6-29-15

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Almanac: Week: 27 \ Day: 180
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 87°\L 56° Average Sky Cover: 35% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  18mph
Ave. High: 82° Record High:  93° (1990) Ave. Low: 46° Record Low:  30° (1923)
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Observances Today:
Please Take My Children To Work Day
Camera Day
Hug Holiday
Waffle Iron Day

Independence Day (Seychelles-1976-Britain)
Isra Al Mi'Raj (Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad - Islam)
Ramadan (Islam)
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Observances This Week:
World Police and Fire Games:26-7/5
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness:27 -7/4
Water Ski Days:27-28 

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1863 - George Armstrong Custer, aged 23 appointed Union Brigadier General
1863 - Very 1st First National Bank opens in Davenport, Iowa
1891 - US National Forest Service organized
1906 - US Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce
1916 – 1st Arizona chapter of the American Red Cross was organized in Phoenix
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
1936 - Empire State Building broadcasts high definition TV-343 lines
1949 - US troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1954 - US Atomic Energy Commission voted against reinstating Dr Robert Oppenheimer
1964 - 1st draft of Star Trek's pilot "Cage" released
1964 - Civil Rights Act of 1964 passed after 83-day filibuster in Senate
1966 - In the Vietnam War, US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time
1969 - 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1972 - Supreme Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual
1982 - Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended
1994 - US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
2002 - U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, serves as Acting President for two and a half hours, while President George W. Bush undergoes a colonoscopy procedure
2006 - Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law
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Today’s World Events through History
  512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland
1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1540 - English ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down
1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario
1945 - Ruthenia, formerly in Czechoslovakia, annexed by Soviet Union, becomes Ukrainian SSR
1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1974 - Military coup in Ethiopia
1990 - World's first female diocesan Anglican bishop, Dr Penny Jamieson, appointed, New Zealand
2007 - Enya receives an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Another very warm day. I finally gave in and pulled out the portable cooler. Haven’t had to use it for 2 years and the last time I used it I only used it for about 3 afternoons. We’ll see this time. I’m tired of an 80°+ house until 9pm. Actually made my 30 min. afternoon nap much nicer.
Glad to see that the 2nd prison escapee was caught. For the people in the area, I am sure they are greatly relieved. This is the first prison break I remember since my childhood. Don’t remember who or even where, but do remember headlines when a convicted murder escaped and then a few days later recaptured. This one took 21 days.
Big plan for tomorrow is to spend some time on the phone, trying to figure out this damn OPM security breech. I was surprised to see that Credit Karma said my credit rating was 812 while my bank says my FICA score is 853. Both are good but don’t get the difference. Either way I don’t want that to disappear. Still don’t know if the Chinese want my financial information or my BIA secrets….like my secrets for ‘fixing’ 8 schools that were falling apart administratively…and doing each in less than a school year. Whatever they want, I wish they would just have left me alone. I’m retired and don’t need this crap.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fred and his wife, Nikita, were having a conversation about words while on a road trip. 
Fred said, "I am thinking of a devilishly tricky word that has five consonants in a row."
Nikita countered with, "That's a good one, but people are lining up to find a word with five vowels in a row."

What words were Fred and Nikita thinking of?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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… America Facts…
Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit slip correctly.

Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!

…Cool Facts…
Students at the John Hopkins University collaboratively decided to opt out of their final since the professor set his curve based on the highest score grading it as 100%. They chose to receive a score of zero, making it the highest grade and thereby getting 100%.

Christmas Island has bridges for crabs to stop them getting run over during the mass migration.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
The Sheriff’s Office has installed its short-wave sending transmitter. It’s on the air as of today. The receiving set has been on duty for several months. Sheriff Arthur Vandeveer says three of the local sheriff’s cars will be equipped with both receiving and sending sets. Plus there will be one at Williams and one at the Grand Canyon. Phoenix Radio Supply Co. has been installing the 250- to 350-watt sets with a 2430-wavelength. Night Jailer Charley Marshall will be constantly on the lookout for any message of importance throughout the night.

…Harper’s Index…
1/1/14 – date on which the 1st recreational marijuana store opened in Colorado

+39 – percentage change since that time in out-of-state undergraduate applications to the University of CO-Boulder

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
A Mercurian day is longer than its year.
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2 jokes for the day
Lead me not into temptation

I can find the way myself.

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A guy was driving when a policeman pulled him over.
He rolled down his window and said to the officer, "Is there a problem, Officer?"
"No problem at all. I just observed your safe driving and am pleased to award you a $5,000 Safe Driver Award. Congratulations. What do you think you're going to do with the money?"
He thought for a minute and said, "Well, I guess I'll go get that drivers' license."
The lady sitting in the passenger seat said to the policeman, "Oh, don't pay attention to him - he's a smartass when he's drunk and stoned."
The guy from the back seat said, "I TOLD you guys we wouldn't get far in a stolen car!"
At that moment, there was a knock from the trunk and a muffled voice said, "Are we over the border yet?" 

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Yep, It Really Happened
MARINGA, Brazil (UPI) - A man who parked in a disability accessible space without a placard in Brazil returned to find his car covered in Post-it notes to form the wheelchair symbol. A video posted to YouTube by Juliano Eduardo shows the car covered in blue and white sticky notes to draw the International Symbol of Access -- a stick figure in a wheelchair -- on the back and side of the vehicle after it was illegally parked in an accessible space in the city of Maringa. The car's driver can be seen in the video working to hurriedly clear the small sheets of paper from the windshield so he can drive away while members of the public gawk, laugh and shout jeers at him. The spectators include a man who appears to be a traffic police officer. The man eventually rolls down the driver's side window and speeds away, nearly getting into a collision while merging into traffic.   
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Somewhat Useless Information
David Selby-best known for playing Quentin Collins on the ABC-TV serial, Dark Shadows, and Richard Channing on the CBS soap opera Falcon Crest Was awarded West Virginia University's first Life Achievement Award from the College of Creative Arts in 1998, and an honorary doctorate in 2004.
Is an honorary member of the West Virginia University Creative Arts Center's Advisory Board.
Named his son, Jamison Selby, after a character on Dark Shadows.
Holds a PhD. in Theater from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Played the only man, other than her husband, to kiss Olivia Walton during the entire run of The Waltons.
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Birthday’s Today
85 - Robert Evans, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown)
71 - Gary Busey, Goose Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
70 - Chandrika Kumaratunga, first female President of Sri Lanka (1994-2005)
68 - Richard Lewis, comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love)
67 - Fred Grandy, Sioux City IA, (Rep-R-Iowa)/actor (Love Boat)
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Nellie Taylor Ross, 1st woman to serve as a Gov (Wyoming, 1925-27) 1977@101
James Van Der Zee, Lenox Ma, African American photographer 1983@96
William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic 1939@78
George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal) 1928@69
Hiram Powers, US sculptor (Greek Slave) 1873@67
Nelson Eddy, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)1967@65
Slim Pickens, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles) 1983@64
Little Eva (Eva Boyd), pop singer (Locomotion) 2003@59
Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist 1998@57
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Historical Obits Today
Katharine Hepburn, American actress-2003@96
Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), cancer-1995@75
Henry Clay, the great compromiser, TB-1952@75
Rosemary Clooney, American singer and actress, cancer-2002@74
Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus)-1977@70
Joel Siegel, American film critic, cancer-2007@63
Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet and writer, pulmonary disease-1861@55
Anton Raphael Mengs, German Bohemian painter and one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting-1779@51
Bob Crane, actor (Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), murdered-1978@49
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies), heart attack-1933@46
Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), car crash-1967@34
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Brain Teasers Answers
Fred was thinking of witchcraft and Nikita was thinking of queueing. 

While having a good chuckle over their cleverness, Nikita missed the turn off for Wheeling and they wasted an hour getting back on the right road.

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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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