Mar 6

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Mar 6, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 65

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

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

Record High: 68°[1910]   Record Low: -2°[1935]

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

Today’s Quote

The final value of life lies in

the ability to wake up in mind and think,

not just in living.

--Aristotle

Random Tidbits

REM atonia, or sleep paralysis, occurs in the typical sleeper every night to prevent people from acting out their dreams. Only a few muscles have the ability to move during REM sleep, such as the eye muscles, the auditory muscles, and the diaphragm for respiration.

Observances This Week

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 

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 

National School Breakfast Week: 4-8

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 4-10 

Lent: 6-20

Observances for Today

Ash Wednesday
Day of The Dude Link
Dentist's Day

Discover What Your Name Means Day Link
National Dentist's Day Link
National Dress Day  Link
National Frozen Food Day

Oreo Cookie Day Link
Peace Corps Day Link 
Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Sunshine and a bit of wind. Headed out early to get some essentials. Quick trip and back home.

I quit asking when this political mayhem will end. Now my question is: Will it ever end? I’m all for getting to the bottom of this mess, but while the seemingly endless hearings continue, the government continues to fall apart. I’m sure that while all this is a problem for 45, it also lets him do whatever he wants. My main concern now is how long it will take to undo some of his off the wall decisions and the many decisions of his 15 Department Secretaries. Daily each Secretary is rewriting rules that have been around for decades. This affects every Federal worker as the rules change. More importantly it puts additional stress on every entity that either receives Federal Funding or those entities that must follow the regs to remain out of the legal system. So happy I’m retired for the government chaos.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1400’s

1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile

            in exchange for claims in West Africa

1500’s

1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan discovers Guam

1800’s

1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US

1831 Edgar Allan Poe removed from West Point military academy

1834 Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st

            mayor

1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican

            soldiers overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans

            including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett

1857 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot

            be US citizens

1889 German firm Bayer patents the medicine aspirin

1900’s

1902 Permanent US Census office created by legislation passed by

            Congress

1921 Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania, issue an edict requiring Women

            to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee

1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, receives a patent for the

            first modern trampoline

1950 Silly Putty goes on sale in the US

1955 Dutch premiere of Samuel Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"

1966 Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)

1974 An unnamed Italian industrialist loses a record $1,920,000 at

            roulette over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino

1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th

            NYC

1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery,

            and is recovered a week later.

1998 First time the British Union Flag is flown over Buckingham Palace

            (following the controversy after Princess Dian's death; formerly

            the only flag flown was the Sovereign's standard indicating the

            monarch's presence.)

2000’s

2001 US Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham establishes the Northeast

             Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in emergency

             circumstances

2014 Crimean parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea part

            of Russia

2015 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen

            with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam

2017 US President Donald Trump signs his second executive order

            barring travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but

            leaves out Iraq

2018 "Highest overdose death rates ever recorded in the US", 142,000

            overdoses in 2016-17 period according to US Centers for Disease

            Control and Prevention

2018 World's oldest message in a bottle found in Western Australia,

            thrown from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)

2018 Pope Francis announces that murdered Salvadorean Archbishop

             Óscar Romero will be made a saint

2018 Forbes names Amazon founder Jeff Bezos the world's richest

            person for the first time at $112 billion, Bill Gates no. 2

Birthdays Today

1475 Michelangelo,

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High

 Renaissance (David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel),

born in Caprese, Tuscany

(d. 1564-@88)

1619 Cyrano de Bergerac,

French playwright (Voyage to the Moon),

known for his large nose (

d. 1655-@36-no known cause)

1747 Casimir Pulaski,

Polish military leader (called the father of American cavalry),

born in Warsaw, Poland

(d. 1779-@34-shot)

1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning,

English poet ("Sonnets from the Portuguese"),

born in Kelloe, Durham

(d. 1861-@55-long illness)

1871 Ben Harney,

American composer and "Father of Ragtime Piano"

(You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down),

 born on the Mississippi River

(d. 1938-@65)

1906 Lou Costello,

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

born in Paterson, New Jersey

(d. 1959-@52-cardiac arrest)

1923 Ed McMahon,

American TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search),

born in Detroit, Michigan

(d. 2009-@86)

1927 Gabriel García Márquez,

Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist

(1982 Nobel Prize in Literature), born in Aracataca, Colombia

(d. 2014-@87)

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93- Alan Greenspan,

American economist, presidential advisor and Chairman of the

Federal Reserve of the United States (1987-2006), born in NYC

81- Valentina Tereshkova,

Soviet cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6),

born in Maslennikovo, Russia

75- Mary Wilson,

vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go),

born in Detroit, Michigan

73- David Gilmour,

English rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall),

born in Cambridge, England

72- Rob Reiner,

American actor and director (All in the Family, Stand By Me),

born in The Bronx

60- Thomas "Tom" Arnold,

American actor (Tom, True Lies) and former husband of

actress Rosanne Barr, born in Iowa

56- D.L. Hughley,

American comedian and actor

47- Shaquille O'Neal,

basketball superstar

Historical Obits Today

@98-1986 Georgia O'Keeffe,

American sculptor/painter (Flowers)

@94-2016 Nancy Reagan

[Anne Frances Robbins],

US First Lady (1981-89)

@93-1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,

US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32)

@80-1973 Pearl S. Buck,

American author (Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938)

@77-1982 Ayn Rand

[Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum],

Russian-American author, screenwriter and philosopher who

developed the philosophical system of "Objectivism"

(Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead),

dies of heart failure

@77-1932 John Philip Sousa,

US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever)

@75-2018 Sir John E. Sulston,

British molecular biologist, co-recipient of 2002 Nobel Prize in

Physiology or Medicine (roundworm genome sequencing),

dies of stomach cancer

@65-1900 Gottlieb Daimler,

designed 1st motorcycle

@55-1970 William Hopper,

American actor

(Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel Without a Cause),

dies of pneumonia following a stroke

@55-1888 Louisa May Alcott,

American author (Little Women),

dies of a stroke