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4.14.16 Week: 15 \ Day: 105
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 66° \ L 34° Average
Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[1989] Record Low: 5°[1972]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Celebrate Teen Literature Day Children
with Alopecia Day
Dictionary Day Link
National Dolphin Day
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
Vaisakhi: harvest festival of the
Punjab region
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Observances This Week
9-17
YoYo & Skill Toys Week
10-16
Animal Control Officer Appreciation
Week Link
Spring Astronomy Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Link
National Student Employment Week Link
Pan American Week:
National Volunteer Week
Week of The Young Child Link
American Indian Awareness Week Link
International Dark Sky Week
Undergraduate Research Week
Health Information Privacy and Security Week Link
12-18
National Animal Control Appreciation
Week Link
National Tattoo Week Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1614 John Rolfe
marries Pocahontas
1775 1st
abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
1818 US Medical
Corp forms
1828 First
American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright
for publication
1836 Congress
forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 Edgar Allen
Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" published
1865 US Secret
Service created to fight counterfeiting
1865 President Abraham
Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1890 Pan American
Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1894 1st public showing
of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1903 Dr Harry
Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1906 US President Theodore
Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US press, taken from John
Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
1910 President
Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1935 Black
Sunday: The worst sandstorm ravages US midwest (creates the Dust Bowl)
1939 John Steinbeck novel
"The Grapes of Wrath" published
1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron microscope
in Philadelphia
1969 41st
Academy Awards - "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine Hepburn
and Barbara Streisand win (1st ever tie for best actress)
1971 President
Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1980 1st Cubans
of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 52nd Academy Awards -
"Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally Field win
1980 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1983 President Reagan signs $165
billion Social Security rescue
2003 The Human
Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an
accuracy of 99.99%
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral
St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid.
1611 Word
"telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1848 In Dublin, the
tricolor national flag of Ireland is presented to the public for the first time
by Thomas Francis Meagher and the Young Ireland Party
1912 RMS Titanic
hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off Newfoundland
1919 Following
Gandhi's nonviolent methods, Muslim and Hindu protest British rule; British
troops fire on the crowds, killing 400
1927 The first
Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1958 Sputnik 2
(with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1961 1st live
television broadcast from Soviet Union
1963 George
Harrison is impressed by unsigned group "Rolling Stones"
1972 The
Provisional Irish Republican Army explode twenty-four bombs in towns and cities
across Northern Ireland
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican
Archbishop of Capetown
1989 1,100,000,000th
Chinese born
1992 "Guys
& Dolls" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 1143 performances
2003 - An international
survey rates Dublin as one of the safer cities in the world. At 18 in the
rankings, it is well ahead of many other cities.
2012 J. K.
Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website
"Pottermore"
2015 The oldest
stone tools, at 3.3 million-years old, are found at Lomekwi 3, Kenya
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My Rambling
Thoughts
I have been disappointed with the US IRS for
decades. I don’t mind paying my fair share, but I do dislike a system so
complicated that almost everyone goes to a tax preparer. I have always tried to
have enough taken out of my money that I get a refund at the end of the year.
This year I did get a refund from both the state and the Feds. Yeah. Then I
paid the tax preparer and it cost me all but $200 of my refund. Of course I
have to pay the tax bill now, long before my refund arrives, so I won’t be getting
any interest on that money. There are so many tax codes and such a complicated
set of forms, that one must hire someone who knows what they are doing or risk
not getting back all you owe, or not understanding something and getting
audited. I have been audited twice and by tax preparer, for a fee, represented
me in the audit. Once I won, once they won. My preparer and his bosses knew
that they were right but the idiot wouldn’t give in and they even paid the $57
that they said I owed…because it was cheaper for them to pay than fight
anymore.
Seems to me that everyone, including
corporations, should pay a flat tax. One simply lists all income from
everything and then pays say 12% for the government to do its business. If 12%
isn’t enough, then spend less….just like all of us have to do. No tax
preparers, no lawyers, no complicated laws…just pick a percentage, tell
everyone to pay. If your total income is below the poverty line, you don’t pay
anything. KISS—Keep It Simple, Stupid.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(96) John Gielgud,
London, actor and director
(Arthur, Ages of Man) (d.2000)
96- John Paul Stevens,
Supreme Court Justice
(86) Arnold J. Toynbee,
London, English historian
(A Study of History) (d. 1975)
84- Loretta Lynn,
Butcher's Hollow Ky, singer
(Coal Miner's Daughter)
(77) Rod Steiger,
West Hampton NY, actor (Illustrated Man,
Pawnbroker) (d.2002)
75- Julie Christie,
Assam India, British
actress (Darling, Doctor Zhivago)
75- Pete Rose,
Cincinnati, MLB player and
manager (Cincinnati Reds)
(70) Anne Mansfield Sullivan,
US, educated Helen Keller (d.1936)
55- Robert Carlyle,
Glasgow, British actor
(Trainspotting, The Full Monty), born in Scotland
48- Anthony Michael
Hall,
Boston, comedian (SNL,
Breakfast Club)
43- David Miller,
American tenor (Il Divo)
39- Sarah Michelle
Gellar,
NYC, actress (Kendall-All
My Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
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Historical Obits Today
@85-1995 Burl Ives,
folk singer/actor (Cat on a
Hot Tin Roof)
@77-1975 Fredric March,
American actor (Inherit the
Wind), prostate cancer
@76-2007 Don Ho,
American musician, heart failure
@74-1759 George Frideric Handel,
German-British baroque
composer and organist (Messiah, Water Music)
@67-1924 Louis Sullivan,
architect (father of
skyscrapers), alcoholism
@56-1964 Rachel Carson,
American biologist/author
(Silent spring), breast cancer
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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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