Jan 10

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Jan 10, 2018 Week: 02\ Day: 10

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  29mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1990]   Record Low: -15°[1937]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

+101: Percentage change since 2008 in the number of visits by US children’s hospitals for suicidal thought or attempts

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Observances This Week

7-13

Home Office Safety and Security Week  Link

National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

8-14

Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week

9-12

International Consumer Electronics Show

No Tillage Week

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Observances for Today

Bittersweet Chocolate Day

Houseplant Appreciation Day

League of Nations Day

National Cut Your Energy Costs Day

National Oysters Rockerfeller Day  Link

National Take the Stairs Day 

Peculiar People Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished

1700’s                                          

1776 "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published advocating American independence

1800’s                                          

1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British

1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK

1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browningbegin corresponding

1861 Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)

1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage

1900’s                                          

1901 Oil discovered in Texas

1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC

1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego

1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood

1917 Suffragettes the "Silent Sentinels" 1st protest outside The White House,in Washington led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party

1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr, 2nd US woman governor, 1st ever elected

1943 1st US president to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

1946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time in London

1952 "The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Carlton Heston, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953)

1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts

1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was" premieres

1967 Edward W. Brooke (Sen-R-Mass), takes his seat as the 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate

1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network

1971 Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast

1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" in commercial for Wendy's hamburger chain

1999 "The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO

2000’s                                          

2001 The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not be designated as a national monument, the White House announces; a move environmentalist groups had been pressing for to prevent oil drilling

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My Rambling Thoughts

The expected rain/snow hasn’t arrived. Now they say tonight. Still not holding my breath.

Expecting snow, I planned on doing linen laundry...blankets etc. So that is what I am doing. Third load is in the dryer. Bedding changed and clean blankets.

45 now says that ‘the wall’ won’t be a solid wall, what with mountains, rapidly running rivers, and other environmental stuff doing the job. Well, duh. Anyone with an education beyond 6^th grade has known that since before the election. But he still want’s lots and lots of tax payer dollars, but promises it will come in under budget. Yeah! Wonder who he will give the extra money to?

ONLY IN AZ: Maricopa ex-sheriff is 85 and just announced he is running for the US Senate. Thanks for the pardon #45. Not!

I watched most of the championship game last night. Oops, should have stayed up a tad longer. Never expected that.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@83- Ray Bolger,

American actor and dancer (Wizard of Oz),

born in Dorchester, Massachusetts

(d. 1987)

70’s

79- Bill Toomey,

decathlete (Olympic gold 68),

born in Philadelphia

79- David Horowitz,

American author and political commentator

@73-1939 Scott McKenzie,

American singer ('San Francisco;),

Guillain–Barré syndrome (d. 2012)

@73- Frank Sinatra Jr,

American singer/bandleader (Golddigers),

born in Jersey City, NJ

heart attack (d. 2016)

73- Rod Stewart,

British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy),

born in London

70- Donald Fagen,

rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg),

born in Passaic, NJ

60’s

69- George Foreman,

American World Heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74, 95),

born in Marshall, Texas

65- Pat Benatar, [Andrezejewski],

American singer (Hell Is for Children),

born in Brooklyn

50’s

@51- Ethan Allen,

American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mountain Boys),

born in Litchfield, CT

internal bleeding (d. 1789)

30’s

@37- Sal Mineo,

American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause),

born in NYC,

murdered (d. 1976)

37- Jared Kushner,

American real estate developer and advisor to Donald Trump,

born in Livingston, NJ

@30- Jim Croce,

rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle) (d. 1973),

born in Philadelphia,

charter plane crash (d. 1973)

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@105-2017 Clare Hollingworth,

British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII

90’s

@94-2007 Carlo Ponti,

Italian film producer

@90-2017 Buddy Greco,

American jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)

80’s

@87-1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel,

French fashion designer (Chanel)

@87-1863 Lyman Beecher,

US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader father of

Harriett Beecher Stowe

70’s

@77-2015 Robert Stone,

American novelist (Dog Soldiers, WUSA),

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

@70-1917 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody,

American Wild West hunter and showman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)

@70-1778 Carolus Linnaeus [Carl von Linné],

Swedish botanist and the Father of Taxonomy,

strokes

60’s

@69-2016 David Bowie [Jones],

English singer-songwriter (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust),

cancer

@65-1951 [Harry] Sinclair Lewis,

American writer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930),

advanced alcoholism

@63-1981 Richard Boone,

actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel),

throat cancer

@62-2004 Spalding Gray,

American actor (Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting),

suicide

40’s

@49-1883 Dr Samuel A. Mudd,

American medical doctor

pneumonia  

@47-1862 Samuel Colt,

American inventor and industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver),

gout

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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.

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Jan 9

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Jan 9, 2018 Week: 02\ Day: 9

86004 Today: H 50° \ L 63° \ Average Sky Cover: overcast 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 61°[1996]   Record Low: -9°[1937]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

2: Factor by which a US man is more likely than a woman to have ‘a lot of confidence’ in the future of the country.

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Observances This Week

7-13

Home Office Safety and Security Week  Link

National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

8-14

Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week

9-12

International Consumer Electronics Show

No Tillage Week

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Observances for Today

Balloon Ascension Day Link

Law Enforcement Appreciation Day  Link  Link

National Cassoulet Day

National Poetry at Work Day 

National Shop For Travel Day   Link

National Static Electricity Day Link

Panama's Martyr Day Link

Play God Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible kills 1,000-2,000 residents of Novgorod

1700’s                                          

1768 Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London

1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state to ratify the US constitution

1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard

1800’s                                          

1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held

1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)

1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established

1854 Astor Library opens in New York City

1861 Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)

1862 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts

1866 Fisk University opens in Nashville, Tennessee

1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson

1900’s                                          

1903 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, established

1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California, established

1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created

1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers

1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV

1963 Mao Zedong writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"

1976 C. W. McCall CB song "Convoy" hits #1 on the country music charts

1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia

2000’s

2001 Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos

2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone

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My Rambling Thoughts

Weatherman says winter ‘is on the way’. Heard that already this year. He sez that we will get rain today and by mid-morning we will have up to 3” of snow. It is January, I checked the calendar twice, then I checked to be sure we were still in the Northern Hemisphere. Rain @ 7000’ in January, really?

I don’t watch award shows, but, thanks to social media, I did get to see Oprah’s full speech from last night. Riveting. Not too sure about the buzz of her running in 2020. The US already elected 45 with no experience with any elected office. Not ready for that again, no matter how well she talks.

Two friends stopped by, just as I was sitting down to my beef and noodles comfort food last night. They joined in and it was a good meal, along with great conversation.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

90- Judith Krantz,

American author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle),

born in NYC

80’s

84- Bart Starr,

NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)

@82- Richard "Dick" Enberg,

American sportscaster (NBC, CBS, ESPN),

born in Mt Clemens, Michigan

(d. 2017)

@81- Richard Nixon,

37th US President (Republican 1969-74) and actor,

born in Yorba Linda, California

(d. 1994)

70’s

77- Joan Baez,

folk singer/human rights advocate,

born in Staten Island

74- Jimmy Page,

rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven),

born in London, England

@70- Robert Osbourne Bob Denver,

American actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island),

born in New Rochelle, NY

cancer (d. 2005)

60’s

@67- Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill),

American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill  fall

(d. 1921)

@67- Fernando Lamas,

Argentine American actor and director ("You look marvelous"),

born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

pancreatic cancer (d. 1982)

67- Crystal Gayle,

country singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue)

@64- Lee Van Cleef,

actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)

heart attack (d. 1989)

63- J. K. Simmons,

American actor (Law & Order)

50’s

@59- Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick],

burlesque actress (Gypsy), born in Seattle,

lung cancer (d. 1970)

51- Dave Matthews,

South African singer and musician (Dave Matthews Band),

born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa

30’s

36- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [Kate Middleton],

English wife of Crown Prince William,

born in Reading, Berksire

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@98-1843 Caroline Herschel,

 "1st lady of astronomy"

80’s

@89-1958 Willis Rodney Whitney,

American Chemist, founder of the General Electric 

research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research

70’s

@79-1966 Albert Stevens,

an American patient in secret medical trials who 

survived the highest known radiation dose in a human,

heart disease

@74-1876 Samuel Gridley Howe,

US physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education 

for the blind

50’s

@55-1982 Paul Lynde,

American comedian and actor (The Hollywood Squares, Uncle 

Arthur-Bewitched),

possible stroke

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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.

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Jan 8

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Jan 8, 2018 Week: 02\ Day: 8

86004 Today: H 49° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 3% 

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  22mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[2002]   Record Low: -12°[1989]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

76:  Number of countries worldwide with maternal death rates lower than that of the US

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Observances This Week

1-8

Diet Resolution Week 

National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

New Year's Resolutions Week

Silent Record Week

2-8

Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

7-13

Home Office Safety and Security Week  Link

National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

8-14

Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week

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Observances for Today

Argyle Day

Bubble Bath Day Link

Earth's Rotation Day

National English Toffee Day  Link

Male Watcher's Day

Midwife's Day or Women's Day

National Clean Off Your Desk Day 

National Joy Germ Day

National Weigh-In Day  

National Winter Skin Relief Day  Link

Show and Tell Day at Work

"Thank God It's Monday" Day  

War on Poverty Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)

1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)

1700’s                                          

1790 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address

1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed

1800’s                                          

1806 Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon

1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established

1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington

1867 African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson's veto

1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1900’s                                          

1912 Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organizations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms

1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition of alcohol) of the US Constitution

1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)

1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow (the Bermuda petrel) is rediscovered in Bermuda

1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

1963 "Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art

1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History

1966 The Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC

1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV

1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minn, established

1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies

1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet

1992 George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap

1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point

1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale

1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths

1998 Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer

2000’s                                          

2002 President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

2008 New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.

2011 Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords

2013 Steve Nash records his 10,000th career assist against Houston

2016 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, six months after he escaped prison

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My Rambling Thoughts

Amazing, we had rain last night…not running down the streets rain, but rain none the less…in January! Vehicles were covered with a thin coat of ice this morning.

Catching up on my DVR’d weekly shows. Just a nice quiet Sunday. Having comfort food for dinner…beef and noodles. A great meal for a cool evening.

So Bannon ‘apologized’ for his quotes in THE book. Didn’t say he was wrong, or that he was misquoted, just that he was sorry for what was published. Hmmm. That makes me feel better…NOT.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90- Alfred Russel Wallace,

British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of evolution

through natural selection,

born in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales

(d. 1913)

80’s

@86- Evelyn Wood, 

          American educator, speed reading course (d. 1995)

@83- Soupy Sales, [Milton Hines],

comedian (Soupy Sales Show)

(d. 2009)

81- Shirley Bassey,

singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)

born in Cardiff Wales

@80- José Ferrer,

Puerto Rican actor and director (Blood Tide, Dune),

born in San Juan, Puerto Rico

(d. 1992)

80- Bob Eubanks,

TV host (Newlywed Game),

born in Flint, Michigan

70’s

79- Carolina Herrera,

fashion designer, humanitarian

77- Little Anthony [Anthony Gourdine],

American rhythm and blues singer (Little Anthony and the Imperials

-Goin' Out of My Head),

born in Brooklyn

76- Stephen Hawking,

English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes),

born in Oxford, England

@72- Philip Astley,

English 'Father of the Modern Circus',

born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England

(d. 1814)

@72- Frank Nelson Doubleday,

publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)

(d. 1934)

60’s

@69- David Bowie [Jones],

English singer-songwriter (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust),

born in London

liver cancer (d. 2016)

@67- William Hartnell,

original Dr. Who

(d. 1975)

50’s

51- R. Kelly [Robert Sylvester Kelly],

American R&B singer (I Wish I Could Fly),

born in Chicago, Illinois

40’s

@42- Elvis Presley,

American singer and King of Rock and Roll 

(Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog),

born in Tupelo Mississippi

OD (d. 1977)

30’s

35- Kim Jong-un,

Supreme Leader of North Korea (2011-),

born in Pyongyang

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-2007 Yvonne De Carlo,

Canadian-born actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters)

@83-1941 Robert Baden-Powell,

British founder of the Boy Scout movement

70’s

@79-1996 Francois Mitterrand,

President of France (1981-95),

cancer

@78-1994 Pat Buttram,

actor (Haney-Green Acres),

kidney failure

@78-1992 Menachim Begin,

Israeli PM,

heart attack

@78-1990 Terry-Thomas [Thomas Terry Stevens],

British actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World),

Parkinson's disease

@77-1976 Zhou Enlai,

Premier of the People's Republic of China,

bladder cancer

@77-1642 Galileo Galilei,

Italian physicist/astronomer

60’s

@69-2002 Dave Thomas,   

American fast food entrepreneur,

liver cancer (d. 2002)

@69-1324? Marco Polo,

Venetian explorer

50’s

@59-1825 Eli Whitney,

American inventor (Cotton Gin),

prostate cancer

@57-1938 Johnny Gruelle,

American cartoonist, creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy

heart failure

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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.

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