1-26-14


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 05 / Day: 0026   
Today: L 26°…H 55°… Ave. humidity: 44%
Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  7mph  

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1784 - Ben Franklin expresses unhappiness over eagle as America's symbol
1871 - US income tax repealed
1913 - Jim Thorpe relinquishes his 1912 Olympic medals for playing as a professional
1915 - Rocky Mountain National Park, Colo established
1918 - Herbert Hoover, US Food Administrator, calls for "wheatless" & "meatless" 
     days for war effort
1948 - Executive Order 9981, end segregation in US Armed Forces signed
1962 - "Twist" is impure & bans it from all Catholic schools
1971 - Charles Manson convicted of murder
1980 - Mary Decker became 1st woman to run a mile in under 4½ minutes
1992 - Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect
1998 - President Bill Clinton says "I want to say one thing to the American people; 
     I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky"
2005 - Condoleezza Rice is sworn in as U.S. Secretary of State

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Had an application crash with Word and lost some of the information for today’s blog. Can’t retrieve it as I do a lot of cut and paste and when the program crashed I lost it all from my email and the lists I have saved on my computer…so a shortened version today.
 
It was a really nice day outside and so hard to believe it is the middle of winter here. Nice to spend some time outside again.
 
Another mall shooting…really? This is insane. How can someone walk into a mall with a shotgun and get to a small store and kill two people with no one seeing him. There also have been 6 school gun violence incidents in the past 6 days. We are living in very scary times.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

OK Then…


Harper’s Index 
  • Date on which John Kerry called the crisis in Syria ‘our Munich moment’: 9/27/2013
  • On which LBJ said ‘what we learned…from Munich’ committed us to intervention in Viet Nam: 7/28/1965

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
18-26
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week  
Week of Christian Unity
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
24-29
World Leprosy Week
Kid Film Festival
26-31
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
National Medical Group Practice Week
International Hoof Care Week
US National Snow Sculpting Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Dental Drill Day-1875
·        Grammy Awards
·        Lotus 1-2-3 Day
·        National Peanut Brittle Day
·        Toad Hollow Day of Encouragement
·        World Leprosy Day
^^^^^
·        Admission Day (Michigan-1837-26th)
·        Australia Day (Australia-1788-raising of UK flag)
·        Republic Day (India-1950)

Today’s Events through History  
1340 - English king Edward III proclaimed king of France
1531 - Lisbon hit by Earthquake; about 30,000 die
1850 - 1st German language daily newspaper in US published, NYC
1910 - Heavy rains cause floods in Paris
1934 - The Apollo Theater reopens in Harlem, New York City.
1961 - "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" by Elvis Presley peaks to #1
1979 - "Dukes of Hazzard" premieres on CBS

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Bob Uecker, Milwaukee Wisc, catcher/actor (Mr Belvedere) is 79
David Strathairn, actor (LA Confidential, The Bourne Ultimatum) is 65
Eddie Van Halen, Nijmegan Neth, rock guitarist (Van Halen-Jump) is 59
Ellen DeGeneres, comediene, talk show host is 56
Wayne Gretzky, NHL great scorer (Oiler, King, Rangers) is 53
Suleman octuplets are 5

Remembered for being born today
1826 - Julia Dent Grant, 1st lady
1831 - Mary Mapes Dodge, NYC, writer (Hans Brinker & the Silver Skates)
1880 - Douglas MacArthur, general (WW II), he did return!, (d. 1964)
1904 - Sean MacBride, Dublin, statesman/Amnesty Intl co-founder (Nobel '74)
1915 - William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
1925 - Paul Newman, racer/popcorn mogul/actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler)
1946 - Gene Siskel, movie critic (Siskel & Ebert)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Edward G Robinson, [Goldenberg], actor (Little Caesar),cancer,1973.@79
Abner Doubleday, credit with inventing baseball,heart disease,1893,on 74th birthday
Nelson Rockefeller, former VP & (4X Gov-R-NY),heart attack,1979,@70
Paul "Bear" Bryant, college football coach (Alabama),heart attack,1983,@69
Christian Brando, actor and son of Marlon Brando, pneumonia,2008,@49

Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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1-25-13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 04 / Day: 025   
Today: L 27°…H 41°… Ave. humidity: 51%
Wind: ave:   15mph; Gusts:  21mph  
Average Low: 17° Record Low:  -17° (1937)
Average High: 43° Record High:  61° (1975)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1554 - Sir Thomas Wyatt gathers an army in Kent, rebels against Queen Mary
1554 - Founding of São Paulo city, Brazil.
1579 - Treaty of Utrecht signed, marks beginning of Dutch Republic
1721 - Czar Peter the Great ends Russian-orthodox patriarchy
1870 - Soda fountain patented by Gustavus Dows
1877 - Congress determines presidential election between Hayes-Tilden
1890 - United Mine Workers of America forms
1905 - Largest diamond, Cullinan (3106 carets), found in South Africa
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games open in Chamonix, France
1961 - 1st live, nationally televised presidential news conference (JFK)
1961 - Walt Disney's "101 Dalmatians" released
1981 - 52 Americans held hostage by Iran for 444 days arrived back in US
1998 - Super Bowl XXXII: Denver Broncos beat Green Bay Packers 
2011 - Egyptian Revolution of 2011 begins in Egypt

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
A little cool for my taste, but certainly bearable, compared to much of the US. As my brother said in a FB post…the next 5 days lows, when added together, is still not warm enough for me.
 
Saw a FB post that one of my old bosses retired. He was an amazing Superintendent, a great leader at GreyHills High, and leader of the NN Dept. of Education. He brought lots of changes wherever he worked and is a real out-of-the-box thinker and leader. He deserves only the very best in his next stage of life. Hope to see him in the next week or so. Also, we are the same age.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Fred ran a flag making business. Things were looking bleak when, out of the blue, someone called from the Paraguayan Embassy. They needed an urgent consignment of 1000 Paraguayan flags by the following week.
Fred got to work straight away. He got a picture of the current Paraguayan flag, got hold of the required cloth and he and his staff worked without stopping until the flags were dispatched. The business was saved, or so he thought.
Unfortunately, the Embassy refused to pay and returned them all. Fred has now lost his business, but why?
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Actual Complaints… These are actual complaints received from dissatisfied customers by Thomas Cook Vacations (based on a Thomas Cook/ABTA survey):
  • "We had to line up outside to catch the boat and there was no air-conditioning."
  • "It is your duty as a tour operator to advise us of noisy or unruly guests before we travel."

Suggested New State Mottos:
  • Nevada: Whores and Poker!
  • North Dakota: We Really Are One Of The 50 States!

Remembering TV’s great shows:
"The Wire" Hot-button issues — the war on drugs, political corruption, the failures of the education system — deeply resonated in David Simon's unvarnished journey into the heart of Baltimore's urban darkness. The result was so vérité, it often felt more like a documentary than a drama.
OK Then…

Harper’s Index 
  • Robot population of the United States: 8,000
  • Of Japan: 16,500

Unusual Fact of the Day
The bonnets and caps of city fire hydrants are painted certain colors to alert firefighters to the amount of water pressure available from that hydrant.
Joke-of-the-day
A man was pulled over for speeding down the highway; the officer came to the driver’s window and said, "Sir, may I see your driver’s license and registration?"
The man said, "Well officer I don't have a license, it was taken away for a DUI."
The officer, in surprise, said," What, do you have a registration for the vehicle?"
So the man replied, "No sir, the car is not mine I stole it, but I am pretty sure I say a registration card in the glove box when I put the gun in it."
 The officer stepped back, "There is a gun in the glove box?!?"
The man sighed and said, "Yes sir, I used to kill the woman who owns the car before I stuffed her in the trunk."
The officer steps toward the back of the car and says," Sir do not move, I am calling for backup."
The officer calls for backup and about ten minutes another highway patrolman arrives. He walks up to the window slowly and asks the man for his driver’s license and registration.
The man said," Yes officer here it right here."
It all checked out so the officer said," Is there a gun in the glove box sir?"
The man laughs and says," No officer why would there be a gun in the glove box." He opened the glove box and showed him that there was no gun.
The second officer asked him to open the trunk because he had reason to believe that there was a body in it. The man agrees and opens the trunk, no dead body. The second officer says, "Sir I do not understand, the officer that pulled you over said that you did not have a license, the car was stolen, there was a gun in the glove box, and a dead body in the trunk."
The man looks the officer in the eyes and says, "Yeah and I'll bet he said I was speeding too."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FINDING YOUR IDEAL WEIGHT
An ideal weight for an endurance athlete, in pounds, is twice his height in inches.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
A falling porcupine landed on the head of a Brazilian woman Wednesday, leaving her with 272 quills in her scalp. 
Sandra Nabucco, of Gavea, told Globo she was walking her dog when the spiky creature fell off a lamp post.
"An old person or a child would have died," the 52-year-old said, according to a translation of Globo by HuffPost UK.
A surgeon was able to remove the quills with tweezers. Nabucco is now taking antibiotics to prevent infection.
Nabucco told The Dodo that though the incident was "frightening and very painful," she's glad she is happy the 10-pound critter survived
"I saved its life," she said. "He broke his fall on my head."
She's lucky a bigger animal didn't land on her. Last year, a Delaware woman was killed by a falling llama.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Fontana di Trevi, designed by Italian architect Nicola Salvi and completed by Pietro Bracci, is the largest Baroque fountain in the city and one of the most famous fountains in the world. According to a traditional legend, if visitors throw a coin into the fountain, they are ensured a return to Rome. Around 3,000 euros are thrown in the fountain every day, in other words 1.095.000 euros per year!
  • Did you know that China has 32.7 million more males than females under the age of 20 according to a new demographic study conducted by Chinese researchers?People use to talk of the ‘male generation’ as for every 100 girls, 120 boys were born in China in 2005. It is said that this  population imbalance is due to the opportunity that parents have to determine their child’ s sex. The Chinese government has expressed concern over issue, which is going to become more extreme over the next ten years or so.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
16-26
Sundance Film Festival
18-26
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week  
Week of Christian Unity
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
24-29
World Leprosy Week
Kid Film Festival

Today Is                                                                      
·        A Room of One's Own Day
·        Macintosh Computer Day
·        National Irish Coffee Day
·        National Seed Swap Day
·        Robert Burns Day
·        Visit Your Local Quilt Shop Day
·        National Speak Up and Succeed Day

Today’s Events through History  
1825 - 1st US engineering college opens, Rensselaer Polytechnic, Troy, NY
1856 - Battle of Seattle; skirmish between settlers & Indians
1915 - Transcontinental telephone service inaugurated (NY to SF)
1919 - Founding of League of Nations, 1st meeting 1 year later
1945 - Grand Rapids, Michigan becomes 1st US city to fluoridate its water
1969 - US-North Vietnamese peace talks begin in Paris
1970 - Robert Altman's M*A*S*H premieres

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Dean Jones, actor (Ensign O'Toole, Company, Love Bug) is 83
Dinah Manoff, actress (Elaine-Soap, Carol Weston-Empty Nest) is 58
Alicia Keys [Cook], \singer-songwriter (Fallin) is 33

Remembered for being born today
Robert Boyle, Ireland, physicist/chemist/author (experiments with color)
Robert Burns, Alloway Scotland, poet (Auld Lang Syne), (d. 1796)
Charles Curtis, (R) 31st US VP (Kaw Tribe)
[William] Somerset Maugham, Paris, British novelist/poet (Of Human Bondage)
Virginia Woolf [Adeline] , London, author (Jacob's Room, To Lighthouse)
Shirley Mason, psychiatric patient (Commonly known as "Sybil")
Etta James [Jamesette Hawkins], singer (Roll with Me, At Last)
Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines
Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Jean Dixon, psychic (Gift of Prophecy), heart attack,1997,@79
Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa),pneumonia,1990,@67
Al Capone, Chicago gangster, neurosyphilis,1947,@48

Brain Teasers
Paraguay's flag has two different sides. Fred's picture only gave one side and that design was used front and back. Had he used a real flag for reference he could have turned it over and seen the difference.
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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1-24-14


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 04 / Day: 024   
Today: L 18°…H 42°… Ave. humidity: 45%
Wind: ave:   17mph; Gusts:  32mph  

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1679 - King Charles II disbands English parliament
1722 - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Col Price
1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill
1922 - Eskimo Pie patented by Christian K Nelson of Iowa 
1923 - Aztec Ruins National Monument, NM established
1962 - Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1972 - Japanese Sgt. Yokoi is found hiding since the end of World War II in a Guam jungle
1984 - Apple Computer Inc unveils its revolutionary Macintosh personal computer
2003 - Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation.

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Cheryl and I had lunch while Mary is still vacationing on the East Coast somewhere.   Good food and great conversation. It took 6 days for CenturyLink to come and fix her landline. They called yesterday and confirmed that she would be home between 11a and 5pm, promising to have her phone working by 7:30p. Well they called her at 11:05 to see if her phone was working and it was. They said it was a problem with phone line that they fixed. Really, they never came to her house. She had originally called to have their answering service turned off as anyone who calls just gets a message that the mailbox is full. She can’t get into the box to empty calls and since she has her own answering machine, she just wanted it turned off. Turns out that they didn’t turn it off at all. She is wary of calling again for fear that she won’t have a landline for another week. What a mess.
 
My friend in Phx hospital is slowly recovering from his medical problems. No word yet on when he will be out, but family says that each day he is stronger and now is becoming his jovial self. Tough times for all concerned but sounds better each day.
 
Not the best weather day here…windy and chilly…but still no moisture. Slowly heading for a record.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Each group of three definitions describes three words that are spelled the same, except for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example: king, ring, wing.
1a) inexperienced 1b) to address with expressions of kind wishes 1c) unreasonable selfish desire ^^ 2a) highly skilled 2b) to conform 2c) to accept formally and put into effect ^^ 3a) a committee for judging and awarding prizes 3b) conceal or hide 3c) violent anger ^^ 4a) a rounded shape 4b) spoken 4c) a gemstone

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Actual Complaints… These are actual complaints received from dissatisfied customers by Thomas Cook Vacations (based on a Thomas Cook/ABTA survey):
"There were too many Spanish people there. The receptionist spoke Spanish, the food was Spanish. No one told us that there would be so many foreigners."
Suggested New State Mottos:
  • Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes ... And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes
  • Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State

Remembering TV’s great shows:
"The Twilight Zone"
Even 3-D pales next to the endlessly inventive "dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind" created by Rod Serling, TV's multifaceted Dickens. His anthology of fantastic stories bridged the worlds of sci-fi and horror with whimsy and an abiding faith in humanity.

Auction Prices
The 'Lost' Beach Boys archive. Boxes of unblemished Beach Boys material sat forgotten in a storage unit in Florida for years before it hit the bidding block this year. Including thousands of documents, what appeared to be the band's first royalty check, dozens of signed contracts, and handwritten and copied scores to "Good Vibrations", "California Girls" and many other hits, the treasure trove of music nostalgia has a tentative estimated price of "several million dollars."
OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
Acts of terrorism in the United States in 1983: 30
Unusual Fact of the Day
Fathers were not allowed in the delivery room until Jay and Marjie Hathaway found a doctor that allowed Jay to be present for the birth of their son James in 1965. The couple went on to found the American Academy of Husband-Coached Childbirth.
Joke-of-the-day
A rather old fashioned lady, always quite delicate and elegant, especially in her language, was planning a weeks holiday in Sydney with her husband, so she wrote to a particular camping ground and asked for a reservation.
She wanted to make sure that the camping ground was fully equipped, but didn't know quite how to ask about the toilet facilities. She just couldn't bring herself to write the word "toilet" in her letter.
After much thought, she finally came up with the old fashioned term "Bathroom closet" but when she wrote it down, she still thought she was being too forward, so she started all over again, rewrote the letter, and referred to the bathroom closet as the B.C.
"Does the camping ground have its own B.C." is what she wrote.
Well, the camping ground owner wasn't a bit old fashioned, and he just couldn't figure out what the old lady was talking about, so he showed the letter around a few of the campers and the only thing they could come up with was that B.C. stood for Baptist Church, so he wrote the following reply.
Dear Madam,
I regret very much the delay in answering your letter, but I now take the pleasure of informing you that a B.C. is located nine miles north of our camping ground, and is capable of seating 250 people at one time.
I admit that it is quite a distance away if you are in the habit of going regularly but no doubt you will be pleased to know that a great number of campers go there and many take their lunches along and make a day of it. They usually arrive nice and early and stay quite late.
The last time my wife and I went was six years ago, and it was so crowded we had to stand up the whole time we were there. It may interest you to know that there is a special supper planned there to raise money to buy more seats so that everyone will be able to sit in comfort.
I would like to say that it pains me very much not to be able to go more regularly, but it is surely no lack of desire on my part, just that I am so busy most of the time.
As we grow older, it seems to be more of an effort to go, especially in the cold weather. If you decide to come down to our camping ground perhaps I could go with you the first time you go, sit with you and introduce you to all the other folks.
Remember this is a very friendly community
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CONSULTING
A consultant should charge at least three times the rate he or she would expect to receive for comparable full-time work with fringe benefits.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - University of Maryland undergraduates have impressed professional astronomers by finding a rare pair of asteroids that orbit and regularly eclipse one another. The students in an undergraduate astronomy class confirmed that a previously unstudied asteroid, dubbed 3905 Doppler, is in fact two asteroids gravitationally tied to each other, the university reported Tuesday. Fewer than 100 asteroids of this type have been identified in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, said Melissa Hayes-Gehrke, who teaches the hands-on class for non-astronomy majors in which eight students made the find in the fall semester 2013. Discovered in 1984, 3905 Doppler in subsequent decades attracted little attention until the students observed it for four nights in October. Puzzling changes in the observed light from the object -- known as its light curve -- were finally determined to be a result of one of the asteroid pair eclipsing the other. The two asteroids -- the smaller one is about three-quarters the length of the larger one -- are probably roughly potato-shaped and pocked with impact craters made by strikes from other space debris, Hayes-Gehrke said. Her students picked 3905 Doppler and two other asteroids from an astronomy journal's list of asteroids worth observing because they were well positioned in the autumn sky and were scientific enigmas. "This is a fantastic discovery," UM astronomy Professor Drake Deming, who was not involved with the class, said. "A binary asteroid with such an unusual light curve is pretty rare. It provides an unprecedented opportunity to learn about the physical properties and orbital evolution of these objects."  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Gagea bohemica is the botanical name of the plant that is more commonly known as the Early Star-of-Bethlehem or Radnor Lily.  It is a representative of the genus Gagea and belongs to the family Liliaceae.
  • It can be met mostly in the Mediterranean region and central Europe but can grow further north, for instance, in France and Germany.
  • The Early Star-of-Bethlehem flowers much earlier than the majority of other species of Gagea, and is typically in bloom from January to March or April.
  • This flowering plant is capable to attain the height from 2 to 6 cm and usually has the one pair of twisting, basal leaves in the shape of thread. They bear a couple of lance-like leaves located beneath the
  • blossoms. There are up to 4 6-petal blooms on every plant. They come in yellow and are 0,5 cm across.
  • This specimen has been found at a single site in the Welsh county of Radnorshire.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
16-26
Sundance Film Festival
18-26
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week  
Week of Christian Unity
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
19-24
National Activity Professionals Week   
National Nurse Anesthetists Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
20-24
No Name Calling Week  
Sugar Awareness Week
24-29
World Leprosy Week
Kid Film Festival

Today Is                                                                      
·        Beer Can Day
·        Belly Laugh Day
·        National Compliment Day
·        National Peanut Butter Day
·        Talk Like A Grizzled Prospector Day

Today’s Events through History  
1568 - In Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1857 -University of Calcutta formally founded; the 1st full-fledged university in south Asia.
1862 - Bucharest proclaimed capital of Romania.
1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1927 - Director Alfred Hitchcock releases his first film, The Pleasure Garden, in England.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Ray Stevens, singer (Ahab the Arab, Streak) is 75
Neil Diamond, Brooklyn NY, singer/actor (Jazz Singer) is 73
Yakov Smirnoff, Russia, comedian (It's a wonderful country) is 63
Mary Lou Retton, gymnist (Oly-gold/2 silver/2 bronze-84) is 46

Remembered for being born today
1800 - Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
1862 - Edith Wharton [-Jones], Pulitzer prize-winning novelist (Ethan Frome)
1911 - C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore, US, sci-fi author (Judgment Night)
1917 - Ernest Borgnine, actor (Ice Station Zebra, McHale, Marty)
1918 - Oral Roberts, Televangelist, founder Oral Roberts College
1943 - Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of the Dolls)
1949 - John Belushi, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues Brothers)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Winston Churchill, PM of Britain,1965,@90
Thurgood Marshall, 1st black Supreme Court justice,1993,@84
Pernell Roberts, actor & singer, last surviving star of Bonanza,2010,@81
Blil W., American co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, phenomena,1971,@75
L[aFayette] Ron[ald] Hubbard, author (Scientology),stroke,1986,@74
James Farentino, actor, dies heart failure,2012,@73
J Carrol Naish, actor (Charlie Chan-Adv of Charlie Chan),emphysema,1973,@73
Larry Fine, actor (3 Stooges),strokes,1975,@72
Gordon MacRae, singer (Oklahoma, Carousel), cancer,1986,@64
Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed,1989,@42
Ira Hayes, American World War II hero,1955,@32

Brain Teasers
1) green, greet, greed 2) adept, adapt, adopt 3) jury, bury, fury 4) oval, oral, opal
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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