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Aug 14, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 226
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 50°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 89°[2002] Record Low: 33°[1976]
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Quote of the Day
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James
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Observances Today
International Rose' Day Link
Spirit of '45 Day Link
Observances This Week
11-19
Elvis Week Link
13-19
National Motorcycle Week Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1200’s
★1281 During Kublai Khan's Second Invasion of Japan his invading Chinese fleet of 3,500 vessels disappears in a typhoon near Japan
1700’s
1765 Massachusetts colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)
1800’s
1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes
1848 Oregon Territory created
1862 Abraham Lincoln receives the first group of African Americans to confer with a US president
1873 "Field & Stream" begins publishing
★1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed after it was began in 1248 - largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe
★1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
★1893 France introduces motor vehicle registration, includes a driving test
★1894 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge demonstrates wireless telegraphy (radio) using Morse code at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University
1900’s
★1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925
★1920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp
1925 Mount Rushmore Monument first proposed
★1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes
1935 Social Security Act becomes law
★1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)
★1943 1st allied air raid on Borneo
★1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone)
★1945 Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh movement launch a coordinated uprising against French rule across Vietnam following the Japanese surrender
★1948 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain
1965 Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1
1973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts
★1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast
★1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration
1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise
1994 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings
2000’s
★2007 Coordinated bombings in Yazidi communities in Iraq kill at least 500 people, the second-deadliest terror attack of all time
★2013 638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt
★2016 Usain Bolt wins 100m Olympic gold at Rio - 1st man to win this event 3 times
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another great day after a nice long monsoon rain last night. Doing laundry of linens. More rain on the horizon…yeah!
One of my neighbors is outside with a toddler and they are blowing huge bubbles that are floating by my office window. Very cool.
So another day, another odd comment from our leader. Watching the footage of the Friday night protest with Tiki Torches was frightening. Listening to the leader talk about the next day rally and he death missed the point again. He is proud to say ‘Muslim terrorist’ but won’t say ‘White supremacy’ is just odd.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@90- Buddy Greco,
jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House), born in Philadelphia,
(d. 2017)
80’s
@84- Alice Ghostley,
Eve Montana, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women)
(d. 2007)
70’s
77- Dash Crofts,
Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)
@76- Trevor Bannister,
British actor (Are You Being Served?), born in Durrington, Wiltshire
(d. 2011)
76- David Crosby,
rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross), born in Los Angeles
72- Steve Martin,
American comedian and actor (Parenthood, Jerk, Roxanne), born in Waco, Texas
71- Antonio Fargas,
actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch), born in The Bronx
70- Danielle Steel,
author (Remembrance, Zoya, Star, Daddy), born in NYC
60’s
67- Gary Larson,
cartoonist (Far Side), born in Tacoma, Washington
61- Jackée [Harry],
actress (Sandra-227), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
50’s
58- Earvin "Magic" Johnson,
American NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic-gold-92), born in Lansing, Michigan
@57- John Logie Baird,
Scottish inventor and father of the television, born in Helensburgh, Scotland
(d. 1946)
51- Halle Berry,
American actress (Monsters Ball), born in Cleveland, Ohio
50’s
@36 ‘Doc’ [John Henry] Holliday,
American gambler, dentist, and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), born in Griffin, Georgia
(d. 1887)
34- Mila Kunis,
Ukrainian/American actress (That 70’s Show)
30- Tim Tebow,
American football player
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-1988 Enzo Ferrari,
Italy, sports car manufacturer (Ferrari)
80’s
@88-1992 John Sirica,
US federal judge (Watergate hearings)
@88-1951 William Randolph Hearst,
American newspaper publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I)
@81-1999 Pee Wee [Harold] Reese,
American baseball player (Dodgers)
70’s
@74-1913 Josephine Cochrane,
American inventor (automatic dishwasher), stroke
60’s
@69-1870 David Farragut,
American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), heart attack
@63-2012 Ron Palillo,
American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter), heart attack
50’s
@58-1982 Patrick Magee,
Northern Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), natural causes
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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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