Apr 19

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Apr 19, 2019 Week: 16 \ Day: 110

86004:   H 72° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  409mi. Nearest lightning:  691mi

Record High: 77°[1989]   Record Low: 10°[1917]

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

Today’s Quote

There are no lines in nature,

only areas of color,

one against another.

Edouard Manet

Random Tidbits

When the income tax was fully established in 1913, the tax rate was 1 percent. Few paid income tax to the IRS, as it was required only if you made $3,000 or more per year. That year only 1 out of 271 Americans had to pay income tax.

Tax deniers (tax defiers or tax protesters) are people who refuses to pay tax on constitutional or legal grounds.

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
Cleaning For A Reason Week: 18-24
Consumer Awareness Week: 18-23
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week:

18-23
National Dance Week: 19-28 Link 
Global Youth Service Days: 19-21 

Observances for Today

Bicycle Day Link
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day  Link
Good Friday 
John Parker Day
National Garlic Day Link
National Hanging Out Day
National Health Care Decisions Day: thru 22 Link

National Poker Day  Link
National Rice Ball Day

Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
Passover begins at sundown 
World Marbles Day   

My Rambling Thoughts

Ah, my fever…the spring fever…has lifted. It is a beautiful day here. Took a nice walk before heading out to do some shopping. Even drove around town with the window down. I picked up what I needed, returned home, opened the office window.

The Mueller report is out. Time for the spin. NPR, all the broadcast news is doing nothing but reading and reporting on what was in it. Looks like there won’t be any impeachment, but lots of Americans find some of the misdeeds are not who we want leading our country.

I’m getting some great tulip pics from Focus Travel as they made it to tulip country.

Getting ready for Easter. Looking forward to seeing friends.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

As defendants, we deny all involvement in the unscrupulous dealings which have come to light in the recent government investigation. 

What country name is hidden in the previous sentence?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1770 British explorer Captain James Cook first sights Australia

1775 American Revolution begins in Lexington, Massachusetts. The "Shot Heard Round the World" took place in Concord later that day

1775 Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott are captured by British troops riding from Lexington to Concord, Prescott escapes to warn Concord

1782 John Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an independent government and house he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became first American embassy.

1800’s

1837 Cheyney University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth

1892 Charles Duryea takes the 1st American-made automotive for a test drive

1900’s

1904 Much of Toronto destroyed by fire

1909 Joan of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church

1932 President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week

1932 Bonnie Parker is captured in a failed hardware store burglary, and subsequently jailed. A grand jury fails to indict her, however, and she is released a few months later

1943 Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

1948 Chiang Kai-shek elected President of Nationalist China

1951 General Douglas MacArthur ends his military career

1955 The German automaker Volkswagen, after six years of selling cars in the United States, founds Volkswagen of America in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey to standardize its dealer and service network

1965 At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome ceiling is painted because of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die

1965 "Whipped Cream & Other Delights", fourth full album by Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass Band, is released

1971 Sierra Leone becomes a republic (National Day)

1982 Sally Ride is named the 1st American woman astronaut

1989 Violent assault and rape of jogger Trisha Meili in NYC's Central Park. Known as the Central Park jogger incident it became according to the NY Times "one of the most widely publicized crimes of the 1980s."

1993 After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas (accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes)

2000’s

2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the Papal conclave.

2011 Fidel Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding the title.

2015 Boat carrying approx. 850 migrants is shipwrecked in the Mediterranean between Italian and Libya, with only 27 migrants rescued.

2017 Fox News confirms they would be letting go of Bill O'Reilly after allegations of sexual harassment

2018 Miguel Diaz-Canel is elected Cuba's new president after former president Raúl Castro steps down

2018 Senator Tammy Duckworth is the first parent to bring a baby into the US Senate a day after the Senate votes to allow babies on the chamber's floor

Birthdays Today

1903 Eliot Ness,

(d. 1957: @54: heart attack)

US Federal agent "The Untouchables" (put away Al Capone),

born in Chicago, Illinois

1925 Hugh O'Brian,

[Hugh Charles Krampe],

(d. 2016: @91)

American actor (Wyatt Earp, Search),

born in Rochester, New York

1930 Dick Sargent

[Richard Stanford Cox],

(d. 1994: @64: prostate cancer)

American actor (Bewitched),

born in Carmel, California

1933 Jayne Mansfield

[Vera Jane Palmer],

(d. 1967: @34: car accident)

American actress (The Girl Can't Help It),

 born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania

1935 Dudley Moore,

(d. 2002: @66: pneumonia, PSP)

English actor and comedian

(10, Arthur, Bedazzled),

born in London

1949 Larry Walters,

(d. 1993: @44: suicide)

American "lawn chair" pilot,

born in Los Angeles, California

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80’s

82- Eleinor Donahue,

American actress (Father Knows Best, Get a Life),

born in Tacoma, Washington

70’s

73- Tim Curry,

English actor

(Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star Wars: The Clone Wars),

born in Grappenhall, Cheshire, England

50’s

51- Ashley Judd,

movie actress

40’s

41- James Franco,

American actor (The Disaster Artist),

born in Palo Alto, California

40- Kate Hudson,

American actress (Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree),

born in Los Angeles, California

30’s

38- Hayden Christensen,

Canadian actor (Sam-Life as a House, Star Wars),

born in Vancouver, British Columbia

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-1967 Konrad Adenauer,

West Germany chancellor (1949-63)

80’s

@84-1998 Octavio Paz,

Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate

@80-1684 Roger Williams,

English theologian and colonist

70’s

@77-1987 Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum,

 Actor (Mr Green Jeans),

dies from cancer

@76-1975 Percy Lavon Julian,

African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants

@76-1881 Benjamin Disraeli,

1st Earl of Beaconsfield,

British Prime Minister (Tory: 1868, 1874-80) and writer,

dies of bronchitis

@73-1882 Charles Darwin,

English naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived the theory of evolution by natural selection,

dies of heart failure

30’s

@36-1824 Lord Byron

[George Gordon Byron],

British romantic poet (Childe Harold's Pilgrimage),

 dies of sepsis.

Puzzle answer:

Sweden. "defendants, we deny".