Jan 2

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Jan 2, 2018 Week: 01\ Day: 2

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 60°[1902]   Record Low: -21°[1919]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

Minimum annual amount the Palestinian Authority pays each Palestinian imprisoned for an attack in Israel: $4,368

Per capita income in Palestine: $3,090

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Observances This Week

1-8

Diet Resolution Week 

National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

New Year's Resolutions Week

Silent Record Week

2-8

Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

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Observances for Today

55-MPH Speed Limit Day

Happy Mew Year for Cats Day

National Buffet Day Link

National Motivation and Inspiration Day Link

National Personal Trainer Awareness Day Link

National Science Fiction Day  Link

Pet Travel and Safety Day Link

Run up the Flagpole and See if Anyone Salutes Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                          

1757 British troops occupy Calcutta India

1776 1st revolutionary flag displayed

1788 Georgia is 4th state to ratify US constitution

1791 Big Bottom massacre in the Ohio Country, marking the beginning of the Northwest Indian War.

1800’s                                          

1814 Lord Byron completes "The Corsair"

1832 1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens

1839 1st photo of the Moon (French photographer Louis Daguerre) 1882 Because of anti-monopoly laws, Standard Oil is organized as a trust

1893 1st US commemoratives & 1st US stamp to picture a woman issued (Queen Isabella, patron of Columbus)

1900’s                                          

1900 John Hay announces the Open Door Policy to promote trade with China.

1903 US President Theodore Roosevelt shuts down post office in Indianola Miss, for refusing to accept its appointed postmistress because she was black

1906 Willis Carrier receives a US patent for the world's first air conditioner

1910 1st junior high schools in US opens (Berkeley California)

1920 Responding to global fear of communism caused by the Russian Revolution, US Attorney General Palmer authorizes raids across the country on unionists and socialists

1929 US & Canada agree to preserve Niagara Falls

1936 1st electron tube to enable night vision described, St Louis, Missouri

1938 Book publisher Simon and Schuster founded

1954 Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny," premieres in NYC

1965 Martin Luther King Jr. begins a drive to register black voters

1965 NY Jets sign quarterback Joe Namath

1966 1st Jewish child born in Spain since 1492 expulsion

1969 Australian Rupert Murdoch gains control of the 'News of the World'

1975 US Department of Interior designates grizzly bear a threatened species

1983 "Annie" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 2,377 performances

1983 Gary Trudeau takes a 20-month break from writing "Doonesbury"

1985 Undefeated BYU becomes college football champions

1988 Mulroney & Reagan sign Canada-US free trade agreement

1991 Colorado wins its 1st AP national title poll

2000’s                                          

2014 Raul Castro gives a speech commemorating the 55th anniversary of the Cuban revolution and warns of "neo-liberal and neo-colonial thinking" entering the country

2016 Saudi Arabia executes 47 alleged terrorists, including Shia cleric Sheikh Nimr al-Nimr

2017 US House Republicans vote to gut the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, a public uproar forces them to back down the next day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Great way to start the new year: laundry and cleaning. Guess things don’t change that much.

Made it to the ball drop in NYC…glad I wasn’t there…very cold. Didn’t make it to the Pinecone drop here. Very strange, I went to bed in 2017 and didn’t wake up well rested until 2018. Hmmm

It is still warm (for January) and dry here at 7000’. Weatherman says we may get precipitation by the weekend…but he has said that before and nothing arrives. Not holding my breath.

Hopefully sometime this week I will again start to get my days of the week straight. Haven't known or cared what day it is since Dec. 22. It’s Monday but sure feels like a Saturday. Good thing my phone shows the day and date.

Found two friends from my Rez days on FB. Both are doing good and enjoying life. For all the stuff on FB, I must say, I enjoy getting in touch with people I haven’t seen for years and years. I hardly post anything but do make comments on people’s sites which led to finding those two friends. And one of my former employees posted a very nice comment about my time at TCBS. At Tuba one year, he and I went from classroom to classroom; he sang Happy Birthday in Navajo to that day’s birthday children, I gave them some school supplies. After a parental complaint, we also did the children who had birthdays on weekends and vacations. With almost 400 children in my department, I was quite an undertaking, but worth it.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

90- Vaughn Beals,

CEO (Harley Davidson motorcycle), born in Cambridge

80’s

86- Dabney Coleman,

(That Girl, Mary Hartman, Buffalo Bill), born in Austin

@83- Larry Harmon,

American entertainer and TV producer

(d. 2008)

70’s

78- Jim Bakker,

American televangelist (Assemblies of God, The PTL Club) and convicted fraud,

born in Muskegon, Michigan

@72- Isaac Asimov,

Russian scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy),

born in Petrovichi, Russia

AIDS from blood transfusion (d. 1992)

71- Jack Hanna,

American zoologist

60’s

66- Ricky Van Shelton,

country singer (Wild-Eyed Dream)

born in Grit Va

50’s

@56- Roger Miller,

country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), born in Fort Worth

lung cancer (d. 1992)

50- Cuba Gooding Jr,

actor (Boyz N the Hood, Glaadiator, Few Good Men)

40’s

@49- Queen Emma of Hawaii,

Consort of King Kamehameha IV

series of strokes (d. 1885)

47- Taye Diggs,

American actor

43- Dax Shepard,

actor

40- Karina Smirnoff,

Ukrainian-American ballroom dancer and TV personality (Dancing with the Stars),

born in Kharkiv, Ukraine

30’s

@38- Robert "Bob" Marshall,

American forester, wilderness activist and co-founder of the Wilderness Society,

born in NYC,

heart attack (d. 1939)

35- Kate Bosworth,

American actress

20’s

@29- Nathaniel Bacon,

leader of Bacon's Rebellion, Va

dysentery (d. 1676)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-2015 [Little] Jimmy Dickens,

American country singer (Grand Ole Opry)

80’s

@81-2012 William Carey,

American businessman and philanthropist(W. P. Carey & Co.)

@80-2011 Anne Francis,

American actress (Honey West)

70’s

@71-1953 Guccio Gucci,

Italian founder of Gucci fashion house

@70-2014 Jay Traynor,

American singer (Jay and the Americans), liver cancer

60’s

@68-1990 Alan Hale Jr.,

American actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island),

cancer

@67-1974 Woodward Maurice Tex Ritter,

country singer (5 Star Jubilee),

heart attack

@64-1971 Willard Maas,

American educator and experimental filmmaker

alcohol related illness

@63-2012 Larry "Rhino" Reinhardt,

rock guitarist (Iron Butterfly)

cirrhosis

50’s

@58-1963 Dick Powell [Richard Ewing Powell],

American singer, actor, producer and director (Cry Danger, Dick Powell Theater),

cancer

@53-1977 Erroll Garner,

jazz pianist (Misty),

emphysema

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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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