Feb 8

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Feb 8, 2018 Week: 06\ Day: 39

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

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

Record High: 65°[1996]   Record Low: -17°[1933]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

I am still learning.

    Michelangelo

Harper’s Index

1     Rank of Georgia among US states & Washington DC in the likelihood that a young person will enlist in the military

51   Of Washington DC

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Observances This Week

2-8

Publicity for Profit Week

3-9

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week

4-10

Burn Awareness Week Link 
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

5-11

Children's Mental Health Week Link
National School Counseling Week Link
International Networking Week

7-12

Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend

7-14
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week Link
Risk Awareness Week
International Week of Black Women in The Arts Link
National Marriage Week  Link  Link

8-14

Love Makes the World Go Round; But,

Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week

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Observances for Today

Boy Scout Day Link
Dry Bean Day Link
Kite Flying Day

Laugh and Get Rich Day
National Girls & Women in Sports Day
Opera Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1672 Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London
1690 French and Native American troops set Schenectady settlement New York on fire

1693 William & Mary College is chartered in Williamsburg in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (second in North America)

1700’s                                          

1735 First opera in North American colonies "Flora" opens in Charleston, South Carolina

1800’s                                          

1879 Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

1887 The Dawes Act authorizes the President of the United States to survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments. Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe were granted United States citizenship.

1895 Tchaikovsky and Petipa's revival of "Swan Lake" premieres in St Petersburg

1900’s                                          

1910 The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce

1915 "The Birth of a Nation" the first 12-reel film in America, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Lillian Gish and Mae Marsh, opens at Clune's Auditorium in Los Angeles

1918 "Stars & Stripes,", weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published

1922 Radio arrives at the White House

1942 Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort

1948 5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

1960 Boston Celtic Bill Russell becomes 1st NBAer with 50 rebounds (51)

1960 Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom issued an Order-in-Council, stating that she and her family  would be known as the House of Windsor, and that her descendants will take the name "Mountbatten-Windsor".

1969 Last edition of Saturday Evening Post

1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico

1977 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt sentenced on obscenity charges

1978 Proceedings of the United States Senate are broadcast on radio for the first time.

1983 Ariel Sharon resigns from Israeli government after an inquiry shows he was indirectly responsible for the killings of hundreds of people in 1982

1984 14th Winter Olympic games opens in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

1984 1st time 8 people in space

1986 US male Figure Skating championship won by Brian Boitano

1992 16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France

1996 The U.S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

2000’s                                          

2002 19th Winter Olympic games open at Salt Lake City, Utah

2013 A massive blizzard begins in the US and Canada that resulted in 15 deaths, 5,300 cancelled flights, and loss of power for 900,000 people

2017 US Senate confirms Jeff Sessions Attorney General, after controversy and protests

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My Rambling Thoughts

Great weather day…is it really winter?

Got my shopping done quickly. It’s old people’s day at the grocery store so I saved 10% on everything I bought. I have the semi-bad habit of purchasing things I wouldn’t normally buy when it is Old People’s Day. Today is was 3 beautiful rib-eye steaks that were already on sale. I know I will enjoy them.

During most winters I wear sweaters over a t-shirt. This winter I haven’t needed sweaters for most days, so today I washed 11 sweaters and may pack most of them away. This has not been a winter of snow or cold.

The Focus Travel Club annual blowout is Saturday. I had planned on sneaking up there for a few days, but alas, I have an eye exam on Tuesday so will skip the trip. Can’t wait to hear about how the great trips coming up.

A military parade in DC. Really? 45 wanted to have tanks and military at his ascension to his throne back in January of 2017.  I have always dreamed that the US would have a better military parade than N. Korea, Russia, Nazi Germany…NOT

Saw a great cartoon today...2 men with lab coats, ringing a doorbell. When the lady answers the door they say "We are here to talk to you about the glory of science."

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Tunku Abdul Rahman,

Malaysia's founding father,

1st Prime Minister of Malaya (1957-63) and

Malaysia (1963-70), born in Alor Star, Kedah

(d. 1990)

@87- Jack Larson,

playwright and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman),

born in Los Angeles, California

(d. 2015)

86- John Williams,

American composer responsible for some of

the most recognizable film scores

(Jaws, Star Wars, Harry Potter, India Jones, E.T. the

Extra-Terrestrial),

born in NYC

70’s

78- Ted Koppel,

American journalist (ABC Nightline)

born in Lancashire England,

@77- Jules Verne,

French writer "Father of Science Fiction"

(Around the World in 80 days),

born in Nantes, France

diabetes (d. 1905)

77- Nick Nolte,

American actor (The Thin Red Line, 48 Hrs),

born in Omaha

@76- Jack Lemmon, 

actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing),

born in Boston cancer

cancer (d. 2001)

76- Robert Klein,

comedian and actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals),

born in The Bronx

@74- Lana Turner,

American actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest),

born in Wallace, Idaho

throat cancer (d. 1995)

@72- Dmitri Mendeleev,

Russian chemist and inventor who devised the periodic table

 of the elements,

born in Tobolsk, Russia

influenza (d. 1907)

@71- William Tecumseh Sherman,

American Major General in the Union Army,

born in Lancaster, Ohio

pneumonia (d. 1891)

60’s

65- Mary Steenburgen,

actress (Parenthood, Time After Time)

born in Newport Ark,

62- John Grisham,

American writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief),

born in Jonesboro, Arkansas

40’s

44- Seth Green,

American actor and producer (Family Guy, Austin Powers),

born in Philadelphia

@42- Gary Coleman,

American actor (Diff'rent Strokes), born in Zion, Illinois

hematoma (d. 2010)

20’s

@24 James Dean,

American stage and film actor(Giant, Rebel Without a Cause),

 born in Marion, Indiana

car crash (d. 1955)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-1956 Connie Mack,

baseball manager (Philadelphia A's, 1901-50)

70’s

@77-2017 Ljubisa Beara,

Bosnian general convicted of overseeing

Srebrenica Massacre,

in prison

@71-1985 Marvin Miller [Mueller],

American actor (Space Patrol, Dead Reckoning, Millionaire),

heart attack

50’s

@55-1990 Del Shannon,

American rock musician and songwriter (Runaway),

suicide

@52-1725 Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov],

Tsar of Russia (1682-1725)

uremia

40’s

@44-1587 Mary Stuart, 

Queen of Scots (1560-87),

beheaded

20’s

@23-1932 [Vincent] Mad Dog Coll,

Irish-American mob hitman, 

murdered by Dutch Schultz gang

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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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