Mar 24

FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

Mar 24, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 83

86004 Today: H 58° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

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

Nearest Lightning:  356 miles away

Record High: 70°[1956]   Record Low: 0°[1904]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

Today’s Quote

Truth is strong,

and sometime or other will prevail.

  Mary Astell

Harper’s Index

40,000,000-Acres of US land that have been contaminated

          by DOD munitions disposal

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

Observances This Week

18-24

American Chocolate Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Professionals Week Link
National Button Week Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week

19-25

Act Happy Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link
National Fix A Leak Week  Link

National Introverts Week Link
Wellderly Week

20-4/5

National Cherry Blossom Festival

21-27

Internat’l Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

23-25

American Crossword Puzzles Week

24-4/1

World Irish Dancing Week1

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

Observances for Today

Be Mad Day
Earth Hour Link 
Endometriosis March Day Link  
National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day Link
International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross

   Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of Victims
Take Your Parents To The Playground Day  Link 
Violations and for Dignity of Victims Link
World Tuberculosis Day

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

≈1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.

1800’s                                          

1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio

≈1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote

≈1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

1900’s                                          

1934 U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent after a period of 10 years

1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress

1947 John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

1955 Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances

1958 Elvis Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)

1960 US appeals court rules novel "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" not obscene

≈1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys

1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued

1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska

1997 69th Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Geoffrey Rush and Frances McDormand win

1998 Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.

2000’s                                          

≈2013 Scotland defeats Sweden to win the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship

≈2016 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić found guilty of genocide during 1995 Srebrenica massacre, sentenced to 40 years

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday a got a good report for my required Medicare annual physical…just drink more water and eat more whole grains. Then I had lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl didn’t make it, but Mary and I had a good time. Picked up my malaria pills for my trip…not happy because they are individual packaged pills, but I’ll live with it. Dr. forgot to call in my Ciprol, my just in case med, so will have to call back the next time I need to renew another script.  I also found out that the receptionist at my PCP is the daughter of a former teacher I worked with in Tuba. I’ve seen her for 3 years and she never said a word, then yesterday she says, ‘you just missed my dad’ and explained who he was. I looked outside but he was already gone. She said she knew it was me since I started coming in, but because of HEPA rules didn’t say anything. Oh well, now I know. She was in elementary school when her dad worked with me. She said he was doing well. I run into him on occasion at various stores here.

Headed out early to pick up a few things I need for the weekend. Quick trip, but the wind made it seem much longer.

When I got back 45’s wife was giving out some awards on the TV. After it was over all the news people were talking about how upset she seemed, following the recent interviews of her husband’s sexual antics. As an unmarried male, I don’t understand why she stays…but then again, in this case, I don’t understand her reason for being the 3^rd wife. Maybe it is love, maybe it was his money, maybe it was just an escape from Slovenia. I worked with many strong Native women during my career. Most were not married, most had kids, most just didn’t see a need for a ‘husband’. But that was a matriarchal culture.

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Joseph Barbera,

American animator (Hanna-Barbera - Tom and Jerry),

born in Manhattan

(d. 2006)

80’s

@82- Andrew Mellon,

American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and

Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32),

born in Pittsburgh

(d. 1947)

70’s

78- Bob Mackie,

designer (Streisand, Cher)

@74- Norman Fell,

American actor (Three's Company, The End, Graduate),

born in Philadelphia

bone marrow cancer

(d. 1998)

@71- Edmond Becquerel,

French physicist who studied the solar spectrum,

magnetism, electricity and optics (photovoltaic effect),

born in Paris, France

(d. 1891)

71- Alan Sugar,

English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad),

 born in Hackney, London

60’s

@68- Thomas E. Dewey,

Governor of NY and

Republican presidential candidate (1944, 1948),

born in Owosso, Michigan

heart attack (d. 1971)

67- Tommy Hilfiger,

American fashion designer,

born in Elmira, NY

50’s

56- Star Jones,

attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)

@52- Harry Houdini [Erich Weiss],

Famous magician and escape artist,

born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary

peritonitis (d. 1926)

50- Steve McQueen,

American actor 

(The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape),

born in Beech Grove, Indiana

cancer (d. 1980)

40’s

@46- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle,

American actor

(The Bell Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies),

born in Smith Center, Kansas

heart attack (d. 1933)

45- Jim Parsons,

actor (The Big Bang Theory),

born in Houston, Texas

42- Peyton Manning,

American football quarterback

(Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos),

born in New Orleans

30’s

32-Valentin Chmerkovskiy,

dancer (DWTS)

20’s

@25- Clyde Barrow,

American bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame),

born in Ellis County, Texas

shot (d. 1934)

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2008 Richard Widmark,

American actor

(Madigan, Murder on the Orient Express,

Judgement at Nuremberg)

@93-1984 Sam Jaffe,

actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)

@92-2016 Earl Hamner Jr,

American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons"

80’s

@88-1976 Bernard Montgomery,

1st Viscount Alamein, British WWII Field Marshal

(African campaign, D-Day) and WWI officer

@85-1953 Mary, [Victoria Mary] of Teck,

Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V

70’s

@79-2010 Robert Culp,

American actor (I Spy)

heart attack while jogging

@77-1905 Jules Verne,

French writer "Father of Science Fiction"

(Around the World in 80 Days),

diabetic complications

@75-1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

American poet (Song of Hiawatha),

peritonitis

@74-2002 César Milstein,

Argentine scientist,

recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine

long term heart condition

60’s

@69-1603 Elizabeth I Tudor,

[Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603),

melancholy

@66-2016 Garry Shandling,

American comedian

(It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show),

pulmonary embolism

50’s

@56-1990 Rene Enriquez,

actor (Hill St Blues),

pancreatic cancer

⌂▲⌂▲⌂▲

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…☼☼☼☼