Mar 9

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Mar 9, 2018 Week: 10\ Day: 69

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

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

Nearest Lightning:  1769 miles away

Record High: 70°[1989]   Record Low: 0°[1964]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

  Henry David Thoreau

Harper’s Index

41,561-Number of posts one of 45’s senior national security advisers has written on Styleforum, a men’s fashion website

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

3-9

Endometriosis Week Link

4-10

Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week Link
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week  Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week  Link
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Read an E-Book Week Link  Link
Return The Borrowed Books Week0
Save Your Vision Week Link 
Teen Tech Week
Will Eisner Week  Link
Women in Construction Week  Link

5-9

National School Breakfast Week

5-11

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

8-10

National Money Collectors Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

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Observances for Today

Barbie Day
Get Over It Day Link
Joe Franklin Day
Middle Name Pride Day Link  
Panic Day
Shabbat Across America/Canada  Link  

US Snow Shoe Days: 9-11 Link

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≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                          

≈1497 Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation

1500’s                                          

≈1522 Martin Luther begins preaching his "Invocavit Sermons" in the German city of Wittenberg, reminding citizens to trust God's word rather than violence and thus helping bring to a close the revolutionary stage of the Reformation

≈1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)

1700’s                                          

≈1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.

≈1776 Publication of influential economics book "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith

1800’s                                          

≈1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours

1900’s                                          

≈1916 Mexican General Francisco "Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed)

≈1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began

1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb

1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)

1959 Barbie makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been sold worldwide since.

1964 1st Ford Mustang produced

1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy

1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion

2000’s                                          

2007 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens

≈2016 EU Migrant Crisis: Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia close their borders to migrants trying to reach Northern Europe

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My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful spring day. Had lunch at Smashbruger with our retirement group. We are all doing well.

While I am very excited about the Siberian trip, I realized I will be traveling in Russia. Sure hope 45 doesn’t screw up my trip. Guess I better get the insurance, just in case he wakes up one morning between now and Jun 2019 and decides that Russia, Mongolia, or China are not the place for Americans.

I mentioned this at lunch and Mary said, you went to Uganda to see gorillas and NOW you get concerned about travel. That is crazy.

Can’t worry about it, but that doesn’t mean I don’t take precautions.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

@79- Marty Ingels,

American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster),

born in Brooklyn

stroke (d. 2015)

@76- Will Geer [William Aughe Ghere],

American actor (Salt of the Earth, The Waltons),

born in Frankfort, Indiana

respiratory failure (d. 1978)

76- Mark Lindsay,

rock vocalist/sax (Paul Revers & Raiders),

born in Eugene, Oregon

60’s

@66- Frederick A. Schroeder,

tobacco industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn

pneumonia (d. 1899)

@64- Bobby Fischer,

American world chess champion (1972-75),

born in Chicago

renal failure (d. 2008)

50’s

59- Kato [Brian] Kaelin,

actor (Beach Fever)/OJ roommate/witness

@57- Amerigo Vespucci,

Italian explorer (America),

born in Florence

(d. 1512)

@56- Carl Betz,

American actor (The Donna Reed Show, Love of Life),

born in Pittsburgh

lung cancer (d. 1978)

40’s

47- Emmanuel Lewis,

American actor (Webster),

born in Brooklyn

30’s

37- Matthew Gray Gubler,

TV actor (Criminal Minds)

@34- Yuri Gagarin,

Russian cosmonaut and

1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1),

born in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union

training jet crash (d. 1968)

31- Bow Wow (Shad Gregory Moss),

American rapper and actor

20’s

@27- Bobby Sands,

Irish IRA member and

leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison,

born in Newtownabbey, Northern Abbey

on day 66 of hunger strike in prison(d. 1981)

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@100-1996 George Burns,

American comedian, actor and singer (Burns and Allen)

90’s

@91-2016 Robert Horton [Meade Howard Horton Jr.],

American actor and singer (Wagon Train)

80’s

@85-1992 Menachem Begin,

PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979)

@85-1992 James Brooks,

US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY)

50’s

@56-2005 Chris LeDoux,    

American country singer

liver disease, cancer

@50-1969 Richard Crane,

American character actor

(Surfside 6, Rocky Jones, Space Ranger),

heart attack

20’s

@24-1997 The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace],

American rapper

shot

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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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Mar 7

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Mar 7, 2018 Week: 10\ Day: 67

86004 Today: H 48° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  936 miles away

Record High: 66°[1972]   Record Low: -1°[1945]

Marb Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

Hatred does not cease by hatred,

but only by love;

this is the eternal rule.

Buddha

Harper’s Index

$681,531,302-Total estimated value of free media coverage our current president received in Feb. 2017

$625,643,071-That of the next fifty most frequently mentioned public figures received

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Observances This Week

1-7

National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Pet Sitters Week Link
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

3-9

Endometriosis Week Link

4-10

Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week Link
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week  Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week  Link
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Read an E-Book Week Link  Link
Return The Borrowed Books Week0
Save Your Vision Week Link 
Teen Tech Week
Will Eisner Week  Link
Women in Construction Week  Link

5-9

National School Breakfast Week

5-11

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

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Observances for Today

Cereal Day Link
Discover What Your Name Means Day

National Be Heard Day
National Cereal Day  Link

National Crown Roast of Pork Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

≈1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church.

1600’s                                          

1644 Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies

1700’s                                          

≈1799 The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education.

1800’s                                          

1801 Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law

1850 Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850

1857 Baseball decides 9 innings constitutes an official game, not 9 runs

1876 Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for the telephone in the US

1887 North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.

1900’s                                          

1911 US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border

≈1912 Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole

1917 1st jazz record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz Band One Step," one side "Livery Stable Blues" other)

≈1926 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)

1933 Game of "Monopoly" invented

≈1939 Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"

1946 18th Academy Awards: "The Lost Weekend" Ray Milland & Joan Crawford win

1955 Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" 1st televised

1965 Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma

≈1968 The BBC broadcasts the news for the first time in color on television.

1972 “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” single written by Ewan MacColl, released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year 1972)

1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death

1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV

≈1994 ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa

1994 The United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)

1996 Magic Johnson is 2nd NBA player to reach 10,000 career assists

2000’s                                          

≈2007 British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected

2010 82nd Academy Awards: "The Hurt Locker", Jeff Bridges & Sandra Bullock win

2016 Peyton Manning announces his retirement from the Denver Broncos and the NFL

≈2016 Maria Sharapova reveals she failed a drug test for meldonium at the Australian Open in January

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My Rambling Thoughts

For some unknown reason I decided that today would be a deep cleaning day for the kitchen. Sparkles now. Next time I get the urge to clean, it has to be the closets. UGH.

Siberian trip is a go…called to pay my deposit, but the computer wasn’t ready. She will call me when it’s ready. Emailed the registration. Moscow to Beijing in 2019. I still must put some more pictures on the Focus site for the trip…soon, I promise. It is filling up fast.

Next traveling step is to get flights and shuttle to Denver for my Amazon trip. Tomorrow.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

84- Willard Scott,

weather forecaster (Today Show)

70’s

78- Daniel J Travanti,

actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues),

born in Kenosha, Wisc

@77- Luther Burbank,

American horticulturist

developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants,

born in Lancaster, Massachusetts

heart attack (d. 1926)

76- Michael Eisner,

American CEO (Walt Disney),

born in Mount Kisco, New York

@71- John Heard,

movie actor (Home Alone, Sharknado)

heart attack (d. 2017)

@71- Piet Mondrian,

Dutch abstract painter (Broadway Boogie Woogie),

born in Amersfoort, Netherlands

pneumonia (d. 1944)

60’s

@65- Tammy Faye Bakker,

gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)

colon cancer (d. 2007)

@64- James Donnelly,

Irish-Canadian patriarch of the Donnelly family

(Black Donnelly massacre),

born in Ireland

(d. 1880)

@63- Rob Roy (MacGregor),

Scottish folk hero,

baptized in Buchanan, Stirlingshire, Scotland

(d. 1734)

@63- Whitcomb Judson,

American inventor (zipper),

born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 1909)

62- Bryan Cranston,

American actor (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle),

born in Canoga Park, CA

50’s

58- Ivan Lendl,

Czech tennis champion (US Open 1985-87),

born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia

54- Wanda Sykes,

American actress and comedienne

40’s

48- Rachel Weisz,

English actress (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener) and

fashion model,

born in London, England

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-1967 Alice B. Toklas,

American companion to Gertrude Stein

70’s

@70-1999 Stanley Kubrick,

American film director

(2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange)

heart attack while sleeping

60’s

@64-2004 Paul Winfield,

American actor (Sounder)

heart attack

@62-322 BC Aristotle,

Greek philosopher

40’s

@48-1274 Thomas Aquinas,

Italian thelogian/saint,

fall from horse

@42-1988 Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead],

American actress, drag queen, and

international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos),

enlarged heart

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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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