Apr 3

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Apr 3, 2019 Week: 14 \ Day: 93

86004:   H 63° \ L 32° \ Average Sky Cover: 50% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  388mi. Nearest lightning:  446mi

Record High: °[]   Record Low: °[]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Success is never final, failure is never fatal.

It's courage that counts.

John Wooden

More Observances This Month

Informed Women Month
International Customer Loyalty Month
International Guitar Month Link
International Twit Award Month
IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month Link
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful  Link
Library Snapshot Month
Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month Link
Month of the Military Child Link
Month of the Young Child
Move More In April  Link 

Observances This Week

Money Smart Week: 3/30-4/6

Nano Days: 3/30-4/7

International Dark Sky Week: 31-4/7

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 3/20-4/14

Lent: 3/6-4/20

Explore Your Career Options: 1-6
APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7  Link 
National Schools Social Work Week:  3-6  Link 

Observances for Today

Child help National Day of Hope 

Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day  Link 
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day Link  
National Chocolate Mousse Day

National Film Score Day  Link
National Walking Day Link 
Paraprofessional Appreciation Day 
Pony Express Day
Tweed Day

Weed Out Hate
World Party Day  Link 

My Rambling Thoughts

Got thru the dentist in less than 2 hours for a temp. crown, a filling, and mold for mouthguard. Thanks to Laser Dentistry, no numbing for the filling. Now if they could just do that for crowns.

Guess everyone has to continue to wait for 45 on closing the border. So tired of this way of running the government.

It’s a nice spring day and I should take a walk, but with my numb mouth, I don’t think that’s a good idea.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Can a man legally marry his widow's sister in the state of California?

Today’s Significant 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

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

1900’s

1917 Alfred Stieglitz opens 1st one-person show of Georgia O'Keeffe's work at 291 art gallery in New York

1933 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest

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

1958 Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana

1968 "Planet of the Apes" United States wide premiere

1971 The Temptations score their second US No. 1 with "Just My Imagination (Running Away With Me)"

1973 1st mobile phone call is made in downtown Manhattan, NYC by Motorola employee Martin Cooper to the Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey

2000’s

2009 Australia formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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

Birthdays Today

1783 Washington Irving, (d. 1859: @76: heart attack) American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow),

born in NYC, New York

1822 Edward Everett Hale,

(d. 1909: @87)

American clergyman and author (Man without a Country),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

1823 William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed",

(d. 1878: @55: pneumonia)

American politician and corrupt New York fraudster,

born in NYC

1898 Henry Luce,

(d. 1967: @68)

American magazine publisher (Time, Fortune, Life),

born in Tengchow, China

1904 Sally Rand,

(d. 1979: @75-heart failure)

American burlesque dancer, vedette and actress known for her ostrich feather fan and balloon bubble dances,

born in Elkton, Missouri

1907 Iron Eyes Cody

[Espera Oscar de Corti],

(d. 1999: @94)

Italian-American actor

(Keep America Beautiful, Black Gold, Ernest Goes to Camp),

born in Tulsa, Oklahoma

1924 Marlon Brando,

(d. 2004: @80)

American actor

(The Godfather, A Street Cart Named Desire, On the Waterfront)

born in Omaha, Nebraska

1941 Jan Berry,

(d. 2004: @62: seizure)

American rock and roll vocalist (Jan and Dean-Dead Man's Curve), born in Los Angeles

1949 Lyle Alzado,

(d. 1992:@ 43: brain cancer)

NFL defensive linesman (LA Raiders) and actor (Oceans of Fire, Hangfire),

born in Brooklyn, New York

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90’s

97- Doris Day [Kappelhoff],

American singer, animal welfare activist and actress known as the "girl next door" actress (Pillow Talk),

born in Cincinnati, Ohio

80’s

85- Jane Goodall,

British ethologist (studied African chimps),

born in London, England

70’s

77- Wayne Newton,

American singer and entertainer (Daddy, Don't You Walk So Fast), born in Norfolk, Virginia

75- Tony Orlando,

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

born in NYC, New York

60’s

61- Alec Baldwin,

American actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice),

born in Amityville, New York

60- David Hyde Pierce,

American actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser),

born in Saratoga Springs, New York

50’s

58- Eddie Murphy,

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

born in Brooklyn, New York

50- Mellody Hobson,

American businesswoman (Chairman of Dreamworks Animation), born in Chicago, Illinois

20’s

21- Paris Jackson,

American actress and daughter of Michael Jackson,

born in Los Angeles, California

Historical Obits Today

@90-2018 David Edgerton,

American entrepreneur and founder of Burger King

@86-1991 Graham Greene,

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

@85-1993 Pinky Lee,

American children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)

@78-1994 Elizabeth "Betty" Furness,

American actress, journalist and consumer activist

(Dangerous Corner, Studio 1),

dies of stomach cancer

@36-1936 Bruno Hauptmann,

German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III,

executed

@34-1882 Jesse James,

American outlaw,

shot dead, in St Joseph Mo by Robert Ford

Puzzle answer:

NO since she is a 'widow', the guy's dead!

Apr 2

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Apr 2, 2019 Week: 14 \ Day: 92

86004:   H 58° \ L 20° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  515mi. Nearest lightning:  1712mi

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

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Wise men speak because they have something to say;

Fools because they have to say something.

Plato

More Observances This Month

Defeat Diabetes Month
Distracted Driving Awareness Month Link
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month 
Fair Housing Month Link
Financial Literacy Month Link
Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month
Frog Month Link
Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month  Link
Global Astronomy Month
Global Child Nutrition Month Link
Grange Month Link
Holy Humor Month
Home Improvement Time (April-Sept.30)
Honor Society Awareness Month 

Observances This Week

Money Smart Week: 3/30-4/6

NanoDays: 3/30-4/7

International Dark Sky Week: 31-4/7

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 3/20-4/14

Lent: 3/6-4/20

Explore Your Career Options: 1-6
APAWS Pooper Scooper Week: 1-7
Golden Rule Week: 1-7
Laugh at Work Week: 1-7
Medication Safety Week: 1-7
Mule Day: 1-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week: 1-7  Link 

Observances for Today

Equal Pay Day Link
International Children's Book Day
Isra Al Mi'ra [Islam]
National Ferret Day Link
National Love Your Produce Manager Day
National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day Link
National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action  Link  
Reconciliation Day
World Autism Day Link
World Autism Acceptance Day  Link

World Party Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Not a bad day outside, still a tad cool for my spring taste.

I headed out this morning to get a new home phone. Found a decent one with 2 cordless phones, a working answering machine, and a few more bells…no whistles. Only $35. Thanks Best Buy. On my old phone (10+ years old) I used the default message with a man’s voice. On my new phone, a different brand, has the exact same man’s voice and message as the default. I guess one company is making all the cordless phones and just puts a different cover and a different price on them. Interesting.

When 45 gets a thought, watch out. Now he wants to close the entire US/Mexico border. I don’t even understand what that means. Does it mean no goods from Mexico could come to the US? …That the US can’t send goods to Mexico?...that no Americans can vacation in Mexico?...that planes can’t fly over the border?...that persons with dual citizenship can’t cross the border?  My guess is he hasn’t really thought this through. He continues to give very simple answers to extremely complex issues.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally, one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

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

1884 London prison for debtors closed

1900’s

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)

1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market

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

2000’s

2002 Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.

2013 Eurozone unemployment reaches a high of 12%

Birthdays Today

742 Charlemagne,

(d. 814: @71)

1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14),

born in Liège, Frankish Kingdom

1725 Giacomo Casanova,

(d. 1798:@73)

Italian writer, adventurer and famous lover, born in Venice, Italy

1805 Hans Christian Andersen,

(d. 1875: @70)

Danish author of 150 fairy tales (The Ugly Duckling, The Snow Queen), born in Odense, Denmark

1875 Walter Chrysler,

(d. 1940: @65: stroke)

American founder of car company Chrysler, born in Wamego, Kansas

1908 Christian "Buddy" Ebsen Jr.,

(d. 2003: @95)

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

born in Belleville, Illinois

1914 Alec Guinness,

(d. 2000: @86)

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

born in London, England

1917 Robert "Dabbs" Greer,

(d. 2007: @90)

American actor

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

born in Fairview, Missouri

1920 Jack Webb,

(d. 1982: @62: heart attack)

American screenwriter, director and actor

(Dragnet, Sunset Boulevard),

born in Santa Monica, California

1942 Leon Russell

[Claude Russell Bridges],

(d. 2016: @74: in his sleep)

American musician and singer-songwriter

(Tight Rope, Delta Lady, Carney),

born in Lawton, Oklahoma

1954 Ron Palillo,

(d. 2012: @63: heart attack)

American actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter),

born in New Haven, Connecticut

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70’s

74- Linda Hunt,

American actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado),

born in Morristown, New Jersey

72- Emmylou Harris,

American country singer (Together Again),

born in Birmingham, Alabama

50’s

58- Christopher Meloni,

American actor (Law & Order),

born in Washington, D.C.

40’s

44- Adam Rodriguez,

American actor (Eric Delko-CSI: Miami) and director,

born in Yonkers, New York

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-2005 Pope Saint John Paul II

[Karol Wojtyla],

Polish Roman Catholic Pope

@81-2018 Winnie Mandela

[Winnie Madikizela-Mandela],

South African anti-apartheid activist and ANC politician

@80-1872 Samuel Morse

developer of electric telegraph

60’s

@66-1966 C. S. Forester,

English historical novelist (Horatio Hornblower)

@61-1932 Bill Pickett,

American cowboy and rodeo performer who invented bulldogging,

dies after being kicked in the head by a bronco

Puzzle answer:

His plan is to dig the tunnel and pile up the dirt to climb up to the window to escape.