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Apr 14, 2018 Week: 15\ Day: 104
86004 Today: H
47° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
RED FLAG WARNING Wind chill: drop temp by 10°
Nearest Lightning: 704 miles away
Wind ave.: 9mph\Gusts:
25mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[1937] Record Low: 5°[1972]
Apr Averages: 58°\27°
Today’s Quote
Politics
is such a torment that I advise everyone I love
not
to mix with it.
Thomas
Jefferson
Harper’s Index
5
Percentage of news stories about 45 during his
first 60 days in office
that were positive
More Observances This
Month
National Autism Awareness Month
National Cancer Control Month Link
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
National Cancer Control Month Link
National Child Abuse Prevention Month
National Card and Letter Writing Month
Observances This Week
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
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
9-15
National Library Week
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
14-22
International Wildlife Film Week Link
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
National Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week Link Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Volunteer Week
Spring Astronomy Week
Week of The Young Child Link
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
National Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week Link Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Volunteer Week
Spring Astronomy Week
Week of The Young Child Link
Observances for Today
American Fancy Rat &
Mouse Days: thru-16
Baby Massage Day Link
Children with Alopecia Day
Dictionary Day Link
Ex Spouse Day
Children with Alopecia Day
Dictionary Day Link
Ex Spouse Day
Global Day to End Child
Sexual Abuse Link
International Moment of Laughter Day
Look up at the Sky Day
International Moment of Laughter Day
Look up at the Sky Day
National Dolphin Day
National Ex-Spouse Day Link
National Gardening Day Link
National Pecan Day Link
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
Reach as High as You Can Day
National Ex-Spouse Day Link
National Gardening Day Link
National Pecan Day Link
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
Reach as High as You Can Day
Slow Art Day Link
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
✪
Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1600’s
✪1699 Khalsa:
Birth of Khalsa, the brotherhood of the Sikh religion, in Northern India in
accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar
1700’s
1756 Governor
Glen of South Carolina protests against 900 Acadia Indians
1800’s
1818 US
Medical Corps forms
1828 First
American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright
for publication
1841 1st
detective story published, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue
Morgue" (April 1841)
1860 1st
Pony Express rider arrives in San Francisco from St Joseph, Missouri
1865 US
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's
Theater in Washington
✪1890 Pan
American Day-1st conference of American states (Washington, D.C.)
1900’s
1903 Dr
Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1910 President
Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
✪1927 The
first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
1935 Black
Sunday: Severe sandstorm ravages the US Midwest, creating the "Dust
Bowl"
1940 RCA
demonstrated its new electron microscope in Philadelphia
✪1948 A flash
of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon
1956 Ampex
Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
✪1958 Sputnik
2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1960 American
record company Motown, founded by Berry Gordy Jr., is incorporated as
Motown Record Corporation
1969 41st
Academy Awards: "Oliver", Cliff Robertson& Katharine
Hepburn and Barbra Streisand win (1st ever tie for best actress)
✪1971 President
Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
✪1972 The
Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and
cities across Northern Ireland
✪1980 1st
Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Norman Mailer(Executioner's Song)
1983 US President
Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
✪1989 1,100,000,000th
Chinese born
✪1999 NATO
mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say
75 people are killed.
2000 Metallica drummer
Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster. This
law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
2000’s
✪2003 The
Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an
accuracy of 99.99%
✪2010 Icelandic
Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the centre of
the glacier
My
Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday was a
very windy day. I had lunch with Mary and caught up on the recent wedding of her
niece. Wind like yesterday wears me out. I stopped by the Med place and picked
up a new headpiece for my CPAP machine. Happy to say it is smaller, more comfortable,
and a great discovery. Too bad I didn’t do it long ago. I got too lazy to write
anything when I got home.
I’m leading a
discussion on South Africa’s fragile democracy at our group meeting on Sat.
Lots of reading, lots to think about, and lots has changed since the articles
were printed. I’ll be busy today and tomorrow morning getting ready for it.
If any readers
have a +1 for the upcoming Royal nuptials, I won’t be able to attend, so you
will have to find someone else to attend with you. The Focus Amazon trip ends
and I get back home on the 7th and won’t be ready for more
international travel for the 19May wedding. If you are attending, have a great
time.
My brother and
his wife had a recent business trip to Morocco. What a great place to visit.
Great food and wonderful pictures. Glad they had such a good time. The textiles
were awesome.
Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
98- John
Paul Stevens,
Supreme
Court Justice
80’s
@86- Arnold
J. Toynbee,
English historian (A
Study of History),
born in
London
(d. 1975)
86- Loretta
Lynn,
American
country singer-songwriter
(Coal
Miner's Daughter),
born in
Butcher's Hollow Kentucky
70’s
78- Julie
Christie,
British actress (Darling,
Doctor Zhivago),
born in
Chukua, Assam, India
@77- Rod
Steiger,
American actor (Illustrated
Man, Pawnbroker),
born in
Westhampton, NY
surgery complications
(d. 2002)
77- Pete
Rose,
MLB player
and manager (Cincinnati Reds),
60’s
@66- Christiaan
Huygens,
astronomer
(discovered Saturn's rings)
(d. 1695)
@65- B.R.
Ambedkar [Baba Saheb],
Indian
politician, jurist (architect of the Constitution of India)
social reformer who inspired the Dalit
Buddhist Movement,
born in
Mhow, India
diabetic
complications (d. 1956)
50’s
58- Brad
Garrett [Brad H. Gerstenfeld],
American actor and
comedian
(Everybody
Loves Raymond),
born in
Los Angeles
40’s
45- Adrien
Brody,
American actor (The
Pianist, The Grand Budapest Hotel),
born in
NYC
41- Sarah
Michelle Gellar,
actress (Kendall-All
My Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
born in NYC
20’s
22- Abigail
Breslin,
American
child actress
Historical
Obits Today
80’s
@85-1995 Burl
Ives,
American
folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
70’s
@78-1986 Simone
de Beauvoir,
French
author and feminist
(The
Mandarins, The Second Sex, She Came to Stay),
pneumonia
@77-1975 Fredric
March,
American
actor (Inherit the Wind),
prostate cancer
@76-2011 Trevor
Bannister,
British
actor (Mr. Lucas: Are You Being Served?),
heart
attack
@74-1759 George
Frideric Handel,
German-British
baroque composer and organist
(Messiah,
Water Music)
@67-1999 Anthony
Newley,
English
actor and singer-songwriter
(Dr
Doolitte, Goldfinger theme),
cancer
60’s
@67-1924 Louis
Sullivan,
architect
(father of skyscrapers)
50’s
@56-1964 Rachel
Carson,
American
biologist/author (Silent Spring),
breast
cancer/heart attack
30’s
@37-2000 Phil
Katz,
American
computer programmer (Zip file format),
effects of
alcoholism
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…☼☼☼☼
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