Feb 19

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Feb 19, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 50

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 70% 

Wind ave.:   23mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1981]   Record Low: -11°[1942]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain,

comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

  Erma Bombeck

Harper’s Index

28-Percentage decline since 1970 in the portion of US homicides in which charges are filed

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Observances This 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

17-24

National Entrepreneurship Week Link
National FFA Week Link

18-24

Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link

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Observances for Today

Best Friends Day  Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants)
National Chocolate Mint Day Link
National Lashes Day Link
President's Day
Iwo Jima Day (Landing)

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1600 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history

1800’s                                          

1807 US Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted

1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania

1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio

1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his gramophone (phonograph)

1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

1900’s                                          

1906 Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's

1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area

1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box

1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines

1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts

1963 USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

1963 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published

1968 1st US teachers' strike (Florida)

1968 "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)

1973 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)

1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18

1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million

1984 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

1987 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland

2000’s                                          

2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

2008 Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video formatting, ending the format war between it and Sony's Blu-Ray Disc

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My Rambling Thoughts

A storm is abrewin’ and the wind makes outside activities almost impossible.

After several days of fiddling around and waiting for new documents, I finally took the time this morning to update the Focus Travel site. Some great trips are coming up for those with the travel bug. Check it out, it is worth a look.

President’s Day is a day to honor our many Presidents. As I was growing up we all made silhouettes of Washington and Lincoln. The idea of President’s Day is a better idea. Students have an opportunity to learn about all our presidents. Certainly, some presidents stand out improving our country. None were perfect. None have been total failure.  Enjoy President’s Day by learning about our Presidents. NOTE: President Day Sales have nothing to do with our highest office. Haha.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

78- Smokey [William] Robinson,

American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles),

born in Detroit

75- Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco],

American singer-songwriter (Lightning Striking Again)

born in Glenwillard, PA

@71- Cedric Hardwicke,

British stage actor

(Rope, Suspicion, Peter Pan, Richard III)

born in Lye, Worcestershire, England

emphysema (d. 1964)

@70- Nicolaus Copernicus,

Polish mathematician and astronomer 

theorized that planets revolve around the sun (Heliocentric

theory),

born in Toruń, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland

apoplexy (d. 1543)

60’s

@67- Richard "Dick" Emery,

British comedian and actor

(Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love),

born in London, England

heart failure (d. 1983)

66- Amy Tan,

American novelist

@63- Lee Marvin,

American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou),

born in NYC

heart attack (d. 1987)

63- Jeff Daniels,

actor

50’s

59- Roger Goodell,

American NFL Commissioner,

born in Jamestown, NY

55- Seal (Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel),

English singer-songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose),

born in London

51- Benicio Del Toro,

actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)

born in Puerto Rico

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-1997 Deng Xiaoping,

Chinese revolutionary

paramount leader of China (1978-92)

80’s

@89-2016 [Nelle] Harper Lee,

American author (To Kill a Mockingbird)

@87-2001 Stanley Kramer,

American producer/director (Inherit the Wind)

@84-1998 Grandpa Jones,

country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw)

@81-1951 Andre Gide,

French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)

@80-1568 Miles Coverdale,

translator (1st complete English Bible)

70’s

@78-1962 Georgios Papanikolaou,

Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear

60’s

@64-2003 Johnny PayCheck,

American country singer/songwriter

asthma

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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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