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Aug 31, 2017 Week: 35 \ Day: 243
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 46°
Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 89°[1950] Record Low: 35°[1957]
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Quote of the Day
The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.
William S. Burroughs
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Observances Today
International Overdose Awareness Day Link
Love Litigating Lawyers Day
National Diatomaceous Earth Day Link
National Matchmaker Day Link
Tug-of-War Day Link
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Observances This Week
International Overdose Awareness Day Link
Love Litigating Lawyers Day
National Diatomaceous Earth Day Link
National Matchmaker Day Link
Tug-of-War Day Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1100’s
★1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah
1700’s
★1745 Jacobite Rising
★1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland
1800’s
1881 1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, Rhode Island)
1886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die
1887 Thomas Edison patents Kinetoscope, a device which produces moving pictures
1900’s
1910 Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be 'the servant and not the master of the commonwealth'
★1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)
★1929 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years
1935 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)
1935 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
★1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
★1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain
★1962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)
1965 US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development
★1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran
★1972 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics
★1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagiarizing "My Sweet Lord"
★1976 Mexican peso devalued
1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis
1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins
★1994 Sinn Fein proclaims ceasefire in Northern Ireland
★1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov
★1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris
2000’s
★2006 Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" is recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition.
2012 "Argo" directed by Ben Affleck and starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2013)
2015 President Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, its Alaska Native Athabaskan name
2015 US President Barack Obama arrives in Alaska on a 3 day tour highlighting climate change
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My Rambling Thoughts
I don’t have any friends or acquaintances in Texas or Louisiana. Our school did have a program for parent involvement and I met a lot of teachers from Port Arthur who were also using the same program. This is that areas second flooding in the past decade. As I see all this humanity working together, there is hope for this country.
When there was damage from Hurricane Sandy, several Texans in the Congressional delegation voted against the Sandy funding bill. Now Ted Cruz is changing history, stating that he voted against it because over 50% of the money had nothing to do with Sandy. Guess Ted doesn’t understand the internet machine. Several of those pesky fake news networks have pulled up information, and less than 2% went for disaster aid not directly related to Sandy. Don’t like to agree with 45 but his ‘Lying Ted’ label fits in this case.
My mother lived in an upscale independent living place for a decade then a few years in a upscale healthcare facility. Whenever a disaster strikes the news always shows those places evacuating. Always thankful that my mom never had to go through that.
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Bizarre News
*- Waiter Draws Straight Line in the Ice Cream -*
A restaurant in Washington, has come under fire after a gay couple claimed that a waiter refused to serve them an ice cream with two spoons for them to share. 55-year-old Ron Gage and 58-year-old Henry McKinnon said they went to the Prime Rib restaurant to enjoy a romantic night out. They said that everything went fine until they asked for a single serving of ice cream with two spoons. The waiter's mood soured, and he refused to serve them the ice cream in a single serving, saying that it would not sit well with the ambiance of the restaurant. Gage and McKinnon were speechless and did not say anything to the waiter or the manager. The following day, the couple made their story public on social media sites after which James MacLeod, the manager of the Prime Rib restaurant, fired the waiter.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
0’s
@93- Daniel Schorr,
broadcast journalist (CBS)
(d. 2010)
86- Dan Rather, news anchor (CBS-TV)
@81- Maria Montessori,
Italian educator (spontaneous response), born in Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy
(d. 1952)
@74- James Coburn,
Laurel Nebr, actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven)
(d. 2002)
72- Van Morrison [George Ivan],
Northern Irish singer (Them, Brown Eyed Girl), born in Bloomfield, Belfast, Bloomfield, Belfast
@70- Richard Basehart,
Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)
(d. 1984)
68- Richard Gere,
actor (Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman), born in Philadelphia
@67- Alan Jay Lerner,
lyricist composer (Lerner & Loewe-My Fair Lady)
(d. 1986)
@62- Eldridge Cleaver,
Black Panther turned Republican
(d.1998)
34- Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinal football player
@28- Caligula [Gaius Caesar],
3rd Roman Emperor (37-41 AD), born in Anzio, Italy
(d. 41)
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Historical Obits Today
0’s
@79-1973 John Ford,
American director (Stagecoach, The Searchers)
@75-1979 Sally Rand,
American burlesque dancer, vedette and actress known for her ostrich feather fan and balloon bubble dances,
congestive heart failure
@45-1969 Rocky Marciano,
former heavyweight champ,
plane crash
@36-1997 Diana Spencer,
Princess of Wales,
car crash in Paris
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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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