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Apr 15, 2019 Week: 16 \ Day: 105
86004: H 65° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind: 5mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest wildfire: 68mi. Nearest lightning: 1138mi
Record High: 76°[1948] Record Low: 11°[1965]
Mar Averages: 59°\28°
(3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
Innovation distinguishes
between a leader and a follower.
Steve Jobs
Random Tidbits
Plant life began on the Earth's landforms
about 430 million years ago. The first plants were likely single-celled
organisms distantly related to algae.
The first reptiles began life 300 million
years ago, and modern mammals appeared roughly 75 million years ago.
Observances This Week
Passiontide: 7-20
International Wildlife Film Week: 13-19 Link
Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week: 14-20 Link
Holy Week: 14-20
National Karaoke Week: 14-20
National Dog Bite Prevention Week:14-20 Link
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week: 14-20
National Student Employment Week: 14-20 Link
Pan American Week: 14-20
World Irish Dancing Week: 14-21
National Occupational Health Nursing Week: 15-19 Link
International Wildlife Film Week: 13-19 Link
Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week: 14-20 Link
Holy Week: 14-20
National Karaoke Week: 14-20
National Dog Bite Prevention Week:14-20 Link
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week: 14-20
National Student Employment Week: 14-20 Link
Pan American Week: 14-20
World Irish Dancing Week: 14-21
National Occupational Health Nursing Week: 15-19 Link
Observances for Today
Boston Marathon
Income Tax Pay Day Link Link)
Jackie Robinson Day Link
McDonald's Day
National Education and Sharing Day Link
National Glazed Ham Day
Income Tax Pay Day Link Link)
Jackie Robinson Day Link
McDonald's Day
National Education and Sharing Day Link
National Glazed Ham Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Spring has
returned for another try. Warm, light breeze, NICE!
Sunday news show
were simply a rehash of the news. Nothing new.
This should be a
quiet week as Easter is on the horizon. No big plans and hoping to just slide
into a nice Easter.
Nice to see the
young neighborhood kids outside playing and enjoying themselves. They haven’t
been playing outside much this winter, but spring has arrived and they are
having fun.
As I was channel
surfing this AM, I landed on the end of the Masters. Tiger was amazing. A long
and bumpy comeback story.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at the bottom of this page
The favorite foods of Megan, Michael, Sergi, and
Jana are written below. Each person has a different favorite food. Use the
following food clues to match the people with their favorite foods.
1. Michael likes ketchup and mustard on his
favorite food.
2. Jana is allergic to cheese.
3. Sergi eats his favorite food on a bun.
4 Sometimes for something different, Michael
makes his food into corn dogs.
What are each kids favorite food?
Write the name of the person next to their
favorite foods.
Chicken Drumstick:
Hot Dog in a bun:
A slice of Pizza:
A hamburger in a bun:
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1200’s
1250 Kublai is acclaimed the Great Khan by a
Mongol Great Council
1500’s
1528 Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador
arrives in Florida with 350 men to a hostile reception from native indians
1700’s
1715 Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of
the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina.
1755 Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the
English Language" published in London
1800’s
1802 William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy
see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
1817 1st American school for the deaf opens
(Hartford, Connecticut)
1850 City of San Francisco incorporated
1865 Abraham Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is
shot attending the play "Our American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in
Washington
1874 First 'Impressionist' exhibition opens in
Paris, features Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille
Pissarro and Berthe Morisot
1878 Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 General Electric Company formed by merger
of Thomas Edison's General Electric Company with Thomson-Houston Electric
Company, arranged by J. P. Morgan and incorporated in NY
1900’s
1912 RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland
as the band plays on, with the loss of between 1,490 and 1,635 people
1923 1st sound on film public performance shown
at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 Insulin becomes generally available for
diabetics
1924 Rand McNally publishes its first road
atlas.
1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank
credit card
1955 Ray Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast
food restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois
1960 Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
(SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award winning
stry about an 8-year-old heroin addict is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes
Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1992 Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail
for tax evasion
2000’s
2009 Even though official government sources
state that Argentina's GDP will actually grow this year, private consulting
firms state that Argentine economy has actually been in recession since October
2008
2010 Volcanic ash from the eruption of
Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of
Europe.
Birthdays Today
1452 Leonardo da Vinci,
(d. 1519: @67)
Italian painter, sculptor, scientist and
visionary,
born in Vinci, Florence, Italy
1469 Guru Nanak,
(d. 1539: @69)
Founder of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st
Sikh Guru,
born in Rai-Bhoi-Di-Talwandi, Punjab, Pakistan
1894 Bessie Smith,
(d. 1937: @43: after car
crash)
American blues singer nicknamed the
"Empress of Blues" (over 200 songs),
born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1894 Nikita Khrushchev,
(d. 1971: @77: heart attack)
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (1953-64), born in Kalinovka, Russia
1912 Kim Il-sung,
(d. 1994: @82)
Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of
North-Korea (1948-94),
born in Mangyongdae, Japanese Korea
1917 Hans Conried,
(d. 1982: @64: heart attack)
American actor
(Peter Pan, Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for
Daddy),
born in Baltimore, Maryland
1922 Michael Ansara,
(d. 2013: @91)
American actor (Broken Arrow, Centennial),
born in Lebanon
1929 Adrian Cadbury,
(d. 2015: @86)
confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and
author of report on Corporate Governance,
1933 Elizabeth Montgomery,
(d.1995: @62: colon cancer)
US actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched),
born in Los Angeles,
1933 Roy Clark,
(d. 2018: @ 85)
US country singer (Hee Haw, The Tonight Show),
born in Meherrin, Virginia
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70’s
75- Linda
Bloodworth-Thomason,
TV producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)
60’s
60- Emma Thompson,
British actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar
1992),
born in London, England
30’s
37- Seth Rogen,
Canadian actor and writer (The 40-Year-Old
Virgin, The Interview),
born in Vancouver, British Columbia
20’s
29- Emma Watson,
English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter
Series),
born in Paris, France
Historical Obits Today
80’s
@85-1993 Leslie
Charteris,
British mystery writer (Saint)
@84-2002 Byron
"Whizzer" White,
UofColorado football player and
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
@84-1990 Greta Garbo,
Swedish actress (Anna Karenina, Camille)
70’s
@74-1980 Jean-Paul
Sartre,
existentialist philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964),
dies in Paris of edema
@72-1998 Pol Pot,
Cambodian dictator (1976-79) and revolutionary who
led the Khmer Rouge (1963-97),
dies of heart failure or suicide
60’s
@69-1967 Totò
[Antonio De Curtis],
Italian actor (Motorizzate, Noi Duri) commonly
referred to as the most popular Italian comedian of all time,
dies from a heart attack
@65-1975 Richard Conte,
American actor (The Godfather, Tony Rome, Hotel),
dies from a heart attack
@62-1912 Edward Smith,
English naval captain of the RMS Titanic,
dies when the ship sinks in the Atlantic Ocean
50’s
@56-1865 Abraham
Lincoln,
16th American President,
dies from gunshot wounds
40’s
@47-1912 John Jacob Astor IV,
American businessman and soldier
(richest passenger aboard the Titanic),
dies aboard the Titanic
Puzzle answer:
Chicken Drumstick: Jana
Hot Dog in a bun: Michael
A slice of Pizza: Megan
A hamburger in a bun: Sergi
