Mar 7

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Mar 7, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 66

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind:   14mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[1972]   Record Low: -1°[1945]

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

Today’s Quote

No one can figure out your worth but you.

Pearl Bailey

Random Tidbits

Doughnuts

Most historians believe that the Dutch were the first to introduce the modern doughnut to North America in the form of olykoeks, or "oil cakes" as early as the mid-19th century. These early doughnuts were balls of cake fried in pork fat.

Today over 10 billion doughnuts are made in the U.S. each year.

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

Telecommuniter Appreciation Week: 3-9

Women in Construction Week: 3-9 

National School Breakfast Week: 4-8

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 4-10 

Lent: 6-20

Observances for Today

Alexander Graham Bell Day

Cereal Day Link
Nametag Day Link  
National Be Heard Day
National Cereal Day  Link
National Crown Roast of Pork Day

National Hospitalist Day

World Book Day Link 

My Rambling Thoughts

First Wed. of the month is old people’s day at the grocery store…10% off everything, if you’re old. I stocked up. It is a very windy day and the upcoming storm is building somewhere.

I worked with a lot of kids during my career. As a teacher it was daily, and as a supervisor, it was almost daily. One thing I learned is that kids who are overly verbal about a situation usually means they were very involved and are trying to distract the adult from their guilt. It sometimes took me valuable time to get to the truth, but every time it taught the children a valuable lesson. It was worth it. I also had counselors who were able to lend a big helping hand for the hardest ones. I have the feeling that 45 is just like the kids I taught.

I am not a big fan of Senator McSally, (R-AZ). She ran a very dirty campaign, and she lost. Then she was appointed to fill John McCain's seat when he passed. Today, at a Senate Hearing, she told a story of her rape while in the Air Force and that she didn't report it because she didn't trust the system. What a sad story.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

300’s

321 Roman Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire

1800’s

1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US

1881 Southern University opens in New Orleans

1887 North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.

1900’s

1908 Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stands before city council and announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"

1911 Willis Farnsworth of Petaluma, California, patents coin-operated locker

1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole

1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)

1939 Glamour magazine begins publishing

1965 Alabama state troopers and 600 black protestors clash in Selma during "Bloody Sunday", protesters beaten and hospitalized

1974 "USS Monitor", Union Ship sunk in 1862 during US Civil War, restored at Cape Hatteras

1989 Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"

1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa

1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)

2000’s

2013 UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing

2017 Malta's famous landmark the Azure Window collaspes into the sea after a storm

2017 19 girls killed in a fire at a government-run care center in San José Pinula, Guatemala

Birthdays Today

1671 Rob Roy MacGregor,

Scottish folk hero, baptized in Buchanan, Stirlingshire, Scotland

(d. 1734-@63)

1845 Daniel David Palmer,

Canadian founder of chiropractic (1897 Palmer School of

Chiropractic), born in Port Perry, Canada West

(d. 1913-@63-typhoid fever)

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79- Daniel J Travanti,

actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues), born in Kenosha, Wisconsin

77- Michael Eisner,

American CEO (Walt Disney), born in Mount Kisco, New York

63- Bryan Cranston,

American actor (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle),

born in Canoga Park, California

55- Wanda Sykes,

American actress and comedienne

49- Rachel Weisz,

English actress (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener),

born in London, England

Historical Obits Today

@89-1967 Alice B. Toklas,

American companion to Gertrude Stein

@84-2018 Gary Burden,

American artist and one of the pioneers for the concept of album

 cover art (designed covers for Neil Young, Nash, The Doors)

@70-1999 Stanley Kubrick,

American film director

(2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange)

dies heart attack while sleeping

@48±-1274 Thomas Aquinas,

Italian theologian and latter saint,

dies after an accident

@42-1988 Divine

[Harris Glenn Milstead],

American actress, drag queen, and international icon of bad taste

 cinema (Pink Flamingos),

dies of enlarged heart