Jan 10

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Jan 10, 2018 Week: 02\ Day: 10

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  29mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1990]   Record Low: -15°[1937]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

+101: Percentage change since 2008 in the number of visits by US children’s hospitals for suicidal thought or attempts

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Observances This Week

7-13

Home Office Safety and Security Week  Link

National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

8-14

Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week

9-12

International Consumer Electronics Show

No Tillage Week

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Observances for Today

Bittersweet Chocolate Day

Houseplant Appreciation Day

League of Nations Day

National Cut Your Energy Costs Day

National Oysters Rockerfeller Day  Link

National Take the Stairs Day 

Peculiar People Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished

1700’s                                          

1776 "Common Sense" Pamphlet by Thomas Paine, published advocating American independence

1800’s                                          

1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British

1839 Tea from India 1st arrives in UK

1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browningbegin corresponding

1861 Florida secedes from the Union (US Civil War)

1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil

1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage

1900’s                                          

1901 Oil discovered in Texas

1910 Lunt-Fontanne Theater (Globe) opens at 205 W 46th St NYC

1911 1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego

1916 In retaliation for President Woodrow Wilson's recognition of the Carranza government, members of Pacho Villa's revolutionary army take 17 American mining engineers from a train and shoot 16 of them in cold blood

1917 Suffragettes the "Silent Sentinels" 1st protest outside The White House,in Washington led by Alice Paul and the National Woman's Party

1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Governor of Texasr, 2nd US woman governor, 1st ever elected

1943 1st US president to visit a foreign country in wartime - FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco

1946 UN General Assembly meets for 1st time in London

1952 "The Greatest Show on Earth", directed and produced by Cecil B. DeMille, starring James Stewart and Carlton Heston, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1953)

1958 Jerry Lee Lewis' "Great Balls of Fire" reaches #1 on the UK pop charts

1964 US version of "That Was The Week That Was" premieres

1967 Edward W. Brooke (Sen-R-Mass), takes his seat as the 1st popularly elected African American to the US Senate

1967 PBS (the National Educational TV) begins as a 70 station network

1971 Irish Republican Army (IRA) carry out a 'punishment attack', tarring and feathering 4 men accused of criminal activities in Belfast

1984 Clara Peller 1st asks, "Where's the Beef?" in commercial for Wendy's hamburger chain

1999 "The Sopranos", starring James Gandolfini as mobster Tony Soprano, debuts on HBO

2000’s                                          

2001 The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge will not be designated as a national monument, the White House announces; a move environmentalist groups had been pressing for to prevent oil drilling

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My Rambling Thoughts

The expected rain/snow hasn’t arrived. Now they say tonight. Still not holding my breath.

Expecting snow, I planned on doing linen laundry...blankets etc. So that is what I am doing. Third load is in the dryer. Bedding changed and clean blankets.

45 now says that ‘the wall’ won’t be a solid wall, what with mountains, rapidly running rivers, and other environmental stuff doing the job. Well, duh. Anyone with an education beyond 6^th grade has known that since before the election. But he still want’s lots and lots of tax payer dollars, but promises it will come in under budget. Yeah! Wonder who he will give the extra money to?

ONLY IN AZ: Maricopa ex-sheriff is 85 and just announced he is running for the US Senate. Thanks for the pardon #45. Not!

I watched most of the championship game last night. Oops, should have stayed up a tad longer. Never expected that.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@83- Ray Bolger,

American actor and dancer (Wizard of Oz),

born in Dorchester, Massachusetts

(d. 1987)

70’s

79- Bill Toomey,

decathlete (Olympic gold 68),

born in Philadelphia

79- David Horowitz,

American author and political commentator

@73-1939 Scott McKenzie,

American singer ('San Francisco;),

Guillain–Barré syndrome (d. 2012)

@73- Frank Sinatra Jr,

American singer/bandleader (Golddigers),

born in Jersey City, NJ

heart attack (d. 2016)

73- Rod Stewart,

British singer (Maggie Mae, Do You Think I'm Sexy),

born in London

70- Donald Fagen,

rock vocalist/keyboardist (Steely Dan-Peg),

born in Passaic, NJ

60’s

69- George Foreman,

American World Heavyweight boxing champ (1973-74, 95),

born in Marshall, Texas

65- Pat Benatar, [Andrezejewski],

American singer (Hell Is for Children),

born in Brooklyn

50’s

@51- Ethan Allen,

American Revolutionary War patriot (lead the Green Mountain Boys),

born in Litchfield, CT

internal bleeding (d. 1789)

30’s

@37- Sal Mineo,

American actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause),

born in NYC,

murdered (d. 1976)

37- Jared Kushner,

American real estate developer and advisor to Donald Trump,

born in Livingston, NJ

@30- Jim Croce,

rock vocalist (Time in a Bottle) (d. 1973),

born in Philadelphia,

charter plane crash (d. 1973)

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@105-2017 Clare Hollingworth,

British war correspondent who was the first to report on the outbreak of WWII

90’s

@94-2007 Carlo Ponti,

Italian film producer

@90-2017 Buddy Greco,

American jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House)

80’s

@87-1971 Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel,

French fashion designer (Chanel)

@87-1863 Lyman Beecher,

US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader father of

Harriett Beecher Stowe

70’s

@77-2015 Robert Stone,

American novelist (Dog Soldiers, WUSA),

chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

@70-1917 William "Buffalo Bill" Cody,

American Wild West hunter and showman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West)

@70-1778 Carolus Linnaeus [Carl von Linné],

Swedish botanist and the Father of Taxonomy,

strokes

60’s

@69-2016 David Bowie [Jones],

English singer-songwriter (Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust),

cancer

@65-1951 [Harry] Sinclair Lewis,

American writer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930),

advanced alcoholism

@63-1981 Richard Boone,

actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel),

throat cancer

@62-2004 Spalding Gray,

American actor (Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting),

suicide

40’s

@49-1883 Dr Samuel A. Mudd,

American medical doctor

pneumonia  

@47-1862 Samuel Colt,

American inventor and industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver),

gout

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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.

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