Apr 11

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Apr 11, 2018 Week: 15\ Day: 101

86004 Today: H 72° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

RED FLAG WARNING until Wed. @ 8p

Nearest Lightning:  661 miles away

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 75°[1907]   Record Low: 10°[1945]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Cherish all your happy moments;

they make a fine cushion for old age.

  Booth Tarkington

Harper’s Index

22

Percentage of Asian-American doctors who have had a patient request a different physician because of their ethnicity

More Observances This Month

Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful  Link
Library Snapshot Month
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month Link

Observances This Week

7-13

National Dental Hygienest Week Link

7-15

National Robotics Week Link

8-14

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link
National Crime Victims Rights Week  Link
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week Link
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week  Link  

9-13

American Indian Awareness Week Link

9-15

National Library Week 
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link

Barbershop Quartet Day
Eight Track Tape Day

International "Louie Louie" Day
National Bookmobile Day Link
National Pet Day Link  Link
National Teach Children To Save Day
Submarine Day Link
World Parkinson's Disease Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

✪1689 William III & Mary II crowned as joint rulers of England, Scotland and Ireland

1800’s                                          

✪1814 Napoleon abdicates unconditionally; he is exiled to Elba

1865 Abraham Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction

1881 Spelman College founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in basement of Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta

1900’s                                          

1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy

✪1912 The UK Parliament introduce a Irish home rule bill, granting Ireland its own bicameral parliament and be required to send a representative to the British House of Commons; Protestants in Ulster resist

✪1914 Mexican President Huerta breaks off diplomatic relations with the US

1951 US President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas McArthur of command in Korea

1953 US Department of Health, Education and Welfare created

1955 "Marty" directed by Delbert Mann and starring Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair premieres in New York (Best Picture 1956)

1956 Singer Nat Cole attacked on stage of Birmingham theater in racial incident

✪1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes in World War II begins in Jerusalem, Israel

1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr

1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act

✪1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days

✪1976 The Apple I computer, created by Steve Wozniak is released

✪1979 Tanzanian army captures Kampala, the capital of Uganda forcing Ugandan dictator Idi Amin to flee into exile in Libya

1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment

1983 55th Academy Awards: "Gandhi", Ben Kingsley& Meryl Streep win

1984 Challenger astronauts complete 1st in space satellite repair

1988 60th Academy Awards: "The Last Emperor", Michael Douglas & Cher win

✪1991 UN Security Council issues formal cease fire with Iraq declaration

✪1992 Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing 3

2000’s                                          

✪2006 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announces that Iran has successfully enriched uranium

✪2013 Two women are beheaded for sorcery in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

2014 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Peter Gabriel, Hall & Oates, KISS, Nirvana, Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens

✪2015 Barack Obama and Raul Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution

My Rambling Thoughts

What a crazy day. I needed to update some apps on my phone. Usually easy-peasy, but suddenly in the middle of updating my iPhone decided it didn’t like my WIFI connection. Played with the phone for a while. Gave up. Called Verizon. After 25 minutes and doing a bunch of tests, the phone was reset, the WIFI worked, and the updates restarted. What a mess. But all is good now.

On Sunday there was a fire a few miles from me, but I still got the phone notice. Sad news is that a mobile home and several vehicles were lost. Good news, the idiot who was burning trash on a windy day and lost control of the fire has been arrested and faces a whole bunch of charges. Sadly, where I live, there is no law for ‘being an idiot’. I’m sure the trial will be happening sometime in the next 5 years.

I got an email this morning that both the state and Feds had accepted my tax returns. Yeah! Now the wait begins. Glad to get the email, ‘cause that means that no jerk has already filed under my SS#.

I am much more concerned about the Actions of Syria than I am about the congressional hearing with Facebook. However, I am listening to Mark’s testimony. I still believe he is an idealist who was not ready for the fact that some would misuse his platform. I can only hope that his ‘team’, which he is constantly referring to, is ready to make some major changes.                                                                             

                                                                                                                                 

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Oleg Cassini,

fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy),

born in Paris

(d. 2006)

90- Ethel Kennedy,

American human-rights campaigner

(wife of Bobby Kennedy),

born in Chicago

80’s

86- Joel Grey, [Joe Katz],

American actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution),

born in Cleveland

70’s

@79- Johnny Sheffield,

actor (Boy-Tarzan Finds a Son),

born in Pasadena

fall from ladder (d. 2010)

79- Louise Lasser,

American actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!),

born in NYC

@76- Percy Lavon Julian,

African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer

in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants,

born in Montgomery, Alabama

(d. 1975)

60’s

@69- James Parkinson,

English physician (First description of Parkinson's disease)

and political activist,

born in London

stroke (d. 1824)

50’s

@59- Adriano Olivetti, Italian engineer and manufacturer (typewriter), born in Ivrea, Italy (d. 1960)

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@88-2013 Maria Tallchief,

American prima ballerina

@85-2005 Maurice R. Hilleman,

American Microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines

including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B,

chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia

@84-2007 Kurt Vonnegut Jr,

American author

70’s

@77-1926 Luther Burbank,

American horticulturist who developed more than 800

strains and varieties of plants, gastrointestinal complications

@71-2017 J. Geils [John Warren Geils Jr],

American rock guitarist (J. Geils Band - Centerfold),

natural causes

50’s

@58-1906 James A Bailey,

circus showman (Barnum & Bailey),

acute infection

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…☼☼☼☼