Feb 17

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Feb 17, 2019 Week: 08 \ Day: 48

86004 Today: H 31° \ L 18° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[1996]   Record Low: -8°[1956]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

During all these years there existed within me

a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

John James Audubon

Random Tidbits

Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days to walk around the world.

A person burns essentially the same amount of calories whether they run or walk a mile. Running just gets a person to a destination faster.

Observances This Week

Love a Mensch Week: 11-17
American Assoc. For The Advancement of Science Week: 14-17  Link
National Condom Week: 14-21 Link
National Nestbox Week: 14-21
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week: 14-21
Date (Fruit) Week: 15-24
Great Backyard Bird Count: 15-18 Link
National Entrepreneurship Week: 16-23 Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week: 17-23
National Engineers Week: 17-23
National FFA Week: 17-24 Link 
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week: 17-23  Link
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 17-23 Link
Bird Health Awareness Week: 18-24 Link  
Learning Disabilities Week: 18-21
Through With The Chew: 18-22  Link

Observances for Today

Analog to Digital TV Day
Champion Crab Races Day Link
Daytona 500
My Way Day
National Cafe’ Au Lait Day

National PTA Founders Day Link
Random Acts of Kindness Day  Link  
World Human Spirit Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A friend and former colleague lost her 33-year-old daughter to brain cancer yesterday. Kristin was born with Down’s Syndrome, went to school, finished high school, and the, until recently, was living in a group home in Page. She came back to Tuba to be with family after the diagnosis. So very sad for all of us who knew her.

We got a little snow last night, enough to cover the sidewalks but not enough to call out the shovel people. More snow is on the way.

Day 2+ of the National Emergency and 45 plays golf. Hmmm. This silliness can’t continue.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1801 US House of Representatives breaks electoral college tie,

             chooses Thomas Jefferson President over Aaron Burr

1817 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)

1837 Charles Lyell makes his presidential address to the

            Geographical Society, London and announces that

            Richard Owen has concluded from Darwin's fossils that

            extinct species were related to current species in the

            same locality

1897 National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher

            Association)

1900’s

1913 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)

1913 NY Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp

            to US public

1934 1st high school auto driving course offered (State

            College, Penn)

1943 Dow Chemical and Corning Glass Works form a joint

            venture to explore and produce silicon materials, based

            off of the work of James Franklin Hyde

1958 Comic strip "BC" 1st appears

1969 Golda Meir sworn in as the first female Prime Minister

            of Israel

1972 Sales of the Volkswagen Beetle model exceed those of

            Ford Model T

1986 Johnson & Johnson announces it no longer sell capsule

            drugs

2000’s

2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change

            requires urgent action and that only a small "window of

            time" remained open

2016 Oldest known case of human-Neanderthal sex (100,000

            yrs ago) revealed by Max Planck Institute for

            Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), 50,000 yr old

            Neanderthal woman's remains from Altai mountains

            show traces of Homo Sapiens DNA

2017 Discovery of a new mostly underwater continent

            Zealandia in the South Pacific announced in research

            journal "GSA Today"

Birthdays Today

1867 William Cadbury,

British chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury), born in Edgbaston,

England

(d. 1957-@90)

1874 Thomas J. Watson, Sr.,

American businessman (Chairman and CEO of IBM, 1914-1956),

born in Campbell, New York

(d. 1956-@82)

1914 Arthur Kennedy,

American actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place),

born in Worcester, Massachusetts

(d. 1990-@75-thyroid cancer)

1939 Mary Ann Mobley,

American model/actress (Miss America-1959, Diff'rent Strokes),

 (d. 2014-@77-breast cancer)

1941 Gene Pitney,

vocalist/songwriter (Town Without Pity), born in Hartford,

Connecticut

(d. 2006-@66-heart attack)

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94- Hal Holbrook,

actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain),

born in Cleveland, Ohio

82- Jim Brown,

NFL Hall of Fame, Cleveland Browns

64- Mo Yan,

Chinese novelist and Nobel laureate (Red Sorghum Clan,

The Republic of Wine), born in Gaomi, Shandong, China

57- Lou Diamond Phillips,

Born in Philippines, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver)

56-Michael Jordan,

Chicago Bulls shooting guard

56- Larry the Cable Guy

[Daniel Lawrence Whitney],

American comedian (Blue Collar Comedy Tour),

born in Pawnee City, Nebraska

47- Billie Joe Armstrong,

singer/musician (Green Day), born in Oakland, California

45- Jerry O'Connell,

American actor (Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity),

born in NYC, New York

38- Paris Hilton,

American actress and heiress (The Simple Life),

born in NYC, New York

38- Joseph Gordon-Levitt,

actor (Tommy Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)

28 Ed Sheeran,

English singer-songwriter (Shape of You, Thinking Out Loud),

born in Halifax, England

Historical Obits Today

@85-2005 Daniel "Dan" O'Herlihy,

Irish actor (Twin Peaks, Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop)

@80-1982 Lee Strasberg,

Austrian acting coach and actor (The Godfather: Part II,

Somewhere in the Night)

@79-1909 Geronimo,

Goyaałé [kòjàːɬɛ́] [one who yawns],

Mescalero Apache chief,

dies after fall from horse/pneumonia

@76-1998 Bob Merrill,

American composer and lyricist, suicide

@59-1796 James Macpherson,

Scottish writer and poet

@57-1924 Henry Bacon,

American architect (Lincoln Memorial)