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Mar 12, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 71

86004 Today: H 53° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind ave.:   12mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1414 miles away

Record High: 72°[190]   Record Low: -1°[1917]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

One who deceives will always find those

who allow themselves to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

Harper’s Index

4:11-Ratio of the number of statures of African Americans to those of Confederates in the US Capitol

3-Factor by which a children’s book is more likely to be about African Americans than written by an African American

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

10-12

World Rattlesnake Roundup

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

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Observances for Today

Fill Our Staplers Day 
Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
Napping Day  

Plant a Flower Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s                                          

≈1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples

≈1365 University of Vienna founded

1400’s                                          

≈1455 First record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year before

1700’s                                          

1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

1800’s                                          

≈1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California

1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued

1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists

1868 US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax

1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women

1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi

1900’s                                          

1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund

1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low

1921 Cairo Conference begins, British meeting to determine Middle Eastern policies, Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence attend

≈1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax

1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"

≈1940 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"

1947 US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

≈1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul

≈1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"

1965 "Wooly Bully" single released by Sam and the Sham and the Pharaohs

≈1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1969 11th Grammy Awards: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell wins best record

≈1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

2000’s                                          

≈2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.

≈2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.

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My Rambling Thoughts

For those of you who are looking for that lost hour of sleep, come to most of AZ where we don’t change time. (Only the Navajo Nation changes time, so people on the Rez have to deal with the time change every time they come to town.)

The rain started yesterday about 3p and it is still raining. It is a nice female rain that is soaking in very nicely. Much needed and much appreciated.

Last night’s discussion was very good. One of our members has been an AIDS volunteer since the outbreak and had some good, yet still sobering statistics. Our Nursing Prof had some very intriguing stories about how Liberia dealt with the Ebola outbreak. I had never considered ‘world health’ a National Security Issue, but that was because of a lack of knowledge. A person who knowingly or unknowingly has a communicable disease and gets on an airplane can infect all on the plane, and everyone that he/she comes in contact with at the destination. That should be at least as concerning as a terrorist trying to sneak a bomb or weapon into this country. Good discussion.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Edward Albee,

American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?),

born in Virginia

(d. 2016)

86- Andrew Young,

US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/

(Mayor-D-Atlanta)

@84- Walter M Schirra Jr,

 Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7),

born in Hackensack, NY

(d. 2007)

70’s

@76- Al Jarreau,

American jazz singer (Moonlighting),

born in Milwaukee

respiratory failure (d. 2017)

73- Sammy "The Bull" Gravano,

American mobster who testified against John Gotti,

born in Brooklyn

72- Liza Minnelli,

American singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret),

born in Hollywood

71- Mitt Romney,

70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts and

presidential candidate,

born in Detroit

70- James Taylor,

vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof),

born in Boston

60’s

68- Jon Provost,

actor (Timmy-Lassie)

@64- Gordon MacRae,

American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel),

born in East Orange, NJ

jaw cancer (d. 1986)

50’s

@57- Jane Delano,

American nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)

(d. 1919)

56- Darryl Strawberry,

baseball right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees),

born in Los Angeles

53- Mike Geier,

comedian (Puddles Pity Party)

40’s

@47- Jack Kerouac,

Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues),

born in Lowell, Mass

abdominal hemorrhage (d. 1969)

30’s

34- Jaimie Alexander,

American Actress (Blindspot),

born in Greenville, SC

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-1989 Maurice Evans,

British actor (Planet of the Apes, Bewitched)

@80-2015 Michael Graves,

American postmodernist architect and designer

70’s

@76-1888 Henry Bergh,

Founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty

to Animals (ASPCA)

60’s

@68±-1563 John Bull,

English composer, musician and organ builder,

credited with composing Britain's national anthem

"God Save The King/Queen" (debated)

@67-1914 George Westinghouse,

American entrepreneur, engineer (Westinghouse Electric)

pioneer of the electrical industry

50’s

@58-1925 Sun Yat-sen,

Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China

liver cancer 

@51-1889 Yohannes IV, [፬ኛ ዮሓንስ ],

Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89)

in battle

teen’s

@15-1945 Anne Frank,

Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust

(Diary of Anne Frank),

typhus in the Belsen concentration camp

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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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