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April 7, 2017 Week: 13 \ Day: 97
86004 Today: H 64° \
L 25° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 80°[1989] Record Low: 10°[1922]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Buddha
To
live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of
abundance.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Day of Remembrance
of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide Link
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day (First Friday)
International Beaver Day
International Snailpapers Day
Metric System Day
World
Health Day (UN)
World Health Organization Day Link
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
1-7
APAWS Pooper
Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
2-8
American Indian
Awareness Week Link
Bat Appreciation
Week
Consider
Christianity Week
National Blue
Ribbon Week Link (Child Abuse)
National Crime
Victims Rights Week Link
National Public
Health Week
National Window
Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck
Cancer Awareness Week Link
Week of The Ocean
3-10
Explore Your Career
Options
Hate Week
(The) Masters Tournament
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link (Formerly
in March)
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
Undergraduate
Research Week
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
≈529 First
draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) issued by
Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
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≈1348 Prague
University, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
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≈1652 Dutch
establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
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1712 Slave
revolt in New York kills 6 white men, 21 African Americans executed
≈1795 France
adopts the meter as the basic measure of length.
1798 Mississippi
Territory organized
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≈1805 Premiere
of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1818 General Andrew
Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole indians
≈1827 English
chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1891 Nebraska
introduces 8 hour work day
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1902 Texas
Oil Company (Texaco) forms
≈1921 Revolutionary
leader, Sun Yat-sen is elected President of China at Canton, though
China remains divided into north and south and subject to rivalries of warlords
1922 Warren
G. Harding's Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot Dome
oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion what comes to be known
over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandals
1923 1st
brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in
NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
≈1934 In
India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1940 1st
black to appear on US stamp (Booker T. Washington)
≈1948 World
Health Organization formed by the United Nations
≈1948 A
Buddhist monastery burns in Shanghai, China, leaving twenty monks dead.
1949 "South
Pacific" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 1928 performances
1954 US
President Dwight D. Eisenhower in news conference is first to voice
fear of a "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China
1969 Supreme
Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 The
Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
1977 Consumer
Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
≈1978 Guttenberg
bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1978 US President Jimmy Carter defers production of neutron bomb
1980 Jimmy
Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
≈1983 Oldest
human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
≈1988 Russia
announced it would withdraw its troops from Afghanistan
1990 John
Poindexter (National Sec Advisor) found guilty on Iran-Contra scandal
≈1992 Republika
Srpska (aka the Bosnian Serb Republic) announces its independence.
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2016 Longest-ever
captured python found on Penang in Malaysia (26ft/8m)
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Nice
warm day here at 7000’. Windows open so spring air can get into the place. No
word yet on taxes…love the waiting game.
Live
and learn, slowly I guess. FB is filled with notices that comedian Don Rickles
passed away at 90. He was a funny guy. Then on the right side of the screen was
a picture of Bill Cosby stating he had passed. Being a little dumb, I clicked
on the picture. Suddenly a popup that I must call a number within 5 minutes or
my computer will have all data erased. I
shut down the computer in seconds then after about 5 minutes I started it up
again. Everything worked fine. I cleared the visited sites from my browser,
checked for any new downloads, and ran a free cleaning program and all is good.
So tired of these idiots messing with people.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is the oldest school for higher education in the United States?
Yale
University
Princeton
University
Harvard
University
College
of William and Mary
32.5% taking the internet quiz got it
correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
1/50→Portion of TSA funding that is spent on
surface transportation
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
The
doorbell rings. A man opens the door and there's his mother-in-law on the front
step.
She asks, "Can I stay here for a few days?"
The man says, "Sure you can." And he closes the door.
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*-------------------
Ass Gun -------------------*
Police officers were surprised to see a handgun fall out of a suspect's
backside while being searched in jail, according to police in Alabama.
Limestone County police said that they have arrested 23-year-old Jesse O'Neal
Roberts, after being accused of being drunk in public. According to the police
investigation, Roberts trespassed in a property on Esten Lane. The homeowner
found Roberts in his garage, and held the suspect at gunpoint until police
arrived. When Roberts arrived in jail, officers noticed that he was walking
funny. While searching Roberts, he stumbled and the gun fell out of his
backside. The gun was reported stolen from Florence. Police said that they do
not know if the owner will want the gun back as it was in Roberts' backside.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Only
12 people have been on the moon: the astronauts on the Apollo missions from
1969 to 1972.
The six Apollo crews came back to Earth with a total of 850 pounds (385 kg) of
the moon.
Moon dust is said to smell like spent gunpowder.
According to the Outer Space Treaty, the moon is under the same jurisdiction as
international waters. The treaty also says the moon can be used for peaceful
purposes by all nations, and it prohibits weapons of mass destruction or
military bases of any kind on the moon.
Down
is the layer of soft feathers closest to a bird's skin, primarily on the
breast. These feathers keep ducks and geese warm during chilly flights.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
New
York
Both
the state and New York City were named for James Stuart, Duke of York and
future King James II of England. The old York, a city in England, has been
around since before the Romans made their way to the British Isles and the
word York comes from the Romans’ Latin name for city, written
variously as Eboracum, Eburacum and Eburaci.
Tracing the name further back is difficult, as the language of the area’s
pre-Roman indigenous people was never recorded. They are thought to have spoken
a Celtic language, though, and Eboracum may have been derived
from the Brythonic Eborakon, which means “place of the yew trees.”
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@92- Ravi
Shankar,
British
musician (the Pandit), born in Varanasi, India (d. 2012)
@91- Will
Keith Kellogg,
American
cereal manufacturer (d. 1951)
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@86- James
Garner,
American
actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick), born in Norman Ok, (d. 2014)
@82- Wayne
Rogers,
actor
(M*A*S*H, House Calls), born in Birmingham Alabama (d. 2015)
83- Swami
Shantananda,
Hindu
Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of Temple of Fine Arts
@80- William
Wordsworth,
English
poet laureate (The Prelude), born in Cockermouth, Cumberland (d. 1850)
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79- Jerry
Brown,
Governor
of California, born in San Francisco, California
78- Francis
Ford Coppola,
director
(The Godfather, Apocalypse Now), born in Detroit, Michigan
@74- Walter
Winchell,
Harlem
newscaster/columnist (Untouchables), born in NYC, (D 1972)
@74- David
Frost,
Tenterdon
England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was), (d. 2013)
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69- John
Oates,
American
rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl), born in NYC, New York
@67- Percy
Faith,
conductor
(Summer Place) (D
1976)
66- Janis
Ian [Janis Eddy Fink],
American
singer-songwriter and folk musician (At Seventeen, Society's
Child), born in
NYC,
New York
63- Jackie
Chan,
Hong
Kong martial arts actor (Rumble in the Bronx), born in Hong Kong
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53- Russell
Crowe,
Australian/New
Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator), born in Wellington, New
Zealand
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48- Clark
Sheehan,
cyclist
(Olympics-96), born in Denver, Colorado
@46- Francis
Xavier,
saint/Jesuit
missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan (D 1552)
@44- Billie
Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan],
jazz singer (Lady Sings the Blues), born in
Philadelphia, D 1959)
@42- Francis
C Lowell,
founded
1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill (D 1817)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
@93-2012 Mike
Wallace [Myron],
American
media personality
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@89-2007 Barry
Nelson,
American
actor (Airport)
@88-1891 Phineas
T Barnum,
US
circus promoter (B & Bailey)
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@76-2007 Johnny
Hart,
American
cartoonist (B.C., Wizard of Id)
@76-1823 Jacques-Alexandre-César
Charles,
French
inventor and balloonist who (with Nicholas Robert) was the first to take flight
in
a hydrogen balloon
@72ish-1614 El
Greco (Doménikos Theotokópoulos),
Greek-born
artist working in Spain
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@61-2009 Dave
Arneson,
Co-creator
of Dungeons & Dragons, cancer
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Harvard
University
Harvard
University, founded in 1636, is the oldest school for higher education in the
United States. Members of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay
Colony established the school, naming it after a Boston-area minister named
John Harvard. Upon his deathbed in 1638, Harvard bequeathed his book collection
and 800 pounds - half his estate - to the college. In honor of the gift, the
university commissioned a bronze statue of the clergyman, which now sits in
front of University Hall on the school's Cambridge campus. Tourists often rub
Harvard's left toe for good luck. Sources: Harvard University and Harvard
Magazine.
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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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