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Mar 6, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 65
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Today’s Quote
The final value
of life lies in
the ability to
wake up in mind and think,
not just in
living.
--Aristotle
Random Tidbits
REM atonia, or sleep paralysis,
occurs in the typical sleeper every night to prevent people from acting out
their dreams. Only a few muscles have the ability to move during REM sleep,
such as the eye muscles, the auditory muscles, and the diaphragm for respiration.
Observances This Week
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7
National Write A Letter of
Appreciation Week: 1-7
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7
Will Eisner Week: 1-7
Celebrate Your Name Week: 3-9
Endometriosis Week: 3-9
National Consumer Protection
Week: 3-9
National Dental Assistants
Recognition Week: 3-9
National Procrastination Week: 3-9
National Words Matter Week: 3-9
Professional Pet Sitters Week: 3-9
Read an E-Book Week: 3-9
Return The Borrowed Books Week: 3-9
Save Your Vision Week: 3-9
Teen Tech Week: 3-9
Telecommuniter Appreciation Week:
3-9
Women in Construction Week: 3-9
National School Breakfast Week: 4-8
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week:
4-10
Lent: 6-20
Observances for Today
Discover What Your Name
Means Day Link
National Dentist's Day Link
National Dress Day Link
National Frozen Food Day
National Dentist's Day Link
National Dress Day Link
National Frozen Food Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Sunshine
and a bit of wind. Headed out early to get some essentials. Quick trip and back
home.
I
quit asking when this political mayhem will end. Now my question is: Will it
ever end? I’m all for getting to the bottom of this mess, but while the seemingly
endless hearings continue, the government continues to fall apart. I’m sure
that while all this is a problem for 45, it also lets him do whatever he wants.
My main concern now is how long it will take to undo some of his off the wall decisions
and the many decisions of his 15 Department Secretaries. Daily each Secretary is
rewriting rules that have been around for decades. This affects every Federal
worker as the rules change. More importantly it puts additional stress on every
entity that either receives Federal Funding or those entities that must follow
the regs to remain out of the legal system. So happy I’m retired for the
government chaos.
Today’s Significant Historical
Events
1400’s
1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas: Portugal
gives the Canary Islands to Castile
in
exchange for claims in West Africa
1500’s
1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand
Magellan discovers Guam
1800’s
1810 Illinois passes 1st state
vaccination legislation in US
1831 Edgar Allan Poe removed from West
Point military academy
1834 Toronto incorporated with William
Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st
mayor
1836 Battle of the Alamo: After 13
days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican
soldiers
overwhelm the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans
including
William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett
1857 Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme
Court rules Africans cannot
be
US citizens
1889 German firm Bayer patents the
medicine aspirin
1900’s
1902 Permanent US Census office
created by legislation passed by
Congress
1921 Police in Sunbury, Pennsylvania,
issue an edict requiring Women
to
wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1945 George Nissen of Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, receives a patent for the
first
modern trampoline
1950 Silly Putty goes on sale in the
US
1955 Dutch premiere of Samuel
Beckett's "Waiting for Godot"
1966 Barry Sadler's "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1974 An unnamed Italian industrialist
loses a record $1,920,000 at
roulette
over 5 hours in Monte Carlo Casino
1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter,
Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th
NYC
1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme
is stolen from a London gallery,
and
is recovered a week later.
1998 First time the British Union Flag
is flown over Buckingham Palace
(following
the controversy after Princess Dian's death; formerly
the
only flag flown was the Sovereign's standard indicating the
monarch's
presence.)
2000’s
2001 US Secretary of Energy Spencer
Abraham establishes the Northeast
Home Heating Oil Reserve to be used in
emergency
circumstances
2014 Crimean parliament votes
unanimously to make the Crimea part
of
Russia
2015 US State Department charges 2
Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen
with
cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
2017 US President Donald Trump signs
his second executive order
barring
travelers from 6 mostly-Muslim countries for 90 days but
leaves
out Iraq
2018 "Highest overdose death
rates ever recorded in the US", 142,000
overdoses
in 2016-17 period according to US Centers for Disease
Control
and Prevention
2018 World's oldest message in a
bottle found in Western Australia,
thrown
from German ship Paula 132 years ago (12 June 1886)
2018 Pope Francis announces that
murdered Salvadorean Archbishop
Óscar Romero will be made a saint
2018 Forbes names Amazon founder Jeff
Bezos the world's richest
person
for the first time at $112 billion, Bill Gates no. 2
Birthdays Today
1475
Michelangelo,
Italian sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High
Renaissance (David, Ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel),
born in Caprese, Tuscany
(d. 1564-@88)
1619
Cyrano de Bergerac,
French playwright (Voyage to the Moon),
known for his large nose (
d. 1655-@36-no known cause)
1747
Casimir Pulaski,
Polish military leader (called the father of American cavalry),
born in Warsaw, Poland
(d. 1779-@34-shot)
1806
Elizabeth Barrett Browning,
English poet ("Sonnets from the Portuguese"),
born in Kelloe, Durham
(d. 1861-@55-long illness)
1871
Ben Harney,
American composer and "Father of Ragtime Piano"
born on the Mississippi
River
(d. 1938-@65)
1906
Lou Costello,
American comedian and actor (The Abbott and Costello Show),
born in Paterson, New Jersey
(d. 1959-@52-cardiac arrest)
1923
Ed McMahon,
American TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search),
born in Detroit, Michigan
(d. 2009-@86)
1927
Gabriel García Márquez,
Colombian novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and
journalist
(1982 Nobel Prize in Literature), born in Aracataca, Colombia
(d. 2014-@87)
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93-
Alan Greenspan,
American economist, presidential advisor and Chairman of the
Federal Reserve of the United States (1987-2006), born in NYC
81-
Valentina Tereshkova,
Soviet cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6),
born in Maslennikovo, Russia
75-
Mary Wilson,
vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go),
born in Detroit, Michigan
73-
David Gilmour,
English rock guitarist (Pink Floyd-Brick in the Wall),
born in Cambridge, England
72-
Rob Reiner,
American actor and director (All in the Family, Stand By Me),
born in The Bronx
60-
Thomas "Tom" Arnold,
American actor (Tom, True Lies) and former husband of
actress Rosanne Barr, born in Iowa
56-
D.L. Hughley,
American comedian and actor
47-
Shaquille O'Neal,
basketball superstar
Historical Obits Today
@98-1986 Georgia O'Keeffe,
American sculptor/painter (Flowers)
@94-2016 Nancy Reagan
[Anne Frances Robbins],
US First Lady (1981-89)
@93-1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
US 59th Supreme Court justice
(1902-32)
@80-1973 Pearl S. Buck,
American author (Good Earth - Nobel
Prize 1938)
@77-1982 Ayn Rand
[Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum],
Russian-American author, screenwriter
and philosopher who
developed the philosophical system of
"Objectivism"
(Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead),
dies of heart failure
@77-1932 John Philip Sousa,
US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever)
@75-2018 Sir John E. Sulston,
British molecular biologist,
co-recipient of 2002 Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine (roundworm
genome sequencing),
dies of stomach cancer
@65-1900 Gottlieb Daimler,
designed 1st motorcycle
@55-1970 William Hopper,
American actor
(Perry Mason, The Bad Seed, Rebel
Without a Cause),
dies of pneumonia following a stroke
@55-1888 Louisa May Alcott,
American author (Little Women),
dies of a stroke
