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Jan 23, 2019 Week: 03  \ Day: 23

86004 Today: H 47° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

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

Record High: 61°[1982]   Record Low: -15°[1964]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

This is what I learned:

that everybody is talented, original and

has something important to say.

Brenda Ueland

Random Tidbits

Martha Washington is the only woman whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note.

It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1896.

Observances This Week

18-25

Week of Christian Unity

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

22-25

International Hoof-Care Week

24-2/3

Sundance Film Festival

Catholic Schools Week

Meat Week

National Medical Group Practice Week

Tax Identity Theft Week

US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days

Observances for Today

Beer Can Day   

Belly Laugh Day

Compliment Day

International Mobile Phone Recycling Day

Macintosh Computer Day

National Compliment Day

National Peanut Butter Day

Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day 

My Rambling Thoughts

Warming up now. Nice!

Picked up my CPAP supplies for the next 3 months. I asked about the ‘So Clean’ machine which is to kill bacteria in the thing. It’s $319+taxes+$30 adaptor. According to them, insurance says it’s a ‘luxury item. I’ll check with BC/BS before I give up on the idea. This sounds a tad pricy to me.

Finally an arrest in the case of the Apache girl who was raped while in a care facility. Turns out, she was not comatose, as previously reported. She was aware of the rape but could do nothing to stop it. So despicable. And now her family cares for the infant she bore from the rape.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1847 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans

          defeated by US Colonel Price

1857 University of Calcutta founded as the first

          full-fledged university in South Asia

1900’s

1908 Lieutenant General Robert Baden-Powell

          publishes "Scouting for Boys" as a manual for

          self-instruction in outdoor skills and self-

          improvement. The book becomes the

          inspiration for the Scout Movement.

1922 Lehman Caves National Monument established

          in Nevada

1923 Aztec Ruins National Monument

          in New Mexico established

1924 Russian city of St Petersburg renamed

          Leningrad (changed back in 1991)

1935 1st canned beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is

          sold by American company Krueger Brewing

          Co.

1955 Photography exhibition "The Family of Man"

          curated by Edward Steichen opens at MOMA,

          New York, "greatest photographic enterprise

          ever undertaken"

1984 Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary

          Macintosh personal computer

2000’s

2003 The United States Department of Homeland

          Security officially begins operation

2017 President Trump withdraws the US from the

          Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA)

Birthdays Today

76 Hadrian,

Roman Emperor (117-138, builder of Hadrian's

Wall), born in Italica (d. 138)-@62

1862 Edith Wharton [-Jones],

Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome,

House of Mirth), born in NYC, New York

(d. 1937)-@75-heart attack

1918 Oral Roberts,

Born in Pontotoc County Oklahoma, American

Televangelist, founder Oral Roberts College

(d. 2009)-@91

1913 Mark Goodson,

TV game-show producer (Goodson-Toddman)

(d. 1992)-277-cancer

1917 Ernest Borgnine,

American actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale's

Navy, Marty), born in Hamden, Connecticut

(d. 2012)@95

1925 Maria Tallchief,

American prima ballerina, born in Fairfax,

Oklahoma

(d. 2013)-@88

1943 Sharon Tate,

American actress (Valley of the Dolls), born in

Dallas,

(d. 1969)-@26-murdered

1949 John Belushi,

American comedian and actor (SNL, Blues

Brothers), born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 1982)-@33-OD

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83- Doug Kershaw,

La, plays electric fiddle

80- Ray Stevens,

singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak),

born in Clarkdale, Georgia

78- Neil Diamond,

American singer-songwriter, born in Brooklyn

75- David Gerrold

[Jerrold David Friedman],

American science fiction screenwriter (Star

Trek) and author (The Martian Child),

born in Chicago, Illinois

68- Yakov Smirnoff,

Russian comedian (It's a wonderful country)

51- Mary Lou Retton,

Olympic gymnast

Historical Obits Today

@90-1965 Winston Churchill,

Prime Minister of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55)

British leader during WWII

@84-1993 Thurgood Marshall,

1st African American supreme court justice

(1967-91)

@81-2010 Pernell Roberts,

American actor (Adam-Bonanza,

Trapper John MD)

@75-1971 Bill W.,

American co-founder of Alcoholics

Anonymous,

dies of emphysema

@75-1961 Alfred Carlton Gilbert,

American athlete, inventor, and businessman

(invented the Erector Set)

@74-1986 L. Ron Hubbard,

American sci-fi writer (Death Quest) and

founder of the Scientology cult,

stroke

@73-2012 James Farentino,

American actor,

dies from heart failure

@72-1975 Larry Fine,

American actor and comedian (3 Stooges),

strokes

@64-1986 Gordon MacRae,

American singer and actor (Oklahoma!,

Carousel),

dies of pneumonia

@32-1955 Ira Hayes,

American World War II hero, Pima Tribal

member,

dies of exposure