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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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
