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Jan 9, 2018 Week: 02\ Day: 9
86004 Today: H 50° \ L 63° \ Average Sky Cover: overcast
Wind ave.: 5mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 61°[1996] Record Low: -9°[1937]
Jan Averages: 50°\23°
Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)
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Today’s Quote
Harper’s Index
2: Factor by which a US man is more likely than a woman to have ‘a lot of confidence’ in the future of the country.
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Observances This Week
7-13
Home Office Safety and Security Week Link
National Folic Acid Awareness Week Link
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
8-14
Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week
9-12
International Consumer Electronics Show
No Tillage Week
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Observances for Today
Balloon Ascension Day Link
National Cassoulet Day
National Poetry at Work Day
National Shop For Travel Day Link
National Static Electricity Day Link
Panama's Martyr Day Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
1570 Tsar Ivan the Terrible kills 1,000-2,000 residents of Novgorod
1700’s
1768 Philip Astley stages the world's first modern circus in London
1788 Connecticut becomes 5th state to ratify the US constitution
1793 1st hot-air balloon flight in the US lifts off in Philadelphia, piloted by Jean Pierre Blanchard
1800’s
1811 1st Women's Golf Tournament held
1847 1st San Francisco newspaper published (California Star)
1848 1st commercial bank in San Francisco established
1854 Astor Library opens in New York City
1861 Mississippi secedes from the Union (US Civil War)
1862 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe arrives at Victoria Docks, London, England aboard the Elizabeth Watts
1866 Fisk University opens in Nashville, Tennessee
1879 Cheyenne prisoners led by Dull Knife revolt at Ft Robinson
1900’s
1903 Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota, established
1908 Muir Woods National Monument, California, established
1942 US Joint Chiefs of Staff created
1956 Abigail Van Buren's "Dear Abby" column 1st appears in newspapers
1959 "Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood premieres on CBS TV
1963 Mao Zedong writes his poem "Reply to Comrade Kuo Mo-jo"
1976 C. W. McCall CB song "Convoy" hits #1 on the country music charts
1980 63 beheaded in Mecca, Saudi Arabia
2000’s
2001 Apple announced iTunes at the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, for organizing and playing digital music and videos
2007 Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announces the iPhone
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My Rambling Thoughts
Weatherman says winter ‘is on the way’. Heard that already this year. He sez that we will get rain today and by mid-morning we will have up to 3” of snow. It is January, I checked the calendar twice, then I checked to be sure we were still in the Northern Hemisphere. Rain @ 7000’ in January, really?
I don’t watch award shows, but, thanks to social media, I did get to see Oprah’s full speech from last night. Riveting. Not too sure about the buzz of her running in 2020. The US already elected 45 with no experience with any elected office. Not ready for that again, no matter how well she talks.
Two friends stopped by, just as I was sitting down to my beef and noodles comfort food last night. They joined in and it was a good meal, along with great conversation.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
90- Judith Krantz,
American author (Scruples, Princess Daisy, Dazzle),
born in NYC
80’s
84- Bart Starr,
NFL quarterback/coach (Green Bay)
@82- Richard "Dick" Enberg,
American sportscaster (NBC, CBS, ESPN),
born in Mt Clemens, Michigan
(d. 2017)
@81- Richard Nixon,
37th US President (Republican 1969-74) and actor,
born in Yorba Linda, California
(d. 1994)
70’s
77- Joan Baez,
folk singer/human rights advocate,
born in Staten Island
74- Jimmy Page,
rock guitarist (Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven),
born in London, England
@70- Robert Osbourne Bob Denver,
American actor (The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Gilligan's Island),
born in New Rochelle, NY
cancer (d. 2005)
60’s
@67- Jennie Jerome (Lady Randolph Churchill),
American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill fall
(d. 1921)
@67- Fernando Lamas,
Argentine American actor and director ("You look marvelous"),
born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
pancreatic cancer (d. 1982)
67- Crystal Gayle,
country singer (Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue)
@64- Lee Van Cleef,
actor (For a Few Dollars More, Escape from NY)
heart attack (d. 1989)
63- J. K. Simmons,
American actor (Law & Order)
50’s
@59- Gypsy Rose Lee, [Rose Hovick],
burlesque actress (Gypsy), born in Seattle,
lung cancer (d. 1970)
51- Dave Matthews,
South African singer and musician (Dave Matthews Band),
born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa
30’s
36- Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge [Kate Middleton],
English wife of Crown Prince William,
born in Reading, Berksire
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@98-1843 Caroline Herschel,
"1st lady of astronomy"
80’s
@89-1958 Willis Rodney Whitney,
American Chemist, founder of the General Electric
research laboratory, and pioneer of industrial scientific research
70’s
@79-1966 Albert Stevens,
an American patient in secret medical trials who
survived the highest known radiation dose in a human,
heart disease
@74-1876 Samuel Gridley Howe,
US physician, abolitionist, and an advocate of education
for the blind
50’s
@55-1982 Paul Lynde,
American comedian and actor (The Hollywood Squares, Uncle
Arthur-Bewitched),
possible stroke
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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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