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Apr 6, 2019 Week: 14 \ Day: 96

86004:   H 59° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  452mi. Nearest lightning:  1360mi

Record High: 75°[1989]   Record Low: 4°[1922]

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

Today’s Quote

There is always room at the top.

Daniel Webster

Random Tidbits

More April 1 tidbits

Taco Bell announced on April 1, 1996, that it was purchasing the Liberty Bell to help with the national debt and would rename it the Taco Liberty Bell.

For April Fool’s Day in 1998, Burger King took out a full-page ad in the USA, introducing a Whopper designed especially for lefties. The new burger would contain the same ingredients as the original but rotated 180 degrees. Thousands of customers swarmed BK restaurants requesting the 'lefty' Whopper.

On April Fool’s Day, 1976, the BBC convinced many listeners that a special alignment of the planets would temporarily decrease gravity on Earth. Phone lines were flooded with callers who claimed they felt the effects.

More Observances This Month

Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
 Pet First Aid Awareness Month
Physical Wellness Month
Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month Link
Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month  Link  Link
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month
Soy Foods Month
Straw Hat Month
Stress Awareness Month  Link
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
National Toddler Immunization Month Link
Women's Eye Health & Safety Month
Women Helping Women Heal Month Link
Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
World Habitat Awareness Month
World Landscape Architecture Month
Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month

Observances This Week

Money Smart Week: 3/30-4/6

Nano Days: 3/30-4/7

International Dark Sky Week: 31-4/7

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 3/20-4/14

Lent: 3/6-4/20

Explore Your Career Options: 1-6
APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7  Link 
National Schools Social Work Week:  3-6  Link
Hate Week: 4-10
National Robotics Week: 6-14 Link

Observances for Today

Army Day Link
California Poppy Day

Charlie the Tuna Day Link
Drowsy Driver Awareness Day
Every Day is Tag Day Link 
Hostess Twinkie Day  Link
International Carbonara Day

International Day of Sport for Development and Peace Link
International Pillow Fight Day Link

National Caramel Popcorn Day

National Love Our Children Day
National Student Athlete Day  Link
New Beers Eve Link
Plan Your Epitaph Day

Sorry Charlie Day

Slow Art Day Link 
Tangible Karma Day  
Tartan Day Link
Teflon Day
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Made it to FedEx to mail all my VISA stuff so I can get to Russia and China. Interesting: I needed a copy of my driver’s license in the packet. I have a laser printer, but it only does B&W, as I seldom need a color copy. And I hardly every make any prints of anything.  Office Max only makes copy that is 150% of the original. But they will walk you over to the self-copy machine and punch in their code, hit all the buttons, except PRINT. You must do that yourself. Then you get a copy that is the same size as the license. Crazy.

Have to laugh, 45 is ‘at the border’ to view his new wall. Except this part of the wall has been there a long time and was recently upgraded with $$ from the Obama administration. I’m sure his supporters will cheer, never realizing it was Obama administration $$ that upgraded the damn thing. And he is at the El Centro Sector, not an English name. Hmmm.

Looking forward to a decent weekend. A friend is stopping by later today, tomorrow is the annual Ace Hardware Home show, and Sunday will be a day of rest for me.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Where on Earth do the winds always blow from the South?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1300’s

1320 The Scots reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath

1600’s

1652 Cape Colony, the 1st European settlement in South Africa, established by Dutch East India Company under Jan van Riebeeck

1700’s

1722 Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ends tax on men with beards

1800’s

1830 Joseph Smith & 5 others organize Mormon church in Seneca Co, NY

1843 William Wordsworth is appointed British Poet Laureate by Queen Victoria

1886 City of Vancouver BC incorporated

1893 Andy Bowen & Jack Burke box 7 hrs 19 mins to no decision (111 rounds)

1900’s

1909 1st credit union forms in US

1909 North Pole reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson

1912 Electric starter 1st appeared in cars

1930 Hostess Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar

1938 Teflon invented by Roy J. Plunkett

1947 1st Tony Awards: Arthur Miller, David Wayne & Patricia Neal win for theatrical achievements

1965 Intelsat 1 ("Early Bird") 1st commercial geosynchronous communications satellite launched

1980 Post It Notes introduced

1987 Sugar Ray Leonard upsets Marvelous Marvin Hagler

1992 US Supreme Court rules a Nebraska farmer was entrapped by postal agents into buying mail-order child pornography

1994 Rwandan Genocide begins with the assassination of Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira with their plane being shot down by surface-to-air missiles, abruptly ending peace negotiations. Those responsible have never been identified.

2000’s

2006 NZSL (New Zealand sign language) is made an official language of New Zealand

2016 Protests in Lima, Peru by 30,000 against presidential candidate Keiko Fujimori on 24th anniversary of her father Alberto Fujimori's coup

2016 First baby born with DNA from 3 parents through mitochondrial transfer in Mexico

Birthdays Today

1483 Raphael Sanzio,

(d. 1520: @37: acute illness)

Italian painter and master builder (Madonna Sistina, School of Athens),

born in Urbino

1892 Donald Wills Douglas,

(d. 1981: 88)

American aircraft industrialist (McConnell Douglas) and

aviation pioneer (Douglas DC-3),

born in Brooklyn, New York

1892 Lowell Thomas,

(d. 1981: @89)

newscaster (High Adventure)

born in Woodington, Ohio

1929 André Previn,

(d. 2019: @89)

German born American conductor (London Symphony),

film scorer (My Fair Lady) and pianist,

born in Berlin, Germany

1937 Merle Haggard,

(d. 2016: @79)

country singer (Death Valley Days),

born in Bakersfield, California

90’s

91- James Watson,

American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist

(co-discovered structure of DNA),

 born in Chicago, Illinois

80’s

82- Billy Dee Williams,

Harlem actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back),

born in NYC, New York

50’s

50- Paul Rudd,

American actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin),

born in Passaic, New Jersey

40’s

44- Zach Braff,

American actor (Dr. John Dorian-Scrubs),

born in South Orange, New Jersey

42- Candice Cameron-Bure,

TV actress

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2014 Mickey Rooney,

American Emmy award-winning actor

(Boys Town, The Black Stallion)

@92-1996 Greer Garson,

British actress (Goodbye Mr Chips, Mrs Miniver)

@90-2017 Don Rickles,

American comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)

80’s

@88-1971 Igor Stravinsky,

Russian composer (Le Sacre du Printemps)

@87-1975 Chiang Kai-shek,

Chinese political and military leader

served as the leader of the Republic of China (1928-1975)

70’s

@79-2016 Merle Haggard,

American country music singer (Death Valley Days),

on his birthday

@72-1992 Isaac Asimov,

Russian scientist and sci-fi writer (I Robot, Foundation Trilogy),

dies from kidney failure

50’s

@55-1998 Tammy Wynette,

American country singer,

dies from blood clot

40’s

@41-1199 Richard I,

the Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99),

dies of gangrene

30’s

@371520 Raphael [Sanzio],

Italian artist (Sistine Madonna, School of Athens),

 dies on his  birthday

teens

@17-1968 Robert "Bobby" Hutton,

American Black Panther leader and treasurer,

shot to death by Oakland police

Puzzle answer:

The North Pole.