Feb 21

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Feb 21, 2019 Week: 08 \ Day: 52

86004 Today: H 26° \ L 2° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  10mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 76°[1977]   Record Low: -9°[1955]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Random Tidbits

In a 2010 survey of 9,617 women,

51% said they offer to pay on the first date,

32% offer to pay on the 2nd or 3rd date,

7% between 46 dates,

2% after 6 dates, and

7% believed that man should always pay.

Observances This Week

National Condom Week: 14-21 Link
National Nestbox Week: 14-21
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week: 14-21
Date (Fruit) Week: 15-24
National Entrepreneurship Week: 16-23 Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week: 17-23
National Engineers Week: 17-23
National FFA Week: 17-24 Link 
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week: 17-23  Link
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 17-23 Link
Bird Health Awareness Week: 18-24 Link  
Learning Disabilities Week: 18-21
Through With The Chew: 18-22  Link
American Camp Week: 19-22 Link
Kitchen and Bath Show Week: 19-21
American Birkenbreiner Race: 20-24

Observances for Today

Card Reading Day
Discover Girl Day 
International Mother Language Day

Introduce A Girl to Engineering Day 
National Grain Free Day Link
National Pancake Day

National Sticky Bun Day

The Great American Spit Out  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Weatherman still sez two feet of snow by Friday.

I headed out for weekly groceries, just in case the weatherman is correct. Turns out I wasn’t the only one ‘stocking up’ for the big storm. Sam’s parking lot was full, Fry’s parking lot was full. Shelves were far from empty, but I think all of the regular Wed. people, the Thursday people, and the Friday people were all there.

Ran into two retired couples from Tuba at Sam’s. Had a nice conversation with both groups. They too were stocking up as Tuba is expected to get 6-12” …almost unheard of there…it’s only 5200’ in Tuba. We all agreed that the forecast prediction is probably a bit high, but one never knows.

The Mueller report may be given to the AG while 45 is in Vietnam meeting with the N. Korea leader. Guess that might be good, as it gives 45 time to make plane reservations to another country. 😂

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1100’s

1173 Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Becket, Archbishop of

            Canterbury

1400’s

1431 Joan of Arc's first day of interrogation during her trial for heresy

1700’s

1746 Jacobite Rising 1745: British forces surrender Inverness Castle to

            Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobite forces

1800’s

1804 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for the 1st time, along

             the tramway of the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil,

            Wales

1828 1st American Indian newspaper in US, "Cherokee Phoenix",

            published

1846 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell, Mass.

1848 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish "The Communist Manifesto"

             in London

1861 Navaho elect Herrero Grande as chief

1866 Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS

            degree

1887 Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday

1900’s

1902 Dr Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, performs his 1st brain

            operation

1904 National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming Mich

1918 The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo

1925 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published

1931 Alka Seltzer introduced

1947 1st instant developing camera demonstrated by Edwin Land in NYC

1965 Rights activist Malcolm X is shot dead by Nation of Islam followers

            at Audubon Ballroom in New York City

1972 Richard Nixon becomes the first US President to visit China,

            normalizing relations between the countries

1975 Watergate figures John Mitchell, H. R. Haldeman & John D

            Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs for conspiracy and obstruction

            of justice

1986 AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle

            School

2000’s

2014 US President Barack Obama meets with the Dalai Lama

2014 10 words from the 15th C Voynich manuscript have been decoded

Birthdays Today

1794 Antonio López de Santa Anna,

President of Mexico who dominated Mexican history in the first

half of the 19th century, born in Xalapa, Veracruz

(d. 1876-@82)

1903 Anaïs Nin,

French writer

(d. 1977-@73-cervical cancer)

1927 Hubert de Givenchy,

French fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn's LBD) and founder of

Givenchy (1952), born in Beauvais, France

(d. 2018-@91)

1929 James Beck,

British actor (Dad's Army), born in Islington, London

(d. 1973-@44-pancreatitus)

1933 Nina Simone

[Eunice Waymon],

American singer and civil rights activist (I Loves You, Porgy),

born in Tyron, North Carolina

(d. 2003-@70-breast cancer)

1934 Rue McClanahan, ,

actress (Maude, Golden Girls) born in Healdton Oklahoma

(d. 2010-@76-stroke)

1946 Alan Rickman,

English actor (Robin Hood Prince of Thieves, Die Hard,

Harry Potter), born in Hammersmith, London

(d. 2016-@69-cancer)

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95- Robert Mugabe,

Zimbabwean revolutionary, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe (1980-

87) and 1st black President of Zimbabwe (1988-2017),

born in Harare, Zimbabwe

73- Tyne Daly,

actress (Cagney & Lacey, Angel Unchained),

born in Madison, Wisconsin

55- Mark Kelly,

American astronaut & US Navy captain,

born in Orange, New Jersey

55-Scott Kelly,

American astronaut, born in Orange, New Jersey

64- Kelsey Grammer,

American actor, comedian, director and activist

(Frasier Crane in Cheers, Fraiser),

born in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands

40- Jennifer Love Hewitt,

American actress (Sarah Reeves-Party of Five),

born in Waco, Texas

32- Ellen Page,

Canadian actress (Juno) & LGBT activist,

born in Halifax, Nova Scotia

30- Corbin Bleu,

American actor & singer, born in Brooklyn, New York

Historical Obits Today

@99-2018 Billy Graham,

American Baptist evangelist (Crusades) described as 1 of the

20th century's most influential Christian leaders

@86-1919 Mary Edwards Walker,

American surgeon and feminist, only woman awarded Medal of

Honor (US Civil War)

@81-1999 Gertrude B. Elion,

American biochemist and drug researcher who developed

groundbreaking leukemia and herpes drug treatments

(Nobel 1988)

@69-1968 Howard Florey,

Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who purified

penicillin (Nobel 1945),

dies after heart attack

@68-1993 Harvey Kurtzman,

American cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine,

dies from liver cancer

@64-1788 Johann Georg Palitzsch,

German astronomer, 1st saw Halley's comet on return

@44-1974 Tim Horton,

Canadian hockey player and co-founder of Tim Hortons,

dies in a car crash

@42-1437 James I,

King of Scotland (1406-37),

murdered in a coup attempt

@39-1965 Malcolm X [Little],

African American human rights activist and Muslim minister,

assassinated in New York City

@36-1862 Nathaniel Gordon

hanged in NYC for engaging in the slave trade,

the only slave trader in US history to be convicted and executed

under the Piracy Law of 1820

@32-1976 Florence Ballard,

rocker (Supremes),

dies after heart attack