Mar 10

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Mar 10, 2018 Week: 10\ Day: 69

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1941 miles away

Record High: 70°[1989]   Record Low: -9°[1958]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually

get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

Harper’s Index

60-Length in minutes of a weekly break during which employees of a Swedish town are encouraged to have sex

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

4-10

Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week Link
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week  Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week  Link
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Read an E-Book Week Link  Link
Return The Borrowed Books Week0
Save Your Vision Week Link 
Teen Tech Week
Will Eisner Week  Link
Women in Construction Week  Link

5-11

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

8-10

National Money Collectors Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

10-12

World Rattlesnake Roundup

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Observances for Today

Genealogy Day  Link
International Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness Link
Land Line Telephone Day
Mario Day
Middle Name Pride Day

National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day
Salvation Army Day
US Paper Money Day
US Snow Shoe Days: 9-11 Link

Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                          

1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions

1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)

1876 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson

≈1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity

1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching

1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before

1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world Heavyweight championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

1900’s                                          

1902 A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera

1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics

≈1945 Japan grants occupied Vietnam independence

≈1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

1964 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City

1965 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1965)

1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

1978 "The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS

1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)

1997 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" created by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on WB Television Network

2000’s                                          

≈2010 Carlos Slim becomes the first Mexican and person from an emerging economy to top Forbes Richest Person list, with net worth of US$53.5 billion

≈2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy

2015 The family of Marvin Gaye win a record $7.3 million lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I.

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My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful spring like Friday. When I was shopping on Wed. the parking lot at the grocery store was over full. I drove around twice and left. Today I headed out to buy groceries. Plenty of space, quick trip and Artichokes were $1. Glad I waited.

Back in the day, during the Clinton Sex Impeachment, I was overseeing K-4 (about 30 teachers). The whole thing almost tore our staff apart. Some could have cared less. Others figured it was the worst thing to ever happen by a sitting president. Times have changed since then. The Republicans now don’t seem to mind at all that the President is accused of having an affair just after his wife had a baby. I do know some conservatives who are just as appalled by today as they were back in the day. But our elected leaders on the Republican side don’t seem to care. So tired of hypocrisy in politics.

Got my down payment paid for my 2019 Siberian trip. I decided to take out the insurance, just in case 45 decides to mess up the trip.

If our current leader had been the leader a century ago, he would have brought back the blacksmith’s jobs.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Sam Jaffe,

American actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey),

born in NYC,

(d 1984)

70’s

78- Chuck Norris [Carlos Ray],

American martial arts actor (Missing in Action),

 born in Ryan, OK

71- [Avril] Kim Campbell,

Canada's 1st female Prime Minister and 19th overall (1993),

born in Port Alberni, British Columbia

60’s

60- Sharon Stone,

American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino),

born in Meadville, Pennsylvania

50’s

56- Jasmine Guy,

actress (Whitley-Different World),

born in Boston, Mass

@54- Osama bin Laden,

Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda,

born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (d. 2011)

54- Prince Edward [Edward Anthony Richard Louis],

Prince of Britain and son of Elizabeth II,

born in Buckingham Palace

40’s

47- Jon Hamm,

American actor (Mad Men - Don Draper),

born in St. Louis

41- Robin Thicke,

American singer

30’s

35- Carrie Underwood,

American country singer,

born in Muskogee, OK

34- Olivia Wilde,

American actress

20’s

26- Emily Osment,

American actress and singer

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-2016 Gogi Grant, [Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg],

American singer (The Wayward Wind)

@91±-1913 Harriet Tubman [Araminta Ross],

American abolitionist, former slave and humanitarian

(Underground Railroad)

80’s

@85-1998 Lloyd Bridges,

American comedic actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!)

@81-1986 Ray Milland,

Welsh actor (The Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945)

70’s

@78-1988 Glenn Cunningham,

American middle-distance runner (1930's)

@73-1985 Konstantin Chernenko,

General Secretary of the Communist Party of USSR (1984-85),

emphysema

30’s

@30-1988 Andy Gibb,

British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol

(Bee Gees-I Just Want to Be Your Everything),

myocarditis

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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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