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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 096
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 29° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 29mph Wind Advisory
Ave. High: 55° Record High: 75°
(1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record
Low: 4° (1922)
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Observances Today:
Army Day
Charlie the Tuna Day
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Day
Drowsy Driver Awareness Day
Dyngus Day-Polish-Am- boys throw water over girls and spank them
with pussy willow branches on Easter Monday, and girls do the same to boys on
Easter Tuesday.
Hostess Twinkie Day
International Day of Sport for Development
and Peace
National Student Athlete Day
New Beers Eve- celebrating the end
of Prohibition in the US
Plan
Your Epitaph Day
Tartan Day
Tater Day (It's Sweet Potatoes)
Teflon Day
White House Easter Egg Roll
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Observances This Week:
1-7
The APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
4-12
Hate Week
National Robotics Week
5-11
Bat Appreciation Week
Explore Your Career Options
Mule Days
National Blue Ribbon Week (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1808 - John Jacob Astor incorporates the American
Fur Company
1830 - Joseph Smith & 5 others organizes
Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY
1841 - Cornerstone laid for 2nd Mormon temple,
Nauvoo, Illinois
1869 - 1st plastic, Celluloid, patented
1889 - George Eastman places Kodak Camera on
sale for 1st time
1893 - Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City dedicated
1896 - 1st modern Olympic games open in Athens
Greece
American, James
Connolly, wins 1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1906 - 1st animated cartoon copyrighted
1909 - 1st credit union forms in US
1909 - North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary
& Matthew Henson
1912 - Electric starter 1st appeared in cars
1917 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War
I
1931 - 1st broadcast of "Little Orphan
Annie" on NBC-radio
1938 - Teflon invented by Roy J Plunkett
1945 - Massive kamikaze attack on US battle fleet
near Okinawa
1947 - 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David
Wayne & Patricia Neal
win for theatrical achievements
1954 - TV Dinner was 1st put on sale by Swanson
& Sons
1957 - NYC ends
trolley car service
1967 - Old Tucson Studios
completed sets for a new TV series "High Chaparral."
The series about an
Arizona Territory rancher in the 1870s, which was filmed primarily at Old
Tucson Studios, aired from 1967-1971.
1980 - Post It Notes, introduced
1984 - 1st time 11 people in space
1992 - Voting begins on choice of Elvis postage
stamps
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Today’s World Events through History
774 - Charles the Great (Charlemagne)
confirmed the gift to the Pope
of the territories
belonging to Ravenna made by his father Pepin the Short at Quiercy-sur-Loire in
753
1320 - The Scots reaffirm their independence signing
the Declaration of Arbroath
1652 - Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in
South Africa, established
by Dutch East India
Company
1722 - Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on
men with beards
1886 - City of Vancouver BC incorporated
1925 - 1st film shown on an airplane (British Air)
1941 - Italian held Addis Ababa surrenders to
British & Ethiopian forces
1957 - Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis buys
the Hellenic National
Airlines (TAE) and founds Olympic Airlines
1971 - During a debate at Westminster on Northern
Ireland, Harold Wilson
of the Labour Party
claims that a draft Bill for the imposition of direct rule exists
1974 - 200,000 attend rock concert "California
Jam" in Ontario
1994 - The Rwandan Genocide begins when the
aircraft carrying Rwandan
president Juvénal
Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
A nice Easter Sunday, but a tad too windy for me. Quiet day to
catch up on DVR programs and news programs. A few families with young ones were
out hunting Easter Eggs around or area. Getting ready for a busy week with
taxes, 3 month check-ups at several doctors and a presentation on Saturday for
our discussion group. Nice to have a busy week ONCE every quarter.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Old
Old x SAKE
Old
Old
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Author
Fact…
~ Michael Crichton, author of Jurassic Park, felt his literature
professor at Harvard was giving him unfair grades. To prove it, he turned in a
paper by George Orwell and received a B-.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~ Sheepman A. Beasley has returned from Phoenix and reports the
range is in good condition with feed up to 6-7 inches in the high desert. The
sheep are doing fine.
N. J. Litter, a large sheep owner of Phoenix, came by on Thursday
from his camp north of Glendale and states that he has 200,000 sheep on the
desert and the feed is excellent.
~ Oil Co. has opened a
supply station and is ready to supply the wholesale trade with gasoline,
kerosene, lubricating oils and greases. E. W. Brewster, Agent. Office Ph. 51.
Home Ph 274W.
~ Anyone taking a walk around the block will be convinced that our
streets from necessity need to be paved. They were top-graded last summer but
now afford not enough drainage to handle even a light shower.
…Harper’s
Index…
4: number
of reported cases in the past decade of an Antarctic fur seal having sex with a
king penguin
1: then
eating it
…Language
Facts…
~ When Washoe, the first chimp to use sign language, was told that
her caretaker's baby had died, she signed "CRY."
~ Pokémon is Japanese for Pocket Monsters and Chinpokomon (the
South Park parody) is Japanese for Penis Monsters.
…North
Korea Fact…
~ In North Korea, you are forced to choose one of 28
government-approved haircuts.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The urine of patients with diabetes tastes sweet because the extra
sugar in a diabetic's bloodstream overwhelms the kidney's ability to reabsorb
it.
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2 jokes
for the day
Teacher: Why are you late?
Student: Because, of the sign!
Teacher: What sign?
Student: The one that says, "School Ahead, Go Slow."
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Three men were at a bar discussing
coincidences.
The first man said, "My wife was reading a 'Tale of Two Cities' and she
gave birth to twins!"
"That's funny," the second man remarked, "my wife was reading
'The Three Musketeers' and she gave birth to triplets!"
The third man shouted, "Good God, I have to rush home!"
When asked what the problem was, he exclaimed, "When I left the house, my
wife was reading Ali baba and the forty Thieves!!!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
PEARLAND,
Texas (UPI) - Authorities in Texas said six high school students were
arrested on drug charges in an operation that echos the plot of the 21 Jump
Street TV show and film. The Brazoria County Sheriff's Office said it worked
together with the Pearland Independent School District to have a deputy
enrolled as a high school student at Pearland High School from Aug. 25, 2014,
to Dec. 19, 2014, and then at Dawson High School from Jan. 6 of this year until
March 27. The sheriff's office said two juveniles were arrested at Pearland
alongside adult student Aaron Coleman, 18. Dawson students Kevin Lambert, 18;
Jonathan Gonzales, 17; and Matthew Van Richardson, 18, were also arrested.
Investigators said they seized drugs including cocaine, marijuana, alprazolam
and tramadol during the course of the operation. The arrested students are
facing charges including delivery of marijuana, delivery of a controlled
substance and delivery of a dangerous drug. "I appreciate the
collaborative efforts of the county and city to safeguard the lives of our
students through a combination of law enforcement and preventive measures. It
is critical that we remain proactive, vigilant and intolerant with regard to
drug offenses affecting our students," Pearland ISD Superintendent John
Kelly said in a statement. The sheriff's office said the Brazoria County
Sheriff's Office Narcotics Task Force and the Pearland Police Department
participated in the operation. "School is not a place that you should come
in and try to sell your drugs, or come in and buy drugs, you go there to be
educated," Sgt. James Brawner of the Brazoria County Sheriff's Office told
KPRC-TV. He said the investigation is continuing. "There is still ongoing
off campus investigations," Brawner said. "We have wrapped up on
campus, and now we are moving out into the communities and trying to further it
that way."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that slaughtering a cow in Cuba is considered to be greater crime than
slaughtering a person?
Beef
is precious to this country’s communist dictatorship and all cows are property
of the state.
Moreover,
locals discourage visitors to eat beef claiming that the beef served in
restaurants came from the United States, and that it was of terrible quality.
+++
Did
you know that there are DVDs made of stone that last 1000 years and
it’s compatible with any DVD drive, so you can access your data anywhere,
anytime?
M-DISC™
offers all of the longevity benefits of original DVD, the Blu-ray gives over
five times the storage capacity on one disc.
Moreover,
M-DISC™ is resistant to extreme conditions of light, temperature, humidity and
more and it cannot be overwritten, erased or corrupted by natural processes!
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Birthday’s Today
87 - James Watson, American chemist
(co-discovered structure of DNA)
86 - Andre Previn, conductor (London
Symphony)/pianist
78 - Billy Dee Williams, Harlem actor (Empire
Strikes Back)
78 - Merle Haggard, Bakersfield California,
country singer (Death Valley Days)
77 - Roy Thinnes, actor (Invaders)
68 - John Ratzenberger, Bridgeport Ct, actor
(Cliff Clavin-Cheers)
46 - Paul Rudd, Passaic, New Jersey,
American actor (Clueless)
40 - Zach Braff, South Orange, New Jersey, actor
(Dr. John Dorian-Scrubs)
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Remembered for being born today
- Lowell
Thomas, Woodington Ohio, newscaster (High Adventure) 1892-1921@89
- Ian
Paisley, North Ireland, clergyman/MP 1926-2014@88
- Donald
Wills Douglas, US, aircraft pioneer (McDonnell Douglas) 1892-1981@88
- Philip Gosse,
inventor of institutional aquarium, writer 1810-1888@78
- Walter
Huston, actor (Maltese Falcon, Treasure of Sierra Madre) 1884-1950@67
- James
Mill, Scotland, philosopher/historian (Hist of British India) 1773-1836@63
- Anthony
Fokker, Dutch aviation pioneer (Fokker Triplane) 1890-1939@49
- Raphael Sanzio,
Urbino, Italy, painter/master builder 1483-1520@37
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Historical Obits Today
Mickey
Rooney, Emmy award-winning actor 2004@93
Greer
Garson, actress (Goodbye Mr Chips)-1996@92
Igor
Stravinsky, Russian composer-1971@88
Isaac
Asimov, Sci-Fi author (I Robot), kidney failure-1992@72
Wilma
Mankiller, 1st female chief of the Cherokee Nation,
cancer-2010@64
Tammy
Wynette, American country singer, blood clot-1998@55
Thomas
Kinkade, American artist, acute intoxication-2012@54
Sam
Sheppard, American accused murderer, liver failure-1970@46
Richard I, the
Lion-hearted, King of England, in battle, 1199@41
Raphael [Sanzio],
artist (Sistine Madonna), fever on his 37th birthday-1520
Bobby
Hutton, US Black Panther leader, shot-1968@17
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Brain Teasers Answers
For old times sake
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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…§
