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Mar 18, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 77

86004 Today: H 51° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

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

Nearest Lightning:  569 miles away

Record High: 68°[2004]   Record Low: -1°[1954]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,

and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

Harper’s Index

6-Percentage by which a middle-class American is more

likely than a poor one to eat fast food in a given week

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Observances This Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

16-18

Sherlock Holmes Weekend

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Observances for Today

Awkward Moments Day
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
Goddess of Fertility Day

National Biodiesel Day

Supreme Sacrifice Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s                                          

≈1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake by King Philip IV of France

≈1325 According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms.

1500’s

1541 Hernando de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)

1800’s

1810 "Converse", 1st US opera, premieres in NY

1818 US Congress approves 1st pensions for government service

≈1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform

1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)

1881 Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" opens (Madison Square Garden)

≈1895 200 African Americans leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia

1900’s

1919 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City

≈1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience

1922 The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.

1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)

1944 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store

≈1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified

1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)

1959 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill

≈1972 Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy"

≈1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia

≈1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops

2000’s

2005 Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband

≈2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on Accession

≈2014 US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice day as I await the next storm tonight and tomorrow. Forecasting 2-5” of the white stuff. Not too excited as weather has been changing so rapidly around here, we could easily have another spring day tomorrow with only rain.

The firing of McCabe is surreal and I fear, far from over. I saw a copy of his response. He knows stuff. When will I wake up from this frightful dream? Seem like 423 days and counting should be enough.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Lillian Vernon,

founder and CEO of the Lillian Vernon Corporation

(first company listed on US stock exchange started by a

woman),

born in Leipzig, Germany

(d. 2015)

@87- Cluny MacPherson,

Canadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask,

born in St. John's, Newfoundland

(d. 1966)

@84- Edward Everett Horton,

American actor and narrator (Bulwinkle Show),

born in Brooklyn

(d. 1970)

@83- Peter Graves [Aurness],

American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17),

born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

(d. 2010)

82- F. W. de Klerk,

South African President (1989-94)

winner of 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela,

born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province

70’s

@76- George Plimpton,

sports writer (Paper Lion), born in NYC,

heart attack (d. 2003)

@71- Grover Cleveland,

22nd and 24th US President (1885-89, 1893-97),

born in Caldwell, NJ

heart attack (d. 1908)

@71- [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, 

British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40),

born in Birmingham, England

cancer (d. 1940)

60’s

@68- John C. Calhoun,

Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1825-32),

born in Abbeville, South Carolina

TB (d. 1850)

@67- Edgar Cayce,

American psychic

stroke (d. 1945)

@64- Wilson Pickett,

American R&B singer (Funky Broadway),

born in Prattville, Alabama

heart attack (d. 2006)

50’s

@55- Rudolf Diesel,

French-born German engineer (invented the diesel engine),

born in Paris, France

(disappeared 1913)

@55- Smiley Burnette,

cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)

leukemia (d.1967)

55- Vanessa L Williams,

Actress, singer and

1st African American Miss America (1983)

54- Bonnie Blair,

American speed skater (Olympic 5 gold/bronze 1988, 92, 94)

born in Champaign, Illinois

40’s

48- Queen Latifah,

American rapper and actress (Khadijah James-Living Single),

born in Newark, NJ

46 Reince Priebus [Rheinhold Priebus],

American lawyer and political operative

(Trump Chief of Staff (Jan-Jul 2017),

born in Dover, NJ

30’s

39- Adam Levine,

American singer (Maroon 5),

born in Los Angeles

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-2017 Chuck Berry [Charles Andersen],

American rock n' roll guitarist and singer-songwriter

(Roll over Beethoven)

80’s

@85- Fess Parker,

American actor

@84-2016 Joe Santos,

American actor (Rockford files)

70’s

@79-1980 Erich Fromm,

German/US psychoanalyst

@70-1845 John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed],

American pioneer agronomist

60’s

@69-1964 Norbert Wiener,

American mathematician (cybernetics),

heart attack

40’s

@45-2009 Natasha Richardson,

English actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale),

traumatic brain injury

@45-1965 Farouk I,

last King of Egypt (1936-52),

in exile, heart attack? Poisoned?

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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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