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Mar 17, 2019 Week: 12 \ Day: 76

86004 Today: H 45° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[2007]   Record Low: 3°[1991]

Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Try to keep your soul young and quivering

right up to old age.

George Sand

Random Tidbits

Daylight Savings Time officially began in 1916 when the Germans, in the middle of World War I, realized that they could save energy by switching the clocks. England's Parliament had rejected such a measure since 1909, but followed the Germans a month later. In the United States, DST began in 1918, when the US entered the war, but it was repealed once the war ended.

The United States instituted DST again during World War II, one month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When the war ended, it was again repealed, although some states and cities chose to maintain the time change. This resulted in utter chaos as neighboring districts were followed different times. Suburbs could be in different time zones than the cities they surrounded.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-20

International Brain Awareness Week: 11-17 

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign: 11-17

Special Olympics 2019: 14-21

Sherlock Holmes Weekend: 15-17  

American Chocolate Week: 17-23 

National Animal Poison Prevention Week: 17-23    

National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week: 17-23   

World Folktales & Fables Week: 17-23

Observances for Today

Campfire Day

Corned Beef and Cabbage Day
National Irish Food Day

Saint Patrick's Day Link

Submarine Day 

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice day outside, but still windy. Spring at 7000’ so not unexpected.

Facebook remains strange to me at times. I ‘friended’ a high school friend as our 50^th reunion was coming up. She was popular in high school, a good musician, friendly. Over the past few months she has posted some odd posts. One was “As a child I was taught that if you didn’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything. Spread love and acceptance.” A very nice sentiment. Her posts both before and after that post were right wing propaganda about how great 45 is and how awful any living democrat is. I just don’t get it.

The university entrance scandal just keeps getting worse. Now we know that some of the children knew their parents were ‘fixing’ their admission and did nothing about it.  And some of the big names in the scandal are losing jobs and endorsements. Looks to me like those using their evil side to get stuff and trying to hide that evil are finally getting their comeuppance.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

400’s

432 Saint Patrick aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his

            home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland

            (traditional date)

1700’s

1755 Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a

            Cherokee chief

1756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle

            Tavern

1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC

1800’s

1829 Final performance by famous clown Joseph Grimaldi at a benefit

            performance at Sadler's Wells, London

1845 Bristol man Henry Jones patents self-raising flour

1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts

1900’s

1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum

            Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics

1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey

            Gulick

1927 US government doesn't sign League of Nations disarmament treaty

1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under

            the CIA

1973 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating

            Bloody Sunday

1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast

1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patrick's Day parade

1992 South African President F. W. de Klerk wins a white only

            referendum

1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House

2000’s

2008 New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal

            involving a high-end prostitute.

            David Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.

2016 Archaeologists announce discovery of iron age warrior king burial

            ground with 75 graves 2,500 years old in Pocklington, Northern

            England

Birthdays Today

1910 Bayard Rustin,

American civil rights leader (March on Washington organizer,

Social Democrats USA), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania

(d. 1987:@75:perforated appendix)

1919 Nat King Cole,

[Nathaniel Adams Coles]

American singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa),

born in Montgomery, Alabama

(d. 1965:@45: lung cancer)

1922 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,

Founding father of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of

Bangladesh (1971-72 and 1975-76),

born in Tungipara, Bengal Presidency, British India

(d. 1975:@55:assasinated)

1941 Paul Kantner,

American rock singer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane),

born in San Francisco, California

(d. 2016:@74: septic shock)

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75- John Sebastian,

American singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter),

born in NYC, New York

70- Patrick Duffy,

actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis),

born in Townsend, Montana

69- Betty Dukes,

American Walmart employee who fought against gender

 discrimination (2001 Betty Dukes v. Walmart lawsuit),

born in Tallulah, Louisiana

68- Kurt Russell,

actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons),

born in Springfield, Massachusetts

64- Gary Sinise,

American actor (Apollo 13, CSI: NY, Forrest Gump),

born in Blue Island Illinois

55- Rob Lowe,

actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class),

born in Charlottesville, Virginia

40- Stormy Daniels

[Stephanie Clifford],

American pornographic actress, claims had affair with

Donald Trump,

born in Baton Rouge, Lousiana

27- John Boyega

[Adedayo B. Adegboyega],

English actor (Star Wars: The Force Awakens),

born in London

Historical Obits Today

@92-2006 Oleg Cassini,

American fashion designer (for Jackie Kennedy)

@92-1993 Helen Hayes,

American actress (Airport, Caesar & Cleopatra)

@76-461 Saint Patrick

[Maewyn Succat],

patron saint of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)

@54-1996 Terry Stafford,

American singer (Suspicion, Amarillo by morning),

dies of liver failure