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Jan 17, 2018 Week: 03\ Day: 17
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave.: 7mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1971] Record Low: -13°[1987]
Jan Averages: 50°\23°
Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)
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Today’s Quote
Harper’s Index
1/5- Estimated portion of US employees who are bound by a noncomplete clause.
3/10- Of those employees who don’t realize it
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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
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
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Observances for Today
Cable Car Day
International Mentoring Day Link (Muhammad Ali's birthday)
Judgment Day
Kid Inventors' Day
National Bootleggers Day Link
Popeye Day
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1746 Battle of Falkirk Muir, the Jacobites under Charles Stuart defeat Hanoverian forces
1773 Captain James Cook becomes 1st to cross Antarctic Circle (66° 33' S)
1800’s
1821 Mexico permits Moses Austin and 300 US families to settle in Texas, after his death leaves to son Stephen
1873 A group of Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War.
1893 Queen Liliuokalani is deposed by an American coup, Kingdom of Hawaii becomes a republic
1900’s
1904 Anton Chekhov's play "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1916 Rodman Wanamaker organizes a lunch to discuss forming a golfers association (later the PGA) at the Taplow Club, Martinique Hotel, New York City
1920 First day Prohibition comes into effect in the US as a result of the 18th amendment
1943 Tin Can Drive Day in the US, salvage collected for the war effort
1946 United Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
1954 Jacques Cousteau's 1st network telecast airs on "Omnibus" (CBS)
1957 9-county commission recommends creation of BART
1961 Eisenhower allegedly orders assassination of Congo's Patrice Lumumba
1961 President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power by the "military-industrial complex".
1984 Supreme Court rules (5-4) oks private use of home VCRs to tape TV programs for later viewing does not violate federal copyright laws
1987 US President Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
1988 "The Fumble", trailing 38-31 with 1:12 left in the AFC Championship Game, the Browns' Earnest Byner fumbled at the Denver 3-yard line, sending the Broncos to their second consecutive Super Bowl appearance
1991 Operation Desert Storm begins, with US-led coalition forces bombing Iraq, during the Gulf War
1997 NBA suspends Dennis Rodman indefinitely for kicking cameraman
2000’s
2001 President Bill Clinton posthumously raises Meriwether Lewis' rank from Lieutenant to Captain
2002 Mount Nyiragongo erupts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.
2007 Doomsday Clock set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's 1st nuclear test
2017 US President Barack Obama commutes WikiLeaks discloser Chelsea Manning's prison sentence from 35 to 7 years
2017 Search for missing aircraft MH370 over the Indian Ocean is called off
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My Rambling Thoughts
I did a little shopping this morning. Got what I needed and back home in less than an hour. Nice.
Our country is taking a turn I never thought I would see. I am so disappointed as our so-called ‘leaders’ argue about the fate of all Americans depends on children who were brought here by parents from a foreign country. How can any American stand by quietly as they are sent back to a country they do not know? And now non-criminal adults who came as kids are being sent back. This is not the America I was taught about in school. This is not the America I grew up in. This is insane.
Speaking of insane…I got an email from iTunes that looked like a receipt for an exercise DVD. I knew I hadn’t ordered such a thing, so I clicked on the link. It wanted lots of information, including my SS#. I deleted the information I had typed in up to that point. They also stated that my iTunes account was locked. Thanks to Google, I found a phone number for iTunes and called. Fairly quickly I got a live assistant. He assured me that the email was a scam, that my account had no such purchase, and that my account was not locked. Felt relieved…but still pissed off that someone had the nerve to try to rip off my information. He told me to mark the mail as spam and not to worry. Yeah, right.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
96- Betty White,
American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Golden Girls),
born in Oak Park Illinois
80’s
86- James Earl Jones,
actor (Darth Vader, Exorcist II, Soul Man)
@84- Benjamin Franklin,
US Founding Father, inventor, ambassador and writer (Poor Richards Almanac),
born in Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1790)
@84- Vidal Sassoon,
hair stylist/CEO (Vidal Sasson),
born in London, England
(d. 2012)
@81- Eartha Kitt,
singer/actress (Catwoman-Batman),
born in North, South Carolina (
d. 2008)
70’s
79- Maury Povich,
TV host (Current Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie Chung
@74- Muhammad Ali [Cassius Clay],
American world heavyweight boxing champion (1964-7 74-8),
born in Louisville, KY
septic shock (d. 2016)
60’s
@65- Shari Lewis,
ventriloquist/puppeteer (Lamb Chop),
born in The Bronx,
cancer (d. 1998)
64- Robert F Kennedy Jr,
attorney (Natural Resources Defense Council)
63- Steve Earle,
country singer (Guitar Town),
born in San Antonio, Texas
61- Steve Harvey,
American actor, comedian and radio personality
50’s
56- Jim Carrey,
Canadian-American actor (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,
Dumb & Dumber, The Mask),
born in Ontario Canada
54- Michelle Obama,
1st African-American US First Lady (2009-16),
born in DeYoung, Illinois
40’s
@48- Al Capone,
American gangster (Chicago bootlegging),
born in Brooklyn
cardiac arrest (d. 1947)
47- Kid Rock [Robert James Ritchie],
American rapper, songwriter, musician and actor (Devil Without a Cause),
born in Romeo, Michigan
43- Freddy Rodriguez,
Puerto Rican-American actor (Six Feet Under)
30’s
38- Zooey Deschanel,
American actress (Almost Famous, New Girl),
born in Los Angeles, California
@34- Andy Kaufman,
American comedian and actor (Latka Gravas-Taxi),
born in NYC,
rare lung cancer (d. 1984)
20’s
@29- Anne Brontë,
English novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall),
born in Thornton, West Yorkshire
TB (d. 1849)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-2012 Johnny Otis [Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes],
US R&B musician, producer, and talent scout ("godfather of rhythm and blues")
@90-1891 George Bancroft,
American historian and father of U.S. History
80’s
@81-2007 Art Buchwald, American humorist
70’s
@70-1893 Rutherford B. Hayes,
19th US President (Republican: 1877-81),
heart attack
60’s
@66-1927 Juliette Gordon Low,
American founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA,
breast cancer
@64-2008 Bobby Fischer,
American world chess champion (1972-75),
renal failure
@62-1874 Chang & Eng Bunker,
Chinese/Thai Siamese twins,
bronchitis/?
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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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