Mar 18

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Mar 18, 2018 Week: 12\ Day: 77

86004 Today: H 51° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind ave.:   17mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  569 miles away

Record High: 68°[2004]   Record Low: -1°[1954]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,

and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

Harper’s Index

6-Percentage by which a middle-class American is more

likely than a poor one to eat fast food in a given week

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Observances This Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

16-18

Sherlock Holmes Weekend

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Observances for Today

Awkward Moments Day
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
Goddess of Fertility Day

National Biodiesel Day

Supreme Sacrifice Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s                                          

≈1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake by King Philip IV of France

≈1325 According to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms.

1500’s

1541 Hernando de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)

1800’s

1810 "Converse", 1st US opera, premieres in NY

1818 US Congress approves 1st pensions for government service

≈1859 Vera Cruz besieged by Miramon (Cons) in Mexican War of Reform

1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)

1881 Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest Show on Earth" opens (Madison Square Garden)

≈1895 200 African Americans leave Savannah, Georgia for Liberia

1900’s

1919 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City

≈1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience

1922 The first public celebration of Bat mitzvah, for the daughter of Rabbi Mordecai Kaplan, is held in New York City.

1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)

1944 2,500 women trample guards & floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois department store

≈1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified

1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted (Philadelphia)

1959 US President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill

≈1972 Ulster Vanguard hold a rally of 60,000 people in Belfast; William Craig tells the crowd: "if and when the politicians fail us, it may be our job to liquidate the enemy"

≈1977 US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia

≈1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in the Pyramid of Cheops

2000’s

2005 Terri Schiavo's feeding tube is removed at the request of her husband

≈2014 Russia formally annexes Crimea, previously part of Ukraine. by signing Treaty on Accession

≈2014 US closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice day as I await the next storm tonight and tomorrow. Forecasting 2-5” of the white stuff. Not too excited as weather has been changing so rapidly around here, we could easily have another spring day tomorrow with only rain.

The firing of McCabe is surreal and I fear, far from over. I saw a copy of his response. He knows stuff. When will I wake up from this frightful dream? Seem like 423 days and counting should be enough.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Lillian Vernon,

founder and CEO of the Lillian Vernon Corporation

(first company listed on US stock exchange started by a

woman),

born in Leipzig, Germany

(d. 2015)

@87- Cluny MacPherson,

Canadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask,

born in St. John's, Newfoundland

(d. 1966)

@84- Edward Everett Horton,

American actor and narrator (Bulwinkle Show),

born in Brooklyn

(d. 1970)

@83- Peter Graves [Aurness],

American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17),

born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

(d. 2010)

82- F. W. de Klerk,

South African President (1989-94)

winner of 1993 Nobel Peace Prize with Nelson Mandela,

born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province

70’s

@76- George Plimpton,

sports writer (Paper Lion), born in NYC,

heart attack (d. 2003)

@71- Grover Cleveland,

22nd and 24th US President (1885-89, 1893-97),

born in Caldwell, NJ

heart attack (d. 1908)

@71- [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, 

British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40),

born in Birmingham, England

cancer (d. 1940)

60’s

@68- John C. Calhoun,

Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1825-32),

born in Abbeville, South Carolina

TB (d. 1850)

@67- Edgar Cayce,

American psychic

stroke (d. 1945)

@64- Wilson Pickett,

American R&B singer (Funky Broadway),

born in Prattville, Alabama

heart attack (d. 2006)

50’s

@55- Rudolf Diesel,

French-born German engineer (invented the diesel engine),

born in Paris, France

(disappeared 1913)

@55- Smiley Burnette,

cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction)

leukemia (d.1967)

55- Vanessa L Williams,

Actress, singer and

1st African American Miss America (1983)

54- Bonnie Blair,

American speed skater (Olympic 5 gold/bronze 1988, 92, 94)

born in Champaign, Illinois

40’s

48- Queen Latifah,

American rapper and actress (Khadijah James-Living Single),

born in Newark, NJ

46 Reince Priebus [Rheinhold Priebus],

American lawyer and political operative

(Trump Chief of Staff (Jan-Jul 2017),

born in Dover, NJ

30’s

39- Adam Levine,

American singer (Maroon 5),

born in Los Angeles

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-2017 Chuck Berry [Charles Andersen],

American rock n' roll guitarist and singer-songwriter

(Roll over Beethoven)

80’s

@85- Fess Parker,

American actor

@84-2016 Joe Santos,

American actor (Rockford files)

70’s

@79-1980 Erich Fromm,

German/US psychoanalyst

@70-1845 John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed],

American pioneer agronomist

60’s

@69-1964 Norbert Wiener,

American mathematician (cybernetics),

heart attack

40’s

@45-2009 Natasha Richardson,

English actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale),

traumatic brain injury

@45-1965 Farouk I,

last King of Egypt (1936-52),

in exile, heart attack? Poisoned?

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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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Mar 17

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Happy St. Patrick's Day!

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Mar 17, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 77

86004 Today: H 54° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1010 miles away

Record High: 73°[2007]   Record Low: 3°[1991]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

Avarice is a deadly sin.

  Saint Patrick

Harper’s Index

15-Minimum percentage of inmates in local US jils who have been homeless

$1-Daily wage paid a prisoner in Portland, Ore. Is paid to clear out homeless camps

2-Factor by which a US Christian is more likely than a nonreligious person to think poverty is a personal failure

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Observances This Week

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

16-18

Sherlock Holmes Weekend

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Observances for Today

Corn Dog Day Link 
Corned Beef and Cabbage Day

International Sports Car Racing Day Link
National Quilting Day

Saint Patrick's Day  Link
Submarine Day  Worldwide Quilting Day  Link
Play The Recorder Day  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

400’s                                            

≈432 Saint Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)

1700’s                                          

1756 St. Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern

1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC

1800’s                                          

≈1845 Bristol man Henry Jones patents self-raising flour

≈1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London

1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester, Massachusetts

1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent issued

1900’s                                          

≈1905 Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his Quantum Theory of Light, one of the foundations of modern physics

1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick

1917 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament begins in St Louis

≈1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel

≈1947 Arnold J. Toynbee appears on the front cover of Time magazine

1960 US President Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA

≈1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)

≈1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM

≈1973 St. Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday

≈1991 Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St. Patrick's Day parade

≈1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House

2000’s                                          

≈2016 Archaeologists announce discovery of iron age warrior king burial ground with 75 graves 2,500 years old in Pocklington, Northern England

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My Rambling Thoughts

Medicare yearly is just around the corner. Had the blood drawn. Had to use my arm as my hands have had it. All went well.

Had a great lunch yesterday with our retirement group. The falling snow, not sticking, made me very lazy. Enjoyed just watching the snow fall after lunch at a local Italian restaurant.

Each of the local high schools (public and charter) had walkouts yesterday for the safety of schools. No problems. Activism is alive and well here. Trying to find out if the Farmers (WRHS) did anything. We were a very active class some 50 years ago.

Great, my angioedema has reared its ugly head. Lip swollen and hot, pill taken, just a few hours more.  

WTF? Russia hacked our electric and water grids. Come on. This is not cute, or funny…and not very friendly.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

@75- Bayard Rustin,

American civil rights leader

(March on Washington organizer, Social Democrats USA),

born in West Chester, PA

burst appendix (d. 1987)

74- John Sebastian,

American singer (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter),

born in NYC

60’s

67- Kurt Russell, 

actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons),

born in Springfield, Mass

63- Gary Sinise,

American actor (Apollo 13, CSI: NY, Forrest Gump),

born in Blue Island, Illinois

@60- Shemp Howard [Samuel Horwitz],

American actor and comedian (3 Stooges),

born in Brooklyn, heart attack

(d. 1955)

50’s

@55- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman,

Founding father of Bangladesh and

1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (1971-72 and 1975-76),

born in Tungipara, Bengal Presidency, British India

assassination (d. 1975)

54- Rudolf Nureyev (Рудо́льф Хаме́тович Нуре́ев),

Russian ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov),

born on a train near Irkutsk, Soviet Union

AIDS (d. 1993)

54- Rob Lowe,

actor (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class),

born in Charlottesville, VA

51- Billy Corgan,

American musician (Smashing Pumpkins),

born in Chicago

40’s

46- Mia Hamm,

soccer forward (Olympics 1996)

@45- Nat King Cole,

American singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa),

born in Montgomery, Ala

cancer (d. 1965)

40- [Lee] Alexander McQueen,

English fashion designer,

born in London

suicide (d. 2010)

20’s

26- John Boyega [Adedayo B. Adegboyega],

English actor (The Force Awakens), born in London

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-2006 Oleg Cassini,

American fashion designer

@92-1993 Helen Hayes,

American actress (Airport, Caesar & Cleopatra)

80’s

@87-2017 Derek Walcott,

Caribbean poet (Omeros), Nobel Prize for Literature 1992

70’s

@74±-461 Saint Patrick,

patron saint of Ireland,

dies in Saul (according to legend),

50’s

@55-2007 Jim Cronin,

American Animal welfare campaigner and

founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England

liver cancer

40’s

@49-1853 Christian Doppler,

Austrian physicist, (Doppler Effect)

pulmonary disease

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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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