Apr 2

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Apr 2, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 92

86004 Today: H 68° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  924miles away

Wind ave.:   16mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1966]   Record Low: -2°[1975]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

   Rene Magritte

Harper’s Index

101,500  Number of people who have been granted

citizenship of Asgardia, a planned nation in outer space

16  Percentage who are women

More Observances This Month

ASPCA Month  Link  Link
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month 

Observances This Week

1-7

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Bat Appreciation Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
National Blue Ribbon Week  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link 
World Hula Week
Explore Your Career Options

Observances for Today

American Crossword Puzzle Days: 1-3

Children's Book Day

Dyngus Day Link  
International Children's Book Day
Mule Day-8  Link
National Ferret Day Link
National Love Your Produce Manager Day
Reconciliation Day
Tater Day ( It's Sweet Potatoes)  Link 
White House Easter Egg Roll
World Autism Day Link
World Autism Acceptance Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach Florida

1700’s                                          

1792 The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime

1800’s                                          

✪1801 Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen

1827 US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils

1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn

1900’s                                          

✪1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new "Theory of Relativity"

✪1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1935 Mary Hirsch becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer

1968 "2001 A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

1974 46th Academy Awards: "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win

1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks

1978 TV soap show "Dallas" starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Bel Geddes premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)

1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market

1986 NYC Mayor Ed Koch signs & brings the Gay Rights Bill into effect

2000’s                                          

✪2013 Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12%

My Rambling Thoughts

Thanks Google. I had been wondering for several days how often Apr. 1 was also Easter. Google: since 1900, Easter has fallen on April Fool's Day only four times - 1923, 1934, 1945 and 1956. It won't happen again until 2029. I was just a small kid the last time it happened. No wonder I don’t remember.

No Thanks Facebook. I use several different browsers (Chrome, IE, and Mozilla Thunderbird) when searching the internet. Well the omni-present Facebook quietly and secretly changed my selected search engine, Google, to some stupid Facebook search engine that opens Facebook and lists pages I visit that have key words from the search. It is stupid. It is frustrating. It doesn’t find my information. And it is EVIL. First, I thought it only worked if FB was open. Nope. Works every time. This morning I changed all my browsers search back to Google. My point is that I shouldn’t have to. When I set up each browser, I chose Google. That is all I should ever have to do, unless Google suddenly goes out of business or I tire to their results. It should always be MY choice, not Facebook’s. Rant ends.

I was expecting a beautiful, warm, sunny Easter…cause that’s what our local weatherman said on Friday. It is beautiful and warm but it is also overcast. Headed to some friend’s house for an Easter Brunch. Great food, good company. Nice Easter, even without direct sunshine.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Christian "Buddy" Ebsen Jr.,

American actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Breakfast at Tiffany's),

born in Belleville, Illinois

(d. 2003)

@90- Robert "Dabbs" Greer,

American actor

(Gunsmoke, The Green Mile, Little House on Prairie),

born in Fairview, Missouri

(d. 2007)

80’s

@86- Alec Guinness,

British actor (The Ladykillers, The Bridge on the River Kwai),

born in London, England

(d. 2000)

70’s

@74- Leon Russell,

musician and singer-songwriter (Carny),

born in Lawton, OK

in his sleep (d. 2016)

@73- Giacomo Casanova,

Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover,

born in Venice, Italy

(d. 1798)

73- Linda Hunt,

American actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado, NCIS: LA),

born in Morristown, NJ

71- Emmylou Harris,

country singer (Together Again),

born in Birmingham, Ala

@71- Charlemagne,

1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14),

born in Liège, Frankish Kingdom

(d. 814)

@70- Hans Christian Andersen,

Danish author of 150 fairy tales

(The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen),

born in Odense, Denmark fall,

cancer (d. 1875)

60’s

@65- Walter Chrysler,

American founder of car company Chrysler,

born in Wamego, Kansas stroke

(d. 1940)

@62- Jack Webb,

American screenwriter, director and

actor (Dragnet, Sunset Boulevard),

born in Santa Monica

heart attack (d. 1982)

50’s

57- Christopher Meloni,

American actor (Law & Order SVU)

40’s

@47- Rodney King,

African American motorist beaten by LA cops,

born in Sacramento,

drowned (d. 2012)

@44- Marvin Gaye (Jr), 

singer (Sexual Healing),

born in Washington, D.C.

shot by father (d. 1984)

43- Adam Rodriguez,

actor (CSI:Maimi)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88±-1902 Esther Morris,

suffragist and first female American judge

@84-2005 Pope John Paul II,

Polish Roman Catholic Pope

83-2016 Gato Barbieri,

Argentinian Latin jazz musician (Last Tango in Paris)

@80-1872 Samuel Morse 

developer of electric telegraph

60’s

@61-1932 Bill Pickett,

American cowboy and rodeo performer

invented bulldogging,

kicked in the head by a bronco

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…☼☼☼☼

Apr. 1

Happy Easter

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Apr 1, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 91

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Nearest Lightning:  1586 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1966]   Record Low: 2°[1970]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Change in the world comes from individuals, from the inner peace in individual hears. Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

  Dali Lama

Harper’s Index

1/2  Estimated portion of Internet users in China

who have livestreamed themselves.

560,000  Number of teenagers who participated in the

Microsoft Office Specialist World Championship in 2017

NEW Observances This Month

Adopt A Ferret Month
Adopt A Greyhound Month Link
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Arab American Heritage Month Link

Observances This Week

1-7

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Bat Appreciation Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
National Blue Ribbon Week  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link 
World Hula Week
Explore Your Career Options

Observances for Today

April Fool's Day or All Fools Day
Atheist Day Link
Boomer Bonus Days
Easter Sunday  for Christians
International Fun at Work Day

International Tatting Day Link
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Fun Day
Plum Pudding Day Link 
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day Link
US Air force Academy Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1693 Cotton Mather's four-day-old son dies, and witchcraft is blamed

1700’s                                          

✪1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre

1778 New Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol

1800’s                                          

1853 Cincinnati becomes 1st US city to employ fulltime professional firefighters

1863 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect

✪1867 International Exhibition opens in Paris

1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)

✪1891 French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Marseille for Tahiti

1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.

1900’s                                          

✪1905 "SOS" first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government

1916 1st US national women's swimming championships held

✪1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated 

1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice

1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo

✪1942 Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2

✪1952 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow

1954 US Air Force Academy established

✪1966 Loyalist led by Ian Paisley, a Protestant fundamentalist preacher, founded the Ulster Constitution Defence Committee to challenge the civil rights movement; it set up a paramilitary-style wing called the Ulster Protestant Volunteers

1967 The United States Department of Transportation begins operation.

✪1970 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release hoax they are having dual sex change operations

1976 Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California

✪1982 US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama

1991 US Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race

2000’s                                          

✪2002 The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so.

✪2004 Google introduces Gmail: the launch is met with scepticism on account of the launch date.

✪2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

✪2017 Bob Dylan receives his Nobel Prize for Literature at a private ceremony in Stockholm

My Rambling Thoughts

I’m looking forward to our local paper tomorrow. Every year they have a great April Fool’s story for locals.

Speaking of April Fool’s Pranks, I remember when KOA Denver radio did apiece on taking the gold leaf off the Capitol building to pay its debts (back in the 70’s), and the 50’s video announcing a bumper spaghetti crop because of a hard working women in Switzerland…it even showed Italian women picking spaghetti off their ancient spaghetti trees during better times.

And Happy Easter to all my Christian friends.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@84- Debbie Reynolds,

American actress

(Kathy Selden-Singin' in the Rain,

The Unsinkable Molly Brown),

born in El Paso, Texas

(d. 2016)

@84- Stan Weston,

US toy licensing agent,

had concept for G.I. Joe,

born in Brooklyn

(d. 2017)

@83- Otto von Bismarck,

German chancellor (1866-90)

helped unify Germany,

born in Schönhausen, Prussia

(d. 1898)

70’s

@79- William Harvey,

English physician (discovered blood circulation),

born in Folkestone, Kent

(d. 1657)

@71- Gordon Jump,

actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains),

born in Dayton, Ohio

respiratory failure (d. 2003)

@71- Wangari Maathai,

Kenyan environmentalist and political activist,

founder of the Green Belt Movement,

recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (2004) and

Indira Gandhi Peace Prize (2006),

born in Ihithe village, Kenya

ovarian cancer (d. 2011)

60’s

68- Samuel Alito,

U.S. Supreme Court Justice

61- Andreas Deja,

major animator at Disney

50’s

57- Susan Boyle,

singer

@56- Edgar Wallace,

English novelist, playwright and

journalist (The Terror, The Four Just Men)

created King Kong,

born in Greenwich, England

sudden severe headaches(d. 1932)

40’s

@47- Lon Chaney,

American actor, "man of 1000 faces"

(High Noon, Phantom of Opera)

born in Colorado Springs, CO

hemorrhage (d. 1930)

45- Rachel Maddow,

American radio personality and political analyst

Historical Obits Today

100’s

@101-2004 Aaron Bank,

American OSS officer and

founder of the US Army Special Forces

90’s

@92-1965 Helena Rubinstein,

Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer

50’s

@58-2004 Carrie Snodgress,

American actress (Diary of Mad Housewife),

liver/heart failure

40’s

@48-1917 Scott Joplin,

ragtime composer (The Entertainer),

syphilitic dementia

@45-1950 Charles R. Drew,

American surgeon (developer of the blood bank concept),

car crash 

@44-1984 Marvin Gaye,

singer (Sexual Healing), 

shot by his father

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…☼☼☼☼