Feb 24

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Feb 24, 2019 Week: 09 \ Day: 55

86004 Today: H 36° \ L -1° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  6mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[1984]   Record Low: -1°[1909]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process,

you don't know what you're doing.

W. Edwards Deming

Observances This Week

Date (Fruit) Week: 15-24
National FFA Week: 17-24 Link 
Bird Health Awareness Week: 18-24 Link  
American Birkenbreiner Race: 20-24
National Justice for Animals Week: 24-3/2 Link  Link
National Pasty Week: 24-3/2  Link
Telecommuter Appreciation Week: 24-3/2  

Observances for Today

Academy Awards Night
Forget Me Not Day  Link  
Girl Scout Cookie Weekend Link

National Dance Day
Tortilla Chip Day

Oscar Night 

World Bartender Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Things are finally sunny. Piles of snow everywhere. I went to the pharmacy this morning, Had to drive around a little to get into the parking lot as the street crew had left about 2 feet of snow at the driveway. Then headed for groceries. Huge pile of snow taking up many parking spaces, but I found one that was open. Dairy display was almost empty…guess they didn’t get a delivery during the storm. Girl Scouts out in full force. Got my Thin Mint fix. Thankfully, I will survive all of this. Haha.

Our discussion group got postponed until tomorrow afternoon. The presenter has a huge driveway he still must finish clearing. I’m happy that I don’t have such a driveway, and happy I don’t have to drive out to his place at night when the melting snow will freeze. I’ll do my reading today.

Now that voter fraud has been proven in a race, 45 is strangely silent. Maybe because it was the son of the Republican candidate who exposed that his father knew about it.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1541 Santiago, Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia (or 2/12)

1800’s

1821 Agustín de Iturbide and Vicente Guerrero agree to the Plan of

            Iguala, stating that Mexico will become a constitutional

            monarchy, Roman Catholicism the official religion and that

            Peninsulares and Creoles will enjoy equal political and social

            rights

1835 Siwinowe Kesibwi (Shawnee Sun) is 1st Indian language

            monthly magazine

1863 Arizona Territory created

1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile, Alabama)

1868 US House of Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President

            Andrew Johnson

1876 Henrik Ibsen's "Peer Gynt" premieres in Oslo

1888 Louisville, Kentucky, becomes 1st government in US to adopt

            Australian ballot (i.e. secret ballot on standard voting forms)

1893 The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of

            the United States of America

1899 Western Washington University is established

1900’s

1909 The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.

1925 Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY

1940 Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"

1942 The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, a series of anti-aircraft

            engagements over the city in response to a rumored but false

            Japanese attack. It would last until the morning of the following

            day.

1968 Discovery of 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell

            and Antony Hewish)

1977 US President Jimmy Carter announces US foreign aid will consider

            human rights

1979 Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas

1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana

            Spencer

1983 A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that

            condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World

            War II.

1989 150-million-year-old fossil egg found in Utah with a fossilized

            dinosaur embryo inside, the oldest dinosaur egg yet found in

            the Northern Hemisphere

1999 The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national

            involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action

             to attempt to save him.

2000’s

2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba due to ill health after

            nearly fifty years

2013 Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba

Birthdays Today

1786 Wilhelm Grimm,

German story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales), born in Hanau, Hesse-

Cassel, Holy Roman Empire

(d. 1859-@73)

1836 Winslow Homer,

American painter (Gulfstream)

(d. 1910-@74)

1914 David Langdon,

cartoonist/illustrator

(d. 2011-@97)

1955 Steve Jobs,

American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple,

born in San Francisco, California

(d. 2011-@56-pancreatic cancer)

1921 Abe Vigoda,

American actor (Barney Miller, The Godfather),

born in NYC, New York

(d. 2016-@94)

1938 James Farentino,

actor (The Final Countdown),

born in Brooklyn, New York

(d. 2012-@73- sequelae)

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77- Paul Jones,

English singer (Mighty Quinn-Manfred Mann) and

radio presenter (The Blues Show),

born in Portsmouth, England

74- Barry Bostwick,

American actor (Rocky Horror Picture Show, Megaforce),

born in San Mateo, California,

64- Paula Zahn,

news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)

born in Napperville Ill

68- George Thorogood,

American singer and guitarist (The Delaware Destroyers-Bad

to the Bone),

born in Wilmington, Delaware

53- Billy Zane,

actor (Titanic, Dead Calm),

born in Chicago, Illinois

42-Floyd Mayweather,

5 division world champion boxer

Historical Obits Today

@91-1998 Henny Youngman,

American comedian and violinist (Take my wife ... please)

@88-2012 Jan Berenstain

[Janice Marian Grant],

American author (The Berenstain Bears)

@81-2006 Don Knotts,

American actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company),

died of lung cancer

@81-2006 Dennis Weaver,

American actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)

@76-1994 Dinah Shore,

singer (Chevrolet),

dies of cancer

@71-1991 George Gobel,

comedian (George Gobel Show),

dies after heart surgery

@70-1990 Malcolm Forbes,

American publisher of Forbes Magazine,

dies of a heart attack

@61-1990 Johnnie Ray,

American singer (Cry),

dies of liver failure

@49-1815 Robert Fulton,

American inventor and engineer (first commercial steamboat),

dies of tuberculosis