Mar 27

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March  27, 2017 Week: 12 \ Day: 86

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 27° Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

March Averages: 50°\23°

March Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16 (1966)

Record High: 70°[1986]   Record Low: -1°[1975]

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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆

Plato

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

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❆❆Observances Today❆❆

Celebrate Exchange Day

Mule Day

National "Joe" Day

Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day

Viagra Day

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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆

21-27

Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination

26-4/1

NanoDays Link

Health Information Professionals Week Link

International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week

National Cleaning Week

National Protocol Officer's Week

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week

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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆

►   Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

►1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and his expedition first sight Florida

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►1790 The modern shoelace (string and shoe holes) invented in England

1794 The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.

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1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama

1836 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland, Ohio)

1841 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC

1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene

1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)

1866 US President Andrew Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amendment

►1881 Rioting takes place in Basingstoke, Hampshire, in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid Temperance by the Salvation Army.

1884 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY

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►1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington, D.C.

►1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)

1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of typhoid

►1931 Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor

1933 Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized

►1945 World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.

1948 Just 11 days after being released from prison, Billie Holiday plays in front of a sold-out crowd at Carnegie Hall 

1952 "Singin' in the Rain", a musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, is released

1955 Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)

►1958 Havana Hilton opens in Cuba, later HQ for Fidel Castro

1962 Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orleans Catholic school

►1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia

1973 45th Academy Awards: "The Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians

1979 US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops can't randomly stop cars

1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years

1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances

►1990 The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the Castro regime.

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►2006 The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.

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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆

Lazy Sunday. Waiting for a little warm up, but doesn’t seem to be happening. Still nice. Watched my Sunday morning news shows. GPS with Fareed was a repeat of his story on Putin. Always learn something new when watching it again.

Watched an interview with Timothy Snyder, a Yale Professor, with a new book ‘On Tyranny’. He has some very interesting ideas about how tyranny builds up in a country, and what to look out for. Sadly, some of the stuff is happening in the US since Jan. 20. Gotta get the book and learn more. And keep repeating ‘This is not normal’.

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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆

(answers at the end of post)

When did "Sesame Street" first air?

1977

1955

1981

1969

84% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆

20→Number of states that do not require Electoral College members to vote for the candidate who won their state

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❆❆ Joke For The Day❆❆

My wife loves sales. 

She'll buy anything that's marked down.

Yesterday she came home with an escalator.

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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆

Is That 10 Lbs of Coke in Your Pants or Are You Glad to See Me?

A man who arrived in New York from a trip to the Dominican Republic was found to be sporting some unusual underwear -- 10 pounds of cocaine. U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Juan Carlos Galan Luperon, a U.S. citizen, was wearing pants that "appeared to be rather snug" and was showing signs of nervousness when he arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport following a trip to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Luperon was taken to a private search room where officers found about 10 pounds of cocaine duct taped around both of his legs. The cocaine was valued at more than $164,000. "This seizure is another example of our CBP officers being ever vigilant in protecting the United States from the distribution of these illicit drugs," said Leon Hayward, acting director of CBP's New York Field Operations. Luperon was arrested and turned over to Homeland Security Investigations to face narcotics smuggling charges.      

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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆

At Chichen Itza, Mexico, the Mayan celebrate the first day of spring with 'The Return of the Sun Serpent.' On the evening on the spring equinox, the setting sun creates a triangular shadow on the El Castillo pyramid that looks like a descending snake, or the feather serpent god Kukulkan.

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Every year on the first day of spring, people in Poland gather to burn an effigy and throw it in the river to bid winter farewell.

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Spring may be the worst time for human babies to be born. A large-scale study found that babies born in the spring are more likely to develop schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression, and anorexia.

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❆❆How our states were named❆❆

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Massachusetts Bay Colony that preceded it were named after the area's indigenous people, the Massachusett. The tribe's name translates to "near the great hill," referring to the Blue Hills southwest of Boston. An alternate form of the tribe's name, the Moswetuset ("hill shaped like an arrowhead"), refers to the Moswetuset Hummock, an arrow-shaped mound in Quincy, MA.

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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆

@  indicates age at death

@85- Anthony Lewis, New York USA, American columnist (NY Times) and author (Gideon's Trumpet) (D 2013)

@84- Gloria Swanson, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly), born in Chicago, Illinois (D 1983)

@84- Cyrus Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80), born in Clarksburg, West Virginia (d. 2002)

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@78- Patty Smith Hill, American composer, teacher and songwriter (Happy Birthday to You), born in Anchorage, Kentucky (d. 1946)

@75- Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)(d 1888)

75- Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)

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67- Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)

@66- Sarah L Vaughan, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody), born in Newark, New Jersey (D 1990)

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59- Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)

54- Quentin Tarantino, American director and screenwriter (Pulp Fiction), born in Knoxville, Tennessee

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@48 David Janssen, [Meyer], actor (The Fugitive, Harry O), born in Naponee Nebraska (d. 1980)

48- Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer

47- Mariah Carey, American singer (Love Takes Time, Hero), born in NYC, New York

42- Fergie Duhamel, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas), born in Hacienda Heights, California

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29- Brenda Song, American actress (Disney)

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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆

@95-2002 Billy Wilder, Austrian-born American film director (The Lost Weekend, Some Like it Hot)

@93-2002 Milton Berle, American actor and comedian

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@88-1998 Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (Porsche AG)

@84-2012 Hilton Kramer, American art critic

@80-1923 Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist

@80-1898 Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan dies

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@73-1972 Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie)

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@66-2002 Dudley Moore, British actor and comedian (Arthur, 10), pneumonia\palsy

@58-1625 James VI and I, Scottish born King of Scotland )1657-1625) and King of England and Ireland (1603-25), poet and author, dysentery

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@41-1977 Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), multiple cancers

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@34-1968 Yuri Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1), Mig-15 plane crash

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❆❆Trivia Hive  Answers❆❆

1969

Just a few months after the first moon landing, documentary producer Joan Ganz Cooney debuted "Sesame Street" on November 10, 1969. The famous children's show would go on to air worldwide in more than 120 countries, reaching at least 74 million Americans on its way to television lore. It's estimated the show, which features the likes of Big Bird, Bert, Ernie and Oscar the Grouch, still garners 8 million viewers per week. Source: The History Channel.

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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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