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April 27,
2017 Week: 17 \ Day: 117
86004 Today: H 66° \
L 25° Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 77°[2000] Record Low: 10°[1984]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
A different language is a different
vision of life.
Federico Fellini
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Denim Day Link
Mantanzas Mule Day
Morse Code Day
Poem In Your Pocket
Day Link
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
22-29
National Infant
Immunization Week (NIIW) Link
Money Smart Week Link
National Dance Week Link
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week Link
Administrative Professionals Week
Air Quality Awareness Week Link
Bedbug Awareness Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Princess Week Link
National Environmental Education Week Link
National Infertility Awareness Week Link
National Volunteer Week
Preservation Week Link (re:
Libraries)
Sky Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
National Playground Safety Week Link
24-30
National Scoop The
Poop Week
Week of The Young Child Link
World Immunization Week
American Quilters Society Week
National Tattoo Week Link
27-29
Gathering of the
Nations Powwow Link
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
<§>1500’s<§>
≈1539 Re-founding
of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann
and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
<§>1600’s<§>
≈1650 The
Battle of Carbisdale: Royalist army under Marquess of Montrose invades mainland
Scotland from Orkney; defeated by a Covenanter army.
≈1667 Blind
and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost
for £10.
<§>1800’s<§>
1805 US
Marines attack shores of Tripoli
≈1810 Beethoven composes
his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
≈1840 Foundation
stone for new Palace of Westminster, London, laid by wife of Sir Charles Barry.
1861 US
President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil
War)
1865 Cornell
University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1865 Steamboat
"SS Sultana" explodes in the Mississippi River, killing up to 1,800
of the 2,427 passengers in the greatest maritime disaster in United States
history. Most were paroled Union POWs on their way home.
1877 Rutherford
B. Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends 1908 4th
modern Olympic games opens in London
<§>1900’s<§>
≈1911 Indian
passive resistance is suspended when Gen. J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations
with Mahatma Gandhi.
1937 1st
US social security payment made
≈1963 Cuban
premier Fidel Castro arrives in Moscow
≈1978 Afghanistan
revolution (National Day), pro-Russian military coup
1981 Xerox
PARC introduces the computer mouse.
1984 Over
70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
≈1994 Freedom
Day: day 2 of South Africa's 1st multi-racial elections and day most voted -
some queuing for 10 hours
<§>2000’s<§>
≈2005 The
Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse,
France
2006 Construction
begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2011 The
deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado
outbreak, in United States history.
2011 U.S.
President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther"
accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Woke
up with a more swollen eye. Heat packs until Dr. office opens. See him at
8:30. Nice that he fit me in so early. “Yep,
it’s still infected. I can’t do much until the swelling goes down. Here is a
script for antibiotics. If it isn’t better on Friday, come back.” Not the best
thing to hear, but at least I know what to do. Eye is very irritated with the
new swelling. Thankfully, my vision isn’t affected, only people looking at me
wish their vision wasn’t so good. Yep, it’s ugly.
While
waiting to see the eye doc, a friend from Tuba was waiting with her 92 year old
mother, who had cataract surgery yesterday. I caught up on all her brothers and
sisters. She is retiring from Public School in a few weeks. She is excitied. Nice!
More
great news from the Pres. If you are small business owner and make millions,
your taxes are going down. Don’t personally know any people like that, except,
maybe my brother and his wife’s business. For retired people, no good news.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
In
what year did the Super Bowl halftime show feature Prince?
2011 2001 2007 1998
43.8%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
$22,437,000►Amount the SEC awarded an Ex-Monsanto
employee in August for whistle-blowing about accounting practices
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
After
crossing the road, the chicken goes up to James Bond and asks him, "What's
your name?"
"Bond, James Bond. What is yours?"
"Ken, Chick Ken."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
One
South Dakota man was faced with just such a decision, and he chose: beer.
And he was put in jail for it, too. Sioux Falls police said that they have
arrested 56-year-old Michael Casteel, after he obstructed the work of
firefighters.
According to the police investigation, after a fire broke out Casteel's
building, firefighters and police were evacuating and treating the wounded.
That is when Casteel insisted on going back into his apartment to get some
beer.
Firefighters told him that he cannot enter the building as it was too
dangerous. Casteel pushed police officers aside and entered the building. A few
minutes later, he emerged from the building with two cans of beer. But Casteel
did not get a chance to drink his beer as he was immediately arrested by
police.
The Sioux Falls Police Department wrote on Twitter: "This incredibly poor
judgement could have put many responders at risk. It is not advisable to push
past police and firefighters in an attempt to save your beer."
Casteel has been charged with one count of obstructing a firefighter or law
enforcement official. His bail has been set at $300.
And to add insult to injury, the beer he went back into a burning building to
rescue? Bud Ice
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Between
70 and 80 percent of people respond to certain hypnotic suggestions but not
others. For example, they may scratch their head when a buzzer goes off if the
hypnotist has told them to, but they won't go so far as to pour a bucket of
water over their heads.
***
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette believed so strongly in Franz Mesmer's technique
that they created the Magnetic Institute in France. At first, Mesmer had
patients put their feet in buckets of magnetized water, with cables attached to
magnetized trees. The French medical community - and visiting diplomat Benjamin
Franklin - denounced him as a fraud.
***
Falling under the power of a hypnotist was a legal defense in France in the
19th century. It was believed that a hypnotist could make someone "a toy
in his hands" and that the person "could not reject the ideas of the
beguiler." People who committed crimes under such influence could not be
held legally or morally responsible for their acts.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>90’s<§>
@94- Walter
Lantz,
animator
(Woody Woodpecker's creator) (d.1994)
@90- Jack
Klugman,
Philadelphia
(Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus), (d. 2012)
<§>80’s<§>
@88- Wesley
A Clark,
American
computer designer (first personal computer - LINC), born in
New
Haven, Connecticut (d. 2016)
@82- Casey
Kasem,
radio
personality (American Top 40), born in Detroit, (d. 2014)
@80- Samuel
Morse,
American
inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter, born in
Charlestown,
Massachusetts (d. 1872)
<§>70’s<§>
@78- Coretta
Scott King,
Marion
Ala, civil rights leader (d. 2006)
@76- Judy
Carne,
English
comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop), born in Northampton, (d. 2015)
@72- Cuba
Gooding,
US
singer (Everybody Plays the Fool) (d. 2017)
<§>60’s<§>
@68- Cecil
Day-Lewis,
Irish
poet (British Poet Laureate 1968-72) and detective writer (Nicholas
Blake),
born in Ballintubbert, Queen's County (d. 1972)
66- Paul Daniel ‘Ace’
Frehley,
heavy
metal rocker (Kiss-Beth, Frehley's Comet), born in The Bronx
@63- Ulysses
S. Grant,
18th
US president (1869-77) and Union general, born in Point Pleasant,
Ohio
(d. 1885)
<§>50’s<§>
57- Sheena
Easton, [Shirley Orr],
singer
(Sugar Walls), born in Glasgow, Scotland
@54- Sandy
Dennis,
American
actress (d. 1992)
<§>30’s<§>
33- Patrick
Stump,
American
musician (Fall Out Boy), born in Evanston, Illinois
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>’s<§>
@50-1521 Ferdinand
Magellan,
Portuguese
explorer, killed by Filipino natives while on voyage to circumnavigate the world
@34-1813 Zebulon
Pike,
American
brigadier general and explorer (Pike's Peak), in battle
@78-1882 Ralph
Waldo Emerson,
American
poet (Representive Men), pneumonia
@57-1965 Edward
R Murrow,
newscaster
(Person to Person), lung cancer
@72-1998 Carlos
Castaneda,
Peruvian-born
American writer and mystic, cancer
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
2007
In
2007, Super Bowl XLI kicked off between the Chicago Bears and Indianapolis
Colts in Miami. Prince performed the halftime show, donning a teal suit. He
started his 12-minute performance with "Let's Go Crazy" and finished
by playing "Purple Rain" as a downpour began in the stadium. On the
airwaves, 140 million viewers tuned into the performance, and the stadium held
75,000 attendees. Some consider Prince's set the best halftime show in the
history of the Super Bowl. Source: CBS Sports, Billboard.com
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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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