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Mar 6, 2018 Week: 10\ Day: 65

86004 Today: H 40° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

                      Feels like 31°

Wind ave.:   15mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  902 miles away

Record High: 68°[1910]   Record Low: -2°[1935]

Marb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Happiness is not something ready made.

It comes from your own actions.

  Dalai Lama

Harper’s Index

2-Number of New York Times articles labeled ‘fake news’

by a Russian Foreign Ministry website in the month

after it’s launch.

1/5-Portion of Americans The Onion is a credible news source

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Observances This Week

1-7

National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Pet Sitters Week Link
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

3-9

Endometriosis Week 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

5-9

National School Breakfast Week

5-11

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

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Observances for Today

Day of The Dude Link
Dentist's Day

National Dress Day  Link
National Frozen Food Day

Oreo Cookie Day Link
Peace Corps Day Link 
Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day  Link
Unique Names Day  link  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

≈1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam

1600’s                                          

1646 Joseph Jenkes receives the 1st patent in North America for making scythes from the General Court of Massachusetts

1800’s                                          

1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard

1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US

1831 Edgar Allan Poe removed from West Point military academy

1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett

≈1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice

1857 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens

≈1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian Chemical Society

1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, Massachusetts

≈1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer

1900’s                                          

1900 After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist Party in 1901)

1902 Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by Congress

1921 Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee

1930 Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food

1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the first modern trampoline

1950 Silly Putty goes on sale in the US

≈1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK

1964 Boxing legend Cassius Clay publicly announces his conversion to Islam, changing his name to "Muhammad Ali" calling his former title a "slave name"

1965 "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 performances

1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford

1966 Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)

≈1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK

1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia

≈1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)

1981 Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"

1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I"

1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President George H. W. Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

≈1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.

≈1998 First time the British Union Flag is flown over Buckingham Palace (following the controversy after Princess Dian's death; formerly the only flag flown was the Sovereign's standard indicating the monarch's presence.)

2000’s                                          

2001 US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency circumstances

2006 South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.

≈2015 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam

2017 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but leaves out Iraq

≈2017 Wikileaks publishes "Vault 7" CIA documents detailing its hacking and surveillance techniques

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- F. Burrall Hoffman,

American architect: Villa Vizcaya (d. 1980)

92- Alan Greenspan,

American economist, presidential advisor and

Chairman of the Federal Reserve (1987-2006),

born in New York City

80’s

@88- Michelangelo,

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and

poet of the High Renaissance

(David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel),

born in Caprese, Tuscany

(d. 1564)

@87- Gabriel García Márquez,

Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter

and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in Literature),

born in Aracataca, Colombia

(d. 2014)

@86- Ed McMahon,

American TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search),

born in Detroit,

(d. 2009)

81- Valentina Tereshkova,

Soviet cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6),

born in Maslennikovo, Russia

@80-George Dayton,

businessman, founder of  now Target

70’s

@77- Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr,

USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)

Parkinson’s (d. 2004)

72- David Gilmour,

English rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall),

born in Cambridge, England

1946 Martin Kove,

American actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey),

born in Brooklyn

71- Rob Reiner,

actor and director (All in the Family, Stand By Me),

born in The Bronx

 60’s

@63- John Smith,

US actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men),

born in Los Angeles,

cirrhosis (d. 1995)

50’s

59- Tom Arnold, [Mr Roseanne Barr Arnold],

actor (Tom, True Lies)

@55- Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

English poet("Sonnets from the Portuguese"),

born in Kelloe, Durham

long declining health (d. 1861)

55- D.L. Hughley,

American comedian and actor

@52- Lou Costello,

American comedian and actor

(The Abbott and Costello Show),

born in Paterson, New Jersey

heart attack (d. 1959)

40’s

46- Shaquille O'Neal, 

NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Olympic gold 1996),

born in Newark, New Jersey

30’s

@36- Cyrano de Bergerac,

French playwright (Voyage to the Moon),

known for his large nose

injury? disease?(d. 1655)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@98-1986 Georgia O'Keeffe,

American sculptor/painter (Flowers)

@94-2016 Nancy Reagan [Anne Francis Robbins],

US First Lady (1981-89)

@93-1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, American jurist

80’s

@84-2017 Robert Osborne,

American film historian (Turner Classic Movies)

70’s

@77-1982 Ayn Rand [Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum],

Russian-American author, screenwriter and philosopher

developed the philosophical system of "Objectivism"

(Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead),

heart failure

@77-1932 John Philip Sousa,

US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever)

60’s

@65-1967 Nelson Eddy,

US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera),

stroke

50’s

@55-1970 William Hopper,

American actor

(Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel Without a Cause),

 pneumonia following a stroke

@55-1888 Louisa May Alcott,

American author (Little Women)

stroke 

40’s

@49-1836 Davy Crockett,

American frontiersman, adventurer and politician,

killed at the Battle of the Alamo

30’s

@39-1836 Jim Bowie,

American pioneer and soldier

shot at Alamo

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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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