Jan 8

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Jan 8, 2018 Week: 02\ Day: 8

86004 Today: H 49° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 3% 

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  22mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[2002]   Record Low: -12°[1989]

Jan Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Today’s Quote

Harper’s Index

76:  Number of countries worldwide with maternal death rates lower than that of the US

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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

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

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Observances for Today

Argyle Day

Bubble Bath Day Link

Earth's Rotation Day

National English Toffee Day  Link

Male Watcher's Day

Midwife's Day or Women's Day

National Clean Off Your Desk Day 

National Joy Germ Day

National Weigh-In Day  

National Winter Skin Relief Day  Link

Show and Tell Day at Work

"Thank God It's Monday" Day  

War on Poverty Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1656 Oldest surviving commercial newspaper begins (Haarlem, Netherlands)

1675 1st American commercial corporation chartered (NY Fishing Co)

1700’s                                          

1790 1st US President George Washington delivers 1st state of the union address

1798 11th Amendment ratified, judicial powers construed

1800’s                                          

1806 Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon

1833 Boston Academy of Music, 1st US music school, established

1853 1st US bronze equestrian statue (of Andrew Jackson) unveiled, Washington

1867 African American men granted the right to vote in Washington, D.C. despite President Andrew Johnson's veto

1877 Crazy Horse and his warriors fight their last battle with the United States Cavalry at Wolf Mountain (Montana Territory).

1900’s                                          

1912 Chiefs, representatives of people's and church organizations, and other prominent individuals form the African National Congress and declare its aim to bring all Africans together as one people to defend their rights and freedoms

1918 Mississippi becomes 1st state to ratify 18th amendment (prohibition of alcohol) of the US Constitution

1940 Britain's 1st WW II rationing (bacon, butter & sugar)

1951 Thought extinct since 1615, a Cahow (the Bermuda petrel) is rediscovered in Bermuda

1958 Cuban revolutionary forces capture Havana

1963 "Mona Lisa", on loan, unveiled in America's National Gallery of Art

1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson declares "War on Poverty"

1965 Star of India returned to American Museum of Natural History

1966 The Who & the Kinks perform on the last "Shindig" TV show on ABC

1968 Jacques Cousteau's 1st undersea special on US network TV

1971 Voyageurs National Park, Minn, established

1982 AT&T agrees to divest itself of 22 Bell System companies

1985 Japan launches Sakigake space probe to Halley's Comet

1992 George H. W. Bush gets ill & vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap

1993 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan scores his 20,000th career point

1993 Elvis Presley Commemorative Postage Stamp goes on sale

1996 Blizzard buries eastern US causing at least 50 deaths

1998 Unabomber suspect Ted Kaczynski asks to act as his own lawyer

2000’s                                          

2002 President George W. Bush signs into law the No Child Left Behind Act.

2008 New Jersey officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so.

2011 Attempted assassination of Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and subsequent shooting in Casas Adobes, Arizona at a Safeway grocery store kills 6 and wounds 13, including Giffords

2013 Steve Nash records his 10,000th career assist against Houston

2016 Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announces the recapture of drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, six months after he escaped prison

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My Rambling Thoughts

Amazing, we had rain last night…not running down the streets rain, but rain none the less…in January! Vehicles were covered with a thin coat of ice this morning.

Catching up on my DVR’d weekly shows. Just a nice quiet Sunday. Having comfort food for dinner…beef and noodles. A great meal for a cool evening.

So Bannon ‘apologized’ for his quotes in THE book. Didn’t say he was wrong, or that he was misquoted, just that he was sorry for what was published. Hmmm. That makes me feel better…NOT.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90- Alfred Russel Wallace,

British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of evolution

through natural selection,

born in Usk, Monmouthshire, Wales

(d. 1913)

80’s

@86- Evelyn Wood, 

          American educator, speed reading course (d. 1995)

@83- Soupy Sales, [Milton Hines],

comedian (Soupy Sales Show)

(d. 2009)

81- Shirley Bassey,

singer (Goldfinger, Moonraker)

born in Cardiff Wales

@80- José Ferrer,

Puerto Rican actor and director (Blood Tide, Dune),

born in San Juan, Puerto Rico

(d. 1992)

80- Bob Eubanks,

TV host (Newlywed Game),

born in Flint, Michigan

70’s

79- Carolina Herrera,

fashion designer, humanitarian

77- Little Anthony [Anthony Gourdine],

American rhythm and blues singer (Little Anthony and the Imperials

-Goin' Out of My Head),

born in Brooklyn

76- Stephen Hawking,

English physicist (Black Holes & Baby Universes),

born in Oxford, England

@72- Philip Astley,

English 'Father of the Modern Circus',

born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, England

(d. 1814)

@72- Frank Nelson Doubleday,

publisher/founder (Doubleday & Co)

(d. 1934)

60’s

@69- David Bowie [Jones],

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

born in London

liver cancer (d. 2016)

@67- William Hartnell,

original Dr. Who

(d. 1975)

50’s

51- R. Kelly [Robert Sylvester Kelly],

American R&B singer (I Wish I Could Fly),

born in Chicago, Illinois

40’s

@42- Elvis Presley,

American singer and King of Rock and Roll 

(Blue Suede Shoes, Hounddog),

born in Tupelo Mississippi

OD (d. 1977)

30’s

35- Kim Jong-un,

Supreme Leader of North Korea (2011-),

born in Pyongyang

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-2007 Yvonne De Carlo,

Canadian-born actress (10 Commandments, Lily-Munsters)

@83-1941 Robert Baden-Powell,

British founder of the Boy Scout movement

70’s

@79-1996 Francois Mitterrand,

President of France (1981-95),

cancer

@78-1994 Pat Buttram,

actor (Haney-Green Acres),

kidney failure

@78-1992 Menachim Begin,

Israeli PM,

heart attack

@78-1990 Terry-Thomas [Thomas Terry Stevens],

British actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World),

Parkinson's disease

@77-1976 Zhou Enlai,

Premier of the People's Republic of China,

bladder cancer

@77-1642 Galileo Galilei,

Italian physicist/astronomer

60’s

@69-2002 Dave Thomas,   

American fast food entrepreneur,

liver cancer (d. 2002)

@69-1324? Marco Polo,

Venetian explorer

50’s

@59-1825 Eli Whitney,

American inventor (Cotton Gin),

prostate cancer

@57-1938 Johnny Gruelle,

American cartoonist, creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy

heart failure

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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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