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Almanac: Week: 17 \ Day: 109
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 67°\L 30° Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind
ave: 13mph\Gusts: 27mph
Ave. High: 59° Record High: 77°
(1989) Ave. Low: 28° Record
Low: 10° (1917)
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Observances Today:
Bicycle
Day—for Swiss Albert
Hoffman’s 1st LSD trip…on a bicycle
John
Parker Day—Battle of Lexington
National
Garlic Day
National
Hanging Out Day
Oklahoma
City Bombing Commemoration Day
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Observances This Week:
17-19
Cleaning
For A Reason Week
Consumer
Awareness Week
Global
Youth Service Days
International
Home Furnishings Market
International
Wildlife Film Week
Money Smart Week
National
Infant Immunization Week
National
Park Week
18-23
National
Toddler Immunization Week
Police
Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
19-25
Administrative
Professionals Week
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week
Bedbug Awareness Week
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Occupational Health Nursing Week
National Infertility Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week
National Princess Week
Sky Awareness Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1775 - Minutemen
Capt John Parker orders not to fire unless fired upon
1775 - American Revolution begins - Lexington
Common, shot "heard
round the world"
1782 - John
Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States
as an independent government and house he
purchased in The Hague,
Netherlands became first American embassy.
1837 - Cheyney
University, PA forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
1852 - California
Historical Society forms
1861 - Lincoln orders blockade of Confederate ports
(Civil War)
1874 - Barracks
on Alcatraz Island destroyed in fire
1897 - 1st
American marathon ran, John J McDermott wins in 2:55:10 (Boston)
1932
- President Herbert Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1932 - Bonnie
Parker is captured in a failed hardware store burglary, and
subsequently jailed. A grand jury fails to
indict her, however, and she
is released a few months later
1933
- FDR announces US will leave gold standard
1934 - Shirley
Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
1939 - Connecticut finally approves Bill of Rights (148
years late)
1941 - Miracle Mile
development in Tucson showed rapid growth; new
tourist courts were estimated to have cost
$125,000.
1945 - Rodgers & Hammerstein musical
"Carousel" opens on Broadway
1948 - ABC-TV network begins
1951
- Gen Douglas MacArthur ends his military career
1965 - 1st all
news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in NYC) begins operating
1965 - At a cost of $20,000, the outer Astrodome
ceiling is painted because
of sun's glare, this causes the grass to die
1971 - Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon
Tate murder)
1982 - Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1993 - After a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch
Davidians die in a fire
near Waco Texas (accident, suicide, tear gas
are disputed causes)
1994 - Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from
juries because of gender
2013 - Boston
bombing suspects killed and captured in Boston after 4 days
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Today’s World Events through History
1770 - British
explorer Captain James Cook 1st sights Australia
1909 - Joan of Arc receives
beatification
1941 - Milk rationed in Holland
1969 - Serious
rioting in the Bogside area of Derry following clashes
between Northern Ireland Civil Rights
Association marchers
and Loyalists and members of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary
2005 - Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the
second day of the Papal conclave.
2011 - Fidel
Castro resigns from the Communist Party of Cuba's central
committee after 45 years of holding the
title.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great dinner last night, then Netflix into the early morning
hours. Breakfast around 9am and friends are on the road back to the Rez. Quiet and relaxing the rest of the day---read
LAZY.
So lazy that I didn’t even watch any news…that is really lazy.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I am
so small, and sometimes I'm missed.
I get misplaced, misused, and help you when you list.
People usually pause when they see me,
So can you tell me what I could be? am
so small, and sometimes I'm missed.
I get misplaced, misused, and help you when you list.
People usually pause when they see me,
So can you tell me what I could be?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
~ Downtown businesses are complaining
that the work on Santa Fe Avenue/Route 66 is deeply affecting their business
due to lack of access. Customers are having to use very circuitous routes to
reach their doors. The road crew says they are doing their best but have
encountered many problems, including the hydrant flood last week and vandals
using their machinery at night to dig huge holes. There are also unexpected
difficulties presented by the pre-condition of the subgrade.
~ A 3 a.m. fire at Crazy Bill’s Steak
House at 3130 E. Santa Fe Ave. was noticed by some passers-by who called it in.
The fire crew held the damage to about $10,000.
~ For all the recent rain, Lake Mary is
still shrinking. The thirsty earth is soaking it up before it gets to the Lake.
…Harper’s
Index…
68:
percentage of active US physicians who are men
…Language
Facts…
~ WAS IT A CAR OR A CAT I SAW.. This is the longest English
sentence which
even if
we read in reverse, it'll give the same sentence.
~ "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came
from "God be with you."
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ Buddy Ebsen, known for his portrayal of Jed Clampett on the
Beverly Hillbillies,
was
originally cast as the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz. However, he had to drop out
of production when he discovered he was allergic to the silver make up required
for the Tin Man.
…Water Facts..,.
Are you a cyclist? If the answer is positive, you must have
certainly thought,
even
once, how perfect it would be if there was a self-filling water bottle for
bikes, so you will never be thirsty on the road.
The answer to your need is Fontus!
Fontus is
a self-filling water bottle for your bicycle.
It collects the moisture contained in the air, condenses it, and stores it
as safe drinking water. It is powered by solar cells, and it can harvest up to
0,5 l water in an hour under the right climatic conditions.
A second
use of this device might be for acquiring freshwater in regions of
the world where groundwater is scarce but the temperature and the air humidity
is high.
***NEW***…World
Record Facts…
~ The tallest wave in history was the 1958 Lituya Bay megatsunami,
reaching
a height
of 1,720 feet (524 meters).
~ In 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant, fell 33,000 feet in
an aircraft
explosion
and survived. She now holds the Guinness world record for highest freefall
without a parachute.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: What did one math book say to the other?
A: Man I got a lot of problems!
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Hearing a scream from the playroom, the mother
rushed in and found her infant daughter pulling the hair of her four-year-old
bother. After separating them, the mother said to her son, "Don't be upset
with your sister, honey. She didn't know she was hurting you."
No sooner had the mother returned to the chores than she heard more screaming.
This time she rushed in and found the baby crying. "Now what
happened?" she asked.
"Nothing," said the boy, "except that now she knows."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
SNOOK,
Texas (UPI) - A game of rock-paper-scissors at a Texas Chilifest landed
3
officers in hot water when they allowed an underage drinker to play the ability
to avoid a citation. Constable Dennis Gaas of Burleson County Precinct 2 said
the three officers, who work for two different departments, were working
security at Chilifest in Snook when they were caught on video allowing a teen
girl to play a round of rock-paper-scissors with one of the officers in a bid
to avoid a citation. Video of the game, originally posted to humor website
Total Frat Move, shows the girl win the game and celebrate her victory.
Gaas said the officers were informed they would not be asked to
work security
at future
events and they were reported to their respective supervisors. He did not
identify the officers or the agencies where they work. The constable said
"officers are given the choice of giving a warning or issuing a citation
for any violation they encounter during this event," but he said
"playing a game to see if a citation or warning is given does not fall
under professional conduct." "I hope that the public will realize
that this was a few officers and not all the officers at Chilifest," Gaas
said. "Those who came and performed the job that was requested and
required to make this event safe and enjoyable, should be commended for a job
well done."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know McDonald's began as a barbecue restaurant? In 1940 the restaurant
opens as McDonald's BBQ. (McDonald brothers founded the first McDonald's
restaurant in California.)
~In 1955, at age 52 Ray Kroc opens first restaurant in Des Plaines, Illinois.
First day sales were $366.12, and the original menu featured hamburgers,
cheeseburgers, malt shakes, French fries, coffee, milk and soft drinks.
~ Jay Leno, one of a number of famous McDonald's alumni, worked at a restaurant
in Andover, Massachusetts, from 1966 until 1968.
~ In 1968, the Big Mac is launched by Jim Delligatti, a McDonald's owner and
operator from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
~ In 1974, Philadelphia-area franchisees donate a portion of sales from the
newly introduced Shamrock Shake to help build the first Ronald McDonald House.
~ In 1983, chicken McNuggets debut on the menu. The iconic battered bites were
almost onion nuggets, but taste testers preferred chicken!
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Birthday’s Today
90 - Hugh O'Brian,
[Krampke], actor (Wyatt Earp, Search)
78 - Elinor
Donahue, actress (Father Knows Best)
69 - Tim Curry, Cheshire England, actor
(Rocky Horror Show)
53 - Al Unser Jr,
Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
47 - Ashley
Taylor Judd, Granada Hills
California, actress (Kuffs, Sisters)
36 - Kate Hudson, actress
(Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree)
33 - Hayden
Christensen, Canadian actor (Sam-Life as a House, Star Wars)
28 - Maria
Sharapova, Russian tennis player
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Remembered for being born today
- Lucretia
Rudolph Garfield, 1st lady 1832-1918@85
- Dudley Moore,
actor (10, Arthur, Bedazzled, 6 Weeks) 1935-2002@66
- Dick
Sargent, Carmel California, actor (Darrin-Bewitched) 1933-1994@64
- Frank Fontaine,
comedian (Crazy Guggenheim) 1920-1978@58
- Eliot Ness,
untouchable (FBI agent-Chicago) 1903-1957@54
- Jayne Mansfield,
[Vera Jane Palmer], bombshell actress (Fat Spy) 1933-1967@34
Historical Obits Today
Konrad
Adenauer, West Germany chancellor (1949-63)-1967@91
Octavio
Paz, Mexican diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate-1998@84
Hugh "Lumpy" Brannum, Actor (Mr Green Jeans), cancer-1987@77
Benjamin
Disraeli, 1st Earl (Beaconsfield)/novelist, gout-1881@76
Charles Robert Darwin, naturalist (Origin of Species),
heart disease-1882@73
Pierre
Curie, French physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), carriage accident-1906@46
George Gorden Noel "Lord"
Byron, poet, sepsis-1824@36
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Brain Teasers Answers
A comma
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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…§
