Mar 28

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Mar 28, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 87

86004 Today: H 67° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[2015]   Record Low: -7°[1975]

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

Today’s Quote

Nature has made us frivolous to console us for our miseries.

--Voltaire

Random Tidbits

During the court-martial that followed the capture of USS Chesapeake by HMS Shannon, Midshipman William Sitgreaves Cox, the junior-most officer on the Chesapeake, was charged with cowardice, disobedience of orders, desertion from quarters, neglect of duty, and unofficerlike conduct. He had taken the injured captain below-deck during the battle and could not regain the deck when the British boarded the Chesapeake.

In the end, Mr. Cox was only convicted of unofficerlike conduct, and neglect of duty for leaving the deck when he knew, or should have known, that a boarding action was imminent, since every other officer above him was either injured or out-of-action and Cox was technically in command of Chesapeake.

Cox's family tried for nearly 140 years to exonerate his name. Finally, in 1952, Cox's great grandson, succeeded in bringing the matter to the attention of the House Armed Services Committee which reviewed the historical facts of the case and recommended his reinstatement.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-4/20

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14  

International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism &

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 

National Money Show: 28-30

Observances for Today

Barnum & Bailey Day
National Black Forest Cake Day

National Triglycerides Day  Link
Something on a Stick Day

Virtual Advocacy Day Link
Weed Appreciation Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

All these high clouds will not deter my spring. It is a beautiful day, office window partially opened, life is good.

Flag has had a hate crime. Our little mountain town is trying to deal with the defiling of a synagogue under construction. Some one or more broke in, destroyed construction tools, opens cans of paint and put the paint on walls and windows depicting swastikas.  So uncalled for and so sad. I sure hope they catch these haters quickly.

45 has decided it is time to get rid of Obamacare…again. Really? His promise of something better is just not believable. If he had a better plan, why not ‘repeal and replace’…his 2016 mantra. I am so fortunate to have Medicare and my Federal BCBS. Others don’t have those great advantages.

And while this goes on and on and on…the Secretary of Education is doing everything she can to dismantle the American Education System. Now she is going after Special Olympics and other block grant programs that help low income families. Remember, she never went to public schools, nor worked in public schools, yet decides what will happen to public schools. Crazy.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

800’s

845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok,

            who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving

1700’s

1799 New York State abolishes slavery

1800’s

1804 Ohio passes law restricting movement of Blacks

1871 San Francisco Art Association holds open reception at 430 Pine

1881 "Greatest Show On Earth" was formed by PT Barnum &

            James A Bailey

1885 US Salvation Army officially organized

1900’s

1922 1st microfilm device introduced

1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing "Pippi Longstocking"

1967 UN Secretary General U Thant makes public proposals for peace

            in Vietnam

1990 US President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse

            Owens the Congressional Gold Medal

2000’s

2009 The first cases of H1N1 swine flu in the United States occur in

            two people in California

2013 Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to wash the feet of

            women in the Maundy Thursday service

2017 Britain introduces 1st new pound coin in 30 years with

            secret security feature inside to stop counterfeiting

2017 World's largest dinosaur footprint at 1.7 metres found in

            Kimberley, Western Australia

2017 US President Donald Trump signs Energy Independence

            executive order undoing Obama climate-control measures

Birthdays Today

1836 Frederick Pabst,

German-American brewer (Pabst Brewing Company),

born in Mönchpfiffel-Nikolausrieth, Germany

(d. 1904:@66)

1905 Marlin Perkins,

American TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom),

born in Carthage, Missouri

(d. 1986:@81)

1944 Ken Howard,

American actor (Ken - The White Shadow),

born in El Centro California

(d. 2016:@71)

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76- Conchata Ferrell,

American actress (Deadly Hero, Susan-LA Law),

born in Loudendale, West Virginia

73- Bruce Gilbert,

English producer (China Syndrome, 9 to 5, On Golden Pond),

born in Watford, Hertfordshire, England

64- Reba McEntire,

American country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues),

born in McAlester, Oklahoma

49- Vince Vaughn,

American actor (Swingers, Wedding Crashers),

born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

38- Julia Stiles,

American actress (Bourne series, Save the Last Dance),

born in NYC, New York

33- Lady Gaga

[Stefani Germanotta],

American singer-songwriter and actress (Bad Romance, A Star is Born),

born in NYC, New York

Historical Obits Today

@88-2012 Earl Scruggs,

American bluegrass musician

@84-1958 W. C. Handy,

American composer and musician known as the "Father of the Blues"

(Memphis Blues, St Louis Blues)

@82-2004 Peter Ustinov,

British actor, author, journalist, comedian and broadcaster

(Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd)

@80-1979 Emmett Kelly,

American circus clown (Weary Willy)

@78-1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower,

34th US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general,

dies of a congestive heart failure

@75-1712 Jan van der Heyden,

Dutch inventor (street lantern)

@65-1953 Jim Thorpe,

American all-round athlete

(2 gold Olympics 1912, College, Pro Football Halls of Fame),

dies of heart failure

@59-1941 Virginia Woolf-Stephen [Adeline],

British writer (To Lighthouse),

dies from suicide

@53-1584 Ivan IV

[Ivan the Terrible],

Russian tsar (1547-84),

dies from stroke