Mar 26

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Mar 26, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 85

86004 Today: H 59° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  5mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1988]   Record Low: -8°[1902]

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

Today’s Quote

There are no warlike peoples,

 just warlike leaders.

-- Ralph Bunche

Random Tidbits

According to the UN, an ever increasing world population, intensive farming practices, and changes in climate have provided a breeding ground for an unprecedented number of emerging diseases. Poultry farming, for example, may account for the global spread of bird flu. In fact, the majority of the 39 new diseases that have emerged in just one generation have come from animals, including Ebola, SARS, and the bird flu.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-4/20

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14  

International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination: 21-27

Health Information Professionals Week: 24-30

International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 24-30 

National Cleaning Week: 24-30

National Protocol Officer's Week: 24-30

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week: 24-30

National Physicians Week: 24-30 

Observances for Today

American Diabetes Association Alert Day Link
Legal Assistants Day
Live Long And Prosper Day
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
National Spinach Day

National Nougat Day

Purple Day Link
Spinach Day 

My Rambling Thoughts

Spring is working its way into Flagstaff. Had a nice walk this morning.

Interesting timing: Netanyahu is sitting with 45 in the Oval Office while the Israeli military is dropping bombs. Netanyahu saying that 45 is the best friend Israel has ever had. Where is Jared, the American peace maker? And how is he working to stop anymore escalation of this mess?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1400’s

1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables

1700’s

1790 US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency

1800’s

1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana

1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

1878 Sabi Game Reserve opens in South Africa, the world's 1st officially

            designated game reserve

1900’s

1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum

            River reach flood stage simultaneously

1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America

1936 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech

1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Texas, erect statue of Popeye

1943 Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal

1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from

            Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000

            Americans killed

1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio

1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US

1975 "Tommy" premieres in London

1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal

            Signals and Radar Establishment

1982 Groundbreaking in Washington, D.C. for Vietnam Veterans

            Memorial

1985 Pope John Paul II proclaims first ever World Youth Day

1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC

1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)

2000’s

2005 The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to

            demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of

            the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000

            attend the walk.

2018 E-commence group Alibaba Group and US car maker Ford unveil a

            car vending machine without sales people 5 stories high in

            Guangzhou, China

Birthdays Today

1874 Robert Frost,

American poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken),

born in San Francisco, California

(d. 1963@@88)

1880 Duncan Hines,

American restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens),

born in Bowling Green, Kentucky

(d. 1959:@78)

1881 Guccio Gucci,

Italian founder of Gucci fashion house,

born in Florence

(d. 1953@:@71)

1908 Betty MacDonald,

[Anne E Campbell Bard],

American writer (Egg & I)

(d. 1958:@49: cancer)

1911 Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams,

American playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof),

born in Columbus, Mississippi

(d. 1983:@81: choking)

1914 William Westmoreland,

American general (commander of American forces in the Vietnam

War, 1964-68), born in Saxon, South Carolina

(d. 2005:@91)

1919 Strother Martin,

American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot),

born in Kokomo, Indiana

(d. 1980:@61: heart attack)

1931 Leonard Nimoy,

American actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 2015:@83)

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89- Sandra Day O'Connor,

1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- 2006),

born in El Paso, Texas

79- James Caan,

American actor (Misery, The Godfather),

born in The Bronx, New York

79- Nancy Pelosi,

American politician (Rep-D-California 1987-),

1st female Speaker of the House (2007-11, 2019-),

born in Baltimore, Maryland

76- Robert "Bob" Woodward,

Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)

75- Diana Ross, [Earle],

Singer (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany),

born in Detroit, Michigan

73- Johnny Crawford,

actor (Mark-The Rifleman),

born in Los Angeles, California

71- Steven Tyler,

American rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie's Got a Gun),

born in NYC, New York

70- Vicki Lawrence,

American actress (Carol Burnett, Mama's Family),

born in Inglewood, California

69- Martin Short,

Canadian comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos),

born in Hamilton, Ontario

59- Jennifer Grey,

American actress (Dirty Dancing),

Joel Grey's daughter,

born in NYC, New York

51- Kenny Chesney,

American singer

46- Larry Page, A

merican computer scientist and businessman

(co-founded Google with Sergey Brin),

born in East Lansing, Michigan

34- Keira Knightley,

English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean),

born in London, England

Historical Obits Today

@81-1996 Edmund Muskie,

American politician (Sen-D-Me) and

US Secretary of State (1980-81)

@78-1923 Sarah Bernhardt,

French actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth)

@73-1973 Noel Coward,

English playwright (Private Letters),

dies of heart failure

@72-1892 Walt Whitman,

American poet,

dies of pleurisy

@62-2004 Jan Berry,

American musician (Jan and Dean)

dies after seizure

@56-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven,

German composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy),

dies of liver disease

@30-1995 Eazy-E

[Eric Lynn Wright],

American rapper (N.W.A.),

dies from AIDS-related illness

Mar 25

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Mar 25, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 84

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1988]   Record Low: 1°[1913]

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

Today’s Quote

Idealism increases in direct proportion

to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Random Tidbits

For every $1 spent on food, farmers get less than 12 cents for the raw product.

The world population will jump from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050. Farmers will need to double food production by then to keep pace.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-4/20

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14  

International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination: 21-27

Health Information Professionals Week: 24-30

International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 24-30 

National Cleaning Week: 24-30

National Protocol Officer's Week: 24-30

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week: 24-30

National Physicians Week: 24-30 

Observances for Today

Feast of the Annunciation

International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child  Link
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members Link
National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan Day
Tolkien Reading Day
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day) Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I watched the Sunday shows, but Fareed wasn’t on. Lots of speculation on the Mueller report. Then around noon the ‘letter’ was released. Now the long American Nightmare continues with…drumroll…more speculation.

Looks like we just live with his strange personality, strange morals, and very strange political stands. I wonder if this will allow someone to prevent any hacking in the 2020 campaign. I am just waiting now for the pardons of 45’s associates who committed crimes. Strange times we are living in.

It’s a beautiful day outside, and I’m going for a long walk with my iPod to clear out all this mess from my brain.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1100’s

1199 Richard I, Lion Heart, King of England, is wounded by a crossbow

            bolt while fighting France, leads to his death on April 6

1300’s

1306 Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his

            rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

1600’s

1634 Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother

            Leonard Calvert first settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland

1800’s

1807 First fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world

            established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales

1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for

            his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism

1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California by non-Indigenous people

1900’s

1919 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality

            after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace

            Conference

1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed

            advertising page

1955 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem

            "Howl" as obscene.

1960 DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)

1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered

1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leds 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery,

            Alabama

2000’s

2018 First scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK,

            leaves Perth for Heathrow airport in London, arrives after 17

            hours

2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong un begins surprise trip to Beijing by

            train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

Birthdays Today

1867 Arturo Toscanini,

conductor (NBC) born in Parma Italy

(d. 1957:@89)

1881 Béla Bartok,

Hungarian composer and pianist (Concerto for Orchestra),

born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary

(d. 1945:@64)

1906 A.J.P Taylor

[Alan John Percival],

English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918,

Origins of the Second World War),

born in Southport, England

(d. 1990:@84)

1906 Howard Pyle,

(Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)

(d. 1911:@58-kidney infection)

1908 David Lean,

English director (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter),

born in Croydon, England

(d.1991:@83)

1921 Simone Signoret,

French actress (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top),

born in Wiesbaden, Germany

(d. 1985@@64-pancreatic cancer)

1922 Eileen Ford,

American modelling agency executive and

co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency),

born in Manhattan, New York,

(d. 2014:@92)

1938 Hoyt Axton,

actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters), singer

born in Duncan, Oklahoma

(d. 1999:@61-heart attacks)

1942 Aretha Franklin,

American singer-songwriter known as "The Queen of Soul"

(Respect) and first female performer inducted into Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame (1987),

born in Memphis, Tennessee

(d. 2018:@86-pancreas issues)

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85: Gloria Steinem,

American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine),

born in Toledo, Ohio

72- Elton John

[Reginald Kenneth Dwight],

English singer (Rocketman),

born in Pinner, Middlesex

66- Mary Gross,

actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds),

born in Chicago, Illinois

54- Sarah Jessica Parker,

American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City),

born in Nelsonville, Ohio

Historical Obits Today

@76-2006 Buck Owens,

American singer and television personality

dies from heart attack

@69-1992 Nancy Walker,

American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife),

dies of cancer

@68-1975 Faisal,

King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75),

shot by nephew

@55-1918 Claude Debussy,

French composer (Nocturnes, La Mer),

dies in Paris of cancer