Apr 3

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Apr 3, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 93

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 3% 

Nearest Lightning:  1934 miles away

Wind ave.:   24mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 71°[1961]   Record Low: 8°[1980]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Our real enemies and the enemies of humanity are negative emotions like anger and hatred.

Indeed, people who are dominated by powerful negative emotions should be objects of our compassion

   Dali Lama

Harper’s Index

$6,400,000,000,000

            Amount US pharmaceutical industry spent

in 2016 on ads for prescription drugs

2-

Number of countries in which direct-to-consumer

pharmaceutical ads are legal

More Observances This Month

Cancer Control Month
Car Care Month
Celebrate Diversity Month

Observances This Week

Cancer Control Month
Car Care Month
Celebrate Diversity Month

Observances for Today

Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day: 3  Link 
Fan Dance Day: 3
Find A Rainbow Day: 3 Link 
National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action: 3  Link 
National Film Score Day: 3  Link
Pony Express Day: 3
Tweed Day: 3
Weed Out Hate: 3
World Party Day: 3  Link 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                          

1776 George Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College

1800’s                                          

1860 Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento, California

1865 Union forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond & Petersberg, Virginia

✪1868 A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave

1882 American outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph

1900’s                                          

✪1910 Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men

✪1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest

1944 US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white primaries" unconstitutional

1948 1st US figure skating championships held

1948 US President Harry Truman signs Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16 European countries)

1955 The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges

1973 The first portable cell phone call is made in New York City, United States.

✪1975 Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess title for refusing to defend it

1978 50th Academy Awards: "Annie Hall", Richard Dreyfuss & Diane Keaton win

2000’s                                          

✪2012 Spanish unemployment reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%

✪2016 Panama Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud, kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak

My Rambling Thoughts

Beautiful spring day, but a little windy for my taste.

Happy to report that huge satellite fill into the Pacific Ocean, near Tahiti. No one injured.  We can all sleep well again.

Early morning shopping for Cadbury Eggs. Regular price is almost an astonishing $1/egg. But the day after they are ½ off and worth the purchase. Bought enough for one every other day until my trip.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

96- Doris Day [Kappelhoff],

American singer, animal welfare activist and 

actress known as the "girl next door" actress

(Pillow Talk, The Man Who Knew Too Much),

born in Cincinnati

80’s

@87- Edward Everett Hale,

American clergyman and

author (Man without a Country),

born in Boston

(d. 1909)

@87- Helmut Kohl,

German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified

 Germany, 1990-98),

 born in Ludwigshafen, Weimar Republic

(d. 2017)

84- Jane Goodall,

ethologist (studied African chimps),

born in London, England

@83- George Jessel,

American toastmaster general and

entertainer (Diary of Young Comic),

born in NYC

(d. 1981)

@80- Marlon Brando,

American actor 

(The Godfather, A Street Cart Named Desire and

On the Waterfront),

born in Omaha

(d. 2004)

70’s

@76- Washington Irving,

American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow),

born in NYC,

heart attack (d. 1859)

74- Tony Orlando,

American singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow Ribbon),

born in NYC

60’s

@69- Bud Fisher,

American cartoonist (Mutt and Jeff),

born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 1954)

60- Alec Baldwin, 

actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice),

born in Amityville, NY

50’s

57- Eddie Murphy,

American actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw),

born in Brooklyn

40’s

49- Mellody Hobson,

American businesswoman

(Chairman of Dreamworks Animation),

born in Chicago

47- Picabo Street,

skier (Olympic gold 1994)

30’s

32- Amanda Bynes,

American actress

Historical Obits Today

0’s

@102-2016 Joseph Medicine Crow,

Last Crow war chief and

historian,

Bronze Star Medal and the Légion d'honneur for service

during World War II, and

the Presidential Medal of Freedom

@86-1991 Graham Greene,

British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana)

@85-1993 Pinky Lee,

kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show)

@78-1994 Elizabeth "Betty" Furness,

American actress, journalist and consumer activist

(Dangerous Corner, Studio 1),

stomach cancer

@72-1966 Battista Farina,

Italian automobile designer and

founder of Pininfarina company

@66-1990 Sarah Vaughan,

American jazz singer,

lung 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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼

Apr 2

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Apr 2, 2018 Week: 14\ Day: 92

86004 Today: H 68° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  924miles away

Wind ave.:   16mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1966]   Record Low: -2°[1975]

Apr Averages: 58°\27°

Today’s Quote

Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist.

   Rene Magritte

Harper’s Index

101,500  Number of people who have been granted

citizenship of Asgardia, a planned nation in outer space

16  Percentage who are women

More Observances This Month

ASPCA Month  Link  Link
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month 

Observances This Week

1-7

APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Bat Appreciation Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
National Blue Ribbon Week  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link 
World Hula Week
Explore Your Career Options

Observances for Today

American Crossword Puzzle Days: 1-3

Children's Book Day

Dyngus Day Link  
International Children's Book Day
Mule Day-8  Link
National Ferret Day Link
National Love Your Produce Manager Day
Reconciliation Day
Tater Day ( It's Sweet Potatoes)  Link 
White House Easter Egg Roll
World Autism Day Link
World Autism Acceptance Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

✪1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de León claims Florida for Spain as the first known European to reach Florida

1700’s                                          

1792 The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint and authorizing the $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime

1800’s                                          

✪1801 Napoleonic Wars: The British led by Horatio Nelson destroy the Danish fleet in the naval Battle of Copenhagen

1827 US inventor Joseph Dixon of Salem, Massachusetts, begins manufacturing lead pencils

1877 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn

1900’s                                          

✪1905 Cairo-Capetown railway opens

1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new "Theory of Relativity"

✪1930 Ras Tafari Makonnen becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1935 Mary Hirsch becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer

1968 "2001 A Space Odyssey" directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, premieres at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.

1974 46th Academy Awards: "The Sting", Glenda Jackson & Jack Lemmon win

1977 Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks

1978 TV soap show "Dallas" starring Larry Hagman and Barbara Bel Geddes premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)

1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market

1986 NYC Mayor Ed Koch signs & brings the Gay Rights Bill into effect

2000’s                                          

✪2013 Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12%

My Rambling Thoughts

Thanks Google. I had been wondering for several days how often Apr. 1 was also Easter. Google: since 1900, Easter has fallen on April Fool's Day only four times - 1923, 1934, 1945 and 1956. It won't happen again until 2029. I was just a small kid the last time it happened. No wonder I don’t remember.

No Thanks Facebook. I use several different browsers (Chrome, IE, and Mozilla Thunderbird) when searching the internet. Well the omni-present Facebook quietly and secretly changed my selected search engine, Google, to some stupid Facebook search engine that opens Facebook and lists pages I visit that have key words from the search. It is stupid. It is frustrating. It doesn’t find my information. And it is EVIL. First, I thought it only worked if FB was open. Nope. Works every time. This morning I changed all my browsers search back to Google. My point is that I shouldn’t have to. When I set up each browser, I chose Google. That is all I should ever have to do, unless Google suddenly goes out of business or I tire to their results. It should always be MY choice, not Facebook’s. Rant ends.

I was expecting a beautiful, warm, sunny Easter…cause that’s what our local weatherman said on Friday. It is beautiful and warm but it is also overcast. Headed to some friend’s house for an Easter Brunch. Great food, good company. Nice Easter, even without direct sunshine.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Christian "Buddy" Ebsen Jr.,

American actor (Beverly Hillbillies, Breakfast at Tiffany's),

born in Belleville, Illinois

(d. 2003)

@90- Robert "Dabbs" Greer,

American actor

(Gunsmoke, The Green Mile, Little House on Prairie),

born in Fairview, Missouri

(d. 2007)

80’s

@86- Alec Guinness,

British actor (The Ladykillers, The Bridge on the River Kwai),

born in London, England

(d. 2000)

70’s

@74- Leon Russell,

musician and singer-songwriter (Carny),

born in Lawton, OK

in his sleep (d. 2016)

@73- Giacomo Casanova,

Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover,

born in Venice, Italy

(d. 1798)

73- Linda Hunt,

American actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado, NCIS: LA),

born in Morristown, NJ

71- Emmylou Harris,

country singer (Together Again),

born in Birmingham, Ala

@71- Charlemagne,

1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14),

born in Liège, Frankish Kingdom

(d. 814)

@70- Hans Christian Andersen,

Danish author of 150 fairy tales

(The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen),

born in Odense, Denmark fall,

cancer (d. 1875)

60’s

@65- Walter Chrysler,

American founder of car company Chrysler,

born in Wamego, Kansas stroke

(d. 1940)

@62- Jack Webb,

American screenwriter, director and

actor (Dragnet, Sunset Boulevard),

born in Santa Monica

heart attack (d. 1982)

50’s

57- Christopher Meloni,

American actor (Law & Order SVU)

40’s

@47- Rodney King,

African American motorist beaten by LA cops,

born in Sacramento,

drowned (d. 2012)

@44- Marvin Gaye (Jr), 

singer (Sexual Healing),

born in Washington, D.C.

shot by father (d. 1984)

43- Adam Rodriguez,

actor (CSI:Maimi)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88±-1902 Esther Morris,

suffragist and first female American judge

@84-2005 Pope John Paul II,

Polish Roman Catholic Pope

83-2016 Gato Barbieri,

Argentinian Latin jazz musician (Last Tango in Paris)

@80-1872 Samuel Morse 

developer of electric telegraph

60’s

@61-1932 Bill Pickett,

American cowboy and rodeo performer

invented bulldogging,

kicked in the head by a bronco

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…☼☼☼☼