Apr 5

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Apr 5, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 95

86004 Today: H 68° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Nearest Lightning:  888 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 75°[1959]   Record Low: 8°[1958]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all the things that differentiate us—race, language, religion, gender, wealth, and so on—

we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity

  Dalai Lama

Harper’s Index

1 in 5

            Estimated change that a white woman in Washington, DC,

            has a tanning-salon addition

+269

            Percentage change between 2005 and 2014 in the number

            of French people undergoing weight-loss surgery

6

            Factor by which an obese woman is less likely than other

            candidates in France to be offered a job interview

More Observances This Month

Confederate History Month
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month  Link
Couple Appreciation Month

Observances This Week

1-7

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Bat Appreciation Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
National Blue Ribbon Week  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link 
World Hula Week
Explore Your Career Options

4-10

Hate Week

5-8

Mule Day
The Masters Tournament

Observances for Today

Go for Broke Day

Gold Star Spouses Day
National Fun at Work Day 

National Alcohol Screening Day  
National Burrito Day  
National Dandelion Day

National Deep Dish Pizza Day Link
Read A Road Map Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

400’s                                            

✪456 Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop

1800’s                                          

1806 Isaac Quintard patents apple cider

✪1818 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.

1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller

✪1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices

1900’s                                          

1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires

1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style

✪1943 Chinese steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by German U-boat

1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting

✪1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions

1965 37th Academy Awards: "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win awards

1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated

1969 Massive anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities

✪1971 Mount Etna erupts in Sicily

1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)

✪1986 Record for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)

1987 Fox TV network premieres showing "Married With Children" and "The Tracey Ullman Show"

1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity

✪1997 Steve Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" debuts

2000’s                                          

✪2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks

✪2012 International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship

2015 Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its "Rape on Campus" story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited

2016 PayPal announces it is cancelling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation

2016 San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice spring day.  Doors and windows open for a while.

Stayed up way too late last night, thanks to Netflix and a friend’s visit. Saw some interesting movies.  Nice evening. Still woke up at 6am. I think a nice nap is called for later this afternoon.

Shocked…again…at the crazy lady at YouTube. Lots of questions about how she even got in with a weapon. Crazy people should not have access to guns…duh.

This weekend I get serious about preparing for my Amazon trip. Start laying out items needed. Re-read all the correspondence from Focus on what to bring, money needed on the boat, etc. It is finally getting close.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Thomas Hobbes,

English philosopher(Leviathan), born in Westport, England

(d. 1679)

80’s

@87- Gregory Peck,

American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur),

born in San Diego

(d. 2003)

@87- Gale Storm [Josephine Owaissa Cottle],

American singer and actress

(My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show),

born in Bloomington, Texas

(d. 2009)

@81- Bette Davis,

American actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel),

born in Lowell, Mass

(d. 1989)

80- Colin Powell,

American General and Assistant to the President

(Nat Sec Affairs),

born in The Bronx

87’s

@77- Robert [Albert] Bloch,

American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho)

cancer (d. 1977)

75- Max Gail,

American actor (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab),

born in Detroit

@72- Frank Gorshin,

US comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman),

born in Pittsburgh

lung cancer (d. 2005)

60’s

@67- Spencer Tracy,

American actor (Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib),

born in Milwaukee

heart attack (d. 1967)

50’s

@59- Booker T. Washington,

American education pioneer and

1st African American on a US stamp,

born in Hale's Ford, Virginia

hypertension (d. 1915)

40’s

45- Pharrell Williams,

American music producer (The Neptunes),

born in Virginia Beach, VA

30’s

@36- Judith Arlene Resnik,

astronaut (STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster),

born in Akron

(d. 1986)

 

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-2005 Saul Bellow,

Canadian-American author

(Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)

@86-2015 Richard Dysart,

American actor (Leland MacKenzie - LA Law)

@84-2008 Charlton Heston,

American actor (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur)

@84-1964 Douglas MacArthur,

US general (Pacific theater-WW II)

@80-1997 Allen Ginsberg,

beat poet

70’s

@76-2012 Ferdinand A. Porsche,

German car designer (Porsche 911)

@74-1992 Sam Walton,

American businessman

(founder and CEO of Walmart and Sam's Club),

multiple myeloma

@70-1976 Howard Hughes,

American reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator,

kidney failure, malnutrition

40’s

@47-1946 Vincent Millie Youmans, US composer (Tea For Two), TB

30’s

@34-1794 Georges Danton,

French politician and revolutionary (1st president of the

Committee of Public Safety during the French Revolution) 

executed by guillotine

20’s

@27-1994 Kurt Cobain,

grunge rocker (Nirvana),

suicide by gun

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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