Feb 27

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Feb 27, 2018 Week: 09\ Day: 58

86004 Today: H 48° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 3% 

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 64°[1921]   Record Low: -12°[1962]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Great dancers are not great because of their technique,

they are great because of their passion.

  Martha Graham

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Observances This Week

25- Mar 3

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Justice for Animals Week Link  Link
Telecommuter Appreciation Week

National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link

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Observances for Today

Anosomia Awareness Day Link
IHOP International Pancake Day  Link
International Polar Bear Day Link
Museum Advocacy Day   Link 

No Brainer Day 

Polar Bear Day

Travel Africa Day
Spay Day USA 

World NGO Day  Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                          

1813 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted

1813 US Congress authorizes use of steamboats to transport mail

1827 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans

≈1844 Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti (National Day)

1860 Abraham Lincoln makes a speech at Cooper Union in the city of New York that is largely responsible for his election to the Presidency

1861 US Congress authorizes 1st stamped newspaper wrappers for mailing

1877 US Electoral College declares Rutherford B. Hayes winner of the presidential election

1883 Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine

1900’s

≈1907 Psychiatrists Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud meet for the first time in Vienna

1919 American Association for Hard of Hearing forms (NYC)

1922 US Supreme Court unanimously upholds 19th amendment to the US Constitution - women's right to vote

1939 Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes

≈1947 Frecnh explorer Paul-Emile Victor founds French Polar Expeditions to oversee French scientific missions

≈1950 General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1951 22nd amendment ratified, limiting US Presidents to 2 terms

≈1956 Female suffrage granted in Egypt

≈1957 Mao's famous speech to the Supreme State Conference "On Correct Handling of Contradictions Among People" expounding Maoist ideals

≈1960 US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal

≈1964 The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.

1968 CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite delivers a scathing editorial on America's chances of winning the Vietnam War

≈1969 General Hafez al-Assad becomes head of Syria via military coup

1973 American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

1974 "People" magazine begins sales

≈1981 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"

1984 Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m)

1986 The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis

≈1988 Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1

≈1988 Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating

1992 Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

≈1994 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway

2000’s

≈2010 Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake.

≈2012 Wikileaks begins disclosing 5 million emails from private intelligence company Stratfor

2014 US Republican Governor Jan Brewer vetoes a "religious freedom" bill that would have allowed businesses to turn away gay customers

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My Rambling Thoughts

Started this week off with a much needed pedi this morning. So nice. And she was able to fix my big toe’s nail that was starting to split and was very ‘ridge-y’. Now I can attack the week with power.

Snow is still in the tree shadowed area, otherwise it is all soaked in. Weatherman says another storm is on the way. Still need lots as this has been a very dry season.

So the Supreme Court has put a kink in 45’s stupid DACA ending. When will he learn he can’t just wake up, have a hairbrained idea, have someone type up the crazy idea, put it in a binder, call in the press, sign it and feel accomplished. Remember, we still have 3 branches of government.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96- Marian Anderson,

American contralto and celebrated singer 

(My Lord, What a Morning),

born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(d. 1993)

80’s

88- Joanne Woodward,

American actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel),

born in Thomasville, Georgia

@85- Hugo L Black,

(Sen-D-Ala)/78th Supreme Court justice (1937-71)

(d.1971)

84- Ralph Nader,

American consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed),

born in Winsted, Conn

84- N[avarre] Scott Momaday,

US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969)

@82- Van Williams,

American actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon),

born in Fort Worth, Texas

(d. 2016)

81- Barbara Babcock,

actress (Dr Quinn, Dallas, Hill St Blues),

born in Pasadena

70’s

@79- Elizabeth Taylor,

English-American actress(

Father of the Bride, Butterfield 8, Cleopatra),

born in London, England

heart failure (d. 2011)

@75- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

American poet (Song of Hiawatha),

born in Portland, Maine

peritonitis (d. 1882)

60’s

@66- John Steinbeck,

American author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962),

born in Salinas, California

heart disease (d. 1968)

30’s

38- Chelsea Clinton,

daughter of President Clinton and Hillary Clinton

37- Josh Groban,

pop singer

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-2016 George Kennedy,

American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Naked Gun films)

80’s

@89-2013 Dale Robertson,

American actor

(Death Valley Days, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Iron Horse)

@83-2015 Leonard Nimoy,

American actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)

@82-2008 William F. Buckley, Jr.,

American conservative author and commentator

@82-1985 Henry Cabot Lodge,

American politician (Sen-R) and diplomat

70’s

@78-2013 Van Cliburn,

American pianist (Tchaikovsky Competition winner, 1958),

cancer

@74-2003 Fred Rogers,

host of TV's "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood"

stomach cancer

@70-1892 Louis Vuitton,

French founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods

60’s

@63-1795 Francis Marion,

American military officer

(pioneered guerrilla warfare during the American

Revolutionary War)

50’s

@57-1986 Jacques "Jake the Snake" Plante,

Canadian Ice Hockey goalie

first to wear a goaltender mask,

stomach cancer 

@57-1974 Pat Brady [Robert Ellsworth O'Brady],

American actor

(The Roy Rodgers Show, Man from Music Mountain)

20’s

@25-1968 Frankie Lymon,

American rock and roll/rhythm and blues singer

(The Teenagers),

heroin OD

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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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