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Mar 27, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 86
86004 Today: H 65° \ L 29° \ Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[2015] Record
Low: -1°[1975]
Mar Averages: 51°\23°
(6 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
Anyone who has never made a mistake
has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
Random Tidbits
The most
famous naval battle of the War of 1812 was the Battle of Boston Harbor fought
on 1 June 1813. It was a duel between two frigates, which ultimately humiliated
the proud and cocky U.S. navy.
The
bloodiest ship-to-ship action of the age of sail was fought between the
American frigate USS Chesapeake and the British frigate HMS Shannon during the
War of 1812. In an engagement that lasted less than 15 minutes, the British
lost 23 killed and 56 wounded, while the Americans lost 48 killed and 99
wounded. Between the wounded of the ships' two companies, another 23 died of
their wounds in the two weeks following the action.
Observances This Week
Lent:
6-4/20
National
Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14
International
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism &
Discrimination: 21-27
Health
Information Professionals Week: 24-30
International
Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 24-30
National
Cleaning Week: 24-30
National
Protocol Officer's Week: 24-30
Pediatric
Nurse Practitioner Week: 24-30
National
Physicians Week: 24-30
Observances for Today
Celebrate Exchange Day Link
Little Red Wagon Day Link
Manatee Appreciation Day Link
National "Joe" Day
Little Red Wagon Day Link
Manatee Appreciation Day Link
National "Joe" Day
National World
Whisky Day
My Rambling Thoughts
I guess I haven’t
visited our Target store in a while. It looks like a brand-new store. I picked
up things I needed and will definitely return when I have some extra time. Nice
look and easy to move around.
What is going on with
the Empire star. He claims to have been attacked on a Chicago street. The prosecutor
comes on live National TV to charge him with 16 counts and says it’s all a
fraud. Then today, all charges are dropped by the prosecutor in court. I am an
Empire fan and found it hard to watch the episodes after the charges. Now it
looks like an ‘oops’. Something is very fishy about this whole story, so I’ll
wait and hope it plays out well.
Michael Avenatti…really?
Is he a good fighter for mistreated people, or is he really just a sleezebag?
I have stopped
answering any calls on my home phone or my cell that don’t have a name I recognize.
I’m getting 5-6 robocalls on each phone every weekday. None of these calls ever
leave a message. When 7p rolls around, I delete the missed calls on my home
phone and block the missed calls on my cell. I’m on the ‘do not call’ list on
both phones. Doesn’t work very well. Hopefully the FCC will do something in the
near future to prevent this. My suggestion is that every call must have the
name of the company or the person calling. First call without caller ID is disconnected
before ringing by the phone company. The second call is 3 months in prison for
the caller. The third call is 6 months in prison and a $100K fine. A little
harsh but I’m paying for the phone service and am tired of this crap.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1500’s
1513
Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida
1700’s
1790
The modern shoelace with an aglet patented in England by Harvey
Kennedy
1794
The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and
authorizes the building of six
frigates.
1800’s
1855
Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860
M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle"
(corkscrew)
1866
US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later
becomes 14th amendment
1900’s
1915
Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to
quarantine on North Brother Island,
New York after spending five
years evading health authorities and
causing several further
outbreaks of typhoid
1933
Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1952
Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1958
Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro
1964
The Great Alaska Earthquake (9.2 magnitude) and resulting
tsunami kill 139 people in the
largest US earthquake and second
largest ever recorded
1980
Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1990
The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an
effort to bridge the information
blackout imposed by the Castro
regime.
2000’s
2006
The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final
meeting.
2015
Russia's Soyuz TMA-16M launches to deliver three crew members
to the international space station
to research the long-term
effects of micro gravity
Birthdays Today
1813 Nathaniel
Currier,
American
lithographer (Currier & Ives),
born in Roxbury,
Massachusetts
(d. 1888:@75)
1845 Wilhelm
Röntgen,
German physicist
who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901),
born in Lennep,
Rhine Province
(d. 1923:@77)
1868 Patty
Smith Hill,
American
composer, teacher and songwriter (Happy Birthday to You),
born in
Anchorage, Kentucky
(d. 1946:@78)
1893 Karl
Mannheim,
German
sociologist (Ideology & Utopia),
born in
Budapest, Hungary
(d. 1947:@53:
heart disease)
1899 Gloria
Swanson,
American actress
(Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly),
born in Chicago,
Illinois
(d. 1983@@84)
1917 Cyrus
Vance,
US Secretary of
State (1977-80),
born in
Clarksburg, West Virginia
(d. 2002:@84)
1930 David
Janssen,
American actor
(The Fugitive, Harry O),
born in Naponee
Nebraska
(d. 1980:@48-heart
attack)
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56- Quentin
Tarantino,
American director
and screenwriter (Pulp Fiction),
born in
Knoxville, Tennessee
50- Pauley
Perrette,
American actress,
photographer, poet and writer,
born in New
Orleans, Louisiana
49- Mariah
Carey,
American singer
(Love Takes Time, Hero),
born in NYC, New
York
44- Fergie
Duhamel,
American pop
singer (The Black Eyed Peas),
born in Hacienda
Heights, California
31- Brenda
Song,
American actress
(The Ultimate Christmas Present),
born in
Carmichael, California
Historical Obits Today
@95-2002 Billy
Wilder,
Austrian-born
American film director
(The
Lost Weekend, Some Like it Hot)
@93-2002 Milton
Berle,
American
actor and comedian
@87±-1969 B[runo]
Traven,
writer
(The Treasure of the Sierra Madre),
writer
whose identity is disputed
@74-1910 Alexander
Agassiz,
American
biologist and geologist
@72-1916 Susan
Blow,
American
educator who pioneered kindergarten education and
was
known as the "Mother of the Kindergarten"
@66-2002 Dudley
Moore,
English
actor and comedian (10, Arthur, Bedazzled),
dies
of pneumonia/PSP
@64-1991 Aldo
Ray
[(born Aldo Da Re],
American
actor (God's Little Acre, Green Beret),
dies
of cancer
@58-1625 James
Stuart,
King
James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and James I of England and
Ireland
(1603-25),
dies
of dysentery
@34-1968 Yuri
Gagarin,
Russian
cosmonaut and 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1),
dies
in a Mig-15 plane crash
