Jan 23

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Jan 23, 2018 Week: 04\ Day: 23

86004 Today: H 34° \ L 5° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 61°[1970]   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

1000 Number of years humans had last year to colonize another planet or risk extinction, according to Stephen Hawking

100 That humans have this year, according to Hawking’s projection

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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

23-26

International Hoof-Care Week Link  

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Observances for Today

Measure Your Feet Day  Link

National Pie Day

Snowplow Mailbox Hockey Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

900’s                                            

971 War elephant corps of the Southern Han defeated at Shao by crossbow fire from Song Dynasty troops; Southern Han state forced to submit to the Song Dynasty. 1st regular war elephant corps in Chinese army

1300’s                                          

1368 In a coronation ceremony, Zhu Yuanzhang ascends to the throne of China as the Hongwu Emperor, initiating Ming Dynasty rule over China that would last for three centuries.

1500’s                                          

1552 2nd version of Book of Common Prayer becomes mandatory in England

1600’s                                          

1647 Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament

1656 French philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal publishes the first of his Lettres provincials

1700’s                                          

1789 Georgetown, 1st US Catholic college, founded

1800’s                                          

1849 Elizabeth Blackwell becomes 1st woman in the US to earn a medical degree

1859 Mauna Loa volcano in Hawaii begins an eruption that lasts 300 days

1870 173 Blackfoot (140 women & children) killed in Montana by US Army

1879 US National Archery Association forms in Crawfordsville, Indiana

1897 Elva Zona Heaster is found dead in Greenbrier County, West Virginia. Resulting murder trial of her husband perhaps only case in US history where the alleged testimony of a ghost helped secure a conviction.

1900’s                                          

1907 Charles Curtis of Kansas becomes 1st Native American US senator

1916 Temperature falls from 44°F (7°C) to -56°F (49°C) night of 23-24, Browning MT

1930 Clyde Tombaugh photographs planet Pluto

1933 20th amendment, which changed the date of US presidential inaugurations to 20th January, is ratified

1948 Huston's "Treasure of Sierra Madre" starring Humphrey Bogart opens

1950 Israeli Knesset resolves Jerusalem is capital of Israel

1957 Wham-O Company produces the 1st Frisbee disc (originally called the "Pluto Platter" until 1958)

1961 Supreme Court rules cities & states have right to censor films

1964 24th Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, barring poll tax in federal elections

1968 Spy ship USS Pueblo & 83-man crew seized in Sea of Japan by North Korea

1972 Entire population of Istanbul under 24 hour house arrest

1973 US President Richard Nixon announces an accord has been reached to end Vietnam War

1975 "Barney Miller" premieres on ABC TV

1977 Mini-series "Roots" premieres on ABC

1983 "A-Team" with Mr T premieres on NBC

1983 Bjorn Borg announces his retirement from tennis

1986 1st induction of Rock 'N' Roll Hall of Fame (Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray Charles, Domino, Everly Bros, Buddy Holly, J L Lewis & Elvis Presley)

1991 World's largest oil spill, caused by embattled Iraqi forces in Kuwait

2000’s                                          

2001 The Chinese Communist Party stages a self-immolation in Tiananmen Square to frame Falun Gong and escalate the persecution.

2005 "Numbers", starring Rob Morrow and David Krumholtz, debuts on CBS

2015 Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud is crowned King of Saudi Arabia, on the death of this half-brother King Abdullah

2016 Blizzard delivers record snow to 80 US states, New York 30 inches of snow. Washington 28 inches at least 15 killed

2016 Zika virus outbreak in Brazil prompts Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador and Jamaica to recommend women delay pregnancies for up to 2 years

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My Rambling Thoughts

Snow continues to melt, slowly as it ain’t very warm outside. Roads are dry. Life is good.

Still trying to figure out why Congress stopped pay to our active troops during this silly partial shutdown. Really? In the past, active troops were considered ‘essential.’ Not in this crazy administration. Sad.

Another CR. Great. I quit playing kick the can in my early teen years.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

85- Chita Rivera,

American actress (West Side Story, Sweet Charity),

born in Washington, D.C.

@81- Gertrude B. Elion,

American biochemist and drug researcher

developed groundbreaking leukemia and herpes drug treatments

(Nobel 1988),

born in NYC

(d. 1999)

70’s

75- Gil Gerard,

actor (Buck Rogers in 25th Century),

born in Little Rock

60’s

68- Richard Dean Anderson,

actor (MacGyver, Emerald Pt NAS),

born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

50’s

@56- John Hancock,

American merchant and statesman

1st to sign the Declaration of Independence,

born in Braintree, Massachusetts

failing health(d. 1793)

54- Mariska Hargitay, American actress (Law and Order: Special Victims Unit), born in Santa Monica

40’s

44- Tiffani Theissen,

American actress (Saved by Bell, 90210),

born in Long Beach, CA

@43- Django Reinhardt,

Belgium born Romani-French jazz guitarist

composer considered the most significant European Jazz musician,

born in Liberchies, Pont-à-Celles, Belgium

stroke (d. 1953)

@42- Ernie Kovacs,

comedian (Ernie Kovacs' Show),

born in Trenton, NJ

auto accident (d. 1962)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2011 Jack LaLanne,

American fitness and nutritional expert

80’s

@84-1989 Salvador Dali,

Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion)

@80-1944 Edvard Munch,

Norwegian painter (The Scream),

bequeathing all of his work to the city of Oslo

70’s

@79-2005 Johnny Carson,

American television host

emphysema

@77-1976 Paul Robeson,

American singer (Old Man River), actor

civil rights activist,

stroke

@77-1803 Arthur Guinness,

Irish brewer

philanthropist

60’s

@61-1997 Richard Berry,

lyricist (Louie Louie),

respiratory failure

40’s

@49-1931 Anna Pavlova,

Russian prima ballerina and choreographer 

(Diaghilew, Dying Swan),

pneumonia

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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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