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Mar 3, 2018 Week: 09\ Day: 62

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   18mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  844 miles away

Record High: 66°[1910]   Record Low: -9°[1915]

Marb Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  Nelson Mandela

Harper’s Index

4/5-Portion of US senators who had military experience in 1975

1/8-Today

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Observances This Week

Feb 25- Mar 3

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

National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link

1-7

National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Pet Sitters Week Link
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week

2-3
Texas Cowboy Poetry Week

2-4
Festival of Owls Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

3-9

Endometriosis Week Link

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Observances for Today

Caregiver Appreciation Day

I Want You to be Happy Day
If Pets Had Thumbs Day

International Ear Care Day
Iditarod  (First Saturday)
National Frozen Food Day Link 
National Mulled Wine Day  Link
National Anthem Day
Pasty Day Link
Peach Blossom Day

Princess Day Link
Simplify Your Life Day
Sock Monkey Day
Soup It Forward Day  Link
World Birth Defects Day
World Wildlife Day Link 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s                                          

≈1284 Statute of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England

1600’s                                          

1634 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole)

1700’s                                          

1791 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)

1791 Congress establishes US Mint

≈1794 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's 101st Symphony in D

1812 US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)

1800’s                                          

1805 Louisiana-Missouri Territory forms

1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi

1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery still being legal there.

1845 Florida becomes 27th state of the Union

1847 US Post Office Department is authorized to issue postage stamps

1849 US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by Congress

1863 US Congress authorizes track width of 4'8½" for Union Pacific Railroad

1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by US Congress

1863 Idaho Territory forms

1865 US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks

≈1865 Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group.

1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races

1871 US Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent

1871 US Congress establishes the civil service system

1873 US Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail

1879 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)

1879 US Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior

1885 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission

1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates

1885 US Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)

1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6-year-old blind-deaf Helen Keller

1891 US Congress creates Courts of Appeal

1900’s                                          

1900 US Steel Corporation organizes

1901 US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department of Commerce

1903 North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses

≈1904 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder

1905 US Forest Service forms

1910 Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist

1911 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Confederate graves opens, Missouri

1915 US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA

≈1917 Mexico and the USA renew diplomatic relations

1926 International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)

1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem by congressional resolution

1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated

≈1939 Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast in Mumbai (Bombay) to protest against autocratic rule in India

≈1945 RAF bombing error hits The Hague killing 511

≈1945 US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor

≈1956 Morocco gains independence from France (Anniversary of throne)

1966 Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)

1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

1985 "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis premieres on ABC TV in the US

1985 Bill Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win $100 million

1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads to riots when the police officers are acquitted

1992 US President George H. W. Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to

≈1992 Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina established.

≈1997 The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opens after two-and-a-half years of construction.

2000’s                                          

≈2002 Citizens of Switzerland narrowly vote in favor of their country becoming a member of the United Nations.

2005 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.

≈2017 Mass grave of 800 children and infants confirmed at a former Catholic care home in Tuam, Ireland

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My Rambling Thoughts

Had a great birthday lunch with our retirement group yesterday. Lots of laughs, memories, and some nice gifts too. Got home with not enough time to write this post.

Started today off with a good dental appointment. It was just a cleaning, but I have been on a 4-month schedule for the last two visits and all is well. I give credit to my Sonicare diamond electric toothbrush. As a mouth breather at night I have been doing 3-month cleanings for over a decade. Now it looks like I’m on a 4-month cycle. Maybe part of it is the CPAC machine. It keeps my mouth moist while I sleep.

Looks like a tiny storm is headed our way for part of the weekend. Not sure if it will arrive Sat. or Sun. Doesn’t really matter. We need the moisture and this one only to drop an inch or so. The only snow left from the storm of 2 days ago is tiny amounts in the shaded areas.

I’m sure there have been other administrations with people resigning. This one just seems like there are so many. I’m sure other administrations have had Congressional and Judicial investigations. This one just seems like there are so many. I know other administrations have appointed people with little experience. This one just seems like there are so many. The only surprise I get from this administration is a day without degrading tweets or a day with no new open investigations or a day with no resignations. Sad…

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Ruby Dandridge [Ruby Jean Butler],

American actress (Father of the Bride),

born in Wichita, Kansas

(d. 1987)

@85- James Doohan,

Canadian actor (Star Trek-Scotty),

born in Vancouver, British Columbia

(d. 2005)

70’s

@75- Alexander Graham Bell,

Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone),

born in Edinburgh, Scotland

(d. 1922)

@75- Henry Wood,

British conductor associated with London's promenade

concerts (Proms),

born in London, England

(d. 1944)

60’s

68- Ed Marinaro,

actor (Hill Street Blues)

@66- George M Pullman,

inventor (railway sleeping car)

(d. 1897)

Note: Fearing that some of his former employees or other labor supporters might try to dig up his body, his family arranged for his remains to be placed in a lead-lined mahogany coffin, which was then sealed inside a block of concrete. At the cemetery, a large pit had been dug at the family plot. At its base and walls were 18 inches of reinforced concrete. The coffin was lowered, and covered with asphalt and tar paper. More concrete was poured on top, followed by a layer of steel rails bolted together at right angles, and another layer of concrete. The entire burial process took two days.

50’s

56- Herschel Walker,

WFL/NFL running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys)

56- Jackie Joyner-Kersee,

heptathele (Olympic gold 1988, 92)

40’s

44- David Faustino,

actor (I Had 3 Wives, Bud-Married With Children),

born in Los Angeles, California

20’s

@26- Jean Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier],

30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8),

born in Kansas City,

kidney failure (d. 1937)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-1991 Arthur Murray,

dance instructor

@93-1921 P.J.H. [Pierre] Cuypers,

Dutch architect (Amsterdam museum)

80’s

@89-1966 William Frawley,

American actor (I Love Lucy, My 3 Sons)

@86-1993 Albert Sabin,

physician (oral polio vaccine)

70’s

@76-1987 Danny Kaye [David Daniel Kaminski],

American comedian and actor

(Danny Kaye Show, White Christmas),

heart failure

@75-1983 Hergé [Georges Prosper Remi],

Belgian comic book creator (The Adventures of Tintin),

blood disease

60’s

@67-1703 Robert Hooke,

scientific genius

50’s

@54-1992 Sandy Dennis,

actress (Up the Down Staircase),

cancer

@52-1959 Lou Costello,     

American comedian and actor

(The Abbott and Costello Show),

heart attack

40’s

@48-1966 Alice Pearce,

American comedienne and actress

(On the Town, Bewitched),

ovarian 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.

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