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Jan 9, 2019 Week:
01 \ Day: 9
86004 Today: H 38° \ L 18° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
8mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 61°[1996]
Record Low: -9°[1937]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s
Quote
Common sense
is not so common.
Voltaire
Random
Tidbits
Until
the 1930s, pretzels were handmade, and the average worker could twist 40 a
minute. In 1935, the Reading Pretzel Machinery Company introduced the first
automated pretzel machine, which enabled large bakeries to make 245 pretzels
per minute, or five tons in a day.
***
Julius
Sturgis opened the first commercial pretzel bakery in Lititz, Pennsylvania, in
1861. He received his original pretzel recipe as a thank you from a
down-on-his-luck job seeker after Sturgis gave the man dinner.
***
Pretzel
bakers may have been the first to advertise "We deliver!" Medieval
street vendors carried pretzels on a stick and sold them to the locals
Observances
This Week
6-12
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
7-9
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
8-11
International Consumer Electronics Show
No Tillage Week
9-13
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
Observances
for Today
Balloon Ascension Day
Law Enforcement Appreciation Day
National Apricot Day
National Cassoulet Day
Panama's Martyr Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Slowly
continuing to warm up. Can’t complain.
I’ll
be glued to my TV when 45 talks tonight. It’s part of ‘keep your friends close
and your enemies closer’ philosophy. Can’t complain without hearing it from the
horse’s mouth.
When
I was working, I’d come into Flag on the weekend. During many winters, it
seemed like the storms liked to hit on Friday night and were gone Sunday night.
Well it is now decades later and the same seems to be holding true. Weather
looks good for the week, until Friday when the next snowstorm hits through
Sunday…just like last weekend.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1700’s
1793
1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in
Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre
Blanchard
1800’s
1806
Admiral Viscount Horatio Nelson receives a state
funeral and is interred in St Paul's
Cathedral, London
1839
Daguerreotype photo process announced at French
Academy of Science
1866
Fisk University opens in Nashville, Tennessee
1880
6' (1.83 metres) of snow falls in Seattle in 5 days
1900’s
1903
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, established
1908
Muir Woods National Monument, California,
established
1942
US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1980
63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2000’s
2018
President Trump cancels program allowing
200,000 San Salvadorians temporary
status to live
in the US
Birthdays
Today
1870
Joseph B Strauss,
civil engineer/builder (Golden Gate Bridge)@68
1908
Simone de Beauvoir,
French author & feminist (The Mandarins, The Second
Sex), born in Paris, France (d. 1986)@76
1913
Richard Nixon,
37th US President (Republican 1969-74),
born in Yorba Linda, California (d. 1994)@81
1935
Bob Denver,
American actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's
Island), born in New Rochelle, New York
(d. 2005)@70-cancer
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75-
Jimmy Page,
English rock guitarist
(Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven),
born in London, England
68-
Crystal Gayle,
American country singer (Don't It Make My Brown
Eyes Blue), born in Paintsville, Kentucky
64- J. K. Simmons,
movie actor
52-
Dave Matthews,
South African singer & musician (Dave Matthews Band),
born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
37-
Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [Kate Middleton],
English wife of Crown Prince William, born in Reading,
Berksire
Historical
Obits Today
@97-1848
Caroline Herschel,
German-born pioneering female astronomer
(comet 35P/Herschel-Rigolle)
@89-1958
Willis Rodney Whitney,
American Chemist, founder of the General Electric
research laboratory, and
pioneer of industrial
scientific research
@86-2018
Terence Marsh,
British production designer (Oliver!, Dr. Zhivago,
Spaceballs)
@81-1992
Bill Naughton [William John Francis Naughton],
English playwright (Alfie)
@55-1982
Paul Lynde,
American comedian and actor (The Hollywood Squares,
Uncle Arthur-Bewitched), dies of a possible stroke
