Apr 5

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April  5, 2017 Week: 13 \ Day: 95

86004 Today: H 48° \ L 27° Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

April Averages: 58°\27°

April Records: H: 80° (1992) L: -2 (1975)

Record High: 75°[1959]   Record Low: 8°[1958]

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‡‡Quote of the Day‡‡

Diogenes

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

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‡‡Observances Today‡‡

Go for Broke Day

National Deep Dish Pizza Day Link

National Dandelion Day

Read A Road Map 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 

≈456 Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop

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≈1603 New English King James I (James VI of Scotland) departs Edinburgh for London

≈1621 Mayflower sails from Plymouth on a return trip to England

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≈1722 Jacob Roggeveen discovers Easter Island

1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce forms (NYC)

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≈1815 Eruption of Tambora volcano (Sumbawa Java)

≈1818 In the Battle of Maipú, Chile's independence movement - led by Bernardo O'Higgins and José de San Martín - win a decisive victory over Spain, leaving 2,000 Spaniards and 1,000 Chilean patriots dead.

≈1874 Birkenhead Park, the first civic public park, designed by Joseph Paxton, opens in Birkenhead, England

1887 Anne Sullivan teaches "water" to Helen Keller

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≈1902 In Glasgow, Scotland the Ibrox disaster occurs after a section of a grandstand collapses killing 25 and injuring 517

1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM begins radio transmissions

1923 Firestone Tire and Rubber Company starts producing inflatable tires

1927 Johnny Weissmuller set records in 100 & 200 m free style

1936 Tupelo Mississippi virtually annihilated by a tornado, 216 die

1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago, IL (IND) begins broadcasting

1949 Fireside Theater debuts on US television.

1954 Elvis Presley records his debut single "That's All Right"

≈1958 Ripple Rock, an underwater threat to navigation in the Seymour Narrows in Canada is destroyed in one of the largest non-nuclear controlled explosions of the time.

1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m

≈1964 1st driverless trains run on London Underground

1969 Vietnam War: Massive antiwar demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.

1971 US Lt William Calley sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 22 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians in the My Lai Massacre

1974 World Trade Center, then the world's tallest building, opens in New York (110 stories)

1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421) 1989 David Letterman becomes 1st network TV series to use dolby stereo

1990 Paul Newman wins a court victory over Julius Gold, to keep giving all profits from Newman foods to charity

1992 Several hundred-thousand abortion rights demonstrators march in Washington, D.C.

1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game - lose to NY Mets 3-0

1996 Marlon Brando makes anti-Semetic remarks about Hollywood on Larry King

≈1997 Steve Irwin's "The Crocodile Hunter" debuts

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≈2009 North Korea launches its controversial Kwangmyŏngsŏng-2 rocket. The satellite passed over mainland Japan, which prompted an immediate reaction from the United Nations Security Council, as well as participating states of Six-party talks

≈2012 International internet group Anonymous hack several Chinese bureaus in opposition to censorship

2015 Rolling Stone Magazine retracts its "Rape on Campus" story about a gang rape at the University of Virginia after being discredited

2016 San Francisco becomes the first US city to mandate paid parental leave

2016 PayPal announces it is cancelling a $3.6 million investment in North Carolina after the state passes anti-gay legislation

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‡‡My Rambling Thoughts‡‡

Decent day. The snow is gone…got about ¾” last night with high winds. Today is cool but nice as the snow disappears. Just before I had to take in my taxes, I got an angioedema attack, on my lip. Took my pills but still have a little swelling that I can see, but others don’t seem to notice. I left my documents with the tax guy and he will call me when they are ready.

Sorry to see Gonzaga lose, but like NC State. Why, you ask. Well back when I was working at Tonalea, I was responsible for setting up the new 6^th-8^th grades. Among other things, that meant hiring coaches for CC, Basketball, Track for both boys and girls. The board had selected Columbia Blue and White as the school colors. That happens to be the colors of NC State. However, when ordering uniforms those colors were NOT ‘standard’ colors. After several missteps by the purchasing agent in Tuba, we finally got the uniforms we needed. She claimed that she found our uniforms at a cheaper price, but they wouldn’t be Columbia Blue. I told her she would have to come to the next board meeting to explain to the board that they would have to change the school colors. She declined my invitation and ordered the Columbia Blue uniforms. A few years later or gym roof sprung a leak after a big snow storm. The water damaged our wooden floor in the gym. It had to be refinished and we were able to get our school colors on the gym floor. All turned out good. But since those days, I always enjoy watching NC State play.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL:

A very religious woman told the tax guy’s manager that God has a purpose for putting Trump into office and God will make sure that everything works out. Huh? Really?!?

I remember being an elementary student when JFK was running and there was talk about the Pope would be our President if JFK was elected. He got on TV and set the record straight. He won and the Pope stayed in Rome.

Too many people in this country just see Trump as part of God’s plan.

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‡‡Today’s Trivia Hive‡‡

(answers at the end of post)

Who was the first U.S. president to have been born in a hospital?

Herbert Hoover

Harry Truman

Gerald Ford

Jimmy Carter

 24.5% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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‡‡Harper’s Index‡‡

48→Percentage by which US sales of adult-incontinence products are expected to rise by 2020

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‡‡ Joke For The Day‡‡

My sister was busy getting ready to host our entire family for Easter. On her to-do list was a hair appointment for her daughter. 

"So, Katie," said the stylist as the little girl got up in the chair, "who’s coming to your house this weekend with big ears and floppy feet?"

Katie replied, "I think it’s my Uncle Brian."

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‡‡Yep, It Really Happened‡‡

*- Virginia Police Arrest Sword-Carrying Joker -*

Police in Virginia said they arrested a man dressed as Batman villain The Joker after receiving several calls about him walking around with a sword. The Winchester Police Department said it received several calls about 2 p.m. Friday about a "suspicious male" dressed as The Joker walking along city roads while wearing a black cape and carrying a sword. Apparently Batman has never been popular in Winchester as The Joker has never worn a cape or used a sword. Nevertheless, 31-year-old Jeremy Putman was arrested and charged with wearing a mask in public. It is odd that he was charged with wearing a mask in public and not carrying a weapon, but the police reminded the public in a Facebook post about the arrest, "Please remember -- it is a Felony to wear a mask or cover your face in public."

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‡‡Somewhat Useless Information‡‡

The adrenaline rush you get when you jump out of a plane or run a marathon is essentially the same rush you get from kissing. The neurotransmitters that fire when you're kissing cause the heart to beat faster and the breath to become deeper.

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Sideshows at the Olympic games of ancient Greece included kissing competitions. How one would have judged such a thing is hard to know, but similar competitions still crop up from time to time, usually for fund-raising purposes or simply for spectacle's sake.

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The first on-film kiss occurred between John C. Rice and May Irwin in the movie The Kiss (1896).

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‡‡How our states were named‡‡

New Jersey

New Jersey was named for Jersey, the largest of the British Channel Islands, by its founders Sir John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret. Carteret was born on Jersey and served as its Lieutenant Governor for several years.

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‡‡Birthdays Today‡‡

@  indicates age at death

@91- Thomas Hobbes,

English philosopher (Leviathan), born in Westport, England (d. 1679)

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@87- Gregory Peck,

American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur), born in San Diego, California

(d. 2003)

@87- Gale Storm,

Bloomington Tx, actress (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show) (D 2009)

87- Mary Costa,

opera singer

@84- Arthur Hailey,

Luton England, novelist (Hotel, Airport) (D 2004)

@81- Bette Davis,     

American actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel), born in Lowell, Massachusetts

(d. 1989)

80- Colin Powell,

general/asst to president (Nat Sec Affairs), born in The Bronx, New York

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76- Michael Moriarty,

actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff), born in Detroit, Michigan

74- Max Gail,

American actor (Barney Miller, Whiz Kids, DC Cab), born in Detroit, Michigan

@72- Frank Gorshin,

comedian/impersonator (Riddler-Batman), born in Pittsburgh,(D 2005)

@71- Robert Q Lewis,

American TV host (Masquerade Party, Robert Q Lewis Show), 

born in NYC, (D 1991)

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@67- Spencer Tracy,

American actor (Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib), born in 

Milwaukee (d. 1967)

61- Anthony Horowitz,

suspense novelist, TV writer

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@59- Booker T. Washington,

American education pioneer and 1st African American on a US stamp, born in Hale's

Ford, Virginia (d. 1915)

53- Christopher "Kid" Reid,

American rapper (Kid 'n Play)

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44- Pharrell Williams,

American music producer (The Neptunes), born in Virginia Beach, 

Virginia

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@36- Judith Arlene Resnik,

Astronaut (STS 41D, 51L-Challenger disaster), born in Akron, Ohio 

(D 1986)

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‡‡Historical Obits Today‡‡

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@89-2005 Saul Bellow,

Canadian-American author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)

@87-2008 Charlton Heston,

American actor (The Ten Commandments, Ben-Hur)

@86-2015 Richard Dysart,

American actor (Leland MacKenzie - LA Law)

@84-1964 Douglas MacArthur,

US general (Pacific theater-WW II)

@80-1997 Allen Ginsberg,

beat poet

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@74-1992 Sam Walton,

Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart), multiple myeloma

@71-1982 Abe Fortas,

Supreme court justice, ruptured aorta

@70-1976 Howard Hughes,

reclusive billionaire, kidney failure

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@66-2006 Gene Pitney,

American singer, heart attack

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@27-1994 Kurt Cobain,

grunge rocker (Nirvana), commits suicide by gun

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‡‡Trivia Hive  Answers‡‡

Jimmy Carter

Believe it or not, Carter, born Oct. 1, 1924, in Georgia and the 39th U.S. president, was the first commander in chief to be delivered at a hospital. His accent and Southern background were as synonymous with his public image as his family's peanut farm. As of this writing, he and George H.W. Bush are tied as the oldest living former U.S. presidents, as both of them are at the ripe age of 92. Source: History.com, Biography.com

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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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Apr 4

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April 4, 2017 Week: 13 \ Day: 94

86004 Today: H 58° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: % 

Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  27mph Visibility: 10 mi

April Averages: 58°\27°

April Records: H: 80° (1992) L: -2 (1975)

Record High: 74°[1961]   Record Low: 5°[1977]

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‡‡Quote of the Day‡‡

Epictetus

Only the educated are free.

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‡‡Observances Today‡‡

Equal Pay Day Link

Hug a Newsman Day

International Day for Mine Awareness& Assistance in Mine Action

National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action  Link  

School Librarian Day

Tell a Lie Day

Victims of Violence Wholly Day

Vitamin C Day

Walk Around Things Day

World Rat 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 

≈1460 University of Basle in Swizerland forms

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1818 Congress decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars

≈1828 Casparus van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)

1841 Vice President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States after the death of President William Henry Harrison

1850 City of Los Angeles incorporated

1859 Bryant's Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface minstrel show.

1870 Golden Gate Park forms by City Order #800

1887 Susanna Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)

≈1896 Announcement of Gold in Yukon

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≈1900 Assassination attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war

≈1912 Chinese republic proclaimed in Tibet

1914 "Perils of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA

1917 US Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I

1932 Vitamin C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh

≈1945 Hungary liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)

≈1947 UN's International Civil Aviation Organization forms

≈1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington DC

1968 US civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee

1975 Microsoft is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800

1981 Henry Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)

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≈2007 15 British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian President.

2008 Raid on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints owned YFZ Ranch in Texas; 401 children and 133 women taken into state custody

≈2014 President of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to battles over water and food within the next five to ten years

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‡‡My Rambling Thoughts‡‡

I had hoped to get my taxes done today, but have to wait until noon tomorrow. So I took my vehicle to a drive through car wash to get all the pollen/mud that covered the vehicles here after our last snow storm.

While listening to NPR there was an interesting conversation I still have to absorb. The guy was talking about the problems coal miners have as the world moves away from coal to renewable energy. He said this is a group of people who will not to move to where renewable energy jobs are. He blames this on lack of knowledge regarding jobs that are available elsewhere. I see another part that was not discussed…many groups have lived in the same area for generations and simply don’t want to leave the land they were born on, where all their relatives live, and where many of the family are buried. I believe this is a bigger challenge that most recognize. Is the US responsible for making jobs for people in the area they were born? Where would the US be if everyone believed that you are born, live and die in the same county? Everyone not in a coal family knows that the president’s promise to bring back the coal jobs is an empty promise.

I do not have answers, but certainly understand the issues after living on the Rez for 3½ decades. I worked in a community where the elected leaders joined with a neighboring community (30+ miles away) to get a paved road. It took years to get the many, many families to agree that a paved road would be a benefit. It would be easier to get children to school each day and it would make it easier for community members to get to the community store/PO/Chapter House. It was one of those ‘Yes, but not in my backyard’ things. The paving began with everyone behind it except one grandma who herded her sheep where the road would cut her grazing land in half, with a road, a lots of fast moving vehicles that would hit and kill her herd. The officials in both communities went ahead with the paving and simply left about 4 miles unpaved. After the grandma passed, some 8 years after the paving, the siblings agreed to have the paved road as they could have grazing rights on one side or the other side of the road, meaning the sheep would be safer. Then it took another 6 years to finish the road. One lesson, I guess, is patience.

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‡‡Today’s Trivia Hive‡‡

(answers at the end of post)

Which two U.S. states are tied for having the most national parks?

California & Massachusetts

Washington & Alaska

Alaska & California

California & Washington

 54.9% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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‡‡Harper’s Index‡‡

36→Number of successive years that the US has been operating under a ‘state of emergency’

28→Number of different ‘states of emergency’ currently in effect in the US

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‡‡ Joke For The Day‡‡

Why is Alabama the smartest state? 

Because it has 4 A's and one B!

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‡‡Yep, It Really Happened‡‡

*------ Grabher? I Hardly Even Know Her. ------*

A Nova Scotia man said the province revoked his personalized license plate because his unusual family name, Grabher, was dubbed "socially unacceptable." Lorne Grabher said he has no problem getting a "GRABHER" license plate for his father in 1991, but in December he received a letter from the Nova Scotia Registrar of Motor Vehicles saying his own vanity plate was being revoked after a complaint. He said the letter branded his license plate "socially unacceptable" because it can be read as "grab her," which could be seen as promoting violence against women. "Where does the Province of Nova Scotia and this government have a person with that kind of power to discriminate against my name?" Grabher told local news. He wondered whether the objections to his plate stemmed from the infamous recording released during last year's U.S. presidential election, featuring Donald Trump using the phrase "grab her" in a vulgar fashion. He said he shouldn't be punished for the now-president's actions.               

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‡‡Somewhat Useless Information‡‡

Although human nature suggests that the first kiss would have been shared much earlier, anthropologists have traced the first recorded kiss to India in approximately 1500 B.C. Early Vedic documents report people "sniffing" with their mouths and describe how lovers join "mouth to mouth."

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The tradition that inspired the phrase "You may kiss the bride" probably originated in ancient Rome. To seal their marriage contract, couples kissed in front of a large group of people. The Romans had three different categories of kisses: osculum, a kiss on the cheek; basium, a kiss on the lips; and savolium, a deep kiss.

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The strange but sweet butterfly kiss is named for its similarity to a butterfly's fluttering wings. Simply put your eye a whisper away from your partner's eye or cheek, and bat your leashes repeatedly.

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‡‡How our states were named‡‡

New Hampshire

John Mason named the area he received in a land grant after the English county of Hampshire, where he had lived for several years as a child. Mason invested heavily in the clearing of land and building of houses in New Hampshire, but died, in England, before ever venturing to the new world to see his property.

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‡‡Birthdays Today‡‡

@  indicates age at death

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91- Cloris Leachman,            

actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety), born in Des Moines, Iowa

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@89- John Cameron Swayze,

Wichita Ks, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg) (D 1995)

@86- Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson],

American author ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"), poet and 
actress (Nyo-Roots), born in St Louis, (D 2014)

@83- Raoul Pictet,

Geneva, Switzerland, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen 
and was a pioneer of cryogenics (D 1929)

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@76- Bob Stump,

         (Rep-R-AZ) (D 2003)

73- Craig T. Nelson,

actor (Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach), born in Spokane, 
Washington

@68- Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield],

American blues guitarist (Hoochie Coochie Man), born in Jug's Corner (Issaquena

County) or Rolling Fork, Mississippi (d. 1983)

67- Christine Lahti,

American actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift), born in 
Detroit

@62- Bea Benaderet,

American actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), born in NYC, (D 1968)

61- David E. Kelley,   

        American writer and TV producer

@60- Anthony Perkins,        

      American actor (Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison), born in 

      NYC, (D 1992)

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54- Graham Norton,

interviewer, born in Clondalkin, Ireland

52- Robert Downey Jr,

American actor ( Chrlie Chaplin, Iron Man, Avengers), born in NYC

51- Nancy McKeon,

Westbury NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)

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43- David Blaine,

American illusionist

41- James Roday,

Actor (Psych)

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@28- Heath Ledger,

Australian-American Actor (Brokeback Mountain, The Dark 
Knight), born in Perth, Western Australia (d. 2008)

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@18- Tad Lincoln,

son of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)

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‡‡Historical Obits Today‡‡

@93-1993 Alfred Mosher Butts,

US architect/game maker (Scrabble)

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@88-1941 Andre Michelin,

French tire manufacturer

@84-1983 Gloria Swanson,

actress (Airport 1975)

@84-1929 Karl Benz,

German inventor, engine designer and automobile manufacturer 

(Mercedes-Benz)

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@77ish-636 Saint Isidore of Seville,

Church Father and the proposed patron of Internet

@76-1987 C[atherine] L[ucille] Moore,

author (Judgment Night), Alzheimer's

@76-1979 Edgar Buchanan,

DDS, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), stroke

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@68-1841 William Henry Harrison,

9th US President (Whig: March 4-April 4, 1841), pneumonia and becomes 1st president to die in office

@67ish-1617 John Napier,

Scottish mathematician/inventor (logarithms), effects of gout

@63-1972 Adam Clayton Powell Jr,

(Rep-D-NY), acute prostatitis

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@39-1968 Martin Luther King Jr.,

American clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964), assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee

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‡‡Trivia Hive  Answers‡‡

Alaska & California

Both California and Alaska have eight national parks. Denali National Park, located in Alaska, features 6 million acres of wilderness yet has only one road cutting through it. Another Alaskan park, Glacier Bay, is a popular spot for tourists and travelers to visit by boat and cruise ship. Two of the most well-known national parks found in California are Death Valley National Park and Joshua Tree National Park. Death Valley contains the lowest and driest spot in North America. Joshua Tree, meanwhile, encompasses the flora and fauna of two deserts - Mojave and Colorado. Source: US Parks Online

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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…☼☼☼☼