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Almanac: Week: 14 \ Day: 90
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 71°\L 35° Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 23mph
Ave. High: 54° Record High: 73°
(1966) Ave. Low: 26° Record
Low: 3° (1912)
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Observances Today:
Bunsen
Burner Day
Chavez Day
International Hug A Medielvalist Day
National "She's Funny That Way"
Day
National
Clams On The Half Shell Day
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Observances This Week:
28-4/5
…Nano Days
…National Protocol Officer's Week
…National Week of the Ocean
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1850 - US
population hits 23,191,876 (Black population: 3,638,808 (15.7%))
1870 - 1st
black to vote in US (Thomas P Mundy of Perth Amboy NJ)
1877 - In Arizona,
parts of the White Mountain - San Carlos Reservation
will be restored to public domain
1877 - The deaths of
three children were reported as an epidemic of
Scarlet Fever hit Prescott.
1880 - 1st town
completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, IN)
1909 - Gustav Mahler conducts NY Philharmonic for
his 1st time
1918 - 1st
daylight savings time in US goes into effect
1922 - KFI-AM
in Los Angeles CA begins radio transmissions
1923 - 1st
dance marathon-NYC-Alma Cummings sets record of 27 hrs
1930 - The
Motion Pictures Production Code is instituted, imposing strict
guidelines on the
treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film for the next thirty
eight years
1932 - Ford publicly unveils its V-8 engine
1933 - Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation
Corps
1939 - "The
Hound of Baskervilles", starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock
Holmes
and Nigel Bruce as
Dr. Watson for the first time, is released
1943 - Rodgers
& Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!" premieres in NYC
1945 - Tennessee
Williams' "Glass Menagerie" premieres in NYC
1948 - Congress
passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1953 - US
Department of Health, Education & Welfare established
1954 - US Air
Force Academy in Colorado Springs established
1963 - LA ends
streetcar service after 90 years
1965 - US
ordered the 1st combat troops to Vietnam
1966 - 25,000
antiwar demonstrators march in NYC
1968 - LBJ announces
he will not seek re-election
1980
- President Jimmy Carter deregulates banking industry
1988 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Toni Morrison for
"Beloved"
1995 - 1st game
at Coors Stadium Colo (replacement Rockies beat Yanks 4-1)
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Today’s World Events through History
1814 - Forces
allied against Napoleon capture Paris
1831 - Quebec & Montreal incorporated
1889 - 300m
high Eiffel Tower officially opens in Paris to commemorate the
French Revolution
1949 - Newfoundland
becomes Canada's 10th province
1953 - UN Security Council nominates Dag
Hammarskjoeld secretary-general
1959 - Dalai
Lama fled China & was granted political asylum in India
1961 - Aklilou
Habtewold becomes 1st premier of Ethiopia
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Successful Monday.
Found some new cushions for my deck on sale. Got a lot of other
stuff that is needed around the house.
It was a great day weather wise until late afternoon when dark
grey clouds filled most of the sky. Sure looks like a typical setup for
thunderstorms, but no moisture, lightning, or thunder…yet. My tulips are about ready to open, and the
daffodils are doing great. I was able to keep the upstairs windows open from 9a
on…and the front door open when I got back from shopping until about 5pm. Nice.
My state senator has gone to the crazy side. She has always been
far right, but now, every day she is posting articles on FB that talk about how
the US military is having ‘practice to prepare for Martial Law across the US.’
Sad to see an elected official lose any touch with reality. Even sadder when
the official doesn’t realize it and when questioned just sez that ‘You don’t
understand what is going on.’
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
do the following sentences have in common?
Tracy, no panic in a pony cart!
But not now a wonton tub!
Marge let a moody baby doom a telegram.
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Education
Facts…
~ Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida
neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the
high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare
and all high school graduates scholarships.
~Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the
group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of
people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
~The $347,873, 36-inch pipeline from Upper Lake Mary to the
filtration plant is now complete. Well No. 3 is being drilled by the Arizona
Pulp & Paper Co. Upper Lake Mary is now contains over 1 billion gallons of
water thanks to last winter’s storms.
~Two new dump trucks were picked up in Phoenix for the Public
Works Dept. They were purchased from the E. D. Babbitt Motor Co. and cost $21,132.
~There are 30 new STOP signs in East Flagstaff. There are two
through streets with all streets running into Lockett now STOP streets.
…Harper’s
Index…
81:
percentage of Americans who do not feel secure sharing private information over
social media
…Memory
Facts…
~ Squirrels forget where they hide about half of their nuts.
~ Caffeine boosts memory.
~ Blueberry juice boosts memory.
…Strange
State Laws…
~ In Hartford, Conn., you aren't allowed to cross a street while
walking on your hands.
~ In Baltimore, it's illegal to take a lion to the movies.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The hyoid bone…in the neck.. is the only bone in the human body
not connected to another bone.
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2 jokes
for the day
A lady walked into a boutique and asked the
sales lady "May I try on that cute dress in the window?"
The sales lady replied; "Sure, but wouldn’t you be more comfortable in a
dressing room?"
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A boy had reached four without giving up the
habit of sucking his thumb, though his mother had tried everything from bribery
to reasoning to painting it with lemon juice to discourage the habit.
Finally she tried threats, warning her son that, "If you don't stop
sucking your thumb, your stomach is going to blow up like a balloon."
Later that day, walking in the park, mother and son saw a pregnant woman
sitting on a bench.
The four-year-old considered her gravely for a minute, then spoke to her
saying, "Uh-oh ... I know what you've been doing."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Agriculture in the United States really started to change in the
1990s. That was when big agribusiness really started to take over and began to
introduce genetically engineered food proteins and hormones.
Some engineered foods are designed to yield bigger crops, some are designed to
withstand increasing doses of weed killer. This has the nice, little ancillary
benefit of promoting increased sales of weed killer. And I'll give you one good
guess as to who the biggest producer of that stuff is.
Now, you might think that all of this genetically engineered food is carefully
tested and regulated. Nope. The attitude of the United States is that what you
don't know can't hurt you.
The rest of the world doesn't feel that way. In fact, most genetically
engineered foods, proteins and hormones are illegal in most of the rest of the
world.
On the other hand; incidences of cancer in the United States has increased
dramatically in the last 20 years or so, for some mysterious reason. In fact,
the U.S. now has the highest rates of cancer of any country in the world.
According to the American Cancer Society, migration studies show that if you
were to move to the U.S. from someplace like Japan your likelihood of
developing cancer increases four-fold! In fact, one out of two American men and
one out of three women are expected to get cancer in their lifetime.
But that still doesn't keep big agribusiness from pushing their poisons in the
rest of the world. Not that it is working all that well.
Recently a jerk-off American lobbyist for agri-giant Monsanto was claiming on a
French television show that their weed killer Roundup was so safe for humans
that a person could "drink a whole quart of it and it won't hurt
you."
"You want to drink some?" the interviewer asked.
"I'd be happy to, actually," the American replied.
"If you say so," the interviewer says, "I have some."
To which the lobbyist quickly answered, "I'm not stupid." At which
point he got up and walked out on the interview.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
Second City opened its doors on a cold December night in 1959 in Chicago's Old
Town neighborhood. The first Second City revue show premiered at 1842 North
Wells Street. The theater instantly became a hot spot for locals and within a
few short years a must-see for tourists.
In 1961, not only did Del Close join The Second City but the theater also sent
a cast to Broadway with the musical revue, From the Second City, directed by
Paul Sills, which earned a Tony nomination for ensemble member Severn Darden.
The Second City also released its first comedy album in 1961.
Success demanded a bigger home, so in 1967 The Second City removed the Louis
Sullivan arches from its facade and ventured a few blocks South to the Piper's
Alley building, a former bakery that has been its home ever since.
In 1968, A Plague on Both Your Houses, The Second City's 28th Mainstage Revue,
runs the night of the Democratic Convention. 1968 also saw the first film from
The Second City.
As if the 60's didn't provide enough excitement for the growing enterprise, in
1973 producers Bernard Sahlins and Joyce Sloane headed north and opened the
doors to a permanent space in downtown Toronto. Del Close returns to The Second
City to become Resident Director
In 1975, Saturday Night Live debuted with The Second City alums John Belushi,
Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd.
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Birthday’s Today
87 - Gordie Howe,
Floral Sask, NHL right wing (Detroit Redwings)
81 - Shirley Jones, Smithton Pa, actress
(Partridge Family, Elmer Gantry)
81 - Richard Chamberlain, Beverly Hills,
California, American actor (Dr Kildare)
80 - Herb Alpert,
bandleader/trumpeteer (Tijuana Brass)/CEO (A & M)
75 - Barney Frank,
(Rep-MA)
73 - Michael
Savage, Untra-conservative talk radio host
72 - Christopher
Walken, Astoria Queens, actor (Deer Hunter, Brainstorm)
70 - Gabe Kaplan, Brooklyn, comedian/actor
(Welcome Back Kotter)
67 - Albert Gore Jr, Wash DC, (Sen-Tenn)/45th US VP
67 - Rhea Perlman, Brooklyn, actress
(Zena-Taxi, Carla-Cheers)
65 - Ed Marinaro,
actor (Joe-Hill St Blues, Sonny-Laverne & Shirley)
43 - Ewan
McGregor, Perth Scotland, Scottish actor (Trainspotting)
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Remembered for being born today
- Ted Post, Dir
(Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes) 1918-2013@95
- Henry
Morgan, comedian/TV panelist (I've Got a Secret) 1915-1994@79
- Liz Claiborne,
Brussels, fashion designer, entrepreneur 1929-2007@78
- Franz Joseph Haydn,
classical period composer 1732-1809@77
- Richard
Kiley, actor (Man of La Mancha, Endless Love) 1922-1999@76
- Jack Johnson, 1st
African American heavyweight boxing champ 1878-1946@68
- Cesar Chavez, Yuma,
farm labor leader (United Farm Workers) 1927-1993@66
- Johann Sebastian
Bach, German composer 1685-1750@65
- Patrick J G McGee,
North Ireland, actor (Clockwork Orange) 1922-1982@60
- Thompson McKennan,
the 2nd Secretary of the Interior 1794-1852@58
- René Descartes, French
philosopher 1596-1650@53
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Historical Obits Today
Paul
Strand, American photographer-1976@85
Bella
Abzug, American politician, heart disease-1998@77
John Pierpont Morgan, US banker/CEO (US Steel Corp), in sleep-1913@75
John C.
Calhoun, American politician, TB-1850@68
Knute
Rockne, football player/coach, plane crash-1931@43
Terri
Schiavo, American figure in right to die case -2005@41
Charlotte
Brontë, English novelist (Jane Eyre), typhus-1955@38
Brandon
Lee, actor (Crow)/son of Bruce Lee, accidentally shot on set-1993@28
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Brain Teasers Answers
They are all palindromic sentences, sentences that read the same
backwards as they do forwards!
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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 contains
mistakes and sadly once 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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
