Mar 26

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Mar 26, 2018 Week: 13\ Day: 85

86004 Today: H 58° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 45% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  25mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  868 miles away

Record High: 73°[1998]   Record Low: -8°[1902]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Today’s Quote

Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil,

and the love of possessions is a disease in them.

  Sitting Bull

Harper’s Index

59,300-Minimum number of suicides in India

      since 1980 attributable to climate change

Observances This Week

20-4/5

National Cherry Blossom Festival

21-27

Internat’l Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

24-4/1

World Irish Dancing Week1

25-31

Holy Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
National Physicians Week Link

Observances for Today

Legal Assistants Day
Live Long And Prosper Day
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
National Spinach Day

Purple Day Link
Spinach Day 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                          

≈1484 William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables

1700’s                                          

≈1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)

1790 US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency

1800’s                                          

≈1812 Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela; about 20,000 die

1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.

1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)

≈1886 1st cremation in England

1900’s                                          

≈1909 In support of Mohammed Ali Shah's coup d'etat against the constitutional government in Persia, a Russian military force invades northern Persia to relieve the siege of Tabriz

1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick

1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage simultaneously

1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America

1936 Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska

≈1945 Allies led by US Marine Corps secure island of Iwo Jima from Imperial Japanese Army, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed

1951 United States Air Force flag officially adopted by President Harry S. Truman

1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio

1956 Medic Alert Foundation forms

1958 30th Academy Awards-"The Bridge on the River Kwai" wins Best Picture, Joanne Woodward & Alec Guinness win Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively

1962 US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state legistature

1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945

1970 Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old girl

≈1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) under Sheikh Mujibur Rahman declares its independence from Pakistan

≈1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment

1977 Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson

≈1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK

1987 National Federation of State High School Associations adopt the college 3 point shot (21 feet)

≈1989 1st free elections in USSR; 190 million votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins

1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)

≈1997 Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides

2000’s                                          

2000 72nd Academy Awards: "American Beauty", Kevin Spacey & Hilary Swank win

≈2005 The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.

≈2012 Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years

≈2017 Carrie Lam is first woman elected to lead Hong Kong by Beijing-influenced electoral commission

My Rambling Thoughts

Windy Sunday…gotta love those 25mph winds bringing in ‘new’ weather. Can’t wait.

I forget how difficult life is on the Rez. One of my former students (now in his early 40’s) was killed in an auto accident Monday. His mom had worked as an aide at our school. He lost one brother a few years ago, but still has three brothers and a sister. The mom now works at Tuba Boarding School. The former student was driving to work with his girlfriend at the time of the accident that killed them both. The family has held three ‘meetings’ where friends and family come together, share stories, and help with funeral arrangements and costs. Yesterday I read that the funeral is delayed until they can raise money for it. The cost is around $5000 and the family digs the grave. All I can say is thank goodness for refrigeration at the mortuary. This case is taking place in the small community of Tonalea, but it happens in many small communities on many reservations in the US in 2018. Sad.

If all goes according to CenturyLink’s plan, I will have double my internet speed by 6p tomorrow. I’m not holding my breath, as one lady said I needed a new modem, the next guy said I didn’t. Tomorrow will be the final decision.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- William Westmoreland,

American general

(commander of American forces in the Vietnam War, 64-68)

born in Saxon, South Carolina

(d. 2005)

80’s

@88- Robert Frost,

American poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken),

born in San Francisco

(d. 1963)

88- Sandra Day O'Connor,

1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- 2006),

born in El Paso, TX

@83- Leonard Nimoy,

American actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 2015)

70’s

@78- Duncan Hines,

American restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)

(d. 1959)

78- James Caan,

American actor (Misery, The Godfather),

born in The Bronx

78- Nancy Pelosi,

(Rep-D-California)

@76- Rudolf Dassler,

German founder of sportswear company Puma,

born in Herzogenaurach, Germany

lung cancer (d. 1974)

75- Robert "Bob" Woodward,

Washington Post investigative reporter (

Watergate, CIA crimes)

74- Diana Ross, [Earle],

(Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany),

born in Detroit

72- Johnny Crawford,

actor (Mark-The Rifleman),

born in Los Angeles

@71- Guccio Gucci,

Italian founder of Gucci fashion house,

born in Florence

(d. 1953)

@71- Tennessee Williams,

American playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof),

born in Columbus, Mississippi

choked on bottle cap (d. 1983)

70- Steven Tyler,

American rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun),

born in NYC

60’s

69- Vicki Lawrence,

actress (Carol Burnett, Mama's Family),

born in Inglewood, CA

68- Martin Short,

Canadian comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos),

born in Hamilton, Ontario

@61- Strother Martin,

American actor (Sherriff: Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot),

born in Kokomo, Indiana

heart attack (d. 1980)

61- Leeza Gibbons,

TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)

50’s

58- Jennifer Grey,

actress (Dirty Dancing),

Joel Grey's daughter,

born in NYC

50- Kenny Chesney,

country singer

40’s

@49- Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard],

American writer (Egg & I)

uterine cancer

48- Martin McDonagh,

Anglo-Irish playwright, screenwriter and film director

(Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri),

born in London, England

45- Larry Page,

American computer scientist and businessman

(co-founded Google with Sergey Brin),

born in East Lansing, Michigan

30’s

33- Keira Knightley,

English actress 

(Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean),

born in London, England

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@78-2016 Jim Harrison,

American poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall),

heart attack

@78-1923 Sarah Bernhardt,

French actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth),

uremia

@73-1973 Noel Coward,

English playwright (Private Letters),

heart failure

@72-1892 Walt Whitman,

American poet,

pleurisy, TB

60’s

@62-2004 Jan Berry,

American musician (Jan and Dean)

seizure

@61-1649 John Winthrop,

Puritan & 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony,

natural causes

50’s

@56-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven,

German composer (Appassionata),

liver damage

40’s

@48-1902 Cecil Rhodes,

British businessman, diamond merchant and

imperialist politician: Prime Minister of the Cape Colony

heart failure 

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 25

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Mar 25, 2018 Week: 13\ Day: 84

86004 Today: H 61° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave.:   25mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1299 miles away

Record High: 72°[1988]   Record Low: 1°[1913]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

Today’s Quote

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

   Victor Hugo

Harper’s Index

1 in 20-Estimated chance the world will meet

the temperature change goals of the Paris Agreement

12-Minimum percentage of the Earth’s land that

was experiencing severe drought at any given time last year

Observances This Week

19-25

Act Happy Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week Link
National Fix A Leak Week  Link

National Introverts Week Link
Wellderly Week

20-4/5

National Cherry Blossom Festival

21-27

Internat’l Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

23-25

American Crossword Puzzles Week

24-4/1

World Irish Dancing Week1

25-31

Holy Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
National Physicians Week Link

Observances for Today

Feast of the Assumption (Christian)

International Day of Remembrance of The Victims

of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child  Link
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and

Missing Staff Members Link
National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Palm Sunday (Christian)

Pecan Day
Tolkien Reading Day
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day) Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s                                          

≈1306 Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

1600’s                                          

≈1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000

1800’s                                          

≈1807 First fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales

1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California

1882 1st demonstration of pancake making, held at a department store in NYC

≈1896 Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]

1900’s                                          

≈1919 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference

1937 It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth$25,000 per year for ads

1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart

≈1944 RAF Flight Sgt Nicholas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet over Germany without a parachute; his fall broken by pine trees and soft snow, he suffers only a sprained leg

1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000)

1955 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.

1960 DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)

≈1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered

1966 US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional

≈1969 Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting, loyalists in Northern Ireland are jailed for organizing an illegal counter demonstration in Armagh on 30 November 1968

≈1971 Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold

≈1971 James Callaghan speaks at a rally of the Northern Ireland labour movement, but rejects calls for the Labour Party to open membership to those living in N. Ireland

1982 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on CBS-TV

1985 57th Academy Awards: "Amadeus", F. Murray Abraham & Sally Field win

1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes

1991 63rd Academy Awards: "Dances with Wolves", Kathy Bates & Jeremy Irons win

1996 68th Academy Awards: "Braveheart", Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win

My Rambling Thoughts

I was mesmerized this morning. I turned on CNN to see the news and they were covering the March for our Lives in DC. I have never heard such articulate people under 21 in my life. Two highlights were the 11-year-old girl and Emma Gonzalez with her speech followed by silence. Others were also very good. I now fully believe this is not a moment, but a movement.  The Flagstaff March is at 3pm today.  I am hoping the 25mph cease and desist by that time. We all need to listen to their message.

I was also interesting as many were wearing “$1.05” tags. This represented the amount of money the NRA has donated to FL elected officials divided by the number of students in FL. Their message, we are worth more than $1.05.

The NRA is was introduced to and joined as a Boy Scout is NOT the NRA of 2018. I learned gun safety from the NRA, my father, and my grandfather. Today’s NRA is just into selling guns and getting more people to buy guns. Sad.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Eileen Ford,

American modelling agency executive and

co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency),

born in Manhattan

(d. 2014)

80’s

@89- Arturo Toscanini,

temperamental conductor (NBC)

(d. 1957)

@83- David Lean,

English director (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter),

born in Croydon, England

(d. 1991)

83- Gloria Steinem,

American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine),

born in Toledo, Ohio

70’s

78- Anita Bryant,

singer (George Gobel Show) and

anti-homosexuality campaigner

@77- Howard Cosell,

sportscaster (Monday Night Football),

born in Winston-Salem, NC

heart attack (d. 1995)

76- Aretha Franklin,

American singer-songwriter

known as "The Queen of Soul" (Respect) and

first female performer inducted: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

born in Memphis, Tenn

75- Paul Michael Glaser,

American actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch),

born in Cambridge, Mass

71- Elton John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight],

English singer (Rocketman),

born in Pinner, Middlesex

60’s

65- Mary Gross,

actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds),

born in Chicago

@64- Béla Bartok,

Hungarian composer and pianist (Concerto for Orchestra),

born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary

leukemia (d. 1945)

61- Hoyt Axton,

actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters),

born in Duncan, OK  

heart attacks (d. 1999)

50’s

56- Marcia Cross,

American television actress (Melrose Place),

born in Marlborough, Mass

53- Sarah Jessica Parker,

American actress

(Square Pegs, Sex and the City),

born in Nelsonville, Ohio

30’s

36- Danica Patrick,

race car driver

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-2013 Anthony Lewis,

American journalist (Pulitzer Prize 195,1963) & author

@83-1914 Frederic Mistral,

French poet (Nobel-1904)

@81-2012 Larry Stevenson [Richard],

American skateboard innovator

70’s

@76-2006 Buck Owens,

American singer and television personality

heart attack

60’s

@69-1992 Nancy Walker,

American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife),

cancer

@68-1975 Faisal,

King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75),

shot by nephew

50’s

@55-1918 Claude Debussy,

French composer (Iberia/La Mer),

rectal cancer

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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