Jan 20

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Jan 20, 2019 Week: 03  \ Day: 20

86004 Today: H 46° \ L 23° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  5mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 61°[1950]   Record Low: -14°[1922]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

We would accomplish many more things

if we did not think of them as impossible.

Vince Lombardi

Random Tidbits

At 926 aircraft, the American Airlines fleet is larger than the British Air Force's.

Observances This Week

17-23

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week

18-25

Week of Christian Unity

19-20

Bald Eagle Appreciation Days

19-27

International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week

20-26

Clean Out Your Inbox Week

Healthy Weight Week

Hunt For Happiness Week

National Activity Professionals Week

National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week

National Handwriting Analysis Week

National School Choice Week

Sugar Awareness Week

No Name Calling Week

Observances for Today

Camcorder Day

Celebration of Life Day

Inauguration Day

National Buttercrunch Day
National Cheese Lover’s Day

National Cheese Lovers Day  

National Disc Jockey Day  

National Sanctity of Human Life Day/Pro-Life Day 

Penguin Awareness Day

Stephen Foster Day

Soup Swap Day

World Religion Day 

World Snow Day  

My Rambling Thoughts

Sun shining. Snow gone. Ice melting. Great Saturday.

Dear 45: Please surprise me with something of substance and not another stunt on your Sat. announcement. Sincerely, a voter. PS Your recent Oval Office address did not impress me as ‘Presidential’. End the shutdown!

It has turned out to be a day of laundry, a long forest walk with a light jacket, and now relaxation.

I’ve been watching a National Geographic channel series on North Korea. The Kim family rule is frightening. I still believe in ‘keep your friends close and enemies closer’. The next summit will be interesting.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1502 The present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored

1576 The Mexican city of León is founded by order of viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa.

1800’s

1887 US Senate approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor

1900’s

1920 The American Civil Liberties Union is founded

1921 Republic of Turkey declared out of remnants of Ottoman Empire

1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as US President

1953 1st live US coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)

1961 Robert Frost recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's inauguration

1969 U of Az reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)

1979 1 million Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader

1981 The US diplomats and citizens held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran are released and begin their journey home after 444 days

1986 1st federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr

1988 Arizona committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham

1993 Maya Angelou is 1st African American and woman to recite a poem at inauguration of a US President - "On the Pulse of Morning" for Bill Clinton

2000’s

2009 Barack Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America, becomes the United States' first African-American president

Birthdays Today

1894 Harold L Gray,

creator (Little Orphan Annie)

(d. 1968)-@74-cancer

1896 George Burns [Nathan Birnbaum],

American actor, comedian and singer (Oh God,

Burns and Allen), born in NYC

 (d. 1996)-@100

1910 Joy Adamson [Friederike Viktoria Gessner],

Austrian naturalist and author (Born Free), born

in Troppau, Austria-Hungary

(d. 1980)-69-murdered

1920 DeForest Kelley,

American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer

(Star Trek), born in Atlanta, Georgia

(d. 1999)-@79-stomach cancer

1920 Federico Fellini,

Italian film director and scriptwriter (8 1/2,

La Dolce Vita), born in Rimini, Italy

(d. 1993)-@73-heart attack

1926 Patricia Neal,

American actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses)

and wife of Roald Dahl, born in Packard,

Kentucky

(d. 2010)-@84

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90- Arte Johnson,

comedian (Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie),

born in Chicago, Illinois

89- Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin Jr, USAF/astro (Gem 12,

Ap 11), born in Montclair, New Jersey

67-Paul Stanley,

guitarist, KISS

63- Bill Maher,

American comedian and political commentator

(Real Time with Bill Maher, Politically

Incorrect), born in NYC, New York

61- Lorenzo Lamas,

American actor (Lance-Falcon Crest, California

Fever), born in Los Angeles

47- Nimrata ‘Nikki’’ Haley,

American politician and diplomat, Governor

South Carolina (2011-17), US UN Ambassador

(2017-2018), born in Bamberg, South Carolina

Historical Obits Today

@83-2018 John Coleman,

American journalist, co-founder of The

Weather Channel and broadcaster (1953-2014)

@82-1990 Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens],

actress (Big Valley)

@79-1984 Johnny Weissmuller

[Peter Johann Weißmüller],

Hungarian actor (Tarzan) and 100m swimmer

(Olympic 5 gold-1924, 28),

dies of respiratory failure

@73-2012 Etta James [Jamesetta Hawkins],

American singer, dies from leukemia

@63-1993 Audrey Hepburn,

 British actress (Roman Holiday),

dies of colon cancer

@42-1965 Alan Freed, disgraced DJ (Big Beat),

alcoholism complications