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Jan 17, 2019
Week: 02 \ Day: 17
86004 Today: H 39° \ L 23° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind: 4mph\Gusts:
9mph Visibility: 9 mi
Record High: 62°[1971]
Record Low: -13°[1987]
Jan Averages: 43°\11°
Today’s Quote
A happy life is
one spent
in learning,
earning, and yearning.
Lillian Gish
Random Tidbits
The first person to use an elevator: King
Louis XV, whose "flying chair" went between floors at Versailles in
1743.
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Mark Twain invented a Trivial Pursuit-like
game called Mark Twain's Memory-Builder.
Observances This
Week
11-17
Cuckoo Dancing Week
13-19
National Mocktail Week
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
Observances for
Today
Cable Car Day
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Hot Heads Chili Days
International Mentoring Day
Judgment Day
Kid Inventors' Day
National Bootleggers Day
National
Hot Buttered Rum Day
Popeye Day
My Rambling
Thoughts
Our expected
storm was a big bust. None of those big flakes actually stayed on the ground. Another
storm is ‘on-the-way’. I did fill my vehicle with gas, just in case and since
the arrow was close to E, but no light yet, I really needed to…storm or not.
AND…after 5 days of overcast sky, sunshine has returned!!!
Few Americans,
including me, do not understand Brexit. I do know that traveling in continental
Europe has been a breeze. Nice to travel across country borders just like we do
in the US at state borders. Now the news is talking about the bad side of
Brexit, including the negative effects on the world economy. Time is short for
an agreement that doesn’t have great negative effects on many. Of interest is
that the House of Commons defeated May’s plan with a record NO vote, then the
next day defeated a ‘no confidence’ vote allowing May to remain in power. Hmmm.
Sounds like no one wants her job.
Today’s
Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1873 A group of
Modoc warriors defeats the United States Army in the First Battle of the
Stronghold, a part of the Modoc War
1900’s
1904 Anton
Chekhov's play "Cherry Orchard" opens at Moscow Art Theater
1920 First day
Prohibition comes into effect in the US as a result of the 18th amendment
1946 United
Nations Security Council holds its 1st meeting
1950 The Great Brinks
Robbery - 11 men rob $1.2M cash & $1.5M securities from armored car company
Brink's offices in Boston, Massachusetts
1955 US Submarine
Nautilus begins 1st nuclear-powered test voyage
1961 President
Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers a televised farewell address to the nation three
days before leaving office, in which he warns against the accumulation of power
by the "military-industrial complex".
1983 Alabama
Governor George Wallace, becomes governor for a record 4th time
1987 US President
Reagan signs secret order permitting covert sale of arms to Iran
2000’s
2007 Doomsday
Clock set to five minutes to midnight in response to North Korea's 1st nuclear
test
2017 US President
Barack Obama commutes WikiLeaks discloser Chelsea Manning's prison sentence
from 35 to 7 years
Birthdays Today
1706 Benjamin
Franklin,
US Founding
Father, inventor, ambassador and
writer (Poor
Richards Almanac), born in
Boston,
Massachusetts (d. 1790)@84
1820 Anne Brontë,
English
novelist/poet (Tenant of Wildfell Hall),
born in Thornton,
West Yorkshire
(d. 1849)@29-TB
1927 Dr.Tom
Dooley,
American
humanitarian (d. 1961)@34-cancer
1928 Vidal
Sassoon,
hair stylist/CEO
(Vidal Sasson), born in London,
England (d. 2012)@84
1927 Eartha Kitt,
American singer
(Santa Baby), dancer,
comedian, actress
and activist (Catwoman-
Batman), born in
North, South Carolina
(d. 2008)@81
1934 Shari Lewis,
ventriloquist/puppeteer
(Lamb Chop), born in
The Bronx, (d.
1998)@65-breast cancer
1942 Muhammed Ali
(Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr.),
champion boxer
and activist (d. 2016)@74-
septic shock
1949 Andy
Kaufman,
American comedian
and actor (Latka Gravas-
Taxi), born in
NYC, (d. 1984)@35-cancer
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97- Betty White
[Ludden],
American actress
and comedian with the
longest TV career
of a female entertainer (The
Mary Tyler Moore
Show, Golden Girls), born in
Oak Park Illinois
88- James Earl
Jones,
actor
80- Maury Povich,
TV host (Current
Affair, Maury)/Mr Connie
Chung
67- Jim Carrey,
Canadian-American
actor (Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless
Mind, Dumb & Dumber, The Mask),
born in Ontario
Canada
62- Steve Harvey,
American actor, comedian and
radio personality
55- Michelle
Obama, 1st African-American US First
Lady (2009-16), born in DeYoung,
Illinois
48- Kid Rock
[Robert James Ritchie], American
rapper, songwriter, musician and actor
(Devil
Without a Cause), born in Romeo,
Michigan
39- Zooey
Deschanel, American actress (Almost
Famous, New Girl), born in Los Angeles
Historical Obits
Today
@90-2012 Johnny
Otis [Ioannis Alexandres Veliotes],
US R&B
musician, producer, and talent scout
("godfather
of rhythm and blues")
@90-1891 George
Bancroft,
American
historian and father of U.S. History
@81-2007 Art
Buchwald,
American humorist
@76-2011 Donald
"Don" Kirshner,
American rock
& roll producer known as "The
Man With the
Golden Ear" (invented bubblegum
music), dies of
heart failure
@76-2003 Richard
Crenna,
American actor
(Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand
Pebbles), dies of
pancreatic cancer
@70-1893
Rutherford B. Hayes,
19th US President
(Republican: 1877-81), dies
of a heart attack
@66-1927 Juliette
Gordon Low,
American founder
of the Girl Scouts of the USA,
dies of breast
cancer
@64-2008 Bobby
Fischer,
American chess
player (world champion (1972-
75), dies of
renal failure
@62-1874 Chang
& Eng Bunker, Chinese/Thai
Siamese twins
