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Almanac: Week: 17 \ Day: 114
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 29° Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind
ave: 10mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 61° Record High: 77°
(1949) Ave. Low: 29° Record
Low: 10° (1900)
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Observances Today:
Arbor
Day
Armenian
Genocide Remembrance Day
National
Hairball Awareness Day
National
Teach Your Children To Save Day
New
Kids on The Block Day
Pig
in a Blanket Day
Satchmo
Days
World
Meningitis Day
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Observances This Week:
19-25
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness
Week
Bedbug Awareness Week
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer
Awareness Week
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Occupational Health Nursing Week
National Infertility
Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week
National Princess Week
Sky Awareness Week
20-24
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety
Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Spring Astronomy Week
22-27
Fiddler's Frolic
National Tattoo Week
US Film Festival
23-25
24-30
Interstate Mullet Toss
National Dance Week
National Dream Hotline
National Scoop The Poop Week
24-26
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of
Prayer
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1704 - "Boston News-Letter" 1st
successful newspaper in US, forms
1800 - Library of Congress establishes with $5,000
allocation
1865 - Fire alarm & police telegraph system put
into operation (SF)
1867 - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on
Richmond Va streetcars
1880 -St. Mary's Hospital
in Tucson was opened by the Sisters of St. Joseph
1888 - Eastman Kodak forms
1897 - 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star),
assigned to White House
1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S.
Hershey for the exclusive use
of his employees, is opened.
1908 - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to
travel across US by car,
they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in
NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1923 - General harbor strike begins in NYC
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1954 - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden,
wounded in Indochina
1961 - JFK accepts "sole
responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1965 - NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as
manager
1967 - Vietnam War: American General William
Westmoreland says in a
news
conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States
that
gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win
militarily."
1985 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for
"Yin"
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Today’s World Events through History
1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt,
although power
effectively shifts to Hatshepsut
1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse
(traditional date)
1066 - Halley's Comet sparks English monk to
predict country will be destroyed
1596 - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1880 - Amateur Athletic Association, governing body
for men's athletics
in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford,
England
1914 - A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million
rounds of ammunition are
landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer
Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist
paramilitary group in Northern Ireland
1916 - Easter Rising of Irish republicans against
British occupation begins in Dublin
1953 - Winston Churchill knighted by Queen
Elizabeth II
1969 - Paul McCartney says there is no truth
to rumors he is dead
1969 - Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer
Force (UVF) and the
Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a
bomb at a water pipeline
between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern
Ireland
1982 - 150 Khomeini followers assault
student dormitory in West Germany
1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially
declared free of the anthrax
disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1993 - The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in
Bishopsgate, London,
killing a news photographer and injuring 44
others
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Had a good lunch with Mary. Afterwards we took a little drive in
her new Honda. NICE! Amazing technology…rearview camera when car put in
reverse, L and R camera comes on when turn signal is turned on. Bluetooth, easy
to do hands free calls, other technology she hasn’t figured out yet. Key not
needed to open door, start car as long as key fob is within 36” of the car.
Lots of room for a small car. Good purchase. Mary also got a call from her
daughter this morning. They had signed papers for n $800K house in Portland.
The inspector says that it needs $20K in work before it can be occupied. If the
seller doesn’t drop the price by that much, they will be starting all over in
their search for a house. Bummer. They had planned to move to Portland as soon
as school is out in Chicago.
Called Cheryl last night and she had a great trip to CA. She will
hook up with us again next week.
As I watch the demonstrations in Baltimore today and other protest
in the past few months regarding police brutality, it is finally reminding me
of the demonstrations on my college campus after Kent State. I was at several
of those demonstrations and am reminded all these years later, of ‘mob mentality’.
While the demonstrations I was around did not lead to any major injuries or
deaths, there were a few times when action and reaction could have easily led
to something more violent. Each time it happens almost instantaneously with
neither side expecting it. So glad I was not involved in any serious violence
and hope that Baltimore can remain the same.
The demonstrations after Kent State certainly were a turning point
in the Viet Nam war. I hope that all these demonstrations regarding police brutality
will lead to a revamping of our entire police system around the country where
there are so many officers and police administrators have allowed so much
violence against those that are stopped, detained, and arrested with almost no repercussions
when the arrested person is injured or killed.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill
in the blanks below with three 4-letter words that are anagrams of each other
(they all contain the same four letters):
"The man ____ ____ of money because he couldn't walk away from the ____
machines."
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO - 1965
~ The Chamber of Commerce is protesting
the new entry fee to the Grand Canyon of 50 cents per day per person, or $2 per
season pass. Camping permits are now $2.50 per week. It went into effect today
under the 1964 Land Act.
~ Flagstaff Television and Cable Co. is
making modifications in its equipment to allow reception of five FM stations.
They’ll be available on a subscription basis.
~ Smoke Rise Valley Homes are now
available at between $13,750 and $18,650 with no down payment under the
Veterans Administration plan or with a very low minimum with an FHA loan.
…Harper’s
Index…
15:
Percentage of the US population that the average American says is Muslim
1:
percentage that actually are
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
32. Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter
since nobody listens.
33. I wished the buck stopped here, as I could
use a few.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The very first TV commercial was for Bulova watches in 1941, and
it aired in the middle of a pro baseball game between the Dodgers and Phillies.
The spot cost nine dollars.
…Water
Facts..,.
~ The Kangaroo Rat can last longer without water than a camel.
~ Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the
summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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2 jokes
for the day
Why were Star Wars Episodes 4, 5, and 6
released before 1, 2, and 3?
Because in charge of scheduling, Yoda was.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
AMARILLO,
Texas (UPI) - A California woman broke her own world record by eating three
steak dinners -- 13.5 pounds of steak plus sides -- in less than 20 minutes at
a Texas event. Competitive eater Molly Schuyler, a 124-pound mother of four,
downed three 72-ounce steak dinners, which each came with a baked potato, a
shrimp cocktail and a side salad, to take the top spot Sunday at the The Big
Texan Steak Ranch's Big Texas Steak Challenge in Amarillo. Schuyler downed two
of the meals in less than 15 minutes last year, so the restaurant gathered four
teams of two people to face off against Schuyler, who ate solo. Schuyler came
in first, with a finish of less than 20 minutes. "They would have had to
eat their half in like four minutes," Schuyler told the Amarillo
Globe-News of her competitors. "If you're not used to doing this, four
minutes is hard." The eatery said Schuyler set a world record last year
when she finished her first steak dinner in 4 minutes, 58 seconds, and she
broke her own record Sunday by finishing off her first meal in 4 minutes, 18
seconds. "I come in thinking I'm going to fail, but you know if I win it's
a lovely parting gift and that's cool. I also get free steak so I don't really
lose," she told KFDA-TV. Organizers of the competition said Schuyler's
feat will be submitted to Guinness World Records.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
As
humans we don’t have any memories since our time as fetuses in our
mother’s womb. But does the same thing apply for butterflies too?
Butterflies
remember their days as a caterpillar.
Despite
going into a completely liquified state during metamorphosis, the neurons for
their brain stay arranged as such to allow for the memories to stay intact.
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Birthday’s Today
81 - Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce)
73 - Barbra Streisand, Brooklyn singer/actress/award
winner (People)
60 - Michael O'Keefe, NJ, actor (Caddyshack,
Ironweed)
51 - Cedric the Entertainer, comedian and
actor
38 - Eric Balfour, actor (24, Haven)
33 - Kelly Clarkson, singer\winner of the
inaugural American Idol
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Remembered for being born today
- Robert
Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men) 1905-1989@84
- Edmund
Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom) 1743-1823@80
- Vincent
de Paul, French saint 1581-1660@79
- John
Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial) 1874-1937@63
- Jill
Ireland, actress (Breakout, Assassination) 1936-1990@54
- John
Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography 1620-1874@53
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Historical Obits Today
Estée
Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur-2004@95
Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], King
Edward VIII abdicated-1986@89
Bud
Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), stroke-1974@79
Daniel
Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe)-1731@70ish
Pat
Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), cancer-1997@69
Tommy
Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), brain tumor-1968@46
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Brain Teasers Answers
The letters L-O-S-T
Blank 1: LOST
Blank 2: LOTS
Blank 3: SLOT
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
