’ were removed. As the entire audience began booing, about 25 campus and local cops were on stage with billy clubs. Things did calm down and he did give his speech, and the BSA remained for the entire speech. I was reminded of this with the Virginia governor’s situation.

In 1970 I knew that negative stereotypes of any group of people was wrong. How could the governor not know it in 1984? How can 45 not know it in 2019? I heard his news conference this afternoon and just don’t buy it.


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s
1743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine
            immigrants

1800’s
1809 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day
            Wisconsin)

1834 Wake Forest University is established in North Carolina

1863 Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in
            a Virginia City newspaper, the "Territorial Enterprise"

1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world-famous       elephant Jumbo

1900’s
1928 Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings
            on the ancient human fossils found at Zhoukoudian,
            China in the journal Nature and declares them to be a
            new species he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now
            known as 'Homo erectus')

1959 The Day the Music died

1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes his
            famous "wind of change" speech in Africa, against the
            apartheid regime, angering South African politicians

1962 US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba
            except for food & drugs

1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

1980 Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy

1994 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against
            Vietnam

1998 US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy,
            kills 20

2000’s
2018 Moscow has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record,
            killing one and bringing down 2,000 trees


Birthdays Today
1480 Ferdinand Magellan,
Portuguese explorer, born in Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
, Portugal
(d. 1521)-@42-killed in Phillipines

1809 Felix Mendelssohn
[Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy],
German composer and pianist (Great Scherzos),
born in Hamburg, Germany
(d. 1847)-@38-series of strokes

1811 Horace Greeley,
editor ("Go west, young man")
(d. 1872)-@61 dies of short illness

1821 Elizabeth Blackwell,
English-American physician who was the first woman to receive a
medical degree in the United States, born in Bristol, England
(d. 1910)-@89

1874 Gertrude Stein,
author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
(d. 1946)-@72-stomach cancer

1894 Norman Rockwell,
American artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
(d. 1978)-@84

1906 George Adamson
[Baba ya Simba - "Father of Lions"],
British conservationist (Born Free), born in Etawah, India
(d. 1989)-@83

1907 James A. Michener,
American author (Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii)
(d. 1997)-@90

1914 George Nissen,
American inventor (created the trampoline), born in Blairstown,
Iowa
(d. 2010)@96

1918 Joey Bishop,
[Joseph Abraham Gottlieb],
talk show host (Joey Bishop Show), born in The Bronx,
(d. 2007)-@89

1938 Victor Buono,
actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables),
born in San Diego, (
d. 1982)-@43-heart attack
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35- Elizabeth Holmes,
American entrepreneur and CEO of now-defunct Theranos
(youngest self-made female billionaire - Forbes 2014),
born in Washington, D.C.

69- Morgan Fairchild,
[Patsy McClenny],
actress (Falcon Crest), born in Dallas, Texas

63- Nathan Lane,
actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie),
born in Jersey City, New Jersey


Historical Obits Today
@82-2006 Al Lewis
[Alexander Meister],
American actor (The Munsters, Used Cars)

@81-2012 Ben Gazzara,
American actor

@72-1985 Frank Oppenheimer,
American physicist
dies of lung cancer

@70-1468 Johannes Gutenberg,
German inventor (movable printing press)

@69-1991 Nancy Kulp,
American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, Shane),
dies of cancer

@67-1924 Woodrow Wilson,
28th US President (1913-21),
dies of stroke

@59-1989 John Cassavetes,
Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter
(Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby),
dies of cirrhosis

@56-1961 Anna May Wong,
American actress, 1st Chinese American movie star
(Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang),
dies of heart attack

@40-1889 Belle Starr,
US female gangster,
murdered

@28-1959 The Big Bopper
[Jiles Perry Richardson],
American musician,
dies in plane crash

@22-1959 Buddy Holly,
American rock and roll musician (That'll be the Day),
dies in a plane crash

@17-1959 Ritchie Valens,
American rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba),
dies in plane crash



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