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May 1, 2017
Week: 18 \ Day: 122
86004 Today: H 70° \
L 30° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 13mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
May Averages: 68°\34°
May Records: H: 89° (2002)
L: 7 (1915)
Record High: 84°[1947] Record Low: 13°[1915]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Judge a man by his questions rather than
his answers.
Voltaire
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Childhood
Depression Awareness Day
National Library
Legislative Day Link
National Teacher Day
Roberts Rule of Order Day
World Asthma Day Link
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
1-7
Children's Book
Week
Choose Privacy Week Link
National Wildflower Week
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
• Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
<§>1400’s<§>
•1497 John
Cabot's expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across the Atlantic
<§>1500’s<§>
•1536 Anne
Boleyn is arrested and taken to the Tower of London
<§>1700’s<§>
•1780 William
Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
•1783 Architect Pierre
Charles L'Enfant is promoted by brevet to Major of Engineers in
recognition of his service to American liberty
<§>1800’s<§>
•1833 Russian
Tsar Nicolas I bans public sale of serfs
1863 Stonewall
Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
1865 US
President Andrew Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson
Davis
1885 "Good
Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1887 Hannibal
W Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1890 Territory
of Oklahoma created
<§>1900’s<§>
1908
"Take me out to the Ball Game" registered for copyright.
1915 Old
Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road
1916 2nd
Ave & Bronx Terrace renamed Bronx Blvd; Seward Pl renamed Sycamore Ave;
Herald Ave renamed Dickinson Ave; Monroe & Selwyn Avenue named
1918 General
Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
•1927 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1927 U.S.
Supreme Court's "Buck v. Bell", permits forced sterilizations of
various "unfits" by states' authorities where such surgeries are
practiced for eugenic reasons
1929 Billie
Holiday (14) and her mother are arrested for prostitution following a raid
of a brothel in Harlem
•1932 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
•1933 In
Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
•1936 Ethiopian
Emperor Haile Selassie and family flee Abyssinia
1938 Ella
Fitzgerald records "A-Tisket, A-Tasket"
•1938 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for his play "Our Town"
•1945 WWII:
Battle of Berlin ends as Soviet army takes Berlin and General Weidling
surrenders
•1949 Arthur
Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
•1955 Pulitzer
prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1956 US
Methodist church disallows racial separation
1960 Harry
Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
•1960 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
•1966 Pulitzer
prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
•1969 British
liner Queen Elizabeth II leaves on maiden voyage to NY
1974 Former
VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
•1986 Transportation
Expo 86 opens in Vancouver, BC
1988 Jackson
Pollock's "Search" sold for $4,800,000
•1990 South
Africa & African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1994 Dr
Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
1997 Donald
Trump & Marla Maples announce they are separating
<§>2000’s<§>
2000 President Bill
Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted
to the United States military.
•2011 Osama
bin Laden, the suspected mastermind behind the September 11 attacks and the
FBI's most wanted man is killed by United States special forces in Abbottabad,
Pakistan.
2013 Rhode
Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage
2015 Fight
of the Century: Floyd Mayweather, Jr. beats Manny Pacquiao in 12
for the welterweight boxing title
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
New
month brining us great weather, warm, little wind…another great day to be
outside.
It
is a shame that our President has such a limited vocabulary. He keeps repeating
the same adjectives over and over, most would be spoken by a 5th
grader when describing something. I guess his great education didn’t have any
English classes beyond 5th grade. Shameful.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
Along
that line, he just announced he would be ‘honored’ to meet the leader of N.
Korea. While I do believe it is important for our President to meet with world
leaders, few, if any would be ‘honored’ to meet the crazy man with nuclear
weapons. This may be a political move to get him to talk to Trump, but Trump
has not showed that degree of statesmanship in the past 101 days.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
When
did Amelia Earhart disappear?
1929 1933 1937 1940
54.6% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
6→Number of countries that the US bombed over a 2-day period
in September (Iraq, Syria
Libya, Yemen, Somalia, Afghanistan)
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
Two
engineers were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking at its top. A woman
walked by and asked what they were doing.
"We're supposed to find the height of this flagpole," said one,
"but we don't have a ladder."
The woman took a wrench from her purse, loosened a couple of bolts, and laid
the pole down on the ground. Then she took a tape measure from her pocketbook,
took a measurement, and announced, "Twenty one feet, six inches," and
walked away.
One engineer shook his head and laughed, "A lot of good that does us. We
ask for the height and she gives us the length."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*-------
Yakety Yak (Don't Smuggle That) -------*
Smugglers were trying to bring illegal yak meat and dung into the United
States, hidden in sweaters. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) announced
the seizure and destruction of a shipment of over 132 kilos of prohibited yak
meat, dung pods, and seeds for propagation imported from Nepal at New York's
JFK Airport. The prohibited items were hidden in sweaters, shawls, pants, and
other items of clothing. Yak meat is prohibited from being imported into the
United States from countries affected by foot-and-mouth disease, such as Nepal.
The shipment was initially identified by the Commercial Targeting and Analysis
Center based on a tip from the public. I guess it's pretty hard to hide that
yak dung smell.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
The
federal tax code is now 74,608-page-long. It is 187 times longer than it was a
century ago.
From 2010, when Obamacare was passed, to 2014, the tax code grew by nearly
3,000 more pages.
If the tax code continues to grow at the same pace it did over the last
century, it will pass 100,000 pages in 2050.
The
U.S. didn't institute an income tax until the time of the Civil War, as a
temporary measure. It took the Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, to make
it possible for the federal government to tax individuals directly.
But the story of tax day doesn't end there. In 1954, Congress passed nearly
1,000 pages of revision to the Internal Revenue Code. In it, Tax Day would be
moved from March 15 to April 15, giving the taxpayer an extra month to recover from
Christmas expenses.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>90’s<§>
@ 94- Benjamin Spock,
American
pediatrician (Common Sense Book of Baby Care), born in New
Haven,
Connecticut (d. 1998)
<§>80’s<§>
@ 85- Elijah McCoy,
Canadian-American
inventor of African descent, notable for his 57 US
patents
(lubrication of steam engines), born in Colchester, Ontario
(d.
1929)
@ 85- Pinky Lee,
children's
show host (Pinky Lee Show) (d. 1973)
81- Engelbert
Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey],
British
singer, born in Madras, India
<§>60’s<§>
69- Larry
Gatlin,
Seminole
Tx, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady)
@ 68- Lesley Gore,
American
singer (It's My Party, You Don't Own Me), born in Brooklyn,
(d.
2015)
@ 67- Catherine the Great [Catherine
II],
German
Empress of Russia (1762-96), born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia
(d.
1796)
65- Christine
Baranski,
actress
(Maryann-Cybill, Birdcage), born in Buffalo, New York
62- Donatella
Versace,
Reggio
Italy, Italian fashion designer
<§>50’s<§>
54- Brian
Tochi,
actor
(Dr Alan Poe-St Elsewhere, Renegades), born in Los Angeles
<§>40’s<§>
@ 48- Lorenz Hart,
American
lyricist (d. 1943)
45- Dwayne
"The Rock" Johnson,
American
professional wrestler and actor, born in Hayward, California
42-
David Beckham,
soccer
<§>30’s<§>
32- Lily
Allen,
English
singer-songwriter (It's Not Me, It's You) and TV presenter (Lily
Allen
and Friends), born in London
<§>20’s<§>
@ 23- Faisal II,
King
of Iraq (1939-58)/son of Ghasi I (d. 1958)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>90’s<§>
@95-2014 Efrem
Zimbalist, Jr.,
American
actor
<§>80’s<§>
@82-1993 Julio
Gallo,
wine
maker (Gallo), in a car accident
<§>70’s<§>
@77-1972 J.
Edgar Hoover,
first
Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (1924-72)
@73-2009 Jack
Kemp,
former
United States Congressman and 1996 Vice Presidential Candidate,
cancer
<§>60’s<§>
@67-2010 Lynn
Redgrave,
British
American actress (Tom Jones), cancer
artist/scientist
<§>50’s<§>
@54-2011 Osama
bin Laden,
Islamic
militant and founder of al-Qaeda, shot and killed in Abbottabad,
Pakistan
by navy seals during Operation Neptune Spear
<§>40’s<§>
@48-1957 Joseph
McCarthy,
anti-communist
US senator (R-Wisc), alcoholism
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
1937
One
of the most famous pilots of the 20th century is also at the heart (ha!) of a
classic unsolved mystery. Earhart was just 39 years old when she vanished
during a worldwide flight with her navigator, Frederick Noonan. Some believe
the two simply perished at sea, while others imagine that they managed to
survive off the grid until dying of old age. Regardless, she's still much-loved
to this day. Recently, Minifigs Ltd even created an Amelia Earhart LEGO figure
featuring her quote, "Adventure is worthwhile in itself" on its back.
Source: HISTORY.com, Minifigs Ltd
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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