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Mar 3, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 62
86004 Today: H 44°
\ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind: 2mph\Gusts:
11mph Visibility: 2 mi
Record High: 66°[1910] Record Low: -9°[1915]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
Let there be
work, bread, water and salt for all.
Nelson Mandela
Random Tidbits
Sleep
is a universal characteristic of complex living organisms and has been observed
in insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In fact, sleep is
so important that humans can survive longer without food than they can without
sleep.
More Observances This Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Black Women in Jazz & The Arts Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
Mad for Plaid Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
Music In Our Schools Month
Observances This Week
Festival of Owls Week: 1-3
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7
National Write A Letter of
Appreciation Week: 1-7
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7
Will Eisner Week: 1-7
Texas Cowboy Poetry Week: 2-3
Celebrate Your Name Week: 3-9
Endometriosis Week: 3-9
National Consumer Protection
Week: 3-9
National Dental Assistants
Recognition Week: 3-9
National Procrastination Week: 3-9
National Words Matter Week: 3-9
Professional Pet Sitters Week: 3-9
Read an E-Book Week: 3-9
Return The Borrowed Books Week: 3-9
Save Your Vision Week: 3-9
Teen Tech Week: 3-9
Telecommuniter Appreciation Week:
3-9
Women in Construction Week: 3-9
Observances for Today
Daughters' and Sons'
Day
Finisher's Medal Day Link
I Want You to be Happy Day
If Pets Had Thumbs Day
Finisher's Medal Day Link
I Want You to be Happy Day
If Pets Had Thumbs Day
National Cold Cuts Day
National Mulled Wine
Day Link
Princess Day Link
Simplify Your Life Day
Soup It Forward Day Link
What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs? Day
World Birth Defects Day
World Wildlife Day Link
Princess Day Link
Simplify Your Life Day
Soup It Forward Day Link
What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs? Day
World Birth Defects Day
World Wildlife Day Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Rain
is melting what is left of the snow piles. It has been a pretty steady rain
since about 6a. The forest needs the moisture, and no one has to shovel rain.
When
I attended CU@Boulder, everywhere on campus was a free speech zone. And yes, I
was uncomfortable in some of the radical stuff I heard. I believe that helped
my form my own beliefs. I learned to listen, contemplate, and decide where I
stood on issues. I heard from SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), Goldwater’s
Girls, and everything in between. There were signs all over campus of various
views. In today’s world, many youth are given an award for everything they do.
Parents sue anyone who disrupts their child’s bubble. I have read about
colleges and universities setting up ‘free speech zones’ so students can feel
safe. I never understood that. Now, at a conservative meeting, 45 says he will
sign yet another Executive Order to campus’ must allow free speech or lose
Federal Funding. He said this because his base felt their views were being shut
down on college campuses. Seems to me, everyone should be rejoicing. I still live
by: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Today’s Significant Historical
Events
1600’s
1634 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens
(Samuel Cole)
1700’s
1791 1st US internal revenue act
(taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1791 Congress establishes US Mint
1800’s
1812 US passes 1st foreign aid bill
(aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1813 Office of Surgeon General of the
US Army forms
1817 Mississippi Territory is divided
into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1820 Missouri Compromise passes,
allowing Missouri to join the United
States
despite slavery still being legal there.
1837 Congress increases US Supreme
Court membership from 7 to 9
1842 1st US child labor law regulating
working hours passed (Mass)
1845 Florida becomes 27th state of the
Union
1847 US Post Office Department is
authorized to issue postage stamps
1848 American education reformer
Horace Mann joins the US Senate,
representing
Massachusetts
1849 Territory of Minnesota organizes
1849 US Home Department (later renamed
the Department of the
Interior)
established by Congress
1855 US Congress approves $30,000 to
test camels for military use
1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter
for National Academy of
Sciences
1863 Idaho Territory forms
1865 US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen,
& Abandoned Lands
established
by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks
1865 Opening of the Hongkong and
Shanghai Banking Corporation,
the
founding member of the HSBC Group.
1869 University of South Carolina
opens to all races
1871 US Congress changes Indian tribes
status from independent to
dependent
1871 US Congress establishes the civil
service system
1879 1st female lawyer heard by US
Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett
Lockwood)
1879 US Geological Survey director
authorized in Department of the
Interior
1885 US Congress passes Indian
Appropriations Act (Indians wards of
federal
government)
1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6
year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1889 US President Harrison announced
the government would open the
1.9
million-acre tract of Indian Territory for settlement precisely
at
noon on April 22
1891 US Congress creates Courts of
Appeal
1891 US Congress creates Office of
Superintendent of Immigration
(Treasury
Dept)
1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in US to
hold the rank of Admiral of
the
Navy
1900’s
1900 US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 US Congress creates National
Bureau of Standards, in Department
of
Commerce
1904 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany
becomes the first person to make
a
sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's
cylinder
1905 US Forest Service forms
1923 Time magazine publishes 1st issue
featuring Joseph G. Cannon
(Speaker
of US House of Representatives)
1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated
1939 Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast in
Mumbai (Bombay) to protest
against
autocratic rule in India
1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson
Davis, Robert E. Lee, & Stonewall
Jackson
are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia
1991 Iraqi generals and US general
"Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf
meet
to discuss Gulf War cease fire
1991 Los Angeles police officers
severely beat motorist Rodney King, the
beating is famously captured on amateur video
and later leads
to riots when the police officers are
acquitted
Birthdays Today
1847
Alexander Graham Bell,
Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone),
born in Edinburgh, Scotland
(d. 1922-@75)
1882
Charles Ponzi [Carlo],
Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy
(d. 1949-@66-deteriating health)
1911
Jean Harlow,
[Harlean Carpentier],
30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8),
born in Kansas City, Missouri
(d. 2937@26-stroke)
1900
Ruby Dandridge
[Ruby Jean Butler],
American actress (Father of the Bride),
born in Wichita, Kansas
(d. 1987-@87)
1920
James Doohan,
Canadian actor (Scottie on Star Trek),
born in Vancouver, British Columbia
(d. 2005-@85)
48-
Tyler Florence,
American chef, Food Network personality & cookbook author,
born in Greenville, South Carolina
42-
Buddy Valastro,
chef (Cake Boss on TLC)
37-
Jessica Biel,
American actress (Mary Camden in 7th Heaven),
born in Ely, Minnesota
Historical Obits Today
@88-2018 Roger Bannister,
English middle-distance athlete who
was the 1st to run a 4
minute mile at Iffley Road Track,
Oxford (1954),
dies of Parkinson's disease
@86-1993 Albert Sabin,
physician (oral polio vaccine)
@76-1994 Ezra Stone
[Chaim Feinstone],
American director, actor and producer
(My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich),
dies in a road accident
@76-1987 Danny Kaye
[David Daniel Kaminski],
American comedian and actor
(Danny Kaye Show, White Christmas),
dies of heart failure
@75-2018 David Ogden Stiers,
American actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H,
Doc),
dies of bladder cancer
@75-1983 Hergé
[Georges Prosper Remi],
Belgian comic book creator (The
Adventures of Tintin),
dies from osteomyelofibrosis and
cardiac arrest
@67-1703 Robert Hooke,
English scientific genius
(Micrographia)
@54-1992 Sandy Dennis,
American actress (Up the Down
Staircase),
dies of cancer
@52-1959 Lou Costello,
American comedian and actor (The
Abbott and Costello Show),
dies from a heart attack
