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Today’s Quote
Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously
interested in it.
Julia Child
Harper’s Index
$10, 564
Amount white supremacist
Richard
Spencer paid
the Univ. of Florida to
give a speech last fall
$600,000
Estimated
amount the university
paid for security
More Observances This
Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Guitar Month Link
International Twit Award Month
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month Link
International Guitar Month Link
International Twit Award Month
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month Link
Observances This Week
4-10
Hate Week
7-13
National Dental Hygienest Week Link
7-15
National Robotics Week Link
8-14
Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link
National Crime Victims Rights Week Link
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week Link
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week Link
National Crime Victims Rights Week Link
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week Link
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week Link
9-13
American Indian Awareness Week Link
9-15
National Library Week
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
Observances for Today
ASPCA (American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Day Link
Equal Pay Day Link
Free Cone Day (Ben & Jerrys) Link
Golfer's Day
Equal Pay Day Link
Free Cone Day (Ben & Jerrys) Link
Golfer's Day
National Be Kind To
Lawyers Day Link
National Farm Animals Day
National Library Workers Day
National Library Day Link
National Siblings Day Link
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day
National Farm Animals Day
National Library Workers Day
National Library Day Link
National Siblings Day Link
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
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Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1500’s
✪1516 1st
Jewish ghetto established: Venice compels Jews to live in a specific area
1700’s
1790 US
Patent system forms
1800’s
✪1816 Samuel
Taylor Coleridge recites his poem "Kubla Khan" to fellow poet Lord
Byron, who persuades him to publish it
✪1825 1st
hotel in Hawaii opens
✪1826 The
10,500 inhabitants of the Greek town Messolonghi start leaving the town after a
year's siege by Turkish forces. Very few of them survive.
1845 More
than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1866 American
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1900’s
✪1925 Scribner
publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1938 NY
makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
✪1953 Dag
Hammarskjöld becomes the 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations
1967 39th
Academy Awards: "A Man For All Seasons," Best Picture, Elizabeth
Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor
1968 40th
Academy Awards: "In the Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger &
Katherine Hepburn win
✪1970 Paul
McCartney officially announces the split of The Beatles
1974 Magicians
Penn & Teller 1st meet
1991 Last
automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
✪1998 The
Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and
Irish governments
2000’s
✪2012 Apple
Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market
capitalization in the world
My
Rambling Thoughts
I watched a great
documentary on ‘The Troubles’ last night. Things are still tense but no
gunfire. Hard to get Protestants and Catholics to live together in N. Ireland.
More time is needed. Sad.
Picked up my
taxes this morning. Good news…my bill was half of last year. And I am getting a
nice chunk of change too. All good. And next year even looks better with the
new standard deduction and probably no need to itemize. Waiting to see before
celebrating.
I have always had
a hard time realizing that there are evil people in this world. When I meet up
or worked with an evil person I did my best to simply avoid them. When I
supervised an evil person, I did what I could to get them out of my system. I
am heartsick with the pictures coming out of Syria. One of our discussion group
spent 2 years there on a scholarship to study Syrian music. She has told great
stories of the wonderful people there. I sure hope that this reign of terror
with poison gas ends very soon. Hopefully their President will be arrested, put
on trial, and pay for his horrific actions.
Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@96- Harry
Morgan,
American actor (December
Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet),
born in
Detroit, Michigan
(d. 2011)
80’s
89- Max Von
Sydow,
Swedish actor (Hawaii,
Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape),
born in
Lund, Sweden
@85- Frances
Perkins,
American
politician and
1st woman
to hold cabinet-level position (Labor 1933-45),
born in Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1965)
@84- Clare
Boothe Luce,
US
ambassador (to Vatican)
(d. 1987)
@83- William
Booth,
English
preacher and founder (Salvation Army),
born in
Sneinton, Nottingham, England
(d. 1912)
@83- Omar
Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub],
Egyptian
actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia),
born in
Alexandria
(d. 2015)
@82- Sheb
Wooley,
vocalist
(Purple People Eater, Hee Haw)
(d. 2003)
82- John
Madden,
NFL coach (Oakland
Raiders) and
sports commentator (CBS,
FOX),
born in
Austin, Minn
70’s
77- Paul
Theroux,
American
travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
@72- Don
Meredith,
NFL
quarterback (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football,
born in
Mount Vernon, TX
stroke (d.
2010)
@71- Chuck
Connors,
American
author,
actor (The
Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa),
professional
basketball and baseball player,
born in
Brooklyn
lung
cancer (d. 1992)
60’s
66- Steven
Seagal,
actor (Above
the Law, Hard to Kill),
born in
Detroit
@64- Joseph
Pulitzer,
Hungarian
publisher (St Louis Post-Dispatch, NY World),
born in
Makó, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire
heart
failure (d. 1911)
@63- Matthew
C. Perry,
Commodore
of the United States Navy
opened
Japan to Western influence and trade,
born in
Newport, RI
cirrhosis (d.
1858)
50’s
@57- "Alvin"
Junior Samples,
country
singer (Hee Haw)
heart
attack (d. 1983)
50- Orlando
Jones,
American
actor and comedian (MADtv, 7 Up spokesman),
born in
Toulminville, Ala
30’s
@39- James
Bowie,
American
pioneer and soldier (Texas Revolution),
born in
Logan, Kentucky
at the
Alamo (d. 1836)
34- Mandy
Moore,
American
singer (Candy) and
actress
(Rebecca Pearson-This Is Us),
born in
Nashua, NH
30- Haley
Joel Osment,
American actor (The
Sixth Sense, A.I., Pay it Forward),
born in
Los Angeles
20’s
27- Alex
Pettyfer,
English
actor
26- Daisy
Ridley,
English actress (Star
Wars: the Force Awakens),
born in
London
Historical
Obits Today
80’s
@85-1975 Marjorie
Main,
actress (Ma & Pa Kettle)
60’s
@60-2000 Larry
Linville,
American
actor (M*A*S*H),
cancer
50’s
@59-2003 Little
Eva [Eva Boyd],
American
pop singer (Locomotion),
cervical cancer
40’s
@48-1931 Khalil
Gibran,
Lebanese
poet and painter
cirrhosis
30’s
@38-1992 Sam
Kinison,
loud mouth
comedian,
car crash
@30-1958 Chuck
Willis,
rocker “King
of the Stroll,
peritonitis
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…☼☼☼☼
