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Jan 30, 2018 Week: 05\ Day: 30
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave.: 10mph\Gusts: 0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[1971] Record Low: -19°[1979]
Jan Averages: 50°\23°
Jan Records: H: 66° (1971) L: -30° (1937)
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Today’s Quote
Harper’s Index
37-Percentage of American adults who say they would run for Congress
if they thought they had a chance of winning.
71-Percentage of likely US voters who think that the expense makes it
impossible for most people to run for Congress
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Observances This Week
28- Feb 3
29-Feb 2
Tax Identity Theft Week Link
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Observances for Today
National Plan For A Vacation Day Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1400’s
1487 Bell chimes invented
1600’s
1607 Massive flooding in England destroys around 200 square miles
of coastline and results in approximately 2,000 casualties
1700’s
1790 Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor
1798 Rep Matthew Lyon (Vt) spits in face of Rep Roger Griswold (Ct)
in US House of Representatives, after an argument
1800’s
1804 Scottish explorer Mungo Park leaves England seeking
source of Niger River
1815 Burned US Library of Congress re-established with
Thomas Jefferson's 6,500 volumes
1818 John Keats composes his sonnet "When I Have Fears"
1826 The Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern
suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north
west coast of Wales is opened.
1847 Yerba Buena renamed San Francisco
1873 "Around the World in 80 Days" by Jules Verneis published in
France by Pierre-Jules Hetzel
1894 Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit
1900’s
1911 1st rescue of an air passenger by a ship, near Havana, Cuba
1922 World Law Day 1st celebrated
1931 "City Lights", American silent romantic comedy film directed
by Charlie Chaplin, starring himself and Virginia Cherrill, premieres
at Los Angeles Theater
1946 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1948 5th Winter Olympic games open in St Moritz, Switzerland
1956 KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corps
1961 KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 "I Fall to Pieces" single released by Patsy Cline(Billboard Song of
the Year 1961)
1963 Ivan Sutherland submits a thesis containing his Sketchpad
program, a forerunner to modern-day graphic user interfaces
and computer-aided design programs
1965 State funeral of Winston Churchill at St Paul's Cathedral in London.
Then world's largest ever state funeral.
1968 Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese launch the Tet offensive
against South Vietnames and US forces
1972 'Bloody Sunday': 27 unarmed civilians are shot (of whom 14 were
killed) by the British Army during a civil rights march in Derry; this is
the highest death toll from a single shooting incident during 'the
Troubles'
1973 KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY)
1975 Ernő Rubik applies for a patent for his "Magic Cube" invention, later to be known as a Rubik's cube
1989 Five Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor
1994 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.76)
2000’s
2017 Scientists in central China reveal oldest known human ancestor
- 540-million-year-old Saccorhytus in a fossil
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My Rambling Thoughts
Hard to believe it is the end of January when it is over 50° outside, but that is what’s going on.
Nothing to do today, so I turned on the TV as I picked up around the house. Big mistake as I had left it on a news channel. Ever notice that 45 will trash talk JAY-z over his comments, but when White Rapper Eminem really trashes 45, good ol’ 45 is silent. As a former Civil Servant, I feel sorry for career FBI McCabe. He was in 45’s sights and resigned with only a little over a month until retirement. Tracking app used by joggers publishes map showing users routes…NBD except it included military installations in war zones. Hmmm. Turned off the news channel after about 15 minutes. Way too frustrating for this beautiful day.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@93- Dorothy Malone,
American actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place),
born in Chicago, Illinois
(d. 2018)
80’s
@88- Douglas Engelbart,
American computer scientist
(computer mouse, Engelbart's Law),
born in Portland, Oregon
(d. 2013)
88- Gene Hackman,
actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, The French Connection),
born in San Bernardino
@86- Dick Martin,
actor/comedian (Laugh-In, Carbon Copy),
born in Detroit,
(d. 2008)
@84- Emilio G. Segrè,
Italian physicist and Nobel laureate
(discovered the elements technetium, astatine and
the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton),
born in Tivoli, Italy
(d. 1989)
@82- Tammy Grimes,
American actress (Unsinkable Molly Brown),
born in Lynn, Massachusetts
(d. 2016)
@81- David Wayne,
American stage and screen actor
(Andromeda Strain, Adam's Rib),
born in Traverse City, Michigan
(d. 1995)
81- Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72)
81- Vanessa Redgrave,
British actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express),
born in London
70’s
77- Dick Cheney,
American politician (Vice President: 2001-2009),
born in Lincoln, Nebraska
60’s
67- Phil Collins,
England, singer/drummer (Genesis-Against All Odds)
@63- Franklin Roosevelt,
32nd US President (Democrat: 1933-1945),
born in Hyde Park, NY
stroke (d. 1945)
@60±- Thomas Rolfe,
American colonial settler
only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe
(d. 1675)
60- Brett Butler,
comedienne (Grace-Grace Under Fire),
born in Montgomery, Alabama
40’s
44- Christian Bale,
Wales, British actor (Batman Begins, American Psycho,
The Machinist),
born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, Wales
@42- Payne Stewart,
American PGA golfer (1983 Walt Disney),
born in Springfield, Missouri
plane crash (d. 1999)
30’s
38-Wilmer Valderrama,
TV actor (FES on That 70’s Show)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-2015 Carl Djerassi,
Austrian-born American chemist,
father of the contraceptive pill
80’s
@89-2007 Sidney Sheldon,
American novelist
playwright (Master of the Game, Bloodline, The Bachelor and
the Bobby Soxer)
@84-1836 Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom],
American seamstress widely credited with making the first
American flag
@83-1991 John McIntire,
American actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian)
American physicist, electrical engineer
co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel 1956, 1972)
70’s
@78-2006 Coretta Scott King,
American activist
wife of Martin Luther King Jr.
ovarian cancer
@78-1948 Mahatma Gandhi,
India's political and spiritual leader,
assassinated by Hindu extremists
@76-2009 Ingemar Johansson,
Swedish heavyweight professional boxing champion
Alzheimer’s/pneumonia
@76-1948 Orville Wright,
US aviation pioneer,
heart attack
@75-1951 Ferdinand Porsche,
German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle,
Mercedes-Benz SS)
founder of the Porsche car company,
stroke
@72-1934 Frank Nelson Doubleday,
American publisher
40’s
@48-1649 Charles I,
King of Great Britain (1625-49),
beheaded for treason by Parliament
30’s
@33±-1838 Osceola,
chief of Seminole,
in jail of bacterial infection
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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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