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Feb 20, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 51
86004 Today: H
43° \ L 8° \ Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind ave.: 19mph\Gusts:
45mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1977] Record Low: -11°[1955]
Feb Averages: 46°\19°
Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)
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Today’s Quote
Blessed are the young for they shall
inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
Bonus:
There are many ways of going forward,
but only one way of standing still.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Observances This Week
14-21
16-25
Date
(Fruit) Week
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
20-23
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Observances for Today
(or Love Your Dog Day)
Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
World Day for Social Justice
World Pangolin Day
World Pangolin Day
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1400’s
1472 Orkney
and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment
1600’s
1673 1st
recorded wine auction held in London
1700’s
1725 10
sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty
1792 US
postal service created, postage 6-12 cents depending on distance
1800’s
1809 US
Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1835 Concepcion,
Chile, destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
1873 University
of California gets its first Medical School (UC/San Francisco)
1895 Congress
authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorodo
1900’s
1913 King
O'Malley drives in the first survey peg to mark commencement of work on the
construction of Australian capital Canberra
1915 Panama-Pacific
International Exposition (World's Fair) opens in San Francisco
1927 Golfers
in SC arrested for violating Sabbath
1933 US
House of Representatives completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1941 Nazis
order Polish Jews barred from using public transportation
1943 New
volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn field (Mexico)
1943 American
movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor
movies.
1944 Batman
& Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
1947 Chemical
mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
1950 Dylan
Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
1952 "African
Queen" film directed by John Huston, starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine
Hepburn is released in the US
1953 US
Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business,
affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
1962 John
Glenn become 1st American to orbit the Earth, aboard Friendship 7
1971 National
Emergency Center erroneously orders US radio & TV stations to go off the
air. Mistake wasn't resolved for 30 minutes
1976 The
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
1979 11
'loyalists' known as the "Shankill Butchers" are sentenced to life in
prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping,
torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast
1987 David
Hartman quits ABC's "Good Morning America" after 11 years
1998 US
movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
2000’s
2005 Spain
becomes the first country to vote in a referendum on ratification of the
proposed Constitution of the European Union, passing it by a substantial
margin, but on a low turnout.
2012 Scientists
successfully regenerate the flowering plant, Silene stenophylla from a 31,800
year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
2013 Estonia
becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for
electric cars
2016 Gunman
goes on random killing spree in Kalamazoo, Michigan, killing 6
2017 Famine
is declared in Unity State, South Sudan, affecting 4.9 million
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A day of snow is
fantastic for our parched forest, however the 40+mph winds are ruining the
whole experience.
I had an eye appointment
last week and it snowed. Tomorrow I have a blood draw and the weather many says
this storm will bring 3-5” by tomorrow morning. If I have no appointments, it
never snows this season. When I have one, it snows. Crazy!
I attended Jeffco
schools through high school. It has grown a lot since those days. Columbine was
not a school when I attended high school. But in 1999 Columbine sadly made the
news. As a former Jeffco alum, I felt bad. As I was watching the brave
survivors of the latest Florida school massacre, I was reminded that the high
school seniors of this year were all born after Columbine. Their entire school
attendance has been with lockdown drills. It is now wonder they are fed up.
They only know stories of what it was like before school shootings. I remember
doing the ‘duck & cover’ drills in elementary school a couple of times, but
the rest of my education was only fire drills a couple of times a year.
After another school
shooting I was an Rez administrator and had to do my first lockdown drill. It
seemed so foreign, so out of place for a school. We were in about 8 buildings,
no fences, no ‘entry’ system, no way of monitoring visitors, but we still did
the drill. That school now has an enclosed waiting area, someone who opens the
second door, provides a badge, and someone else to escort the visitor to their
destination. The school now has a new campus with all 900+ students in one
building. Times have changed.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
94- Gloria
Vanderbilt,
American
actress, artist, heiress and socialite,
born in
Manhattan
91- Sidney
Poitier,
1st
African American actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor
('Lillies
in the Field' - 1963),
born in
Miami
80’s
84- Bobby
Unser,
auto racer
(1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
born in
Colorado Springs
@82- Ansel
Adams,
photographer (1966
ASMP Award),
born in San Francisco,
(d. 1984)
@80- Vincent
Massey,
Canadian
diplomat,
first
Canadian-born Governor General of Canada (1952-59),
born in
Toronto, Ontario
(d. 1967)
70’s
@77- John
Daly,
newscaster/TV
game show host (What's My Line)
born in South
Africa
heart
attack (d. 1991)
77- Buffy
Sainte-Marie,
folksinger
(Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
76- Mitch
McConnell,
American
politician,
(Senator-R-KY,
1985-, and Senate Majority Leader 2015- ),
born in
Sheffield, Ala.
71- Peter
Strauss,
actor
(Rich Man Poor Man)
born in Croton-on-Hudson
NY
actress
(Hogan Family)
@71- J.
Geils [John Warren Geils Jr],
American
rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold),
born in
NYC
natural
causes (d. 2017)
60’s
69- Ivana
Trump,
Czech-American
model and
ex-wife of
Donald Trump (1st Wives Club),
born in
Gottwaldov, Moravia, Czechoslovak Republic
@67- Larry
Hovis,
comedian
(Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)
cancer (d.
2003)
64- Patty
Hearst Shaw,
famous
kidnap hostage (Tanya),
born in
San Francisco
@60- Amanda
Blake [Beverly Louise Neill],
American
actress (Kitty Russell-Gunsmoke),
born in
Buffalo, NY
AIDS (d.
1989)
50’s
57- Gordon
Brown,
British
Labor Prime Minister (2007–10),
born in
Giffnock, Scotland
55- Charles
Barkley,
American NBA forward
(Phoenix,
Rockets, Olympic gold 1996),
born in
Leeds, Alabama
52- Cindy
Crawford,
supermodel
(Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
30’s
33- Trevor Noah,
comedian
(The Daily Show)
born in Johannesburg
30- Rihanna [Robyn
Rihanna Fenty],
Barbadian singer-songwriter
(Umbrella,
We Found Love, Diamonds),
born in
Saint Michael, Barbados
20’s
@27- Kurt
Cobain,
American rock
vocalist (Nirvana),
born in
Aberdeen, Washington
suicide (d.
1994)
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Historical
Obits Today
100’s
@101-2016 Peter
Mondavi,
American
winemaker (Charles Krug - Napa Valley)
80’s
@86-2006 Curt
Gowdy,
American
sportscaster (ABC)
@85-2010 Alexander
Haig Jr,
American
General and 59th Secretary of State (1981-82)
@80-1985 Clarence
Nash,
American
voice actor (Donald Duck)
@80-1966 Chester
Nimitz,
American
admiral who commanded the US Pacific fleet
in World
War II
70’s
@77-1895 Frederick
Douglass,
African-American
abolitionist, lecturer and
editor who
was also an escaped slave,
heart
attack
60’s
@67-2005 Hunter
S. Thompson,
American
journalist and author
suicide
@63-1992 Dick
York,
American
actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind),
emphysema
@63-1920 Robert
E Peary,
US pole
explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909?),
50’s
@54-1907 Henri
Moissan,
French
chemist who isolated the element "fluorine"
from its
compounds (Nobel 1906),
appendicitis
@53-1999 Gene
Siskel,
American
film critic
brain
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…☼☼☼☼
