Apr 4

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Apr 4, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 94

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Nearest Lightning:  849 miles away

Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 74°[1961]   Record Low: 5°[1977]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

Harper’s Index

45…

            Percentage of moisturizers sold in the US as

 ‘Fragrance=free’ that contain a fragrance

83…

            Of moisturizers sold as ‘hypoallergenic’ that

            Contain a common allergen

More Observances This Month

Child Abuse Prevention Month
(International) Cesarean Awareness Month Link
Community Spirit Days

Observances This Week

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APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Bat Appreciation Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
National Blue Ribbon Week  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link 
World Hula Week
Explore Your Career Options
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Hate Week

Observances for Today

Childhelp National Day of Hope 
Hug a Newsman Day

International Day for Mine Awareness& Assistance in Mine Action
Jeep 4x4 Day  Link
National Walking Day Link 
Whole Grain Sampling Day 
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day
School Librarian Day

Tell a Lie Day

Victims of Violence Wholly Day
Vitamin C Day
Walk Around Things Day

World Rat Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

00’s                                               

1818 Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars

✪1832 Charles Darwin aboard the HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro

1841 Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison

1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated

1870 Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800

✪1947 Convention on International Civil Aviation goes into effect

✪1947 Largest group of sunspots on record

✪1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington DC

1960 32nd Academy Awards: "Ben-Hur", Charlton Heston & Simone Signoret win

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee

✪1973 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories)

1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

1987 "Always & Forever" 2nd studio album by Randy Travis (Billboard Album of the Year 1988)

✪1999 Jack Ma founds Chinese internet company Alibaba

✪2007 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.

2008 Raid on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints owned YFZ Ranch in Texas; 401 children and 133 women taken into state custody

✪2014 President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years

✪2017 Chemical weapons attack on Khan Sheikhoun, Syria by Syrian government forces kills more than 80 civilians

✪2017 Pink Star diamond sets world record price of $71 million for a gem at an action in Hong Kong

✪2017 Alibaba becomes the world's largest retailer according to US Securities and Exchange Commission

My Rambling Thoughts

Quiet, lazy day. Did some cleaning of baseboards…not my favorite cleaning activity, but had to be done.

I don’t spend a lot of time on Twitter, but here’s a suggestion…when someone posts an easily proven lie, delete the thing immediately. Seems like a quite a few voters follow 45’s tweets, and sadly, most believe them…after all they are from the President of the United States. For the record: Amazon customers pay taxes when required by law. Amazon pays a bulk mail rate and the USPS made money on their package delivery last year. The scary ‘caravan’ happens every year and most do not seek asylum or sneak in.

I’m ready for the April showers that will bring the May flowers. Weatherman announced today this our areas sixth driest season in history…since 1898.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

92- Cloris Leachman,

actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety),

born in Des Moines, Iowa

80’s

@86- Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson],

American author 

("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"), 

poet and actress (Nyo-Roots),

born in St Louis (

d. 2014)

@85- Dorothea Dix,

American social activist,

born in Hampden, Maine

(d. 1887)

70’s

@76- Thaddeus Stevens,

US Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R),

born in Danville, Vermont

dropsy (d. 1868)

@76- Charles Earle Funk,

American lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls)

(d. 1957)

74- Craig T. Nelson,

actor (Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach),

born in Spokane

@70- Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield],

American blues guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man),

born in Jug's Corner (Issaquena County) or

Rolling Fork, Mississippi

heart failure (d. 1983)

60’s

68- Christine Lahti,

American actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift),

born in Detroit

@67- Georg von Trapp,

Austrian WWI submarine commander and

inspiration for "The Sound of Music" character,

born in Zara, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary

lung cancer (d. 1947)

62- David E. Kelley,

American writer and TV producer

(Picket Fences, Big Little Lies)

@60- Anthony Perkins,

actor (Psycho) AIDS

(d. 1992)

50’s

55- Graham Norton [Graham Walker],

Irish comedian and TV presenter,

born in Dublin

53- Robert Downey Jr,

American actor 

( Charlie Chaplin, Iron Man, Avengers),

born in NYC

40’s

@47- Linus Yale Jr.,

American portrait painter and inventor

(Yale cylinder lock),

born in Salisbury, NY

heart attack  (d. 1868)

20’s

@28- Heath Ledger,

Australian-American Actor

(Brokeback Mountain, The Dark Knight),

born in Perth, Western Australia

OD (d. 2008)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-1983 Gloria Swanson,

actress (Airport 1975)

@84-1929 Karl Benz,

German inventor, engine designer and

automobile manufacturer (Mercedes-Benz)

70’s

@78-1931 Andre Michelin,

French industrialist, tire manufacturer and

publisher of the Michelin Guide

@70-2013 Roger Ebert,

American film critic (Pulitzer Prize 1975)  

cancer

60’s

@68-1841 William Henry Harrison,

9th US President (Whig: March 4-April 4, 1841),

becomes 1st president to die in office

pneumonia 

@66±-1617 John Napier,

Scottish mathematician and inventor (logarithms),

gout

@65-1967 Al Lewis,

American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher

(Blueberry Hill, You Gotta Be a Football Hero)

@63-1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr,

American politician (Rep-D-NY)

prostatitis

30’s

@39-1968 Martin Luther King Jr.,

American clergyman and

leader of the Civil Rights Movement

(Nobel 1964), 

assassinated 

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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