Jan 26

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Jan 26, 2019 Week: 03  \ Day: 26

86004 Today: H 45° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 60°[1987]   Record Low: -15°[1937]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

It is not how old you are,

but how you are old.

Jules Renard

Random Tidbits

The highest denomination bill ever printed was a $100,000 note that was printed from December 18, 1934 to January 9, 1935. It was used for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. President Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the front.

The following bills have not been in print since 1946: $500 (William McKinley); $1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000 (James Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P. Chase, former Treasury Secretary).

The highest current denomination is the $100 bill.

Observances This Week

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

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

A.F.R.M.A. Fancy Rat & Mouse Day

Dental Drill Appreciation Day

Fruitcake Toss Day 

Lotus 1-2-3 Day

National Peanut Brittle Day 

National Seed Swap Day

Spouse's Day

Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful winter day. Good day for a nice walk.

Yesterday was my phlebotomy day. Not as easy as I had come to expect. It took 4 pokes by 3 different nurses + heat on my arm to do it. I knew it would be difficult when the first nurse started the whole thing and then it just stopped. I have one more in Feb. before I see the Dr., however the Dr. was notified that they were having trouble and he didn’t seem worried. Of course not, he wasn’t having his arm poked. It usually takes about 30 minutes, but today it was a little over an hour. The only good news about yesterday is that I don’t have any bruises, hardly even any marks where they poked me.

Tomorrow is our first discussion group of 2019. We will be discussing the ‘state of diplomacy’. Lots of reading to do but should be very informative.

WOW! A 3-week negotiated stop to the government shut-down. Maybe? Let’s see if they can do anything to fix this mess…a mess that hasn’t been solved in decades. Good luck. Hopefully, not another shut-down in 3 weeks. And maybe, just maybe, we will be able to see the State of the Union next week. After listening to 45’s lies as he announced about the end of the shut-down, I wonder what new one will pop up at SOTU?

Highlights from the pre-dawn raid of Roger Stone’s home at least show that the FBI ain’t messin’ around with this guy. His news conference after the first court appearance was scary, even without the Nixon salute.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1697 Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time-limit problem, solves problem before going to bed that same night

1700’s

1784 Benjamin Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol

1800’s

1837 Michigan admitted as 26th US state

1875 Electric dental drill is patented by George F Green

1900’s

1905 World's largest diamond, the 3,106-carat Cullinan, is found in South Africa

1915 Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, is established

1934 The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.

1945 Soviet forces reach Auschwitz concentration camp

1961 1st woman personal physician to a US President - Janet G. Travell (to John F. Kennedy)

1967 Chicago Blizzard strikes with a record 23 inches of snow fall causing 800 buses and 50,000 automobiles to be abandoned

1980 Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes

1998 President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"

2000’s

2005 Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State, the first African American woman to hold the post

2016 Leader of Oregon militia occupying Malheur wildlife refuge arrested and another killed in shoot-out with Federal agents

Birthdays Today

1831 Mary Mapes Dodge,

American writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver

Skates), born in NYC,

(d. 1905)-@74

1880 Douglas MacArthur, American General in World

War II, born in Little Rock, Arkansas

(d. 1964)-@84

1904 Seán MacBride,

Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army and

founder of Amnesty International (Nobel 1974),

born in Dublin, Ireland

(d. 1988)-@83

1915 William Hopper,

American actor (Perry Mason, The Bad Seed,

Rebel Without a Cause), born in NYC,

(d. 1970)-@55-stroke

1925 Paul Newman,

American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racing

car driver and charity food company founder

(Newman's Own), born in Cleveland, Ohio

(d. 2008)-@83

1946 Gene Siskel,

movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)

(d. 1999)-@53-brain tumor

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85- Bob Uecker,

catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere),

born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

64- Eddie Van Halen,

Dutch-American rock guitarist (Van Halen-

Jump, 1984), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands

61- Ellen DeGeneres,

comedienne (Ellen Morgan-Ellen),

born in New Orleans, Louisiana

58- Wayne Gretzky,

Canadian hockey player

26- Cameron Bright,

Canadian actor (The Twilight Saga, X-Men),

born in Victoria, British Columbia

10- Suleman octuplets

born to Nadya Suleman in Bellflower, California

- longest ever octuplet survival

Historical Obits Today

@94-2017 Barbara Hale,

American actress (Della Street in Perry Mason)

@94-2016 Abe Vigoda,

American actor (Barney Miller, The Godfather)

@91-2017 Mike Connors,

 [Krekor Ohanian],

American actor (Mannix)

@80-1992 José Ferrer,

Puerto Rican actor and director (Cyrano de

Bergerac),

dies of cancer

@79-1973 Edward G. Robinson [Goldenberg],

Romanian actor (Double Indemnity, The

Stranger, The Ten Commandments),

dies of bladder cancer

@73-1893 Abner Doubleday,

Union general-major and inventor (baseball),

dies of heart disease

@73-1823 Edward Jenner,

English physician, father of immunology,

pioneered smallpox vaccinations,

dies after stroke

@70-1979 Nelson Rockefeller,

American politician (Vice President: 1974-

1977; Governor of New York (R), 1959-73),

dies of a heart attack

@69-1983 Paul "Bear" Bryant,

 American college football coach (Alabama),

dies of massive heart attack

@65-1962 Charles "Lucky" Luciano,

NYC Mafia gangster,

dies of a heart attack