Feb 16

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Feb 16, 2018 Week: 07\ Day: 47

86004 Today: H 53° \ L 21° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1977]   Record Low: -3°[1990]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and

the water caught fire.

  Pamela Hansford Johnson

Harper’s Index

2.5-Average number of months each year that an island is submerged underwater

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Observances This Week

11-17

Celebration of Love Week Link 
Children of Alcoholics Week Link
International Friendship Week Link
Jell-O Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link 

International Flirting Week

12-16

National Green Week Link

12-18

Love a Mensch Week

14-21

National Condom Week Link
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

15-19

American Association For The Advancement of Science Week  Link

16-25

Date (Fruit) Week

16-19

Great Backyard Bird Count Link

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Observances for Today

Chinese New Years 

Do a Grouch a Favor Day
Kyoto Protocol Day Link
Losar-Tibet’s New Year Link
National Almond Day  Link
National Caregivers Day Link ay)
Tartar Sauce Day  Link (1^st Fri. of Lent)
Westminster Dog Show  Link

World Information Architecture Day Link  Link 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

600’s                                            

600 Pope Gregory the Great decrees saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze

1600’s                                          

1659 1st known cheque (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)

1700’s                                          

1760 Native American hostages killed in Fort Prince George, South Carolina

1800’s                                          

1838 Weenen Massacre: Hundreds of Voortrekkers along the Blaukraans River, Natal are killed by Zulu warriors

1840 American Charles Wilkes discovers Shackleton Ice Shelf, Antarctica

1852 Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile manufacturer, is established.

1857 Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms in Washington, D.C.

1862 Fort Donelson is captured by General Ulysses S. Grant following the surrender of around 12,000 Confederate soldiers

1878 Silver dollar became US legal tender

1880 American Society of Mechanical Engineers forms (NYC)

1883 "Ladies Home Journal" begins publishing

1900’s                                          

1900 1st Chinese daily newspaper in US publishes (Chung Sai Yat Po, San Francisco)

1923 Howard Carter opens the inner burial chamber of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun's tomb and finds the sarcophagus

1936 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

1937 DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers

1943 Sign on Munich facade: "Out with Hitler! Long live freedom!" done by "White Rose" student group, caught on 2/18, beheaded on 2/22

1968 US 1st 911 phone system went into service in Haleyville, Alabama

1968 Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"

1972 Wilt Chamberlain hit 30,000 point mark during a game with Phoenix Suns

1985 The founding of Hezbollah.

2000’s                                          

2005 The Kyoto Protocol comes into force following its ratification by Russia.

2006 The last Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) is decommissioned by the United States Army

2016 China announces it will relocate 9,000 people in Guizhou province, before completion of world's largest telescope (FAST), designed to look for extraterrestrial life

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My Rambling Thoughts

When I went to bed last night it was snowing hard. When I got up there was zero snow on the ground. Crazy winter. Still partially overcast but the weatherman who said that we would have 2-4” last night, says there will be no accumulation today. I have to keep telling myself that it is winter.

Still working on the Focus site. Got an email that says she is still tracking down the original word documents. I added a little today, but will wait for the rest. I am baffled by this glitch. With most programs one can change the format, save it, open it again, change the format back and save it and one now has 2 ‘originals’ in two different formats. For some reason, pdf makes some changes that can’t be undone back to the word format. Just baffled.

All the news networks are spending time talking about how change has to come to our gun culture. This is actually a good development. I haven’t heard anyone say “It’s too soon.” However, there are still lots talking about how careful change has to be so that we don’t infringe on anyone’s gun rights…even if that person wants to kill kids. Just shaking my head.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@85- Ernst Haeckel,

German philosopher (Social Darwinism),

born in Potsdam, Prussia

(d. 1919)

70’s

@75- Edgar Bergen,

ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy),

born in Chicago,

kidney disease (d. 1978)

@73- Hugh Beaumont,

American actor (The Mole People, Leave it to Beaver),

born in Lawrence, Kansas

heart attack(d. 1982)

@70- Kim Jong-il,

Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011),

born in Vyatskoye, Soviet Union

[disputed birth place and birth date, 1941]

heart attack(d. 2011)

60’s

@67 Robert Flaherty,

Father of documentary film (Nanook of North),

born in Iron Mountain, Michegan

(d. 1951)

67- William Katt,

American actor (Greatest American Hero, Carrie),

born in Los Angeles

@62- Sonny Bono,

vocalist (Sonny & Cher)/(Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98),

born in Detroit,

ski accident (d. 1998)

61- LeVar Burton,

actor (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation)

born in Landstuhl, Germany

60- Ice-T [Tracy Marrow],

American rapper and actor

(New Jack City, Tank Girl, Crazy Six),

born in Newark, NJy

50’s

59- John McEnroe,

American tennis great (US Open 1979-81,

84 Wimbeldon 1981, 83, 84),

born in Wiesbaden, W Germany

40’s

@42- Margaux Hemingway,

actress (Lipstick, They Call Me Bruce),

born in Portland, Ore

suicide (d. 1996)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2016 Boutros Boutros-Ghali,

Egyptian politician and

6th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1992- 96)

@92-2011 Alfred Burke,

British actor

(Public Eye, Backfire, Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets)

60’s

@68-2015 Lesley Gore,

American singer (It's My Party, You Don't Own Me),

lung cancer

50’s

@55-1967 Smiley Burnette,          

cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction),

leukemia

30’s

@31-1990 Keith Haring,

American graffiti artist (brilliant baby),

AIDS

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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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