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Jan 15, 2018 Week: 03\ Day: 15
86004 Today: H 48° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 10mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1943] Record Low: -12°[1937]
Jan Averages: 50°\23°
Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)
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Today’s Quote
The earth has received the embrace of the sun and
we shall see the results of that love.
Sitting Bull
Harper’s Index
21 Percentage of American vacationers who are taking on
debt to finance their trips this summer
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Observances This Week
11-17
Cuckoo Dancing Week
14-20
Healthy Weight Week
15-19
No Name Calling Week Link
Sugar Awareness Week
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Observances for Today
Alpha Kappa Alpha Day
Humanitarian Day
Martin Luther King Jr. Birthday
National Crowd Feed Day
National Day of Service Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
1559 Elizabeth I crowned Queen of England in Westminster Abbey
1800’s
1844 University of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1846 Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first novel "Poor Folk" is published in the St Petersburg Collection almanac
1847 1st Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1863 1st US newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1870 Donkey first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1882 1st US ski club forms (Berlin NH)
1895 Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake" premieres, St Petersburg
1900’s
1902 Abdulaziz Ibn Saud leads 40 men over the walls of Riyadh and takes the city, marking the beginning of the Third Saudi State
1907 Gold dental inlays first described by William Taggart, who invented them
1919 Great Molasses Flood; 2 million gallons of molasses flood Boston Massachusetts, drowning 21, injuring 150
1927 The Tennessee Supreme Court overturns (on a technicality) John T Scopes' guilty verdict for teaching evolution — but the law itself remains in force
1943 World's largest office building, the Pentagon is completed
1944 European Advisory Commission decides to divide Germany
1947 The brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia") found in Leimert Park, Los Angeles
1951 Supreme Court rule "clear & present danger" of incitement to riot is not protected speech & can be a cause for arrest
1962 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] is the subject of the BBC TV programme "This is Your Life"
1967 Super Bowl I: Green Bay Packers beat KC Chiefs, 35-10 in LA Super Bowl MVP: Bart Starr, Green Bay, QB
1971 Aswan Dam official opens in Egypt
1971 George Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
1973 US President Richard Nixon suspends all US offensive action in N Vietnam
1974 "Happy Days" begins an 11 year run on ABC
1975 Space Mountain opens at Disneyland
1977 Coneheads debut on "Saturday Night Live"
1988 Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, calls for an international ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK
2000’s
2011 Wikipedia the free internet encyclopedia turns 10 years old
2016 American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan unveils newest exhibit replica skeleton of a Titanosaur dinosaur (found 2010 Argentina), largest known dinosaur at 70 tons, 37m
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My Rambling Thoughts
Enjoying a quiet Sunday…TV and some football. I’ll be at home tomorrow as I make a real effort not to shop on Federal holidays. The merchants need a day off too to remember why it is a Federal holiday.
Sunday morning news shows spent a lot of time on 45’s racist comments. Seems that many African nations are asking or demanding an apology. Good for them. Thanks to the reporters who have pulled out the facts about immigration and showing that a bigot’s comment is not fact. Lots of immigrants from Africa are as educated as Americans, earn higher degrees here than the average American.
With all the technology available, it sure would be nice to have a ‘Truth’ app. Type in the statement and find out if it is true in real time. Google helps a lot but it can take hours or days for the statement to show up. Snopes also does OK, but again, weeks or months for it to show up. By the time Google or Snopes gives us the factual information, the lie has encircled the globe many times. I want an app that says ‘LIE’ and maybe even has a loud siren that goes off.
Speaking of sirens…sure glad I wasn’t in Hawaii when the alert went out that ballistic missile was headed their way. I grew up with various sirens that would test our readiness during the sixties. (one for look for cover; one for take cover immediately; and I guess one for It’s too late.) We did duck and cover at school. When living in Tuba City, we had a fire alarm that went off every night at 9pm as a curfew for those under a certain age. When I first moved there, it reminded me of the childhood sirens and would send a chill through my body. After a few weeks, I didn’t even hear it anymore as it didn’t apply to me. I only heard it when it went off more than once…as that was for the volunteer fire department that there was a real fire somewhere.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@95- Edward Teller,
Hungarian-American physicist,
father of the Hydrogen bomb (Manhattan Project),
born in Budapest, Hungary
(d. 2003)
80’s
@85- Lloyd Bridges,
American comedic actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!),
born in San Leandro
(d. 1998)
70’s
@79- Lewis M Terman,
psychologist (developed Stanford-Binet IQ test)
(d. 1956)
@77- Abdulaziz Ibn Saud,
Founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-53),
born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd
(d. 1953)
60’s
@69- Aristotle Onassis,
rich shipping magnate respiratory failure
born in Greece
(d. 1975)
@67- Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud,
King of Saudi Arabia (1953-64),
born in Kuwait City
(d. 1969)
67- Charo [Maria Baeza],
Spanish-American actress, comedienne
flamenco guitarist (Chico and the Man, Love Boat),
born in Murcia
50’s
@52- Gamal Abdel Nasser,
President of Egypt (1954-1970)
heart attack (d. 1970)
@51- Molière [Jean-Baptiste Poquelin],
French playwright (The Misanthrope), born in Paris, Kingdom of France
TB (d. 1673)
30’s
39- Martin Luther King Jr.,
American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964),
born in Atlanta,
killed (d. 1968)
39- Drew Brees,
American football player (New Orleans Saints),
born in Austin, Texas
37- Pitbull [Armando Christian Perez],
American rapper,
born in Miami, Florida
Teen’s
@19- Joan of Arc,
Roman Catholic Saint and national heroine of France
(legendary date),
born in Domrémy, duchy of Bar, France
burned at stake (d. 1431)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@83-1988 Seán MacBride,
Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army
founder of Amnesty International (Nobel 1974)
70’s
@79-1804 Dru Drury,
English entomologist
@73-2016 Dan Haggerty,
American actor (Grizzly Adams),
cancer
@72-1896 Matthew B Brady,
US photographer (Civil War),
complications of streetcar accident
60’s
@66- Charles Ponzi,
Italian con man (Ponzi scheme in the US),
lengthy poor health
50’s
@57-1915 Fannie Farmer,
American culinary figure and author
@52-1994 Harry Nilsson,
rock vocalist (Everybody's Talkin'),
heart attack
20’s
@22-1947 Elizabeth Short,
American victim in the Black Dahlia case,
murdered
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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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