Jan 31

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Jan 31, 2019 Week: 04  \ Day: 31

86004 Today: H 47° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  7mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 63°[1971]   Record Low: -25°[1916]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

People don't notice whether it's winter

or summer when they're happy.

Anton Chekhov

Random Tidbits

Studies have found napping raises your stamina 11 percent, increases ability to stay asleep all night by 12 percent, and lowers the time required to fall asleep by 14 percent.

Sleep experts have found that daytime naps can improve many things: increase alertness, boost creativity, reduce stress, improve perception, stamina, motor skills and accuracy, enhance your sex life, aid in weight loss, reduce the risk of heart attack, brighten your mood and boost memory.

One of the keys to power napping is to keep them short. Many experts say 20 minutes is the ideal duration to bolster energy and heighten alertness. Too long a nap can risk grogginess.

A little group called NASA discovered that just a 26-minute nap increases performance by 34 percent and alertness by 54 percent. Pilots take advantage of NASA naps while planes are on autopilot

Observances This 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

Appreciate Your Social Security Check Day

Backwards Day

Inspire Your Heart with Art Day

National Hot Chocolate Day

Street Children Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Middle of the week…spent time digging up old dates of college attendance and current phone numbers to each University. Just glad they didn’t want my Student ID numbers. Haha.

So now our attention needs to turn to Venezuela. 45 is putting on the screws and some other countries are following…others not so much. I have great empathy for the people of Venezuela. Their inflation rate is beyond understanding. One million of their dollars is worth about 29 cents in American Dollars. Where is all that oil money going?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1846 After the Milwaukee Bridge War, Juneautown and Kilbourntown unified as the City of Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1851 American Gail Borden announces the invention of condensed milk

1865 Congress passes the 13th Amendment, abolishing slavery in America (passes 121-24)

1871 Millions of birds fly over western San Francisco, darkening the sky

1876 The United States orders all Native Americans to move into reservations.

1900’s

1905 1st automobile to exceed 100 mph (161 kph), A G MacDonald, Daytona Beach

1906 Strongest instrumentally recorded earthquake, Colombia, 8.6 Richter

1928 Scotch tape 1st marketed by 3-M Company

1948 J. D. Salinger's short story "A Perfect Day for Banana Fish" appears in the New Yorker

1950 US President Harry Truman publicly announces support for the development of a hydrogen bomb

1961 Ham the chimpanzee is 1st primate in space (158 miles) aboard Mercury/Redstone 2

1982 10 Arabian oryx (extinct except in zoos) released in Oman

1995 President Bill Clinton authorizes a $20 billion loan to Mexico to stabilize its economy.

2000’s

2006 Alan Greenspan retires as Chairman of the Federal Reserve

2017 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Sally Yates after she instructs Justice Department officials not to defend Trump's travel ban

2018 Trump administration formally suspends the Clean Water Act

Birthdays Today

1797 Franz Peter Schubert,

Austrian composer (Unfinished Symphony),

born in Vienna, Austria

(d. 1828-@31)-typhoid fever

1872 Zane Grey,

American West novelist (Riders of the Purple

 Sage)

(d. 1939-@67)-heart failure

1915 Garry Moore,

[Thomas Garrison Morfit],

host (I've Got a Secret)

(d. 1993-@78)-emphysema

1919- Jackie Robinson,

Record holding Baseball player

(d.1972-@53) -heart attack

1920 Stewart L Udall,

US Secretary of Interior (1961-69)

(d. 2010-@90))

1921 Carol Channing,

American actress (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,

Hello Dolly), singer and comedian, born in

Seattle, Washington

(d. 2019-@97)

1923 Norman Mailer,

American novelist (Naked & the Dead, The

Executioner's Song), born in NYC, New York

(d. 2007-@84)

1934 James Franciscus,

actor (Mr Novak, Longstreet, Hunter)

(d. 1991-@57)-emphysema

1937 Suzanne Pleshette,

American actress (Birds, Emily-Bob Newhart

Show), born in NYC,

(d.2008-@70)-lung cancer

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91- Lorraine Warren,

American paranormal investigator (Amityville

haunting), born in Monroe, Connecticut

81- James G Watt,

US Secretary of Interior (1981-83)

49- Minnie Driver,

British actress & singer-songwriter (Good Will

Hunting, The Riches), born in London, England

46- Portia de Rossi,

TV actress

38- Justin Timberlake,

American singer-songwriter & actor

(Sexy back, My Love), born in Memphis

Historical Obits Today

@91-1974 Samuel Goldwyn,

Polish English American film magnate (MGM)

@74-1956 A. A. Milne,

English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books

@35-1606 Guy Fawkes,

English Catholic conspirator who was

convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up

the British Parliament, hanged

@25-1945 Eddie Slovik,

1st US executed for desertion since Civil War