Mar 11

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Mar 11, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 70

86004 Today: H 58° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 98% 

Wind ave.:   18mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  733miles away

Record High: 69°[1900]   Record Low: -5°[1948]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

Surprise is the greatest gift

which life can grant us.

  Boris Pasternak

Harper’s Index

6-Number of US states in which legislation has been

proposed in 2017 to protect drivers who strike

pedestrians

7-Percentage of Americans who say they support

‘white nationalism’

39-Who believe that white Americans are

‘currently under attack’

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

5-11

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

10-12

World Rattlesnake Roundup

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

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Observances for Today

Check Your Batteries Day 
Daylight Savings Time Begins  (Turn Ahead 1 Hour)  @2:00 am
Dream 2018 Day
Girl Scout Sunday Link 
International Fanny Pack Day Link  
Johnny Appleseed Day

Mothering Sunday Link
National Promposal Day Link 
US Snow Shoe Days: 9-11 Link

World Plumbing Day Link

Worship of Tools Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights

≈1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000

1700’s                                          

≈1744 English auction house Sotheby's holds its first ever auction (of books) in London

1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)

1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.

1800’s                                          

1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vermont

1824 US War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs

≈1845 The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.

≈1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice

≈1869 The West first learns of the Giant Panda via French missionary Armand David who receives a skin from a hunter

1900’s                                          

≈1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1918 Save the Redwoods League founded

1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas

≈1920 Syria proclaims Emir Feisal king after the country has fought off French domination

1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)

1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics

1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule

1959 "Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens

1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"

≈1971 Jim Morrison leaves for Paris to reorient himself emotionally and creatively and to avoid the jail sentence given to him in Miami. He will never return to the US.

≈1986 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC

≈1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1

≈1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US

2000’s                                          

≈2004 Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid's rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations, killing 190

≈2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile

≈2009 Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.

≈2013 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals

≈2013 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice

≈2017 At least 65 killed in landslide at rubbish dump near Addis Ababa, Ethopia

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My Rambling Thoughts

Cloudy day…weatherman says rain tonight, with a little snow. Hmmm.

Our discussion group meets tonight to discuss World Health. Should be a great discussion as it is being led by a Univ. Nursing professor who has spent over 5 years in Liberia, both before and after the Ebola crisis.

One of the articles was speaking about how complicated it is to provide health benefits to a group of people that are in the middle of a pandemic. The world argument revolves around ‘vertical’ help which provides say condoms to stop the spread of AIDS, and ‘horizontal’ help which looks at the necessary changes in culture and lifestyle to prevent the spread of AIDS. Money is much easier to gather for vertical help than for horizontal help.

This so reminded me of the 45 Administration. Most, if not all of the changes are vertical help…the embargo on steel or set deportation at all illegals. The policies don’t look at the consequences of either one, just a quick fix for a huge complicated issue.

The article pointed out that there are times when vertical help is necessary in a crisis, but that without horizontal help, the world will spend it’s time with band aids and no long term solutions.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96- J. Franklin Hyde,

American inventor (created silica),

born in Solvay, New York

(d. 1999)

80’s

@89- Lawrence Welk, S

orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)

(d. 1992)

87- Rupert Murdoch,

Australian media mogul

(NY Post, News of the World, FOX-TV),

born in Melbourne, Victoria

84- Sam Donaldson,

ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time),

born in El Paso

70’s

@79- Harold Wilson, 

British Prime Minister (Labour: 1964-70, 1974-76),

born in Huddersfield, England

cancer\Alzheimer’s   (d. 1995)

60’s

68- Jerry Zucker,

director (Airplane, Naked Gun),

born in Milwaukee

@64- Ralph Abernathy,

American civil rights leader

(Southern Christian Leadership Conference),

born in Linden, Alabama

blood clots (d. 1990)

64- Gale Norton,

48th United States Secretary of the Interior

@49- Douglas Adams,

English author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy),

born in Cambridge, England

heart attack (d. 2001)

40’s

49- Terrance Howard,

actor (Empire)

47- Johnny Knoxville,

American television personality

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-1955 Oscar Mayer,

Bavarian-born American meat packer

@92-2012 Sid Couchey,

American comic book artist (Richie Rich)

80’s

@80-1970 Erle Stanley Gardner,

American writer (Perry Mason)

70’s

@74-1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes,

football coach (Ohio State),

heart attack

@73-1955 Alexander Fleming,

Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin),

heart attack 

60’s

@69-2010 Merlin Olsen,

American football player (Los Angeles Rams) and

actor (Little House, Father Murphy),

cancer

@68-1957 Richard E. Byrd,

American aviator and polar explorer

(1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air –

 disputed),

heart disease

@64-2006 Slobodan Milošević,

President of Serbia (1991-97) and

Yugoslavia (1997-2000),

heart attack in prison

@63-1874 Charles Sumner,

American politician, Senator Massachusetts (1851-74)

 anti-slavery advocate,

heart attack

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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 10

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Mar 10, 2018 Week: 10\ Day: 69

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1941 miles away

Record High: 70°[1989]   Record Low: -9°[1958]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually

get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Robert Frost

Harper’s Index

60-Length in minutes of a weekly break during which employees of a Swedish town are encouraged to have sex

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action 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

5-11

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

8-10

National Money Collectors Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

10-12

World Rattlesnake Roundup

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Observances for Today

Genealogy Day  Link
International Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness Link
Land Line Telephone Day
Mario Day
Middle Name Pride Day

National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day
Salvation Army Day
US Paper Money Day
US Snow Shoe Days: 9-11 Link

Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                          

1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions

1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)

1876 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson

≈1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity

1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching

1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before

1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world Heavyweight championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"

1900’s                                          

1902 A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera

1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics

≈1945 Japan grants occupied Vietnam independence

≈1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.

1964 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City

1965 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1965)

1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

1978 "The Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres on CBS

1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" single released by Kim Carnes (Billboard Song of the Year 1981)

1997 "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" created by Joss Whedon and starring Sarah Michelle Geller premieres on WB Television Network

2000’s                                          

≈2010 Carlos Slim becomes the first Mexican and person from an emerging economy to top Forbes Richest Person list, with net worth of US$53.5 billion

≈2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy

2015 The family of Marvin Gaye win a record $7.3 million lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I.

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My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful spring like Friday. When I was shopping on Wed. the parking lot at the grocery store was over full. I drove around twice and left. Today I headed out to buy groceries. Plenty of space, quick trip and Artichokes were $1. Glad I waited.

Back in the day, during the Clinton Sex Impeachment, I was overseeing K-4 (about 30 teachers). The whole thing almost tore our staff apart. Some could have cared less. Others figured it was the worst thing to ever happen by a sitting president. Times have changed since then. The Republicans now don’t seem to mind at all that the President is accused of having an affair just after his wife had a baby. I do know some conservatives who are just as appalled by today as they were back in the day. But our elected leaders on the Republican side don’t seem to care. So tired of hypocrisy in politics.

Got my down payment paid for my 2019 Siberian trip. I decided to take out the insurance, just in case 45 decides to mess up the trip.

If our current leader had been the leader a century ago, he would have brought back the blacksmith’s jobs.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Sam Jaffe,

American actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey),

born in NYC,

(d 1984)

70’s

78- Chuck Norris [Carlos Ray],

American martial arts actor (Missing in Action),

 born in Ryan, OK

71- [Avril] Kim Campbell,

Canada's 1st female Prime Minister and 19th overall (1993),

born in Port Alberni, British Columbia

60’s

60- Sharon Stone,

American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino),

born in Meadville, Pennsylvania

50’s

56- Jasmine Guy,

actress (Whitley-Different World),

born in Boston, Mass

@54- Osama bin Laden,

Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda,

born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (d. 2011)

54- Prince Edward [Edward Anthony Richard Louis],

Prince of Britain and son of Elizabeth II,

born in Buckingham Palace

40’s

47- Jon Hamm,

American actor (Mad Men - Don Draper),

born in St. Louis

41- Robin Thicke,

American singer

30’s

35- Carrie Underwood,

American country singer,

born in Muskogee, OK

34- Olivia Wilde,

American actress

20’s

26- Emily Osment,

American actress and singer

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-2016 Gogi Grant, [Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg],

American singer (The Wayward Wind)

@91±-1913 Harriet Tubman [Araminta Ross],

American abolitionist, former slave and humanitarian

(Underground Railroad)

80’s

@85-1998 Lloyd Bridges,

American comedic actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!)

@81-1986 Ray Milland,

Welsh actor (The Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945)

70’s

@78-1988 Glenn Cunningham,

American middle-distance runner (1930's)

@73-1985 Konstantin Chernenko,

General Secretary of the Communist Party of USSR (1984-85),

emphysema

30’s

@30-1988 Andy Gibb,

British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol

(Bee Gees-I Just Want to Be Your Everything),

myocarditis

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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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