6-10-15

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Almanac: Week: 24 \ Day: 161
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 76°\L 56° Average Sky Cover: 70% 
Wind ave:   3mph\Gusts:  16mph
Ave. High: 78° Record High:  87° (1910) Ave. Low: 40° Record Low:  28° (1998)
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Observances Today: 
Alcoholics Anonymous (Founders) Day
Ball Point Pen Day
Iced Tea Day
National Yo-Yo Day

Day of Portugal (Portugal)
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Observances This Week:
International Clothesline Week:6-13 
Bed Bug Awareness Week:7-13
Black Single Parents Week:7-13 
End Mountain Top Removal Week:7-13    
Jim Thorpe Native American Games:7-13 
National Body Piercing Week:7-13  
National Business Etiquette Week:7-13  
National Headache Awareness Week:7-13 
Pet Appreciation Week:7-13 
Rip Current Awareness Week:7-13 
National Automotive Service Professionals Week:8-14 

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1639 - 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1652 - In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
1682 - Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3 ft diameter oak tree
1760 - NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1768 - British customs officials seize John Hancock's ship, "The Liberty", on the suspicion that Hancock had illegally unloaded cargo without paying duties a month earlier
1793 - Washington supersedes Philadelphia as US capital
1809 - 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1847 - Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1899 - Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1903 - After two hours of torrential rain eleven people were known drowned and many others were missing in Clifton, Arizona.
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1939 – Beryl Webster and Charles Frazier marry in Denver
1939 - MGM cartoon character Barney Bear debuts
1963 - US President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
1977 - James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
1985
- Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula

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Today’s World Events through History
1540 - Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminster
1793 - 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1865 - Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
1911 - Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1916 - Great Arab Revolt begins against ruling Ottoman turks
1956 - 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1967 - Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
1988 - Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
2001 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
The hurricanes near Baja, CA keep sending lots of moisture to our fair city and our state. We are still in a drought, but June is usually a very dry month. Thankfully this year, our forest is wet and the fire danger is very low. This is very good news.
Technology has certainly changed our country in many ways. Now another police officer has resigned after he got involved with a teenage girl at a pool party. At some point in time, the various police departments will understand that every incident will have video taken, either by the police or by bystanders. Historically, in so many cases without video footage, the police officer was believed and the bystanders and accused are assumed to be in the wrong. Few would speak out against the police, for fear of retaliation in the future. Now is the time for change. Certainly many officers and departments have it right, but sadly, many do not.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In this teaser, your job is to discover the missing word that links the two given words. The dashes indicate the number of letters in the missing word. Good luck!
i.e. WAR - FARE - WELL

1. ARM _ _ _ _ _ LIFT
2. CREAM _ _ _ _ ADDER
3. WOOD _ _ _ _ BENCH
4. SHOULDER _ _ _ _ _ POCKET
5. CANDY _ _ _ _ WASHER

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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… Celebrity Facts…
Rick Harrison of the hit reality show Pawn Stars, dropped out of high school in 10th grade because he was making $2000 a week selling fake Gucci bags.

When Will Ferrell met RHCP drummer Chad Smith he looked him up and down and said: “You´re very handsome,” and then walked away.

…Cool Facts…
There's a regenerative candle that creates a new candle as it melts.

There are coffee houses in Russia where food and drink are free, but you pay for time.

Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The tourist season has begun with essentially all 3,500 hotel and motel rooms in town taken. The Chamber of Commerce is operating Room Bank to help visitors find accommodation. Flows at the Wildcat wastewater treatment plant indicate lots of visitors in town.

On Saturday  at 2 a.m. , a fire started in the brush adjacent to the apartment buildings at 209 S. Elden St. One of the units in the 4-building complex was destroyed and several families displaced. The cause is under investigation.

A Sobriety Checkpoint was established by the state Department of Public Safety in cooperation with the Flagstaff Police and the Coconino County Sheriff’s Office.

…Harper’s Index…
29 – percentage of African Americans who said in 2012 that gun ownership protects more people than it endangers

54 – who say so today

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The first U.S. dog guide was a German Shepherd named “Buddy.” He was presented to Morris Frank in 1927.
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2 jokes for the day
Three leaders of the big beer companies meet for a drink. The president of Budweiser orders a Bud, Miller's president orders a Miller and the president of Coors orders a Coors. When it is Guinness' turn to order he orders a soda.
"Why didn't you order a Guinness?" everyone asks.
"Nah," Guinness replies, "If you guys aren't having a beer neither will I."

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During a bank heist the Chief told the Sgt. to cover all exits so the robbers could not get away.
Later the Sgt. reports to the chief.
"Sorry sir but they got away."
The chief very disappointed says, "I told you to cover all Exits!"
"I did" replied the Sgt. "but they got away through the Entrance."
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Yep, It Really Happened
SAN FRANCISCO, June 8 (Reuters) - A squirrel knocked out power for some 45,000 energy customers in the San Francisco Bay area on Monday, according to officials and the local Contra Costa Times newspaper.
Pacific Gas and Electric Company said on its Twitter account that service had been restored for virtually all those affected by the outage about 10:15 p.m. local time, but it did not provide a cause for the disruption.
PG&E spokesman J.D. Guidi told the Contra Costa Times that power was down in cities east of San Francisco, including Berkeley and Oakland, on Monday night after a squirrel "impacted equipment" at the El Cerrito substation. He gave no details
The downtown Berkeley station of the Bay Area Rapid Transit system was closed for several hours on Monday due to the outage, the agency said on its Twitter account.
Cities to the south, including San Jose, also suffered outages on Monday that Guidi said were caused by equipment failures due to triple-digit temperatures.       

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Somewhat Useless Information
In 1596, an inventor named John Harrington, godson to Queen Elizabeth I, tried to create a more advanced chamber pot. The queen and her godson both used the flush model he came up with, but Harrington was ridiculed by his peers for fooling around with such a ridiculous idea, thus ending his career as an inventor.

In 1857, New Yorker Joseph C. Gayetty produced the first packaged bathroom tissue in the United States. It was called "The Therapeutic Paper" and contained aloe for added comfort. The company sold the paper in packs of 500 sheets at 50 cents apiece, and Gayetty's name was printed on every sheet.

A lot of people think a public toilet seat is the filthiest place on Earth, but that may not be true. According to experts, the floor of a public bathroom is much dirtier, with around two million bacteria per square inch - that's 200 times higher than what's considered a sanitary surface.

Not so long ago, unless you were wealthy and enjoyed eating at expensive restaurants, washroom attendants were not people you'd come into much contact with. Now, in both the U.S. and United Kingdom, washroom attendants are becoming regular public bathroom "fixtures."

In places like India and in many parts of Asia, bathrooms provide a cup of water, but no toilet paper. When you're done doing your business, it's customary to use your left hand to wash your bum and then wash your hand with the cup of water. This is precisely why it's rude to shake hands with your left hand in most of Asia and the Middle East.

Did you know that public restrooms have a watchdog? The American Restroom Association has a clear mission: "The ARA advocates for the availability of clean, safe, well-designed public restrooms."

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Birthday’s Today
94 - Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
93 - Rose Moffard, (acting Gov-AZ)
82 - F Lee Bailey, Waltham Mass, attorney (Sam Shepard case, OJ case)
72 - Jeff Greenfield, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline)
70 - Ron Glass, Evansville Ind, actor (Ron-Barney Miller)
50 - Elizabeth Hurley, English actress (Christabel)
33 - Tara Lipinski, figure skater (1997 World Champ)
31 - Leelee Sobieski, New York City, actress (Deep Impact, Joan of Arc, Uprising)
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Remembered for being born today
1835-1930@94 - Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator
1915-2005@89 - Saul Bellow, Canadian-born American author (Nobel 1976)
1890-1973@84 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai)
1928-2012@83 - Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are)
1895-1952@57 - Hattie McDaniel, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar
1922-1969@47 - Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
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Historical Obits Today
Louis L'Amour, western writer (Bowdrie)-1980@80 
Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), suicide-1993@77
Ray Charles, Grammy winning crooner gospel and blues, liver disease-2004@73
Jack Johnson, 1st African American world heavyweight boxing champion, car accident-1946@68
Spencer Tracy, actor (Father ot Bride), heart attack-1967@67
John Gotti, American gangster, cancer in prison-2002@61
El Cid [Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar], Spanish general strategist, famine-1099@59
Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, fever-323BC@32,
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. ARM (CHAIR) LIFT
2. CREAM (PUFF) ADDER
3. WOOD (WORK) BENCH
4. SHOULDER (PATCH) POCKET
5. CANDY (DISH) WASHER

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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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