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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 05 / Day: 0026   

Today: L 26°…H 55°… Ave. humidity: 44%

Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  7mph  

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol

1871 - US income tax repealed

1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for playing as a professional

1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established

1918 - Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" 

     days for war effort

1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed

1962 - "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools

1971 - Charles Manson convicted of murder

1980 - Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes

1992 - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect

1998 - President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; 

     I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

2005 - Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Had an application crash with Word and lost some of the information for today’s blog. Can’t retrieve it as I do a lot of cut and paste and when the program crashed I lost it all from my email and the lists I have saved on my computer…so a shortened version today.

 

It was a really nice day outside and so hard to believe it is the middle of winter here. Nice to spend some time outside again.

 

Another mall shooting…really? This is insane. How can someone walk into a mall with a shotgun and get to a small store and kill two people with no one seeing him. There also have been 6 school gun violence incidents in the past 6 days. We are living in very scary times.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Failure to Communicate

• General Douglas MacArthur Farewell Speech

• Key Largo - Johnny Rocco runs it down

• Van Halen – Jump

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

• Date on which John Kerry called the crisis in Syria ‘our Munich moment’: 9/27/2013

• On which LBJ said ‘what we learned…from Munich’ committed us to intervention in Viet Nam: 7/28/1965

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

18-26

International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week  
Week of Christian Unity
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
24-29

World Leprosy Week
Kid Film Festival
26-31

Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
National Medical Group Practice Week

International Hoof Care Week
US National Snow Sculpting Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Dental Drill Day-1875

·        Grammy Awards

·        Lotus 1-2-3 Day

·        National Peanut Brittle Day

·        Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement

·        World Leprosy Day

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·        Admission Day (Michigan-1837-26th)

·        Australia Day (Australia-1788-raising of UK flag)

·        Republic Day (India-1950)

Today’s Events through History  

1340 - English king Edward III proclaimed king of France

1531 - Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die

1850 - 1st German language daily newspaper in US published, NYC

1910 - Heavy rains cause floods in Paris

1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.

1961 - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1

1979 - "Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Wisc, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere) is 79

David Strathairn, actor (LA Confidential, The Bourne Ultimatum) is 65

Eddie Van Halen, Nijmegan Neth, rock guitarist (Van Halen-Jump) is 59

Ellen DeGeneres, comediene, talk show host is 56

Wayne Gretzky, NHL great scorer (Oiler, King, Rangers) is 53

Suleman octuplets are 5

Remembered for being born today

1826 - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady

1831 - Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)

1880 - Douglas MacArthur, general (WW II), he did return!, (d. 1964)

1904 - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74)

1915 - William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)

1925 - Paul Newman, racer/popcorn mogul/actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler)

1946 - Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar),cancer,1973.@79

Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball,heart disease,1893,on 74th birthday

Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY),heart attack,1979,@70

Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama),heart attack,1983,@69

Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia,2008,@49

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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  §