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Jan
21, 2019 Week: 03 \ Day: 21
Enjoy
MLK Day
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Today: H 53° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 60°[1944] Record
Low: -24°[1937]
Jan
Averages:
43°\11°
Today’s Quote
A thousand words
will not leave so deep
an impression as
one deed.
Henrik Ibsen
Random Tidbits
Out of thousands of non-alcoholic beverage
brands, only about 40 of them are billion-dollar brands, and Coca-Cola owns 20
of them. These brands help them bring in $43 billion in annual sales.
Observances This Week
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
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
Martin Luther King Day
National Crowd Feed Day
National Day of Service
National Granola Bar Day
National Hugging Day
Rid The World of Fad Diets and Gimmicks Day
Squirrel Appreciation Day
Tu B'Shvat
(Sundown)
My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful winter
day…enjoying the sunshine.
I hope everyone
takes a few minutes to review why Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is a Federal
holiday. He would have just turned 90, had he not been assassinated at 39.
I guess 45 didn’t
get my letter in time for his performance. I’m sure that if he had, he would
not have wasted my time with his speech. Not impressed.
I was appalled
with the actions of the Catholic High School students at a peaceful rally. The
native drummer they tried to intimidate is a member of the Omaha tribe, a Vietnam
Vet, and a revered elder of his tribe. His name is Nathan Phillips. He should
never have had such insensitive treatment.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1500’s
1525 The Swiss
Anabaptist Movement is born when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock,
and a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich,
breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union
1600’s
1677 1st medical
publication in America (pamphlet on smallpox), published in Boston
1700’s
1789 1st American
novel, WH Brown's "Power of Sympathy" is published
1800’s
1813 Pineapple
introduced to Hawaii
1846 1st edition
of Charles Dickens' newspaper "The Daily News"
1861 Jefferson
Davis of Mississippi and 4 other southern senators resign (U.S Civil War)
1887 Amateur
Athletic Union (AAU) forms
1899 Opel
manufactures its first automobile
1900’s
1915 Kiwanis
International founded in Detroit
1935 The
Wilderness Society is founded by conservationists
1942 Bronx
magistrate rules all pinball machines illegal
1967 US female
Figure Skating championship won by Peggy Fleming
2000’s
2004 NASA's MER-A
(the Mars Rover Spirit) ceases communication with mission control. The problem
lies with Flash Memory management and is fixed remotely from Earth on February
6.
2008 Black Monday
in worldwide stock markets. FTSE 100 had its biggest ever one-day points fall,
European stocks closed with their worst result since 9/11, and Asian stocks
drop as much as 15%.
2008 The Eyak
language in Alaska becomes extinct as its last native speaker dies
2017 More than 2
million people protest worldwide in the 'Women's March' against Donald Trump,
with 500,000 marching in Washington D.C.
Birthdays Today
1815 Horace
Wells,
dentist
(pioneered use of medical anesthesia)
(d. 1848)-@33-suicide
1869 Grigori
Rasputin,
Russian monk and
confidant of Russian Tsar
Nicholas II, born
in Pokrovskoye, Sibera,
Russian Empire
(d. 1916)-@47-murdered
1897 J. Carrol
Naish,
American actor
(Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie
Chan), born in
NYC, New York
(d. 1973)-@77-emphysema
1905 Christian
Dior,
French fashion
designer (New Look), born in
Granville, France
(d. 1957)-@52-heart
attack
1922 Aristotelis
"Telly" Savalas,
American singer
(If?) and character actor
(Kojak, On Her
Majesty's Secret Service), born
in Garden City
New Jersey,
(d. 1994)-@70-bladder
cancer
1924 Benny Hill
[Alfred Hawthorn
Hill],
British comedian
(The Benny Hill Show), born in
Southampton,
Hampshire, England
(d. 1992)-@68-heart
attack
1938 Wolfman Jack
[Robert Weston
Smith],
American disk
jockey (Midnight Special), born
in Brooklyn, New
York
(d. 1995)-@57-heart
attack
1941 Richie
Havens,
American folk
singer (Here Comes the Sun),
born in Brooklyn,
New York
(d. 2013)-@72-heart
attack
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77- Mac Davis,
American country
music singer-songwriter,
actor (Mac Davis
Show, North Dallas 40), born
in Lubbock, Texas
72- Jill
Eikenberry,
(Ann Kelsey-LA
Law, Manhattan Project), born
in New Haven,
Connecticut
69-Billy Ocean
(Leslie Sebastian
Charles),
R&B singer
68- Eric Holder,
American lawyer
and judge (1st African
American US
Attorney General 2009-2015),
born in The Bronx
63- Geena Davis,
American actress
(Beetlejuice, Fly),
born in Wareham,
Massachusetts
63- Robby Benson,
American actor
(One on One, Running Brave,
Chosen), born in
Dallas, Texas
56- Hakeem Olajuwon,
basketball player
(Houston Rockets)
25-Booboo
Stewart,
dancer, singer,
actor
Historical Obits Today
@89-2008 Marie
Smith Jones,
last native
speaker of the Eyak language
@81-1985 James
Beard,
American chef and
author
@77-1998 Jack
Lord,
American actor
(Hawaii FIVE-O),
dies of Alzheimer's/heart
failure
@77-1959 Cecil B.
DeMille,
American
filmmaker (The Ten Commandments,
Samson and
Delilah),
dies of heart
failure
@72-1892 John
Couch Adams,
English
astronomer (co-discover Neptune)
@69-1928 George
Washington Goethals,
American engineer
(built Panama Canal)
@65-1901 Elisha
Gray,
American inventor
(acoustic telegraphy)
@53-1924 Vladimir
Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin,
Russian
Revolutionary leader and Premier,
dies of a stroke
@46-1950 George
Orwell
(Eric Arthur
Blair),
British author
(Animal Farm, 1984),
dies of TB
