Jan 22

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Jan 22, 2018 Week: 04\ Day: 22

86004 Today: H 40° \ L 11° \ Average Sky Cover: 2% 

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[1970]   Record Low: -30°[1937]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

-83 Estimated percentage change in the number of glaciers in

Glacier National Park since its founding

857 Minimum number of animal species that are NOT officially

extinct but have not been observed for the last 10 year

184 For at least one hundred years

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Observances This Week

17-23

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week

National Soccer Coaches of America Week

18-25

Week of Christian Unity

18-28

Sundance Film Festival

20-28

International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week Link

Hunt For Happiness Week

National Activity Professionals Week

National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week

National Handwriting Analysis Week

22-26

Clean Out Your Inbox Week

National Medical Group Practice Week

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Observances for Today

Answer Your Cat's Questions Day

National Bible Sunday Link  

National Blonde Brownie Day

Roe vs. Wade Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

1506 The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican

1600’s                                          

1690 Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French

1700’s                                          

1771 Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain

1800’s                                          

1816 Lord Byron completes poems "Parisina" and "Siege of Corinth"

1879 Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in Isandhlwana, South Africa

1881 Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park, New York

1900’s                                          

1938 "Our Town", Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner of small-town life in Grover's Corners, New Hampshire, premieres (NJ)

1946 US president Harry Truman sets up the Central Intelligence Agency

1947 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens in Hollywood, California

1953 Arthur Miller's "Crucible" premieres in NYC

1968 "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC

1973 Roe vs Wade: US Supreme Court legalizes most abortions

1982 75% of North America is covered by snow

2000’s                                          

2002 Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in United States history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

2006 Evo Morales is inaugurated as President of Bolivia, becoming the country's first indigenous president

2017 Chile declares a State of Emergency and requests international assistance as wildfires rage out of control

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My Rambling Thoughts

Blue sky greeted my home, snow is rapidly melting. Never got the 5” we hoped for, but did get a couple of inches and had a real day of snow. Nice.

Light housekeeping before the games. Sunday news programming caught me up. Sunday local paper was some news and a whole lot of ads. Most of the ads went directly into the recycle bin, just don’t tell the advertisers…without the ads we wouldn’t have a small town local paper.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

86- Piper Laurie, [Rosetta Jacobs],

actress (Twin Peaks),

born in Detroit

@85- Beatrice Potter Webb,

English sociologist, economist 

(founded London School of Economics)

writer (My Apprenticeship),

born in Standish (d. 1943)

81- Joseph Wambaugh,

American police writer ("The Onion Fields"),

born in Pittsburgh

70’s

@79- George Balanchine,

Russian-American ballet composer and choreographer

founded the New York City Ballet,

born in St. Petersburgh, Russian Empire

(d. 1983)

77- John Hurt,

English actor (Elephant Man, Alien, Midnight Express),

born in Chesterfield

pancreatic cancer (d. 2017)

@73- D.W. Griffith,

American film director and producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance),

born in LaGrange, Kentucky

stroke (d. 1948)

60’s

69- Steve Perry,

vocalist (Journey-Open Arms, Oh Sherry)

@65- Francis Bacon,

statesman/essayist (Novum Organum),

born in London, England pneumonia

(d. 1626)

@65- U Thant,

Burmese politician

3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-72),

born in Pantanaw, Myanmar

lung cancer (d. 1974)

@61- Albert Neisser [Albert Ludwig Sigesmund Neisser],

German physician who discovered the bacteria that cause

gonorrhea and leprosy

septicemia (d.1916)

50’s

@59- Bill Bixby,

actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian),

born in San Francisco

prostate cancer (d. 1993)

59- Linda Blair,

American actress (Exorcist, Chained Heat, Savage St),

born in St Louis

50- Guy Fieri,

chef

40’s

@47- William Kidd,

Scottish pirate legend,

born in Greenock (or Dundee), Scotland

executed (d. ±1701)

30’s

@36- Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron],

English romantic poet (Don Juan),

born in London

sepsis from ‘medical bleeding’(d. 1824)

@33- Sam Cooke,

soul singer (You Send Me),

born in Clarksdale Mississippi

shot (d. 1964)

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@104-1995 Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy,

mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted

80’s

@85-2012 Joe Paterno,

disgraced American college hall of football coach (Penn State)

Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of 1986

@81-2003 Bill Mauldin, 

American cartoonist famous for his World War II cartoons depicting

American soldiers (Pulitzer-1945, 59)

@81-1901 Victoria, [Alexandrine],

Britain's Queen (1837-1901)

70’s

@72-1994 Telly Savalas,

American actor (Kojak),

prostate cancer

60’s

@68-1900 David Edward Hughes,

British-American inventor (microphone, teleprinter)

@64-1973 Lyndon B. Johnson,

36th US President (Democrat: 1963-69),

heart attack

20’s

@28-2008 Heath Ledger,

Australian-American Actor (Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight),

OD

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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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