Daily Calendar for Saturday, February 24, 2024

We see so many sights in the night sky. Are there any sounds?

None. Sound cannot pass through the vacuum of space.

St. Matthias’s Day (today) sends sap into the tree.

Keep track of the paints you’ve used by writing the brand name and color on the back of a light switch plate in each room as you paint the room.

Chain

1 chain=100 links=22 yards

What vegetables may be reduced to ashes merely by removing a part of them?

Squashes

Dinah Shore (singer) – 1994
Henny Youngman (vaudevillian who fiddled his way into television and films) – 1998
John McMorran (the oldest American man [at the time of his death] died from heart failure) – 2003
John Randolph (actor) – 2004
Dennis Weaver (actor) – 2006
Don Knotts (actor) – 2006
Jan Berenstain (co-creator of The Berenstain Bears book series) – 2012
Harold Ramis (actor & director) – 2014

Thomas Edison married Mina Miller. He wooed the 19 year old woman via Morse code– 1886
Thermite explosive first used to break ice jam, Waddington, NY– 1925
Nylon toothbrush bristles made by DuPont– 1938
When You Wish Upon a Star recorded– 1940
Discovery (by Jocelyn Bell) of the first pulsar announced– 1968
Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer– 1981
Hockey player Wayne Gretzky scored his 77th goal of the season and broke Phil Esposito’s 1971 record– 1982
A deadly 6.5-magnitude earthquake shook northeastern Morocco killing more than 560 people and injured approximately 300 more– 2004
Eastern Ontario and western Quebec were shaken by a 4.5 earthquake– 2006
Pilots of two planes reported UFO over Arizona– 2018

Brown snow fell in Vermont and New Hampshire. The color was caused by dust blown from storms in the Great Plains.– 1936
The temperature in Jacksonville, Florida, plummeted to 24 degrees F– 1989