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Mar. 8, 2020 Week: 11 Day: 68

86004: H 58° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Nearest lightning: 2139mi.; Nearest active fire: 347mi.

Wind: 9mph\Gusts: 14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 67°[1989] Record Low: -4°[1969]

Mar. Averages: 53°\19° (6 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"May the strength of three be in your journey."

Observations This Week

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 1-8

Orthodox Lent: 2-4/10
International Festival of Owls Week: 6-8
Campfire USA Birthday Week: 8-14
Girl Scout Week: 8-14 Link
No More Week: 8-14 Link
Teen Tech Week: 8-14Termite Awareness Week: 8-14

Observations for Today

Be Nasty Day

Check Your Batteries DayDaylight Savings Time Begins Girl Scout Sunday  Link 

Day for Women's Rights & International Peace
Girls Write Now Day
International Women's Day  Link

International Working Women's Day
National Proofreading Day
National Peanut Cluster Day  Link

National Retro Video Game Day  Link
Proofreading Day

The Bikini Bottom Free (Crabcakes) Day   Link (SpongeBob Squarepants)

My Rambling Thoughts

I have an large plastic bottle of hand sanitizer, so I got a small travel approved bottle to carry on the planes, and filled it with the sanitizer. I checked the stores for a small hand sanitizer, and every store said, 'sorry, we are out, and don't know when we will get more.' WalMart and Fry's are also out of the free sanitizer towels at the carts. I'm sure that every store manager in the US that sells hand sanitizer is saying 'Never expected this run.'

I was shocked and very disappointed of the Nazi flag incident at Bernie's Phoenix rally. This was such a vulgar act to show disapproval of his very being.

WOW! A 5.5 earthquake in Baja, CA/Mexico was felt by residents in Phoenix last night about 9pm.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A man pushes his car to a hotel and tells its owner that he is bankrupt. Why?

Historical Events

1618 - Johannes Kepler formulated his Third Law of Planetary Motion.

1669 - Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily, began erupting and over the next several weeks killed over 20,000 people.

1755 - Thomas Paine, published African Slavery in America - the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.

1817 - The New York Stock Exchange was founded.

1950 - The 'Volkswagen Type 2', known as the VW Bus, was produced for the first time.

1968 - Bill Graham's Fillmore East opened in New York City.

1971 - Muhammad Ali lost to Heavyweight Champion Joe Frazier in the "Fight of the Century" at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest and US longest, opens 60km west of Denver, Colorado

1975 - #1 Hit: Olivia Newton-John - Have You Never Been Mellow

1978 - The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, was broadcast.

1983 - President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an 'evil empire.'
2003 - #1 Hit: 50 Cent - In Da Club

2014 - #1 Hit: Pharrell Williams - Happy

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history and one of the most enduring aviation mysteries

2018 US President Donald Trump authorizes tariffs on steel and aluminium, excluding Canada and Mexico

Birthdays Today

75-Mickey Dolenz, musician, The Monkees

@68-Alan Hale, Jr (d.1990; cancer)

@67-Lynn Redgrave (d. 2010; breast cancer)

59-Camryn Manheim, actor

57-Kathy Ireland, model, entrepreneur

44-Freddie Prinze Jr, actor

43-James Van Der Beek, actor

Puzzle Answer:

He is playing Monopoly