Mar 5


FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!

Mar 5, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 64
86004 Today: H 48° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  12mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[1910]   Record Low: -5°[1948]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote
The more refined and subtle our minds,
the more vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier



More Observances This Month
Optimism Month
Paws To Read Month
Play The Recorder Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Quinoa Month
Save The Vaquita Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Work Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Supply Management Month
Transgender Month of Action for Healthcare Equality
Trisomy Awareness Month
Vascular Abnormalities Awareness Month
Women's History Month:
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Worldwide Home Schooling Awareness Month
Youth Art Month

Observances This Week
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7 
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7
Will Eisner Week: 1-7 
Celebrate Your Name Week: 3-9
Endometriosis Week: 3-9
National Consumer Protection Week:  3-9
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week: 3-9 
National Procrastination Week:  3-9
National Words Matter Week:  3-9
Professional Pet Sitters Week: 3-9
Read an E-Book Week:  3-9 
Return The Borrowed Books Week:  3-9
Save Your Vision Week: 3-9   
Teen Tech Week: 3-9
Telecommuniter Appreciation Week: 3-9
Women in Construction Week: 3-9 
National School Breakfast Week: 4-8
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 4-10 


Observances for Today
International Pancake Day (aka Shrove Tuesday) 
National Absinthe Day Link
National Cheese Doodle Day
National Poutine Day
Pancake Day Race (Between US and England)  Link  
Paczki Day 
Saint Piran's Day
World Tennis Day


My Rambling Thoughts
Starting off the week with blue sky and light wind. It will be a good week. All that’s left of our ‘big’ snow (39” in 24 hours) is the piles in the shopping centers.

Headed out early with an 8a appointment with my prostate Dr. It’s been 11 years since treatment, all is still good. Then I stopped at the mall for a haircut at the new ‘barber shop’. Got a decent cut at the same price as the stylist who moved to the other side of town and only works weekends. If it grows out well, I may have a new place to go.

I know very little about Colorado’s Hickenlooper, who just announced he’s running for President in 2020. All I know is he was Denver’s mayor and 2-term governor for Colorado and he’s a democrat. I’ll see if he makes it through some of the early stuff. So many have announced and so much time.

With all the talk about the summit, now it turns out that N. Korea has been involved in hacking American business, up to and including during the summit. Really? Really!


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s
1616 Astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus Copernicus
            placed on Catholic Forbidden index

1700’s
1746 Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen

1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5
            men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them.
            African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as
            early black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.

1774 John Hancock delivers the fourth annual Massacre Day oration, a
            commemoration of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the
            presence of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock's
            stature as a leading Patriot

1800’s
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures first pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model

1841 1st continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11

1858 Abolitionists establish "Crispus Attucks Day" in Boston

1900’s
1904 Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation
            in Electrical World and Engineer

1921 The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes, enabling the
            Durban City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or
            occupation of property in white areas, South Africa

1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension
            laws

1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM

1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday

1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri,
            popularizes the term and draws attention to the division of
            Europe

1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene

1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks

2000’s
2013 Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the
            presidency after the death of Hugo Chávez

2017 US President Donald Trump in a tweet accusses former President
            Obama without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump
            Towers during the presidential campaign

2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un meets South Korean officials
            for the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in
            Pyongyang

2018 China announces a military budget of 1.11 trillion yuan ($175
            billion)


Birthdays Today

1824 James Merritt Ives,
American lithographer and businessman (Currier and Ives),
born in NYC, New York
(d. 1895-@70)

1893 Emmett J Culligan,
founder of water treatment organization
(d.1970-@77)

1897 Soong Mei-ling
[Madame Chiang Kai-shek],
Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of
China (1948-75), born in Shanghai
(d. 2003-@105)

1908 Rex Harrison,
English actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle),
born in Huyton, England
(d. 1990-@82)

1910 Momofuku Ando,
Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles,
 born in Wu Baifu, Chiayi County, Taiwan
(d. 2007-@96)

1958 Andy Gibb,
British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol
(Bee Gees-I Just Want to Be Your Everything),
born in Manchester, England
(d. 1988-@30- myocarditis)
<><><><> 
85- James B Sikking,
actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser)

83- Dean Stockwell,
actor (Werewolf of Washington, Blue Velvet)

65- Marsha Warfield,
comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court)

1974 Eva Mendes,
American actress (Training Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious),
born in Miami, Florida

64- Penn Jillette,
magician


Historical Obits Today
@82-1827 Alessandro Volta,
Italian physicist and inventor of the 1st battery

@73-1953 Joseph Stalin,
Dictator and leader of the Soviet Union (1922-53),
dies of a stroke

@67-1974 Billy Dewolfe,
American character actor (Good Morning World),
dies of lung cancer

@58-2013 Hugo Chávez,
President of Venezuela,
dies from respiratory failure

@45-1973 Rupert Crosse,
American actor, 1st African-American to be nominated for Best
Supporting Actor Academy Award (The Reivers),
dies of lung cancer

@30-1963 Patsy Cline,
country singer (Crazy),
dies in a plane crash



No comments:

Post a Comment

Followers

Total Pageviews

Blog Archive

About Me

My photo
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.