FYI: Any blue
text is a link. Click to check it out!
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
April 15,
2017 Week: 14 \ Day: 105
86004 Today: H 65° \
L 32° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 76°[1948] Record Low: 11°[1965]
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Dwight
D. Eisenhower
We
are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Auctioneers Day
American Fancy Rat
& Mouse Day: thru 16
Jackie Robinson
Day Link
McDonald's Day
One Boston Day Link
Rubber Eraser Day Link
Take a Wild Guess Day
That Sucks Day
Titanic Remembrance Day
Record Store
Day
World Art Day Link
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
8-16
Animal Control
Officer Appreciation Week
Holy Week
International Dark
Sky Week
National Animal
Control Appreciation Week Link
National Dental
Hygienist Week Link
National Library
Week
National Public
Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Link
National Robotics
Week Link
National Student
Employment Week Link
Pan American
Week
15-22
International
Wildlife Film Week Link
National Park Week Link
Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
Safe Kids Week Link
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
≈1493 -20/4
Barcelona] Columbus meets with King Ferdinand & Isabella
<§><§>
1738 Bottle
opener invented
≈1755 Samuel
Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" published in London
≈1793 Bank
of England issues first £5 note
<§><§>
≈1802 William
Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy see a "long belt" of
daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud".
1817 1st
American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 City
of San Francisco incorporated
1865 Abraham
Lincoln dies 9 hours after he is shot attending the play "Our
American Cousin" at Ford's Theatre in Washington
1878 Harley
Procter introduces Ivory Soap
≈1896 First
modern Olympic games close in Athens, Greece
<§><§>
1923 1st
sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 Insulin
becomes generally available for diabetics
1941 1st
helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1945 FDR buried
in grounds of Hyde Park home
1947 Jackie
Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major league baseball
(Dodgers)
1955 Ray
Kroc opens first McDonald's Inc. fast food restaurant in Des Plaines,
Illinois
≈1959 Fidel
Castro begins US goodwill tour
1960 Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1960 Guy
Carawan sings "We Shall Overcome" to a Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee in Raleigh - popularizing the song as a protest anthem
1961 "Music
Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1964 Chesapeake
Bay Bridge opens (world's longest)
≈1970 Libyan
leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1971 43rd
Academy Awards: "Patton", George C Scott & Glenda Jackson win
1975 1st
appearance of San Diego Chicken
1981 Janet
Cooke says her Pulitzer award winning stry about an 8-year-old heroin addict is
a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
≈1983 Tokyo
Disneyland opens
1991 Magic
Johnson sets NBA record for career assists with 9,898
1992 Jay
Leno's final appearance as permanent guest host of Tonight
<§><§>
≈2010 Volcanic
ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of
airspace over most of Europe.
≈2012 China
loosens monetary policy and allows the Yuan to fluctuate up to 1% against the
US dollar
2013 Boston
Marathon bombings: 3 people are killed and 183 injured after two explosions
near the finish line
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Still
waiting for my taxes…getting close to the deadline.
My
poor dentist. One hygienist quit, so I was there at 8:45 for my 9a rescheduled appointment.
The hygienist is late, and listening to the Dr., this isn’t the first or second
time. I get in the chair and none of the
cleaning stuff is ready for use. Finally she cleans my teeth and the Dr. checks
my teeth. All good. Then the hygienist hands me an appointment slip with a
note, ‘you can pay later’ as the receptionist has gone home sick. While waiting
for the hygienist, the Dr. tells me he is getting a divorce, and he has 3
teenagers, and he is looking for a new place to live. Drama at the Dentist…not
what I wanted or needed.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
NPR
pointed out that Tillerson met with Putin, in Russia. The Russian leader is
infamous for making leaders wait…the Pope waited 2 hours; Germany’s leader
waited 4 hours and the list goes on.
But
when the US Sec of State there was no waiting to meet. They are old friends for
sure, but is there another message?
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
won the first gold medal for the U.S. at the 2016 Rio Olympics?
Michael
Phelps
Simone
Biles
Virginia
Thrasher
Kyle
Snyder
36.8% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
5→Rank of Colin Kaepernick, a black quarterback who
protested the National Anthem, among black Americans’ favorite NFL players
1→Among white
Americans’ least like players
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
After
we had lunch with another couple, the girls went shopping, and the guys opted
to go sailing. Bad decision as a storm blew in while us guys were out on the
water.
Making matters worse, the tide had gone out, grounding the boat. We had to
climb overboard and shove it back into deep water.
As my friend stood there, ankles deep in muck, muscles straining against the
weight of the boat, and rain pelting his face, he grinned broadly and with
unmistakable sincerity said, "Sure beats shopping!"
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
Mark
Dolph said he was preparing a meal with his family in their rural, mountainous
Pollock Pines, Calif., home when they heard their cats raising a ruckus by the
front door.
"I look and I see the door ajar," Dolph said, "but then I looked
down right here at the steps and the mountain lion had its head and front paws
about three steps down."
Dolph quickly herded his family into a pantry, armed himself with a pinata bat
and called 911. Police arrived at the home about a half hour later, but the
cougar had already left.
Dolph said the mountain lion made a mess in the kitchen, breaking several
dishes and somehow managed to turn on the water faucet. He said the family's
cats hid and survived the invasion.
The mountain lion, also referred to as a cougar, apparently got inside by
opening an unlocked door, Dolph said.
The U.S. Forest Service says mountain lions prefer to avoid confrontation with
humans and the chances of encountering one are quite small.
Other cougar encounters have occurred this year, however, including a
particularly aggressive mountain lion that walked right up to a Canadian
woman's home and bared its teeth -- while she filmed from the other side of the
window.
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Tryanophobia
is an exaggerated fear of injection with a hypodermic needle. This phobia has a
history in genetic memory. Thousands of years ago, the people who avoided being
stabbed in general were the most likely to survive.
***
Astraphobia is a paralyzing fear of thunder and lightning. The reaction often
causes a rapid heartbeat or labored breathing.
***
Cacophobia is the fear of ugliness. Sufferers actually have intense panic
attacks around unattractive people or things.
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Tennessee
While
traveling inland from South Carolina in 1567, Spanish explorer Juan Pardo
passed through a Native American village in modern-day Tennessee named Tanasqui.
Almost two centuries later, British traders came upon a Cherokee village
called Tanasi (in present-day Monroe County, Tennessee). No
one knows whether Tanasi and Tanasqui were actually the same village, though it
is known that Tanasi was located on the Little Tennessee River and recent
research suggests that Tanasqui was close to the confluence of the Pigeon River and the
French Broad River (near modern-day Newport). Tennessee could
have come from either one of these village names, but the meanings of both
words have since been lost.
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@86- Adrian
Cadbury,
confectionery
manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance, (d. 2015)
84- Roy
Clark, Meherrin,
Virginia,
American country singer (Hee Haw, The Tonight Show)
@82- Kim
Il-sung,
Founder,
dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94), born in
Mangyongdae,
Japanese Korea (d. 1994)
<§><§>
@78- Joseph
E. Seagram,
Canadian
distillery founder (d. 1919)
@77- Nikita
Khrushchev,
First
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1953-64), born in
Kalinovka,
Russia (d. 1971)
@76- Leonhard
Euler,
Swiss
mathematician (Euler's Constant), born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1783)
@70- Guru
Nanak,
Founder
of the religion of Sikhism and the 1st Sikh Guru, born in Rai-Bhoi-Di-
Talwandi,
Punjab, Pakistan (d. 1539)
70- Linda
Bloodworth-Thomason,
TV
producer (Designing Women, Murphy Brown)
<§><§>
@67- Leonardo
da Vinci,
Italian
painter, sculptor, scientist and visionary, born in Vinci, Florence, Italy (d.
1519)
@62- Elizabeth
Montgomery,
actress
(Samantha/Serena-Bewitched), born in Los Angeles, (d 1995)
<§><§>
58- Emma
Thompson,
English
actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar 1992), born in London
<§><§>
@43- Elizabeth
Mae "Bessie" Smith,
Empress
of Blues (over 200 songs) (d 1937)
<§><§>
35- Seth
Rogen,
Canadian
actor and writer (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Interview), born in
Vancouver,
British Columbia
<§><§>
27- Emma
Watson,
English
actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series), born in Paris, France
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
@84-1990 Greta
Garbo,
actress
(Anna Karenina, Camille)
<§><§>
@74-1980 Jean-Paul
Sartre,
existentialist
philosopher and writer (Nobel 1964), edema
@72-1998 Pol
Pot,
Cambodian
dictator, heart failure/suicide?
<§><§>
@65-1975 Richard
Conte,
actor
(Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), heart attack
@60-1942 Hugh
S. Johnson,
American
head of the National Recovery Administration and member of FDR's
Brain
Trust, pneumonia
<§><§>
@56-1865 Abraham
Lincoln,
16th
American President, gunshot wounds
@55-1999 Harvey
Postlethwaite,
British
engineer and racing car designer, heart attack
<§><§>
@49-2001 Joey
Ramone,
American
musician and singer (The Ramones), lymphoma
@49-1889 Father
Damien,
Belgian
missionary, leprosy
@42-1764 Madame
de Pompadour,
mistress
of King Louis XV of France, TB
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Virginia
Thrasher
Teen
shooter Virginia "Ginny" Thrasher won not only the first gold medal
for the U.S. in the 2016 summer Olympics, but also the first gold medal of
those games, period. She finished first in the women's 10-meter air rifle event
with a total score of 208.0, an Olympic record. The silver went to Du Li of
China, and the bronze was awarded to Yi Siling of China. Thrasher, at only 19
years old, was not a favorite to win the event. Source: USA Today
▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩▩
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…☼☼☼☼
No comments:
Post a Comment