Apr 15

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Apr 15, 2018 Week: 16\ Day: 105

86004 Today: H 58° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  1201 miles away

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

Record High: 76°[1948]   Record Low: 11°[1965]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.   

  Steve Jobs

More Observances This Month

National Decorating Month
National Exchange Club - Child Abuse Prevention Month
National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month Link
National Donate Life Month
National Facial Protection Month Link

Observances This Week

7-15

National Robotics Week Link

9-15

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

14-22

International Wildlife Film Week Link
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link 
National Coin Week 
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week Link  Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Volunteer Week
Spring Astronomy Week
Week of The Young Child Link

Observances for Today

American Fancy Rat & Mouse Days: 14-16

Jackie Robinson Day Link
McDonald's Day
One Boston Day Link
Rubber Eraser Day Link
Take a Wild Guess Day
That Sucks Day

World Art Day (DaVinci's Birthday)  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Wind had finally died down. Still a little cool but decent.

Finally finished my research and readings for my discussion on South Africa tonight. I’m sure it will be a good conversation. South Africa, like much of the world is wondering what will happen to their relations with the US. All I can say is they are not alone in their wondering.

Started laying my stuff for my Amazon trip. Mostly the stuff I use only occasionally.  Getting close, getting pretty excited. One of our group emailed me that she is hoping to see ‘huge spiders’. OK, it’s better than huge Anacondas.

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1528 Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians

1700’s                                          

✪1715 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

1738 Bottle opener invented

✪1755 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London

1800’s                                          

✪1802 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford, Connecticut)

1850 City of San Francisco incorporated

1861 Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by US President Abraham Lincoln (US Civil War)

1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington

✪1874 First 'Impressionist' exhibition opens in Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot

1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap

✪1896 First modern Olympic games close in Athens, Greece

1900’s                                          

✪1921 Black Friday in Britain: leaders of transport and rail unions announce a decision not to call for strike action in support of the miners; despite widespread feeling decision a breach of solidarity and a betrayal of the miners

1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)

1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics

1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1947 Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball (Dodgers)

1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card

✪1953 Malan’s National Party wins South African elections

1955 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois

1957 Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery

✪1959 Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour

1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U

1960 Guy Carawan sings "We Shall Overcome" to a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh - popularising the song as a protest anthem

1961 "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances

1975 1st appearance of San Diego Chicken

1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award winning story about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story

✪1983 Tokyo Disneyland opens

2000’s                                          

2013 Boston Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions near the finish line

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Michael Ansara,

American actor (Broken Arrow, Centennial),

born in Syria/Lebanon  (d. 2013)

80’s

@85- Charles Willson Peale,

American painter remembered for his portraits of leading

figures of the American Revolution (George Washington),

born in Chester, Province of Maryland

(d. 1827)

85- Roy Clark,

US country singer (Hee Haw, The Tonight Show)

@82- Kim Il-sung,

Founder, dictator and

Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94),

born in Mangyongdae, Japanese Korea (d. 1994)

70’s

@77- Nikita Khrushchev,

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

 (1953-64),

born in Kalinovka, Russia

heart attack (d. 1971)

75- Robert Lefkowitz,

American physician (Nobel Prize for Chemistry),

born in NYC

71- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason,

TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)

@70- Guru Nanak,

Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru,

born in Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, Punjab, Pakistan

(d. 1539)

60’s

@67- Leonardo da Vinci,

Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary,

born in Vinci, Florence, Italy

stroke (d. 1519)

@66- Mary Harris Thompson,

1st American woman surgeon

stroke (d. 1895)

@62- Elizabeth Montgomery,

US actress(Samantha/Serena-Bewitched),

born in Los Angeles

colon cancer (d. 1995)

50’s

59- Emma Thompson,

British actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar 1992),

born in London

40’s

@43- Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith,

Empress of Blues (over 200 songs)

car accident (d. 1937)

30’s

36- Seth Rogen,

Canadian actor and writer 

(The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Interview),

born in Vancouver

20’s

28- Emma Watson,

English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series),

born in Paris

21- Maisie Williams,

English actress (Game of Thrones),

born in Bristol

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-2007 Brant Parker,

American cartoonist (Wizard of Id)

@84-2002 Byron "Whizzer" White,

American football player and

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

@84-1990 Greta Garbo,

Swedish actress (Anna Karenina, Camille)

@83-1870 Emma Willard,

American women's rights activist and educator

founded the 1st school for women's higher education in US

70’s

@74-1980 Jean-Paul Sartre,

existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964),

blood clot

@72-1998 Pol Pot,

Cambodian dictator (1976-79)

revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge (1963-97),

heart failure/suicide?

60’s

@64-1949 Wallace Beery,

American circus performer (Ringling Brothers Circus)

actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8), 

heart attack 

@60-1942 Hugh S. Johnson,

American head of the National Recovery Administration and

member of FDR's Brain Trust,

pneumonia 

50’s

@56-1865 Abraham Lincoln,

16th American President,

gunshot wounds

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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