Mar 24

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Mar 24, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 83

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1956]   Record Low: 0°[1984]

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

Today’s Quote

The man who is swimming against the stream

knows the strength of it.

Woodrow Wilson

Random Tidbits

Farmers today produce 262 percent more food with 2 percent fewer inputs (such as seeds, labor, fertilizers) than they did in 1950.

Livestock farming feeds billions of people and employs 1.3 billion people. That means about 1 in 5 people on Earth work in some aspect of the livestock farming.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-Apr 20

Act Happy Week: 18-24

International Teach Music Week: 18-24

National Fix A Leak Week: 18-24 

Shakespeare Week: 18-24 

Wellderly Week: 18-24

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14  

International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination: 21-27

American Crossword Puzzle Days: 22-24 

Health Information Professionals Week: 24-30

International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 24-30 

National Cleaning Week: 24-30

National Protocol Officer's Week: 24-30

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week: 24-30

National Physicians Week: 24-30 

Observances for Today

International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of Victims  Link

National Cake Pop Day

National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day Link

National Tortilla Chip Day

World Tuberculosis Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Taking a short break from dealing with taxes. It’s a beautiful day outside. Just needs to warm up a little so I can open the windows.

News channels seem to be speculating 24/7 on what is in the Mueller report. Even Rachael Maddow cut short a fishing trip to discuss the possibilities.  Really, just wait a while and in the meantime show us the flooding in the Midwest or anything else. The world and this country will continue, no matter what is in the report.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1603 Scottish King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.

1800’s

1815 Handel & Haydn Society of Boston founded

1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio

1837 Canada gives its black citizens the right to vote

1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis)

1900’s

1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress

1942 US government begins moving native-born citizens with Japanese ancestry into detention centres under Executive Order 9066, with intention of preventing home-grown espionage

1947 John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN

1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa

1960 US appeals court rules novel "Lady Chatterly's Lover" not obscene

1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued

1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska

2000’s

2015 The Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon

2017 US President Donald Trump and Republican party forced to pull their attempt to repeal Obamacare after internal opposition

2018 Tens of thousands attend 'March for Our Lives' rallies held in Washington D.C. and around the world to protest gun violence

Birthdays Today

1820 Edmond Becquerel,

French physicist who studied the solar spectrum, magnetism,

electricity and optics (photovoltaic effect), born in Paris, France

(d. 1891:@71)

1834 John Wesley Powell,

American geologist/explorer/ethnologist

(d. 1902:@68)

1855 Andrew Mellon,

American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of

the Treasury (1921-32),

born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

(d. 1947:@82)

1874 Harry Houdini

[Erich Weiss],

Famous magician and escape artist,

born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary

(d. 1926:@52-peritonitus)

1890 John Rock,

American obstetrician and gynecologist who co-developed the

1st birth control pill,

born in Marlborough, Massachusetts

 (d. 1984:@94)

1902 Thomas E. Dewey,

Governor of NY and

Republican presidential candidate (1944, 1948),

born in Owosso, Michigan

(d. 1971@68-heart attack)

1906 John Cameron Swayze,

American newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg),

born in Wichita, Kansas

(d. 1995:@89)

1909 Clyde Barrow,

American bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame),

born in Ellis County, Texas

(d. 1934:@25-shot by posse)

1910 Richard Conte,

American actor (The Godfather, Tony Rome, Hotel),

born in Jersey City, New Jersey

(d. 1975:@65-heart attack)

1911 Joseph Barbera,

American animator (Hanna-Barbera - Tom and Jerry),

born in Manhattan, New York

(d. 2006:@95)

1912 Dorothy Height,

American civil rights and women's rights activist

(National Council of Negro Women),

born in Richmond, Virginia

(d. 2010:@98)

1930 Steve McQueen,

American actor called "The King of Cool" during the 1960s

(The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape),

born in Beech Grove, Indiana

(d. 1980:@50-heart failure)

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80- Robert "Bob" Mackie,

American fashion designer

(RuPaul, Tina Turner, Judy Garland, Carol Burnett, Streisand,

Cher),

born in Monterey Park, California

67-Tommy Hilfiger,

fashion designer

66- Louie Anderson,

American comedian (Ratboy, Wrong Guys),

born in Saint Paul, Minnesota

57- Star Jones,

attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)

46- Jim Parsons,

actor (The Big Bang Theory),

born in Houston, Texas

43-Peyton Manning,

football Colts and Broncos

Historical Obits Today

@93-2008 Richard Widmark,

American actor (Madigan, Murder on the Orient Express,

Judgement at Nuremberg),

dies complications following a fall

@93-1984 Sam Jaffe,

American actor (Dr Zorba)

@79-2010 Robert Culp,

American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director

(I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice),

dies of heart attack while jogging

@77-1905 Jules Verne,

French writer known as the "Father of Science Fiction"

(Around the World in 80 Days)

@75-1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,

American poet (Song of Hiawatha)

@69-1603 Elizabeth I Tudor

[Virgin Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and

 daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn

@66-2016 Garry Shandling,

American comedian

(It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show),

dies of pulmonary embolism