Apr 12

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Apr 12, 2018 Week: 15\ Day: 102

86004 Today: H 74° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Red Flag warning until 9p

Nearest Lightning:  586 miles away

Wind ave.:   14mph\Gusts:  25mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 75°[1904]   Record Low: 7°[1953]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

The most wasted day of ll is that on which we have not laughed. Nicolas Chamfort

Harper’s Index

55 (D); 58 (R)

            Percentages of Democrats and Republicans who say

            workplace sexual harassment is a very serious problem

in Hollywood

45 (D); 22(R)

            In the rest of the country

More Observances This Month

Month of the Military Child Link
Month of the Young Child
Move More In April  Link
National African American Women's Fitness Month

Observances This 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

Belmont-Paul Women's Equality Monument Day   Link
Big Wind Day

Celebrate Teen Literature Day
D.E.A.R. Day (aka Drop Everything And Read) Link
Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day Link  Link
International Day of Human Space Flight
International Day for Street Children Link 
Isra Al Mi'ra
National Licorice Day Link
Walk on Yor Wild Side Day

Yuri's Night

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1557 Cuenca is founded in Ecuador

1600’s                                          

✪1606 England adopts the Union Flag, replaced in 1801 by current Union Flag the Union Jack

1800’s                                          

1811 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, Washington

1861 Fort Sumter in South Carolina is attacked by the Confederacy, beginning the American Civil War

1869 North Carolina legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan Law

1877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game

1900’s                                          

1900 The US Congress passes the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated territory (effective 1 May)

1905 Hippodrome arena opens (NYC)

1908 Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea, Massachusetts

1917 Bijou Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982)

1932 "Grand Hotel" directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Greta Gabo and John Barrymore premieres in New York, includes the line "I want to be alone" (Best Picture/Production 1932)

1938 1st US law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses (NY)

✪1945 US President Franklin Roosevelt dies in office and Vice President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President

✪1955 Polio vaccine tested by Dr Jonas Salk announced to be 'safe and effective'

✪1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)

1963 Police in Birmingham, Alabama, use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators

1968 Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah

1976 Anne Rice's debut novel "Interview with a Vampire" is published by Knopf

1983 Harold Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor

1987 Texaco files for bankruptcy

1988 Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs California

✪1990 H. J. Heinz, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldn't buy tuna caught in nets that trap dolphins

✪1992 Euro Disney (Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee, France

1999 US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

2000’s                                          

✪2013 A man-made 32-foot and 60 tonne monument that is dates around 2000 BC is discovered in the Sea of Galilee

2016 Breakthrough Starshot: Scientists and internet entrepreneurs, including Yuri Milner, Stephen Hawking and Mark Zuckerberg, announce interstellar project to send robot spacecraft to Alpha Centauri

My Rambling Thoughts

Had a nice lunch with Cheryl, Mary was ill. Caught up on her Hawaii trip, illness & deaths.  Much more talk about the Hawaii trip.

Comparing yesterday’s and today’s hearings with Mark, it is obvious that many of the Senators were simply reading text from their younger aides whereas today, the Representatives seemed to know a lot more about the internet operations. The amazing thing to me through these hearings is how one must ask the right questions to get the right answer. As with all hearings I remember, follow-up questions are a must, which happened today, not so much yesterday. I still remember when the White House tapes were ‘accidentally’ admitted to in the Watergate hearings. We needed the same thing in yesterday's hearings. There were some 'accidental' releases in Mark's testimony today, now we have to see what the committees will do about it.

On Privacy, when I moved to AZ back in 1971, your driver’s license number was your SS#. It took decades for us to have an option to use a random number. Most businesses offer discounts to their regular customers, if they are willing to give up their email address and accept many emails. We have given up so much of our privacy, that there is very little left. Anything put out on the internet will, or at least can be, there forever. What wee all need is more transparency on what is being collected, whom it is going to, and what happens to it when we delete an account or an email. 

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

102- Beverly Cleary,

American writer

80’s

@80- Dennis Banks,

Ojibwa activist (AIM)

(d. 2017)

70’s

@76- Jacob Zuma,

South African politician,

President of South Africa (2009-Feb 2018),

born in Nkandla

@75- Henry Clay,

American politician known as "the Great Compromiser",

born in Hanover County, Virginia

TB (d. 1852)

72- Ed O'Neill,

actor (Al Bundy-Married with Children)

71- David Letterman, 

comedian (Late Night),

born in Indianapolis

60’s

@67- David Cassidy,

American singer/actor (Keith-Partridge Family),

born in NYC

liver failure (d. 2017)

@66- Tom Clancy,

American author

heart disease (d. 2013)

@64- Tiny Tim [ Herbert Khaury],

musician,

heart attack (d. 1996)

62- Andy Garcia,

Cuba, actor (Stand & Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die)

61- Vince Gill,

country singer (When I Call Your Name),

born in Norman, OK

40’s

47- Shannen Doherty, 

actress (Little House, Beverly Hills 90210),

born in Memphis, TN

30’s

39- Claire Danes,

American actress (Angela-My So Called Life, Romeo & Juliet),

born in NYC

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-1912 Clara Barton,

organizer (American Red Cross)

80’s

@85-1988 Alan Paton,

South African author

(Cry, the Beloved Country, Too Late the Phalarope) and

anti-apartheid activist

60’s

@67-1999 Boxcar Willie [Travis Martin],

American soldier (USAF) and

singer (King of the Road),

leukemia

@67-1989 Sugar Ray Robinson [Walter Smith],

American middle/welterweight boxer (1946-52, 55, 58),

Alzheimer’s

@66-1981 Joe Louis,

[Brown bomber],

US heavyweight boxing champion (1937-49),

cardiac arrest 

@63-1945 Franklin Roosevelt,

32nd US President (D) (1933-1945),

stroke 

50’s

@55-1878 William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed",

New York corrupt politician

pneumonia in prison

@52-1989 Abbie Hoffman,

yippie peace activist of the 60's,

suicide

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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