Apr 15--Tax Day

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Apr 15, 2019 Week: 16 \ Day: 105

86004:   H 65° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  68mi. Nearest lightning:  1138mi

Record High: 76°[1948]   Record Low: 11°[1965]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

Steve Jobs

Random Tidbits

Plant life began on the Earth's landforms about 430 million years ago. The first plants were likely single-celled organisms distantly related to algae.

The first reptiles began life 300 million years ago, and modern mammals appeared roughly 75 million years ago.

Observances This Week

Passiontide: 7-20
International Wildlife Film Week: 13-19  Link
Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week: 14-20 Link 
Holy Week: 14-20
National Karaoke Week: 14-20
National Dog Bite Prevention Week:14-20 Link 
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week: 14-20
National Student Employment Week: 14-20   Link
Pan American Week: 14-20
World Irish Dancing Week: 14-21
National Occupational Health Nursing Week: 15-19 Link

Observances for Today

Boston Marathon  
Income Tax Pay Day  Link  Link)
Jackie Robinson Day Link
McDonald's Day
National Education and Sharing Day Link 
National Glazed Ham Day

One Boston Day Link
Patriot's Day 

Rubber Eraser Day  Link
Take a Wild Guess Day
Titanic Remembrance Day

That Sucks Day
World Art Day (DaVinci's Birthday)  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Spring has returned for another try. Warm, light breeze, NICE!

Sunday news show were simply a rehash of the news. Nothing new.

This should be a quiet week as Easter is on the horizon. No big plans and hoping to just slide into a nice Easter.

Nice to see the young neighborhood kids outside playing and enjoying themselves. They haven’t been playing outside much this winter, but spring has arrived and they are having fun.

As I was channel surfing this AM, I landed on the end of the Masters. Tiger was amazing. A long and bumpy comeback story.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

The favorite foods of Megan, Michael, Sergi, and Jana are written below. Each person has a different favorite food. Use the following food clues to match the people with their favorite foods.

1. Michael likes ketchup and mustard on his favorite food.

2. Jana is allergic to cheese.

3. Sergi eats his favorite food on a bun.

4 Sometimes for something different, Michael makes his food into corn dogs.

What are each kids favorite food?

Write the name of the person next to their favorite foods.

Chicken Drumstick:

Hot Dog in a bun:

A slice of Pizza:

A hamburger in a bun:

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1200’s

1250 Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a Mongol Great Council

1500’s

1528 Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians

1700’s

1715 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.

1755 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London

1800’s

1802 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".

1817 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford, Connecticut)

1850 City of San Francisco incorporated

1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington

1874 First 'Impressionist' exhibition opens in Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Berthe Morisot

1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap

1892 General Electric Company formed by merger of Thomas Edison's General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric Company, arranged by J. P. Morgan and incorporated in NY

1900’s

1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people

1923 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)

1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics

1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card

1955 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois

1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U

1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award winning stry about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story

1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion

2000’s

2009 Even though official government sources state that Argentina's GDP will actually grow this year, private consulting firms state that Argentine economy has actually been in recession since October 2008

2010 Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.

Birthdays Today

1452 Leonardo da Vinci,

(d. 1519: @67)

Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary,

born in Vinci, Florence, Italy

1469 Guru Nanak,

(d. 1539: @69)

Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru,

born in Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, Punjab, Pakistan

1894 Bessie Smith,

(d. 1937: @43: after car crash)

American blues singer nicknamed the "Empress of Blues" (over 200 songs),

born in Chattanooga, Tennessee

1894 Nikita Khrushchev,

(d. 1971: @77:  heart attack)

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), born in Kalinovka, Russia

1912 Kim Il-sung,

(d. 1994: @82)

Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94),

born in Mangyongdae, Japanese Korea

1917 Hans Conried,

(d. 1982: @64: heart attack)

American actor

(Peter Pan, Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy),

born in Baltimore, Maryland

1922 Michael Ansara,

(d. 2013: @91)

American actor (Broken Arrow, Centennial),

born in Lebanon

1929 Adrian Cadbury,

(d. 2015: @86)

confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and

author of report on Corporate Governance,

1933 Elizabeth Montgomery,

(d.1995: @62: colon cancer)

US actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched),

born in Los Angeles,

1933 Roy Clark,

(d. 2018: @ 85)

US country singer (Hee Haw, The Tonight Show),

born in Meherrin, Virginia

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70’s

75- Linda Bloodworth-Thomason,

TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)

60’s

60- Emma Thompson,

British actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar 1992),

born in London, England

30’s

37- Seth Rogen,

Canadian actor and writer (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Interview),

born in Vancouver, British Columbia

20’s

29- Emma Watson,

English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series),

born in Paris, France

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-1993 Leslie Charteris,

British mystery writer (Saint)

@84-2002 Byron "Whizzer" White,

UofColorado football player and

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

@84-1990 Greta Garbo,

Swedish actress (Anna Karenina, Camille)

70’s

@74-1980 Jean-Paul Sartre,

existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964),

dies in Paris of edema

@72-1998 Pol Pot,

Cambodian dictator (1976-79) and revolutionary who led the Khmer Rouge (1963-97),

dies of heart failure or suicide

60’s

@69-1967 Totò

[Antonio De Curtis],

Italian actor (Motorizzate, Noi Duri) commonly referred to as the most popular Italian comedian of all time,

dies from a heart attack

@65-1975 Richard Conte,

American actor (The Godfather, Tony Rome, Hotel),

dies from a heart attack

@62-1912 Edward Smith,

English naval captain of the RMS Titanic,

dies when the ship sinks in the Atlantic Ocean

50’s

@56-1865 Abraham Lincoln,

16th American President,

dies from gunshot wounds

40’s

@47-1912 John Jacob Astor IV,

American businessman and soldier

(richest passenger aboard the Titanic),

dies aboard the Titanic

Puzzle answer:

Chicken Drumstick:  Jana

Hot Dog in a bun: Michael

A slice of Pizza: Megan

A hamburger in a bun: Sergi