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text is a link. Click to check it out!
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April 30,
2017 Week: 18 \ Day: 120
86004 Today: H 50° \
L 26° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 22mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 78°[1981] Record Low: 10°[1967]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Failure is the condiment that gives
success its flavor.
Truman Capote
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Animal Advocacy Day
Beltane
Bugs Bunny Day
Díá De Los Niños / Díá De Los Libros Day
Kiss of Hope
Day Link
International Jazz Day Link
Mother, Father Deaf Day
National Animal Advocacy Day
Pinhole Photography Day Link
Spank Out Day - USA
Walpurgis Night
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
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
30-5/6
National Small
Business Week Link
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
► Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
<§>’s<§>
►711 Islamic
conquest of Iberia: Moorish troops led by Tariq ibn-Ziyad land at Gibraltar to
begin their invasion of the Iberian Peninsula (Al-Andalus).
►1349 Jewish
community at Radolszell, Germany, exterminated
1598 1st
theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1722 Game
of Billiards is mentioned in New England Courant
1789 George
Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States of
America
1798 US
Department of the Navy forms
►1803 Robert
Livingston and James Monroe sign Louisiana Purchase Treaty in Paris at cost of
15 million dollars, doubles size of US
►1808 1st
practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1812 (Eastern)
Louisiana admitted as 18th US state
1857 San
Jose State University forms
►1859 Charles
Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is first published in literary
periodical "All the Year Round" (weekly installments until Nov 26)
1860 Navaho
attack Fort Defiance (Canby)
1864 New
York becomes 1st state to charge a hunting license fee
1871 The
Camp Grant Massacre of Apaches in Arizona Territory, perpetrated by white &
Mexican adventurers; 144 die
1900 Casey
Jones dies heroically in a train wreck at Vaughn, Mississippi, while driving
Cannonball Express (immortalized in "Ballad of Casey Jones")
1904 Ice
cream cone makes its debut
1925 Automaker
Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Company for $146 million plus
$50 million for charity.
1939 New
York World's Fair opens
1939 NBC/RCA
1st public TV demo with FDR at opening of NY World's Fair
1952 Mr
Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
►1961 Premier Fidel
Castro of Cuba receives Lenin-Peace Prize
►1967 Highest
tower to the world finished, 537m (USSR)
►1970 US
troops invade Cambodia
1973 President
Nixon announces the resignation of Haldeman, Ehrlichman, et al
►1975 Last
US helicopter leaves US embassy grounds, Saigon surrenders
►1980 Juliana,
Queen of the Netherlands, abdicates; Princess Beatrix Wilhelmina Armgard
becomes Queen
1989 Critics
Siskel & Ebert film their 500th TV movie-review show
1990 US
66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
1996 US President
Clinton approves the sale of $227 million of crude oil from the Strategic
Petroleum Reserve; US gas prices are at their highest levels in 5 years
1997 42
million watch Ellen DeGeneres admit she is gay
►2004 U.S.
media release graphic photos of American soldiers abusing and sexually
humiliating Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.
2009 Chrysler
automobile company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2012 The
unfinished One World Trade Center overtakes the Empire State building to become
the tallest building in New York
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Windy
and cool day…not a day to be outside. Going crazy waiting for this wind to stop
so I can wash my outside windows.
Discovered
a good detective story on Netflix. It is ‘Shetland’, takes place in Scotland
with nice views to remind me of my trip there. Accents are kinda cool too.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
Our
President only makes a big deal about his ‘signings’ when he thinks it will
either distract from something or give him good ratings. He is signing other
stuff too. Just learned yesterday, that on my birthday (way back in Feb) he
quietly signed an executive order that removes the prohibition of selling guns
to individuals with past mental illness. Now that should change the landscape
of this great country.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
In
March 2017, the U.S. Census Bureau said it would not include what two desired
categories on the 2020 survey?
Age
and ethnicity Sexual
orientation and gender identity
Marital
status and fertility Income and
ancestry
78.0%taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
31→Number of US states in which it is legal to sentence a minor
to life in prison without parole
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
Today
we'll let a member of the class lead the discussion. It will be a good
educational experience.
(I stayed out too late last night and didn't have time to prepare a lecture.)
The gist of what the author is saying is what's most important.
(I don't understand the details either.)
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*-----
Some People Have All The Luck -----*
A Washington state man who won a $1,000 prize years ago said he scratched off
his $50,000 ticket at the same store and showed it to the same cashier.
Washington's Lottery said the Bellingham man purchased his $40 Million Mega
Multiplier scratch-off ticket recently from a supermarket in Bellingham and he
decided to scratch the ticket in the store's parking lot. "I scratched my
ticket in the parking lot of the grocery store and when I saw it was a winner, I
immediately went back inside to check with a cashier," the man said.
"When I walked up to the register, I realized the clerk was the same woman
who confirmed my last big lottery win years ago!" The man said the woman
had been working a few years ago when he asked her to check a ticket that
turned out to be a $1,000 winner.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
New
Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. At
first, the community was nothing more than a trading camp on the curving east
bank of the Mississippi River. Later, the city was organized into a
rectangular, fortified community, which still exists today as the French
Quarter. The original streets, laid out in a grid, were named for French
royalty and nobility.
***
Canal
Street, once the widest street in the world, was named for a canal that was
planned for, but never built, on the street's dividing median. For decades, the
median's only use was public transportation, mostly by the Canal Street
streetcars.
***
The first New Orleans "skyscraper" was built in 1807. It was the
first four-story building in the city, and is still in use, standing on the
corner of Royal Street and St. Peter Street in the French Quarter. New Orleans
also boasted the first opera house in America.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>90’s<§>
@94- Juliana,
Queen of
Netherlands (1948-80) (d. 2004)
91- Cloris Leachman,
actress (Last Picture Show, Phyllis), born in Des Moines, Iowa
<§>80’s<§>
@89- Alice B. Toklas,
American companion of Gertrude Stein (d. 1967)
Canadian jurist and human rights advocate (Universal
Declaration on
Human Rights), born in Hampton, New Brunswick (d. 1995)
@82- Eve Arden [Eunice
Mary Quedens],
American actress (Our Miss Brooks), born in Mill Valley, California,
(d. 1990)
@82- Al Lewis,
actor
(Leo-Car 54, Grandpa-Munsters) (d. 2006)
<§>70’s<§>
German mathematician considered one of the
greatest of all time (Gaussian
distribution, fundamental theorem of algebra),
born in Brunswick, Germany
(d. 1855)
@74- Gary Collins,
actor (6th Sense, Home Show), born in Venice, California (d. 2012)
@73- Bobby Vee,
American pop singer (Night has a Thousand Eyes), born in Fargo,
North Dakota
(d. 2016)
<§>60’s<§>
@66- Jill Clayburgh,
American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), born in NYC,
(d. 2010)
<§>50’s<§>
58- Paul Gross,
Canadian actor (Constable Benton Fraser - Due South),
director, and
writer (Passchendaele), born in Calgary, Alberta
56- Isiah Thomas,
NBA forward (Detroit Piston; 1990 NBA playoff MVP), born in
Chicago, Illinois
<§>40’s<§>
42- Johnny Galecki,
American actor (Roseanne, The Big Bang Theory), born in Bree Belgium
<§>30’s<§>
36- Kunal Nayyar,
British-Indian actor and writer (Dr. Raj Koothrappali - The Big Bang Theory),
born in London
American
actress (Interview with the Vampire, Spider-Man), born in
Point Pleasant, New
Jersey
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>100’s<§>
@101-1983 Joel
H. Hildebrand,
American Chemist whose research led to new treatments for divers
with
the 'bends' through the use of helium and oxygen breathing mixtures
<§>90’s<§>
@94-2016 Daniel
Berrigan,
American Jesuit priest and peace activist (Vietnam War)
<§>80’s<§>
@85-2007 Tom
Poston,
American actor (George Utlely-Bob Newhart)
@85-1943 Beatrice
Potter Webb,
British sociologist, economist ( founded London School of
Economics) and
writer (My Apprenticeship)
<§>70’s<§>
@79-1983 George
Balanchine,
Russian-American ballet composer and choreographer; founded the
New
York City Ballet, Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease
@76-2015 Ben
E. King [Benjamin Earl Nelson],
American soul singer (Stand by Me), heart
disease
@73-1974 Agnes
Moorehead,
American actress (Endora in Bewitched), uterine cancer
<§>60’s<§>
@68-1983 Muddy
Waters,
US blues singer/guitarist (Mad Love), heart attack
@60-1989 Sergio
Leone,
Italian director (Good, Bad & Ugly), heart attack
<§>50’s<§>
@56-1945 Adolf
Hitler,
German Dictator (1936-45), commits suicide
@51-1883 Édouard
Manet,
French impressionist painter, gangrene
<§>30’s<§>
@36-1900 Casey
[John] Jones,
American railroad engineer, heroically in Cannonball Express
train wreck
@35-1970 Inger
Stevens,
actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), commits suicide
@33-1945 Eva
Braun,
German mistress/wife of Hitler, commits suicide
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Sexual
orientation and gender identity
After
viewing a published list of planned topics of questions for the 2020 Census and
the American Community Survey, readers found out that sexual orientation and
gender identity were removed from the agenda. LGBT rights groups have voiced a
negative opinion about this decision, claiming that policymakers need reliable
data from the Census about the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community
to make educated decisions. In the past, the agency has used data it does
collect to glean insights about same-sex couples. Source: NPR
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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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