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Jan 14, 2019
Week: 02 \ Day: 14
86004 Today: H 32° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts:
7mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1943]
Record Low: -15°[2007]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s Quote
Education is the
passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.
Malcolm X
Random Tidbits
In the wild,
mushroom spores are spread by wind. On mushroom farms, spores are collected in
a laboratory and then used to inoculate grains to create "spawn," a
mushroom farmer's equivalent of seeds.
Mushroom spores
are so tiny that 2,500 arranged end-to-end would measure only an inch in
length.
The process of
cultivating mushrooms - from preparing the compost in which they grow to
shipping the crop to markets - takes about four months.
Observances This
Week
11-17
Cuckoo Dancing Week
13-19
National Mocktail Week
Observances for
Today
Caesarean Section Day
Dress Up Your Pet Day
International Kite Day
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day
Ratification Day
My Rambling
Thoughts
Awoke to about 6”
on snow. Nice! Street and sidewalk guys didn’t arrive till almost 10a but all
is clear now. After they left, I un-buried my vehicle. Lots of moisture in this
one so snow was heavy. Usually it snows, then clears up and the sun shines. Not
today. It’s been cloudy all day so not a lot of melting, but no new snow is
falling.
Not that excited
about the playoffs, so I only watch them intermittently when nothing else is
watchable.
I wonder if the Senate
and House enjoyed their weekend while government employees were trying to
figure out which bills to pay and which not to pay. Hopefully the new week will
bring some compromise.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1700’s
1799 Eli Whitney
receives government contract
for 10,000 muskets
1800’s
1873
"Celluloid" registered as a trademark by
its inventor, John Wesley Hyatt
1900’s
1932 1st
totalisator (to record racetrack bets)
in US installed, Hialeah
1943 World War
II: Franklin D. Roosevelt travels
from Miami to Morocco to meet with
Winston
Churchill, becoming the first American
president to travel by airplane
1954 The Hudson
Motor Car Company merges with
Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the
American Motors Corporation.
1956 Little
Richard releases "Tutti
Frutti"
1963 George
Wallace sworn in as Governor of
Alabama, his address states
"segregation
now; segregation tomorrow; segregation
forever!"
1979 US President
Jimmy Carter proposes Martin
Luther King's birthday be a holiday
1985 16 indicted
by US for granting sanctuary to
Central American refugees
1995 Mexico
pledges profits from state-owned
Pemex's $7-billion-per-year oil revenues
in an
effort to secure US congressional
approval of
loan guarantees; President Clinton
approves a
$20-billion U.S. aid package for Mexico
2000’s
2016 Sixth
republican presidential candidates’
debate hosted by Fox, held in North
Charleston, South Carolina
Birthdays Today
83 BC Mark Antony
[Marcus Antonius],
Roman politician
& general (Battle of Actium),
born in Rome (d. 30 BC)@53-suicide
1741 Benedict
Arnold,
American general
& turncoat (American
Revolutionary
War), born in Norwich,
Connecticut (d.
1801)@60-dropsy, delirium
1915 Mark
Goodson,
American game
show producer, born in
Sacramento,
California (d. 1992)@77-cancer
1940 Julian Bond,
American civil
rights leader & politician (D-Ga),
born in Nashville
Tennessee (d. 2015)@75-
vascular disease
1906 William
Bendix,
American actor
(Lifeboat, Babe Ruth Story, Life
of Riley), born
in New York City, New York
(d. 1964)@58-
1919 Andy Rooney,
American CBS news
correspondent
(60 Minutes),
born in Albany, New York
(d. 2011)@92
1924 Guy Williams
[Armando Joseph Catalano],
American actor
(Zorro, Lost in Space),
born in NYC, New
York (d. 1989)@65
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81- Jack Jones,
American singer
(Love Boat Theme),
born in Los
Angeles, California
78- Faye Dunaway,
American actress
(Chinatown, Bonnie & Clyde),
born in Bascom,
Florida
76- Holland
Taylor,
American actress
(Bossom Buddies, Camilla-
Naked Truth),
born in Philadelphia
71- Carl
Weathers,
American actor
(Apollo Creed-Rocky),
born in New
Orleans, Louisiana
56- Steven Soderbergh,
American
producer, director, writer
(Ocean's Eleven,
Traffic), born in Atlanta
55- Shepard
Smith,
American news
anchor, born in Holly Springs,
Mississippi
51- LL Cool J (James
Todd Smith),
American rapper
(Bigger & Deffer),
born in Bay
Shore, New York
50- Dave Grohl,
American drummer
(Nirvana, Foo Fighters),
born in Warren,
Ohio
Historical Obits
Today
@89-2013 Conrad
Bain,
Canadian actor
(Maude, Diff'rent Strokes)
@85-1742 Edmond
Halley,
English
mathematician and astronomer
(Halley's comet)
@85-2006 Shelley
Winters [Schrift],
American actress
(Lolita, A Place in the Sun,
A Patch of Blue
& Poseidon Adventure)
@81-1984 Ray
Kroc,
American fast
food entrepreneur (McDonald's)
and owner of
baseball's San Diego Padres
@81-1978 Blossom
Rock [Edith Marie Blossom
MacDonald],
American actress
(Grandmamma-Addams
Family)
@73-1977 Anaïs
Nin,
French-American
author, dies of cancer
@69-2016 Alan
Rickman,
English actor
(Die Hard, Harry Potter
franchise), dies
of cancer
@65-1898 Lewis
Carroll,
English writer
(Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland), dies
pf pneumonia
@64-1986 Donna
Reed,
actress (Donna
Reed Show, Dallas), dies of
cancer
@60-1977 Peter
Finch,
actor (Network, The Nun's Story, Judith), dies
of heart attack
@57-1957 Humphrey
Bogart,
American actor
(Casablanca, Caine Mutiny),
dies of cancer of
the esophagus
