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Mar 5, 2019 Week: 10 \ Day: 64
86004 Today: H 48°
\ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
12mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[1910]
Record
Low: -5°[1948]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
The more refined
and subtle our minds,
the more
vulnerable they are.
Paul Tournier
More Observances This Month
Optimism Month
Paws To Read Month
Play The Recorder Month
Poison Prevention Awareness
Month
Quinoa Month
Save The Vaquita Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Work Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Supply Management Month
Transgender Month of Action for
Healthcare Equality
Trisomy Awareness Month
Vascular Abnormalities
Awareness Month
Women's History Month:
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Worldwide Home Schooling
Awareness Month
Youth Art Month
Observances This Week
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7
National Write A Letter of
Appreciation Week: 1-7
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7
Will Eisner Week: 1-7
Celebrate Your Name Week: 3-9
Endometriosis Week: 3-9
National Consumer Protection
Week: 3-9
National Dental Assistants Recognition
Week: 3-9
National Procrastination Week: 3-9
National Words Matter Week: 3-9
Professional Pet Sitters Week: 3-9
Read an E-Book Week: 3-9
Return The Borrowed Books Week: 3-9
Save Your Vision Week: 3-9
Teen Tech Week: 3-9
Telecommuniter Appreciation Week:
3-9
Women in Construction Week: 3-9
National School Breakfast Week: 4-8
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week:
4-10
Observances for Today
International Pancake Day (aka Shrove
Tuesday)
National Absinthe Day Link
National Cheese Doodle Day
National Poutine Day
Paczki Day
Saint Piran's Day
World Tennis Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Starting
off the week with blue sky and light wind. It will be a good week. All that’s
left of our ‘big’ snow (39” in 24 hours) is the piles in the shopping centers.
Headed
out early with an 8a appointment with my prostate Dr. It’s been 11 years since
treatment, all is still good. Then I stopped at the mall for a haircut at the
new ‘barber shop’. Got a decent cut at the same price as the stylist who moved
to the other side of town and only works weekends. If it grows out well, I may
have a new place to go.
I
know very little about Colorado’s Hickenlooper, who just announced he’s running
for President in 2020. All I know is he was Denver’s mayor and 2-term governor
for Colorado and he’s a democrat. I’ll see if he makes it through some of the early
stuff. So many have announced and so much time.
With
all the talk about the summit, now it turns out that N. Korea has been involved
in hacking American business, up to and including during the summit. Really?
Really!
Today’s Significant Historical
Events
1600’s
1616 Astronomical work 'de
Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus Copernicus
placed
on Catholic Forbidden index
1700’s
1746 Jacobite troops leave Aberdeen
1770 Boston Massacre (Incident on King
Street): British soldiers kill 5
men
in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them.
African
American Crispus Attucks 1st to die; later held up as
early
black martyr. Massacre galvanizes anti-British feelings.
1774 John Hancock delivers the fourth
annual Massacre Day oration, a
commemoration
of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the
presence
of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock's
stature
as a leading Patriot
1800’s
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures first pistol,
34-caliber "Texas" model
1841 1st continuous filibuster in US
Senate began, lasting until March 11
1858 Abolitionists establish
"Crispus Attucks Day" in Boston
1900’s
1904 Nikola Tesla describes the
process of the ball lightning formation
in
Electrical World and Engineer
1921 The Durban Land Alienation
Ordinance passes, enabling the
Durban
City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or
occupation
of property in white areas, South Africa
1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st
states to enact old age pension
laws
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording
Corp becomes IBM
1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron
Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri,
popularizes
the term and draws attention to the division of
Europe
1984 Supreme Court (5-4): city may use
public money for Nativity scene
1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal
congressmen who bounced checks
2000’s
2013 Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás
Maduro assumes the
presidency
after the death of Hugo Chávez
2017 US President Donald Trump in a
tweet accusses former President
Obama
without offering any evidence of wiretapping Trump
Towers
during the presidential campaign
2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un
meets South Korean officials
for
the first time since taking office, hosting a dinner in
Pyongyang
2018 China announces a military budget
of 1.11 trillion yuan ($175
billion)
Birthdays Today
1824
James Merritt Ives,
American lithographer and businessman (Currier and Ives),
born in NYC, New York
(d. 1895-@70)
1893
Emmett J Culligan,
founder of water treatment organization
(d.1970-@77)
1897
Soong Mei-ling
[Madame Chiang Kai-shek],
Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of
China (1948-75), born in Shanghai
(d. 2003-@105)
1908
Rex Harrison,
English actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle),
born in Huyton, England
(d. 1990-@82)
1910
Momofuku Ando,
Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles,
born in Wu Baifu, Chiayi
County, Taiwan
(d. 2007-@96)
1958
Andy Gibb,
British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol
(Bee Gees-I Just Want to Be Your Everything),
born in Manchester, England
(d. 1988-@30- myocarditis)
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85-
James B Sikking,
actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser)
83-
Dean Stockwell,
actor (Werewolf of Washington, Blue Velvet)
65-
Marsha Warfield,
comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court)
1974
Eva Mendes,
American actress (Training Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious),
born in Miami, Florida
64-
Penn Jillette,
magician
Historical Obits Today
@82-1827 Alessandro Volta,
Italian physicist and inventor of the
1st battery
@73-1953 Joseph Stalin,
Dictator and leader of the Soviet
Union (1922-53),
dies of a stroke
@67-1974 Billy Dewolfe,
American character actor (Good Morning
World),
dies of lung cancer
@58-2013 Hugo Chávez,
President of Venezuela,
dies from respiratory failure
@45-1973 Rupert Crosse,
American actor, 1st African-American
to be nominated for Best
Supporting Actor Academy Award (The
Reivers),
dies of lung cancer
@30-1963 Patsy Cline,
country singer (Crazy),
dies in a plane crash
