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Mar 30, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 89
86004: H 52° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 10mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest wildfire: 555mi. Nearest lightning: 907mi
Record High: 70°[1971] Record
Low: 1°[1998]
Mar Averages: 51°\23°
(6 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
The more things change,
the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr
Random Tidbits
The Moon
Most scientists believe the moon formed because of a Giant
Impact. According to this theory, a Mars-sized planet struck a glancing blow to
early Earth. The impact "splashed off" rocks and debris into space,
forming a huge ring around Earth that later clumped together to form the moon.
When the moon formed 4.6 billion years ago, it was 14,000
miles (22,530 km) from Earth. Now it's more than 280,000 miles (450,000 km)
away. The moon looked three times larger when it was closer to Earth.
Observances This Week
Money Smart Week: 30-4/6
NanoDays: 30-4/7 Link
Lent:
6-4/20
National
Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14
Health Information
Professionals Week: 24-30 Link
International Phace Syndrome
Awareness Week: 24-30
National Cleaning Week: 24-30
National Protocol Officer's
Week: 24-30
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner
Week: 24-30
National Physicians Week:
24-30 Link
National Money Show: 28-30
Observances for Today
Doctors Day Link
Earth Hour Link (This pertains to turning off lights at 8:30 pm local time.)
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
I Am In Control Day Link
International Folding Laundry Day
National Hot Chicken Day
Earth Hour Link (This pertains to turning off lights at 8:30 pm local time.)
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
I Am In Control Day Link
International Folding Laundry Day
National Hot Chicken Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Another great spring
day. Front door open for a while, office window open too.
Our retirement
group met yesterday. Mary is leaving for another European vaca next week with
her little brother and his wife. Got to see her recent visit to London and
Paris. She confirmed with pics that the Eifel Tower is still there, right where
it was when I visited it a few years ago.
I am not the best
packer, but I always have clothes I know I will need. How could NASA blow it
with not enough space suits for the historic 2-woman spacewalk? It’s not like
one of the women was a stowaway or suddenly went from a Large to a Medium
spacesuit. And, just when the VP announced the US would return to the moon by 2024
with a woman.
Just waiting for my
tax guy to let me know the damage this year.
So glad that didn’t
have airline tickets with WOW airlines. The company closed. Travelers had to
figure out their own way back home. What a mess for all those travelers. I
guess cheap is not always the best way to fly.
My upcoming
Siberian trip with Focus is becoming a little headache for those planning the
trip. Glad I know that Ellie and Joe will figure it all out well before the
time we leave. On a side note, Mary, of my retirement group, either plans her
trip or has those she is traveling with do all the planning: airlines, hotels, museum
fees, … Turns out most trips have a mess up or two or more to add to her
adventures and then must figure out how to fix it. I don’t need that kind of headache
on a trip.
RETURNING--PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at that bottom
A bus driver
was heading down a street in Colorado. He went right past a stop sign without
stopping, turned left where there was a “no left turn” sign, and went the wrong
way on a one-way street. Then he went on the left side of the road past a cop
car. Yet, he didn’t break any traffic laws.
Why not?
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1822 Congress combines East & West Florida
into Florida
Territory
1842 Ether used as an an aesthetic for 1st time
by Dr Crawford
Long (Georgia)
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman
L Lipman of
Philadelphia)
1867 US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000
(2 cents an acre
- Seward's Folly)
1870 15th Amendment to the US constitution is
adopted,
guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state
readmitted to Union
1900’s
1909 New York's Queensboro Bridge opens, linking
Manhattan &
Queens
1910 Mississippi Legislature founded The
University of Southern
Mississippi
1959 Dalai Lama flees China and is granted political
asylum in
India
1969 Loyalists bomb water and electricity
installations in Northern
Ireland in the hope that the attacks would be
blamed on the
IRA and on elements of the civil rights
movement, which
was demanding an end to discrimination against
Catholics
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser
God" premieres in NYC
1981 US President Ronald Reagan is shot and
wounded in an
assassination attempt by John Hinckley Jr.;
three others are
also wounded
1984 World's most valuable tip - New York police
detective Robert
Cunningham offers waitress Phyllis Penzo half of
$1 lottery
ticket, next day they win $6 million
1987 Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers"
sells for a record 22.5
million pounds ($39.7 million)
2000’s
2000 Richard Branson is knighted by Charles,
Prince of Wales for
"services to entrepreneurship" at
Buckingham Palace
2012 Mastercard and Visa announce a massive
breach in security
with over ten million compromised credit card
numbers
2018 Palestinians begin a "Great March of
Return", 6 weeks of
protests on the Gaza Strip demanding Palestinian
refugees
be allowed to return to Israel. 19 Palestinians
killed, 1,416
injured on the first day.
Birthdays Today
1811 Robert Bunsen, (d. 1899:
@88)
German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner,
born in Göttingen, Westphalia, Rhine
Confederation
1820 Anna Sewell, (d. 1878:@58-TB)
English author (Black Beauty),
born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
1853 Vincent van Gogh,
(d. 1890: @37-infection after
shooting himself)
Dutch artist, painter and pioneer of
Expressionism
(The Potato Eaters, Irises),
born in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands
1926 Ingvar Kamprad, (d. 2018:
@91)
Swedish eccentric businessman (founder of IKEA)
and author
(The Testament of a Furniture Dealer),
born in Pjätteryd, Sweden
1913 Frankie Laine
[Francesco
Paolo LoVecchio],
(d. 2007: @93)
Italian-American singer, songwriter, and actor
(Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide),
born in Chicago, Illinois
90’s
93- Peter Marshall,
TV game show host (Hollywood Squares),
born in Huntington, West Virginia
80’s
89- John Astin,
American actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Addams
Family),
born in Baltimore, Maryland
82- Warren Beatty,
actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy),
born in Richmond, Virginia
70’s
74- Eric Clapton,
English singer and guitarist (Tears in Heaven),
born in Ripley, Surrey, England
60’s
69- Robbie Coltrane,
Scottish actor (Harry Potter films) and
comedian,
born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire
50’s
57- M C Hammer,
[Stanley Kirk Burrell],
rapper (Hammer Time),
born in Oakland, California
53- Piers Morgan,
editor (Daily Mirror)
51- Celine Dion,
Canadian singer (I'm Your Woman),
born in Charlemagne, Quebec
40’s
48- Mark Consuelos,
actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
born in Zaragosa Spain
Historical Obits Today
100’s
@101-2002 Queen Elizabeth the
Queen Mother of the UK
80’s
@86-1986 James Cagney,
American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
70’s
@79-2013 Phil Ramone
[Rabinowitz],
South-African born American music producer
(co-founded A&R records),
dies from an aortic aneurysm
@75-1999 Terry Wilson,
American actor (Wagon Train, Escape to Witch
Mountain)
@74-1999 Gary Morton,
American film and television producer,
married to Lucille Ball
died of lung cancer
@72-1964 Nellallitea
"Nella" Larsen
[Nellie Walker],
African-American Harlem Renaissance novelist
(Quicksand, Passing)
60’s
@61-1840 George (Beau)
Brummell,
Dandy,
dies of syphilis
Puzzle answer:
The bus driver was not driving his bus, he was
walking.
