Mar 19

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Mar 19, 2019 Week: 12 \ Day: 78

86004 Today: H 54° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 71°[1907]   Record Low: 1°[1963]

Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Who has a harder fight than

he who is striving to overcome himself.

Thomas a Kempis

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-20

Special Olympics 2019: 14-21

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

Act Happy Week: 18-24

International Teach Music Week: 18-24

National Fix A Leak Week: 18-24 

Shakespeare Week: 18-24 

Wellderly Week: 18-24

Observances for Today

Client's Day Link
Goddess of Fertility Day  
Let's Laugh Day

National Certified Nurses Day  Link
National Chocolate Caramel Day Link
National Poultry Day Link
National Sloppy Joe Day

Operation Iraqi Freedom Day
Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day
Tea for Two Tuesday

World Social Work Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday was almost a spring day. Nice walk, friends for lunch, and the snow continued to melt. And a great Irish dinner with all the fixins.

Our discussion on Saturday was very informative. Migration is a human condition. We humans migrate differently that the other animals, but we have always migrated. For millennia, humans have migrated for a better life, across oceans and land. Another condition is that of non-trust if the migrants speak differently, look differently, or have customs that are different. Mankind has always worked things out and today’s immigrants are still suffering from the human condition. Refugees are in a different box. They are migrating because refugees are fleeing for their lives. Hopefully, in the very near future, the anti-refugee in this country will become educated about the difference, and our country will provide refuge for those in need.

When 45 goes on a Twitter tirade, he is trying to keep the media and his followers away from something. Still don’t know what he is trying to keep us away from, but to post over 45 tweets during the weekend, there is something.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1200’s

1279 A Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the

            Song Dynasty in China

1600’s

1644 200 members of Peking imperial family and court commit

            suicide in loyalty to the Emperor

1700’s

1748 Naturalization Act passes granting Jews right to colonize

            North American colonies

1800’s

1822 Boston, Massachusetts incorporated as a city

1882 1st stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona

1900’s

1911 1st International Women's Day sees over 1 million men and

            women attend rallies in Austria, Denmark, Germany and

            Switzerland. Issues discussed included women's right to vote and

            to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational training and

            an end to discrimination on the job.

1918 US Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time

1931 Nevada legalizes gambling

1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty

1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic energy, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

1951 Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny" published

1958 Britain's first planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's, London

1984 Mobil oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River

1985 "Spin Magazine" begins publishing

1994 Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan

2000’s

2003 Airstrikes by an American and British-led coalition signal the

            beginning of the invasion of Iraq, without United Nations

            support and in defiance of world opinion

2012 Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become the second

            best-selling hamburger chain

2014 Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base in Sevastopol

2018 Mississippi signs into law the US's strictest abortion laws, no

            termination after 15 weeks

2018 World's last male northern white rhino, 45-year-old Sudan,

            dies in Kenya

Birthdays Today

1742 Tupac Amaru II,

Incan revolutionary

(d. 1781:@ 43:executed)

1848 Wyatt Earp,

American sheriff (OK Corral),

born in Monmouth, Illinois

(d. 1929:@80)

1860 William Jennings Bryan,

American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner",

born in Salem, Illinois

(d. 1925:@65:a few days after Scopes trial ended)

1891 Earl Warren,

Governor of California/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69),

born in Los Angeles, California

(d. 1974:@83)

1894 Jackie "Moms" Mabley,

[Loretta Mary Aiken],

comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)

(d. 1975:@81)

1906 Adolf Eichmann,

German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer,

Holocaust organizer),

born in Solingen, German Empire

(d. 1962:@62: hung)

1920 Tiger ‘Tige’ Andrews,

American character actor (Mod Squad, The Detectives Starring

 Robert Taylor),

born in Brooklyn, New York

(d. 2007:@86)

1928 Patrick McGoohan,

American-born Irish actor, writer, and director

(The Prisoner, Secret Agent/ Danger Man),

born in Queens, New York

(d. 2009:@80)

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82- Ursula Andress,

Swiss model, actress and sex symbol

(Dr. No, Casino Royale, She, Sensuous Nurse),

born in Ostermundigen, Switzerland

72- Glenn Close,

American actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction),

born in Greenwich, Connecticut

67- Harvey Weinstein,

American film producer (Miramax), accused of sexual abuse

which helped spark the #MeToo movement,

born in NYC, New York

64- Bruce Willis,

American actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard),

born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany

Historical Obits Today

@90-2008 Arthur C. Clarke,

English sci-fi author (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End)

@88-2017 Jimmy Breslin,

American author and columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday)

@74-1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs,

sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes),

dies of heart attack

@51-1702 William III, William of Orange,

King of England and Scotland (1689-1702) and Stadtholder,

dies [O.S. 8 March] of pneumonia

@50-1974 Anne Klein,

fashion designer,

dies from breast cancer