Apr. 1

Happy Easter

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Apr 1, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 91

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Nearest Lightning:  1586 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1966]   Record Low: 2°[1970]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Change in the world comes from individuals, from the inner peace in individual hears. Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

  Dali Lama

Harper’s Index

1/2  Estimated portion of Internet users in China

who have livestreamed themselves.

560,000  Number of teenagers who participated in the

Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in 2017

NEW Observances This Month

Adopt A Ferret Month
Adopt A Greyhound Month Link
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Arab American Heritage Month Link

Observances This Week

1-7

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Bat Appreciation Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
National Blue Ribbon Week  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link 
World Hula Week
Explore Your Career Options

Observances for Today

April Fool's Day or All Fools Day
Atheist Day Link
Boomer Bonus Days
Easter Sunday  for Christians
International Fun at Work Day

International Tatting Day Link
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Fun Day
Plum Pudding Day Link 
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day Link
US Air force Academy Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1693 Cotton Mather's four-day-old son dies, and witchcraft is blamed

1700’s                                          

✪1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre

1778 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol

1800’s                                          

1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to employ fulltime professional firefighters

1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect

✪1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris

1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)

✪1891 French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti

1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

1900’s                                          

✪1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government

1916 1st US national women's swimming championships held

✪1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated 

1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice

1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo

✪1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2

✪1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow

1954 US Air Force Academy established

✪1966 Loyalist led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee to challenge the civil rights movement; it set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers

1967 The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.

✪1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California

✪1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama

1991 US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race

2000’s                                          

✪2002 The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.

✪2004 Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date.

✪2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

✪2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm

My Rambling Thoughts

I’m looking forward to our local paper tomorrow. Every year they have a great April Fool’s story for locals.

Speaking of April Fool’s Pranks, I remember when KOA Denver radio did apiece on taking the gold leaf off the Capitol building to pay its debts (back in the 70’s), and the 50’s video announcing a bumper spaghetti crop because of a hard working women in Switzerland…it even showed Italian women picking spaghetti off their ancient spaghetti trees during better times.

And Happy Easter to all my Christian friends.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@84- Debbie Reynolds,

American actress

(Kathy Selden-Singin' in the Rain,

The Unsinkable Molly Brown),

born in El Paso, Texas

(d. 2016)

@84- Stan Weston,

US toy licensing agent,

had concept for G.I. Joe,

born in Brooklyn

(d. 2017)

@83- Otto von Bismarck,

German chancellor (1866-90)

helped unify Germany,

born in Schönhausen, Prussia

(d. 1898)

70’s

@79- William Harvey,

English physician (discovered blood circulation),

born in Folkestone, Kent

(d. 1657)

@71- Gordon Jump,

actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains),

born in Dayton, Ohio

respiratory failure (d. 2003)

@71- Wangari Maathai,

Kenyan environmentalist and political activist,

founder of the Green Belt Movement,

recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) and

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2006),

born in Ihithe village, Kenya

ovarian cancer (d. 2011)

60’s

68- Samuel Alito,

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

61- Andreas Deja,

major animator at Disney

50’s

57- Susan Boyle,

singer

@56- Edgar Wallace,

English novelist, playwright and

journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men)

created King Kong,

born in Greenwich, England

sudden severe headaches(d. 1932)

40’s

@47- Lon Chaney,

American actor, "man of 1000 faces"

(High Noon, Phantom of Opera)

born in Colorado Springs, CO

hemorrhage (d. 1930)

45- Rachel Maddow,

American radio personality and political analyst

Historical Obits Today

100’s

@101-2004 Aaron Bank,

American OSS officer and

founder of the US Army Special Forces

90’s

@92-1965 Helena Rubinstein,

Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer

50’s

@58-2004 Carrie Snodgress,

American actress (Diary of Mad Housewife),

liver/heart failure

40’s

@48-1917 Scott Joplin,

ragtime composer (The Entertainer),

syphilitic dementia

@45-1950 Charles R. Drew,

American surgeon (developer of the blood bank concept),

car crash 

@44-1984 Marvin Gaye,

singer (Sexual Healing), 

shot by his father

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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼