Apr 13

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Apr 13, 2019 Week: 15 \ Day: 103

86004:   H 55° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  8mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  291mi. Nearest lightning:  1077mi

Record High: 75°[1962]   Record Low: 0°[1965]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Perfection is the child of time.

Joseph Hall

Random Tidbits

Darwin did not argue that humans came from monkeys. Rather he wrote only that monkeys, apes, and humans have a common ancestor.

A hobbit-like species of human lived about 18,000 years ago. About the size of a 3-year-old, they lived with pygmy elephants and 10-foot-long lizards.

Observances This Week

National Robotics Week: 6-14 Link
Bat Appreciation Week: 7-13 
Consider Christianity Week: 7-13 
National Blue Ribbon Week:  7-13  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Crime Victim’s Rights Week: 7-13  Link
National Library Week: 7-13  
National Public Health Week:  7-13 
National Volunteer Week: 7-13
National Window Safety Week:   7-13 
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Passion Week: 7-13
Passiontide: 7-20
The Masters Tournament: 8-14
Undergraduate Research Week: 8-12  Link  
Week of The Young Child: 8-12 Link

International Wildlife Film Week: 13-19  Link

Observances for Today

Baby Massage Day Link 
International Plant Appreciation Day

Make Lunch Count Day 

National Peach Cobbler Day
Scrabble Day
Thomas Jefferson Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Expecting snow. Weather guy has dropped from “1-3 inches” to ‘about an inch’. Guess I just have to wait. Spring?!?

I read an article from ‘fake news’ yesterday that said 45 wants to send illegal asylum seekers to ‘sanctuary cities’. I didn’t believe it because of the cost, inhumanity, and obvious retaliation to his policies. Then 45 hit the airways and confirmed that he indeed wants to send them to sanctuary cities. I wonder how these people will make it to their asylum hearings if they are bussed hundreds or thousands miles from the court? What is this country coming to? Congress better get really focused on the immigration laws and do it now!

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

During World War II, the mathematician Abraham Wald was asked to help with determining which parts of the allied forces’ planes must be armored better. After examining the surviving American planes, he noticed that there were many holes in the fuselage, and very few in the engines. After careful thinking, he suggested that the armor on the engines must be improved. Why?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1668 John Dryden (36) appointed first English poet laureate by Charles II

1700’s

1796 First elephant arrives in US from India

1800’s

1868 Abyssinian War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and Ethiopian Emperor Tewodros II commits suicide

1870 Metropolitan Museum of Art forms in NYC

1883 US prospector Alfred Packer convicted of manslaughter though accused of cannibalism

1900’s

1920 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner, Helen Hamilton appointed

1943 FDR dedicates Jefferson Memorial

1949 Philip S. Hench at Mayo Clinic announces discovery of cortisone to treat rheumatoid arthritis

1954 Robert Oppenheimer accused of being a communist

1961 UN General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid

1965 1st US Senate black page, Lawrence W Bradford Jr, 16, appointed by New York Senator Jacob Javits

1970 Apollo 13 announces "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here", as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon

2000’s

2015 Migrant ship carrying around 550 sinks off the Libyan coast, about 400 drown

Birthdays Today

1570 Guy Fawkes,

(d. 1606: @35: executed)

English Catholic conspirator who was convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot" to blow up the British Parliament,

 born in York, England

1743 Thomas Jefferson,

(d. 1826: @83)

3rd President of the United States (1801-09),

born in Albemarle County, Virginia

1852 Frank W. Woolworth,

(d. 1919: @66)

American businessman, founder of F. W. Woolworth Co,

born in Rodman, New York

1866 Butch Cassidy

[Robert LeRoy Parker],

(d. 1908: @ 42: suicide in Bolivia)

American desperado (Wild Bunch Passage),

born in Beaver, Utah

1892 Robert Watson-Watt,

(d. 1973: @81)

Scottish physicist and developer of the radar and radio direction finding in WWII,

born in Brechin, Scotland

1902 Philippe de Rothschild,

(d. 1988: @85)

French race-car driver and manager (Bordeaux Vineyard),

born in Paris, France

1906 Samuel Beckett,

(d. 1989: @83)

 Irish novelist and playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969),

born in Foxrock, Ireland

1909 Eudora Welty,

(d. 2001: @92)

American novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973),

born in Jackson, Mississippi

1923 Don Adams,

(d. 2005: @82)

American actor and comedian (Get Smart),

born in NYC, New York

1939 Seamus Heaney,

(d. 2013: @74)

Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995),

born in Castledawson, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

1949 Christopher Hitchens,

(d. 2011: @62: cancer)

English author and columnist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman),

born in Portsmouth, England

1976 Jonathan Brandis,

(d. 2003: @27: suicide by hanging)

American actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV),

born in Danbury, Connecticut

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80’s

85- Ben Nighthorse Campbell,

(Cheyenne) politician (Sen-D Colorado),

born in Auburn, California

84- Lyle Waggeoner,

American actor (Carol Burnett Show, Wonder Woman),

born in Kansas City, Kansas

70’s

76- Billy Kidd,

American skier,

born in Burlington, Vermont

74- Tony Dow,

American actor and director (Wally-Leave it to Beaver),

born in Hollywood, California

72-Al Green,

R&B singer (Funny How Time Slips Away)

60’s

69- Ron Perlman,

American actor (Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast),

born in The Bronx, New York

50’s

55- Caroline Rhea,

Canadian comedian and actress,

born in Westmount, Quebec, Canada

40’s

49- Rick Schroder,

American actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling),

born in Staten Island, New York

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88-2006 Muriel Spark,

Scottish author (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)

@87-2015 Günter Grass,

German writer (The Tin Drum) and playwright and

Nobel Prize laureate (1999)

70’s

@74-1886 John Humphrey Noyes,

American preacher and founded the Oneida Community (Perfectionists)

Puzzle answer:

Abraham Wald realized that the holes should have been distributed more evenly across the planes. Therefore, the planes which had more holes in the fuselage survived, while the planes which had more holes in the engines got destroyed.