May 21

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May 21, 2019 Week: 21 \ Day: 141

86004:   H 41° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Nearest wildfire:  567mi. Nearest lightning:  28mi

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  11mph

Visibility: 3 mi

Record High: 82°[2005]   Record Low: 21°[1924]

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

Today’s Quote

There is no influence like the influence of habit.

Gilbert Parker

Random Tidbits

In 1500, the last wolf was killed in England. In 1770, Ireland's last wolf was killed. In 1772, Denmark's last wolf was killed.

In 1927, a French policeman was tried for the shooting of a boy he believed was a werewolf. That same year, the last wild wolves in France were killed.

Currently, there are about 50,000 wolves in Canada; 6,500 in Alaska; and 3,500 in the Lower 48 States. In Europe, Italy has fewer than 300; Spain around 2,000; and Norway and Sweden combined have fewer than 100.

Observances This Week

Ramadan 5/5-6/4

Cannes Film Festival: 15-26

National Foul Ball Week: 16-21

National Safe Boating Week: 18-24 

EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week: 19-25  Link  
International Heritage Breeds Week: 19-25  Link  
National Eosinophil Awareness Week: 19-25  Link  
National Medical Transcription Week: 19-25  Link
National New Friends, Old Friends Week: 19-25
National Stationery Week: 19-22
National Unicycle Week: 19-25
World Trade Week: 19-25 

Brain Injury Awareness Week: 20-26 Link 
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: 20-25  Link
National Backyard Games Week: 20-27 
National Tire Safety Week:  20-27 Link  
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 20-27 Link

Observances for Today

American Red Cross Founder's Day
End of the World or Rapture Party Day (Prediction)  Link
I Need A Patch For That Day
National Memo Day

National Waiters and Waitresses Day

Sister Maria Hummel Day
Talk Like Yoda Day

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue & Development
Victoria Day(Canada)

My Rambling Thoughts

Spring always brings surprises…this morning it was SNOW. None sticking but it has been coming down, on and off, all morning. Sometimes quite hard, other times just Graupel.  Those of us who have lived at 7000’ for a few years are never fooled by the early May warm temps. We know to never plant until after Memorial Day.

Just found out a small tornado touched down just north of Flag. Thankfully in an open field, no damage, no injuries.

Tuesday and Wednesday are busy days for me. I get to make a new impression for my crown on Wednesday. I think a public flogging for the person who screwed up is appropriate along with a couple of days in the public stocks. But I’ll settle for an apology and a cheaper price.

45 has stated that he believes all the investigations regarding him are because, as everyone knows, he is a devout Christian. His base is eating it up. People with a working brain, not so much.

Now that Game of Thrones has ended, I have to say I never got into watching it. I tried a couple of times. Too dark, too much violence, and I couldn’t keep up with the far-too-many characters.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

What four-letter word can be written forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1856 Lawrence, Kansas, is captured and sacked by pro-slavery forces

1861 Richmond, Va, is designated Confederate Capital

1864 Russia declares an end to the Russian-Circassian War and many Circassians are forced into exile. The day is designated to be the Circassian Day of Mourning.

1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton

1900’s

1906 The US and Mexico sign an agreement over distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande, increasingly diverted to the US for irrigation

1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota

1917 The Great Fire of Atlanta: at least 10,000 people were displaced, but there was only one fatality

1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co

1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill for his play "Anna Christie"

1927 Aviator Charles Lindbergh, in the Spirit of St Louis, lands in Paris after the first solo air crossing of Atlantic

1932 After flying for 17 hours from Newfoundland, Amelia Earhart lands near Londonderry, Northern Ireland, becoming the 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman

1946 Physicist Louis Slotin is exposed to a lethal dose of radiation while preparing a plutonium core experiment at the Los Alamos lab, he dies 9 days later and the accident ends all hands-on nuclear assembly work at Los Alamos

1951 The opening of the Ninth Street Show, otherwise known as the 9th Street Art Exhibition - a gathering of a number of notable artists, and the stepping-out of the post war New York avant-garde, collectively know as the New York School.

1960 Leontyne Price becomes the first African American to sing the lead at Teatro alla Scala in Milan in "Aida"

1969 Robert F. Kennedy's murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death: later commuted to life imprisonmnet

1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State University

1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee

1972 Michelangelo's Pietà in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is damaged by a vandal.

1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone

1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, NY

2000’s

2001 The Enron Corporation's power generating venture in India, the Dabhol Power Company, serves formal notice that it will terminate its power supply contract and pull out

2006 The Republic of Montenegro holds a referendum proposing independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro. The Montenegrin people choose independence with a majority of 55%.

2014 Russian President Putin signs agreements with China in Beijing in relation to trade and infrastructure

2017 Barnum & Bailey Circus performs for the last time at the Nassau Coliseum in NYC after 146 years

2018 US Justice Department says it is expanding its internal investigation into whether FBI infiltrated Donald Trump's 2016 campaign

2018 Teenager who started California's 2017 Eagle Creek Fire ordered to pay $36.6 million to cover damages by district judge

Birthdays Today

1688 Alexander Pope,

(d. 1744: 56),

English poet (Rape of the Lock, translation of Homer)

born in London, England

1780 Elizabeth Fry,

(d. 1845: @65: stroke)

English prison reformer, social reformer and Quaker Minister who is depicted on the British £5 note,

born in Norwich, England

1916 Harold Robbins,

 (d. 1997: @81)

American author (Moneychangers, Carpetbaggers, Betsy),

born in NYC,

1917 Raymond Burr,

(d. 1993: @76: cancer)

 Canadian-American actor (Perry Mason, Ironsides, Godzilla),

born in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada

1921 Andrei Sakharov,

(d. 1989: 68: heart problems)

Russian nuclear physicist and an activist for disarmament, peace and human rights (1975 Nobel),

born in Moscow, Russia

1924 Mary Margaret "Peggy" Cass,

(d. 1999: @74: heart failure)

American actress, comedian, game show panelist and announcer (To Tell The Truth),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

1972 The Notorious B.I.G.

[Christopher Wallace],

(d. 1997: @24: shot)

American rapper (Life After Death), born in NYC, New York

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60’s

68 Al Franken,

US politician (Senate-D-Minnesota 2009-2017)

comedian, writer, actor (SNL),

born in NYC, New York

67- Mr. T,

[Lawrence Tureaud],

American actor (A-Team, Rocky III, T & T),

born in Chicago, Illinois

62- Judge Reinhold,

actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High),

born in Wilmington, Delaware

60- Nick Cassavetes,

American actor and director (The Notebook),

born in NYC, New York

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2000 Sir John Gielgud,

British stage and screen actor and director

(Hamlet, Arthur, Ages of Man)

70’s

@78-1996 Alfred "Lash" LaRue,

American actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp),

dies of emphysema

@76-1865 Christian Jürgensen Thomsen,

Danish Archaeologist, created Stone, Bronze, Iron age system

60’s

@66-2008 Brian Keenan,

Irish Provisional IRA member who played a key role in Northern Ireland's peace process (1998),

dies of cancer

@65-1935 Jane Addams,

 a founder of ACLU (Nobel 1973)

@61-1973 Vaughn Monroe,

singer/orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show),

dies from bleeding ulcer

Puzzle answer:

The word NOON.