Mar 30


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Mar 30, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 89
86004:   H 52° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest wildfire:  555mi. Nearest lightning:  907mi
Record High: 70°[1971]   Record Low:[1998]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote
The more things change,
the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr


Random Tidbits
The Moon

Most scientists believe the moon formed because of a Giant Impact. According to this theory, a Mars-sized planet struck a glancing blow to early Earth. The impact "splashed off" rocks and debris into space, forming a huge ring around Earth that later clumped together to form the moon.

When the moon formed 4.6 billion years ago, it was 14,000 miles (22,530 km) from Earth. Now it's more than 280,000 miles (450,000 km) away. The moon looked three times larger when it was closer to Earth.



Observances This Week
Money Smart Week: 30-4/6
NanoDays: 30-4/7 Link
Lent: 6-4/20
National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14  
Health Information Professionals Week: 24-30 Link
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 24-30 
National Cleaning Week: 24-30
National Protocol Officer's Week: 24-30
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week: 24-30
National Physicians Week: 24-30  Link
National Money Show: 28-30


Observances for Today
Doctors Day  Link
Earth Hour 
Link (This pertains to turning off lights at 8:30 pm local time.)
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
I Am In Control Day 
Link
International Folding Laundry Day

National Hot Chicken Day
Torrents Day Link
Virtual Vacation Day  Link
World Bi-polar Day 
Link


My Rambling Thoughts
Another great spring day. Front door open for a while, office window open too.

Our retirement group met yesterday. Mary is leaving for another European vaca next week with her little brother and his wife. Got to see her recent visit to London and Paris. She confirmed with pics that the Eifel Tower is still there, right where it was when I visited it a few years ago.

I am not the best packer, but I always have clothes I know I will need. How could NASA blow it with not enough space suits for the historic 2-woman spacewalk? It’s not like one of the women was a stowaway or suddenly went from a Large to a Medium spacesuit. And, just when the VP announced the US would return to the moon by 2024 with a woman.

Just waiting for my tax guy to let me know the damage this year.

So glad that didn’t have airline tickets with WOW airlines. The company closed. Travelers had to figure out their own way back home. What a mess for all those travelers. I guess cheap is not always the best way to fly.

My upcoming Siberian trip with Focus is becoming a little headache for those planning the trip. Glad I know that Ellie and Joe will figure it all out well before the time we leave. On a side note, Mary, of my retirement group, either plans her trip or has those she is traveling with do all the planning: airlines, hotels, museum fees, … Turns out most trips have a mess up or two or more to add to her adventures and then must figure out how to fix it. I don’t need that kind of headache on a trip.  


RETURNING--PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at that bottom
A bus driver was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without stopping, turned left where there was a “no left turn” sign, and went the wrong way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop car. Yet, he didn’t break any traffic laws.
Why not?


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s
1822 Congress combines East & West Florida into Florida
Territory
1842 Ether used as an an aesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford
Long (Georgia)
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of
Philadelphia)
1867 US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre
- Seward's Folly)
1870 15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted,
guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union

1900’s
1909 New York's Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan &
Queens
1910 Mississippi Legislature founded The University of Southern
Mississippi
1959 Dalai Lama flees China and is granted political asylum in
India
1969 Loyalists bomb water and electricity installations in Northern
Ireland in the hope that the attacks would be blamed on the
IRA and on elements of the civil rights movement, which
was demanding an end to discrimination against Catholics
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God" premieres in NYC
1981 US President Ronald Reagan is shot and wounded in an
assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.; three others are
also wounded
1984 World's most valuable tip - New York police detective Robert
Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of $1 lottery
ticket, next day they win $6 million
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for a record 22.5
million pounds ($39.7 million)

2000’s
2000 Richard Branson is knighted by Charles, Prince of Wales for
"services to entrepreneurship" at Buckingham Palace
2012 Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security
with over ten million compromised credit card numbers
2018 Palestinians begin a "Great March of Return", 6 weeks of
protests on the Gaza Strip demanding Palestinian refugees
be allowed to return to Israel. 19 Palestinians killed, 1,416
injured on the first day.


Birthdays Today
1811 Robert Bunsen, (d. 1899: @88)
German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner,
born in Göttingen, Westphalia, Rhine Confederation

1820 Anna Sewell, (d. 1878:@58-TB)
English author (Black Beauty),
born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk

1853 Vincent van Gogh,
(d. 1890: @37-infection after shooting himself)
Dutch artist, painter and pioneer of Expressionism
(The Potato Eaters, Irises),
born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands

1926 Ingvar Kamprad, (d. 2018: @91)
Swedish eccentric businessman (founder of IKEA) and author
(The Testament of a Furniture Dealer),
born in Pjätteryd, Sweden

1913 Frankie Laine 
[Francesco Paolo LoVecchio],
(d. 2007: @93)
Italian-American singer, songwriter, and actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide),
born in Chicago, Illinois

90’s
93- Peter Marshall,
TV game show host (Hollywood Squares),
born in Huntington, West Virginia

80’s
89- John Astin,
American actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Addams Family),
born in Baltimore, Maryland

82- Warren Beatty,
actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy),
born in Richmond, Virginia

70’s
74- Eric Clapton,
English singer and guitarist (Tears in Heaven),
born in Ripley, Surrey, England

60’s
69- Robbie Coltrane,
Scottish actor (Harry Potter films) and comedian,
born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire
50’s
57- M C Hammer,
[Stanley Kirk Burrell],
rapper (Hammer Time),
born in Oakland, California

53- Piers Morgan,
editor (Daily Mirror)

51- Celine Dion,
Canadian singer (I'm Your Woman),
born in Charlemagne, Quebec

40’s
48- Mark Consuelos,
actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
born in Zaragosa Spain


Historical Obits Today
100’s
@101-2002 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of the UK

80’s
@86-1986 James Cagney,
American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)

70’s
@79-2013 Phil Ramone [Rabinowitz],
South-African born American music producer
 (co-founded A&R records),
dies from an aortic aneurysm

@75-1999 Terry Wilson,
American actor (Wagon Train, Escape to Witch Mountain)

@74-1999 Gary Morton,
American film and television producer,
married to Lucille Ball
died of lung cancer

@72-1964 Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen
[Nellie Walker],
African-American Harlem Renaissance novelist (Quicksand, Passing)

60’s
@61-1840 George (Beau) Brummell,
Dandy,
dies of syphilis


Puzzle answer:
The bus driver was not driving his bus, he was walking.



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