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Jan 15, 2019
Week: 02 \ Day: 15
86004 Today: H 31° \ L 21° \ Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts:
8mph Visibility: 6 mi
Record High: 65°[1943]
Record Low: -12°[1937]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s Quote
Facts are
stubborn,
but statistics
are more pliable.
Mark Twain
Random Tidbits
Stilts were invented by French shepherds who
herded sheep in marshes near the Bay of Biscay.
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In about 250 B.C., Ancient Greek mathematician
Archimedes invented the screw.
Observances This
Week
11-17
Cuckoo Dancing Week
13-19
National Mocktail Week
Observances for
Today
Alpha Kappa Alpha Day
Humanitarian Day
National Bagel Day
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day
My Rambling
Thoughts
Overcast with occasional
snowflakes. Guess the ‘next’ storm arrived early. Weather guy sez to expect 1”-3”
in this new storm. This one should be around until Wednesday. Roads are good
with not many people out and about.
While I was out I
ran into a couple I had worked with in Tuba. Elmer is a Purple Heart recipient
from Vietnam and Leona was our Budget Tech. Both are retired and living in
Tuba. Leona looks good even though she is undergoing radiation after surgery
and chemo. Both have a real positive attitude and things are looking good.
Way back in 1973
I was teaching 3rd grade in Shonto, on the Navajo Reservation. We
got word that all US troops were coming home from Vietnam. I remember writing
on the board: The Vietnam war has ended. I was overjoyed as I was not a
supporter of the war. Then my 3rd graders reminded me what war was
all about. I heard the kids when they said, “When is my brother is coming?” “When
is my dad coming home?” “When is my Uncle coming home?” I didn’t have the
answers so we wrote letters to the relatives.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1700’s
1759 British
Museum opens in Montague House,
London
1800’s
1844 University
of Notre Dame receives its charter
in Indiana
1846 Russian
writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first
novel "Poor Folk" is published
in the St
Petersburg Collection almanac
1861 Steam
elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 1st US
newspaper printed on wood-pulp
paper, Boston Morning Journal
1870 Donkey first
used as symbol of Democratic
Party, in Harper's Weekly
1900’s
1902 Abdulaziz
Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the
walls of Riyadh and takes the city,
marking the
beginning of the Third Saudi State
1919 Two million
gallons of molasses flood Boston
Massachusetts in the "Great
Molasses Flood"
when a storage tank burst, drowning 21
and
injuring 150
1943 World's
largest office building, the Pentagon
is completed
1971 Aswan Dam official
opens in Egypt
1973 US President
Richard Nixon suspends all
US offensive action in N Vietnam
1991 Elizabeth II
signs letters patent that allows
Australia to institute its own Victoria
Cross,
the first Commonwealth realm to do so
1994 Queen
Elizabeth falls off her horse & breaks
her left wrist
1997 Diana,
Princess of Wales, calls for an
international ban on landmines, angering
ministers in the UK
2000’s
2001 Wikipedia a
free Wiki or content encyclopedia
is launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry
Sanger
2009 Chesley
Sullenberger lands US Airways Flight
1549 on the Hudson River shortly after
takeoff
from LaGuardia Airport in NYC. All
passengers
and crew members survive in what becomes
known as the "Miracle on the
Hudson"
2016 American
Museum of Natural History in
Manhattan unveils newest exhibit replica
skeleton of a Titanosaur dinosaur (found
2010
Argentina), largest known dinosaur at 70
tons,
37m
2018 US Gynmnast
Simone Biles says she is one of
more than 130 women sexually abused by
former team doctor Larry Nassar
Birthdays Today
1412 Joan of Arc,
Roman Catholic
Saint and national heroine of
France (legendary date), born in Domrémy,
duchy of Bar, France (d. 1431)@19-burned at
the stake
1622 Molière
[Jean-Baptiste Poquelin],
French playwright
(The Misanthrope),
born in Paris, Kingdom
of France (d. 1673)@51-
TB
1875 Abdulaziz
Ibn Saud,
Founder and first
King of Saudi Arabia (1932-
53), born in
Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd
(d. 1953)@78-heart
disease
1902 Saud bin
Abdulaziz Al Saud,
King of Saudi
Arabia (1953-64), born in Kuwait
City (d. 1969)@67
1906 Aristotle
Onassis,
Greek shipping
magnate, born in Konak, Turkey
(d. 1975)@69- respiratory
failure
1908 Edward
Teller,
Hungarian-American
physicist, father of the
Hydrogen bomb
(Manhattan Project), born in
Budapest, Hungary
(d. 2003)@95
1929 Martin
Luther King Jr.,
American
clergyman and leader of the Civil
Rights Movement
(Nobel 1964), born in Atlanta,
Georgia (d. 1968)@39- assassinated
1913 Lloyd
Bridges,
American comedic
actor (Sea Hunt, Roots,
Airplane!), born
in San Leandro, California
(d. 1998)@85
1948 Ronnie Van
Zant,
American rock
musician (Lynyrd Skynyrd),
born in
Jacksonville, Florida(d. 1977) plane
crash
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68- Charo [Maria
Baeza],
Spanish-American
actress, comedienne and
flamenco
guitarist (Chico and the Man, Love
Boat), born in
Murcia, Spain
40- Drew Brees,
QB-Saints
38- Pitbull
[Armando Christian Perez],
American rapper,
born in Miami, Florida
Historical Obits
Today
@83-1988 Seán
MacBride,
Chief of Staff of
the Irish Republican Army and
founder of
Amnesty International (Nobel 1974)
@83-1987 Ray
Bolger,
American actor
and dancer (The Wizard of Oz)
@73-2016 Dan
Haggerty,
American actor
(Grizzly Adams), dies of
cancer
@72±-1896 Matthew
B Brady,
US photographer
(Civil War), he died penniless
in the charity ward of Presbyterian Hospital
in
New York City,
from complications following a
streetcar
accident.
@57-1915 Fannie
Farmer,
American culinary
pioneer who revolutionized
modern cooking
through the introduction of
precise
measurements (Boston Cooking-
School Cook
Book), dies of complications of a
stroke
@22-1947
Elizabeth Short,
American victim
in the Black Dahlia case,
murdered
