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Feb 10, 2018 Week: 06\ Day: 40
86004 Today: H
62° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 8mph\Gusts:
20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1951] Record Low: -17°[1933]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
Everything that irritates us about
others
can lead us to an understanding of
ourselves.
Carl Jung
Harper’s Index
1-Rank of
first aide among the most popular Boy Scout merit badges
1-Of bugling
among the least popular
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Observances This Week
4-10
5-11
Children's
Mental Health Week Link
National School Counseling Week Link
International Networking Week
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
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
9-25
XXIII
Winter Olympics
10-13
Westminster
Dog Show
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Observances for Today
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1300’s
1355 The St.
Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 62 scholars and
perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1500’s
1535 12 nude
anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1600’s
1676 Wampanoag
Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1700’s
1720 Edmond
Halley appointed as the second Astronomer Royal at the Greenwich
Observatory
1800’s
1824 Simón
Bolívar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1846 Beginning
of Mormon march to western US
1855 US
citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US
citizenship
1863 1st US
fire extinguisher patent granted to Alanson Crane, Virginia
1870 City of
Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 YWCA
(Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
1899 Treaty
of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War is signed by President McKinley;
US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1900’s
1914 In
accordance with the understanding reached by General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma
Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners released from Pietermaritzburg Prison;
40 passive resisters released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle, 11 in Port Elizabeth
1933 Delivery
of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1940 "Tom
& Jerry" cartoon created by William Hanna & Joseph
Barbera debut by MGM
1949 Arthur
Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1951 "John
& Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1956 "My
Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1967 25th
Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified
1971 American
Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York
1971 "Tapestry", second album
by Carole King, is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1972)
1992 Bonnie
Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
1993 "Michael
Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding
39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1998 Olympic
figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
2000’s
2006 20th
Winter Olympic Games open in Turin, Italy, Luciano Pavarotti sings
"Nessun dorma" in his last ever performance
2015 Comedian
Jon Stewart announces he will be leaving "The Daily Show" at the end
of the year
2016 Venezuelan
government orders more than 100 malls to close early to save electricity, due
to drought caused by El Niño
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My
Rambling Thoughts
We had a nice
lunch at a restaurant here in Flag…the Toasted Owl. It’s been around a few
years and I always found the name a little off-putting. While eating there, we
asked the waitress about the name. The décor is cottage chic and there is every
imaginable owl around the place…paintings, needlepoint, stuffed toys, plates,
cups, and on and on. Turns out the owner was a teacher ‘somewhere near the
Grand Canyon’ and was teaching Indian kids. She wore glasses and the kids all
called her “owl”. (We got it as Indian humor). Then when she left and moved to
Flagstaff she noticed that there were lots of bars and lots of people who were
a little ‘toasted’ (drunk). She named it Toasted Owl. A cute story and much
better than my version about eating owl meat that had been toasted.
Working on the
Rez, we had more than our share of people who were ‘hiding’ or ‘running away’
from situations, usually dealing with domestic violence. The women figured that
this was a good place to hide as the man would never think to look on a
reservation. They were overwhelmingly correct. In those cases, our secretaries
knew that anyone calling to leave a message or to speak to the person to not
confirm or deny the person worked there. I am shocked and amazed again that
this administration would have some knowledge of a serial abuser and still put
him in a position of power.
Excited to watch
the Opening Ceremonies tonight. I’ve skipped any internet machine stories,
pics, etc. of the Opening. Next days will be spent watching the winter events.
Being raised in Colorado, I enjoy all the winter events, but especially the
skiing.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
91- Leontyne
Price,
American
opera soprano (Porgy & Bess),
born in
Laurel, Mississippi
80’s
89- Jim
Whittacker,
mountain
climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
88- Robert
Wagner,
actor (It
Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart),
born in
Detroit, Michigan
@86- Jimmy
Durante,
American
long-nosed comedian
(and
goodnight Mrs Calabash),
born in
NYC,
(d. 1980)
@85- Walter
Houser Brattain,
American physicist
Nobel
laureate for his work on transistors,
born in
Amoy, China
(d. 1987)
85- Don
Wilson,
rock
guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
81- Roberta
Flack,
US
vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
Born in Black
Mountain NC
60’s
68- Mark
Spitz
swimmer
(Olympic 9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72)
born in Modesto
CA
@67- Boris
Pasternak,
Russian novelist and poet(Doctor
Zhivago, Nobel 1958),
born in
Moscow, Russia
lung
cancer (d. 1960)
@67- Lon
Chaney Jr,
American
actor (Hawkeye, Pistols 'n' Petticoats),
born in
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
heart
failure (d. 1973)
63- Greg
Norman,
Australian
PGA golfer (1984 Kemper),
born in
Mount Isa, Queensland
62- Jim
Cramer,
American
television personality
50’s
57- George
Stephanopoulos,
American
journalist, political commentator,
political
advisor (Clinton),
born in
Fall River, Mass
51- Laura
Dern,
American
actress (Jurassic Park, Mask, Smooth Talk),
born in
Los Angeles
40’s
44- Elizabeth
Banks,
American actress (The
40-Year-Old Virgin, Man on a Ledge),
born in
Pittsfield, Massachusetts
20’s
27- Emma
Roberts,
American
actress, born in Rhinebeck, New York
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Historical
Obits Today
80’s
@89-2005 Arthur
Miller,
American
playwright
@87-2017 Mike
Ilitch,
American
businessman founded Little Caesars Pizza,
owner
Detroit Red Wings, Tigers)
@85-2014 Shirley
Temple,
American
actress and diplomat,
famous
1930s child star (Bright Eyes, Heidi)
70’s
@77-1923 Wilhelm
Röntgen,
German
physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
cancer
@75-2008 Roy
Scheider,
American
Actor (Jaws)
multiple
myeloma
@70-1992 Alex
Haley,
American
writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots)
60’s
@64-1878 Claude
Bernard,
French
physiologist involved in the founding of
modern
physiology (blind experiments)
50’s
@50-2000 Jim
Varney,
American
actor/comedian (Ernest movies)
Lung cancer
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All
for Now…☼☼☼☼
