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Aug 23, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 235
86004 Today: H 80° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: -mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 90°[1985] Record Low: 24°[1968]
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Quote of the Day
Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
Nelson Mandela
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Observances Today
Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade & Its Abolition
Valentino Day
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Observances This 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
70’s
★79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii)
1300’s
★1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.
1600’s
★1617 1st one-way streets open (London)
1700’s
1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
1800’s
1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston
★1872 1st Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1900’s
1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
★1933 Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following another hunger strike
1938 "You Can’t Take It With You" from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur premieres. Best Picture (1939)
1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
★1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games
1990 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf
★1990 East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
★1992 Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress
★1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"
2000’s
★2011 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.
★2015 12 year old boy trips and rips 17th-century painting "Flowers" by Paolo Porpora worth $1.5m at exhibition in Taiwan
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My Rambling Thoughts
I am amazed. While talking to the dentist yesterday, he gave me an antibiotic, and two different pain meds for the expected pain and swelling from my molar extraction. It’s been 28+ hours and I’m taking the antibiotic and am just waiting for some kind of pain. So far, none. No swelling, no pain, just two pesky ends to the stitches that are in my mouth. Very happy camper here.
What? 45 is sending more troops into Afghanistan. Only surprise there is that he waited this long. Look how many Generals are around him. Have to agree that he doesn’t publicize numbers now, we will know soon enough as the planes take off with troops. I also like the idea that we don’t announce withdrawal timelines. Never understood why Obama did that. Somehow I fear that we will soon have troops or airstrikes in Pakistan, a nuclear power. And I doubt they will be happy about that.
People in Phx are awaiting the arrival of 45 and his sidekick, the VP. Phx mayor asked him to hold off, 45 declined. Our Governor will meet him on the now infamous tarmac (remember Obama getting a finger shook at him by then Gov. Brewer), but the Governor will not attend the rally, saying he will stay back to ensure safety for all involved. I am busy going back in my memory as to any other President being on the campaign trail in the 1st year in office. Nobody coming to mind. Oh well, 45 does whatever he wants, all on tax dollars. Local news in Phx is expecting big protests downtown when 45 and crew arrive. And many Phx locals are hoping that 45 will pardon their convicted former sheriff for his racist acts. I’ll be watching.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
88- Vera Miles,
American actress (Psycho), born in Boise City, Oklahoma
86- Barbara Eden,
American actress (Dream of Jeannie), born in Tucson
85- Mark Russell,
political satirist/pianist (Real People), born in Buffalo, NY
@83- Gene Kelly,
dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)
(d.1996)
60’s
@68- Tex Williams,
American singer
(d. 1985)
68- Rick Springfield,
Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)
68- Shelley Long,
American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana
40’s
47- Jay Mohr,
American actor and comedian
41- Scott Caan,
American actor (Hawaii Five-0)
30’s
39- Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
@32- Keith Moon,
drummer (The Who)
(d. 1978)
20’s
@23- River Phoenix,
American actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me), born in Madras, Oregon
(d. 1993)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@94-2016 Steven Hill,
American actor (Mission Impossible, Law & Order)
80’s
@84-1723 Increase Mather,
New England Puritan minister
60’s
@65-1960 Oscar Hammerstein II,
Broadway librettist,
stomach cancer
30’s
@±35-1305 William Wallace,
Scottish patriot,
hanged, disemboweled & beheaded
@31-1926 Rudolph Valentino,
silent movie idol (Sheik),
pleuritis
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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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