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Mar 24, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 83
86004 Today: H
58° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave.: 17mph\Gusts:
0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest Lightning: 356 miles away
Record High: 70°[1956] Record Low: 0°[1904]
Mar Averages: 46°\19°
Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)
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Today’s Quote
Truth is strong,
and sometime or other will prevail.
Mary Astell
Harper’s Index
40,000,000-Acres of US land that have been
contaminated
by DOD munitions disposal
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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
23-25
American Crossword
Puzzles Week
24-4/1
World Irish Dancing
Week1
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Observances for Today
Be Mad Day
Earth Hour Link
Endometriosis March Day Link
National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day Link
International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross
Earth Hour Link
Endometriosis March Day Link
National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day Link
International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross
Human Rights
Violations and for Dignity of Victims
Take Your Parents To The Playground Day Link
Violations and for Dignity of Victims Link
World Tuberculosis Day
Take Your Parents To The Playground Day Link
Violations and for Dignity of Victims Link
World Tuberculosis Day
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
≈Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
≈1603 Scottish
King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of
England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish
crowns.
1800’s
1832 Mormon Joseph
Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
≈1837 Canada
gives its black citizens the right to vote
≈1882 German
scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus
which causes tuberculosis ( Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
1900’s
1934 U.S.
Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act, declaring the Philippines independent
after a period of 10 years
1937 National
Gallery of Art established by Congress
1947 John D.
Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
1955 Tennessee
Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
1958 Elvis
Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1960 US
appeals court rules novel "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" not obscene
≈1962 Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue &
Blue Boys
1964 Kennedy
half-dollar issued
1989 Worst
US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1997 69th
Academy Awards: "The English Patient", Geoffrey Rush and Frances
McDormand win
1998 Jonesboro
massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at
Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are
wounded.
2000’s
≈2013 Scotland
defeats Sweden to win the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship
≈2016 Bosnian
Serb leader Radovan Karadžić found guilty of genocide during 1995 Srebrenica
massacre, sentenced to 40 years
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday a got a
good report for my required Medicare annual physical…just drink more water and
eat more whole grains. Then I had lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl didn’t
make it, but Mary and I had a good time. Picked up my malaria pills for my trip…not
happy because they are individual packaged pills, but I’ll live with it. Dr.
forgot to call in my Ciprol, my just in case med, so will have to call back the
next time I need to renew another script.
I also found out that the receptionist at my PCP is the daughter of a
former teacher I worked with in Tuba. I’ve seen her for 3 years and she never
said a word, then yesterday she says, ‘you just missed my dad’ and explained
who he was. I looked outside but he was already gone. She said she knew it was
me since I started coming in, but because of HEPA rules didn’t say anything. Oh
well, now I know. She was in elementary school when her dad worked with me. She
said he was doing well. I run into him on occasion at various stores here.
Headed out early
to pick up a few things I need for the weekend. Quick trip, but the wind made
it seem much longer.
When I got back
45’s wife was giving out some awards on the TV. After it was over all the news
people were talking about how upset she seemed, following the recent interviews
of her husband’s sexual antics. As an unmarried male, I don’t understand why
she stays…but then again, in this case, I don’t understand her reason for being
the 3rd wife. Maybe it is love, maybe it was his money, maybe it was
just an escape from Slovenia. I worked with many strong Native women during my
career. Most were not married, most had kids, most just didn’t see a need for a
‘husband’. But that was a matriarchal culture.
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Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@95- Joseph
Barbera,
American
animator (Hanna-Barbera - Tom and Jerry),
born in
Manhattan
(d. 2006)
80’s
@82- Andrew
Mellon,
American
banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and
Secretary
of the Treasury (1921-32),
born in
Pittsburgh
(d. 1947)
70’s
78- Bob
Mackie,
designer
(Streisand, Cher)
@74- Norman
Fell,
American
actor (Three's Company, The End, Graduate),
born in
Philadelphia
bone
marrow cancer
(d. 1998)
@71- Edmond
Becquerel,
French
physicist who studied the solar spectrum,
magnetism,
electricity and optics (photovoltaic effect),
born in
Paris, France
(d. 1891)
71- Alan
Sugar,
English
multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad),
born in Hackney, London
60’s
@68- Thomas
E. Dewey,
Governor
of NY and
Republican
presidential candidate (1944, 1948),
born in
Owosso, Michigan
heart
attack (d. 1971)
67- Tommy
Hilfiger,
American
fashion designer,
born in
Elmira, NY
50’s
56- Star
Jones,
attorney/TV
hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)
@52- Harry
Houdini [Erich Weiss],
Famous
magician and escape artist,
born in
Budapest, Austria-Hungary
peritonitis
(d. 1926)
50- Steve
McQueen,
American actor
(The
Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape),
born in
Beech Grove, Indiana
cancer (d.
1980)
40’s
@46- Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle,
American
actor
(The Bell
Boy, Moonshine, Keystone comedies),
born in
Smith Center, Kansas
heart
attack (d. 1933)
45- Jim
Parsons,
actor (The
Big Bang Theory),
born in
Houston, Texas
42- Peyton
Manning,
American
football quarterback
(Indianapolis
Colts, Denver Broncos),
born in
New Orleans
30’s
32-Valentin
Chmerkovskiy,
dancer
(DWTS)
20’s
@25- Clyde
Barrow,
American bank
robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame),
born in
Ellis County, Texas
shot (d.
1934)
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Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@93-2008 Richard
Widmark,
American
actor
(Madigan,
Murder on the Orient Express,
Judgement
at Nuremberg)
@93-1984 Sam
Jaffe,
actor (Dr
Zorba-Ben Casey)
@92-2016 Earl
Hamner Jr,
American
creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons"
80’s
@88-1976 Bernard
Montgomery,
1st
Viscount Alamein, British WWII Field Marshal
(African
campaign, D-Day) and WWI officer
@85-1953 Mary,
[Victoria Mary] of Teck,
Queen of
Great Britain and consort of George V
70’s
@79-2010 Robert
Culp,
American
actor (I Spy)
heart
attack while jogging
@77-1905 Jules
Verne,
French
writer "Father of Science Fiction"
(Around
the World in 80 Days),
diabetic
complications
@75-1882 Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow,
American
poet (Song of Hiawatha),
peritonitis
@74-2002 César
Milstein,
Argentine
scientist,
recipient
of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
long term
heart condition
60’s
@69-1603 Elizabeth
I Tudor,
[Virgin
Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603),
melancholy
@66-2016 Garry
Shandling,
American
comedian
(It's
Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show),
pulmonary
embolism
50’s
@56-1990 Rene
Enriquez,
actor
(Hill St Blues),
pancreatic
cancer
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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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