Jan 7

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Jan 7, 2019 Week: 01  \ Day: 7

86004 Today: H 31° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

            Feels like 19°

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  17mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 65°[1914]   Record Low: -17°[1913]

Jan Averages: 43°\11°

Today’s Quote

If you do not change direction,

you may end up where you are heading.

Lao Tzu

Random Tidbits

The earliest Latin calendar was a 10-month one, beginning with March; thus, September was the seventh month, October, the eighth, etc. July was originally called Quintilis, meaning fifth; August was originally called Sextilis, meaning six

In A.D. 610, while baking bread, an Italian monk decided to create a treat to motivate his distracted catechism students. He rolled out ropes of dough, twisted them to resemble hands crossed on the chest in prayer, and baked them. The monk named his snacks pretiola, Latin for "little reward." Parents who tried them referred to them as brachiola, or "little arms." When pretiola arrived in Germany, they were called bretzels.

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

7-9

Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week

Observances for Today

           

Asarah B'Tevet

Blue Monday 

Divorce Monday 

Golden Globes

Handsel Day (Scotland) 

Harlem Globetrotter's Day

I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day

International Programmers' Day  

Orthodox Christmas

National Bobblehead Day

National Tempura Day

National Weigh-In Day   

Old Rock Day

Plough Monday 

"Thank God It's Monday" Day 

My Rambling Thoughts

Awoke to a nice blanket of snow all around town. It was about 2” of the predicted 6”-8” but it continues to snow. Clouds aren’t very thick, so it is very bright outside as it snows. Nice! And the snow shoveling guys were here working at 7a.

The American, Paul Whelan, being held in Russia does raise questions. My first one is why does he have several passports?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers the first three moons of

            Jupiter: Io, Europa & Ganymede

1700’s

1714 Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill

            (built years later)

1800’s

1896 Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook

            "The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book"

1900’s

1914 1st steamboat passes through the Panama Canal

1929 "Buck Rogers" sci-fi comic strip's 1st appearance

            in a newspaper

1929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure comic strips,

            1st appears

1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

1946 Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside

            French Union

1959 American gangster Meyer Lansky flees Cuba for the

            Bahamas due to the Cuban Revolution and rise of

            Fidel Castro

1964 Dick Weber rolls highest bowling game in air (Boeing

            707)

1971 -40°F (-40°C) in Hawley Lake, Arizona (state record)

1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)

2000’s

2015 Terrorist attack on the offices of satirical newspaper

            "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris kills 12 (including Jean Cabut

            and Stéphane Charbonnier), injures 11

2018 It snows in the Sahara Desert - 15 inches reported

            in Aïn Séfra, Northwest Algeria

Birthdays Today

1800 Millard Fillmore,

13th US President (Whig: 1850-53), born in Moravia,

New York (d. 1874)@74

1926 Kim Jong-pil,

South Korean Prime Minister (1971-75, 1998-2000)

and founder of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency

 (now the National Intelligence Service),

born in Buyeo County, Japanese Korea (d. 2018)@92

1903 Alan Napier,

British actor (The Sword in the Stone, Batman),

born in Birmingham, England (d. 1988)@85

1911 Butterfly McQueen [Thelma],

American actress (Gone With the Wind,

Flame of Barbary Coast), born in Tampa, Florida

(d. 1995)@84

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62- Katie Couric,

TV show host

56- Rand Paul,

American politician (Senate-R-Kentucky 2011-),

born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

55- Nicolas Cage,

American actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon),

born in Long Beach, California

1938 Paul Revere,

American pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders),

born in Harvard Nebraska, (d. 2014)@76

71- Kenny Loggins,

American singer (Loggins and Messina-This is it,

Footloose), born in Everett, Washington

Historical Obits Today

@87-1989 Emperor Hirohito

of Japan (1922-89) dies after a 62-year reign

@86-1943 Nikola Tesla,

Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor)

@50-1536 Catherine of Aragon,

1st wife of England's King Henry VIII

@44-1980 Larry Williams,

American rocker (Dizzy, Miss Lizzie), dies by suicide

Jan 6

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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

Bean Day

Epiphany

National Shortbread Day
National Technology Day 

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 Rodríguez 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