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Mar 22, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 81

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

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

Nearest Lightning:  1257 miles away

Record High: 68°[2004]   Record Low: -1°[1952]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

You exist only in what you do.

   Federico Fellini

Harper’s Index

+113-Etimated percentage change since 1979 in the number of Capitol Hill police officers

-27-In the number of congressional staffers

6-Percentage of staffers who say they have enough time to consider and debare policy matters

6-Who say Congress’s technology infrastructure is adequate to perform their duties

3-Number of congress people with a history of employment in the hard sciences.

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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

21-27

Internat’l Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

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Observances for Today

As Young As You Feel Day
Data Innovation Day Link
International Day of The Seal
National Goof Off Day

Tuskegee Airmen Day
World Day for Water (aka World Water Day)  Link
World Day of Metta 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1622 First American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347 killed

1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)

1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony

1700’s                                          

≈1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand

1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington

1800’s                                          

1841 Cornstarch patented by Orlando Jones

1861 1st US nursing school chartered

1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment

1873 Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico, celebrated as Emancipation Day

1900’s                                          

1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal

1947 President Harry Truman signs executive order calling for loyalty

1954 1st shopping mall opens in Southfield, Michigan

≈1960 1st patent for lasers granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes

1965 US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong

1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California, Drumm & Market, San Francisco, dedicated

1984 Teachers at the McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.

1988 US Congress overrides President Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill

2000’s                                          

≈2012 Largest protest in Quebec's history occurs in Montreal with over 200,000 people marching against government tuition hikes and for free access to post-secondary education

≈2017 Arctic records its lowest ever winter ice cover according to US National Snow and Ice Data Center, 5.5 million square miles

≈2017 Tomb of Jesus reopens after restoration in Jerusalem

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another nice spring day here at 7000’.

Got my weekly shopping done. Took a little longer because I got no newspaper this morning, so had to spend time looking over the ad at the store.

Ever hear the saying ‘there is no such thing as a free lunch’? Guess many haven’t as Social media, especially Facebook, are in trouble for giving away information about users. Really? The site is free. Be careful about whatever you do on your computer or your smart phone.

Our Amazon trip is getting close, just a little more than a month away. Getting excited.

Tomorrow is my annual ‘You are getting old’ Medicare checkup. Don’t really need a physician to tell me that, but I’ll go and see what is next.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- Karl Malden [Mladen George Sekulovich],

American actor

(Streets of San Francisco, American Express, A Streetcar

Named Desire),

born in Chicago

(d. 2009)

80’s

88- Stephen Sondheim,

American lyricist (West Side Story, Company),

born in NYC

87- William Shatner, 

actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker),

born in Montreal, Quebec

@80- Werner Klemperer,

German-American actor

(Judgment at Nuremberg, Hogan's Heroes),

born in Cologne, Germany

(d. 2000)

70’s

71- James Patterson,

American author (Alex Cross, Witch and Wizard),

born in Newburgh, NY

70- Andrew Lloyd Webber, 

composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats),

born in London

60’s

66- Bob Costas,

sportscaster/talk show host (Later),

born in Queens

@61- Ross Martin [Martin Rosenblatt],

Polish-American actor (Mr Lucky, The Wild Wild West),

born in Gródek, Lwowskie, Poland

heart attack (d. 1981)

50’s

59- Mathew Modine,

actor (Stranger Things…)

@55- Haing S Ngor,

Cambodian-American obstetrician, author,

refugee and actor (The Killing Fields),

born in Samrong Yong, Cambodia

murdered in Chinatown (Los Angles)

(d. 1996)

40’s

47- Keegan-Michael Key,

comedian

42- Reese Witherspoon,

American actress

(Pleasantville, Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama),

born in New Orleans

@41- Anthony Van Dyck,

Flemish painter (Charles I of England),

born in Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands

long illness

(d. 1641)

30’s

@39- Randolph Caldecott,

England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake)

heart condition

(d. 1886)

36- Constance Wu,

Taiwanese-American actress (Fresh Off the Boat)

born in Richmond, Virginia

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-1994 Walter Lantz,

US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker)

@90-2001 William Hanna,

American animator and studio founder

40’s

@48-1958 Michael "Mike" Todd [Avrom Goldbogen],

American producer (Around the World in 80 Days) and

3rd husband of Elizabeth Taylor,

plane crash

@46-2016 Rob Ford,

Canadian politician (Toronto mayor caught with cocaine),

Liposarcoma

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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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