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Mar 21, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 80
86004 Today: H
59° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave.: 4mph\Gusts:
0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest Lightning: 1325 miles away
Record High: 70°[2004] Record Low: 5°[1948]
Mar Averages: 46°\19°
Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)
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Today’s Quote
Most
people have the will to win;
few have
the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight
Harper’s Index
+34-Percentage change in the length of time someone
can withstand pain in they use
profanity
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Observances This Week
18-24
American Chocolate
Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Professionals Week Link
National Button Week Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Professionals Week Link
National Button Week Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week
19-25
National Introverts
Week Link
Wellderly Week
Wellderly Week
20-4/5
National Cherry
Blossom Festival
21-27
Internat’l Week of
Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
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Observances for Today
Afghanistan Day Link
Credit Card Reduction Day
Credit Card Reduction Day
Gallo Wine Day
International Colour Day Link
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day of Forests and The Tree Link
International Day of Nowruz Link
Kick Butts Day Link
Memory Day
National Common Courtesy Day
National Day of Action On Syringe Exchange Link
National Healthy Fats Day
National Renewable Energy Day
Poetry Day Link
Twitter Day
WE Day Link
National Single Parent Day Link Link
World Down Syndrome Day Link
World Poetry Day Link
World Puppetry Day Link
International Colour Day Link
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day of Forests and The Tree Link
International Day of Nowruz Link
Kick Butts Day Link
Memory Day
National Common Courtesy Day
National Day of Action On Syringe Exchange Link
National Healthy Fats Day
National Renewable Energy Day
Poetry Day Link
Twitter Day
WE Day Link
National Single Parent Day Link Link
World Down Syndrome Day Link
World Poetry Day Link
World Puppetry Day Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
≈Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1788 Fire
destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans, Louisiana
1800’s
≈1859 Scottish
National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 Zoological
Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1866 US
Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 1st US
professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1900’s
1924 1st
foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
≈1925 Edinburgh's
Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1925 The
Butler Act, a Tennessee statue, is enacted prohibiting the teaching of
evolution
≈1935 Persia
is officially renamed Iran
≈1946 UN
set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1947 US
President Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all
federal employees to have allegiance to the United States
≈1951 2,900,000
US soldiers in Korea
1956 28th
Academy Awards: "Marty", Anna Magnani& Ernest Borgnine win
1963 Alcatraz
prison in San Francisco Bay is closed
1965 Martin
Luther King Jr. begins march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama
≈1970 Vinko
Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes
that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's
Wide World of Sports.
1972 US
Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
1983 Only
known typo on Time Magazine cover (control=contol), all recalled
1994 United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) enters into force after
being ratified by the required number of nations
2000’s
2002 In
Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged
with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl.
2006 Immigrant
workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a
new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M
in damage.
2013 The
European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is
13.82 billion years old
2014 Russia
formally annexes Crimea amid international condemenation
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A nice first day
of spring here at 7000’. Enjoying it now as another storm is a brewin’. Here
spring never means the end of snow.
When DACA was
issued, many in AZ lost their minds, their compassion, their empathy, and
therefore passed a bunch of laws. Now all these years later the US Supreme
Court has refused to hear an AZ suit that stopped DACA people from getting a
driver’s license. So now DACA people can get a driver’s license in AZ. Not that
easy to be a productive member of society without a driver’s license.
Having trouble with
some policies…one guy gets on a plane with a bomb in his shoe and for decades
everyone must take off their shoes to get on a plane. One Uber self-driving car
kills a woman in Phoenix area who was not in a crosswalk, and appeared quickly
on the street and all self-driving tests are halted. But rapid-fire high
capacity rifles are continually used in school shootings. And now there was
another school shooting today.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@84- Henry
Ossian Flipper,
American
soldier, former slave and
first
African American to graduate from West Point in 1877,
born in
Thomasville, Georgia
(d. 1940)
70’s
74- Timothy
Dalton,
Welsh
actor (James Bond),
born in
Colwyn Bay, Wales
@73- Albert
Kahn,
American architect (architect
of Detroit),
born in
Rhaunen, Kingdom of Prussia
(d. 1942)
@72- John D.
Rockefeller III,
billionaire
philanthropist (oil)
auto
accident (d. 1978)
60’s
69- Eddie
Money, [Mahoney],
singer/guitarist
(Take Me Home Tonight),
born in
Brooklyn
@66- Benito
Pablo Juarez,
president
of Mexico (1858-72),
born in
Oaxaca, Mexico
heart
attack (d. 1872)
@65- Florenz
Ziegfeld,
producer
(Ziegfield Follies)
pleurisy
(d. 1932)
60- Gary
Oldman,
English
actor (Sid & Nancy, The Darkest Hour),
born in
London, England
50’s
@56- James
Coco,
actor (Man
of La Mancha, Murder by Death),
born in
The Bronx,
heart
attack (d. 1987)
56- Matthew
Broderick,
American actor(WarGames,
Biloxi Blues),
born in
NYC
56- Rosie
O'Donnell,
comedienne,
actress and TV host
(League of
Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie,
born in
Commack, New York
40’s
@42- Modest
Petrovich Mussorgsky,
Russian
composer (Boris Gudunov, Night on Bald Mt) [NS]
seizures
(d. 1881)
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Historical
Obits Today
80’s
@87-2017 Chuck
Barris,
American
TV game show producer and host (Gong Show)
@80-2016 Peter
Brown [Pierre Lind de Lappe],
American
actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold & Beautiful)
70’s
@79-2016 Andrew
Grove,
Hungarian-American
pioneer in the semiconductor industry
one of the
founders and CEO of Intel
@78-1992 John
Ireland,
Canadian
actor
(All the
King's Men, Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral),
leukemia
60’s
@68-1987 Robert
Preston [Meservey],
American
actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter),
lung
cancer
@66-2017 Martin
McGuinness,
Irish Sinn
Féin politician and IRA member,
heart
condition
50’s
@52-1994 Dack
Rambo,
American
actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas),
AIDs
20’s
@25-1987 Dean
Paul Martin,
American
actor (Misfits of Science),
plane
crash
@21±-1617 Pocahontas,
American
Indian princess and
daughter
of Powhatan,
possible
TB
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All
for Now…☼☼☼☼
