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Jan 16, 2019
Week: 02 \ Day: 16
86004 Today: H 36° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 5mi
Record High: 60°[1974]
Record Low: -8°[1915]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s Quote
Wherever there is
a human being, there is
an opportunity
for a kindness.
Lucius Annaeus
Seneca
Random Tidbits
Leonardo da Vinci figured out that the rings
of a tree reveal its age.
The filaments for the first electric lamp were
made of bamboo.
Observances This
Week
11-17
Cuckoo Dancing Week
13-19
National Mocktail Week
Observances for
Today
Appreciate A Dragon Day
Civil Service Day
Fig Newton Day
National Quinoa Day
Religious Freedom Day
Without A Scalpel Day
My Rambling
Thoughts
I had to check my
calendar and my phone this morning to be sure it was JANUARY. It was raining at 6a and is still raining on
and off. Snow should arrive tonight.
Snow melts quickly when it is rained upon. Rain in January at 7000’ is
unusual for sure. It’s been 4 days with no sun. It’s time for whomever stole it
to bring it back.
Nice to see a
reasonable hearing for AG by both sides. 2019 looks good. Hope the Senate keeps
it up. Government acting like they should.
My new smokeless
indoor grill did a great job on a strip steak last night. So easy to clean up.
Sure glad I got it.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1400’s
1492 The first
grammar of a modern language,
Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.
1600’s
1605 The first
edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don
Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of
Don
Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is
published
in Madrid
1800’s
1883 Pendleton
Act creates basis of US Civil
Service system
1900’s
1908 Pinnacles
National Monument, California
established
1925 Leon Trotsky
resigns as chairman of the
Russian Revolutionary Military Council
as he
and Stalin battle for power in the
aftermath of
Lenin's death.
1951 World's
largest gas pipeline opens
(Brownsville Texas, to 134th St, New
York City)
1968 Jay Allen's
"Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
premieres in NYC
1970 Buckminster
Fuller receives the Gold Medal
award from the American Institute of
Architects
1974
"Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published by
Doubleday
2000’s
2003 The Space
Shuttle Columbia takes off for
mission STS-107 which would be its final
one.
Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on
re-
entry.
2006 Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's
new president. She becomes Africa's
first
female elected head of state.
2016 First ever
flower grown in space - a zinnia
aboard the International Space Station
using
NASA Veggie system
Birthdays Today
1853 Andre
Michelin,
French
industrialist, tire manufacturer
(Michelin) and
publisher of the Michelin Guide,
born in Paris (d.
1931)@78
1901 Fulgencio
Batista,
Dictator and
President of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-
59), born in
Banes, Cuba (d. 1973)@72-heart
attack
1908 Ethel
Merman,
American stage
and screen actress (Anything
Goes, Call Me
Madam), born in Queens, New
York (d. 1984)@72-
glioblastoma
1932 Dian Fossey,
American
zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), born in
San Francisco, (d.
1985)@53-
murdered in Rwanda
1932 Jim Berry,
cartoonist
(Berry's World) (d. 2015)@83
1933 Susan
Sontag,
American
author/film director (Benefactor,
1966 Pol Award),
born in NYC,(d. 2004)@71
-leukemia
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75- Jim Stafford,
born in Eloise
Fla, singer (Spiders & Snakes, My
Girl Bill)
71- John
Carpenter,
American film
director (Halloween, The Thing), born in Carthage, New York
69-Debbie Allen,
dancer,
choreographer, actress(3 Girls 3,
Lydia-Fame)
60- Sade [Helen
Folasade Adu],
Nigerian-born
British singer-songwriter,
composer,
arranger and record producer
(Soldier of Love,
Smooth Operator), born in
Ibadan, Colony
and Protectorate of Nigeria
45- Kate Moss,
English model,
born in Croydon, England
39-Lin-Manuel
Miranda,
stage actor
(Hamilton), born in NYC
Historical Obits
Today
@94-2013 Abigail
Van Buren [Pauline Phillips],
American columnist and radio show host
known for "Dear Abby" advice
column, twin
sister of fellow advice columnist Ann
Landers
(Eppie Lederer), dies from
complications from
Alzheimer's disease
@89-1957 Arturo
Toscanini,
Italian US
conductor (NBC)
@71-1906 Marshall
Field,
American
entrepreneur and the founder of
Marshall Field
and Company
@69-2018 Dave Holland,
English heavy
metal rocker (Judas Priest-
Breakin' the Law)
@46-1979 Ted
Cassidy,
actor
(Lurch-Addams Family), complications
following surgery
