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Feb 12, 2018 Week: 07\ Day: 43
86004 Today: H
46° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 6mph\Gusts:
25mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 58°[2002] Record Low: -16°[1965]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
Man
is so made that when anything fires his soul,
impossibilities
vanish.
Jean
de La Fontaine
Harper’s Index
1/4-Portion of
US college freshmen who are required to write papers longer than 11 pages
1/2-Who spend
an average of less than 5 hours a week on assigned reading
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Observances This Week
11-17
Celebration
of Love Week Link
Children of Alcoholics Week Link
International Friendship Week Link
Jell-O Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link
Children of Alcoholics Week Link
International Friendship Week Link
Jell-O Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link
International
Flirting Week
12-16
12-18
Love
a Mensch Week
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Observances for Today
Clean out Your Computer Day Link
Darwin Day
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
Lincoln's Birthday
NAACP Day
National Lost Penny Day
Darwin Day
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
Lincoln's Birthday
NAACP Day
National Lost Penny Day
Oglethorpe Day
Paul Bunyan Day (Born Feb. 12, 1834 in Bangor,
Paul Bunyan Day (Born Feb. 12, 1834 in Bangor,
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1500’s
1502 Muslims
in Granada forced to convert to Catholicism
1700’s
1793 1st US
fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1800’s
1821 Mercantile
Library of City of NY opens
1825 Creek
Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in
Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1855 Michigan
State University established
1874 Hawaii
King David Kalakaua is 1st king to visit the US as guest of Ulysses S.
Grant at 1st US state dinner at the White House
1876 Al
Spalding opens his sporting good shop
1879 1st
artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
1900’s
1908 Anna
Jeanes bequeaths $1,000,000 to Swarthmore to become all female
1909 National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) forms
1938 The
first 'Kindertransport' carrying Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany
arrives in Britain
1947 French
fashion designer Christian Diorpresents his first influential collection,
named the "New Look"
1949 "Annie
Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances
1950 Senator
Joe McCarthy claims to have list of 205 communist government employees
1973 1st US
POWs in N Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines
1981 Pete
Squires sets record for 1575 steps of Empire State Building, 10m
1984 Jayne
Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at the Olympics
1987 Survivors
of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
1989 Barbara
Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a US Episcopal church
1994 17th
Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
1994 "The
Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version)
is stolen in Oslo
1995 Bonnie
Blair skates female world record 500m (38.69 sec)
1999 US
President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment
trial
2000’s
2002 US
Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be
the United States' nuclear waste repository
2002 The
trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević
begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually
dies four years later before its conclusion.
2004 The
city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex
couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
2010 21st
Winter Olympic Games open at Vancouver, Canada
2016 Pope
Francis begins his visit to Mexico, arriving at “Benito Juarez” International
Airport in Mexico City
2016 Pope
Francis meets Patriarch Kirill in Havana - first meeting between Catholic and
Russian Orthodox church heads for nearly 1,000 years
2017 Emergency
spillway at Oroville Dam, California threatens to collapse, 180,00 residents
ordered to evacuate
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My
Rambling Thoughts
The strong wind
and the temps that are 10° cooler than yesterday have had my furnace running a
bit more. The hope for snow was just that, nothing but hope.
Really enjoying
the Olympics. Best story so far was the Norwegian who crashed early in his 15km
skiathon event and came back to win the gold. Amazing. I always enjoy curling,
but every 4-years I remember I know little about the sport, promise to learn
more before the next Olympics, then return to watch and wonder what strategy is
really going on. So while I watch the current curling match, I can offer no
strategy help to either team.
It reminds me of
my ferry trip Scotland. It was a 2+ hour ride and it was windy and cold
outside, so we were all watching the TV. There was some kind of Championship
Cricket match on TV. The passengers would watch and cheer then be silent.
Watching the match, I couldn’t figure out what was leading to the cheers. I
asked a guy a question. He said he would be glad to explain the game if I
wanted to stay on the ferry for the next three days. I declined with a smile. Turned
out this was the second or third day of the match and suddenly, with nothing
apparent to me, the crowd cheered and the match was over. Someday I’ll learn
those rules too.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@88- Omar
Bradley,
General of
Army WW II (GI General)
(d. 1981)
84- Bill
Russell,
American
basketball star
(Boston
Celtics, Olympic-gold 1956),
born in
West Monroe, Louisiana
82- Joe Don
Baker,
actor
(Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
born in Groesback
Tx
80- Judy
Blume,
author
(Wifey)
70’s
@77- Louisa
Adams,
US First
Lady (1825-29), wife of John Quincy Adams
born in
London heart attack
(d. 1852)
@73- Charles
Darwin,
English naturalist (Origin
of the Species)
conceived
the theory of evolution by natural selection,
born in
Shrewsbury, Shropshire heart failure
(d. 1882)
73- Maud
Adams,
actress
(Octopussy, Rollerball, Tattoo)
@72- Ted
Mack,
TV host
(Original Amateur Hour),
born in Greeley,
Colorado
heart
failure (d. 1976)
@72- Lorne
Greene [Lyon Chaim Green],
Canadian
actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica),
born in
Ottawa, Canada pneumonia
(d. 1987)
70- Raymond Kurzweil,
American inventor and author
(Kurzweil
reading machine, text-to-speech synthesis),
born in
NYC
60’s
@67- Forrest
Tucker,
American
actor (F Troop, Dusty Trail, The Crawling Eye),
born in
Plainfield, Indiana
lung
cancer (d. 1986)
@65- Cotton
Mather,
American
Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials),
born in
Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1728)
62- Arsenio
Hall,
US
comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America),
born in
Cleveland, Ohio
50’s
@56- Abraham
Lincoln,
American
politician (R) 16th President (1861-65),
born in
Hardin County, Kentucky
assassinated
(d. 1865)
50- Josh
Brolin,
US actor
(Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders),
born in
Santa Monica, CA
40’s
@49- Anna
Pavlova,
Russian
prima ballerina and choreographer
(Diaghilew,
Dying Swan),
born in St
Petersburg, Russia pleurisy
(d. 1931)
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Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@96-1983 Eubie
Blake,
US
ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You)
@95-1971 James
Cash Penney,
US founder
(J C Penney)
@91-2014 Isaac
Sidney "Sid" Caesar,
American
comic actor and writer ("Your Show of Shows")
@91-2011 Elizabeth
"Betty" Garrett,
American
actress, comedian, singer and dancer
(All in
the Family)
80’s
@80-2015 Gary
Owens,
American
disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
70’s
@79-1804 Immanuel
Kant,
German
philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden)
@77-2000 Charles
M. Schulz,
American
cartoonist,
colon
cancer
@76-2017 Al
Jarreau,
American
jazz singer (Moonlighting),
respiratory
failure
@75-2000 Tom
Landry,
American
football coach (Dallas Cowboys),
leukemia
@72-1947 Sidney
Toler,
American
actor, director and playwright
(non-Asian
Charlie Chan),
intestinal
cancer
60’s
@61-1985 Nicholas
Colssanto,
American
actor (Coach in Cheers),
heart
attack
50’s
@51-1789 Ethan
Allen,
American
Revolutionary War patriot
(lead the
Green Mountain Boys),
apoplectic
fit
@50-1942 Grant
Wood,
US painter
(American Gothic),
pancreatic
cancer
30’s
@37-1976 Sal
Mineo,
actor
(Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause),
stabbed
teen’s
@16-1554 Jane
Grey,
Queen of
England for 9 days,
beheaded
for treason
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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…☼☼☼☼
