Mar 27

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Mar 27, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 86

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[2015]   Record Low: -1°[1975]

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

Today’s Quote

Anyone who has never made a mistake

has never tried anything new.

Albert Einstein

Random Tidbits

The most famous naval battle of the War of 1812 was the Battle of Boston Harbor fought on 1 June 1813. It was a duel between two frigates, which ultimately humiliated the proud and cocky U.S. navy.

The bloodiest ship-to-ship action of the age of sail was fought between the American frigate USS Chesapeake and the British frigate HMS Shannon during the War of 1812. In an engagement that lasted less than 15 minutes, the British lost 23 killed and 56 wounded, while the Americans lost 48 killed and 99 wounded. Between the wounded of the ships' two companies, another 23 died of their wounds in the two weeks following the action.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-4/20

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14  

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

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

Celebrate Exchange Day Link
Little Red Wagon Day  Link 
Manatee Appreciation Day Link 
National "Joe" Day

National Scribble Day Link
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Spanish Paella Day

Viagra Day
Whole Grain Sampling Day Link
World Theatre Day  Link

National World Whisky Day

My Rambling Thoughts

I guess I haven’t visited our Target store in a while. It looks like a brand-new store. I picked up things I needed and will definitely return when I have some extra time. Nice look and easy to move around.

What is going on with the Empire star. He claims to have been attacked on a Chicago street. The prosecutor comes on live National TV to charge him with 16 counts and says it’s all a fraud. Then today, all charges are dropped by the prosecutor in court. I am an Empire fan and found it hard to watch the episodes after the charges. Now it looks like an ‘oops’. Something is very fishy about this whole story, so I’ll wait and hope it plays out well.

Michael Avenatti…really? Is he a good fighter for mistreated people, or is he really just a sleezebag?

I have stopped answering any calls on my home phone or my cell that don’t have a name I recognize. I’m getting 5-6 robocalls on each phone every weekday. None of these calls ever leave a message. When 7p rolls around, I delete the missed calls on my home phone and block the missed calls on my cell. I’m on the ‘do not call’ list on both phones. Doesn’t work very well. Hopefully the FCC will do something in the near future to prevent this. My suggestion is that every call must have the name of the company or the person calling. First call without caller ID is disconnected before ringing by the phone company. The second call is 3 months in prison for the caller. The third call is 6 months in prison and a $100K fine. A little harsh but I’m paying for the phone service and am tired of this crap.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida

1700’s

1790 The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey

            Kennedy

1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and

            authorizes the building of six frigates.

1800’s

1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle"

            (corkscrew)

1866 US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later

            becomes 14th amendment

1900’s

1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to       

            quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five

            years evading health authorities and causing several further

            outbreaks of typhoid

1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett

1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records

1958 Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro

1964 The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting

            tsunami kill 139 people in the largest US earthquake and second

            largest ever recorded

1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years

1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an

            effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro

            regime.

2000’s

2006 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final

            meeting.

2015 Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members

            to the international space station to research the long-term

            effects of micro gravity

Birthdays Today

1813 Nathaniel Currier,

American lithographer (Currier & Ives),

born in Roxbury, Massachusetts

(d. 1888:@75)

1845 Wilhelm Röntgen,

German physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901),

born in Lennep, Rhine Province

(d. 1923:@77)

1868 Patty Smith Hill,

American composer, teacher and songwriter (Happy Birthday to You),

born in Anchorage, Kentucky

 (d. 1946:@78)

1893 Karl Mannheim,

German sociologist (Ideology & Utopia),

born in Budapest, Hungary

(d. 1947:@53: heart disease)

1899 Gloria Swanson,

American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly),

born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 1983@@84)

1917 Cyrus Vance,

US Secretary of State (1977-80),

born in Clarksburg, West Virginia

(d. 2002:@84)

1930 David Janssen,

American actor (The Fugitive, Harry O),

born in Naponee Nebraska

(d. 1980:@48-heart attack)

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56- Quentin Tarantino,

American director and screenwriter (Pulp Fiction),

born in Knoxville, Tennessee

50- Pauley Perrette,

American actress, photographer, poet and writer,

born in New Orleans, Louisiana

49- Mariah Carey,

American singer (Love Takes Time, Hero),

born in NYC, New York

44- Fergie Duhamel,

American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas),

born in Hacienda Heights, California

31- Brenda Song,

American actress (The Ultimate Christmas Present),

born in Carmichael, California

Historical Obits Today

@95-2002 Billy Wilder,

Austrian-born American film director

(The Lost Weekend, Some Like it Hot)

@93-2002 Milton Berle,

American actor and comedian

@87±-1969 B[runo] Traven,

writer (The Treasure of the Sierra Madre),

writer whose identity is disputed

@74-1910 Alexander Agassiz,

American biologist and geologist

@72-1916 Susan Blow,

American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and

was known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten"

@66-2002 Dudley Moore,

English actor and comedian (10, Arthur, Bedazzled),

dies of pneumonia/PSP

@64-1991 Aldo Ray

[(born Aldo Da Re],

American actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret),

dies of cancer

@58-1625 James Stuart,

King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and James I of England and

Ireland (1603-25),

dies of dysentery

@34-1968 Yuri Gagarin,

Russian cosmonaut and 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1),

dies in a Mig-15 plane crash