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Almanac: Week: 18 \ Day: 118
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 28° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 29mph
Ave. High: 62° Record High: 80°
(1992) Ave. Low: 30° Record
Low: 13° (1970)
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Observances Today:
Biological
Clock Day Kiss Your Mate Day
Great
Poetry Reading Day Workers Memorial
Day
International
Astronomy Day World Day for Safety and
Health at Work
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Observances This Week:
24-30
Interstate
Mullet Toss National Dance Week
National Dream Hotline National Scoop The Poop Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1635 - Virginia
Gov John Harvey accused of treason & removed from office
1788 - Maryland
becomes 7th state to ratify constitution
1855 - 1st
veterinary college in US incorporated in Boston
1876- Cornerstone of the
Territorial Prison in Yuma laid;
first prisoners received in June.
1922 - WOI
(Ames, Iowa) country's 1st licensed educational radio station
1931 - Program
for woman athletes approved for 1932 Olympics track & field
1934 - FDR signs
Home Owners Loan Act
1937 - 1st
animated cartoon electric sign displayed (NYC)
1937 - 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1942 - "WW
II" titled so, as result of Gallup Poll
1944 - Exercise "Tiger" ends with 750 US
soldiers dead in D-Day rehearsal
after their convoy ships were attacked by
German torpedo boats
1965 - Barbra
Streisand stars on "My Name is Barbra" special on CBS
1967 - Muhammad
Ali refuses induction into army & stripped of boxing title
1985 - Fernando Valenzuela sets record of 41
scoreless inn to start season
2001 - Millionaire
Dennis Tito becomes the world's first space tourist.
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Today’s World Events through History
1611 - Establishment
of the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas,
The Catholic University of the Philippines,
the oldest existing university
in Asia and the largest Catholic university
in the world.
1789 - Fletcher
Christian leads mutiny on HMS Bounty against its captain Wm Bligh
1892 - 1st
performance of Antonin Dvorák's overture "Carneval"
1902 - Using
the ISO 8601 standard Year Zero definition for the Gregorian calendar
preceded by the Julian calendar, the one
billionth minute since the start of
January 1, Year Zero occurs at 10:40 AM on
this date.
1947 - Thor
Heyerdahl & "Kon-Tiki" sail from Peru to Polynesia
1967 - Expo 67
opens in Montreal
1969 - Northern
Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill resigns and is
replaced later by James Chichester-Clark.
1986 - Soviet
TV news program Vremya annouces a nuclear accident at
Chernobyl nuclear power station, 2 days after
the event
1989 - Iran protests sale of "Satanic
Verses" by Salman Rushdie
1994 - 1st
multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
2003 - Andre
Agassi recaptures the world no. 1 ranking to become the oldest
top-ranked male in the history of the ATP
rankings (33 years, 13 days)
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice day here. Ran some errands, enjoyed out being outside.
So sad to watch Baltimore. CNN has interviewed some of the people
on the street. It appears locals are against the riot but outsiders are angry,
violent, and running the show. More interesting is listening to the political
leaders who are not on site, showing their concern. They seem so removed from
the problem…and that seems to be part of the problem.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find
the words that fit in the spaces below, and make two new words.
Example: Air PORT Wine
1. Swimming _ _ _ _ Table
2. Free _ _ _ Ward
3. Wisdom _ _ _ _ _ Ache
4. Bear _ _ _ _ Up
5. Watch _ _ _ _ _ Gang
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cool
Facts…
~ License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped
like polar bears.
~ In Finland, you are given a top hat and a sword when you get a
PhD diploma.
~ Before clocks, there were candle clocks that when burned,
indicated the passage of periods of time. To set an alarm, you pushed a nail
into the desired point and the nail would fall and clank on the metal holder.
…Film
Fact…
~ After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy,
Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord
apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~
City Manager Farrish was removed from office by the unanimous vote
of the city council and Robert A. Craig appointed to fill the position. Farrish
remained entrenched in the office and has refused to turn it over. The City
Attorney has appealed for a writ of certiorari to the Superior Court.
~
A warm blaze in F. O. Allen’s barn and chicken house was put out
by our volunteer firemen last Saturday night. It had a good start and pretty
much all the interior was blazing when the hose cart arrived. About 100,
2-week-old chicks were killed. The damage altogether will amount to about $300,
partly covered by insurance. While brooders were in use during the daytime
hours they were not left on at night.
…Harper’s
Index…
31--Number of states that have enacted new restrictions on
abortion since the last midterm elections
…Linguistic
Facts…
These are some of the languages with the most native speakers
New numbers are surprising, compared with the ones featured in the
CIA's Factbook. According to the CIA, Spanish is spoken by 4.85 percent of the
world's population and its use is even more widespread than English, which is
spoken by 4.83 percent. However, the CIA numbers include only first native
languages. Many people are bilingual, and whereas Spanish might be their first
native language, English could be their second one. Ammon counts both first and
second native language speakers.
The number for Portuguese is smaller than other sources suggest
because not all Brazilians are native speakers. Some might also be surprised
that Korean or Punjabi do not show up on the list: Indeed, both are nearly as
widely spoken as Italian.
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
24. Latest survey shows
that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world population.
25. If the shoe fits, get another one just like it.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Arthur Miller's original title for Death of a Salesman was The
Inside of His Head.
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2 jokes
for the day
A guy is passing a Mental Hospital surrounded
by a wall and he hears the chanting inside, Thirteen! Thirteen! Thirteen!
Curious to see what’s going on he finds a small hole in the wall, so he bends
and peeks inside. Someone inside pokes him hard in the eye and everyone starts
inside chanting, Fourteen! Fourteen! Fourteen!
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A young man was walking through a supermarket
to pick up a few things when he noticed an old lady following him around.
Thinking nothing of it, he ignored her and continued on.
Finally he went to the checkout line, but she got in front of him. "Pardon
me," she said, "I'm sorry if my staring at you has made you feel
uncomfortable. It's just that you look just like my son, who just died
recently." "I'm very sorry," replied the young man, "is
there anything I can do for you?" "Yes," she said, "As I'm
leaving, can you say 'Good bye, Mother'? It would make me feel so much
better." "Sure," answered the young man.
As the old woman was leaving, he called out, "Goodbye, Mother!" As he
stepped up to the checkout counter, he saw that his total was $127.50.
"How can that be?" He asked, "I only purchased a few
things!" "Your mother said that you would pay for her," said the
clerk.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
WIMAUMA,
Fla. (UPI) - A Florida man is recovering from a cottonmouth snake bite to
his lip after he allegedly tried to smooch the serpent on the mouth.
Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies said Austin Hatfield, 18, captured the 4-foot
cottonmouth, also known as a water moccasin, while swimming last week and kept
it in a pillowcase at his girlfriend's house, where he was bitten on the lip.
Friends told investigators Hatfield was trying to kiss the snake when it struck
him. Hatfield was initially hospitalized in critical condition, but his status
was upgraded to good condition and officials said he is expected to make a full
recovery. Investigators said Hatfield did not possess the proper permits
required by the state to catch and keep cottonmouth snakes. The Florida Fish
and Wildlife Conservation Commission said it is investigating the incident.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
interesting thing is that the same man invented heroin and aspirin, according
to opioids.com.
To
be more specific, a hundred years ago Heinrich Dreser made a fortune from the
discovery of heroin and aspirin – but he may have ended his days as an addict.
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Harper Lee,
Monroeville Alabama, American author (To Kill a Mockingbird)
85 - James Baker, Secretary of the Treasury,
Secretary of State
74 - Ann-Margret,
Valsjobya Sweden, actress (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy)
65 - Jay Leno,
New Rochelle, comedian/talk show host (Tonight Show)
49 - John Daly, golfer
(1991 PGA Championship, 1995 Open Championship)
41 - Penélope Cruz,
Madrid, Spanish actress (Vanilla Sky)
34 - Jessica Alba,
American actress ("Sin City")
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Remembered for being born today
- Lionel Barrymore,
[Blythe], Phila, actor (Free Soul, Dr Kildare) 1878-1954@76
- James Monroe,
Monroe Hall Virginia, 5th US President 1758-1831@73
- Garfield Weston,
English industrial/billionaire (Twinings Tea) 1927-2002@74
- Sidney
Toler, actor (Madame X, Charlie Chan) 1874-1947@72
- Saddam Hussein,
[At-Takriti], Al-Awja, President of Iraq 1937-2006@69
- Eugene
M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist 1928-1997@69
- Oskar Schindler,
Austrian businessman of Schindler's List 1908-1974@66
- Ezra Abbot,
American Bible scholar 1819-1884@64
- Alistair
MacLean, Scottish novelist 1922-1987@64
- Carolyn Jones,
Amarillo Texas, actress (Morticia-Addams Family) 1929-1983@53
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Historical Obits Today
Dabbs
Greer, American actor-2007@90
Rory
Calhoun, American actor. Emphysema-1999@76
Benito
Mussolini, Fascist dictator of Italy, shot by communist partisans-1945@61
Jim
Valvano, basketball coach (NC State), cancer-1993@47
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. POOL
2. WAY
3. TOOTH
4. HOLD
5. CHAIN
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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…§
