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Mar 8, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 67
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 45% 
Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 67°[1989]   Record Low: -4°[1969]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote
Life is given to us,
we earn it by giving it.
Rabindranath Tagore


Random Tidbits
Doughnuts
The origin of the doughnut is unknown, though different nationalities have had their own version of the treat throughout history. A type of doughnut is even mentioned in the Bible. Specifically, Chapter 7 and verse 12 of Leviticus says that a thanksgiving to God should be made of "cakes mingled with oil, of fine flour, fried."


Observances This Week
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
National Catholic Sisters Week: 8-14 
World Rattlesnake Roundup: 8-10


Observances for Today
Be Nasty Day
Day for Women's Rights & International Peace
The Bikini Bottom Free (Crabcakes) Day  Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants) Girls Write Now Day
International Women's Day Link
International Working Women's Day
Middle Name Pride Day Link 
National Proofreading Day
National Peanut Cluster Day Link
National Retro Video Game Day  Link
Proofreading Day
Tartar Sauce Day  Link


My Rambling Thoughts
Weatherman sez a couple of inches early tomorrow. I’ll just wait and see.

Bob and his family moved in across the street soon after my parents moved in to our new house. They had two daughters, a few years younger than my brother and I. Every Christmas Eve for over 50 years was spent with Bob and his family. Now we always have a Christmas Eve call. When I retired, he called and asked if I wanted to go to Scotland. That was my intro to the Focus Family. In his younger days he climbed all the 14K peaks in Colorado. He also traveled the world. At 65 he climbed Kilimanjaro. At 79 he and I did a non-motorized 14-day river run through the Grand Canyon.  Now he is in a care unit, due to his Alzheimer’s. Lori’s call last night was difficult to hear, but after a long, long conversation, this was the right choice. He is still in Loveland, about a mile from where he was living. Lori and her husband are nearby. His other daughter, Lisa, is in Chicago, but is thinking about moving back to Colorado. All I can do is wish the family the best during this difficult time and be there for anything they need.


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s
1884 Susan B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee
arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting
women the right to vote, 16 years after legislators 1st
introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.

1894 The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law

1896 Volunteers of America forms (NYC)

1900’s
1917 Russian "February Revolution" begins in earnest with protests
celebrating International Woman's Day and riots in St Petersburg
over food rations and conduct of the war [OS=Feb 23]

1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has
stars

1945 International Women's Day is 1st observed

1958 William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become
babysitters

1964 Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam

1965 First US combat forces arrive in Vietnam,
on the beaches of Da Nang

1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest and US longest,
opens in Colorado

1978 The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.

1983 President Reagan 1st known use of term "Evil Empire" (about the
USSR) in speech in Florida

1999 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder
convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.

2000’s
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and
disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in
history

2017 Aboriginal DNA study by University of Adelaide shows Aboriginal
population dates back 50,000 years from one migration

2018 US President Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminum,
excluding Canada and Mexico

2018 5 million Spanish women mark International Women's Day by
striking over gender inequality and sexual discrimination


Birthdays Today
1697 Anne Bonny,
Irish pirate (date of birth is approximate), born in Kinsale, Ireland
(d. 1782-@83±)

1787 Karl Ferdinand von Graefe,
German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery,
born in Warsaw, Poland
(d. 1840-@53)

1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32),
born in Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1935-@93)

1921 Alan Hale, Jr.,
American actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island),
born in Los Angeles, California
(d. 1990-@68-cancer)

1922 Cyd Charisse
[Tula Finklea],
American dancer and actress (Singin' in the Rain),
born in Amarillo, Texas
(d. 2008-@86)

1943 Lynn Redgrave,
British-American actress (Gods and Monsters, Georgy Girl),
born in London, England
(d. 2010-@67-breast cancer)
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74- Micky Dolenz,
American singer and actor (Circus Boy, The Monkees),
born in Los Angeles, California

71- Little Peggy March,
[Margaret Battavio],
vocalist (I Will Follow Him)

58- Camryn Manheim,
American actress (The Practice),
born in Caldwell, New Jersey

43- Freddie Prinze Jr,
actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)

42- James Van Der Beek,
American actor (Dawson's Creek),
born in Cheshire, Connecticut


Historical Obits Today
@85-1889 John Ericsson,
Swedish-American inventor (screw propeller, rotating turret)

@84-1999 Joe DiMaggio,
American Baseball Hall of Fame center fielder
(MLB record 56-game hitting streak)

@78-1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin,
German general and inventor (rigid dirigibles) who founded the
Zeppelin airship company

@74-1999 Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass,
American actress, comedian,
game show panelist and announcer (To Tell The Truth),
dies of heart failure

@74-1874 Millard Fillmore,
13th President of the United States (Whig: 1850-53)

@72-1930 William Howard Taft,
27th US President (Republican: 1909-13) and Chief Justice

@55-2004 Abu Abbas
[Muhammad Zaidan],
Palestinian founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (PLO),
dies in US custody of allegedly natural causes

@27-1973 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan,
rocker (Grateful Dead)
dies of gastrointestinal hemorrhage