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Jan
20, 2019 Week: 03 \ Day: 20
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Today: H 46° \ L 23° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind: 3mph\Gusts:
5mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 61°[1950] Record
Low: -14°[1922]
Jan
Averages:
43°\11°
Today’s Quote
We would
accomplish many more things
if we did not
think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi
Random Tidbits
At 926 aircraft, the American Airlines fleet
is larger than the British Air Force's.
Observances This 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
20-26
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
National Activity Professionals Week
National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse
Anesthetists) Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
National School Choice Week
Sugar Awareness Week
No Name Calling Week
Observances for Today
Camcorder Day
Celebration of Life Day
Inauguration Day
National Buttercrunch Day
National Cheese Lover’s Day
National Cheese Lover’s Day
National Cheese Lovers Day
National Disc Jockey Day
National Sanctity of Human Life Day/Pro-Life
Day
Penguin Awareness Day
Stephen Foster Day
Soup Swap Day
World Religion Day
World Snow Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Sun shining. Snow
gone. Ice melting. Great Saturday.
Dear 45: Please
surprise me with something of substance and not another stunt on your Sat. announcement.
Sincerely, a voter. PS Your recent Oval Office address did not impress me as ‘Presidential’.
End the shutdown!
It has turned out
to be a day of laundry, a long forest walk with a light jacket, and now relaxation.
I’ve been
watching a National Geographic channel series on North Korea. The Kim family
rule is frightening. I still believe in ‘keep your friends close and enemies
closer’. The next summit will be interesting.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1500’s
1502 The
present-day location of Rio de Janeiro is first explored
1576 The Mexican
city of León is founded by order of viceroy Don Martín Enríquez de Almansa.
1800’s
1887 US Senate
approves naval base lease of Pearl Harbor
1900’s
1920 The American
Civil Liberties Union is founded
1921 Republic of
Turkey declared out of remnants of Ottoman Empire
1945 Franklin D.
Roosevelt sworn-in for an unprecedented (and never to be repeated) 4th term as
US President
1953 1st live US
coast-to-coast inauguration address (Eisenhower)
1961 Robert Frost
recites "Gift Outright" at JFK's
inauguration
1969 U of Az
reports 1st optical id of pulsar (in Crab Nebula)
1979 1 million
Iranians march in Tehran in a show of support for the exiled Ayatollah
Khomeini, fundamentalist Muslim leader
1981 The US
diplomats and citizens held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran are released
and begin their journey home after 444 days
1986 1st federal
holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr
1988 Arizona
committee opens hearing on impeachment of Gov Evan Mecham
1993 Maya Angelou
is 1st African American and woman to recite a poem at inauguration of a US
President - "On the Pulse of Morning"
for Bill Clinton
2000’s
2009 Barack
Obama, inaugurated as the 44th President of the United States of America,
becomes the United States' first African-American president
Birthdays Today
1894 Harold L
Gray,
creator (Little
Orphan Annie)
(d. 1968)-@74-cancer
1896 George Burns
[Nathan Birnbaum],
American actor,
comedian and singer (Oh God,
Burns and Allen),
born in NYC
(d. 1996)-@100
1910 Joy Adamson
[Friederike Viktoria Gessner],
Austrian
naturalist and author (Born Free), born
in Troppau,
Austria-Hungary
(d. 1980)-69-murdered
1920 DeForest
Kelley,
American actor,
screenwriter, poet and singer
(Star Trek), born
in Atlanta, Georgia
(d. 1999)-@79-stomach
cancer
1920 Federico
Fellini,
Italian film
director and scriptwriter (8 1/2,
La Dolce Vita),
born in Rimini, Italy
(d. 1993)-@73-heart
attack
1926 Patricia
Neal,
American actress
(Hud, Subject Was Roses)
and wife of Roald
Dahl, born in Packard,
Kentucky
(d. 2010)-@84
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90- Arte Johnson,
comedian
(Laugh-in, Don't Call Me Charlie),
born in Chicago,
Illinois
89- Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
Jr, USAF/astro (Gem 12,
Ap 11), born in
Montclair, New Jersey
67-Paul Stanley,
guitarist, KISS
63- Bill Maher,
American comedian
and political commentator
(Real Time with
Bill Maher, Politically
Incorrect), born
in NYC, New York
61- Lorenzo
Lamas,
American actor
(Lance-Falcon Crest, California
Fever), born in
Los Angeles
47- Nimrata ‘Nikki’’
Haley,
American
politician and diplomat, Governor
South Carolina
(2011-17), US UN Ambassador
(2017-2018), born
in Bamberg, South Carolina
Historical Obits Today
@83-2018 John
Coleman,
American
journalist, co-founder of The
Weather Channel
and broadcaster (1953-2014)
@82-1990 Barbara
Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens],
actress (Big
Valley)
@79-1984 Johnny
Weissmuller
[Peter Johann
Weißmüller],
Hungarian actor
(Tarzan) and 100m swimmer
(Olympic 5
gold-1924, 28),
dies of respiratory
failure
@73-2012 Etta
James [Jamesetta Hawkins],
American singer,
dies from leukemia
@63-1993 Audrey
Hepburn,
British actress (Roman Holiday),
dies of colon
cancer
@42-1965 Alan
Freed, disgraced DJ (Big Beat),
alcoholism complications
