Mar 11

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Mar 11, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 70

86004 Today: H 58° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 98% 

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

Nearest Lightning:  733miles away

Record High: 69°[1900]   Record Low: -5°[1948]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Surprise is the greatest gift

which life can grant us.

  Boris Pasternak

Harper’s Index

6-Number of US states in which legislation has been

proposed in 2017 to protect drivers who strike

pedestrians

7-Percentage of Americans who say they support

‘white nationalism’

39-Who believe that white Americans are

‘currently under attack’

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

5-11

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

10-12

World Rattlesnake Roundup

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

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Observances for Today

Check Your Batteries Day 
Daylight Savings Time Begins  (Turn Ahead 1 Hour)  @2:00 am
Dream 2018 Day
Girl Scout Sunday Link 
International Fanny Pack Day Link  
Johnny Appleseed Day

Mothering Sunday Link
National Promposal Day Link 
US Snow Shoe Days: 9-11 Link

World Plumbing Day Link

Worship of Tools Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights

≈1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000

1700’s                                          

≈1744 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London

1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)

1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.

1800’s                                          

1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont

1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs

≈1845 The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

≈1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice

≈1869 The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter

1900’s                                          

≈1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1918 Save the Redwoods League founded

1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas

≈1920 Syria proclaims Emir Feisal king after the country has fought off French domination

1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)

1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics

1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule

1959 "Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens

1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"

≈1971 Jim Morrison leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.

≈1986 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC

≈1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1

≈1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US

2000’s                                          

≈2004 Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid's rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations, killing 190

≈2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile

≈2009 Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.

≈2013 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals

≈2013 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice

≈2017 At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia

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My Rambling Thoughts

Cloudy day…weatherman says rain tonight, with a little snow. Hmmm.

Our discussion group meets tonight to discuss World Health. Should be a great discussion as it is being led by a Univ. Nursing professor who has spent over 5 years in Liberia, both before and after the Ebola crisis.

One of the articles was speaking about how complicated it is to provide health benefits to a group of people that are in the middle of a pandemic. The world argument revolves around ‘vertical’ help which provides say condoms to stop the spread of AIDS, and ‘horizontal’ help which looks at the necessary changes in culture and lifestyle to prevent the spread of AIDS. Money is much easier to gather for vertical help than for horizontal help.

This so reminded me of the 45 Administration. Most, if not all of the changes are vertical help…the embargo on steel or set deportation at all illegals. The policies don’t look at the consequences of either one, just a quick fix for a huge complicated issue.

The article pointed out that there are times when vertical help is necessary in a crisis, but that without horizontal help, the world will spend it’s time with band aids and no long term solutions.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96- J. Franklin Hyde,

American inventor (created silica),

born in Solvay, New York

(d. 1999)

80’s

@89- Lawrence Welk, S

orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)

(d. 1992)

87- Rupert Murdoch,

Australian media mogul

(NY Post, News of the World, FOX-TV),

born in Melbourne, Victoria

84- Sam Donaldson,

ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time),

born in El Paso

70’s

@79- Harold Wilson, 

British Prime Minister (Labour: 1964-70, 1974-76),

born in Huddersfield, England

cancer\Alzheimer’s   (d. 1995)

60’s

68- Jerry Zucker,

director (Airplane, Naked Gun),

born in Milwaukee

@64- Ralph Abernathy,

American civil rights leader

(Southern Christian Leadership Conference),

born in Linden, Alabama

blood clots (d. 1990)

64- Gale Norton,

48th United States Secretary of the Interior

@49- Douglas Adams,

English author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy),

born in Cambridge, England

heart attack (d. 2001)

40’s

49- Terrance Howard,

actor (Empire)

47- Johnny Knoxville,

American television personality

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-1955 Oscar Mayer,

Bavarian-born American meat packer

@92-2012 Sid Couchey,

American comic book artist (Richie Rich)

80’s

@80-1970 Erle Stanley Gardner,

American writer (Perry Mason)

70’s

@74-1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes,

football coach (Ohio State),

heart attack

@73-1955 Alexander Fleming,

Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin),

heart attack 

60’s

@69-2010 Merlin Olsen,

American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and

actor (Little House, Father Murphy),

cancer

@68-1957 Richard E. Byrd,

American aviator and polar explorer

(1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air –

 disputed),

heart disease

@64-2006 Slobodan Milošević,

President of Serbia (1991-97) and

Yugoslavia (1997-2000),

heart attack in prison

@63-1874 Charles Sumner,

American politician, Senator Massachusetts (1851-74)

 anti-slavery advocate,

heart attack

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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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