2-17-14


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 08 / Day: 048   
Today: L 32°…H 57°… Ave. humidity: 44%
Wind: ave:   14mph; Gusts:  31mph  
Average Low: 19° Record Low:  -8° (1956)
Average High: 46° Record High:  66° (1996)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1621 - Miles Standish appointed 1st commander of Plymouth colony
1776 - 1st volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
1801 - US House of Representatives breaks electoral college tie, Jefferson over Burr
1817 - 1st US city lit by gas (Baltimore)
1876 - Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
1897 - National Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
1904 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly," premieres in Milan
1913 - 1st minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
1931 - 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1933 - 1st issue of "Newsweek" magazine published
1933 - US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition
1957 - Suez Canal reopens
1958 - Comic strip "BC" 1st appears
1959 - 1st weather satellite launched, Vanguard 2, 9.8 kg
1962 - Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
A good non-tech Sunday…all my tech stuff is finally working fine again. Hard to believe how dependant I have become to tech stuff. While I certainly enjoy all the news and information available to me at any time I want it, when something fails it is very distracting.
 
Speaking of technology…when I was a youngster, it was black and white TV and having to get up and walk across the room to change the channel. Now I have HDTV with fantastically clear pictures. The issue is that not all channels are HD. Watching a non-HD channel is like watching black and white TV. I remember when a family friend got a color TV. It was amazing to watch NBC, the only color channel at their house. Another neighbor had a console TV that had a remote control with a cable that went around the walls to the couch. You could sit on the couch and change the channel…it was amazing. Our house was not the first on the block to get color TV, but when we did, it too was amazing.   We certainly have made TV more enjoyable and easier than those old days.
 
Caught up on my Sunday news shows…in HD, of course and read the Sunday paper, which hasn’t changed much since I was a kid…with the addition of the occasional color photo. Guess the reporting of news is still just reporting the news. Our paper is available on line, it’s on Facebook, and now they have just announced that they will have an app to get the latest news. I may get it, but not that much breaking news really happens in our little mountain town, so maybe not. I’ll see how much the app costs before I download it. While I do use apps, so far, all of them have been free. I’m such a cheapskate.
 
As a kid and as a young teacher we recognized Lincoln’s birthday and Washington’s Birthday at school. I made so many Feb bulletin boards with silhouettes and red hearts, there must have been a paper shortage of black, red and white during February. Later we added Black History month. Somewhere along the line, Washington’s Birthday became Presidents Day, or President’s Day, or Presidents’ Day. Officially it is still Washington’s Birthday that gives Federal workers a day off. Turns out that no matter how you punctuate it, it was changed by retailers across the country, and not anybody in DC. Washington’s Birthday Sale just didn’t have enough punch, so they just started calling it a Presidents Day Sale…with or without that all important apostrophe located somewhere. Not many business owners are into picky grammar. Now it is called that by most of the country.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Your task is to change ONE letter in each of the following eight words to discover a common theme. 
LOIN STEAL BILLET FRYING CLANK LINE CAKE STEED

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Remembering TV’s great shows:
"ER": With a pulse-quickening pace and a roster of hot docs — get us George Clooney, stat! — this electrifying smash revived the hospital drama.
Words Shakespeare invented
method in his madnessHamlet Act 2, Scene 2Hamlet:Slanders, sir; for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams; all which, sir, though I most powerfully and potently believe, yet I hold it not honesty to have it thus set down, for yourself, sir, shall grow old as I am, if like a crab you could go backward.Polonius:[Aside] Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.
Bizarre Punishments
Holding Hands While Being Laughed At
Usually when two students get into a fight at school they face suspension or possibly expulsion. However, at Westwood High School in Mesa, Arizona, two students who got into a brawl were faced with an ultimatum. They were given two options—either accept suspension or sit in the courtyard holding hands with each other for 15 minutes. The students quickly agreed to hold hands—but little did they know their punishment would soon go viral. Other students pointed, laughed, and took pictures and videos as the two miscreants tried to hide their faces.
The students also made lewd comments about the kids’ sexual orientation and called them embarrassing names. While some local parents apparently supported Principal Tim Richard’s bizarre punishment, it was strongly frowned upon by the Mesa School District. Both students were thoroughly embarrassed by the ordeal, as students continued teasing them far beyond the 15 minutes during lunch—although they have said that they’ve learned their lesson and don’t plan on ever fighting at school again.
Strange Obsessions of famous people
Albert Camus--Fear Of Early Demise
The noted philanderer and philosopher, Albert Camus (1913–1960), grew up in an impoverished household with no running water or electricity. As head-of-household, Camus’s stern grandmother used a bullwhip to keep her family in line. Even with this difficult start to life, Camus managed to earn a scholarship that enabled him to attend high school. At the age of 17, however, he narrowly survived a bout with tuberculosis and was forced to take a year off from school to recover. Yet again, Camus persevered, returned to school, and became a published author even before entering the University of Algiers.
In spite of his ability to survive and his early successes in life, Camus was obsessed with the notion that he would die at an early age. He once told a girlfriend that he “sensed evil floating in the air.” For Camus, this fear created an obsession with death in general. Not only did he carry a suicide note written by a friend of Leon Trotsky’s in his pocket, but he asked an American girlfriend to send him copies of Embalmer’s Monthly magazine.
Filled with pessimism and fueled by fear, Camus was determined to complete his writings before he died. Even winning the Nobel Prize was something of a bad omen to Camus, who believed that the award was a stamp on the end of a person’s career. The pressure he felt to complete hismagnum opus intensified and continued to haunt him until his death, when his fears came to fruition. On January 4, 1960, Camus died in a car crash at the relatively young age of 46.
OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
  • Number of people Obama has pardoned since becoming president: 38
  • Number of turkeys: 8

Unusual Fact of the Day
During the 2002 Iraqi election, Saddam Hussein's campaign song was Whitney Houston's "I Will Always Love You."
Joke-of-the-day
A guy walks into a bar and orders a shot of whisky. He gulps it down and peeks into his shirt pocket. He orders another shot of whisky, gulps it down and peeks into his short pocket. He orders a third shot and does the same thing. After the sixth shot, he asks the bartender for the bill, pays and starts to walk out.
Curiosity gets the better of the bartender and he says to the guy, "Excuse me, but I noticed that every time you drank a shot, you kept looking into your pocket. I was wondering what's in your pocket."
The guy slurs, "Well, I have a picture of my wife in my pocket. I keep drinking until she starts to look good."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
WATCHING YOUR BREATH
When you see your breath, it is below 45 F.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
The semi-obscure Florida Statute 790.15 took center stage in January following a Miami Herald report of a resident of the town of Big Pine Key who routinely target-shoots his handgun in his yard, with impunity, to the consternation of neighbors. The statute permits open firing on private property (except shooting over a public right of way or an occupied dwelling), and several cities have tried, unsuccessfully, to restrict that right, citing "public safety" in residential neighborhoods. (A 2011 lobbying campaign by the National Rifle Association, and a state supreme court decision, nixed any change in the law.) "Negligent" shooting is illegal, but only a misdemeanor. Thus, even skillful shooting next door to a day care center or in a small yard that abuts a high-trafficked pedestrian street is likely perfectly legal. One Florida legislator who was originally from Alaska noted that even in Anchorage people cannot fire at will in their yards. [Miami Herald, 1-26-2014]
Somewhat Useless Information   
10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About Valentine’s Day!
  • Men spend almost double the money that women do.
  • 15% of women in the United States, buy themselves flowers. Don’t ask why.
  • Condom sales increase by 20 to 30 per cent during that period, according to Durex.
  • Pregnancy test sales also increase in March!
  • On Valentine’s Day in Japan, women have to give to men chocolate. Men, are supposed to return the favor on the White Day (March 14th). (And as you know, chocolate is considered to be aphrodisiac!).
  • What do Americans “offer” as a gift on Valentine’s Day? According to U.S. Census Bureau:
  • Greeting Cards              65%       Plush 21%
  • Date Night                     44%       Other Gifts 17%
  • Candy                              38%       Perfume/Cologne 12%
  • Flowers                           32%       Jewelry 11%
  • Gift Cards                       29%                     
  • In Pakistan, Valentine’s Day is considered as “a shameful day”.
  • Teachers seem to be the luckiest during Valentine’s Day, as they receive the most Valentine’s Day cards, closely followed by children, mothers, wives and partner.
  • About 3 per cent of pet owners will give gifts to their pets in Valentine’s Day.
  • Each year are exchanged about 1 billion Valentine’s Day cards. Though in Victorian times it was considered bad luck to sign a Valentine’s Day card.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
☼13-19☼
World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week9 
☼14-17☼
Great Backyard Bird Count
☼14-21☼
National Condom Week 
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
☼16-22☼
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week 
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week)
Through With The Chew
National Date (fruit) Week
National Justice for Animals Week
National Engineers Week
National Entrepreneurship Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Champion Crab Races Day
·        My Way Day
·        National PTA Founders Day
·         World Human Spirit Day
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·        Washington’s Birthday (US)
·        Presidents Day, President’s Day, Presidents’ Day (US)

Today’s Events through History  
1600 - Philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive at Campo de' Fiori in Rome, 
     charged of heresy
1795 - Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Hal Holbrook, actor (All the President's Men, Mark Twain) is 89
Jim Brown, NFL full back (Cleveland Browns)/actor (Dirty Dozen) is 78
Mary Ann Mobley, Biloxi Ms, Miss America-1959 is 75
Dodie Stevens, actress (Mary Hartman!) is 68
Lou Diamond Phillips, Philippines, actor (La Bamba) is 52
Michael Jordan, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls) is 51
Larry the Cable Guy (Daniel Lawrence Whitney), comedian is 51
Billie Joe Armstrong, singer/musician (Green Day) is 42
Jerry O'Connell, actor (Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity) is 40
Paris Hilton, American actress and heiress is 33

Remembered for being born today
1758 - John Pinkerton, Scottish historian
1844 - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward)
1908 - Walter L "Red" Barber, Miss, sports announcer (Bkln Dodgers, NY Yanks)
1914 - Arthur Kennedy, Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place)
1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
1941 - Gene Pitney, Hartford Ct, vocalist/songwriter (Town Without Pity)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Molière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin], French playwright (The Misanthrope), TB, 1673, @51
Geronimo (Goyaałé ) [one who yawns], Apache chief, pneumonia, 1909, @79
Lee Strasberg, acting coach/actor (And Justice for All), 1982, @80
Mindy McCready, country singer, suicide, 2013, @37

Brain Teasers
Lois Steel Bullet Flying Clark Lane Cape Speed
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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2-16-14


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 08 / Day: 047   
Today: L 27°…H 63°… Ave. humidity: 44%
Wind: ave:   14mph; Gusts:  34mph  
Average Low: 19° Record Low:  -3° (1990)
Average High: 46° Record High:  70° (1977)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
0600 - Pope Gregory the Great decreea saying "God bless You" is the correct 
     response to a sneeze
1659 - 1st known cheque (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)
1760 - Native American hostages killed in Fort Prince George, SC
1838 - Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions
1857 - Gallaudet College (National Deaf Mute college) forms in Washington DC
1887 - 1st newspaper convention (Rochester NY)
1909 - 1st subway car with side doors goes into service (NYC)
1914 - 1st airplane flight from LA to SF
1936 - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1959 - Fidel Castro names himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
A tech support Saturday. After working on the computer for about 30 min this morning, I decided to hook up my new modem. Good news…it’s all hooked up and working great. Bad news…it took over 2 hours of which an hour and 45 minutes was with tech support and tech support supervisor. Did as I was told, didn’t get the expected screen…redo…same thing…finally we got the internet working. However, all of my homepages on my various browsers had disappeared and had some stupid site. They claimed it was not their fault, but the download clearly showed that the download took place during the sign up process. Finally just said good bye (along with a little anger) and worked on it myself. It took about 30 minutes more but got everything working.  Another good thing is that the new modem has its own wifi so I don’t need a separate router to get on the internet. It took a second call to tech support and about 5 min to hook up the wi-fi to my iPad. All happy NOW!
 
Again, stand your ground trial…in Florida…and it looks like the jury can’t decide on the main count. Another young Black teenager is dead and the white guy who killed him says he was afraid for his life. He claims they had a gun, but no one else saw it and no gun or weapon had been found. Too many Americans believe that they have the right to kill someone who is ‘bothering’ them. This guy didn’t like the ‘thug music’ and that started it all. Another guy said the black teenager ‘looked suspicious’ as he walked in the rain. A former cop killed a guy because he was texting during the previews in a movie theater and may have thrown some popcorn at him. Really…life is too precious for these paranoid people to be allowed to carry a loaded gun.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
A group of four brothers did travel the land, with only one steed shared among the whole band.
Though always surefooted, no matter the weather, their mount would go lame if they didn't ride together.
When one of the brothers was thrown and misplaced, he was left where he lay and was quickly replaced.
When the ride became old and the brothers not needed, to a game for all ages they simply retreated.
When many a player would fling them about, and ringing a post was the victory shout.
Name us.
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Remembering TV’s great shows:
"Friends": We were there for them — in droves — turning an irresistible ensemble into instant media phenoms. Could we have been more in love with their rom-comic lives?    
Words Shakespeare invented
leapfrog
Near the end of Henry V, King Henry pledges his love to Princess Katherine of France. The King alludes to his physical dexterity by saying that "If I could win a lady at leap-frog . . . I should quickly leap into a wife" 
Bizarre Punishments
Kneeling On Frozen Peas
Recently, a picture surfaced on the Internet and quickly went viral. At first glance, it seems like two fingers with some sort of odd disease, but on closer examination it’s actually the legs of an Asian schoolgirl who was forced to kneel on frozen peas for a long period of time. This punishment seems to be growing in popularity and more and more schools, especially in Asia, are using kneeling to deal with disobedient pupils. Students have been forced to kneel with their hands raised for hours and their legs resting on frozen peas, corn, or rice. A girl in China was even expelled for taking pictures of the harsh punishment and posting them on the Internet. While you may think that’s bad, even worse are reports of small children being forced to kneel on things like baking hot concrete and cheese graters by their parents. In Florida, Albert and Nancy Cusson took the punishment to the next level by making their grandson kneel for nine hours straight, 10 days in a row. While some forms of kneeling punishment may be legal, there’s a fine line separating it from shockingly cruel and unusual treatment.
Strange Obsessions of famous people
Rene Descartes--Passion For Cross-Eyed Ladies
The Father of Modern Philosophy, Rene Descartes (1596–1650), maintained close friendships and correspondence with powerful and wealthy women, such as Queen Christina of Sweden and the exiled Princess Elizabeth of England. The women in his personal life were a different story. Descartes never married and only had one child, an illegitimate daughter, with one of the servants in his home. And, until early adulthood, Descartes’s greatest passion was reserved for women with crossed eyes.
In a letter to Queen Christina, Descartes explains that, once he finally reflected on his unique attraction toward cross-eyed women, he realized that it stemmed from a youthful crush he had on a girl with crossed eyes. Descartes stated, “I loved a girl of my own age . . . who was slightly cross-eyed; by which means, the impression made in my brain when I looked at her wandering eyes was joined so much to that which also occurred when the passion of love moved me, that for a long time afterward, in seeing cross-eyed women, I felt more inclined to love them than others, simply because they had that defect; and I did not know that was the reason.”
Descartes concluded that this initial crush had left an imprint on his brain and, therefore, it was not a reasoned attraction. Rather, it was his subconscious mind causing the feelings. True to philosophical form, Descartes used his free will to rid himself of the irrational attraction.
OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
  • Rounds of golf Barack Obama has played since becoming President: 145
  • Percentage of those rounds in which he played with a woman: 2

Unusual Fact of the Day
If you want a spot on the beach in Monaco, you'd better get there early. It has only 3.5 miles of coastline, less than any other non-landlocked country.
Joke-of-the-day
YOU LIVE IN CALIFORNIA WHEN - -
1. You make over $250,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The high school quarterback calls a time-out to answer his cell phone.
3. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
4. You know how to eat an artichoke.
5. You drive to your neighborhood block party.
6. Someone asks you how far away something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
YOU LIVE IN NEW YORK WHEN - -
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You have never been to the Statue of Liberty.
3. You can get into a 4-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
4. You think Central Park is "nature."
5. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multilingual.
6. You've worn out a car horn.
7 You think eye contact is an act of aggression.
YOU LIVE IN ALASKA WHEN - -
1. You only have four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup and Tabasco.
2. Halloween costumes fit over parkas.
3. You have more than one recipe for moose.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: winter, still winter, almost winter, and construction.
YOU LIVE IN THE DEEP SOUTH WHEN - -
1. You get a movie and bait in the same store.
2. "Ya'll" is singular and "all ya'll" is plural.
3. After fifteen years you still hear, "You ain't from 'round here, are ya?"
4. "He needed killin'" is a valid defense.
5. Everyone has 2 first names.
YOU LIVE IN COLORADO WHEN - -
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home, and he stops at the Day Care Center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a ponytail.
YOU LIVE IN THE MIDWEST WHEN - -
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition: "Where's my coat at?"
5. When asked how your trip was to any exotic place, you say, "It was different! " 
YOU LIVE IN FLORIDA WHEN - -
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind -- even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent dermatologist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you are often driven by headless people
6. You don't know how to vote
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LOSING YOUR HAIR
The year you start growing dark hair on your chest is the year that the loss rate of your head hair exceeds its growth rate.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
 Returns tomorrow
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The Galileo spacecraft is made of materials that suggest it is much more like a fighter plane than a car. It uses very lightweight materials such as beryllium to house the subsystems, aluminum for the structure, and carbon composites for the booms.
  • On its first orbit around Jupiter, the Galileo spacecraft reached a maximum distance from Jupiter of about 20 million kilometers. This is nearly half the distance between the orbits of Earth and Venus, Earth's closest planetary neighbor.
  • Batteries only get you so far in outer space. The Galileo orbiter carries two radioisotope thermoelectric generators (RTGs),which are used to generate electrical power on board the spacecraft. There are 7.8 kilograms (17.2 pounds) of Plutonium-238 in each RTG.
  • Galileo's roots date back to an early recommendation for an atmospheric probe that would explore Jupiter's atmosphere down to pressure levels 100 times that of Earth at sea level. This proposal eventually became JOP (for Jupiter Orbiter Probe), which then eventually became Galileo.
  • When the Galileo Probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere, it was traveling at a speed of 106,000 miles per hour – the fastest impact speed ever achieved by a man- made object.At that speed, one could drive around the Earth at the equator in 14 minutes (assuming there were bridges across all the oceans) or to the Moon and back in only 5 hours!
  • On its journey from Earth to Jupiter, Galileo traveled 2.4 billion miles. Along the way, about 67 gallons of fuel from the propulsion system were used to control Galileo's flight path and to keep its antenna pointed at Earth. That's equivalent to getting 36 million miles per gallon! With that kind of mileage, one would use up only 4 tablespoons of gasoline to drive to the Moon and back!
  • After traveling 2.4 billion miles in just over 6 years to reach Jupiter, Galileo missed its target at the Jovian moon Io by only 67 miles. That's like shooting an arrow from Los Angeles at a bull's-eye in New York and missing by only 6 inches! 
  • Since being launched from Earth on October 18, 1989, Galileo has traveled 2.4 billion miles in just over 6 years to reach Jupiter. That's an average speed of 44,000 miles per hour. At that speed, one could drive around the Earth at the equator (assuming there were bridges across all the oceans) in just over half an hour, or to the Moon and back in only 11 hours!
  • Jupiter has some truly high velocity winds-- they blow at speed as high as 260 miles per hour at Jupiter's cloud tops!
  • Magnetic fields can be powerful entities. Jupiter's magnetosphere strips away 1 ton of material from Io a second. Io's orbital motion through Jupiter's magnetosphere generates electricity--an electric current of 3 million amps!
  • Using Galileo's on board instruments to observe the asteroid Gaspra was a challenge somewhat akin to attempting to spot the Goodyear Blimp through a soda straw from five miles away, while sitting in a car going 90 mph. 

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
☼13-19☼
World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week9 
☼14-17☼
Great Backyard Bird Count
☼14-21☼
National Condom Week 
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
☼16-22☼
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week 
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week)
Through With The Chew
National Date (fruit) Week
National Justice for Animals Week
National Engineers Week
National Entrepreneurship Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        World Whale Day
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·        Independence Day (Lithuania-1918-from Germany)

Today’s Events through History  
1852 - Studebaker Brothers wagon company, precursor of the automobile 
     manufacturer, is established
1968 - Elvis Presley receives gold record for "How Great Thou Art"
1980 - Eric Heiden skates 5k in 7:02.29 (Olympic Record)

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
LeVar Burton, Landstuhl Germany, (Roots, Star Trek Next Generation) is 57
Ice-T [Tracy Marrow], rapper and actor is 56
John McEnroe, Wiesbaden, Germany, American tennis great is 55

Remembered for being born today
1812 - Henry Wilson, 18th VP (1873-75)
1852 - William S. Scarborough, linguist/author (Birds of Aristophanes)
1903 - Edgar Bergen, ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy)
1909 - Hugh Beaumont, actor (Ward Cleaver-Leave it to Beaver)
1935 - Sonny Bono, Detroit, vocalist (Sonny & Cher)/(Rep-R-Ca, 1995-98)
1941 - Kim Jong-il, Supreme Leader of North Korea (1994-2011)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Edmund G "Pat" Brown, 32nd Gov of CA, 1996, @90
Eddie Foy, SR, American singer and dancer, 1928, @77
Smiley Burnette, cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction), leukemia, 1967, @55

Brain Teasers
Horseshoes
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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