Jan 7

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Jan 7, 2019 Week: 01  \ Day: 7

86004 Today: H 31° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

            Feels like 19°

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  17mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1914]   Record Low: -17°[1913]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

If you do not change direction,

you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu

Random Tidbits

The earliest Latin calendar was a 10-month one, beginning with March; thus, September was the seventh month, October, the eighth, etc. July was originally called Quintilis, meaning fifth; August was originally called Sextilis, meaning six

In A.D. 610, while baking bread, an Italian monk decided to create a treat to motivate his distracted catechism students. He rolled out ropes of dough, twisted them to resemble hands crossed on the chest in prayer, and baked them. The monk named his snacks pretiola, Latin for "little reward." Parents who tried them referred to them as brachiola, or "little arms." When pretiola arrived in Germany, they were called bretzels.

Observances This Week

           

1-7

Diet Resolution Week

New Year's Resolutions Week

Silent Record Week

2-8

Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

6-12

Home Office Safety and Security Week

National Folic Acid Awareness Week

Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week

National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week

7-9

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

Observances for Today

           

Asarah B'Tevet

Blue Monday 

Divorce Monday 

Golden Globes

Handsel Day (Scotland) 

Harlem Globetrotter's Day

I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day

International Programmers' Day  

Orthodox Christmas

National Bobblehead Day

National Tempura Day

National Weigh-In Day   

Old Rock Day

Plough Monday 

"Thank God It's Monday" Day 

My Rambling Thoughts

Awoke to a nice blanket of snow all around town. It was about 2” of the predicted 6”-8” but it continues to snow. Clouds aren’t very thick, so it is very bright outside as it snows. Nice! And the snow shoveling guys were here working at 7a.

The American, Paul Whelan, being held in Russia does raise questions. My first one is why does he have several passports?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of

            Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede

1700’s

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill

            (built years later)

1800’s

1896 Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook

            "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book"

1900’s

1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal

1929 "Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance

            in a newspaper

1929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips,

            1st appears

1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside

            French Union

1959 American gangster Meyer Lansky flees Cuba for the

            Bahamas due to the Cuban Revolution and rise of

            Fidel Castro

1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing

            707)

1971 -40°F (-40°C) in Hawley Lake, Arizona (state record)

1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)

2000’s

2015 Terrorist attack on the offices of satirical newspaper

            "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris kills 12 (including Jean Cabut

            and Stéphane Charbonnier), injures 11

2018 It snows in the Sahara Desert - 15 inches reported

            in Aïn Séfra, Northwest Algeria

Birthdays Today

1800 Millard Fillmore,

13th US President (Whig: 1850-53), born in Moravia,

New York (d. 1874)@74

1926 Kim Jong-pil,

South Korean Prime Minister (1971-75, 1998-2000)

and founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency

 (now the National Intelligence Service),

born in Buyeo County, Japanese Korea (d. 2018)@92

1903 Alan Napier,

British actor (The Sword in the Stone, Batman),

born in Birmingham, England (d. 1988)@85

1911 Butterfly McQueen [Thelma],

American actress (Gone With the Wind,

Flame of Barbary Coast), born in Tampa, Florida

(d. 1995)@84

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62- Katie Couric,

TV show host

56- Rand Paul,

American politician (Senate-R-Kentucky 2011-),

born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

55- Nicolas Cage,

American actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon),

born in Long Beach, California

1938 Paul Revere,

American pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders),

born in Harvard Nebraska, (d. 2014)@76

71- Kenny Loggins,

American singer (Loggins and Messina-This is it,

Footloose), born in Everett, Washington

Historical Obits Today

@87-1989 Emperor Hirohito

of Japan (1922-89) dies after a 62-year reign

@86-1943 Nikola Tesla,

Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor)

@50-1536 Catherine of Aragon,

1st wife of England's King Henry VIII

@44-1980 Larry Williams,

American rocker (Dizzy, Miss Lizzie), dies by suicide