May 10

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May 10, 2019 Week: 19 \ Day: 130

86004:   H 49° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Nearest wildfire:  79mi. Nearest lightning:  167mi

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  6mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 82°[1934]   Record Low: 19°[1953]

Mar Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want,

drink what you don't like and do what you'd rather not.

--Mark Twain

Random Tidbits

Until the start of the 18th Century, machines were powered by muscle, water or wind, but steam power provided the potential for growth and flexibility on a mass scale. Steam engines facilitated the birth of large factories as production moved from rural riverbanks to industrial towns, enabling the industrial revolution and creating the formation of the cities we know today.

Steam power had been around for generations but it wasn't until 1698 that its application into industry was made. Military engineer Thomas Savery created a patent for raising of water by "the impellent force of fire" the first noted design of a steam pump. In 1712 Thomas Newcomen continued Savery's work and constructed the first successful steam engine, the atmospheric engine.

More Observances This Month

Teen CEO Month
Tennis Month
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Month
Textile Month  Link
Tourettes Syndrome Awareness Month (5/15 - 6/15) Link
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical Injury Awareness Month Link
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
Women's Health Care Month
Worldwide Home Schooling Awareness Month
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month

Observances This Week

Ramadan 5/5-6/4

Children's Book Week: 6-11 
National Pet Week: 6-12 Link  
National Nurses Day and Week: 6-12 Link  Link
National Safety Stand Down Week (Construction Falls): 6-10 Link 
National Wildflower Week: 6-11

PTA Teacher Appreciation Week: 6-10 

Universal Family Week: 10-16 

Observances for Today

Child Care Provider Day Link  
Clean up Your Room Day

Dia De La Madre

Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks A Voice  

Military Spouse Appreciation Day Link 

National Lipid Day (Dyslipidemia) 
National Liver and Onions Day

National Public Gardens Day  Link  
National Provider Appreciation Day Link 
 

World Lupus Day
World Migratory Bird Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Headed out early to get my weekly groceries. Rain coming down. A lot cooler than expected. Still a great weather day. Now that I am home the rain is bouncing off the pavement and there is some small hail…and spring thunder.

What an impromptu press conference by 45. I heard one news guy a little later describe it as someone shaking up a soda and opening the can. 45 talked about a lot of topics, but, as usual, few of his declarations can be proven with facts. Seems strange that so many people believe every word out of his mouth. So happy the Jeffco school system and my parents taught be to think.

The high school students who recently were killed by a crazy person were born after Columbine. Their entire lives have been watching their peers shot and killed in school shootings. Now, it appears, that some of these students are going to take the mess into their own hands while adults still send condolences and prayers to the families of those killed. My words to Congress: Listen to the children.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Forrest left home running. He ran a ways and then turned left, ran the same distance and turned left again, ran the same distance and turned left again. When he got home, there were two masked men. Who were they?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1752 Benjamin Franklin tests the lightning conductor with his kite-flying experiment

1775 Second Continental Congress convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and issues paper currency for 1st time

1775 Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia names George Washington Supreme Commander

1800’s

1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Fort Snelling

1824 The National Gallery in London opens to the public in its temporary home in a townhouse on Pall Mall

1858 Abolitionist John Brown meets Harriet Truman at a Constitutional Convention convened in Chatham, Ontario

1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis captured by Union troops at Irwinsville Georgia (US Civil War)

1869 Golden Spike driven, completing the 1st US Transcontinental Railroad at Promontory Summit, Utah and connecting the Central Pacific Railroad with the Union Pacific

1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for US presidency by Equal Rights Party at Apollo Hall, NYC

1900’s

1908 1st Mother's Day observed (Philadelphia)

1915 Canadian physician Cluny MacPherson first presents his gas mask invention to the British War Office

1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI

1930 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland

1960 US atomic submarine USS Triton completes 1st submerged circumnavigation of the globe

1969 US troops begin attack on Hill 937 ("Hamburger Hill"), Vietnam

1988 Edgar Degas' "Danseresje of 14" sold for $10,120,000

1989 General Manuel Noriega's Panama government nullifies country's elections, which the opposition had won by a 3-1 margin

1993 Paul Cézanne still life painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC

1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president

2000’s

2005 A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, it malfunctions and does not detonate

2017 USGS releases a report saying that some glaciers in Montana have receded by 85% in the last 50 years

2017 Apple becomes the first company to be worth more than $800 billion

2018 New record auction price for a Latin American artwork of $9.76 million for Diego Rivera's "The Rivals"

Birthdays Today

1838 John Wilkes Booth,

(d. 1865: @26: shot)

American stage actor and assassin of US President Abraham Lincoln,

born in Bel Air, Maryland

1890 Alfred Jodl,

(d. 1946: @56: hanged)

German general during World War II (head of the German High Command, signed unconditional Nazi surrender),

born in Würzburg, German Empire

1899 Fred Astaire,

 (d. 1987: @88)

American tap dancer, presenter and actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime),

born in Omaha, Nebraska

1902 David O Selznick,

(d. 1965: @63: heart attacks)

American Academy Award winning producer

(Gone With the Wind, Rebecca),

born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1909 Maybelle Carter,

(d. 1978: @69)

American country singer (Johnny Cash Show),

born in Nickelsville, Virginia

1922 Nancy Walker,

 (d. 1992: @69: lung cancer)

American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife),

born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1930 Pat Summerall,

 (d. 2013: @82)

American NFL player (NY Giants) and CBS sportscaster,

born in Lake City, Florida

1934 Gary Owens,

(d. 2015: @80)

American disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show),

born in Mitchell, South Dakota

1957 Sid Vicious

[John Simon Ritchie],

(d. 1979: @21: OD or suicide?)

English musician and bassist (Sex Pistols), born in London

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60’s

64- Michael Hagerty,

American actor (Overboard, Inspector Gadget),

born in Chicago, Illinois

50’s

59- Bono

[Paul Hewson],

Irish singer-songwriter, musician (U2-Joshua Tree), venture capitalist, businessman, and philanthropist  

 born in Dublin, Ireland

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83-1818 Paul Revere,

American silversmith and patriot who alerted the colonial militia to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord

70’s

@72-1977 Joan Crawford

[Lucille Fay LeSueur],

American actress (Mildred Pierce),

dies of heart attack

60’s

@68-1999 Shel Silverstein,

American writer (Now Here's My Plan: A Book of Futilities),

dies from heart attack

@63-1904 Henry Morton Stanley,

Welsh journalist and African explorer (discovered source of the Nile)

30’s

@39-1863 Stonewall Jackson [Thomas Jonathan],

 Confederate general during the American Civil War,

dies of pneumonia

Puzzle answer:

The catcher and the umpire