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Jan
26, 2019 Week: 03 \ Day: 26
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Today: H 45° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
9mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 60°[1987] Record
Low: -15°[1937]
Jan
Averages:
43°\11°
Today’s Quote
It is not how old
you are,
but how you are
old.
Jules Renard
Random Tidbits
The highest denomination bill ever printed was
a $100,000 note that was printed from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It
was used for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow
Wilson was pictured on the front.
The following bills have not been in print
since 1946: $500 (William McKinley); $1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000 (James
Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P. Chase, former Treasury Secretary).
The highest current denomination is the $100
bill.
Observances This Week
19-27
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness
Week
20-26
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
National Activity Professionals Week
National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse
Anesthetists) Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
National School Choice Week
Sugar Awareness Week
No Name Calling Week
24-2/3
Sundance Film Festival
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
National Medical Group Practice Week
Tax Identity Theft Week
US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days
Observances for Today
A.F.R.M.A. Fancy Rat & Mouse Day
Dental Drill Appreciation Day
Fruitcake Toss Day
Lotus 1-2-3 Day
National Peanut Brittle Day
National Seed Swap Day
Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful winter
day. Good day for a nice walk.
Yesterday was my phlebotomy
day. Not as easy as I had come to expect. It took 4 pokes by 3 different nurses
+ heat on my arm to do it. I knew it would be difficult when the first nurse
started the whole thing and then it just stopped. I have one more in Feb.
before I see the Dr., however the Dr. was notified that they were having
trouble and he didn’t seem worried. Of course not, he wasn’t having his arm
poked. It usually takes about 30 minutes, but today it was a little over an
hour. The only good news about yesterday is that I don’t have any bruises, hardly
even any marks where they poked me.
Tomorrow is our
first discussion group of 2019. We will be discussing the ‘state of diplomacy’.
Lots of reading to do but should be very informative.
WOW! A 3-week negotiated
stop to the government shut-down. Maybe? Let’s see if they can do anything to
fix this mess…a mess that hasn’t been solved in decades. Good luck. Hopefully,
not another shut-down in 3 weeks. And maybe, just maybe, we will be able to see
the State of the Union next week. After listening to 45’s lies as he announced about
the end of the shut-down, I wonder what new one will pop up at SOTU?
Highlights from
the pre-dawn raid of Roger Stone’s home at least show that the FBI ain’t messin’
around with this guy. His news conference after the first court appearance was
scary, even without the Nixon salute.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1600’s
1697 Isaac Newton
receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before
going to bed that same night
1700’s
1784 Benjamin
Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
1800’s
1837 Michigan
admitted as 26th US state
1875 Electric
dental drill is patented by George F Green
1900’s
1905 World's
largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa
1915 Rocky
Mountain National Park, Colorado, is established
1934 The Apollo
Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1945 Soviet
forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp
1961 1st woman
personal physician to a US President - Janet G. Travell (to John F. Kennedy)
1967 Chicago
Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and
50,000 automobiles to be abandoned
1980 Mary Decker
became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
1998 President
Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did
not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
2000’s
2005 Condoleezza
Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman
to hold the post
2016 Leader of
Oregon militia occupying Malheur wildlife refuge arrested and another killed in
shoot-out with Federal agents
Birthdays Today
1831 Mary Mapes
Dodge,
American writer
(Hans Brinker & the Silver
Skates), born in
NYC,
(d. 1905)-@74
1880 Douglas
MacArthur, American General in World
War II, born in
Little Rock, Arkansas
(d. 1964)-@84
1904 Seán
MacBride,
Chief of Staff of
the Irish Republican Army and
founder of
Amnesty International (Nobel 1974),
born in Dublin,
Ireland
(d. 1988)-@83
1915 William
Hopper,
American actor
(Perry Mason, The Bad Seed,
Rebel Without a
Cause), born in NYC,
(d. 1970)-@55-stroke
1925 Paul Newman,
American actor
(Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racing
car driver and
charity food company founder
(Newman's Own),
born in Cleveland, Ohio
(d. 2008)-@83
1946 Gene Siskel,
movie critic
(Siskel & Ebert)
(d. 1999)-@53-brain
tumor
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85- Bob Uecker,
catcher/actor (Mr
Belvedere),
born in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
64- Eddie Van
Halen,
Dutch-American rock
guitarist (Van Halen-
Jump, 1984), born
in Nijmegen, Netherlands
61- Ellen
DeGeneres,
comedienne (Ellen
Morgan-Ellen),
born in New
Orleans, Louisiana
58- Wayne
Gretzky,
Canadian hockey player
26- Cameron
Bright,
Canadian actor
(The Twilight Saga, X-Men),
born in Victoria,
British Columbia
10- Suleman
octuplets
born to Nadya
Suleman in Bellflower, California
- longest ever
octuplet survival
Historical Obits Today
@94-2017 Barbara
Hale,
American actress
(Della Street in Perry Mason)
@94-2016 Abe
Vigoda,
American actor
(Barney Miller, The Godfather)
@91-2017 Mike
Connors,
[Krekor Ohanian],
American actor (Mannix)
@80-1992 José
Ferrer,
Puerto Rican
actor and director (Cyrano de
Bergerac),
dies of cancer
@79-1973 Edward
G. Robinson [Goldenberg],
Romanian actor
(Double Indemnity, The
Stranger, The Ten
Commandments),
dies of bladder
cancer
@73-1893 Abner
Doubleday,
Union
general-major and inventor (baseball),
dies of heart
disease
@73-1823 Edward
Jenner,
English
physician, father of immunology,
pioneered
smallpox vaccinations,
dies after stroke
@70-1979 Nelson
Rockefeller,
American
politician (Vice President: 1974-
1977; Governor of
New York (R), 1959-73),
dies of a heart
attack
@69-1983 Paul
"Bear" Bryant,
American college football coach (Alabama),
dies of massive
heart attack
@65-1962 Charles
"Lucky" Luciano,
NYC Mafia
gangster,
dies of a heart
attack
