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Feb 18, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 49
86004 Today: H
51° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 6mph\Gusts:
11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1977] Record Low: -11°[1942]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
A
photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.
Ansel Adams
Harper’s Index
2- Number of
Irula tribesmen the state of Florida hired from India in February last year to
hunt invasive Burmese pythons
33- Number of
pythons they helped capture
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Observances This Week
12-18
Love
a Mensch Week
14-21
15-19
16-25
Date
(Fruit) Week
16-19
17-24
18-24
Bird
Health Awareness Week Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link
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Observances for Today
National Battery Day (Volta's birthday)
Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day
Daytona 500
Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Link
National Drink Wine Day Link
National Hate Florida Day Link
Pluto Day (Planet is Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh)
Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day
Daytona 500
Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Link
National Drink Wine Day Link
National Hate Florida Day Link
Pluto Day (Planet is Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1400’s
1478 George,
Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of
England, is privately executed in the Tower of London (allegedly by being
drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine).
1500’s
1503 Henry
Tudor (later Henry VIII) created Prince of Wales
1519 Hernán
Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with 11 ships and 500
men
1600’s
1678 John
Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in Holborn, London, by
Nathaniel Ponder
1685 Fort
St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis
for France's claim to Texas.
1700’s
1745 Bonnie
Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness, Scotland
1800’s
1804 1st US
land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered
1861 Confederate
President Jefferson Davisinaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)
1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste
Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty
1885 Mark
Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US
1900’s
1901 H Cecil
Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner
1913 French
modernist painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel
Duchamp causes an uproar when shown in New York
1930 US
astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1954 The
first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California
1960 8th
Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California
1965 The
Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom
1968 10th
Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
1972 California
Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
1973 54-kg
octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Washington
1978 1st
Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
1988 Anthony
Kennedy, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
1994 Dan
Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)
1998 Two
white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological
attack on New York City subways.
2000’s
2001 FBI
agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He
is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison
2009 English
fantasy author Terry Pratchett receives a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth
II at Buckingham Palace
2013 $50
million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport,
Belgium
2014 Police
clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Quiet and beautiful
day here. Light jacket is all that was needed for a walk around. Then some
light cleaning.
Still enjoying
the Olympics. Americans having a few bumps, but I am watching the top athletes
of each sport. Back story for athletes is also very informative. The intensity
is outstanding.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@90- Enzo
Ferrari,
racing car
manufacturer,
(d. 1988)
@90- Helen
Gurley Brown,
American
author/publisher and
editor-in-chief
of Cosmopolitan,
born in
Green Forest, Arkansas,
(d. 2012)
80’s
@87- Jack
Palance [Vladimir Palahniuk],
American
actor (City Slickers, Contempt, Batman),
born in
Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania
(d. 2006)
87- Toni
Morrison,
novelist
(Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)
85- Yoko Ono Lennon
[Mrs John Lennon],
Japanese
singer and artist,
born in
Tokyo
@82- Alessandro
Volta,
Italian physicist and inventor
of the 1st battery,
born in
Como, Italy (d. 1827)
70’s
@79- Jacques
Cassini,
French
astronomer (rings of Saturn)
(d. 1756)
@76- Johnny
Hart,
cartoonist
(B.C., Wizard of Id),
born in
Endicott, NY
while at
his drawing table (d. 2007)
@70- André
Breton,
French writer and
poet,
founder of
Surrealism,
born in
Tinchebray, France
(d. 1966)
@70- Bill
Cullen,
TV game
show host (over 20 different games)
lung cancer
(d. 1990)
60’s
68- Cybill
Shepherd,
actress
(Moonlighting, Last Picture Show),
born in
Memphis
66- Juice
Newton, [Judy Cohen],
American
vocalist (Angel of the Morning),
born in
Virginia
64- John
Travolta,
American actor (Grease,
Pulp Fiction),
born in
Englewood, NJ
61- Vanna
White, [Rosich],
TV host
(Wheel of Fortune)
50’s
@59- John
Hughes,
American
film director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller),
born in
Lansing, Michigan
(d. 2009)
54- Matt
Dillon,
actor (The
Outsiders, Crash),
born in
New Rochelle, NY
53- Dr. Dre,
[Andre Romelle Young],
American rapper and
record producer
(Still
D.R.E., The Next Episode),
born in
Compton
50- Molly
Ringwald,
actress
(16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)
40’s
@42- Mary I
Tudor, [Bloody Mary],
Greenwich,
queen of England
cancer?\influenza
(d. 1558)
44- Jillian
Michaels,
American
fitness instructor and television personality
(The
Biggest Loser),
born in
Los Angeles
20’s
@25- George
"The Gipper" Gipp,
football
star (Notre Dame)
strep
throat (d. 1920)
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Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@99-2014 Maria
Franziska von Trapp,
Austrian-born
American singer
@90-1902 Charles
Lewis Tiffany,
American
founder of Tiffany & Co.
80’s
@88-1564 Michelangelo,
Italian
sculptor, painter, architect and
poet of
the High Renaissance
(David,
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel)
70’s
@78-1294 Kublai
Khan,
Mongol
Emperor (1260-94) and
founder of
the Yuan dynasty in China (1271-94)
@75-1906 John
Batterson Stetson,
American
manufacturer hatter
@71-1977 Andy
Devine [ Andrew Vabre Devine],
American
character actor
(Adventures
of Wild Bill Hickok, Stagecoach)
leukaemia
60’s
@69-2017 Norma
McCorvey,
American
abortion activist (Jane Roe in Roe vs Wade)
later
became pro-life,
heart
failure
@62-1967 Robert
Oppenheimer,
American
theoretical physicist
father of
the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project)
throat cancer
@62-1546 Martin
Luther,
German
theologian
key figure
in the Protestant Reformation
stroke
40’s
@49-2001 Dale
Earnhardt,
American
race car driver
car crash
at Daytona 500 race
@49-1957 Joseph
G. Hamilton,
American
Physician
pioneer
of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment radiation induced leukemia
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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
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