Feb 3

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Feb 3, 2019 Week: 05  \ Day: 34

86004 Today: H 44° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind:   22mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 8 mi

Record High: 64°[1953]   Record Low: -22°[1922]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Winston Churchill

Random Tidbits

The Inventor of Frisbee Golf Was Turned Into a Frisbee

Edward “Steady Ed” Headrick, who invented the game of Frisbee golf, made as one of his dying wishes that his family would cremate him and mold his remains into a Frisbee. “When we die, we don’t go to purgatory,” Headrick reportedly said shortly before his passing. “We just land up on the roof and lay there.”

More Observances This Month

Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month

Marijuana Awareness Month Link

National African American History Month Link

National African American Read-In  Link

National Bird Feeding Month

National Black History Month

National Care About Your Indoor Air Month

National Cherry Month

National Condom Month  Link

National Children's Dental Health Month

National Enrolled Agents Month Link

National Haiku Writing Month Link

National Hot Breakfast Month Link  Link

National Mend A Broken Heart Month

National Parent Leadership Month

National Pet Dental Health Month

National Prevent A Litter Month Link

National Self Check Month Link

National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month Link

National Therapeutic Recreation Month Link

National Time Management Month

National Weddings Month

National Women Inventors Month

North American Inclusion Month (NAIM) Link

Observances This Week

Cordova Ice Worm Day: 1-3

US Snow Sculpting Week: 1-5 

Women's Heart Week: 1-7

Publicity for Profit Week: 2-8

African Heritage & Health Week: 3-9

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week: 3-9

Burn Awareness Week: 3-9 Link 

Children's Authors & Illustrators Week: 3-9

Observances for Today

Feed The Birds Day

Four Chaplains Memorial Day

National Carrot Cake Day

National Missing Person's Day 

National Women's Physicians Day 

Popcorn Day 

Superbowl  LIII (53)

The Day the Music Died 

My Rambling Thoughts

Weather change: the storm I was expecting for today has decided to arrive late tonight and tomorrow. While I wait the storm, it is now bringing 1”-4” instead of the 1”. Gotta love life at 7000’.

If that storm arrives, I am spending tomorrow cleaning out closets. If it fizzles, I am spending tomorrow cleaning out closets. At least until the Super Bowl starts.

In 1970 I was sitting in an auditorium at the Univ. of Colorado to hear S. I. Hayakawa speak. At the time he, as college president, had just been embroiled in SF State College demonstrations regarding the Univ stance on Viet Nam and on Ethnic Studies. He was also a well-known linguist. The BSA [Black Student Alliance] were seated, with protest signs in the first few rows. When he came out on stage, the BSA raised their signs and started chanting. He attempted to speak several times but was out-shouted. After a few minutes he said he would not speak until the ‘jungle bunnies’ were removed. As the entire audience began booing, about 25 campus and local cops were on stage with billy clubs. Things did calm down and he did give his speech, and the BSA remained for the entire speech. I was reminded of this with the Virginia governor’s situation.

In 1970 I knew that negative stereotypes of any group of people was wrong. How could the governor not know it in 1984? How can 45 not know it in 2019? I heard his news conference this afternoon and just don’t buy it.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1743 Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine

            immigrants

1800’s

1809 Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day

            Wisconsin)

1834 Wake Forest University is established in North Carolina

1863 Samuel Clemens first uses the pen name Mark Twain in

            a Virginia City newspaper, the "Territorial Enterprise"

1882 Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world-famous       elephant Jumbo

1900’s

1928 Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings

            on the ancient human fossils found at Zhoukoudian,

            China in the journal Nature and declares them to be a

            new species he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now

            known as 'Homo erectus')

1959 The Day the Music died

1960 British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan makes his

            famous "wind of change" speech in Africa, against the

            apartheid regime, angering South African politicians

1962 US President John F. Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba

            except for food & drugs

1966 1st soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)

1980 Mohammed Ali tours Africa as President Carter's envoy

1994 President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against

            Vietnam

1998 US military plane clips cable car lines in northern Italy,

            kills 20

2000’s

2018 Moscow has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record,

            killing one and bringing down 2,000 trees

Birthdays Today

1480 Ferdinand Magellan,

Portuguese explorer, born in Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

, Portugal

(d. 1521)-@42-killed in Phillipines

1809 Felix Mendelssohn

[Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy],

German composer and pianist (Great Scherzos),

born in Hamburg, Germany

(d. 1847)-@38-series of strokes

1811 Horace Greeley,

editor ("Go west, young man")

(d. 1872)-@61 dies of short illness

1821 Elizabeth Blackwell,

English-American physician who was the first woman to receive a

medical degree in the United States, born in Bristol, England

(d. 1910)-@89

1874 Gertrude Stein,

author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas)

(d. 1946)-@72-stomach cancer

1894 Norman Rockwell,

American artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers)

(d. 1978)-@84

1906 George Adamson

[Baba ya Simba - "Father of Lions"],

British conservationist (Born Free), born in Etawah, India

(d. 1989)-@83

1907 James A. Michener,

American author (Tales of the South Pacific, Hawaii)

(d. 1997)-@90

1914 George Nissen,

American inventor (created the trampoline), born in Blairstown,

Iowa

(d. 2010)@96

1918 Joey Bishop,

[Joseph Abraham Gottlieb],

talk show host (Joey Bishop Show), born in The Bronx,

(d. 2007)-@89

1938 Victor Buono,

actor (Man from Atlantis, Untouchables),

born in San Diego, (

d. 1982)-@43-heart attack

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35- Elizabeth Holmes,

American entrepreneur and CEO of now-defunct Theranos

(youngest self-made female billionaire - Forbes 2014),

born in Washington, D.C.

69- Morgan Fairchild,

[Patsy McClenny],

actress (Falcon Crest), born in Dallas, Texas

63- Nathan Lane,

actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie),

born in Jersey City, New Jersey

Historical Obits Today

@82-2006 Al Lewis

[Alexander Meister],

American actor (The Munsters, Used Cars)

@81-2012 Ben Gazzara,

American actor

@72-1985 Frank Oppenheimer,

American physicist

dies of lung cancer

@70-1468 Johannes Gutenberg,

German inventor (movable printing press)

@69-1991 Nancy Kulp,

American actress (The Beverly Hillbillies, The Aristocats, Shane),

dies of cancer

@67-1924 Woodrow Wilson,

28th US President (1913-21),

dies of stroke

@59-1989 John Cassavetes,

Greek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter

(Dirty Dozen, Rosemary's Baby),

dies of cirrhosis

@56-1961 Anna May Wong,

American actress, 1st Chinese American movie star

(Gallery of Mme Lui-Tsang),

dies of heart attack

@40-1889 Belle Starr,

US female gangster,

murdered

@28-1959 The Big Bopper

[Jiles Perry Richardson],

American musician,

dies in plane crash

@22-1959 Buddy Holly,

American rock and roll musician (That'll be the Day),

dies in a plane crash

@17-1959 Ritchie Valens,

American rock vocalist (Donna, La Bamba),

dies in plane crash