Feb 13

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Feb 13, 2019 Week: 07 \ Day: 43

86004 Today: H 46° \ L 4° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  6mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 68°[1977]   Record Low: -18°[1905]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

It is the dim haze of mystery

 that adds enchantment to pursuit.

Antoine Rivarol

Random Tidbit

Nudity is one of the most common dream symbols, revealing your true self to others. You may feel vulnerable and exposed to others. Showing off your nudity may suggest sexual urges or a desire for recognition

Observances This Week

Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week: 7-14  Link
Risk Awareness Week: 7-14
National Marriage Week: 7-14  Link  Link
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
Children of Alcoholics Week: 10-16 Link 
International Friendship Week: 10-16 Link
Jell-O Week: 10-16 
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 10-16
International Flirting Week: 10-16
Freelance Writer Appreciation Week: 11-15
Love a Mensch Week: 11-17
National Green Week: 11-15 Link
Westminster Dog Show: 11-12
World AG Expo: 12-14

Observances for Today

Desperation Day Link
Employee Legal Awareness Day
Galentine's Day  Link
Get a Different Name Day

International Condom Day Link
Madly In Love With Me Day
National Tortellini Day

National “Italian Food” Day

National Wingman's Day
Self-Love Day
World Radio Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Warming up after a pretty cold night. Snow is melting. I headed out after it got above freezing to get some home essentials.

It has been reported for a couple of years that Russia interfered with our 2016 election to begin work on destroying our form of government. The congress committee has come up with a solution to 45’s border issue. If it passes the full congress, that is democracy in action. Now, without even reading the proposal, 45 is hinting that he is not happy with it. If he doesn’t sign it, it tells me two things: first, he doesn’t understand how a democracy works and second, it helps the Russians win. 45 is not the first President to not sign something, but this is different. He is not King or Dictator and he has to give up his big beautiful wall.

While today is a beautiful day, a new storm is headed my way, and will bring a little snow and lots of rain. In February?!? Hmmm…so glad global warming  is fake news.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1692 Glencoe Massacre: about 38 MacDonalds killed early in

            the morning by rival Campbell clan members, allegedly

            for not promptly pledging allegiance to the new king,

            William of Orange

1693 College of William & Mary opens in Williamsburg,

            Virginia

1700’s

1741 Andrew Bedford publishes 1st American magazine

            (American Magazine)

1795 1st state university in US opens, University of North

            Carolina

1800’s

1867 Johann Strauss' "Blue Danube" waltz premieres in

            Vienna

1900’s

1917 Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari is arrested in Paris on

            suspicion that she is a German spy

1935 Bruno Hauptmann found guilty of kidnap & murder of

            Lindbergh infant. He proclaimed his innocence to the

            end.

1937 "Prince Valiant" comic strip appears; known for

            historical detail

1943 Women's Marine Corps created

1960 France performs 1st nuclear test at Reggane Proving

            Grounds Algeria

1974 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian,

            is deported from the Soviet Union to Frankfurt, West

            Germany and stripped of his Soviet citizenship

2000’s

2017 US President Donald Trump accepts the resignation of

            national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings

            with Russia

2018 Israeli Police report recommends Prime Minister

            Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud

            and breach-of-trust charges

Birthdays Today

1885 Bess Truman,

US First Lady (1945-52), born in Independence, Missouri

(d. 1982@97)

1891 Grant Wood, American painter (American Gothic),

born near Anamosa, Iowa

(d. 1942-@50-cancer)

1910 William Shockley, American physicist who helped invent the

transistor (1956 Nobel), who was also known for his racist

eugenics views, born in London, England

(d. 1989-@79-prostate cancer)

1919 Tennessee Ernie Ford,

American country music singer and actor (Sixteen Tons),

born in Bristol, Tennessee

(d. 1991-@72-livere failure: alcoholism)

1920 Boudleaux Bryant,

American country music and pop songwriter (Rocky Top,

Love Hurts, Bye Bye Love), born in Shellman, Georgia

(d. 1987-@67)

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96- Chuck Yeager,

American test pilot who was the 1st man to break the sound

barrier, born in Myra, West Virginia

86- Kim Novak, [Marilyn],

American actress (Vertigo, Of Human Bondage),

born in Chicago, Illinois

85- George Segal,

actor/banjo player (Carbon Copy, Fun with Dick & Jane)

75- Jerry Springer,

English-born US talk show host (Jerry Springer Show),

born in London, England

77- Peter Tork,

American musician & actor (The Monkees),

born in Washington, D.C.

75- Stockard Channing,

US actress (Grease, Big Bus, Without a Trace),

born in New York City, New York

69-Peter Gabriel,

Rock singer (Genisus)

Historical Obits Today

@69-1883 Richard Wagner,

German composer (The Ring of the Nibelung, The Flying

Dutchman),

dies after heart attack

@65-1728 Cotton Mather,

American Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials)

@64-2002 Waylon Jennings,

American country singer and guitarist (Ramblin' Man),

dies of diabetic complications

@63-1954 Frederick Lewis Allen,

American social historian and editor of Harper's Magazine