Apr 18

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Apr 18, 2018 Week: 16\ Day: 108

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: % 

Nearest Lightning:  1590 miles away

Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 79°[1989]   Record Low: 16°[1978]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

What the world really needs is more love

and less paper work.

  Pearl Bailey

Harper’s Index

6.3

            Average number of days the NRA waits to tweet

after a major mass shooting

More Observances This Month

National Minority Health Month Link
National Multiple Birth Awareness Month Link
National Occupational Therapy Month
National Parkinson's Awareness Month Link

Observances This Week

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

18-24

American Quilters Society Week
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week

Observances for Today

Adult Autism Day
International Amateur Radio Day
International Day for Monuments and Sites  Link
International Juggler's Day (also for multitasking office workers)

Newspaper Columnists Day Link 
National Lineman Appreciation Day Link
Pet Owners Independence Day  Link  Link
World Amateur Radio Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid in the Vatican

1600’s                                          

1676 Sudbury, Massachusetts, attacked by Indians

1688 "Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery": Francis Daniel Pastorius authors 1st formal written protest against African-American slavery in English colonies in Germantown, Pennsylvania

1700’s                                          

✪1738 Real Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid

1775 Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the "regulars are coming!"

1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day when it began

1800’s                                          

1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians citizen rights begins

1900’s                                          

✪1902 Denmark is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals

1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city

1906 The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement

✪1916 Edith Wharton is appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honour, France’s highest award, for her contribution to the war effort

1921 Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs, CO

1924 1st crossword puzzle book published by Simon & Schuster

1925 World's Fair opens in Chicago

1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas)

✪1936 Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco to Honolulu

✪1949 Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth

1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed

1958 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.

1966 Bill Russell becomes first African American coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)

✪1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)

✪1977 Alex Haley author of "Roots" awarded Pulitzer Prize

✪1977 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"

✪1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999

✪1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK

✪1983 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"

1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air

1991 US Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census

1998 1998 NFL Draft: Peyton Manning from University of Tennessee first pick by Indianapolis Colts

2000’s                                          

2007 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act in a 5-4 decision

✪2012 The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts
✪2017 British Prime Minister Teresa May announces she will seek a "snap" election

My Rambling Thoughts

No major wind. Yeah.

Good day for completing things:

a.      Got my pedi…looks like new owners, lots of new people. My lady wasn’t there. Had a very nice young lady, who did a great job.

b.     Ended up at REI to get my travel needs. Got what I needed. Probably paid more than necessary, but tired of running around looking. REI was my 3^rd and final stop.

c.      Reviewed all the documents FOCUS has sent for the trip. Read about some new procedures which sound fine. Figured out how much small cash I need for tipping. Getting VERY excited.

While at REI one of the workers and I started talking. He is the first human to hear I’m going to the Amazon and not mentioned the bugs, snakes, spiders, etc. All he said was ‘How long you gonna be there?’ ‘About 2 weeks’, Are you trekking that whole time?’ ‘No it’s a river cruise with some light trekking.’ ‘Have a great time!’ ‘That’s the plan.’ Very friendly and nice young man.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Leopold Stokowski,

British conductor (Philadelphia Orchestra),

born in London, England

(d. 1977)

@94- Barbara Hale,

American actress (Della Street in Perry Mason),

born in DeKalb, Ill

(d. 2017)

80’s

84- James Drury,

American actor (Virginian),

born in NYC

@81- Samuel P. Huntington,

American political scientist (The Clash of Civilizations) and

presidential adviser,

born in NYC

(d. 2008)

70’s

72- Hayley Mills,

actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna),

born in London

71- James Woods,

American actor (Salvador, Against All Odds),

born in Vernal, Utah

60’s

68- Kenny Ortega,

TV producer (High School Musical series, Dirty Dancing)

@65- Al Lewis,

American lyricist, songwriter and

music publisher (Blueberry Hill, You Gotta Be a Football

Hero),

born in NYC, NY

(d. 1967)

65- Rick Moranis,

Canadian actor (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs),

born in Toronto

50’s

57- Jane Leeves,

actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser),

born in London

55- Conan Chris O'Brien,

American TV host (Late Night),

born in Brookline, Mass

40’s

47- David Tennant [McDonald],

Scottish actor (Doctor Who, Broadchurch),

born in Bathgate, Scotland

42- Melissa Joan Hart,

American actress (Clarissa, Sabrina),

born in Smithtown, NY

20’s

@27- Ahmed I,

14th Sultan of the Ottoman Emperor (1603-17);

constructed the Blue Mosque,

born in Manisa Palace, Manisa, Ottoman Empire

typhus (d. 1617)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2002 Thor Heyerdahl,

Norwegian anthropologist and

explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)

@87-1990 Robert D Webb,

American director and actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals)

@82-2012 Dick Clark [Richard Wagstaff Clark],

American radio and television personality

(American Bandstand)

@81-2004 Frances Rafferty,

American WWII pin-up girl, dancer and

actress (Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Hollywood)

70’s

@76-1955 Albert Einstein,

German-born theoretical physicist and

Nobel laureate (theory of relativity),

abdominal aortic aneurysm

60’s

@69-2013 Storm Thorgerson,

British graphic designer and

music video director (Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, The

Cranberries),

cancer

40’s

@44-1945 Ernest ‘Ernie’ T Pyle,

British/US newscaster,

killed in WW II

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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