Mar 19

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Mar 19, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 78

86004 Today: H 45° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind ave.:   15mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  207 miles away

Record High: 71°[1907]   Record Low: 1°[1963]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

Harper’s Index

55-Average number of people who report

      being bitten by squirrels in NYC annually

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Observances This Week

18-24

American Chocolate Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Professionals Week Link
National Button Week Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week

19-25

Act Happy Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link
National Fix A Leak Week  Link

National Introverts Week Link
Wellderly Week

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Observances for Today

Client's Day Link
Goddess of Fertility Day 
National Certified Nurses Day  Link
National Chocolate Caramel Day Link
National Poultry Day Link
Operation Iraqi Freedom Day
Poultry Day

Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day
Well-Elderly or Wellderly Day 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s                                          

≈1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China

1600’s                                          

≈1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor

≈1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men

1700’s                                          

1748 Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize North American colonies

≈1775 4 people buried by avalanche for 37 days, 3 survive (Italy)

1800’s                                          

1822 Boston, Massachusetts incorporated as a city

1831 1st US bank robbery, the City Bank in New York robbed of $245,000 ($6.5 billion in 2018 $))

≈1882 1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

1900’s                                          

≈1911 1st International Women's Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women's right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and an end to discrimination on the job.

1918 US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time

1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)

1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty

≈1945 Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories

1965 The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000, said to have been most powerful Confederate cruiser, discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence exactly 102 years after its destruction.

1968 Howard University, Washington, DC, students seize administration building

1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago Democratic convention

1979 US House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN

1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River

1987 Bonnie Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec)

1987 American televangelist Jim Bakker resigns amid rape accusation by his secretary, Jessica Hahn

1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day

2000’s                                          

2014 Israel sends air force against Syrian military units involved in an attack yesterday on an Israeli patrol in the Golan Heights

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My Rambling Thoughts

Woke up to about 3” of very wet snow on the ground. Snowed until about 10a, then sun came out and quickly melted most of the snow. Had to shovel the walk to get the paper, should have just waited for it to melt. Haha.

Sunday morning news shows didn’t open any great new earth-shattering items. Most conservatives think everything is going great. Most liberals think it is only a matter of time. Commentators just babble on and on about their view of the world. Elected reps do the same. Sure wish all this babble would improve something…anything.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@86- Tige Andrews,

American character actor

(Mod Squad, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor),

born in Brooklyn

(d. 2007)

85- Philip Roth, 

        American novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint), 

        born in Newark, New Jersey

@83- Earl Warren,

Governor of California/

14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69),

born in Los Angeles

(d. 1974)

82- Ursula Andress,

Swiss model, actress and sex symbol

(Dr. No, Casino Royale, She, Sensuous Nurse),

born in Ostermundigen, Switzerland

@81- Jackie "Moms" Mabley,

 comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)

(d. 1975)

@80- Wyatt Earp,

American sheriff (OK Corral),

born in Monmouth, Illinois

(d. 1929)

70’s

@77- Jiang Qing [Madame Mao],

Chinese communist and wife of Mao Zedong,

born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China

suicide in prison hospital (d. 1991)

75- Mario J. Molina,

Mexican chemist and

1995 Nobel laureate (Antarctic ozone hole),

born in Mexico City, Mexico

71- Glenn Close, 

      American actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction), 

      born in Greenwich, Connecticut

60’s

@69- Richard Francis Burton,

English explorer and translator (Arabian Nights),

born in Torquay, Devon

heart attack (d. 1890)

@67- William Bradford,

Gov of Plymouth colony for 30 years (baptized)

(d. 1657)

66- Harvey Weinstein,

American film producer(Miramax),

born in New York City

@65- William Jennings Bryan,

American orator and statesman

known as "The Great Commoner",

born in Salem, Illinois

during nap 5 days after verdict in Scopes trial (d. 1925)

63- Bruce Willis,

American actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard),

born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany

@60- David Livingstone,

Scottish explorer (found by Stanley in Africa),

born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

malaria (d. 1873)

50’s

@56- Adolf Eichmann,

German Nazi officer

(SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer),

born in Solingen, German Empire

executed (d. 1962)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-2008 Arthur C. Clarke,

English sci-fi author

(2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End)

80’s

@88-2017 Jimmy Breslin,

American author and columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday)

@86-2008 Paul Scofield,

English actor (A Man for All Seasons and Quiz Show)

70’s

@74-1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs,

sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes),

heart attack

50’s

@50-1974 Anne Klien (Hannah Golofski),

fashion designer,

breast cancer

30’s

@30-1993 Jeff Ward,

drummer (9 Inch Nails),

suicide

20’s

@25-1982 Randy Rhoads,

heavy metal guitarist (Quiet Riot),

air crash

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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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