Mar 9

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Mar 9, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 68

86004 Today: H 45° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 9 mi

Record High: 70°[1989]   Record Low: 0°[1964]

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

Today’s Quote

Do something every day that you don't want to do;

this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing

your duty without pain.

-- Mark Twain

Random Tidbits

Doughnuts

Hansen Gregory, an American ship captain, is the man credited with inventing the classic hole-in-the-middle shape of the modern doughnut in 1847 by simply punching out the middle. Other versions of the story describe Gregory piercing the middle of the doughnut on the ship's steering wheel, so he could use both hands to steer.

In 1963 when President John F. Kennedy announced in Berlin, "Ich bin ein Berliner," he did not say, as is commonly believed, that he was a jelly doughnut. While there was a popular jelly donut called a 'Berliner', the phrase Kennedy used would not only have been understood by the German audience, but it is probably the best way to express what the president had intended to say. To state, "Ich bin Berliner" would imply that he was born in Berlin, whereas the word 'ein' implied he was a Berliner in spirit.

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 

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 4-10 

Lent: 6-20

National Catholic Sisters Week: 8-14 

World Rattlesnake Roundup: 8-10

American Council on Education: 9-12

Observances for Today

Barbie Day
Genealogy Day  Link 
Get Over It Day Link
International Fanny Pack Day Link  
Joe Franklin Day
National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day

Mario Day

National Meatball Day

National Crab Day
Panic Day

US Snow Shoe Days: thru 10 Link

My Rambling Thoughts

No snow, yet. Just rain. Nice little 2 hr. rainstorm this morning. The weather guy said it was supposed to snow this morning. Hmmm. Oops: update. It’s snowing now.

Looking forward to a quiet weekend.

I wish that that old show ‘What’s my Line?” was still on. It would be great to see 45 as the mystery guest. Or maybe the old ‘Masquerade Party’ where guests wore a costume and the panel had to figure out who it was. Either one would give him great ratings and we would all enjoy his choices of answers. He probably would do well on ‘I’ve Got A Secret’  

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1522 Martin Luther begins preaching his "Invocavit Sermons" in the

            German city of Wittenberg, reminding citizens to trust God's

            word rather than violence and thus helping bring to a close the

            revolutionary stage of the Reformation

1700’s

1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris

            posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas

            had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though

            his son had actually committed suicide.

1776 Publication of influential economics book "The Wealth of Nations"

            by Adam Smith

1800’s

1841 US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish

            schooner the Amistad are free

1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot

1897 Indians fans start calling the team "Indians" (in 1915 becomes

             official)

1900’s

1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the

            Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new

            design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range

            hydrogen bomb

1959 Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York.

            Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.

1964 1st Ford Mustang produced

1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp

1989 US Senate rejects President George H. W. Bush's nomination of

            John Tower as Defense Secretary

2000’s

2015 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring

            Venezuela a national security threat to the US

Birthdays Today

1454 Amerigo Vespucci,

Italian explorer (America), born in Florence

(d. 1512-@57)

1824 Leland Stanford,

American business tycoon (Southern Pacific Railroad), 8^th

 Governor of California and founder of Stanford University,

born in Watervliet, New York

(d. 1893-@67-heart failure)

1918 Mickey Spillane

[Frank Morrison Spillane],

American mystery writer (I the Jury),

born in Brooklyn, New York

(d. 2006-@88)

1934 Yuri Gagarin,

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

 born in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

(d. 1968-@34-test pilot crash)

1941 Ernesto Miranda,

American litigant, conviction on kidnapping, rape, and armed

 robbery charges, born in Mesa, Arizona

(d. 1976-@34-stabbed in Phoenix bar fight)

1954 Bobby Sands,

Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison

 where he died, born in Newtownabbey, Northern Abbey

(d. 1981@27-after 66-day hunger strike)

1902 Will Geer

[William Aughe Ghere],

American actor (Salt of the Earth, The Waltons),

born in Frankfort, Indiana

(d. 1978-@76-respritory failure)

1921 Carl Betz,

American actor (The Donna Reed Show, Love of Life),

born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

(d. 1978-@56-lung cancer)

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83- Mickey Gilley,

American country singer (Urban Cowboy),

born in Natchez, Mississippi

71- Mark Lindsay,

American rock vocalist (Paul Revers & Raiders),

born in Eugene, Oregon

60- Kato Kaelin,

American actor (Beach Fever),

born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

43- Thor Halvorssen,

Venezuelan human rights activist,

born in Venezuela

Historical Obits Today

@100-1996 George Burns,

American comedian, actor and singer (Burns and Allen)

@93-1994 Lawrence E. Spivak,

American news panelist (Meet the Press)

@91-2016 Robert Horton

[Meade Howard Horton Jr.],

American actor and singer (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)

@86-2011 Inge Sørensen,

Danish swimmer (youngest known female Olympic Games

medalist in an individual event-Olympic 1936 bronze)

@85-1992 Menachem Begin,

6th Prime Minister of Israel (1977-80, 81-83) and

1979 Nobel Peace Prize winner

@76-1994 Fernando Rey

[Fernando Casado Arambillet],

Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time),

dies of bladder cancer

@50-1969 Richard Crane,

American character actor

(Surfside 6, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger),

dies of a heart attack

@42-1989 Robert Mapplethorpe,

US photographer,

dies of AIDS

@24-1997 The Notorious B.I.G.

[Christopher Wallace], American rapper

shot dead