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Mar 18, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 77
86004 Today: H
51° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave.: 17mph\Gusts:
0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest Lightning: 569 miles away
Record High: 68°[2004] Record Low: -1°[1954]
Mar Averages: 46°\19°
Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)
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Today’s Quote
Think where man's
glory most begins and ends,
and say my glory was I
had such friends.
William Butler Yeats
Harper’s Index
6-Percentage by which a middle-class American is more
likely than a poor one
to eat fast food in a given week
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Observances This Week
9-18
XII Paralympic Winter
Games
12-18
International Brain
Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)
Shakespeare Week (Link)
16-18
Sherlock Holmes
Weekend
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Observances for Today
Awkward Moments Day
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
Goddess of Fertility Day
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
Goddess of Fertility Day
National Biodiesel Day
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
≈Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
1300’s
≈1314 Jacques
de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned
at the stake by King Philip IV of France
≈1325 According
to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the
Mexican coat of arms.
1500’s
1541 Hernando
de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
1800’s
1810 "Converse",
1st US opera, premieres in NY
1818 US
Congress approves 1st pensions for government service
≈1859 Vera
Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform
1870 1st US
National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)
1881 Barnum
& Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" opens (Madison Square Garden)
≈1895 200
African Americans leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia
1900’s
1919 Order
of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
≈1922 British
magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment
for disobedience
1922 The
first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai
Kaplan, is held in New York City.
1931 1st
electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
1944 2,500
women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks
announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store
≈1949 NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified
1952 1st
plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)
1959 US
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
≈1972 Ulster
Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the
crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to
liquidate the enemy"
≈1977 US
restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
≈1989 In
Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops
2000’s
2005 Terri
Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband
≈2014 Russia
formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on
Accession
≈2014 US
closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice day as I
await the next storm tonight and tomorrow. Forecasting 2-5” of the white stuff.
Not too excited as weather has been changing so rapidly around here, we could
easily have another spring day tomorrow with only rain.
The firing of
McCabe is surreal and I fear, far from over. I saw a copy of his response. He
knows stuff. When will I wake up from this frightful dream? Seem like 423 days and
counting should be enough.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@88- Lillian
Vernon,
founder
and CEO of the Lillian Vernon Corporation
(first
company listed on US stock exchange started by a
woman),
born in
Leipzig, Germany
(d. 2015)
@87- Cluny
MacPherson,
Canadian
doctor and inventor of the gas mask,
born in
St. John's, Newfoundland
(d. 1966)
@84- Edward
Everett Horton,
American
actor and narrator (Bulwinkle Show),
born in
Brooklyn
(d. 1970)
@83- Peter
Graves [Aurness],
American
actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17),
born in
Minneapolis, Minnesota
(d. 2010)
82- F. W. de
Klerk,
South
African President (1989-94)
winner of
1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela,
born in
Johannesburg, Transvaal Province
70’s
@76- George
Plimpton,
sports
writer (Paper Lion), born in NYC,
heart
attack (d. 2003)
@71- Grover
Cleveland,
22nd and
24th US President (1885-89, 1893-97),
born in
Caldwell, NJ
heart
attack (d. 1908)
@71- [Arthur] Neville
Chamberlain,
British
Prime Minister (C, 1937-40),
born in
Birmingham, England
cancer (d.
1940)
60’s
@68- John C.
Calhoun,
Andrew
Jackson's Vice President (1825-32),
born in
Abbeville, South Carolina
TB (d.
1850)
@67- Edgar
Cayce,
American
psychic
stroke (d.
1945)
American
R&B singer (Funky Broadway),
born in
Prattville, Alabama
heart
attack (d. 2006)
50’s
@55- Rudolf
Diesel,
French-born
German engineer (invented the diesel engine),
born in
Paris, France
(disappeared
1913)
@55- Smiley
Burnette,
cowboy
(Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
leukemia
(d.1967)
55- Vanessa
L Williams,
Actress,
singer and
1st
African American Miss America (1983)
54- Bonnie
Blair,
American
speed skater (Olympic 5 gold/bronze 1988, 92, 94)
born in
Champaign, Illinois
40’s
48- Queen
Latifah,
American rapper and actress
(Khadijah James-Living Single),
born in
Newark, NJ
46 Reince
Priebus [Rheinhold Priebus],
American
lawyer and political operative
(Trump
Chief of Staff (Jan-Jul 2017),
born in
Dover, NJ
30’s
39- Adam
Levine,
American
singer (Maroon 5),
born in
Los Angeles
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Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@90-2017 Chuck
Berry [Charles Andersen],
American
rock n' roll guitarist and singer-songwriter
(Roll over
Beethoven)
80’s
@85- Fess
Parker,
American
actor
@84-2016 Joe
Santos,
American
actor (Rockford files)
70’s
@79-1980 Erich
Fromm,
German/US
psychoanalyst
@70-1845 John
Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed],
American
pioneer agronomist
60’s
@69-1964 Norbert
Wiener,
American
mathematician (cybernetics),
heart attack
40’s
@45-2009 Natasha
Richardson,
English
actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale),
traumatic
brain injury
@45-1965 Farouk
I,
last King
of Egypt (1936-52),
in exile,
heart attack? Poisoned?
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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…☼☼☼☼
