May 12, Mother's Day

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May 12, 2019 Week: 20 \ Day: 132

86004:   H 58° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Nearest wildfire:  79mi. Nearest lightning:  45mi

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  7mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 86°[1996]   Record Low: 20°[1983]

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

Today’s Quote

We'd feel less worried..

If more were worried.

--Anonymous

Random Tidbits

Steam was successfully adapted to power boats in 1802 and railways in 1829. Later, some of the first automobiles were powered by steam

French aviation pioneer Gustave de Ponton d'Amecourt built a steam-driven model helicopter in 1863. He also coined the word 'helicopter'.

Although different sources such as coal, nuclear, geothermal and solar thermal, are used to heat the water, nearly 90 percent of the electricity we use is generated through the use of steam.

Observances This Week

National Pet Week: 6-12 Link  
National Nurses Day and Week: 6-12 Link  Link
Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week: 6-12 Link

Universal Family Week: 10-16 

Food Allergy Awareness Week: 12-18 Link
National Body Piercing Week: 12-17  Link 
National Hospital Week: 12-18 Link
National Nursing Home Week: 12-18     
National Police Week:  12-18
National Return To Work Week:  12-18
National Transportation Week: 12-18 
National Women's Health Week: 12-18 Link
Reading is Fun Week:  12-18 Link 
Salute to Moms 35+ Week: 12-18 
Salvation Army Week: 12-18 
Work At Home Moms Week: 12-18

Observances for Today

Buddha Day Link  (Celebration Date) Note: Historical date is always April 8)
Fatigue Syndrome Day

Hug Your Cat Day  Link
International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases  Link
International Nurses Day Link   Link
Lilac Sunday 

Limerick Day
Mother's Day  Link  Link
Mother's At The Wall Day 
Native American Rights Day
National Nutty Fudge Day Link
Odometer Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mothers out there. Thanks for all you do.

Another day of rain…and lightning…and thunder. Spring sure seems wet.

Yesterday one of my younger hunting buddies from my years in Tuba lost his oldest son (32) to suicide here in Flagstaff.  He was Hopi and will be buried The Hopi Way today. It is so sad, and so hard to understand.

I finished the readings on the Middle East. While much of the problems have been around for centuries, WWI and WWII boundary lines, drawn by the west,  only made the problems worse. Too add to the problem 45 recognized Jerusalem as the capital and  45 and Obama support Saudi Arabia, even when everyone knows they are helping with the chaos over there. Should be an interesting discussion.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

In 1990, a person is 15 years old. In 1995, that same person is 10 years old. How can this be?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1200’s

1215 English barons serve ultimatum on King John; leads to Magna Carta

1500’s

1551 San Marcos University in Lima, Peru, opens

1700’s

1777 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi in the NY Gazette)

1789 Society of St Tammany is formed by Revolutionary War soldiers. It later becomes an infamous group of NYC political bosses

1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented

1800’s

1888 Crouching start 1st used in track and field by Charles Sherrill of Yale

1900’s

1916 James Connolly and Sean McDermott are executed following their involvement in the Easter Rising in Dublin

1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed in the United States

1928 Benito Mussolini ends women's rights in Italy

1930 Pulitzer prize awarded to Marc Connelly (Green Pastures)

1938 Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)

1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin

1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz

1949 1st foreign woman ambassador received in USA (Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India)

1970 Harry A Blackmun is confirmed as a justice on Supreme Court

1982 In Fatima Portugal, a Spanish Traditionalist priest who opposed Vatican II reforms and saw Pope John Paul II as a perpetrator of them, is stopped prior to his attempt to attack the Pope with a bayonet

1984 South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years

1991 A new cancer drug is announced which can only be found in bark of a rare tree in the Pacific Northwest

2000’s

2002 Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit with Fidel Castro becoming first President of the United States, in or out of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.

2003 Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the Texas Legislature to a standstill by going into hiding in a dispute over a Republican congressional redistricting plan

2012 The discovery of a missing Mayan calendar piece disproves 2012 Armageddon

2017 Brazil declares end to Zika national emergency as cases decrease

Birthdays Today

0’s

1820 Florence Nightingale,

(d. 1910: @90)

British nurse (Crimean War), born in Florence, Italy

1907 Katharine Hepburn,

(d. 2003: @96)

American actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond), born in Hartford, Connecticut

1915 Mary Kay Ash,

(d. 2001: @83)

American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics

1918 Julius Rosenberg,

(d. 1953: @35: executed)

1st US civilian executed for espionage,

born in NYC

1936 Tom Snyder,

(d. 2007: @71: leukemia)

American newscaster (The Tomorow Show, NBC Weekend News),

born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

90’s

91- Burt Bacharach,

composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again),

born in Kansas City, Missouri

70’s

71- Steve Winwood,

English  musician (A Higher Love, Roll with it)

60’s

60- Ving Rhames

[Irving Rameses Rhames],

American actor (Mission Impossible),

born in New York City

50’s

57- Emilio Estevez,

American actor (Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks),

born in NYC, New York

56- Vanessa A. Williams,

American actress (Rhonda Blair-Melrose Place),

born in Brooklyn, New York

53- Stephen Baldwin,

actor (Beast, Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)

51- Anthony Frank Tony Hawk,

skateboard champion

50- Kim Fields Freeman,

actress (Tootie-Facts of Life),

born in Los Angeles, California

30’s

38- Rami Malek,

American actor (Bohemian Rhapsody),

born in Los Angeles, California

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-1994 Erik Erikson,

American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase "identity crisis"

80’s

@88-2001 Perry Como,

American singer

70’s

@78-1970 leonie "Nelly" Sachs,

German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966)

40’s

@48-1960 Prince Aly Khan

[Ali Salman Aga Khan],

Pakistani socialite, jockey, political ambassador; husband to Rita Hayworth,

dies from injuries sustained in a car accident

Puzzle answer:

The person was born in 2005 BC.