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Sep 25, 2017 Week: 39 \ Day: 268
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 25°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 17mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 85°[1947] Record Low: 24°[1959]
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Quote of the Day
The science of today is the technology of tomorrow.
Edward Teller
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Observances Today
Family Day
Math Story Telling Day
National Comic Book Day
National One-Hit Wonder Day
National Psychotherapy Day Link
National Research Administrators Day Link
National Tune-up Day Link
(World) Ataxia Awareness Day Link
World Pharmacists Day Link
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Observances This Week
24-30
Banned Books Week
Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link
International Interpreters and Translators Week
National Fall Foliage Week Link
National Keep Kids Creative Week
Remember to Register to Vote Week
Sea Otter Awareness Week Link
World Hearing Aid Awareness Week Link
World Reflexology Week
25-29
Ally Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
★1513 Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crosses the Panama Isthmus becoming first European to see the Pacific Ocean
1600’s
1639 First printing press in America
1700’s
1775 American Revolutionary War hero Ethan Allen captured
1780 Benedict Arnold joins the British
1789 US Congress proposes the Bill of Rights
1800’s
★1820 French Physicist Francois Arago announces electromagnetism in his discovery that a copper wire between the poles of a voltaic cell could laterally attract iron filings to itself
1867 Congress creates 1st all-black university, Howard U in Washington, D.C.
★1888 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Hound of Baskervilles" (BG)
1900’s
★1906 Leonardo Torres Quevedo successfully demonstrates the Telekino at Bilbao before a great crowd, guiding a boat from the shore, considered the birth of the remote control
1912 Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism is founded in New York, New York.
1919 US president Woodrow Wilson suffers a breakdown in Colorado, his health never recovers
1926 Henry Ford announces 8 hour, 5-day work week
★1933 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China
1973 3-man crew of Skylab 3 make safe splashdown in Pacific after 59 days
★1976 Bono, David Evans, his brother Dik and Adam Clayton respond to an advertisement on a bulletin board at Mount Temple posted by fellow student Larry Mullen Jr. to form a rock band, which would eventually become U2
1979 "Evita" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 1568 performances
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor sworn in as 1st female Supreme Court justice
1986 Antonin Scalia appointed to US Supreme Court
★1988 Pope John Paul II beatifies Friar Junípero Serra (founder of 1st Californian missions)
1997 WNBA announces it will add Detroit & Washington, D.C. franchises
2000’s
★2008 The "Celtic Tiger" slides into recession for the first time in over two decades, recording a 0.5% fall in second-quarter GDP, following a 0.3% decline in the first quarter
★2015 Singapore closes schools due to hazardous levels of air pollution from fires in Indonesia
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cool Sunday with a very cool breeze, cloudless sky. Glad it is Sunday and I can relax and enjoy. Oh, wait, I can relax most days.
Sunday morning talk shows still giving every angle of the 45 v NFL/NBA. Most sane people commenting remind us that the first amendment is still in effect. Too bad so many have to be reminded. I’m reminded of the anonymous quote: "You can't understand someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes." Agreement or disagreement is fine, just don’t stop free speech. Empathy should reign.
A little more on free speech. Tech geeks here and from other countries can now program bots to make comments and posts on social media. These programs can put a post on anyone’s site at any time. They can say that ‘The world is ending in 5 minutes’, ‘I love puppies’, ‘Sen. X hates you’, or anything else. Social media companies should be stopping all bots, as programs can’t be social. That alone would at least slow down any interference by many to spread lies. Of course, we has humans, have a responsibility when it comes to ‘likes’, ‘following’, or ‘friending’. I get several ‘friend requests’ from people I don’t know. I always check their page. Usually it is some ‘person’ with no friends listed, no mutual friends, and very few posts. Why would I want that ‘person’ as a friend? I don’t. Same goes for ‘followers’ who I don’t know. We all have to take responsibility when it comes to free speech.
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Bizarre News
*-- Dumbbell Gets 'Manhood' Caught in Dumbell --*
Firefighters in a German city said it took about three hours to free a man who had "a very sensitive part of the body" stuck in the center hole of a dumbbell weight. The Feuerwehr Worms Fire Department said in a Facebook post that firefighters responded to a hospital in the appropriately named city of Worms after a man at a local gym ended up with a dumbbell disc stuck around his penis. The firefighters said it took them about three hours to break through the 5.5-pound weight using tools including a grinder and a hydraulic saw. The post included a photo of the dumbbell weight broken into five pieces. "Please do not imitate such actions!" the Facebook post said.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@93- Wladimir Köppen [Vladimir Köppen],
St. Petersburg, Russia, German Meteorologist and Climatologist who mapped and classified the climatic regions of the world (Köppen climate classification system)
(d. 1940)
80’s
@89- May Sutton Bundy,
Tennis champion and 1st American woman to win the singles title at Wimbledon in 1905, born in Plymouth, England
(d. 1975)
@88- Sam Rivers,
American jazz musician (exponent of free jazz), born in El Reno, Oklahoma
(d. 2011)
88- Barbara Walters,
newscaster (Today, 20/20, ABC-TV), born in Boston, Massachusetts
70’s
73- Michael Douglas,
American actor (Coma, Wall St, Jewel of the Nile), born in New Brunswick, NJ
70- Cheryl Tiegs,
Minnesota, model (Sports Illustrated)
60’s
69- Mimi Kennedy,
actress (Spencer, 3 girls 3, Under 1 Roof), born in Rochester, New York
@68- Shel Silverstein,
American humorist and author
(d. 1999)
68- Anson Williams,
actor (Potsie-Happy Days), born in Los Angeles, California
66- Mark Hamill,
actor (Luke Skywalker-Star Wars), born in Oakland, California
@64- William Faulkner,
American author (Sound & Fury-Nobel 1949), born in New Albany, Mississippi
(d. 1962)
50’s
56- Heather Locklear,
actress (T J Hooker, Dynasty), born in Los Angeles, California
@52- Christopher Reeve,
American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2004)
52- Scottie Pippen,
Hamburg, Arkansas, American NBA forward (Bulls, Oly-2 gold-92, 96)
40’s
49- Will Smith,
American actor and rapper (Men in Black, Independence Day, Fresh Prince of Bel Air), born in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
48- Catherine Zeta Jones,
Welsh actress (Christopher Columbus), born in Swansea, Wales
48- Hal Sparks,
American actor (the Soup)
30’s
34- Donald Glover,
American actor (Community, The Martian), born in Edwards Air Force Base, California
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@87-2016 Arnold Palmer,
American golfing great (4x Masters)
@84-2012 Andy Williams,
American singer
70’s
@77-1898 Louis Laurent Gabriel de Mortillet,
French anthropologist who was the first to organize and classify Stone Age cultures into a chronological sequence of epochs
@76-2003 George Plimpton,
American writer and actor,
heart attack
@73-1974 Coco the Clown, [Nikolai Poliakoff],
short illness
50’s
@51-1988 Billy Carter,
brother of US President Jimmy Carter,
cancer
40’s
@40-1501 Džore Držić,
Croatian poet and playwright who is considered one of the fathers of Croatian literature
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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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