Feb 26

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Feb 26, 2018 Week: 09\ Day: 57

86004 Today: H 43° \ L 15° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 71°[1986]   Record Low: -7°[1977]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

They can conquer who believe they can.

  Virgil

Harper’s Index

12-Number of African nations that have used internet blackouts since 2015 to control dissent.

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Observances This Week

25- Mar 3

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Justice for Animals Week Link  Link
Telecommuter Appreciation Week

National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link

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Observances for Today

Carnival Day

For Pete's Sake Day

Levi Strauss Day

National Cupcake Day (Canada) Link
National Personal Chef's Day Link 

National Pistachio Day

Museum Advocacy Day

Tell a Fairy Tale Day

World Pistachio Day  Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

≈1616 Roman Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileodemanding he abandon his belief in heliocentrism

1700’s                                          

1732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, St Joseph's, Philadelphia

1800’s                                          

1834 1st US interstate crime compact (NY-NJ) ratified

1863 Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single national US currency

1869 15th Amendment guaranteeing right to vote sent to states to ratify

1891 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park

1893 2 Clydesdale horses set record by pulling 48 tons on a sledge

1900’s                                          

≈1910 Gandhi supports the African People's Organisations resolution to declare the Prince of Wales day of arrival in South Africa a day of mourning, in protest against the South Africa Acts disenfranchisement of Indians, Coloureds and Africans

1916 Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract

1919 Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine

1929 US President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park

1935 RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt

≈1936 Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"

≈1945 Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force

1954 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass

1962 US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation

≈1971 Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.

≈1980 Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time

1983 Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes #1 and stays #1 for 37 weeks

1993 "World Trade Center bombing of 1993": truck bomb explodes in parking garage of NYC World Trade Center at 12:18pm, killing 6 and injuring over 1,000 in what was the deadliest act of terrorism perpetrated on US soil at the time

1998 Oprah Winfrey found not guilty in beef defamation trial brought by Texas cattlemen

2000’s                                          

≈2005 Hosni Mubarak, President of Egypt, orders the constitution changed to allow multi-candidate presidential elections, asking Egyptian parliament to amend Article 76

≈2006 20th Winter Olympic Games close at Turin, Italy

2013 A flexible battery capable of being charged wirelessly and folded and stretched is developed

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My Rambling Thoughts

Snow is melting, roads are clear. Still a tad chilly. Nice Sunday!

Lots of good information on Sunday news shows. The American people and Congress have so many questions to answer about guns. An interesting study on mental illness showed that we aren’t #1, but we are #1 in gun violence. Other countries do have ‘mass’ killings. In China the weapon of choice is a knife/sword and killings are limited to less than five per incident. Blaming mental illness on the rash of gun violence is going to have many afraid to get help for their problems. The US Supreme Court in the 1930’s-1940’s did allow restrictions on guns. Constitutional experts point out the 2^nd amendment was talking about a militia, not individual citizens. Another question being asked in various first world countries: “Why do Americans allow their children to be killed so often?”

My personal opinion is that NOW is the time for those conversations and that the surviving HS students in Parkland will force us to have those conversations. Better late than never!

Looking forward to an evening of Olympics with the closing ceremony.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- John Harvey Kellogg,

surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry

(d. 1943)

91- Tom Kennedy,

quiz host (You Don't Say, Name That Tune),

born in Louisville, Kentucky

80’s

@89- Antione "Fats" Domino,

American rhythm & blues star of the early rock ’n’ roll era

(Blueberry Hill, Blue Monday),

born in New Orleans

(d. 2017)

@84- Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg],

American actor (Felix-Odd Couple),

born in Tulsa

(d. 2004)

@83- Victor Hugo,

French author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables),

born in Besançon, France

(d. 1885)

70’s

@73- Levi Strauss,

German-born American clothing designer,

born in Buttenheim, Bavaria

(d. 1902)

@72- Robert Alda,

American actor (Supertrain, By Popular Demand),

born in NYC

stroke (d. 1986)

@71- Jackie Gleason,

American comedian (Jackie Gleason Show, Honeymooners),

born in Brooklyn

cancer (d. 1987)

@71- Johnny Cash,

American country singer (I Hear the Train Coming),

born in Kingsland, Arkansas

(d. 2003)
@70- William "Buffalo Bill" Cody,

Wild West hunter and showman (Buffalo Bill's Wild West),

born in Davenport Iowa

(d. 1917)

60’s

65- Michael Bolton,

singer

@64- Herbert Henry Dow,

American chemical industrialist (Dow Chemical),

born in Ontario

cirrhosis (d. 1930)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@97-2017 Joseph Wapner,

American judge (People's Court)

80’s

@86-2015 Earl Lloyd,

1st African American basketball player in NBA
@85-1992 S I Hayakawa,

(Sen-R-California), linguist

60’s

@67-1997 David Doyle,

actor (Charlie's Angels),

heart attack

20’s

@26-1965 Jimmie Lee Jackson,

civil rights activist,

gunshot wounds

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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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