Apr 9

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Apr 9, 2018 Week: 15\ Day: 99

86004 Today: H 68° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  504 miles away

Wind ave.:   15mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 75°[1989]   Record Low: 9°[1953]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Graham Greene

Harper’s Index

55

            Percentage of US whites who believe

white Americans are discriminated against

21

Who say they’ve experienced discrimination themselves

More Observances This Month

Grange Month Link
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month
Informed Women Month

Observances This Week

4-10

Hate 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

Observances for Today

Appomattox Day Link
Jenkins Ear Day
Jumbo Day  (Elephant came to US and created the word for big in our language.)
Name Yourself Day

National Cherish An Antique Day
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Winston Churchill Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

✪1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France

1700’s                                          

✪1731 British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, later catalyst for war between Britain & Spain

1768 John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies

1800’s                                          

1865 Confederate General Robert E Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S Grant (US Civil War)

1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto

✪1872 Samuel R Percy patents dried milk

1900’s                                          

1914 US President W Wilson refuses to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the grounds that he has not been elected by the people

1928 Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"

1939 Marian Anderson sings before 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.

1947 Atomic Energy Commission confirmed

✪1952 Hugo Ballivian's government is overthrown by the Bolivian National Revolution, starting a period of agrarian reform, universal suffrage and the nationalization of tin mines

1953 "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue

1959 Bill Sharman hits a NBA record 56 consecutive foul shot

1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury

1962 34th Academy Awards: "West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell win

✪1963 Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen

1976 "All the President's Men", directed by Alan J. Pakula, based on the novel by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation, starring Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford, is released

1979 51st Academy Awards: "The Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win

1984 56th Academy Awards: "Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley MacLaine win

1992 US Fed court finds Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of 8 out of 10 drug and racketeering charges

1993 Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos

2000’s                                          

✪2003 Baghdad falls to U.S. forces ending the invasion of Iraqi but resulting in widespread looting

✪2017 Two Egyptian Coptic churches in Tanta and Alexandria attacked by suicide bombers leaving at least 44 dead

2017 Twitter footage of passenger forcibly removed from United Airlines flight in Chicago after flight overbooked causes outrage

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice spring day as the wind died down late last night. No moisture.

Caught up on my Sunday morning news shows. Not a lot new. Guess the world be around another week.

Reviewing my trip to the Amazon. Have to pick up a few things, like a water bottle with carrier for our hikes and some kind of shoe covering to keep my shoes dry on the hikes. Living in a high desert, the second one may be a challenge, probably just a good waterproofing spray for the hiking boots. And I have to search out my walking sticks…they are somewhere in the house.

Most of us are hooked up to some emergency network where we live. I just got an auto-call from the Sheriff’s network that there was a fast moving wildfire in the area and to plan for evacuation of my home. A tad scary until I looked in that direction and saw a little  smoke. Looked up the area they listed in the call and it is 14 miles away and there is a four-lane highway and lots of homes and businesses between me and the fire. Also, lots of trees. I’m now hearing several fire trucks headed that way. Not planning on evacuation, but will certainly keep my eyes open. One house destroyed, fire still moving. Helicopter just dropped water.  I do believe their potential evacuation area is much larger than necessary.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Hugh Hefner,

American magazine publisher and businessman (Playboy),

 born in Chicago

(d. 2017)

80’s

86- Paul Krassner,

comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies)

70’s

79- Michael Learned,

actress (Olivia-Waltons, Nurse),

born in Washington, D.C.

@77- Paul Robeson,

American singer (Old Man River), actor and

civil rights activist,

born in Princeton, NJ

stroke (d. 1976)

@76- John Presper Eckert,

co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC)

leukemia (d. 1995)

60’s

@68- Tamerlane (Timur),

Turkic conqueror and founder of the Timurid Dynasty,

born in Shahrisabz, Uzbekistan

(d. 1405)

64- Dennis Quaid,

actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff),

born in Houston, Texas

50’s

@57- Ward Bond,

American actor (Wagon Train, It's a Wonderful Life),

born in Benkelman, Neb

heart attack (d. 1960)

55- Marc Jacobs,

fashion designer

55- Joe Scarborough,

American television personality

52- Cynthia Nixon,

American actress (Sex and the City),

born in NYC

20’s

28- Kristen Stewart,

American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga),

born in Los Angeles

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-1959 Frank Lloyd Wright,

American architect (Guggenheim)

recognized as "the greatest American architect of all time"

60’s

@65-1626 Francis Bacon,

English statesman and philosopher

pneumonia

50’s

@56-1988 Brook Benton [Benjamin Franklin Peay],

American soul vocalist

(It's Just a Matter of Time, Rainy Night in Georgia),

meningitis

30’s

@35-1976 Phil Ochs,

American anti-war folk singer (Draft Dodger Rag),

commits suicide

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.