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Jan 18, 2018 Week: 03\ Day: 18
86004 Today: H 48° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave.: 9mph\Gusts: 17mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 64°[1971] Record Low: -8°[1995]
Jan Averages: 50°\23°
Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)
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Today’s Quote
Harper’s Index
9/10-Portion of US workers who believe that having to email outside work hours is reasonable.
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Observances This Week
14-20
Healthy Weight Week
15-19
No Name Calling Week Link
Sugar Awareness Week
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
18-28
Sundance Film Festival
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Observances for Today
Hot Heads Chili Days
Get to Know Your Customers Day
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
1535 Francisco Pizarro founds the city of Lima in Peru
1600’s
1644 Perplexed Pilgrims in Boston reported America's 1st UFO sighting
1671 British pirate Henry Morgan captures Panama City from its Spanish defenders
1700’s
1733 1st polar bear exhibited in America in Boston
1777 San Jose in California founded
1778 Captain James Cook stumbles over Sandwich Islands (Hawaiian Islands)
1800’s
1817 José de San Martín leads a revolutionary army over the Andes to attack Spanish royalists in Chile
1866 Wesley College is established in Melbourne
1886 Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England
00’s
1902 Despite reports that favor the US building a route through Nicaragua for a canal, a 'supplementary report' recommends the route through Panama
1919 Bentley Motors Limited is founded
1919 The Paris peace conference (aka the Versailles peace conference) opens to draw up the treaties formally ending the Great War (WWI)
1943 Soviets announce they have broken the long siege of Leningrad by Nazi Germany
1944 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden.
1948 1st courses begin at University of Ibadan, Nigeria
1956 German Democratic Republic (East Germany) forms own army (National People's Army)
1962 US begins spraying foliage in Vietnam to reveal Viet Cong guerrillas
1964 Plans for World Trade Center announced (NYC)
1972 Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Brian Faulkner bans all parades and marches in Northern Ireland until the end of the year
1973 John Cleese's final episode on "Monty Python's Flying Circus" on BBC TV
1974 "$6 Million Man" starring Lee Majors premieres on ABC TV
1977 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.
1981 Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield become the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories (buildings, cliffs, bridges, antennae) after parachuting off a Houston skyscraper
1983 IOC restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals 70 years after they were taken from him for being paid $25 in semipro baseball
1990 Washington DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
1991 US acknowledges CIA and US Army paid Manuel Noriega $320,000 over his career
1991 Longest tennis match at the Australian Open, Boris Becker beats Italy's Omar Camporese in 5 hours & 11 mins
2000’s
2003 A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia.
2008 The United Nations announce George Clooney as a UN messenger of peace
2012 Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) blackout becomes the largest protest in the history of the internet
2017 NASA and NOAA announce that 2016 was the hottest year on record, surpassing the previous record set in 2015 which itself topped a record set in 2014
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My Rambling Thoughts
Got my weekly shopping done with only one problem…Sam’s didn’t have their chocolate caramel squares with sea salt. I will survive.
A friend posted a video on the plight in Capetown, SA that I was unaware of. The video claimed their long drought may leave the city with NO WATER by late April or early May. I was stunned so hit the internet to verify. Turns out it is certainly possible if the rains don’t come soon. When I visited Capetown about a decade ago it was a beautiful city and our trip to the top of Table Mountain was canceled because of rain @ the top. Back then the city was green. Now the public and private swimming pools are empty. There are strict guidelines about showers (2 min), no watering landscape. Even with that, there is a real possibility that everyone will have to stand in guarded lines to get their 6 liters of water a day. Terrifying.
Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen didn’t hear 45 using ‘that word’. The administration has been questioning the ‘hole’ or ‘house’ comment for days. Somehow, I feel the question simply used the wrong word. From their point of view, that makes it all good.
Happy to see that the 2 Koreas have reached an agreement on the Olympics. The event should always be about the athletes, not the politics.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@90- Peter Mark Roget,
British inventor (slide rule, pocket chessboard)
lexographer (Roget's Thesaurus),
born in London, England
(d. 1869)
80’s
@82- Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach],
British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace,
North by Northwest),
born in Horfield, Bristol, England
(d. 1986)
@80- Ray Dolby,
American sound expert and inventor (Dolby noise limiting system),
born in Portland, Oregon
(d. 2013)
70’s
@75- Daniel Williams,
American heart surgeon who performed the 1st open heart surgery,
born in Hollidaysburg, PA
stroke (d. 1931)
@74- Edward Frankland,
British structural chemist who co-discovered helium
developed the theory of valence
(d. 1899)
@74- A. A. Milne,
English author of the Winnie-the-Pooh books,
born in Hampstead Middlesex
(d. 1956)
@70- Daniel Webster,
US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician and lawyer,
born in Salisbury, New Hampshire
fall from horse/stroke/cirrhosis (d. 1852)
60’s
@65- Oliver Hardy,
American comic actor (Laurel & Hardy),
born in Harlem, Georgia
strokes (d. 1957)
63- Kevin Costner,
American actor (Fandango, Silverado, Bull Durham),
born in Los Angeles
40’s
49- Jesse L. Martin,
American actor and singer
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2011 Sargent Shriver,
American politician and activist (Peace Corps)
80’s
@82-1996 Minnesota Fats, [Rudolf Wanderone Jr],
billiard hustler
70’s
@74-1954 Sydney Greenstreet,
British actor (Casablanca, Maltese Falcon),
Bright’s disease
@71-1862 John Tyler,
10th US President (1841-45),
probable stroke
@70-1936 Rudyard Kipling,
English author (Gunga Din, Nobel 1907),
perforated ulcer
60’s
@67-2016 Glenn Frey,
American singer-songwriter (The Eagles),
surgery complications
50’s
@56-1978 Carl Betz,
actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show),
lung cancer
@51-859 Alfred Vail,
American inventor and early telegraph pioneer (Morse Code)
40’s
@48-1952 Curly Howard {Jerome Lester Horwitz},
American vaudevillian actor and comedian (The Three Stooges),
stroke
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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.
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