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April 29, 2017 Week: 17 \ Day: 119
86004 Today: H 53° \
L 39° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind ave: 13mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 78°[1992] Record Low: 7°[1970]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
People change and forget to tell each
other.
Lillian Hellman
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Bob Wills Day Link
Day of Remembrance
for all Victims of Chemical Warfare Link
Eeyore's Birthday Day Link
International Table Top Day Link
National Go Birding Day
National Herb Day
National Kiss of Hope Day Link
National Rebuilding Day
National Sense of Smell Day Link
"Peace"
Rose Day (The
flower)
Save The Frogs Day Link
Sense of Smell Day Link
Spring Astronomy Day Link
World Day for Animals in Laboratories Link
World Healing Day Link
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Link
World Veterinary Day
World Wish Day Link
Zipper Day
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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
28-30
Interstate Mullet
Toss
National Dream Hotline
National & Global Youth Service Days
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
<§>1500’s<§>
≈1553 Flemish woman
introduces practice of starching linen into England
<§>1600’s<§>
≈1623 11 Dutch ships
depart for the conquest of Peru
<§>1800’s<§>
1813 Ist US Rubber
patent granted to Jacob F Hummel
1845 Macon
B Allen & Robert Morris Jr, 1st African Americans to open a law practice in
the US
≈1852 1st edition of
Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
≈1864 Battle of Gate
Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700 British troops suffer their worst defeat of the New
Zealand Wars at the hands of 230 entrenched Maori warriors in Tauranga
<§>1900’s<§>
1902 Congress extends
the Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882) prohibiting immigration of Chinese laborers
from territories to the mainland, a rule clearly aimed at Chinese in the
Philippines
1910 Ex-US president Theodore
Roosevelt visits Amsterdam
1916 Irish republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and
surrender unconditionally, marking the end of the Easter Rising
1926 France & US
reach accord on repayment of WW I
1927 Construction of
Spirit of St Louis (the monoplane which Charles Lindbergh was to fly across the
Atlantic) is completed
≈1942 Japanese troop
march into Lashio, cut off Burma Road
1953 The first U.S.
experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles
ABC affiliate KECA-TV.
1961 ABC's "Wide
World of Sports" debuts
1967 Aretha Franklin
releases "Respect"
1968 "Hair"
opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
≈1970 50,000 US &
South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1971 Bill Graham
closes down Fillmore & Fillmore East
1974 US President Richard Nixon said he will release edited tapes made in White House
≈1975 Ethiopia
nationalizes all land
≈1975 Vietnam War: US begins to evacuate its citizens from
Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind in response to advancing North Vietnamese
forces, bringing an end to US involvement in the war
1986 800,000 books
destroyed by fire in Los Angeles Central Library
≈1990 Wrecking cranes
began tearing down the Berlin Wall at the Brandenburg Gate
≈1995 Longest sausage
ever, at 28.77 miles, made in Kitchener, Ontario
≈1997 The Chemical
Weapons Convention of 1993 comes into force, outlaws production, stockpiling
and use of chemical weapons among its signatories.
<§>2000’s<§>
2002 The United
States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year
after losing the seat it had held for 50 years.
2004 Oldsmobile
builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
≈2015 German Measles
is declared eradicated from North and South America - 1st world region to do so
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Busy
day yesterday. Had lunch with friends then off to ‘Beauty and the Beast’ at our
new local theater. Theater is amazing. Very nice lounge seats, no worrying
about people in front of you as rows are raised high enough, sound is fantastic,
and screen in huge and very clear. The hardest part is that you have to pick
your seat when you buy your ticket. That would be great for a crowded movie and
of course, even here, we can buy tickets and seats on line so no standing
outside in cold or hot or windy weather. Never having been in the theater and having
to choose your seat from a computer screen sucks, but we got in, sat where we
wanted to as it was a weekday in the early afternoon. Now that we’ve been there, next time will be
easy-peasy.
Eye
seems to be healing after the 2nd visit and the antibiotics. Still a
little red, but better each and every day.
Another
lunch with friends today. Another great conversation and food.
Got
a card from my local TV provider. Need a new box. It is just for the bedroom
and have only had minimum channels but it worked out. Now I have a ‘free for 2
years’ new box and have all my channels. Cool, if I can figure it out.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
For
the first time I can remember…100 days is enough. I want a new President,
someone with a vocabulary above a 3rd grader, someone who is not a
bully, and someone who can actually lead.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is Vin Diesel's real name?
Vincent Peters Michael
Collins
Mark Sinclair Dominic
Toretto
24.5%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
2→Number of weeks in solitary confinement to which Chelsea
Manning was sentenced after attempting suicide in July
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
I
didn't realize how bad of a driver I was until my navigation system said:
"IN 400 FEET, DO A SLIGHT RIGHT, STOP, AND LET ME OUT."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*-
Boy, 12, Stopped Trying to Escape Australia -*
Police in Australia said a 12-year-old boy managed to drive 800 miles across
the country before he was stopped by suspicious officers. New South Wales
police said officers pulled over a vehicle on the Barrier Highway because its
bumper was dragging on the ground. Police said the boy was trying to drive from
Kendall, New South Wales, to Perth, Western Australia, a total distance of
2,485 miles. Investigators said he had made it about 800 miles before he was
caught. The boy was stopped and taken to the local police station. The
investigation is ongoing, police said. Well, Australia is (or was) a prison
after all.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
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.
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.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>90’s<§>
@95- Celeste
Holm,
American
actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve), born in NYC, (d. 2012)
<§>80’s<§>
@88- William
Randolph Hearst,
American
newspaper publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I),
(d.
1951)
@87- Hirohito,
Emperor
of Japan (1926-89) (d. 1989)
84- Willie
Nelson,
American
country singer (On the Road Again), born in Abbott, Texas
@81- Rod
McKuen,
American
singer/composer (Alone, Beatsville), born in Oakland
(d.
2015)
<§>70’s<§>
@75- Duke
Ellington,
American
bandleader, composer and pianist (Take the A Train), born in
Washington,
District of Columbia (d. 1974)
70- Jim
Ryun,
US,
1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)
<§>60’s<§>
@65- James
Brooke,
British
adventurer and 1st Rajah of Sarawak (1841-68), born in Bandel,
near
Calcutta, Bengal, British India (d. 1868)
63- Jerome
'Jerry' Seinfeld,
comedian/actor
('Seinfeld'), born in Brooklyn, New York
62- Kate
Mulgrew,
Dubuque
Iowa, actress (Capt Janeway-Star Trek Voyager)
60- Daniel
Day-Lewis,
English
actor (Last of the Mohicans, Gangs of New York), born in London
<§>50’s<§>
59- Eve
Plumb,
actress
(Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka), born in Burbank
59- Michelle
Pfeiffer,
Midway
City California, actress (Married to the Mob)
<§>40’s<§>
47- Andre
Agassi,
tennis
star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994), born in Las Vegas
47- Uma
Thurman,
actress
(Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction), born in Boston
@46- Tommy
Noonan,
WA,
actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises) (d. 1968)
<§>20’s<§>
24- Tammi
Terrell [Thomasina Montgomery],
singer
(Ain't No Mountain High Enough), born in Philadelphia, (d. 1970)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>90’s<§>
@97-2006 John
Kenneth Galbraith,
Canadian
economist (Affluent Society-58 Hillman Award)
@91-2015 Jean
Nidetch,
American
businesswoman; founder of Weight Watchers
<§>80’s<§>
@80-1980 Alfred
Hitchcock,
English
director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)
<§>70’s<§>
@78-2005 William
J. Bell,
American
television writer and producer; soap operas
<§>60’s<§>
@66-1864 Abraham
Gesner,
Canadian
geologist (inventor of kerosene)
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Mark
Sinclair
On
screen, Vin Diesel's gone by many names - Richard B. Riddick, Dominic Toretto
and, of course, Groot. But Vin Diesel wasn't always the actor's name. Growing
up, Diesel went by his real name - Mark Sinclair. But let's face it, if you're
going to star in action-packed blockbusters, a name like Mark Sinclair just isn't
going to cut it. So where exactly does "Diesel" come from? Well, that
nickname comes from the actor's days working as a New York City bouncer.
Sources: IMDb, ScreenRant
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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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That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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