Mar 4

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Mar 4, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 63

86004 Today: H 46° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[1910]   Record Low: -16°[1966]

Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Random Tidbits

During sleep, the brain "consolidates" memories and skills, meaning that the brain strengthens, reorganizes, and restructures memories during sleep.

The right pillow can mean the difference between a good night's sleep and lying awake all night.

More Observances This Month

National Athletic Training Month 

National Breast Implant Awareness Month 

National Caffeine Awareness Month

National Cheerleading Safety Month

National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month

National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month

National Color Therapy Month

National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

(Different sponsor from Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)

National Craft Month

National Ethics Awareness Month

National Essential Tremor Awareness Month

National Eye Donor Month

National Frozen Food Month

National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month

National Kidney Month

National Kite Month (3/28-5/3)

National March Into Literacy Month

National Noodle Month

National Nutrition Month

National On-Hold Month

National Peanut Month

National Social Work Month

National Umbrella Month

National Women's History Month

Observances This Week

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 

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

Telecommuter Appreciation Week: 3-9

Women in Construction Week: 3-9 

National School Breakfast Week: 4-8

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 4-10 

Observances for Today

Benjamin Harrison Day
Casimir Pulaski Day  Link 
Courageous Follower Day
Fasching-5
Fun Facts About Names Day  Link  
Holy Experiment Day   Link and Link
Hug A G.I. Day  Link
International Scrapbooking Industry Day
March Forth and Do Something Day
Marching Music Day  Link
National Backcountry Ski Day
National Grammar Day  Link
National Pound Cake Day

Old Inauguration Day
Shrove Monday
Toy Soldier Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Rain has gone away, but the wind continues. A beautiful day today.

Watched the Sunday News shows.

Did not realize that the security costs for the 2 sons of 45, while on business trips for their Organization, have cost the taxpayers nearly one million dollars. Business trips to Uruguay and Saudi Arabia are included in that figure, as well as to Canada. Guess it is just another perk of being in the immediate first family.

Glad to hear that things between India and Pakistan are cooling off.

And the WOW moment when SpaceX capsule docked with that International Space station.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1628 England's King Charles I grants a royal charter to Massachusetts

             Bay Colony

1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II,

            making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory

            Pennsylvania

1700’s

1789 1st US Congress meets and declares constitution in effect (9

            senators, 13 reps)

1791 Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)

1797 John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of The United States,

            Thomas Jefferson 2nd Vice President

1800’s

1801 Thomas Jefferson is the first US President to be inaugurated in

            Washington, D.C.

1809 James Madison becomes 1st US President inaugurated in

            American-made clothes

1841 Longest US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words),

            William Henry Harrison

1881 California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation

1900’s

1902 American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago

1913 US Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate

            departments

1921 Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas

1924 "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny

1929 Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP

1933 Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st female member

            of the US Cabinet

1945 In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II,

            joins the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.

1954 Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces

            the first successful kidney transplant.

1980 Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic

            Front (ZANU-PF) comes to power, winning the parliamentary

            election in Zimbabwe, making Mugabe Zimbabwe's first black

            prime minister

1997 US President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

1998 Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme

            Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-

            the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the

            same sex.

2000’s

2009 U.S. Steel announce the closure of the Stelco Lake Erie Works in

            Nanticoke, Ontario due to the increasingly worsening effects of

            the global economic slowdown

2018 Former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia Skripal

            are poisoned by nerve agent in Salisbury, England

Birthdays Today

1678 Antonio Vivaldi,

Baroque violin virtuoso and composer (The Four Seasons), born in Venice, Italy (d. 1741-@63-infecton)

1754 Benjamin Waterhouse,

physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School (smallpox vaccine pioneer), born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1846-@92)

1909 Harry B Helmsley,

American billionaire builder (Empire State Building), born in NYC, married to Leona (d. 1997-@87)

1925 Paul Mauriat,

French musician: Love is Blue 1968 (d. 2006+@81)

1932 Miriam Makeba,

singer ("Pata Pata" (1967)), born in Johannesburg, South Africa

(d.2008-@76-heart attack)

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69- Rick Perry,

American politician, Governor of Texas (R) (2000-2015), born in Paint Creek, Texas

58 Steven Weber,

actor (Brian Hackett-Wings), born in Queens, New York

56- Jason Newsted,

US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Nothing Else Matters), born in Battle Creek, Michigan

50- Chaz Bono

[Chastity Sun Bono],

American actress (Sonny & Cher Show), born in Los Angeles, California

Historical Obits Today

@90-1999 Harry Blackmun,

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

@84-1996 Minnie Pearl

[Sarah Ophelia Colley],

American country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry, Hee-Haw)

@84-1992 Arthur Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy)

@71-2011 Johnny Preston,

American pop singer (Running Bear), dies of heart failure

@71-1974 Adolph Gottlieb,

US painter: abstract expressionism

@70-2016 Pat Conroy,

American writer (The Great Santini, Prince of Tides), dies of pancreatic cancer

@69-2008 Gary Gygax,

American fantasy author and role-playing games creator (Dungeons & Dragons), dies of ruptured aneurysm.

@68-1978 Wesley Bolin,

former Governor of the Arizona, dies from heart attack

@63-1858 Matthew C. Perry,

Commodore of the United States Navy

who opened Japan to Western influence and trade, dies of rheumatism

@55±-1193 Saladin,

1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, dies of fever

@43-1994 John Candy,

actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack