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Jan 6, 2019 Week:
01 \ Day: 6
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind: 5mph\Gusts:
10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 61°[1969]
Record Low: -18°[1910]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s
Quote
The art of
being happy lies in the power of
extracting
happiness from common things.
Henry Ward
Beecher
Random
Tidbits
It's good luck to eat foods like black eyed
peas, ham and cabbage because it is thought they bring prosperity. But if you
want to have a happy new year, don't eat lobster or chicken. Lobsters can move
backward and chickens can scratch in reverse, so it is thought these foods
could bring a reversal of fortune.
January: named after Janus, the god of doors
and gates.
Observances
This Week
1-7
Diet Resolution Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
Silent Record Week
2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
6-12
Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
Dating & Life Coaches Recognition Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
Observances
for Today
Armenian Christmas
Epiphany
No Pants Subway Ride Day
Three Kings Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
Finally,
it has warmed up enough to enjoy being outside. I made a quick trip to the
store for groceries. I hate shopping on weekends, but sometimes I have to.
Our
next snow storm (6”-8”) is due tonight. Some of the last remnants of the last
storm are still on the ground. Gotta love living at 7000’.
The
craziest idea about this shutdown: Government workers are being told to work
for free until there is money for the wall. Back when the Republican ‘God’,
Reagan, had our first modern shutdown, everyone went home except a small number
of ‘essentials’ employees. At a school with 950 K-8 students where I worked,
that was everybody except the principal. At the Agency office it was everybody
except the Superintendent. And the principal’s duty was to be sure all the
children got home safely, all the doors were locked before going home. We did
have a three-hour time to get all the students home. Times have sure changed.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1861
NYC mayor proposes NY become a free city, trading
with North and South
1893
The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by
Congress. The charter is signed by
President Benjamin
Harrison.
1900’s
1907
Maria Montessori opens her 1st (Montessori) school
(Rome)
1912
New Mexico becomes 47th state of the Union
1912
Alfred Wegener, geophysicist and meteorologist,
presents his controversial theory of
continental
drift in a lecture at a the
Geological Association
(Geologischen Vereinigung) at the
Senckenberg-
Museum, Frankfurt.
1914
Stock brokerage firm of Merrill Lynch founded
1941
US President Franklin Roosevelt makes his "Four
Freedoms" speech (freedom of
speech and worship;
freedom from want and fear) during
his US State of
Union address
1974
In response to the 1973 energy crisis, daylight saving
time commences nearly four months
early in the
United States.
1979
The Village People's Y.M.C.A becomes their only UK
No.1 single. At it's peak it sold
over 150,000 copies a
day
Birthdays
Today
1811
Charles Sumner,
American leading Reconstruction senator, born
in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1874)@63-heart attack
1822
Heinrich Schliemann,
German archaeologist who rediscovered Troy,
born in Neubukow, Mecklenburg-Schwerin,
German Confederation (d. 1890)@68
1878
Carl Sandburg,
American poet & biographer of Lincoln (The People,
Yes), born in Galesburg, Illinois (d. 1967)@89
1880
Tom Mix [Thomas Hezikiah Mix],
American silent screen cowboy actor (Dick Turpin),
born in Mix Run, Pennsylvania (d. 1940)
@60-auto accident
1882
Samuel Rayburn,
American politician (Rep-D-Tx), born in Kingston,
Tennessee (d. 1961)@79
1883
Khalil Gibran,
Lebanese mystic & poet (The Prophet, Broken Wings),
born in Bsharri, Lebanon
(d. 1931)@48 cirrhosis
1912
Danny Thomas,
American comedian (Danny Thomas Show),
born in Deerfield, Michigan (d. 1991)@79
1913
Loretta Young,
American actress (Farmer's Daughter, Stranger),
born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 2000)@87
1924
Earl Scruggs,
American musician (& Flat-Ballad of Jed Clampett),
born in Cleveland County, North Carolina (d. 2012)@88
1930
Victor "Vic" Tayback,
American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice Doesn't Live Here
Anymore "), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)
@60 heart attack
1938
Mario RodrÃguez Cobos (aka Silo),
Argentine writer and spiritual leader, born in Mendoza,
Argentina (d. 2010)@72
1944
Bonnie Franklin,
American actress (Ann-1 Day at a Time), born in
Santa Monica, California (d. 2013)
@69-pancreatic cancer
1946
Syd Barrett,
English guitarist and early vocalist of the band Pink Floyd,
born in Cambridge, England (d. 2006)
@60-pancreatic cancer
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74-
Pepé Le Pew,
Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Chuck Jones
and Michael Maltese (Looney
Tunes and Merrie
Melodies series), first
debuts in "Odor-able Kitty"
65-
Malcom Young,
guitarist, back up singer AC/DC
64-
Rowan Atkinson,
English comedian and actor (Mr Bean, Blackadder),
born in Consett, County Durham, England
49-
Julie Chen,
American television presenter, born in New York City
35-
Eric Trump
Historical
Obits Today
@86-2016
Pat Harrington Jr,
American actor (Danny Thomas Show, One Day at
a Time)
@81-2015
Lance Percival,
English actor and comedian (That Was The Week
That Was)
@75-1993
John B "Dizzy" Gillespe,
blues trumpeter, dies of cancer
@72-2006
Lou Rawls,
American vocalist (Dean Martin's Gold-diggers,
Natural Man) dies of cancers
@61-1884
Gregor Mendel,
Austrian monk and geneticist (discoverer of laws
of heredity)
@60-1919
Theodore Roosevelt,
26th US President (R: 1901-09; Nobel 1906),
dies of blood clot
@59-1949
Victor Fleming,
American film director (The Wizard of Oz, Gone
With Wind), dies from heart attack
@43-1852
Louis Braille,
French educator and inventor of a system of reading
and writing for the blind, dies of tuberculosis
