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Aug 18, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 230
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 45°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts: 12mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 88°[2002] Record Low: 36°[1975]
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Quote of the Day
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela
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Observances Today
Birth Control Pills Day
Mail Order Catalog Day
Men's Grooming Day Link
National Badge Ribbon Day
National Fajita Day Link
Serendipity Day
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Observances This Week
11-19
Elvis Week Link
13-19
National Motorcycle Week Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
15-21
National Aviation Week
18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
BC’s
★293 BC The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica (grape harvest festival)
1200’s
★1201 the city of Riga, Latvia is founded. (Now largest Metropolis in Baltics)
1700’s
1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass)
★1737 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris
1800’s
1840 American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)
1862 Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1872 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward
1894 US Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1900’s
★1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.
1920 US ratifies the 19th Amendment to the constitution bringing in women's suffrage, when Tennessee votes to ratify
1926 Weather map televised for 1st time
1938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada
★1958 "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov published
1962 Peter, Paul & Mary release their first hit "If I Had a Hammer"
★1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act
1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
2000’s
★2005 Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Got half my plans done today. Pedi: done; Haircut: hopefully tomorrow. My favorite stylist called in sick. While getting my pedi I had a nice conversation with 2 ‘old’-er bikers. The lady came in first, then the man. They are biking buds and didn’t know the other would be there. They had biked Yellowstone and talked about the hassle with tourists and buffalo. Very interesting and made the work on one of my smaller toe’s ingrown nail much easier.
I was fortunate enough to visit Barcelona with Focus Travel Club. Now today I watch the horror on the very streets I walked down. Barcelona is a beautiful, friendly city and does not deserve this kind of publicity, now or ever.
MAKE IT STOP!
I can’t believe that #45 tweeted about General Pershing. The story he is referencing has been debunked for decades. Pershing did NOT shoot Muslim terrorists with bullets soaked in pig’s blood, NOR did he bury Muslim terrorists with pigs.
Also, the many pictures circulating the internet machine, showing #45’s parents in KKK garb are ALL Photoshopped. While his father was arrested at a KKK brawl, he was never charged and many believe he was just a ‘swept up bystander’ While I find plenty wrong with #45, I will never believe that false stories should hurt him.
FYI: #45 only waits for all the facts to come out when it is to HIS benefit, or he needs time to make it about him.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@91- Max Factor Jr,
CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)
80’s
@85- Shelley Winters,
actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue, Poseidon Adventure), born in St. Louis, Missouri
(d. 2006)
84- Roman Polanski,
Polish-French film director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates), born in Paris
82- Rafer Johnson, decathlete (Olympics gold 1960), born in Hillsboro Texas
81- Robert Redford,
American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica
70’s
@71- Marshall Field,
Conway Massachusetts, owner (Dept Stores)
(d. 1906)
60’s
60- Denis Leary,
American actor/comic (Rescue Me), born in Worcester, Massachusetts
50’s
@57- Patrick Swayze,
actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), born in Houston,
(d. 2009)
56- Bob Woodruff,
American journalist, anchor
@53- Grant Williams,
American actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man), born in NYC,
(d. 1985)
40’s
48- Christian Slater,
actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)
48- Edward Norton,
American actor (American History X), born in Boston, Massachusetts
47- Malcolm Jamal Warner,
actor (Theodore-Cosby Show), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
@46- Brook Taylor,
England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem (Calculus)
(d. 1731)
39- Andy Samberg,
American comedian and actor (Brooklyn Nine Nine), born in Berkeley, California
30’s
@38- Roberto Clemente,
Puerto Rican baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Carolina, Puerto Rico
(d. 1972)
@35- Meriwether Lewis,
American soldier and public administrator (Lewis & 71- Expedition), born in Ivy, Virginia
(d. 1809)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@96-2014 Don Pardo,
TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)
80’s
@86-1990 B F Skinner,
psychologist (Skinner Box)
60’s
@65-1940 Walter Chrysler,
American founder of car company Chrysler,
strokes
@65-1227 Genghis Khan,
Mongol conqueror,
unknown cause
40’s
@47-1991 Rick Griffin,
American artist and a leading designer of psychedelic posters in the 1960s (Grateful Dead),
motorcycle accident on his Harley
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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…☼☼☼☼
