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Aug 20, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 232
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 15mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 88°[1949] Record Low: 35°[1979]
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Quote of the Day
A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.
Nelson Mandela
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Observances Today
Chef Appreciation Day Link
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Observances This Week
15-21
National Aviation Week
18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week
20-26
National Safe at Home Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1100’s
★1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 Muslim prisoners in Akko
1600’s
1619 1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.
1700’s
★1741 Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition
1800’s
1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
★1882 Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
★1886 Second Salon exhibition by Society of Independent Artists held in Paris; includes Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"
1900’s
★1905 Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bring down the Manchus
★1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia
★1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
★1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in a CIA supported coup d'état
1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
★1965 Rolling Stones release their single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK
1974 Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford
★1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
2000’s
2015 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight
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My Rambling Thoughts
Good Saturday, blue sky, little wind, warm temps. Gotta love life at 7000’
Things seem to have gone well in Boston, thankfully. Surfing and stopped at FoxNews to hear ‘…and there is no violence in Boston, yet.’ Yeah, they are fair and balanced.
I am so thankful that I was raised and educated to be tolerant of other’s beliefs. I will never understand how a person can ‘hate’ a group because of their color, religion, … But then again, I can’t understand how a person can ‘love’ a group so much that the person feels obligated to force the group to believe only certain things. Live and let live is my philosophy. But watch out if you try to intimidate me into believing something.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
60’s
69- Robert Plant,
English rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin), born in West Bromwich, England
68- Don King,
boxing promoter best known for his unusual hairstyles
@67- Benjamin Harrison,
23rd President of the United States (Republican: 1889-93), born in North Bend, Ohio
(d. 1901)
@66- Salvatore Quasimodo,
Italian poet, critic and translator (Nobel 1959), born in Modica, Italy
(d. 1968)
@65- Isaac Hayes,
composer (Shaft), born in Covington, Tennessee
(d. 2008)
@64- Bernardo O'Higgins,
Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile)
(d. 1842)
@64- Slobodan Milosevic,
President of Serbia (1991-97) and Yugoslavia (1997-2000), born in Pozarevac
(d. 2006)
63- Al Roker,
weatherman (NBC, Today), born in Queens, New York
50’s
@56- Jacqueline Susann,
author (Valley of the Dolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(d. 1974)
40’s
43- Amy Adams,
American actress
@40- Jim Reeves,
US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim), born in Panola County, Texas
(d. 1964)
30’s
34- Andrew Garfield,
actor (2012 Batman)
20’s
25- Demi Lovato,
American actress (Camp Rock) and singer/songwriter (Unbroken), born in Dallas, Texas
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2012 Phyllis Diller,
American comedienne and actress
@91-1980 Otto Frank,
father of Anne Frank
80’s
@87-2007 Leona Helmsley,
American hotel operator and real estate investor
50’s
@57-2012 Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister, liver cancer
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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…☼☼☼☼
