Jan 5

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Jan 5, 2018 Week: 01\ Day: 5

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 21° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  12mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 61°[1948]   Record Low: -22°[1910]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

28: Rank of ‘smart’ among words that occur to US voters when they think of Donald Trump

1: of ‘idiot’

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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

National Bird Day Link

National Screenwriters Day  Link

Twelfth Night

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                          

1800 1st Swedenborgian temple in US holds 1st service in Baltimore

1834 Kiowa Indians record this as the night the stars fell

1846 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom

1861 250 Federal troops are sent from New York to Ft Sumter

1886 "Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson published by Longmans, Green & Co.

1887 1st US school of librarianship opens at Columbia University

1896 "Die Presse" newspaper (Germany) publicly announces Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and their potential for new methods of medical diagnoses in a front-page article

1900’s                                          

1905 National Association of Audubon Society, a non-profit, environmental organization dedicated to conservation, incorporates

1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day

1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman governor in USA

1927 Fox Studios exhibits Movietone

1930 Mao Zedong writes "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire"

1933 "Cavalcade" based on the play by Noel Coward, directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1934)

1945 Pepe LePew debuts in Warner Bros cartoon "Odor-able Kitty"

1949 US President Harry Truman labels his administration the "Fair Deal"

1957 US President Eisenhower asks Congress to send troops to the Middle East

1959 "Bozo the Clown" live children's show premieres on TV

1968 Dr Benjamin Spock indicted for conspiring to violate draft law

1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival release their second album "Bayou Country", featuring singles "Good Golly, Miss Molly" and "Proud Mary"

1975 Charlie Smalls' "Wiz" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1672 performances

1981 "Nightline" with Ted Koppel extended from 20 mins to 30 mins

1989 2 French TV newsmen arrested for trying to plant fake bombs on 3 airlines at JFK airport in security test

1993 Oil tanker MV Braer runs aground on the coast of the Shetland Islands, spilling 84,700 tons of crude oil

1998 Vandals decapitate Copenhagen's Little Mermaid

2000’s                                          

2005 Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the solar system, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.

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My Rambling Thoughts

The retirement ladies wanted to see a movie, so I tagged along to ‘Pitch Perfect3’. Enjoyable and some funny jokes, if one really listens. Certainly not a movie I would see again, as once was enough. I must say, I have seen parts of the first movie on TV, but never made it to the end. This one I did stay till the end.

As many on the east coast are suffering from snow and wind, we are still having early fall or late spring weather.  The local paper had an article yesterday about our plight:

·        0.01” of precipitation between 10/1 and 12/31…3^rd year this has happened since 1899.

·        4^th consecutive year with above normal temps in our town.

·        Only 76.2” of snow in 2017…23” below normal.

Hoping for moisture very soon.

Our city council had a citizen petition to ask the council to pass a resolution to Impeach 45. It was presented to the council but couldn’t get a second so was dropped. I must say, I am not happy with 45 and would like to see his reign end, but…that will put Pence in the office and I believe would be worse. The tweets would stop but Pence has some very strange ideas about life in the US in 2018. Pence would take us back in time and not in a good way.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Jeane Dixon,

American astrologer "A Gift of Prophecy"

(d. 1997)

@91- Joseph Erlanger,

American physiologist (shock therapy-Nobel 1944),

born in San Francisco,

(d. 1965)

@91- Konrad Adenauer,

chancellor of Germany (BRD, 1949),

born in Cologne, Germany

(d.1967)

@90- Jane Wyman,

American actress (Magnificent Obsession) and 1st wife of Ronald Reagan,

born in Saint Joseph, Missouri

(d. 2007)

80’s

87- Robert Duvall,

actor (Great Santini, Taxi Driver),

born in San Diego, California

70’s

@77- King C. Gillette,

American businessman\inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor

born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin

(d. 1932)

76- Charlie Rose,

American TV host (ex-CBS This Morning),           

born in Henderson, NC

72- Diane Keaton,

American actress (Annie Hall, Little Drummer Girl),

born in Los Angeles

60’s

65- George Tenet,

American CIA director

50’s

50- Carrie Ann Inaba,

American dancer and choreographer

40’s

49- Marilyn Manson,

singer/musician

@45- George Reeves,

American actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind),

born in Woolstock, Iowa

suicide?(d. 1959)

43- Bradley Cooper,

American actor (Silver Linnings Playbook, American Hustle),

born in Philadelphia

40- January Jones,

American actress

30’s

@34- Zebulon Pike,

brigadier general and explorer (Pike's Peak), born in Lamington, New Jersey

KIA (d. 1813)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2007 Momofuku Ando,

Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles

80’s

@87-1970 Max Born,

German physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954)

@81-1994 Tip O'Neill,

American politician and 47th speaker of the house (D-Ma: 1977-86)

@81-1943 George Washington Carver,

famous African American scientist

70’s

@76-1990 Arthur Kennedy,

American actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place),

brain tumor

@72-1906 Kathleen Kenyon,

English Archaeologist who excavated Jericho (the oldest known continuously occupied human settlement that has been inhabited for the last 11,000 years)

60’s

@64-1982 Hans Conried,

actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy),

heart attack

@64-1904 Karl Alfred Ritter von Zittel,

German geologist and paleontologist (Libya)

@62-1998 Sonny Bono,

(Rep-R-Ca)/singer (Sonny & Cher),

skiing accident

@60-1933 Calvin Coolidge,

30th President (1923-29),

heart attack

50’s

@59-2004 Tug McGraw,

American baseball player, father of Tim McGraw

brain tumor

40’s

@41-1939 Amelia Earhart,

American aviator and 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic,

declared dead at 41 after her disappearance over the Pacific Ocean in 1937

@40-1988 "Pistol Pete" Mavarich,

NBAer (Atlanta),

heart attack

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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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