Feb 19

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Feb 19, 2019 Week: 08 \ Day: 50

86004 Today: H 26° \ L 9° \ Average Sky Cover: 50% 

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  12mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1981]   Record Low: -6°[1942]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

There are many ways of going forward,

but only one way of standing still.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

It would take, on average, 1 hour and 43 minutes of walking to burn off a 540-calorie Big Mac.

To burn off one plain M&M candy, a person would need to walk the entire length of a football field.

Observances This Week

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
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

Best Friends Day  Link 
Chocolate Mint Day Link
National Lashes Day Link
Iwo Jima Day (Landing)
Travel Africa Day 
Vet Girls Rock Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Snowstorm yesterday and last night dropped about 8” of the white stuff. Took about 20 minutes to dig out my vehicle. Thankfully it was fairly dry and fluffy. The snow shovel guys arrived about 7:45 so at least I didn’t have to do the walks too.

I try hard not to go businesses on a Federal Holiday…their employees should be able to enjoy a day off just like I did when I was working. However, my blood doctor lives on his own schedule, so I had to go in for a blood draw. It was 21° when I headed out.

I’m now all set for my Trans-Siberian rail trip in June. Check is in the mail. And for 2020 I’m doing a cruise to Tahiti & French Polynesia including, Papeete, Moorea, Fakarava, Nuku Hiva, Rangiroa, Bora Bora and Raiatea. My roommate and I have done a bunch of trips and he sent me an email after the Focus Blowout to let me know he signed up.

While listening to the Sunday news shows, I wondered something:

Now that 45 has claimed a National Emergency, why aren’t

 his supporters relieved and happy?

Those on 45’s side were talking about how great it was that he circumvented Congress. It is clear that 45 and his supporters just want to cause upheaval. So sad.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1600 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the

            most violent eruption in South American recorded

            history

1800’s

1803 US Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not

            ratified till 1953

1807 US Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for

            treason; later acquitted

1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his gramophone

            (phonograph)

1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

1900’s

1906 Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle

            Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the

            multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's

1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first

            periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several

            further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area

1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box

1914 Four-year old Charlotte May Pierstorff mailed by train

            from Grangeville, Idaho to her grandparents’ house 73

            miles away in most famous 'child in the post' instance

1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois (Paris)

1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast

            Japanese-Americans

1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the

            Japanese with 30,000 US Marines

1950 Groundbreaking ceremony held for Mississippi

            Vocational College (later Mississippi Valley State

            University)

1963 USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand

            troops from Cuba

1963 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely

            credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is

            published

1968 "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now

            PBS)

1987 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland

2000’s

2004 Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary

            knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to

            humanity."

2018 Nigeria says 110 girls missing, presumed kidnapped by

            Boko Haram after attack on school in Dapchi, Yobe

            state

Birthdays Today

1473 Nicolaus Copernicus,

Polish mathematician and astronomer who theorized that planets

revolve around the sun (Heliocentric theory), born in Toruń, Royal

 Prussia, Kingdom of Poland

(d. 1543-@70-apoplexy)

1924 Lee Marvin,

American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), born in NYC

(d. 1987-@63-heart attack)

1930 John Frankenheimer,

American director (Birdman of Alcatraz), born in NYC,

(d. 2002-@72-stroke)

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79- Smokey [William] Robinson,

American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles),

born in Detroit, Michigan

76- Lou Christie

[Lugee Sacco],

American singer-songwriter (Lightning Striking Again),

born in Glenwillard, Pennsylvania

61- Helen Fielding,

English writer (Bridget Jones), born in Morley, England

56- Seal

[Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel],

English singer-songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose), born in London

54- Jeff Daniels,

actor (Something Wild, Dumb & Dumber, Speed)

52- Benicio Del Toro,

Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)

Historical Obits Today

@92-1997 Deng Xiaoping,

Chinese revolutionary and paramount leader of China (1978-92)

@89-2016 [Nelle] Harper Lee,

American author (To Kill a Mockingbird)

@84-1998 Grandpa Jones,

country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw)

@78-1962 Georgios Papanikolaou,

Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear

@77-1996 Charles O Finley,

baseball owner (Oakland A's)

@65-2014 Dale Gardner,

American astronaut,

dies from a brain aneurysm

@64-2010 Laura Spurr,

Tribal Chairperson, Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the

Potawatomi.

dies of cardiac arrest

@64-2003 Johnny PayCheck,

            [Donald Eugene Lytle]

American country singer/songwriter,

dies from emphysema and asthma