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January 7, 2017 Week: 01 \ Day: 07
86004 Today: H 34° \
L 18° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 17mph Visibility: 10 mi
January Averages: 43°\17°
January Records: H: 66°
(1971) L: -30 (1937)
Record High: 65°[1914] Record Low: -17°[1913]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
I have always
thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Fruitcake Toss Day Link (First
Saturday)
Harlem Globetrotter's Day
I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day
International Programmers' Day Link
Orthodox Christmas
National Bobblehead Day Link
National Tempura Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
1-7
Diet Resolution Week
Silent Record Week
1-8
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
New Year's Resolutions Week
2-8
Someday We'll Laugh About This Week
4-8
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week
5-8
International Consumer Electronics Show
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
◈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
◈1558 Calais,
last English possession in France, retaken by French
1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia
◈1618 Francis
Bacon becomes Lord Chancellor of England
◈1714 Typewriter
patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
◈1797 The
modern Italian flag is first used.
◈1890 W
B Purvis patents fountain pen
1896 Fannie Farmer publishes her first cookbook
"The Boston Cooking-School Cook Book"
◈1904 Marconi Co
establishes "CQD" as 1st international radio distress signal
1923 Baltimore Sun warns of Ku Klux Klan
1929 "Buck Rogers", 1st sci-fi comic
strip, premieres
1929 "Tarzan", one of the 1st adventure
comic strips, 1st appears
1934 "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex
Raymond) debuts
1948 US president Harry Truman raises
taxes for the Marshall Plan
1953 US President Harry Truman announces
American development of the hydrogen bomb
1954 Georgetown-IBM experiment, the first public
demonstration of a machine translation system, is held in New York at the head
office of IBM.
1959 US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban
government
1967 "Newlywed Game" premieres on ABC TV
1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages
caused by "Woodstock"
1971 -40°F (-40°C), Hawley Lake, AZ (state record)
◈1980 Indira
Gandhi voted back into power in India
1980 American President Jimmy Carter authorizes
legislation to bail out the Chrysler Corporation with a 1.5 billion dollar loan
1982 "Fame" premieres on NBC TV
◈1985 Japanese
space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1986 US President Reagan announces
economic sanctions against Libya
◈1990 Tower
of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
◈1991 Saddam
Hussein prepares his troops for what he says will be a long violent war
against the US
1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)
1997 Newt Gingrich narrowly re-elected speaker
of the US House of Representatives
1998 Former
White House intern Monica Lewinsky signs affidavit denying she had an
affair with President Bill Clinton
1999 Impeachment
trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate.
2007 Phil Jackson wins his 900th game as a
head coach, becoming the fastest coach to reach 900 career wins
◈2010 Muslim
gunmen in Egypt kill nine people after opening fire on a crowd of Coptic
Christians
◈2015 Terrorist
attack on the offices of satirical newspaper "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris
kills 12 (including Jean Cabut and Stéphane Charbonnier), injures 11
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Made
it, almost, to my tax appointment on the other side of town. Guy calls 15
minutes before appointment to say he can’t do it today. End up at another
office. Tell them what to do and remind them that I am the client and they are
the preparers and I shouldn’t have to do all this stuff. She will call me
Monday after ‘looking over’ the same material I took in 2 weeks ago. They know
I am very upset.
A
little snow today, then a little rain…just like every other day. Clouds have
cleared and we have a blue sky. Looking forward to a calm weekend.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
◈→ indicates
age at death
◈88→ Sir Sandford
Fleming, Scottish-Canadian engineer; introduced Universal Standard Time (d.
1915)
88- William Peter Blatty, American
author/director (The Exorcist), born in NYC, New York
◈85→ Alan Napier,
actor (Alfred-Batman), born in Birmingham, England [D1988]
◈76→ Paul Revere, American pianist (Paul Revere &
Raiders), born in Harvard Nebraska, (d. 2014)
◈74→ Millard
Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (D1874)
69- Kenny Loggins,
Everett WA, American singer (Loggins and Messina-This is it, Footloose)
67- Erin Gray,
actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers), born in Honolulu, Hawaii
◈66→Juan Gabriel,
international Mexican singer (D2016)
61- David Caruso,
American actor (NYPD Blue, Michael Hayes), born in Forest Hills, New York
60- Katie Couric,
[Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today)
59- Donna Rice Hughes,
model/Gary Hart's lover, born in New Orleans, Louisiana
58- Kathy Valentine,
rocker (Go-Go's-We Got the Beat)
54- Rand Paul, US politician
(Senate-R-Kentucky), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
53- Nicolas Cage, [Coppola],
actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon)
40- Dustin Diamond,
actor (Screech-Saved By Bell), born in San Jose, California
◈22→ Ann Rutledge, said to be Abraham
Lincoln's true love, born in Henderson, Kentucky (d. 1835)
5
Blue Ivy Carter, daughter of Beyonce & JayZ
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@86-1943 Nikola Tesla,
Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor)
@84-2015 Rod Taylor, Australian
actor (Time Machine, The Birds)
@76-2015 Jean Cabut
[Cabu], French caricaturist (Charlie Hebdo), killed in terrorist attack on
Charlie Hebdo's office i
@74-1961 Clarice Baright,
1st woman admitted to American Bar Association,
@71-1988 Trevor Howard,
actor (Ryan's Daughter), bronchitis
@50-1536 Catherine
of Aragon, 1st wife of England's King Henry VIII, poisoned?, cancer
@47-2015 Stéphane
Charbonnier [Charb], French cartoonist and editor of the satirical magazine Charlie
Hebdo, terrorist attack
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