Feb 19

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Feb 19, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 50

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 70% 

Wind ave.:   23mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1981]   Record Low: -11°[1942]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain,

comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.

  Erma Bombeck

Harper’s Index

28-Percentage decline since 1970 in the portion of US homicides in which charges are filed

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Observances This Week

14-21

National Condom Week Link
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

15-19

American Association For The Advancement of Science Week  Link

16-25

Date (Fruit) Week

16-19

Great Backyard Bird Count Link

17-24

National Entrepreneurship Week Link
National FFA Week Link

18-24

Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link

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Observances for Today

Best Friends Day  Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants)
National Chocolate Mint Day Link
National Lashes Day Link
President's Day
Iwo Jima Day (Landing)

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1600 Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in South American recorded history

1800’s                                          

1807 US Vice President Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted

1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run in Pennsylvania

1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio

1878 Thomas Edison is granted a patent for his gramophone (phonograph)

1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages

1900’s                                          

1906 Will Keith Kellogg and Charles D. Bolin found the Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Company, now the multinational food manufacturer Kellogg's

1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area

1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box

1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland

1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines

1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts

1963 USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba

1963 "The Feminine Mystique" by Betty Friedan, widely credited as the start of second-wave feminism, is published

1968 1st US teachers' strike (Florida)

1968 "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" debuts on NET (now PBS)

1973 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)

1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18

1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million

1984 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

1987 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland

2000’s                                          

2002 NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.

2008 Toshiba announces its formal recall of its HD DVD video formatting, ending the format war between it and Sony's Blu-Ray Disc

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My Rambling Thoughts

A storm is abrewin’ and the wind makes outside activities almost impossible.

After several days of fiddling around and waiting for new documents, I finally took the time this morning to update the Focus Travel site. Some great trips are coming up for those with the travel bug. Check it out, it is worth a look.

President’s Day is a day to honor our many Presidents. As I was growing up we all made silhouettes of Washington and Lincoln. The idea of President’s Day is a better idea. Students have an opportunity to learn about all our presidents. Certainly, some presidents stand out improving our country. None were perfect. None have been total failure.  Enjoy President’s Day by learning about our Presidents. NOTE: President Day Sales have nothing to do with our highest office. Haha.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

78- Smokey [William] Robinson,

American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles),

born in Detroit

75- Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco],

American singer-songwriter (Lightning Striking Again)

born in Glenwillard, PA

@71- Cedric Hardwicke,

British stage actor

(Rope, Suspicion, Peter Pan, Richard III)

born in Lye, Worcestershire, England

emphysema (d. 1964)

@70- Nicolaus Copernicus,

Polish mathematician and astronomer 

theorized that planets revolve around the sun (Heliocentric

theory),

born in Toruń, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland

apoplexy (d. 1543)

60’s

@67- Richard "Dick" Emery,

British comedian and actor

(Yellow Submarine, Loot, Baby Love),

born in London, England

heart failure (d. 1983)

66- Amy Tan,

American novelist

@63- Lee Marvin,

American actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou),

born in NYC

heart attack (d. 1987)

63- Jeff Daniels,

actor

50’s

59- Roger Goodell,

American NFL Commissioner,

born in Jamestown, NY

55- Seal (Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel),

English singer-songwriter (Killer, Crazy, Kiss by a Rose),

born in London

51- Benicio Del Toro,

actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)

born in Puerto Rico

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-1997 Deng Xiaoping,

Chinese revolutionary

paramount leader of China (1978-92)

80’s

@89-2016 [Nelle] Harper Lee,

American author (To Kill a Mockingbird)

@87-2001 Stanley Kramer,

American producer/director (Inherit the Wind)

@84-1998 Grandpa Jones,

country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw)

@81-1951 Andre Gide,

French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947)

@80-1568 Miles Coverdale,

translator (1st complete English Bible)

70’s

@78-1962 Georgios Papanikolaou,

Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear

60’s

@64-2003 Johnny PayCheck,

American country singer/songwriter

asthma

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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 18

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Feb 18, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 49

86004 Today: H 51° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1977]   Record Low: -11°[1942]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

  Ansel Adams

Harper’s Index

2- Number of Irula tribesmen the state of Florida hired from India in February last year to hunt invasive Burmese pythons

33- Number of pythons they helped capture

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Observances This Week

12-18

Love a Mensch Week

14-21

National Condom Week Link
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

15-19

American Association For The Advancement of Science Week  Link

16-25

Date (Fruit) Week

16-19

Great Backyard Bird Count Link

17-24

National Entrepreneurship Week Link
National FFA Week Link

18-24

Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link

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Observances for Today

National Battery Day (Volta's birthday)
Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day
Daytona 500
Eat Ice Cream for Breakfast Day Link
National Drink Wine Day Link
National Hate Florida Day Link
Pluto  Day (Planet is Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh)  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                          

1478 George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is privately executed in the Tower of London (allegedly by being drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine).

1500’s

1503 Henry Tudor (later Henry VIII) created Prince of Wales

1519 Hernán Cortés leaves Cuba for the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico with 11 ships and 500 men

1600’s

1678 John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is published in Holborn, London, by Nathaniel Ponder

1685 Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.

1700’s

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's troops occupy Inverness, Scotland

1800’s

1804 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens Ohio, chartered

1856 The American Party (Know-Nothings) convenes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to nominate its first Presidential candidate, former President Millard Fillmore.

1861 Confederate President Jefferson Davisinaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama (US Civil War)

1879 Sculptor Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi is awarded a patent for his design for the Statue of Liberty

1885 Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" in the US

1900’s

1901 H Cecil Booth patented a dust removing suction cleaner

1908 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued

1913 French modernist painting "Nude Descending a Staircase" by Marcel Duchamp causes an uproar when shown in New York

1930 US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto

1954 The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California

1960 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, California

1965 The Gambia becomes independent from the United Kingdom

1968 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France

1972 California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty

1973 54-kg octopus measuring 7m across captured in Hood Canal, Washington

1978 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride, marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii

1988 Anthony Kennedy, sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice

1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 1000m (1:12.43)

1998 Two white separatists are arrested in Nevada and accused of plotting a biological attack on New York City subways.

1998 Andrea Bocelli makes his operatic debut as Rodolfo in "La bohème" at the Teatro Comunale in Cagliari

2000’s

2001 FBI agent Robert Hanssen is arrested for spying for the Soviet Union. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison

2009 English fantasy author Terry Pratchett receives a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace

2013 $50 million worth of diamonds is stolen in an armed robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium

2014 Police clash with protesters in Bangkok, Thailand

2016 Pope Francis questions US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump's Christianity over his call to build a wall on the Mexican border

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My Rambling Thoughts

Quiet and beautiful day here. Light jacket is all that was needed for a walk around. Then some light cleaning.

Still enjoying the Olympics. Americans having a few bumps, but I am watching the top athletes of each sport. Back story for athletes is also very informative. The intensity is outstanding.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90- Enzo Ferrari,

racing car manufacturer,

(d. 1988)

@90- Helen Gurley Brown,

American author/publisher and

editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan,

born in Green Forest, Arkansas,

(d. 2012)

80’s

@87- Jack Palance [Vladimir Palahniuk],

American actor (City Slickers, Contempt, Batman),

born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania

(d. 2006)

87- Toni Morrison,

novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon)

85- Yoko Ono Lennon [Mrs John Lennon],

Japanese singer and artist,

born in Tokyo

@82- Alessandro Volta,

Italian physicist and inventor of the 1st battery,

born in Como, Italy (d. 1827)

70’s

@79- Jacques Cassini,

French astronomer (rings of Saturn)

(d. 1756)

@76- Johnny Hart,

cartoonist (B.C., Wizard of Id),

born in Endicott, NY

while at his drawing table (d. 2007)

@70- André Breton,

French writer and poet,

founder of Surrealism,

born in Tinchebray, France

(d. 1966)

@70- Bill Cullen,

TV game show host (over 20 different games)

lung cancer (d. 1990)

60’s

68- Cybill Shepherd,

actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show),

born in Memphis

66- Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen],

American vocalist (Angel of the Morning),

born in Virginia

64- John Travolta,

American actor (Grease, Pulp Fiction),

born in Englewood, NJ

61- Vanna White, [Rosich],

TV host (Wheel of Fortune)

50’s

@59- John Hughes,

American film director (Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller),

born in Lansing, Michigan

(d. 2009)

54- Matt Dillon,

actor (The Outsiders, Crash),

born in New Rochelle, NY

53- Dr. Dre, [Andre Romelle Young],

American rapper and record producer

(Still D.R.E., The Next Episode),

born in Compton

50- Molly Ringwald,

actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink)

40’s

@42- Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary],

Greenwich, queen of England

cancer?\influenza (d. 1558)

44- Jillian Michaels,

American fitness instructor and television personality

(The Biggest Loser),

born in Los Angeles

20’s

@25- George "The Gipper" Gipp,

football star (Notre Dame)

strep throat (d. 1920)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@99-2014 Maria Franziska von Trapp,

Austrian-born American singer

@90-1902 Charles Lewis Tiffany,

American founder of Tiffany & Co.

80’s

@88-1564 Michelangelo,

Italian sculptor, painter, architect and

poet of the High Renaissance

(David, Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel)

70’s

@78-1294 Kublai Khan,

Mongol Emperor (1260-94) and

founder of the Yuan dynasty in China (1271-94)

@75-1906 John Batterson Stetson,

American manufacturer hatter

@71-1977 Andy Devine [    Andrew Vabre Devine],

American character actor

(Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Stagecoach)

leukaemia

60’s

@69-2017 Norma McCorvey,

American abortion activist (Jane Roe in Roe vs Wade)

later became pro-life,

heart failure

@62-1967 Robert Oppenheimer,

American theoretical physicist

father of the atomic bomb (Manhattan Project)

 throat cancer 

@62-1546 Martin Luther,

German theologian

key figure in the Protestant Reformation

stroke

40’s

@49-2001 Dale Earnhardt,

American race car driver

car crash at Daytona 500 race

@49-1957 Joseph G. Hamilton,

American Physician

pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment radiation induced leukemia 

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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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