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Jan
23, 2019 Week: 03 \ Day: 23
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Today: H 47° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 5mph\Gusts:
5mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 61°[1982] Record
Low: -15°[1964]
Jan
Averages:
43°\11°
Today’s Quote
This is what I
learned:
that everybody is
talented, original and
has something
important to say.
Brenda Ueland
Random Tidbits
Martha Washington is the only woman whose
portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note.
It appeared on the face of the $1 Silver
Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1 Silver Certificate of
1896.
Observances This 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
22-25
International Hoof-Care Week
24-2/3
Sundance Film Festival
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
National Medical Group Practice Week
Tax Identity Theft Week
US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days
Observances for Today
Beer Can Day
Belly Laugh Day
International Mobile Phone Recycling Day
National Compliment Day
National Peanut Butter Day
Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Warming up now.
Nice!
Picked up my CPAP
supplies for the next 3 months. I asked about the ‘So Clean’ machine which is
to kill bacteria in the thing. It’s $319+taxes+$30 adaptor. According to them,
insurance says it’s a ‘luxury item. I’ll check with BC/BS before I give up on
the idea. This sounds a tad pricy to me.
Finally an arrest
in the case of the Apache girl who was raped while in a care facility. Turns
out, she was not comatose, as previously reported. She was aware of the rape
but could do nothing to stop it. So despicable. And now her family cares for
the infant she bore from the rape.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1847 1,500 New
Mexican Indians & Mexicans
defeated by US Colonel Price
1857 University
of Calcutta founded as the first
full-fledged university in South Asia
1900’s
1908 Lieutenant
General Robert Baden-Powell
publishes "Scouting for
Boys" as a manual for
self-instruction in outdoor skills and
self-
improvement. The book becomes the
inspiration for the Scout Movement.
1922 Lehman Caves
National Monument established
in Nevada
1923 Aztec Ruins
National Monument
in New Mexico established
1924 Russian city
of St Petersburg renamed
Leningrad (changed back in 1991)
1935 1st canned
beer, "Krueger's Cream Ale," is
sold by American company Krueger
Brewing
Co.
1955 Photography
exhibition "The Family of Man"
curated by Edward Steichen opens at
MOMA,
New York, "greatest photographic
enterprise
ever undertaken"
1984 Apple
Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary
Macintosh personal computer
2000’s
2003 The United
States Department of Homeland
Security officially begins operation
2017 President
Trump withdraws the US from the
Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
(TPPA)
Birthdays Today
76 Hadrian,
Roman Emperor
(117-138, builder of Hadrian's
Wall), born in
Italica (d. 138)-@62
1862 Edith
Wharton [-Jones],
Pulitzer
prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome,
House of Mirth),
born in NYC, New York
(d. 1937)-@75-heart
attack
1918 Oral
Roberts,
Born in Pontotoc
County Oklahoma, American
Televangelist,
founder Oral Roberts College
(d. 2009)-@91
1913 Mark
Goodson,
TV game-show producer
(Goodson-Toddman)
(d.
1992)-277-cancer
1917 Ernest
Borgnine,
American actor
(Ice Station Zebra, McHale's
Navy, Marty),
born in Hamden, Connecticut
(d. 2012)@95
1925 Maria
Tallchief,
American prima
ballerina, born in Fairfax,
Oklahoma
(d. 2013)-@88
1943 Sharon Tate,
American actress
(Valley of the Dolls), born in
Dallas,
(d.
1969)-@26-murdered
1949 John
Belushi,
American comedian
and actor (SNL, Blues
Brothers), born
in Chicago, Illinois
(d. 1982)-@33-OD
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83- Doug Kershaw,
La, plays
electric fiddle
80- Ray Stevens,
singer (Ahab the
Arab, Streak),
born in
Clarkdale, Georgia
78- Neil Diamond,
American
singer-songwriter, born in Brooklyn
75- David Gerrold
[Jerrold David
Friedman],
American science
fiction screenwriter (Star
Trek) and author
(The Martian Child),
born in Chicago,
Illinois
68- Yakov
Smirnoff,
Russian comedian
(It's a wonderful country)
51- Mary Lou
Retton,
Olympic gymnast
Historical Obits Today
@90-1965 Winston
Churchill,
Prime Minister of
Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55)
British leader
during WWII
@84-1993 Thurgood
Marshall,
1st African
American supreme court justice
(1967-91)
@81-2010 Pernell
Roberts,
American actor
(Adam-Bonanza,
Trapper John MD)
@75-1971 Bill W.,
American
co-founder of Alcoholics
Anonymous,
dies of emphysema
@75-1961 Alfred
Carlton Gilbert,
American athlete,
inventor, and businessman
(invented the
Erector Set)
@74-1986 L. Ron
Hubbard,
American sci-fi
writer (Death Quest) and
founder of the
Scientology cult,
stroke
@73-2012 James
Farentino,
American actor,
dies from heart
failure
@72-1975 Larry
Fine,
American actor
and comedian (3 Stooges),
strokes
@64-1986 Gordon
MacRae,
American singer
and actor (Oklahoma!,
Carousel),
dies of pneumonia
@32-1955 Ira
Hayes,
American World
War II hero, Pima Tribal
member,
dies of exposure
