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Sep 10, 2017 Week: 37 \ Day: 253
86004 Today: H 71° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 87°[1990] Record Low: 28°[1912]
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Quote of the Day
Give me a lever long enough
and a fulcrum on which to place it,
and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
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Observances Today
Grandparent's Day
National Hug Your Hound Day
National Pet Memorial Day Link
(World) Suicide Prevention Day Link
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Observances This Week
4-10
Suicide Prevention Week
8-10
Prayer & Remembrance
9-11
Mushroom Days
9-17
International Air Ambulance Week Link
10-16 Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
International Housekeepers Week Link
Line Dance Week
National Assisted Living Week
National Environmental Services Week Link
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1300’s
★1349 Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1600’s
1608 John Smith elected president of Jamestown colony council, Va
1847 1st theater opens in Hawaii
1800’s
★1869 Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan
★1872 Karl Marx speaks in Amsterdam
1900’s
1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1918 Players on both sides threaten to strike the World Series unless they are guaranteed $2,500 to the winners & $1,000 each for the losers
1919 NYC welcomes home Gen John J Pershing & 25,000 WW I soldiers
★1919 China becomes a member of the League of Nations
★1923 Irish Free state joins League of Nations
1932 Independent City Owned Rapid Transit Railroad (IND) opens in NYC
★1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb
1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"
1955 "Gunsmoke" premieres on CBS TV
1963 20 black students entered public schools in Alabama
★1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1966 Neal Diamond's 1st chart song (Cherry Cherry)
★1972 20th Olympic games close at Munich, German FR
1972 Frank Shorter wins 17th Olympic marathon (2:12:19.8)
1984 Sean O'Keefe (11) is youngest to cycle across the US (24 days)
★1988 -18] Hurricane Gilbert, kills 300 in Jamaica, Texas & Yucatan
1991 Senate Committee begins hearings on Clarence Thomas' nomination
1993 1,000 Boeing 747 jumbo plane produced
1993 "The X-Files", created by Chris Carter and starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson debuts on Fox
2000’s
2012 Teachers in Chicago strike affecting 350,000 students
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My Rambling Thoughts
Light rain most of the night and into midday. Ain’t complaining one bit.
Now that I have recovered:
I’ve been hearing and reading stories about price gouging during the hurricanes. Those on the right, those for free enterprise, and those with no morality are having a great time. So sick. As for those who want less government, remember this could happen to you or your family. I work hard every day not to be greedy and to help those with less than I have.
This gouging hurts all who need supplies but mostly hurt the poor and elderly. I’ve read checked stories where American, Delta, and other airlines are charging up to $3000 for a one-way ticket that was $189 last month. Some in Florida are seeing $35/gal fuel. We see lots of pallets of water being brought in. Yet some businesses and some individuals are selling those $1 for up to $10.
I hope when the emergency is over that the news media talk to people and lawmakers about this sad part of America. In the last few days, Florida officials have revived 7000 complaints about gouging of essentials. One week ago the count was 3000. Expose them now.
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Bizarre News
Your Wife Is Cheating? Get indicted for Burglary
37-year-old Sean Donis of New Jersey said that his wife Nancy, asked him to care for their son, now 5, while she went out for dinner with friends in Elizabeth. While watching his son, Donis was looking for his son's iPad. He activated the Find My iPhone app on the iPad, and he realized that it had traveled across Rockland County, New York. Donis decided to travel to the location as he had suspected Nancy of cheating and he wanted to catch her red-handed. Donis drove to the home of his wife's boss and found her vehicle parked in his driveway. The heartbroken husband walked into the home through an unlocked door and went to the upstairs bedroom. There he found his wife naked in bed with her boss. Nancy jumped out of the bed while her boss ordered Donis out of his home. He left armed with his 35-second video proof of her cheating. Nancy subsequently filed for divorce and the couple's 6-year marriage ended in February. Recently, Donis was notified that he was indicted by a grand jury on charges of unlawful surveillance and felony burglary over the cheating incident.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
American golfing great (4x Masters), born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania
(d. 2016)
84- Karl Lagerfeld,
Fashion Designer
70’s
72- Jose Feliciano,
Lares, Puerto Rican singer/songwriter (Light my Fire)
60’s
68- Bill O'Reilly,
American TV host host and commentator (The O'Reilly Factor), born in NYC
67- Joe Perry,
Lawrence, Massachusetts, American rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Walk this Way)
50’s
English actor (Bridget Jones' Diary, The King's Speech), born in Grayshott Hampshire
American baseball player and HR champion (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961), born in Hibbing, Minnesota
(d. 1985)
40’s
Queen of Louis XIV of France, born in El Escorial, Spain
(d. 1683)
43- Ryan Phillippe,
American actor
30’s
American ballerina (1st African American Principal Dancer at American Ballet Theatre), born in Kansas City Missouri
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-2007 Jane Wyman,
American actress (The Yearling & Johnny Belinda)
80’s
@88-2011 Cliff Robertson,
American actor (Charly)
@85-1748 Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo,
foundress of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary, born in Philippines
70’s
@70-1991 Yves Montand,
actor (Lets Make Love, Z), heart attack
20’s
@28-1977 Hamida Djandoubi,
Tunisian convicted murderer who was the last person to be executed in Western Europe, is beheaded in Marseille by guillotine
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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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