Apr 3

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Apr 3, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 93

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 3% 

Nearest Lightning:  1934 miles away

Wind ave.:   24mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 71°[1961]   Record Low: 8°[1980]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Our real enemies and the enemies of humanity are negative emotions like anger and hatred.

Indeed, people who are dominated by powerful negative emotions should be objects of our compassion

   Dali Lama

Harper’s Index

$6,400,000,000,000

            Amount US pharmaceutical industry spent

in 2016 on ads for prescription drugs

2-

Number of countries in which direct-to-consumer

pharmaceutical ads are legal

More Observances This Month

Cancer Control Month
Car Care Month
Celebrate Diversity Month

Observances This Week

Cancer Control Month
Car Care Month
Celebrate Diversity Month

Observances for Today

Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day: 3  Link 
Fan Dance Day: 3
Find A Rainbow Day: 3 Link 
National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action: 3  Link 
National Film Score Day: 3  Link
Pony Express Day: 3
Tweed Day: 3
Weed Out Hate: 3
World Party Day: 3  Link 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                          

1776 George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College

1800’s                                          

1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento, California

1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond & Petersberg, Virginia

✪1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave

1882 American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph

1900’s                                          

✪1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men

✪1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest

1944 US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional

1948 1st US figure skating championships held

1948 US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges

1973 The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.

✪1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it

1978 50th Academy Awards: "Annie Hall", Richard Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win

2000’s                                          

✪2012 Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%

✪2016 Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak

My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful spring day, but a little windy for my taste.

Happy to report that huge satellite fill into the Pacific Ocean, near Tahiti. No one injured.  We can all sleep well again.

Early morning shopping for Cadbury Eggs. Regular price is almost an astonishing $1/egg. But the day after they are ½ off and worth the purchase. Bought enough for one every other day until my trip.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

96- Doris Day [Kappelhoff],

American singer, animal welfare activist and 

actress known as the "girl next door" actress

(Pillow Talk, The Man Who Knew Too Much),

born in Cincinnati

80’s

@87- Edward Everett Hale,

American clergyman and

author (Man without a Country),

born in Boston

(d. 1909)

@87- Helmut Kohl,

German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified

 Germany, 1990-98),

 born in Ludwigshafen, Weimar Republic

(d. 2017)

84- Jane Goodall,

ethologist (studied African chimps),

born in London, England

@83- George Jessel,

American toastmaster general and

entertainer (Diary of Young Comic),

born in NYC

(d. 1981)

@80- Marlon Brando,

American actor 

(The Godfather, A Street Cart Named Desire and

On the Waterfront),

born in Omaha

(d. 2004)

70’s

@76- Washington Irving,

American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow),

born in NYC,

heart attack (d. 1859)

74- Tony Orlando,

American singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon),

born in NYC

60’s

@69- Bud Fisher,

American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff),

born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 1954)

60- Alec Baldwin, 

actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice),

born in Amityville, NY

50’s

57- Eddie Murphy,

American actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw),

born in Brooklyn

40’s

49- Mellody Hobson,

American businesswoman

(Chairman of Dreamworks Animation),

born in Chicago

47- Picabo Street,

skier (Olympic gold 1994)

30’s

32- Amanda Bynes,

American actress

Historical Obits Today

0’s

@102-2016 Joseph Medicine Crow,

Last Crow war chief and

historian,

Bronze Star Medal and the Légion d'honneur for service

during World War II, and

the Presidential Medal of Freedom

@86-1991 Graham Greene,

British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana)

@85-1993 Pinky Lee,

kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show)

@78-1994 Elizabeth "Betty" Furness,

American actress, journalist and consumer activist

(Dangerous Corner, Studio 1),

stomach cancer

@72-1966 Battista Farina,

Italian automobile designer and

founder of Pininfarina company

@66-1990 Sarah Vaughan,

American jazz singer,

lung 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.

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