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Jan 19, 2019
Week: 02 \ Day: 19
86004 Today: H 39° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind: 11mph\Gusts:
23mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1986]
Record Low: -13°[1943]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s Quote
I am no bird; and
no net ensnares me;
I am a free human
being with an independent will. Charlotte Bronte
Random Tidbits
Swatch is the largest watch company in the
world, with brands that cover the entire price spectrum and sales exceeding $8
billion and employing 33,000 people.
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Luxottica controls almost every high-end
eyewear in the market. They own 80 percent of the major brands of eyeglasses.
They own Prada, Tiffany and Co., Versace, Chanel, Dolce & Gabbana, Rayban,
Oakley, and many more.
Observances This
Week
13-19
National Mocktail Week
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
19-20
Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
19-27
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness
Week
Observances for
Today
Robert E. Lee Day
Tin Can Day
World Day of Migrants and Refugees
World Quark Day
My Rambling
Thoughts
Nice day…a few
clouds, a little wind, lots of blue sky.
Our retirement
group had a good lunch conversation yesterday. Mary is heading to London and
Paris with her son and his family over spring break. Hope Brexit doesn’t mess
it up.
Early this week
Flag made National News. A tanker, carrying 3500 gallons of hot liquid
chocolate overturned on I-40, just east of town. It made quite a mess with a ‘river
of chocolate’ running down the median. The interstate was closed for several
hours. Not sure if they used a wet-dry vacuum or just waited for all that
chocolate to solidify.
Our local PD just
released a warming to watch for rabid wild animals…coyotes, fox, and skunks.
Three people have been bitten since Jan 1. WOW!
End the shutdown.
NOW!...Find a room, put all the stakeholders in there…bring in porta-potties…lock
the door…open it when there is a signed law. No phones, no laptops, no WIFI
allowed. Time for action.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1883 The first
electric lighting system employing overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison,
begins service at Roselle, New Jersey
1900’s
1915 Neon Tube
sign patented by George Claude
1929 Acadia
National Park, Maine established
1937 Millionaire
Howard Hughes sets transcontinental air record (7h 28m 25s)
1977 World's
largest crowd gathering - the Hindu Kumbh Mela in India attracts a then record
15 million people
1979 US President
Jimmy Carter announces he is awarding Presidential Medal of Freedom
posthumously to anthropologist Margaret Mead
2000’s
2001 Mexican drug
lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escapes from Puente Grande
maximum-security prison near Guadalajara by bribing prison guards and hiding in
a laundry cart
Birthdays Today
1736 James Watt,
Scottish
inventor, mechanical engineer and
chemist (steam
engine), born in Greenock,
Scotland (d.
1819)-@83
1807 Robert E.
Lee,
American General
who commanded the
Confederate Army
of Northern Virginia in the
American Civil
War, born in Stratford Virginia
(d. 1870)-@63-stroke
1809 Edgar Allan
Poe,
American writer,
poet and critic (The Pit and the
Pendulum)
considered the inventor of the
detective fiction
genre (Murders in the Rue
Morgue), born in
Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1849)-@40-
dies from "congestion of the
brain"
1839 Paul
Cézanne,
French artist and
Post-Impressionist painter
(The Basket of
Apples), born in Aix-en-
Provence, France
(d. 1906)-@67-pneunomia
1922 Guy Madison
[Robert Moseley],
American actor (Wild Bill Hickok), born in
Pumpkin Center,
California
(d. 1996)-74-emphysema
1923 Jean
Stapleton,
American actress
(Damn Yankees, Klute, All in
the Family), born
in NYC, New York
(d. 2013)-@90
1939 Phil Everly,
American singer
and half of the rock and roll
duo "The
Everly Brothers" (Bye Bye Love, Wake
Up Little Susie),
born in Chicago, Illinois
(d. 2014)@74-lung
disease
1943 Janis
Joplin,
American rocker and blues singer-songwriter
(Down on Me),
born in Port Arthur, Texas
(d. 1970)-@27-heroin
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89- Nathalie
"Tippi" Hedren,
American actress,
animal rights activist and
former fashion
model (The Birds, Marnie), born
in New Ulm,
Minnesota
75- Shelley
Fabares, American actress (Donna Reed
Show, Coach),
born in Santa Monica, California
73- Dolly Parton,
American country singer (Dolly, 9 to
5), born in
Sevierville, Tennessee
72- Paula Deen,
American chef and
restaurateur,
born in Albany,
Georgia
65- Katey Sagal,
American actress
& singer-songwriter (Peggy
Bundy-Married
With Children), born in Los
Angeles,
California
Historical Obits
Today
@92-2013 Stan
Musial,
American MLB hall
of famer
@86-2000 Hedy
Lamarr,
Austrian-American
actress (Ecstasy, Samson
& Delilah)
and inventor (radio guidance system
for Allied
torpedoes)
@84-1990 Myles
Horton,
American educator
and Civil Rights Movement
teacher
@77-2006 Anthony
"Tony" Franciosa [Papaleo],
American actor
(Career, Ben-Hur, Jeff-Name
of the Game),
dies after stroke
@64-2006 Wilson
Pickett,
American R&B
singer (Funky Broadway),
dies of a heart
attack
@61-2017 Miguel
Ferrer,
American actor
(Robocop, NCIS LA),
dies of cancer
