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4.9.16 Week: 14 \ Day: 100
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 43° Average
Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 30mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[1989] Record Low: 9°[1953]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Appomattox Day Link
Baby Massage Day Link
"Bring Your Own Cup" Slurpee Day? Link (in 7-11 Stores)
Jenkins Ear Day
Jumbo Day (Elephant came to US and created the word for big
in our language.)
National Cherish An Antique Day
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Slow Art Day Link
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Observances This Week
2-10
National Robotics Week Link
3-9
Bat Appreciation Week
National Blue Ribbon Week Link (Child
Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Week of The Ocean
4-10
Explore Your Career Options
Hate Week
The Masters Tournament
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link
9-17
YoYo & Skill Toys Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1768 John Hancock refuses to
allow two British customs agents to go below deck of his ship, considered by
some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the
colonies
1865 US Civil War: Confederate
General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at Appomattox Court
House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over
President Andrew Johnson's veto
1914 US President W Wilson refuses
to recognize Huerta as President of Mexico on the ground that he has not been
elected by the people
1947 Atomic Energy Commission
confirmed
1950 Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1953 "TV Guide"
publishes 1st issue
1962 34th Academy Awards -
"West Side Story", Sophia Loren & Maximillian Schell
win
1963 Winston
Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
1968 Martin Luther King Jr.,
buried in Atlanta
1979 51st Academy Awards -
"The Deer Hunter", Jon Voight & Jane Fonda win
1984 56th Academy Awards -
"Terms of Endearment", Robert Duvall & Shirley
MacLaine win
1993 Colorado Rockies 1st home
game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
2012 "The Lion King"
becomes highest grossing Broadway show after overtaking "The Phantom of
the Opera"
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1483 Edward V (aged 12) succeeds
his father Edward IV as king of England. He is never crowned, and disappears
presumed murdered, after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger
brother Richard (the "Princes in the Tower")
1731 British mariner Robert
Jenkins' ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa in the Caribbean, later catalyst
for war between Britain & Spain
1906 3½th modern Olympic games
opens in Athens (4/22 NS)
1981 Irish hunger striker Bobby
Sands wins a by-election to be elected as a Member of Parliament at
Westminster; the law is later changed to prevent prisoners standing in
elections
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My Rambling Thoughts
Rain, lots of moisture in our little mountain
town. Nice.
Home Show was interesting, as usual. Lunch
with our retirement group was also great.
Lots of reading to do to get ready for
tomorrow’s discussion group on immigration. Should be a good discussion.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
90- Hugh Hefner,
Chicago, American magazine
publisher and businessman (Playboy)
(77) Paul Robeson,
Philadelphia, singer (Old
Man River)/actor/footballer (d.1976)
77- Michael Learned,
Washington, D.C., actress
(Olivia-Waltons, Nurse),
(67) Curly Lambeau,
Green Bay, First coach of
the Green Bay Packers (d. 1965)
(65) Carl Perkins,
Jackson Tn,
singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes) (d.1998)
62- Dennis Quaid,
Houston, actor (Big Easy,
Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
(57) Ward Bond,
Denver, actor (Seth-Wagon
Trains) (d.1960)
53- Joe Scarborough,
American television personality
50- Cynthia Nixon,
NYC, actress (Sex in the
City)
29- Jesse McCartney,
American actor and singer
26- Kristen Stewart,
Los Angeles, American
actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)
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Historical Obits Today
@89-1959 Frank Lloyd
Wright,
US architect (Guggenheim
Museum NY)
@79-1747 Simon Fraser,
11th baron Lovat Jacobite,
last man beheaded in England
@65-1626 Francis Bacon,
English statesman and
philosopher, pneumonia
@35-1976 Phil Ochs,
American anti-war folk
singer (Draft Dodger Rag), suicide
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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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