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Mar 20, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 79

86004 Today: H 48° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  965 miles away

Record High: 72°[2004]   Record Low: -1°[1935]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Plodding wins the race.

  Aesop

Harper’s Index

25-Percentage of animal derived food products in the US

that are consumed by pets

4-Number of countries that consume more animal-derived products than US pets do

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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

20-4/5

National Cherry Blossom Festival

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Observances for Today

Alien Abduction Day
Bed-in For Peace Day
Extraterrestrial Abductions Day

French Language Day Link

Great American Meat Out Day Link
International Astrology Day 
International Day of Happiness Link  Link
International Earth Day
Kiss Your Fiancée Day
National Agriculture DayLink 
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Ostara (Spring Equinox)
Proposal Day
Spring (Vernal) Equinox 12:15 pm EDT
Tea for Two Tuesday

World Storytelling Day Link (Always Spring Equinox)
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People Link
World Sparrow Day  Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s                                          

≈1345 Saturn, Jupiter and Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic"

1600’s                                          

≈1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower of London to seek gold in Guyana

1700’s                                          

1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings

1800’s                                          

≈1800 Alessandro Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president of the Royal Society of London

1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions

≈1833 US & Siam sign commercial treaty

1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published in Boston

1886 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial operation in Massachusetts

1897 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY

1900’s                                          

1930 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] is founded by Colonel Harland Sanders in North Corbin, Kentucky

≈1933 Dachau the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed

≈1942 General MacArthur vows "I came through and I shall return" after escaping Japanese invaded Philippines

1952 24th Academy Awards: "An American in Paris", Humphrey Bogart & Vivian Leigh win

1954 "King & I" closes at St James Theater NYC after 1246 performances

1968 LBJ signs a bill removing gold backing from US paper money

≈1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148 people were wounded

1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 weeks

1986 New York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation

1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)

≈1988 Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet.

1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (36.02 sec)

1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of killing their parents

≈1996 UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)

2000’s                                          

2000 Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff's deputy dead

≈2005 A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.

≈2016 Barack Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving for a 2 day tour

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My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful spring day…yet a little chilly. Snow only remains in very shaded areas. Headed out early to do some shopping. Couldn’t find what I was looking for, so came home.

Got home just in time to hear 45 touting the idea of the death penalty for all drug dealers. Not real clear on what happens to physicians who overprescribe opiates. Everything for our leader is black or white, but sometimes gray when he just turns the gray into black or white with ‘facts’ he sometimes just makes up.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

96- Carl Reiner, 

comedian (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show),

born in The Bronx

80’s

87- Hal Linden, [Harold Lipshitz],

actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)

@86- B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner,

Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box)

born in Susquehanna, PA

(d. 1990)

70’s

@77- Michael Redgrave,

British actor (Browning Version, Lady Vanishes),

born in Bristol

Parkinson’s (d. 1985)

@74- Fred Rogers,

American children's TV host (Mr Rogers' Neighborhood),

born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania

stomach cancer(d. 2003)

73- Pat Riley,

NBA coach (Lakers, Knicks, Heat),

born in Schenectady, NY

70- Bobby Orr,

Hockey player

60’s

@69- Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson,

American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet),

born in Jersey City, New Jersey

liver cancer (d. 1975)

@68- Vaughn Meader,

American comedian and musician,

born in Waterville, Maine

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (d. 2004)

68- William Hurt, 

actor (Big Chill, Children of a Lesser God),

born in Washington, D.C.

@61- Ted Bessell,

actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer Pyle),

born in Flushing, NY

aortic aneurysm (d. 1996)

61- Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee],

American film director 

(Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X),

born in Atlanta, Georgia

60- Holly Hunter,

American actress (Broadcast News, The Piano),

born in Conyers, Georgia

50’s

@59±- Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso],

Roman poet (Metamorphoses)

(d. 17)

@59- Frederick Winslow Taylor,

American mechanical engineer and

the father of scientific management,

born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

pneumonia (d. 1915)

55- Kathleen "Kathy" Ireland,

American model and actress (Alien From LA, Side Out),

born in Glendale, CA

55- David Thewlis,

English actor (Remus Lupin-Harry Potter series),

born in Blackpool, Lancashire

40’s

@41-1976 Chester Bennington,

American singer and songwriter (Linkin Park),

born in Phoenix

suicide (d. 2017)

Pre-teen’s

12- Baron Trump,

youngest son of 45

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Historical Obits Today

0’s

@94-1962 A. E. Douglass,

American astronomer and

inventor of dendrochronology (tree-ring dating)

@89-2010 Liz Carpenter,

American feminist writer, presidential advisor

@87-2017 George Weinberg,

American psychotherapist (coined "homophobia")

@62-1974 Chet Huntley,

newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report),

lung cancer

@61-1932 Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov,

Russian Biologist (artificial insemination of animals)

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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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