Apr 10

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Apr 10, 2018 Week: 15\ Day: 100

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 30° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  1225 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 74°[1989]   Record Low: 13°[1999]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.

  Julia Child

Harper’s Index

$10, 564

            Amount white supremacist Richard

            Spencer paid the Univ. of Florida to

give a speech last fall

$600,000

            Estimated amount the university

paid for security

More Observances This Month

International Customer Loyalty Month
International Guitar Month Link
International Twit Award Month
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month Link

Observances This Week

4-10

Hate Week

7-13

National Dental Hygienest Week Link

7-15

National Robotics Week Link

8-14

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link
National Crime Victims Rights Week  Link
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week Link
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week  Link  

9-13

American Indian Awareness Week Link

9-15

National Library Week 
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link

Observances for Today

ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Day  Link
Equal Pay Day Link
Free Cone Day (Ben & Jerrys)  Link
Golfer's Day 

National Be Kind To Lawyers Day Link  
National Farm Animals Day
National Library Workers Day
National Library Day Link 
National Siblings Day  Link
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1516 1st Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area

1700’s                                          

1790 US Patent system forms

1800’s                                          

✪1816 Samuel Taylor Coleridge recites his poem "Kubla Khan" to fellow poet Lord Byron, who persuades him to publish it

✪1825 1st hotel in Hawaii opens

✪1826 The 10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.

1841 New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley

1845 More than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1849 Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400

1866 American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms

1900’s                                          

✪1925 Scribner publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald

1938 NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license

✪1953 Dag Hammarskjöld becomes the 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations

1967 39th Academy Awards: "A Man For All Seasons," Best Picture, Elizabeth Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor

1968 40th Academy Awards: "In the Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger & Katherine Hepburn win

✪1970 Paul McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles

1974 Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet

✪1981 Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament for Northern Ireland county of Fermanagh and South Tyrone

1991 Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)

✪1998 The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and Irish governments

2000’s                                          

✪2012 Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market capitalization in the world

✪2017 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" directed by James Gunn and starring Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana premieres in Tokyo

My Rambling Thoughts

I watched a great documentary on ‘The Troubles’ last night. Things are still tense but no gunfire. Hard to get Protestants and Catholics to live together in N. Ireland. More time is needed. Sad.

Picked up my taxes this morning. Good news…my bill was half of last year. And I am getting a nice chunk of change too. All good. And next year even looks better with the new standard deduction and probably no need to itemize. Waiting to see before celebrating.

I have always had a hard time realizing that there are evil people in this world. When I meet up or worked with an evil person I did my best to simply avoid them. When I supervised an evil person, I did what I could to get them out of my system. I am heartsick with the pictures coming out of Syria. One of our discussion group spent 2 years there on a scholarship to study Syrian music. She has told great stories of the wonderful people there. I sure hope that this reign of terror with poison gas ends very soon. Hopefully their President will be arrested, put on trial, and pay for his horrific actions.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96- Harry Morgan,

American actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet),

born in Detroit, Michigan

(d. 2011)

80’s

89- Max Von Sydow,

Swedish actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape),

born in Lund, Sweden

@85- Frances Perkins,

American politician and

1st woman to hold cabinet-level position (Labor 1933-45),

 born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 1965)

@84- Clare Boothe Luce,

US ambassador (to Vatican)

(d. 1987)

@83- William Booth,

English preacher and founder (Salvation Army),

born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England

(d. 1912)

@83- Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub],

Egyptian actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia),

born in Alexandria

(d. 2015)

@82- Sheb Wooley,

vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)

(d. 2003)

82- John Madden, 

NFL coach (Oakland Raiders) and

sports commentator (CBS, FOX),

born in Austin, Minn

70’s

77- Paul Theroux,

American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)

@72- Don Meredith,

NFL quarterback (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football,

born in Mount Vernon, TX

stroke (d. 2010)

@71- Chuck Connors,

American author,

actor (The Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa),

professional basketball and baseball player,

born in Brooklyn

lung cancer (d. 1992)

60’s

66- Steven Seagal, 

actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill),

born in Detroit

@64- Joseph Pulitzer,

Hungarian publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World),

born in Makó, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire

heart failure (d. 1911)

@63- Matthew C. Perry,

Commodore of the United States Navy

opened Japan to Western influence and trade,

born in Newport, RI

cirrhosis (d. 1858)

50’s

@57- "Alvin" Junior Samples,

country singer (Hee Haw)

heart attack (d. 1983)

50- Orlando Jones,

American actor and comedian (MADtv, 7 Up spokesman),

born in Toulminville, Ala

30’s

@39- James Bowie,

American pioneer and soldier (Texas Revolution),

born in Logan, Kentucky

at the Alamo (d. 1836)

34- Mandy Moore,

American singer (Candy) and

actress (Rebecca Pearson-This Is Us),

born in Nashua, NH

30- Haley Joel Osment,

American actor (The Sixth Sense, A.I., Pay it Forward),

born in Los Angeles

20’s

27- Alex Pettyfer,

English actor

26- Daisy Ridley,

English actress (Star Wars: the Force Awakens),

born in London

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-1975 Marjorie Main,

actress (Ma & Pa Kettle)

60’s

@60-2000 Larry Linville,

American actor (M*A*S*H),

cancer

50’s

@59-2003 Little Eva [Eva Boyd],

American pop singer (Locomotion),

cervical cancer 

40’s

@48-1931 Khalil Gibran,

Lebanese poet and painter

cirrhosis

30’s

@38-1992 Sam Kinison,

loud mouth comedian,

car crash

@30-1958 Chuck Willis,

rocker “King of the Stroll,

peritonitis

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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