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Almanac: Week: 26 \ Day: 176
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 87°\L 54° Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 17mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High: 95°
(1970) Ave. Low: 44° Record
Low: 30° (1965)
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Observances Today:
Beatles Day
Color TV Day (CBS-1951)
Day of The Seafarer Global
Great American Backyard Campout
Log Cabin Day
National Bomb Pop Day
National Catfish Day
National Hand Shake Day
Independence Day (Mozambique-1975
from Portugal)
National Day (Slovenia-1991-from Yugoslavia)
Ramadan (Islam)
Ratification Day (Virginia-1788)
Victory Day (Sioux) 1876-Battle of Little
Big Horn
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Observances This Week:
Meet A Mate Week:21-27
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week:21-27
Old Time Fiddlers Week:22-27
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week:22-28
North American Organic Brewers Days:25-28
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week:25-28
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1630 - Fork
introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop
1638 - Lunar
eclipse is 1st astronomical event recorded in the American Colonies
1672 - 1st
recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1798 - US
passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1835 - 1st
building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1867 - 1st
barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1868 - FL, AL,
LA, GA, NC & SC readmitted to US
1868 - US President Andrew Johnson passes a law
that government workers would work 8 hr day
1876 - Battle
of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry under Lieutenant Colonel (sometime Brevet
Major General) George Armstrong Custer wiped out by Sioux and
Cheyenne, Custer killed
1895 - The Peralta-Reavis
claims to 12,750,000 acres of Arizona and New Mexico land were declared
fraudulent by the U.S. Court at Santa Fe. James Reavis was later convicted of
perjury and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary
1910 - Mann Act
passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)
1913 - American Civil War veterans begin arriving
at the Great Reunion of 1913
1929 - President Hoover authorizes
building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1938 - Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers
25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working
week
1941 - Fair Employment Practices Commission
established
1967 - Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5
years
1981 - Supreme
Court upholds male-only draft registration, constitutional
1985 - Thurman v City of Torrington decides in
favor of Tracey Thurman. 1zst woman to sue a police dept for violating her
civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband).
1990 - Supreme Court rules family members cannot
end lives of comatose relatives unless those relatives previously made their
wishes known
1994 - Gay Games close in NYC
2014 - US Supreme
Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone
without a court order
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Today’s World Events through History
1580 - Book of
Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1870 - Opera
"Die Walküre (The Valkyrie)" is produced (Munich)
1920 - League of Nations
places International Court of Justice in Hague
1950 - Korean conflict begins; North Korea invades
South Korea
1976 - The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves
174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
1999 - In his first state of the nation address,
South African President Thabo Mbeki promises to tackle rampaging crime; the
nation's murder rate is the third highest in the world and more than 49,000
cases of rape were reported in 1998
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Had a great conversation with my brother on his recent visit with
his half-siblings in Oregon. WOW, what an experience. This is the first time
they have met together, and they are still looking for 2 or 3 more siblings.
Summer heat, dry lightning is never good in our area. There are 2
lightning caused fires at least 40 miles from our town. The Forest Service in
its infinite wisdom has decided to let the fires burn to clear up the forest
underbrush. The smoke from both fires has decided that it will settle in our
town. While I can’t smell the fires, there is a constant haze over the town.
Even with no clouds, as it was earlier today, it looks a lot like an eclipse….that
has lasted all day. Very strange for sure. Sure hope the smoke moves on
tonight.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each
pair of hints below relates to two words. One of the words is the other one
spelled backward. What are the ten word pairs?
Example: married, moisture
Answer: wed, dew
1. light source, rodents
2. dwell, wicked
3. retain, sneaking look
4. weapons, tight fit
5. portion, catching device
6. prize, furniture compartment
7. drinking aid, skin blemishes
8. stopper, big swallow
9. implement, stolen goods
10. precinct, illustrate
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… America Facts…
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a
McDonald’s restaurant.
In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video
games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
…Cool Facts…
There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude
customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
Coffee comes from an edible fruit. The coffee cherry is sweet and
tastes like watermelon, rosewater, and hibiscus all at once.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
This season’s first major fire began below the Mogollon Rim about
12 miles north of Payson. Since there was no lightning the Bray Fire has to
have been man-caused. The fire is being fought by the Forest Service, the
Bureau of Land Management, the Arizona Development Bureau and the Bureau of
Indian Affairs crews.
…Harper’s Index…
-5 percentage
change since 2009 in the annual number of military-grade weapons purchased by
the United States
+9 by France
+20 by
Russia
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Janis Joplin left $2,500 in her will for her friends to "have
a ball after I’m gone."
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2 jokes for the day
Why did the nerd eat the fifth grader's math
test??
Because it was a piece of cake!!
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Did you hear about the two explorers, Bob and
John who were going through the jungle when a ferocious lion jumped out in
front of them?
Bob whispered to John to keep calm. Bob asked John if he remembered what they
had read in the book on wild animals.
“If you stand absolutely still and look the lion straight in the eye, he will
turn tail and run away,” said Bob.
John said, “Fine. You’ve read the book, I’ve read the book, but has the lion
read the book?”
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Yep, It Really
Happened
BOGOTA
(UPI) - Authorities in Colombia said a woman was arrested at an airport
in the capital when her breast implants were found to contain 3.3 pounds of
liquid cocaine. Authorities said Paola Deyanira Sabillon, 22, drew the
attention of security staff at El Dorado International Airport when she
appeared nervous in line and X-rays determined she had recently undergone
surgery on her breasts. Sabillon, who is from Honduras and was preparing to fly
to Spain, told investigators she received breast implants filled with an
unknown substance she had been hired to transport. The implants were removed at
a Bogota hospital and Sabillon was treated for an infection stemming from the
original surgery, which is believed to have taken place at a clinic in Pereira,
Colombia. The substance inside the implants was determined to be cocaine,
authorities said. Sabillon was hospitalized for five days before being released
into police custody.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
Death Cap, Amanita phalloides is responsible for 90 percent of deaths caused by
fungus poisoning world-wide.
Yeasts, used in making beer and bread, are a form of fungus.
African termites actually cultivate a species of fungus, Termitomyces.
Penicillin is made growing the appropriate species of mold on nutrients; the
active compound is then extracted from the culture fluid and purified.
Most fungal species are saprophytes: they feed on remains of dead organisms or
their by-products. Most forest soil has too much acid for bacteria to grow
well, and so the fungi are the main decay producers.
Mucor is the name given to a group of mold fungi, which grow on the surface of
decaying fruit, bread, horse manure, and other organic matter.
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Birthday’s Today
90 - June Lockhart, actress (Lassie, Lost in
Space, Petticoat Junction)
82 - James Meredith, American civil rights
activist
70 - Carly Simon, POP
SINGER
68 - Jimmie
Walker, Bronx NY, comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease)
61 - Sonia Sotomayor, SUPREME
COURT JUSTICE
54 - Ricky Gervais, Reading England, actor
and comedian (The Office)
52 - George Michael [Panos], British
rock vocalist (Wham-I Want Your Sex)
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Remembered for being born today
1898-1963@64 - Kay (Katherine Linn) Sage, Albany NY, American painter and
poet
1933-1995@62 - Gary
Crosby, California, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase)
1903-1950@46 - George
Orwell, [Eric A Blair], British writer (Animal Farm, 1984)
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Historical Obits Today
Axis
Sally, [Mildred E Gillars], US nazi propagandist (WW II)-1988@87
Jacques
Cousteau, French oceanographer, heart attack-1997@87
Lester Maddox, one-time
segregationist and Governor of Georgia-2003@87
Johnny
Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), brain tumor-1976@66
Farrah
Fawcett, American actress and pop culture figure-cancer-2009@62
Ephraim
McDowell, American Physician (pioneered abdominal surgery)-1930@58
Stanford
White, Architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he
designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit-1906@52
Michael
Jackson, King of Pop music, cardiac arrest-2009@50
Mary
Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France-1533@37
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. star, rats
2. live, evil
3. keep, peek
4. guns, snug
5. part, trap
6. reward, drawer
7. straw, warts
8. plug, gulp
9. tool, loot
10. ward, draw
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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…§
