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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 135
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 42° Average
Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave:
13mph\Gusts: 34mph
Ave. High: 67° Record High: 81° (1937) Ave. Low: 34° Record
Low: 20° (1968)
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Observances Today:
Eastern
Pacific Hurricane Season National
Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Endangered
Species Day National
Defense Transportation Day
Hyperemisis
Gravidarum Awareness Day National
Pizza Party Day
International
Day of Families National
Tuberous Sclerosis Day
National
Tuberous Sclerosis Day Nylon
Stockings Day
International
MPS Awareness Day O. Henry Pun-off Day
International
Virtual Assistants Day Peace
Officer Memorial Day
Isra
Al Mi'Raj-Muslim
Straw Hat Day
NASCAR
Day UN
International Day of Families
National
Bike to Work Day
Hollyhock
Festival (Aoi Matsuri - Japan)
San
Isidoro Day (Mexico)
Independence
Day (Paraguay)
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Observances This Week:
10-16
American Craft Beer
Week National
Transportation Week
National Hospital
Week Reading is Fun Week
National Nursing Home
Week Salvation Army Week
National Police Week Universal Family
Week
National Return To
Work Week Work At Home Moms
Week
National Stuttering
Awareness Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1602 - Cape
Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1672 - 1st
copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1711 - Alexander
Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously
1817 - Opening of
the first private mental health hospital in the US,
the Asylum for the
Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their
Reason (now Friends
Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 - US Department
of Agriculture created
1869 - National
Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York,
founded by Susan B.
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1905 - Las
Vegas Nevada founded
1911 - Supreme Court
dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1915 - AT&T
becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1918 - 1st
airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)
1928 - Mickey
Mouse made his 1st ever appearance in silent film "Plane Crazy"
1933 - 1st
voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1940 - McDonald's
opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1943 - Desert Sanatorium in Tucson closed its doors.
1963 - Peter, Paul
& Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1967 - Jo
Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 - Assassination
attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama
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Today’s World Events through History
1525 - The
battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded,
5,000 slaughtered ;
ends the peasants' uprising
1536 - Anne
Boleyn & brother George, Lord Rochford, accused of
adultery and incest
1718 - James
Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1971 - Irish
Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead
by British soldiers
in Belfast
1976 - The Ulster
Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs
in County Armagh,
killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many
more; a British Army
soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks
1976 - The
Provisional Irish Republican Army kill 3 Royal Ulster Constabulary
(RUC) officers in County Fermanagh and 1 in
County Down
2013 - The
Eurozone records a recession for the sixth straight quarter
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many
can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s
Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy
with on and off rain. The rain wasn’t due until tomorrow, but it’s normal for
our little mountain town.
Good
lunch with Cheryl. Mary was headed for a long weekend in Phx. If you have a
Smash Burger nearby, try it…very good burgers and lots more.
TCBS had
its graduation today…lots of nice pics showing up on FB of the students
promotion to high school. This class was in Kindergarten when I retired.
Wow-time flies. Several colleagues grandkids were promoted today.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
With a little
detective work and deep thought, the following facts can make an accurate
statement. Can you figure it out?
11 is a race horse
12 is 12
1111 race
12112
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Body Facts…
The human
testicles can produce 1,500 sperm during every heartbeat.
Camping
can help to reset your body clock, according to research.
…Cat Facts…
One
reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only
during sleep.
Cats have
a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.
The
average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day.
…Cool Facts…
Rather
than using mechanical mowers, Google regularly employs a flock of 200 goats to
naturally mow and fertilize the lawns.
A man
named John Harrison has a job tasting ice cream. He has tasted samples of over
200 million gallons of ice cream and his taste buds are insured for $1 million.
Scientists
from Edinburgh University found a way to turn peanut butter into diamonds.
…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO-1915
WOOD --
WOOD -- WOOD -- Two more cars of 12-inch cedar blocks will be on the tracks
next week. Leave your order with Babbitt Bros. for prompt delivery straight
from the railroad car.
J. W.
Weatherford is having a new cement sidewalk put in along the north side of the
hotel and will remove the large posts underneath the second-story porch running
along the side of the building.
At the
Majestic Saturday night, Anne Kellerman in “Neptune’s Daughter” 7 full reels.
Children 5 cents -- Adults 25 cents
…Harper’s Index…
3/10- Portion of former NFL players
expected to get dementia, according to a report prepared for the league
…Revisited History…
The last,
isolated populations of mammoths survived until around 1650 BC, around 1,000
years after the building of the pyramids.
…Unusual Fact of the Day…
A cat's
ability to see well at night is due to its tapetum, a membrane that reflects
visible light back through the cat's retina. It's also what causes the weird
"glowing" effect in the dark.
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2 jokes for the day
I
rear-ended another car this morning. I tell you, I knew right then and there
that it was going to be a really bad day.
The driver got out of the other car, and wouldn't you know it! He was a dwarf!! He looked up at me and said, "I am Not Happy."
The driver got out of the other car, and wouldn't you know it! He was a dwarf!! He looked up at me and said, "I am Not Happy."
So I said, "Well, then, which one are you?"
And, that's how the fight started.
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Bob
stood over his tee shot for what seemed an eternity. He waggled, looked up,
looked down, waggled again, but didn't start his back swing.
Finally his exasperated partner asked, "what the hell is taking so long?"
"My wife is up there watching me from the clubhouse," Bob explained. "I want to make a perfect shot."
"Good lord!" his companion exclaimed. "You don't have a snowball's chance in hell of hitting her from here."
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Yep, It Really Happened
SHENZHEN, China (UPI) - Forget
about thrill rides. How about a shrill ride? The Window of the World theme park
in China has a new attraction that some are just dying to ride. It's called
Samadhi, and it's designed to give riders the sensation of being dead,
cremated, and reborn. First, the visitor goes on a journey through a
"morgue." Next, they are placed in a casket and put on a conveyor
belt for "cremation" -- which is simulated by a sudden blast of hot
air over the rider to simulate flames. The air reaches temperatures up to 105
degrees Fahrenheit. The attraction also uses flashes of light to give the rider
"an authentic experience of burning." Finally, an image of a womb is
projected onto the ceiling and riders must crawl until they reach a white,
padded room -- where they are "reborn." Sound fun? The ride's
creators went to great lengths to make the experience as accurate as possible
by visiting a real crematorium and lying inside the incinerator. Window of the
World is a cultural theme park instead of a regular amusement park. Other
attractions featured there include replicas of France's Eiffel Tower and its
Arc de Triomphe. When many riders reach the end of the experience they are said
to be drenched in sweat. Whether that's a result of the heat -- or being scared
to death, is uncertain.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Saturday mail
delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!
In Tokyo, a bicycle
is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!
There are 18
different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!
Should there be a
crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a
precaution!
Your body is creating
and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!
The king of hearts is
the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!
There are no clocks
in Las Vegas gambling casinos!
There is one slot
machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
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Birthday’s Today
78 - Trini
Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
75 - Lainie
Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
71 - Miruts
Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
60 - Lee
Horsley, Muleshoe Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
46 - Emmitt
Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
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Remembered for being born today
- Eddy
Arnold, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime) 1918-2008@89
- Joseph
Cotten, Virginia, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse) 1905-1994@88
- Bessie
Hillman, founder(Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America)1889-1970@81
- James
Mason, England, actor (Lolita) 1909-1984@75
- Lyman
Frank Baum, NY, children's book
author (Wizard of Oz) 1856-1919@62
- Pierre
Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903) 1859-1906@46
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Historical Obits Today
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican
author-2012@83
June Carter Cash,
American musician and singer, heart problems-2003@73
Jerry Falwell, American
evangelist, heart attack-2007@73
Edward Flanagan,
American priest\founder of Boys Town, heart attack-1948@61
Emily Dickinson, US
poet, long illness-1886@55
Wayman Tisdale,
American basketball player, cancer?-2009@44
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Brain Teasers Answers
11 is a
race horse
12 is one
too
11 won
one race
12 won
one too
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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…§
