Mar 15

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Mar 15, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 74

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 35% 

Wind ave.:   17mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  371 miles away

Record High: 72°[2007]   Record Low: -3°[1962]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

A will finds a way.

   Orison Swett Marden

Harper’s Index

1:1.35-Ratio of Russian wealth held offshore in 2015 to the

            countries national income.

1/2-Portion of Russians who have seen no economic growth

since the fall of the Soviet Union

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

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

Brutus Day
Companies That Care Day  Link
Buzzards Day Link
Dumbstruck Day

Everything You Think is Wrong Day

Ides of March
International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter  Link
National Farm Rescuer Day Link 

National Shoe The World Day
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day Link
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

BC’s                                              

≈44 BC Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March in Rome

1800’s                                          

1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union

1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university

1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)

1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)

1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)

1900’s                                          

≈1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote

1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination

1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)

1945 17th Academy Awards: "Going My Way", Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman win

1951 UN forces recapture Seoul, the fourth and final time the city changes hands in the Korean War

≈1957 Great Britain becomes the third nation to explode a nuclear bomb

1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)

1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC

1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles

1968 LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"

1972 "The Godfather", based on the book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1973)

1985 The first Internet domain name, symbolics.com is registered

1989 US Department of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position

≈1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet

2000’s                                          

2016 Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1

2017 Disney refuses to cut gay moment in film "Beauty and the Beast" for Malaysian censors, instead pulls film from Malaysia

≈2017 French fashion house Givenchy appoints it first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice day outside. Did my weekly Sam’s Club trip this morning. All good. Another storm is a brewin’, just in time for the weekend. Time will tell how much moisture actually arrives.  Wind should be picking up tonight.

Can’t keep up with the revolving door at the WH. Guess I will catch up when and if things settle down. Not excited that the suggested new head of CIA was the lady in charge of a ‘black ops’ site where the CIA was waterboarding.

Saddened to hear of the passing of Stephen Hawking at 76, on the same date Albert Einstein was born, who also passed at 76. Hmmm

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

85- Ruth Bader Ginsburg,

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States,

born in Brooklyn

83- Judd Hirsch,

actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People),

born in The Bronx

70’s

78- Andrew Jackson,

7^th US President

dropsy (d. 1845)

75- Sly Stone,

funk musician (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People),

born in Denton, Texas

@73- Saint Nicholas [Nikolaos of Myra],

Greek Bishop who became the model for Santa Claus,

born in Patara, Asia Minor

(d. 343)

60’s

@68- Joe E. Ross,

American actor and comedian (Car 54),

born in Brooklyn

heart attack (d. 1982)

61- Park Overall,

American actress (Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning),

born in Nashville

50’s

59- Fabio,

model

55- Bret Michaels,

rock singer (Poison)

40’s

43- Eva Longoria,

American actress (Gabrielle Solis in Desperate Housewives),

born in Corpus Christi

43- Will.i.am, American musician

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-1998 Benjamin Spock,

American pediatrician and writer

60’s

@69-1975 Aristotle S Onassis,

Greek shipping magnate,

myasthenia gravis

@62-2009 Ron Silver,

American actor (Reversal of Fortune, Timecop),

cancer

50’s

@55-44 BC Julius Caesar,

Roman military and political figure,

stabbed to death

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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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