Jan 16

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Jan 16, 2019 Week: 02  \ Day: 16

86004 Today: H 36° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  7mph Visibility:  5mi

Record High: 60°[1974]   Record Low: -8°[1915]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

Wherever there is a human being, there is

an opportunity for a kindness.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Random Tidbits

Leonardo da Vinci figured out that the rings of a tree reveal its age.

The filaments for the first electric lamp were made of bamboo.

Observances This Week

11-17

Cuckoo Dancing Week

13-19

National Mocktail Week

Observances for Today

Appreciate A Dragon Day

Civil Service Day

Fig Newton Day  

International Hot and Spicy Food Day

National Quinoa Day

Nothing Day

Religious Freedom Day  

Without A Scalpel Day  

My Rambling Thoughts

I had to check my calendar and my phone this morning to be sure it was JANUARY.  It was raining at 6a and is still raining on and off. Snow should arrive tonight.  Snow melts quickly when it is rained upon. Rain in January at 7000’ is unusual for sure. It’s been 4 days with no sun. It’s time for whomever stole it to bring it back.

Nice to see a reasonable hearing for AG by both sides. 2019 looks good. Hope the Senate keeps it up. Government acting like they should.

My new smokeless indoor grill did a great job on a strip steak last night. So easy to clean up. Sure glad I got it.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1400’s

1492 The first grammar of a modern language,

        Spanish, is presented to Queen Isabella.

1600’s

1605 The first edition of "El ingenioso hidalgo Don

        Quijote de la Mancha" (Book One of Don

        Quixote) by Miguel de Cervantes is published

        in Madrid

1800’s

1883 Pendleton Act creates basis of US Civil

        Service system

1900’s

1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California

        established

1925 Leon Trotsky resigns as chairman of the

        Russian Revolutionary Military Council as he

        and Stalin battle for power in the aftermath of

        Lenin's death.

1951 World's largest gas pipeline opens

        (Brownsville Texas, to 134th St, New York City)

1968 Jay Allen's "Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"

        premieres in NYC

1970 Buckminster Fuller receives the Gold Medal

        award from the American Institute of

        Architects

1974 "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published by

        Doubleday

2000’s

2003 The Space Shuttle Columbia takes off for

        mission STS-107 which would be its final one.

        Columbia disintegrated 16 days later on re-

        entry.

2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is sworn in as Liberia's

        new president. She becomes Africa's first

        female elected head of state.

2016 First ever flower grown in space - a zinnia

        aboard the International Space Station using

        NASA Veggie system

Birthdays Today

1853 Andre Michelin,

French industrialist, tire manufacturer

(Michelin) and publisher of the Michelin Guide,

born in Paris (d. 1931)@78

1901 Fulgencio Batista,

Dictator and President of Cuba (1933-44, 1952-

59), born in Banes, Cuba (d. 1973)@72-heart

attack

1908 Ethel Merman,

American stage and screen actress (Anything

Goes, Call Me Madam), born in Queens, New

York (d. 1984)@72- glioblastoma

1932 Dian Fossey,

American zoologist (Gorillas in the Mist), born in

San Francisco, (d. 1985)@53-

murdered  in Rwanda

1932 Jim Berry,

cartoonist (Berry's World) (d. 2015)@83

1933 Susan Sontag,

American author/film director (Benefactor,

1966 Pol Award), born in NYC,(d. 2004)@71

-leukemia

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75- Jim Stafford,

born in Eloise Fla, singer (Spiders & Snakes, My

Girl Bill)

71- John Carpenter,

American film director (Halloween, The Thing), born in Carthage, New York

69-Debbie Allen,

dancer, choreographer, actress(3 Girls 3,

Lydia-Fame)

60- Sade [Helen Folasade Adu],

Nigerian-born British singer-songwriter,

composer, arranger and record producer

(Soldier of Love, Smooth Operator), born in

Ibadan, Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria

45- Kate Moss,

English model, born in Croydon, England

39-Lin-Manuel Miranda,

stage actor (Hamilton), born in NYC

Historical Obits Today

@94-2013 Abigail Van Buren [Pauline Phillips],

          American columnist and radio show host

          known for "Dear Abby" advice column, twin

          sister of fellow advice columnist Ann Landers

          (Eppie Lederer), dies from complications from

 Alzheimer's disease

@89-1957 Arturo Toscanini,

Italian US conductor (NBC)

@71-1906 Marshall Field,

American entrepreneur and the founder of

Marshall Field and Company

@69-2018 Dave Holland,

English heavy metal rocker (Judas Priest-

Breakin' the Law)

@46-1979 Ted Cassidy,

actor (Lurch-Addams Family), complications

following surgery