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Mar 17, 2019 Week: 12 \ Day: 76
86004 Today: H 45°
\ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 11mph\Gusts:
23mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[2007] Record Low: 3°[1991]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
Try to keep your
soul young and quivering
right up to old
age.
George Sand
Random Tidbits
Daylight Savings Time officially began in 1916
when the Germans, in the middle of World War I, realized that they could save
energy by switching the clocks. England's Parliament had rejected such a
measure since 1909, but followed the Germans a month later. In the United
States, DST began in 1918, when the US entered the war, but it was repealed
once the war ended.
The United States instituted DST again during
World War II, one month after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. When the war
ended, it was again repealed, although some states and cities chose to maintain
the time change. This resulted in utter chaos as neighboring districts were
followed different times. Suburbs could be in different time zones than the
cities they surrounded.
Observances This Week
Lent: 6-20
International Brain Awareness Week:
11-17
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living
Sign: 11-17
Special Olympics 2019: 14-21
Sherlock Holmes Weekend: 15-17
American Chocolate Week: 17-23
National Animal Poison Prevention
Week: 17-23
National Inhalant and Poisons
Awareness Week: 17-23
World Folktales & Fables Week:
17-23
Observances for Today
Campfire Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Nice
day outside, but still windy. Spring at 7000’ so not unexpected.
Facebook
remains strange to me at times. I ‘friended’ a high school friend as our 50th
reunion was coming up. She was popular in high school, a good musician,
friendly. Over the past few months she has posted some odd posts. One was “As a
child I was taught that if you didn’t have something nice to say, don’t say
anything. Spread love and acceptance.” A very nice sentiment. Her posts both
before and after that post were right wing propaganda about how great 45 is and
how awful any living democrat is. I just don’t get it.
The
university entrance scandal just keeps getting worse. Now we know that some of
the children knew their parents were ‘fixing’ their admission and did nothing
about it. And some of the big names in the
scandal are losing jobs and endorsements. Looks to me like those using their evil
side to get stuff and trying to hide that evil are finally getting their comeuppance.
Today’s Significant Historical
Events
400’s
432 Saint Patrick aged about 16 is
captured by Irish pirates from his
home
in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland
(traditional
date)
1700’s
1755 Transylvania Land Company buys
Kentucky for $50,000 from a
Cherokee
chief
1756 St. Patrick's Day is first
celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle
Tavern
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in
NYC
1800’s
1829 Final performance by famous clown
Joseph Grimaldi at a benefit
performance
at Sadler's Wells, London
1845 Bristol man Henry Jones patents
self-raising flour
1854 1st park land purchased by a US
city, Worcester, Massachusetts
1900’s
1905 Albert Einstein finishes his
scientific paper detailing his Quantum
Theory
of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics
1912 Camp Fire Girls organization
announced by Mrs Luther Halsey
Gulick
1927 US government doesn't sign League
of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German
auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1960 US President Eisenhower forms
anti-Castro-exile army under
the
CIA
1973 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry
14 coffins commemorating
Bloody
Sunday
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil
gallons of oil off French coast
1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march
in St. Patrick's Day parade
1992 South African President F. W. de
Klerk wins a white only
referendum
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams
visits White House
2000’s
2008 New York State Governor Eliot
Spitzer resigns after a scandal
involving
a high-end prostitute.
David
Paterson becomes acting New York State governor.
2016 Archaeologists announce discovery
of iron age warrior king burial
ground
with 75 graves 2,500 years old in Pocklington, Northern
England
Birthdays Today
1910
Bayard Rustin,
American civil rights leader (March on Washington organizer,
Social Democrats USA), born in West Chester, Pennsylvania
(d. 1987:@75:perforated appendix)
1919
Nat King Cole,
[Nathaniel Adams Coles]
American singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa),
born in Montgomery, Alabama
(d. 1965:@45: lung cancer)
1922
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,
Founding father of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of
Bangladesh (1971-72 and 1975-76),
born in Tungipara, Bengal Presidency, British India
(d. 1975:@55:assasinated)
1941
Paul Kantner,
American rock singer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane),
born in San Francisco, California
(d. 2016:@74: septic shock)
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75-
John Sebastian,
American singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter),
born in NYC, New York
70-
Patrick Duffy,
actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis),
born in Townsend, Montana
69-
Betty Dukes,
American Walmart employee who fought against gender
discrimination (2001 Betty
Dukes v. Walmart lawsuit),
born in Tallulah, Louisiana
68-
Kurt Russell,
actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons),
born in Springfield, Massachusetts
64-
Gary Sinise,
American actor (Apollo 13, CSI: NY, Forrest Gump),
born in Blue Island Illinois
55-
Rob Lowe,
actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class),
born in Charlottesville, Virginia
40-
Stormy Daniels
[Stephanie Clifford],
American pornographic actress, claims had affair with
Donald Trump,
born in Baton Rouge, Lousiana
27-
John Boyega
[Adedayo B. Adegboyega],
English actor (Star Wars: The Force Awakens),
born in London
Historical Obits Today
@92-2006 Oleg Cassini,
American fashion designer (for Jackie
Kennedy)
@92-1993 Helen Hayes,
American actress (Airport, Caesar
& Cleopatra)
@76-461 Saint Patrick
[Maewyn Succat],
patron saint of Ireland, dies in Saul
(according to legend)
@54-1996 Terry Stafford,
American singer (Suspicion, Amarillo by morning),
dies of liver failure
