Apr 19

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Apr 19, 2018 Week: 16\ Day: 110

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

RED FLAG WARNING

Nearest Lightning:  1618 miles away

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 77°[1989]   Record Low: 10°[1917]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

There are no lines in nature,

only areas of color,

one against another.

  Edouard Manet

Harper’s Index

6663

            Number of Texas inmates who donated money

to Hurricane Harvey relief

33

            Number of days after the hurricane for which Texas

            prisoners lacked adequate food and water

More Observances This Month

National Pecan Month Link
National Pest Management Month
National Pet Month Link Link
National Poetry Month

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

Bicycle Day Link
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day  Link
Get to Know Your Customers Day
John Parker Day
National Ask An Atheist Day Link  

National D.A.R.E. Day Link   

National Garlic Day Link
National Hanging Out Day
National Health Care Decisions Day: 16-22 Link

National High Five Day Link 

National Stress Awareness Day
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                          

✪ 1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia

1775 American Revolution begins - Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"

1775 Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott are captured by British troops riding from Lexington to Concord, Prescott escapes to warn Concord

✪ 1782 John Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government and house he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became first American embassy.

1800’s                                          

1852 California Historical Society forms

1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire

1897 1st Boston Marathon won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10. Becomes the world's oldest annual marathon.

1900’s                                          

✪ 1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church

✪ 1919 French assembly decides on 8 hour work day

1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5-day work week

1939 Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148 years late)

✪ 1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network

1982 Sally Ride is named the 1st American woman astronaut

1993 After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas (accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes)

1994 US Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender

2000’s                                          

✪ 2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.

2013 Boston bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days

My Rambling Thoughts

Barbara Bush did some amazing things for literacy in this country. She will be missed. Glad she lived a full life and left on her terms.

Amazing pilot on Southwest Airlines. I fly Southwest on Monday, with no worries. They are a great airline.

Focus Amazon trip is coming fast. I leave AZ on Monday so I can fly to Lima with the group on Delta. The closer it gets, the more excited I am. One night in Lima, then off to CEIBA TOPS LODGE for 4 nights, and then 7 days on the Amazon, then back to Lima and home. WOW!

‘America First’ has been 45’s battle cry. Hello---that includes Puerto Rico. Now it will be 24-36 hours of no power for the entire island. It is time to get all the help they need. No more excuses. And no more ‘America First’ speeches until Puerto Rico is fully powered.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Hugh O'Brian [Krampke],

actor (Wyatt Earp, Search),

born in Rochester, NY

(d. 2016)

80’s

81- Elinor Donahue,

actress (Father Knows Best, Get a Life),

born in Tacoma, Washington

70’s

72- Tim Curry,

actor (Rocky Horror Show)

60’s

@66- Dudley Moore,

English actor and comedian (10, Arthur, Bedazzled),

born in London

degenerative brain disease (d. 2002)

@64- Dick Sargent [Richard Stanford Cox ],

American actor (Bewitched),

born in Carmel, California

prostate cancer (d. 1994)

50’s

@57- Ole Evinrude,

inventor (outboard marine engine)

(d. 1934)

@54- Eliot Ness,

US Federal agent "The Untouchables" (put away Al Capone),

born in Chicago

heart attack  (d. 1957)

50- Ashley Judd,

movie actress

40’s

49- Jesse James,

American television personality and motorcycle builder

40 James Franco,

movie actor

30’s

39- Kate Hudson,

American actress (Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree),

born in Los Angeles

37- Hayden Christensen,

Canadian actor (Sam-Life as a House, Star Wars),

born in Vancouver

@34- Jayne Mansfield [Vera Jane Palmer],

US actress (The Girl Can't Help It),

born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

auto accident (d. 1967)

31- Maria Sharapova,

Russian tennis player (6 singles titles),

born in Nyagan, Russia

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-1967 Konrad Adenauer,

West Germany chancellor (1949-63)

80’s

@82-1989 Daphne Du Maurier,

English writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn)

@80-1684 Roger Williams,

English theologian and colonist

70’s

@77-1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum,

Actor (Mr Green Jeans)

cancer

@76-1975 Percy Lavon Julian,

African American chemist

received 130 patents,

pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from

plants

@76-1957 Charles Earle Funk,

American lexicographer (Funk & Wagnalls)

@76-1881 Benjamin Disraeli,

1st Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister

writer

bronchitis

@73-1882 Charles Darwin,

English naturalist (Origin of the Species)

conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection

heart failure 

40’s

@46-1906 Pierre Curie,

French physicist (Nobel 1903) and husband of Marie Curie

car accident

30’s

@36-1824 Lord Byron [George Gordon Byron],

British romantic poet (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage) ,

sepsis from bloodletting

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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