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Jan
31, 2019 Week: 04 \ Day: 31
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Today: H 47° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 63°[1971] Record
Low: -25°[1916]
Jan
Averages:
43°\11°
Today’s Quote
People don't
notice whether it's winter
or summer when
they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
Random Tidbits
Studies have
found napping raises your stamina 11 percent, increases ability to stay asleep
all night by 12 percent, and lowers the time required to fall asleep by 14
percent.
Sleep experts
have found that daytime naps can improve many things: increase alertness, boost
creativity, reduce stress, improve perception, stamina, motor skills and
accuracy, enhance your sex life, aid in weight loss, reduce the risk of heart
attack, brighten your mood and boost memory.
One of the keys
to power napping is to keep them short. Many experts say 20 minutes is the
ideal duration to bolster energy and heighten alertness. Too long a nap can
risk grogginess.
A little group
called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases performance by 34
percent and alertness by 54 percent. Pilots take advantage of NASA naps while
planes are on autopilot
Observances This 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
Appreciate Your Social Security Check
Day
Inspire Your Heart with Art Day
National
Hot Chocolate Day
Street Children Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Middle of the
week…spent time digging up old dates of college attendance and current phone
numbers to each University. Just glad they didn’t want my Student ID numbers.
Haha.
So now our
attention needs to turn to Venezuela. 45 is putting on the screws and some
other countries are following…others not so much. I have great empathy for the
people of Venezuela. Their inflation rate is beyond understanding. One million
of their dollars is worth about 29 cents in American Dollars. Where is all that
oil money going?
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1846 After the
Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1851 American
Gail Borden announces the invention of condensed milk
1865 Congress passes
the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (passes 121-24)
1871 Millions of
birds fly over western San Francisco, darkening the sky
1876 The United
States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.
1900’s
1905 1st
automobile to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach
1906 Strongest
instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter
1928 Scotch tape
1st marketed by 3-M Company
1948 J. D.
Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in the
New Yorker
1950 US President
Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb
1961 Ham the
chimpanzee is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2
1982 10 Arabian
oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman
1995 President
Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.
2000’s
2006 Alan
Greenspan retires as Chairman of the Federal Reserve
2017 US President
Donald Trump fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice
Department officials not to defend Trump's travel ban
2018 Trump
administration formally suspends the Clean Water Act
Birthdays Today
1797 Franz Peter
Schubert,
Austrian composer
(Unfinished Symphony),
born in Vienna,
Austria
(d. 1828-@31)-typhoid
fever
1872 Zane Grey,
American West
novelist (Riders of the Purple
Sage)
(d.
1939-@67)-heart failure
1915 Garry Moore,
[Thomas Garrison
Morfit],
host (I've Got a
Secret)
(d.
1993-@78)-emphysema
1919- Jackie
Robinson,
Record holding
Baseball player
(d.1972-@53)
-heart attack
1920 Stewart L
Udall,
US Secretary of
Interior (1961-69)
(d. 2010-@90))
1921 Carol
Channing,
American actress
(Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
Hello Dolly),
singer and comedian, born in
Seattle, Washington
(d. 2019-@97)
1923 Norman
Mailer,
American novelist
(Naked & the Dead, The
Executioner's
Song), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2007-@84)
1934 James
Franciscus,
actor (Mr Novak,
Longstreet, Hunter)
(d.
1991-@57)-emphysema
1937 Suzanne Pleshette,
American actress
(Birds, Emily-Bob Newhart
Show), born in
NYC,
(d.2008-@70)-lung
cancer
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91- Lorraine
Warren,
American
paranormal investigator (Amityville
haunting), born
in Monroe, Connecticut
81- James G Watt,
US Secretary of Interior
(1981-83)
49- Minnie
Driver,
British actress
& singer-songwriter (Good Will
Hunting, The
Riches), born in London, England
46- Portia de
Rossi,
TV actress
38- Justin
Timberlake,
American
singer-songwriter & actor
(Sexy back, My
Love), born in Memphis
Historical Obits Today
@91-1974 Samuel
Goldwyn,
Polish English
American film magnate (MGM)
@74-1956 A. A.
Milne,
English author of
the Winnie-the-Pooh books
@35-1606 Guy
Fawkes,
English Catholic
conspirator who was
convicted in the
"Gunpowder Plot" to blow up
the British
Parliament, hanged
@25-1945 Eddie
Slovik,
1st US executed
for desertion since Civil War
