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Feb 3,
2019 Week: 05 \ Day: 34
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Today: H 44° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind: 22mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 8 mi
Record
High: 64°[1953] Record
Low: -22°[1922]
FebAverages: 45°\19°
Today’s Quote
Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.
Winston Churchill
Random Tidbits
The Inventor of Frisbee Golf Was Turned Into a
Frisbee
Edward “Steady Ed” Headrick, who invented the
game of Frisbee golf, made as one of his dying wishes that his family would
cremate him and mold his remains into a Frisbee. “When we die, we don’t go to
purgatory,” Headrick reportedly said shortly before his passing. “We just land
up on the roof and lay there.”
More Observances This Month
Marfan
Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana
Awareness Month Link
National
African American History Month Link
National
African American Read-In Link
National
Bird Feeding Month
National
Black History Month
National
Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National
Cherry Month
National
Condom Month Link
National
Children's Dental Health Month
National
Enrolled Agents Month Link
National
Haiku Writing Month Link
National Hot
Breakfast Month Link Link
National
Mend A Broken Heart Month
National
Parent Leadership Month
National Pet
Dental Health Month
National
Prevent A Litter Month Link
National
Self Check Month Link
National
Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Link
National
Therapeutic Recreation Month Link
National
Time Management Month
National
Weddings Month
National
Women Inventors Month
North
American Inclusion Month (NAIM) Link
Observances This Week
Cordova
Ice Worm Day: 1-3
US
Snow Sculpting Week: 1-5
Women's
Heart Week: 1-7
Publicity
for Profit Week: 2-8
African
Heritage & Health Week: 3-9
Dump
Your Significant Jerk Week: 3-9
Burn
Awareness Week: 3-9 Link
Children's
Authors & Illustrators Week: 3-9
Observances for Today
Feed The Birds Day
Four Chaplains Memorial Day
National Missing Person's
Day
National Women's Physicians
Day
Popcorn Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Weather change:
the storm I was expecting for today has decided to arrive late tonight and
tomorrow. While I wait the storm, it is now bringing 1”-4” instead of the 1”.
Gotta love life at 7000’.
If that storm
arrives, I am spending tomorrow cleaning out closets. If it fizzles, I am
spending tomorrow cleaning out closets. At least until the Super Bowl starts.
In
1970 I was sitting in an auditorium at the Univ. of Colorado to hear S. I. Hayakawa
speak. At the time he, as college president, had just been embroiled in SF
State College demonstrations regarding the Univ stance on Viet Nam and on
Ethnic Studies. He was also a well-known linguist. The BSA [Black Student
Alliance] were seated, with protest signs in the first few rows. When he came
out on stage, the BSA raised their signs and started chanting. He attempted to
speak several times but was out-shouted. After a few minutes he said he would
not speak until the ‘jungle bunnies’ were removed. As the entire audience began
booing, about 25 campus and local cops were on stage with billy clubs. Things
did calm down and he did give his speech, and the BSA remained for the entire
speech. I was reminded of this with the Virginia
governor’s situation.
In 1970 I knew
that negative stereotypes of any group of people was wrong. How could the
governor not know it in 1984? How can 45 not know it in 2019? I heard his news
conference this afternoon and just don’t buy it.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1700’s
1743
Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine
immigrants
1800’s
1809
Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day
Wisconsin)
1834
Wake Forest University is established in North Carolina
1863
Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in
a Virginia City newspaper, the
"Territorial Enterprise"
1882
Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world-famous elephant
Jumbo
1900’s
1928
Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings
on the ancient human fossils found
at Zhoukoudian,
China in the journal Nature and
declares them to be a
new species he names 'Sinanthropus
pekinensis' (now
known as 'Homo erectus')
1959
The Day the Music died
1960
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes his
famous "wind of change"
speech in Africa, against the
apartheid regime, angering South
African politicians
1962
US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba
except for food & drugs
1966
1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1980
Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy
1994
President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against
Vietnam
1998
US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy,
kills 20
2000’s
2018
Moscow has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record,
killing one and bringing down 2,000
trees
Birthdays Today
1480 Ferdinand
Magellan,
Portuguese
explorer, born in Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
,
Portugal
(d.
1521)-@42-killed in Phillipines
1809 Felix
Mendelssohn
[Jakob
Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy],
German
composer and pianist (Great Scherzos),
born
in Hamburg, Germany
(d.
1847)-@38-series of strokes
1811 Horace
Greeley,
editor
("Go west, young man")
(d.
1872)-@61 dies of short illness
1821 Elizabeth
Blackwell,
English-American
physician who was the first woman to receive a
medical
degree in the United States, born in Bristol, England
(d.
1910)-@89
1874 Gertrude
Stein,
author
(Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)
(d.
1946)-@72-stomach cancer
1894 Norman
Rockwell,
American
artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)
(d.
1978)-@84
1906 George
Adamson
[Baba
ya Simba - "Father of Lions"],
British
conservationist (Born Free), born in Etawah, India
(d.
1989)-@83
1907 James A. Michener,
American
author (Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii)
(d.
1997)-@90
1914 George
Nissen,
American
inventor (created the trampoline), born in Blairstown,
Iowa
(d.
2010)@96
1918 Joey Bishop,
[Joseph
Abraham Gottlieb],
talk
show host (Joey Bishop Show), born in The Bronx,
(d.
2007)-@89
1938 Victor Buono,
actor
(Man from Atlantis, Untouchables),
born
in San Diego, (
d.
1982)-@43-heart attack
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35- Elizabeth
Holmes,
American
entrepreneur and CEO of now-defunct Theranos
(youngest
self-made female billionaire - Forbes 2014),
born
in Washington, D.C.
69- Morgan
Fairchild,
[Patsy
McClenny],
actress
(Falcon Crest), born in Dallas, Texas
63- Nathan Lane,
actor
(One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie),
born
in Jersey City, New Jersey
Historical Obits Today
@82-2006
Al Lewis
[Alexander
Meister],
American
actor (The Munsters, Used Cars)
@81-2012
Ben Gazzara,
American
actor
@72-1985
Frank Oppenheimer,
American
physicist
dies
of lung cancer
@70-1468
Johannes Gutenberg,
German
inventor (movable printing press)
@69-1991
Nancy Kulp,
American
actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, Shane),
dies
of cancer
@67-1924
Woodrow Wilson,
28th
US President (1913-21),
dies
of stroke
@59-1989
John Cassavetes,
Greek-American
actor, film director, and screenwriter
(Dirty
Dozen, Rosemary's Baby),
dies
of cirrhosis
@56-1961
Anna May Wong,
American
actress, 1st Chinese American movie star
(Gallery
of Mme Lui-Tsang),
dies
of heart attack
@40-1889
Belle Starr,
US
female gangster,
murdered
@28-1959
The Big Bopper
[Jiles
Perry Richardson],
American
musician,
dies
in plane crash
@22-1959
Buddy Holly,
American
rock and roll musician (That'll be the Day),
dies
in a plane crash
@17-1959
Ritchie Valens,
American
rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba),
dies
in plane crash
