Feb 5

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Feb 5, 2018 Week: 06\ Day: 36

86004 Today: H 61° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 3% 

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  12mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 67°[1963]   Record Low: -21°[1985]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

The roots of all goodness lie in the soil

of appreciation for goodness.

  Dalai Lama

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Observances This Week

1-5

US Snow Sculpting Week

1-7

African Heritage & Health Week
Women's Heart Week

2-4
Cordova Ice Worm Day Link

2-8

Publicity for Profit Week

3-9

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week

4-10

Burn Awareness Week Link 
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

5-11

Children's Mental Health Week Link
National School Counseling Week Link
International Networking Week

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Observances for Today

Adlai Stevenson Day Link
Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
 Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon, PA Day
National Weatherman's Day

Shower With A Friend Day Link
Western Monarch Day Link
World Nutella Day Link
World Animal Reiki Day  Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                          

1428 King Alfonso V, orders Sicily's Jews to attend conversion sermons

1500’s                                          

1597 A group of early Japanese Christians are killed by the new government of Japan for being seen as a threat to Japanese society

1600’s                                          

1631 Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from England

1644 1st US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut

1800’s                                          

1861 Kinematoscope patented by Coleman Sellers, Philadelphia

1869 World's largest alluvial gold nugget, the Welcome Stranger, found by John Deason and Richard Oates (weighting 97.14kg) in Moliagul, Australia

1870 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia

1881 Phoenix, Arizona incorporates

1887 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy

1900’s                                          

1904 American occupation of Cuba ends

1922 Reader's Digest magazine 1st published

1936 National Wildlife Federation forms

1948 Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating Olympic champion

1956 7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy

1967 "Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS (later ABC, NBC)

1971 Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands near Fra Mauro Alan Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on Moon for 4 hrs

1972 US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage

1973 Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible" by Dik Browne debuts

1981 Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane

1981 Joni Mitchell inducted into the Canadian Hall of Fame

1983 Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie brought to trial

1988 Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Republican Governor Evan Mecham

1989 Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to score 38,000 points

1996 British supermarket chains stock genetically modified tomato puree - the first GM food to be sold in the country

1997 O.J. Simpson found liable in the deaths of Ron Goldman & Nicole Simpson in a civil court action

2000’s                                          

2004 Twenty-Three Chinese people drown when a group of 35 cockle-pickers are trapped by rising tides in Morecambe Bay, England. Twenty-one bodies are recovered.

2013 UK House of Commons votes in favor of same-sex marriage

2016 Computer hackers try to steal 1 billion from Federal Reserve Bank of New York using Bangladesh banking codes, steal 81 million before a typo alerts authorities

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My Rambling Thoughts

Our discussion group had a great meeting on Pax Americana. Since WWII the US has been the leader of the world. However, much of this leadership has come from giving money and business to countries who agree with us with the promise of protection from others. We have assisted in overthrowing governments that did not agree to our terms. Unless there is a big change in DC, we are rapidly losing our influence. The TPP is going to happen without the US and this will hurt American business. Neither Canada nor Mexico is happy about redoing the NAFTA and may refuse, again hurting American farmers and manufacturing. China is continuing to pour money into Africa, without much from the US. For decades it has been the US that buys friends with things they need. Now another country is doing this. Since I didn’t know much about Pax Americana I hit the internet machine…where we all know is only truthful information. That said, Pax Americana is not a popular concept on the machine. So nice to have a discussion group that opens minds and informs.

Some friends are stopping by for the Super Bowl. Guess I’ll be an Eagles fan since the Broncos didn’t make it this year.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Red Buttons [Aaron Chwatt],

American comedian

actor (Sayonara, Five Weeks in a Balloon),

born in NYC

(d. 2006)

84- Henry 'Hank' Aaron, Mobile Alabama, baseball player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP)

70’s

@76- Hiram Stevens Maxim,

inventor (automatic single-barrel rifle)

(d. 1916)

76- Roger Staubach,

NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys)

75- Craig Morton,

NFL quarterback (Dallas, Denver),

born in Flint, Michigan

@74- Cory Wells [Emil Lewandowski],

American rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World),

born in Buffalo, NY

blood infection (d. 2015)

74- Nolan Bushnell,

American electrical engineer (founded Atari, created Pong),

born in Clearfield, Utah

60’s

@69- Stephen J Cannell,

producer (Rockford Files)

melanoma (d. 2015)

@65- Adlai E Stevenson II,

(Gov-D-Ill), presidential candidate (D) (1952, 1956)

heart attack (d. 1965)

@62- Robert "Bobbie" Peel, 

British Prime Minister founder of the British Conservative

Party and

founder of the modern police force (Bobbies),

born in Ramsbottom, England  fall from horse

(d. 1850)

50’s

53- Duff McKagan,

bassist ‘Guins & Roses’

30’s

33- Cristiano Ronaldo,

Portuguese footballer (Real Madrid),

born in Funchal, Portgual

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-1967 Leon Leonwood Bean,

American outdoor store founder

@90-2008 Maharishi Mahesh Yogi,

Indian guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation

80’s

@87±-1991 Dean Jagger,

American actor (White Christmas, Vanishing Point)

@85-1881 Thomas Carlyle, 

historian/essayist

@84-1972 Marianne Moore,

US poetess (Pulitzer 1951)

60’s

@66-1969 Thelma Ritter,

American actress (All About Eve, Pillow Talk),

heart attack

@61-1981 Ella Grasso,

Governor of Connecticut

ovarian cancer

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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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