Mar 3

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Mar 3, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 62

86004 Today: H 44° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 2 mi

Record High: 66°[1910]   Record Low: -9°[1915]

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

Today’s Quote

Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

Nelson Mandela

Random Tidbits

Sleep is a universal characteristic of complex living organisms and has been observed in insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In fact, sleep is so important that humans can survive longer without food than they can without sleep.

More Observances This Month

Honor Society Awareness Month

Humorists Are Artists Month

International Black Women in Jazz & The Arts Month

International Expect Success Month

International Ideas Month

International Listening Awareness Month

International Mirth Month

Irish-American Heritage Month

Mad for Plaid Month

Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month

Music In Our Schools Month

Observances This Week

Festival of Owls Week: 1-3

National Cheerleading Week: 1-7

National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7

National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7 

National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7

Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7

Will Eisner Week: 1-7 

Texas Cowboy Poetry Week: 2-3

Celebrate Your Name Week: 3-9

Endometriosis Week: 3-9

National Consumer Protection Week:  3-9

National Dental Assistants Recognition Week: 3-9 

National Procrastination Week:  3-9

National Words Matter Week:  3-9

Professional Pet Sitters Week: 3-9

Read an E-Book Week:  3-9 

Return The Borrowed Books Week:  3-9

Save Your Vision Week: 3-9   

Teen Tech Week: 3-9

Telecommuniter Appreciation Week: 3-9

Women in Construction Week: 3-9 

Observances for Today

Caregiver Appreciation Day

Daughters' and Sons' Day 
Finisher's Medal Day Link 
I Want You to be Happy Day
If Pets Had Thumbs Day

International Ear Care Day
Namesake Day  Link
National Anthem Day

National Cold Cuts Day

National Moscow Mule Day

National Mulled Wine Day  Link
Princess Day Link
Simplify Your Life Day
Soup It Forward Day  Link
What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs? Day
World Birth Defects Day
World Wildlife Day Link 

My Rambling Thoughts

Rain is melting what is left of the snow piles. It has been a pretty steady rain since about 6a. The forest needs the moisture, and no one has to shovel rain.

When I attended CU@Boulder, everywhere on campus was a free speech zone. And yes, I was uncomfortable in some of the radical stuff I heard. I believe that helped my form my own beliefs. I learned to listen, contemplate, and decide where I stood on issues. I heard from SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), Goldwater’s Girls, and everything in between. There were signs all over campus of various views. In today’s world, many youth are given an award for everything they do. Parents sue anyone who disrupts their child’s bubble. I have read about colleges and universities setting up ‘free speech zones’ so students can feel safe. I never understood that. Now, at a conservative meeting, 45 says he will sign yet another Executive Order to campus’ must allow free speech or lose Federal Funding. He said this because his base felt their views were being shut down on college campuses. Seems to me, everyone should be rejoicing. I still live by: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1634 1st tavern in Boston (Mass) opens (Samuel Cole)

1700’s

1791 1st US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)

1791 Congress establishes US Mint

1800’s

1812 US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)

1813 Office of Surgeon General of the US Army forms

1817 Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi

1820 Missouri Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United

            States despite slavery still being legal there.

1837 Congress increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9

1842 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)

1845 Florida becomes 27th state of the Union

1847 US Post Office Department is authorized to issue postage stamps

1848 American education reformer Horace Mann joins the US Senate,

            representing Massachusetts

1849 Territory of Minnesota organizes

1849 US Home Department (later renamed the Department of the

            Interior) established by Congress

1855 US Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use

1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of

            Sciences

1863 Idaho Territory forms

1865 US Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands

            established by Abraham Lincoln to help destitute free blacks

1865 Opening of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation,

            the founding member of the HSBC Group.

1869 University of South Carolina opens to all races

1871 US Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to

            dependent

1871 US Congress establishes the civil service system

1879 1st female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett

            Lockwood)

1879 US Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the

            Interior

1885 US Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of

            federal government)

1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller

1889 US President Harrison announced the government would open the

            1.9 million-acre tract of Indian Territory for settlement precisely

            at noon on April 22

1891 US Congress creates Courts of Appeal

1891 US Congress creates Office of Superintendent of Immigration

            (Treasury Dept)

1899 George Dewey becomes 1st in US to hold the rank of Admiral of

            the Navy

1900’s

1900 US Steel Corporation organizes

1901 US Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Department

            of Commerce

1904 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make

            a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison's

            cylinder

1905 US Forest Service forms

1923 Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon

            (Speaker of US House of Representatives)

1933 Mount Rushmore dedicated

1939 Mahatma Gandhi begins a fast in Mumbai (Bombay) to protest

            against autocratic rule in India

1972 Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, & Stonewall

            Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

1991 Iraqi generals and US general "Stormin' Norman" Schwarzkopf

            meet to discuss Gulf War cease fire

1991 Los Angeles police officers severely beat motorist Rodney King, the

             beating is famously captured on amateur video and later leads

             to riots when the police officers are acquitted

Birthdays Today

1847 Alexander Graham Bell,

Scottish-born British-American inventor (telephone),

born in Edinburgh, Scotland

(d. 1922-@75)

1882 Charles Ponzi [Carlo],

Italian con-man (Ponzi scheme in the US), born in Lugo, Italy

(d. 1949-@66-deteriating health)

1911 Jean Harlow,

[Harlean Carpentier],

30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8),

born in Kansas City, Missouri

(d. 2937@26-stroke)

1900 Ruby Dandridge

[Ruby Jean Butler],

American actress (Father of the Bride),

born in Wichita, Kansas

(d. 1987-@87)

1920 James Doohan,

Canadian actor (Scottie on Star Trek),

born in Vancouver, British Columbia

(d. 2005-@85)

48- Tyler Florence,

American chef, Food Network personality & cookbook author,

born in Greenville, South Carolina

42- Buddy Valastro,

chef (Cake Boss on TLC)

37- Jessica Biel,

American actress (Mary Camden in 7th Heaven),

born in Ely, Minnesota

Historical Obits Today

@88-2018 Roger Bannister,

English middle-distance athlete who was the 1st to run a 4

minute mile at Iffley Road Track, Oxford (1954),

dies of Parkinson's disease

@86-1993 Albert Sabin,

physician (oral polio vaccine)

@76-1994 Ezra Stone

[Chaim Feinstone],

American director, actor and producer

(My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich),

dies in a road accident

@76-1987 Danny Kaye

[David Daniel Kaminski],

American comedian and actor

(Danny Kaye Show, White Christmas),

dies of heart failure

@75-2018 David Ogden Stiers,

American actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc),

dies of bladder cancer

@75-1983 Hergé

[Georges Prosper Remi],

Belgian comic book creator (The Adventures of Tintin),

dies from osteomyelofibrosis and cardiac arrest

@67-1703 Robert Hooke,

English scientific genius (Micrographia)

@54-1992 Sandy Dennis,

American actress (Up the Down Staircase),

dies of cancer

@52-1959 Lou Costello,

American comedian and actor (The Abbott and Costello Show),

dies from a heart attack