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Apr 5, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 95
86004 Today: H
68° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%
Nearest Lightning: 888 miles away
Wind ave.: 8mph\Gusts:
16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[1959] Record Low: 8°[1958]
Apr Averages: 58°\27°
Today’s Quote
The many factors which divide us are actually much more
superficial than those we share. Despite all the things that differentiate us—race,
language, religion, gender, wealth, and so on—
we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity
Dalai Lama
Harper’s Index
1 in 5
Estimated change that a white woman in Washington, DC,
has a tanning-salon addition
+269
Percentage change between 2005 and 2014 in the number
of French people undergoing weight-loss surgery
6
Factor by which an obese woman is less likely than other
candidates in France to be offered a job interview
More Observances This
Month
Confederate History Month
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month Link
Couple Appreciation Month
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Awareness Month Link
Couple Appreciation 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
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
4-10
Hate Week
5-8
Mule Day
The Masters Tournament
The Masters Tournament
Observances for Today
Gold Star Spouses Day
National Fun at Work Day
National Fun at Work Day
National Alcohol
Screening Day
National Burrito Day
National Dandelion Day
National Burrito Day
National Dandelion Day
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
✪
Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
400’s
✪456 Saint
Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
1800’s
1806 Isaac
Quintard patents apple cider
✪1818 In the
Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José
de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards
and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.
1887 Anne
Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller
✪1895 Oscar
Wilde loses libel case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of
homosexual practices
1900’s
1923 Firestone Tire
and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires
1927 Johnny
Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style
✪1943 Chinese
steward Poon Lim is found off the coast of Brazil by a Brazilian fisherman
family after being adrift 133 days, after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed
by German U-boat
1948 WGN TV
channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting
✪1958 Ripple
Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is
destroyed in one of the largest ever non-nuclear controlled explosions
1965 37th
Academy Awards: "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie
Andrews (Mary Poppins) win awards
1965 Lava
Lamp Day celebrated
1969 Massive
anti-Vietnam War demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities
✪1971 Mount
Etna erupts in Sicily
1984 Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record
of 31,419 points (31,421)
✪1986 Record
for a throw-and-return boomerang toss is set (121m)
1987 Fox TV
network premieres showing "Married With Children" and "The
Tracey Ullman Show"
✪1997 Steve
Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" debuts
2000’s
✪2009 North
Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed
over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United
Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks
2015 Rolling
Stone Magazine retracts its "Rape on Campus" story about a gang rape
at the University of Virginia after being discredited
2016 PayPal
announces it is cancelling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after
the state passes anti-gay legislation
2016 San
Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave
My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice spring
day. Doors and windows open for a while.
Stayed up way too
late last night, thanks to Netflix and a friend’s visit. Saw some interesting
movies. Nice evening. Still woke up at
6am. I think a nice nap is called for later this afternoon.
Shocked…again…at
the crazy lady at YouTube. Lots of questions about how she even got in with a
weapon. Crazy people should not have access to guns…duh.
This weekend I
get serious about preparing for my Amazon trip. Start laying out items needed.
Re-read all the correspondence from Focus on what to bring, money needed on the
boat, etc. It is finally getting close.
Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@91- Thomas
Hobbes,
English philosopher(Leviathan),
born in Westport, England
(d. 1679)
80’s
@87- Gregory
Peck,
American actor (To
Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur),
born in
San Diego
(d. 2003)
@87- Gale
Storm [Josephine Owaissa Cottle],
American
singer and actress
(My Little
Margie, Gale Storm Show),
born in
Bloomington, Texas
(d. 2009)
@81- Bette
Davis,
American actress (Of
Human Bondage, Jezebel),
born in
Lowell, Mass
(d. 1989)
80- Colin
Powell,
American General and
Assistant to the President
(Nat Sec
Affairs),
born in
The Bronx
87’s
@77- Robert
[Albert] Bloch,
American
sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho)
cancer (d.
1977)
75- Max
Gail,
American
actor (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab),
born in
Detroit
@72- Frank
Gorshin,
US
comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman),
born in
Pittsburgh
lung
cancer (d. 2005)
60’s
@67- Spencer
Tracy,
American actor (Woman
of the Year, Adam's Rib),
born in
Milwaukee
heart
attack (d. 1967)
50’s
@59- Booker
T. Washington,
American
education pioneer and
1st
African American on a US stamp,
born in
Hale's Ford, Virginia
hypertension
(d. 1915)
40’s
45- Pharrell
Williams,
American
music producer (The Neptunes),
born in
Virginia Beach, VA
30’s
@36- Judith
Arlene Resnik,
astronaut
(STS 41D, 51L-Chal disaster),
born in
Akron
(d. 1986)
Historical
Obits Today
80’s
@89-2005 Saul
Bellow,
Canadian-American
author
(Mr
Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)
@86-2015 Richard
Dysart,
American
actor (Leland MacKenzie - LA Law)
@84-2008 Charlton
Heston,
American
actor (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur)
@84-1964 Douglas
MacArthur,
US general
(Pacific theater-WW II)
@80-1997 Allen
Ginsberg,
beat poet
70’s
@76-2012 Ferdinand
A. Porsche,
German car
designer (Porsche 911)
@74-1992 Sam
Walton,
American
businessman
(founder
and CEO of Walmart and Sam's Club),
multiple
myeloma
@70-1976 Howard
Hughes,
American
reclusive billionaire, filmmaker and aviator,
kidney
failure, malnutrition
40’s
@47-1946 Vincent
Millie Youmans, US composer (Tea For Two), TB
30’s
@34-1794 Georges
Danton,
French
politician and revolutionary (1st president of the
Committee
of Public Safety during the French Revolution)
executed by
guillotine
20’s
@27-1994 Kurt
Cobain,
grunge
rocker (Nirvana),
suicide by
gun
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…☼☼☼☼
