Feb 7

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Feb 7, 2018 Week: 06\ Day: 38

86004 Today: H 56° \ L 23° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  27mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[1963]   Record Low: -18°[1903]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

There are years that ask questions and years that answer.

  Zora Neale Hurston

Harper’s Index

$94,000,000- Amount the Pentagon has spent on forest-pattern uniforms for the Afghan National Army

2- Percentage of Afghanistan that is cover in forest

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Observances This Week

1-7

African Heritage & Health Week
Women's Heart Week

2-8

Publicity for Profit Week

3-9

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week

4-10

Burn Awareness Week Link 
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

5-11

Children's Mental Health Week Link
National School Counseling Week Link
International Networking Week

7-12

Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend

7-14
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week Link
Risk Awareness Week
International Week of Black Women in The Arts Link
National Marriage Week  Link  Link

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Observances for Today

Ballet Day
Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
 "e" Day (math) Link
Laura Ingalls Wilder Day
National Periodic Table Day  Link 
National Signing Day Link
Send a Card to a Friend Day

Wave All you Fingers at Your Neighbor Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                          

1795 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states

1800’s                                          

1812 8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri

1812 Poet Lord Byron (6th Baron Byron) makes his maiden speech in House of Lords

1818 1st successful US educational magazine "Academician" begins (NYC)

1839 Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"

1889 Astronomical Society of Pacific holds 1st meeting in San Francisco

1894 The Cripple Creek miners' strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado

1900’s                                          

1904 Baltimore catches fire (1500 buildings destroyed in 80 blocks)

1914 Charlie Chaplin debuts silent film "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"

1936 A flag is authorized for US Vice President

1936 Felix the Cat, animated film released by Van Beuren Studios licensed from Otto Messmer

1949 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000 a year baseball player for the New York Yankees

1950 United States formally recognizes the State of Vietnam as the legitimate government of Vietnam, with Bảo Đại as leader

1962 US President JFK begins blockade of Cuba by banning all Cuban imports and exports

1964 Cassius Clay converts to Islam, and is renamed Muhammad Ali

1965 US begins regular bombing & strafing of N Vietnam

1971 Switzerland votes for national women's suffrage in a referendum

1974 Grenada gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1974 Mel Brooks' film "Blazing Saddles" opens in movie theaters starring Cleavon Little and Gene Wilder

1974 The Symbionese Liberation Army claim responsibility for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, daughter of Randolph Hearst

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My Rambling Thoughts

Decided to re-do my guest bedroom with a little update. Picked up some new shams and some other things. Will finish it off tomorrow.

It became obvious yesterday that 45 has never watched a State of the Union speech before. The party in power always claps, stands, claps, stands while the party not in power sits quietly sometimes scowling. It’s how it’s done in this democracy. (An exception was during Obama’s speech where a SC Justice shook his head ‘no’ and a member of Congress yelled ‘you lie.’  Yet 45 suggested in a speech  that not clapping and standing may be considered treasonous. WTF? That is a very powerful word that carries very heavy penalties. I am still embarrassed and ashamed that the President would say such a thing out loud.  

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96- Eubie Blake,

US ragtime composer/pianist (Memories of You)

born in Baltimore

(d. 1983)

@90- Laura Ingalls Wilder,

author (Little House on Prairie),

born in Pepin, Wisconsin

(d. 1957)

80’s

@82- John Deere,

American blacksmith and manufacturer

(founded Deere & Company)

born in Rutland, Vermont

(d. 1886)

70’s

@78- James Murray,

Scottish lexicographer and philologist

(Oxford English Dictionary),

born in Denholm, Scotland

(d. 1915)

@75- Clarence "Buster" Crabbe,

American swimmer (Olympic gold 1932)

actor (Tarzan the Fearless, Flash Gordon),

born in Oakland, CA

heart attack A (d. 1983)

60’s

@67- Jimmy Greenspoon,

rock organist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World),

born in Los Angeles

melanoma (d. 2015)

@65- [Harry] Sinclair Lewis,

American writer (Nobel Prize in Literature 1930),

born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota

alcoholism (d. 1951)

50’s

@58- Charles Dickens,

English novelist (Oliver Twist, Tale of 2 Cities),

born in Portsmouth, Hampshire

strokes (d. 1870)

58- James Spader,

American actor (Endless Love, Wall St, Mannequin),

born in NYC

@57- Sir Thomas More,

English statesman, humanist, and author

decapitated (d. 1535)

56- Garth Brooks,

American country singer (No Fences, Double Live),

born in Tulsa

56- Eddie Izzard,

British actor and comedian

53- Chris Rock,

comedian (SNL, CB4, Boomerang)

40’s

44- Steve Nash,

Canadian NBA guard

(Dallas Mavericks, Phoenix Suns, LA Lakers),

born in Johannesburg, South Africa

40- Ashton Kutcher,

American actor (That 70s Show),

born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-2001 Anne Morrow Lindbergh,

American author and aviator

80’s

@88-2001 Dale Evans,

American actress and singer (Roy Rogers Show)

@84-1994 Richard Bissell,

US under director of CIA (Pig's Bay)

70’s

@71-2017 Richard Hatch,

American actor (Battlestar Galactica),

cancer

60’s

@69-1938 Harvey Firestone,

American manufacturer

founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company,

heart attack

50’s

@57-2000 Doug Henning,

Canadian magician

liver cancer

30’s

@36-1968 Nick Adams,

actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story),

OD

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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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Feb 6

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Feb 6, 2018 Week: 06\ Day: 37

86004 Today: H 59° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1963]   Record Low: -21°[1985]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

What we really are matters more than

what other people think of us.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

Harper’s Index

40-Number of consecutive days after 45’s inauguration on which he made an untruthful comment in public

1 in 4- Portion of ex-lobbyists in the 45 Administration who lobbied the agency they now work for within the past two years.

7/10- Portion of 45’s properties sold since May 2016 that have been sold to anonymous buyers

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Observances This Week

1-7

African Heritage & Health Week
Women's Heart Week

2-8

Publicity for Profit Week

3-9

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week

4-10

Burn Awareness Week Link 
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

5-11

Children's Mental Health Week Link
National School Counseling Week Link
International Networking Week

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Observances for Today

African American Coaches Day 

Canadian Maple Syrup Day Link
Lame Duck Day
Safer Internet Day  Link  
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Link
National Chopsticks Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1693 Royal charter granted College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia

1800’s                                          

1819 Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading port

1820 1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)

1820 First 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization Society start a settlement in present-day Liberia

1832 1st appearance of cholera in Edinburgh, Scotland

1840 The Treaty of Waitangi is signed between 40 Māori Chiefs (later signed by 500) and representatives of the British crown in Waitangi, New Zealand. The treaty was designed to share sovereignty between the two groups.

1843 The first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City).

1869 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers

1882 The society of the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut

1900’s                                          

1911 1st old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona

1932 1st Olympic dog sled race at Lake Placid, New York (demonstration sport)

1935 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time

1936 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany

1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago

1952 Queen Elizabeth II succeeds King George VI to the British throne and proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms including Canada, Australia and New Zealand

1968 10th Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France

1968 Former President Dwight Eisenhower shot a hole-in-one

1971 The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the 'Troubles'

1981 Crime film "Fort Apache: The Bronx" starring Paul Newman released amid protests in the US

1992 The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries have an official day celebrating their existence

1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport

2000’s                                          

2012 Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of becoming British monarch, becoming only the second to do so

2012 Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario

2017 Qatar Airways achieves the longest-ever commercial flight in service when its B777 aircraft lands in Auckland after a 16 hour and 23 minutes flight from Doha

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My Rambling Thoughts

Got my monthly computer checkup. Not good news. I had over a dozen times my IP address had been stolen by someone connected to Bitcoins. According to the computer guy, they steal your IP address, then buy/sell Bitcoins from another computer, using my IP address so that any tracing of the sale says that I did it. WTF? Had to call the bank and credit card company to insure that since Friday my accounts had not bought or sold Bitcoins. Then the computer guy tried to get rid of the IP addresses. He couldn’t. As soon as he deleted them, they would pop up again. Very scary. So for $300 he turned me over to a specialist who blocked them with his magic wand and he can use his magic wand 3 more times in the next 5 years if it happens again. All this took almost 5 hours. But now my computer is ‘safe’.

I have very few funds in the stock market, so the last two days of craziness haven’t bothered me. But today’s graph must be scary for those who have 401K’s, or big money in the market.  I’m a little concerned because this could lead to inflation. I wonder why 45 didn’t mention this ‘correction’ in any of his tweets?

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@99- Zsa Zsa Gabor [Zsa Sari],

Hungarian-born actress (Queen of Outer Space),

born in Budapest

(d. 2016)

@93- Ronald Reagan,

40th US President (Republican: 1981-89)

actor (Bedtime for Bonzo),

born in Tampico, Illinois

(d. 2004)

80’s

87- Rip Torn,

actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

@83 Mary Leakey,

British paleoanthropologist,

discovered earliest human footprints ((3.6 million years old),

born in London (d. 1996)

@80- Aaron Burr,

3rd US Vice President (D-R: 1801-05)

killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel,

born in Newark, New Jersey

(d. 1836)

70’s

79- Mike Farrell,

American actor, director and activist

(M*A*S*H, Battered, Patch Adams),

born in Saint Paul, MN

78- Tom Brokaw,

American news anchor (NBC Nightly News 1982-2004),

born in Webster, South Dakota

75- Fabian [Fabiano Anthony Forte],

American vocalist (Turn Me Loose, Tiger),

born in Philadelphia

60’s

@65- Natalie Cole,

American vocalist (Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy),

 born in Los Angeles

congestive heart failure(d. 2015)

50’s

56- Axl Rose, [William Bailey],

vocalist (Guns & Roses)

@53- George Herman Babe Ruth, Jr.,

baseball icon cancer

cancer (d. 1948)

30’s

@36- Bob Marley,

Jamaican reggae musician and singer-songwriter

(Wailers-No Woman),

born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica

cancer (d. 1981)

@33- Eva Braun,

mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler,

born Munich

suicide (d. 1945)

@31- J.E.B. Stuart [James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart], 

Confederate General in the American Civil War,

born in Patrick County, VA

shot in battle (d. 1864)

20’s

24- Charlie Heaton,

actor (Stranger Things)

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@102-2017 "Professor" Irwin Corey,

American comedian (Car Wash, Doc)

80’s

@87-2009 James Whitmore,

American actor (The Shawshank Redemption,

Give 'em Hell Harry)

@82-2012 Peter Breck,

American actor (Big Valley)

70’s

@79-1991 Danny Thomas,

comedian (Jazz Singer),

heart attack

@76-1994 Jack Kirby,

cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk),

heart failure

@74-1996 Guy Madison [Robert Moseley],

American actor (Wild Bill Hickok),

emphysema

50’s

@56-1952 George VI, 

King of the United Kingdom (1936-52),

coronary thrombosis 

@55-1981 Hugo Montenegro,

American film music composer

emphysema

@51-1998 Carl Wilson,

American rock vocalist and guitarist (Beach Boys),

lung cancer

40’s

@49-1993 Arthur Ashe, 

(Wimbledon 1975),

AIDS

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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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