Sep 1

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Sept  1, 2018 Week: 35\ Day: 244

86004 Today: H 78° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 65% 

Nearest Lightning: 254  miles away

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1948]   Record Low: 33°[1962]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and

  I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

     Aretha Franklin

Observances This Month

AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month   Link
All American Breakfast Month Link
Attendance Awareness Month Link
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month

Baby Safety Month Link
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month Link
Bourbon Heritage Month Link

Observances This Week

Thru-9/1

Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link
Chuckwagon Races
National Sweet Corn Week

1-7      International Enthusiasm Week

National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link

Self-University Week Link

Observances for Today

Bacon Day Link and Link
Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day
Calendar Adjustment Day
Chicken Boy's Day
Cow Chip Throwing days thru 3 
Emma M. Nutt Day, the first woman telephone operator-1878
Franchise Appreciation Day  Link
International Day of Awareness for the Dolphins of Taiji Link
National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days thru 3  Link  

National Cherry Popover Day

National Cowgirl Day  Link
National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day
National Tailgating Day   Link Link   
National Writing Date Day Link
Random Acts of Kindness Day or Be Kind Day  Link  

Save Japan's Dolphins Day Link 

Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day
World Beard Day  Link  

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)

1800’s                                         

1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire

1821 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail

1859 1st Pullman sleeping car in service

1866 Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate

1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.

1900’s                                         

1906 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.

1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

1914 The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo

1916 US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

1939 Adolf Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill through the "T4 Euthanasia Program," arguing that wartime "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"

1939 In the "scoop of the century," Telegraph journalist Clare Hollingworth becomes the first to report the outbreak of World War II

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)

1961 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate

1962 United Nations announces Earth's population has hit 3 billion

1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia

1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH

2000’s                                         

2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.

2015 Pope Francis tells priests to pardon women who have had an abortion, in a letter released by the Vatican

2015 Google changes its logo, biggest redesign since 1999

My Rambling Thoughts

Stayed up way to late…thanks Netflix.

Laundry and grocery shopping today. And a little work on the Focus website. I added a short slideshow on the home page and changed the picture. I’ll check back a few more times before I decide if I should add slideshows to each upcoming trip.

Lots of Aretha and McCain tributes at public events today. Both believed that ‘there is room for everyone’.  As I listen to the many paying tribute to McCain, everyone mentions his ability to keep his values and still work with those who disagree. I sure hope some of the politicians speaking and all those listening will remember the words and start living a life of values and compassion. I have certainly been a fan of Aretha but am only now learning of her great works outside music. Also a long time fan of 91 year old Cicely Tyson, who did an amazing speech. Both Aretha and McCain left us with great lessons. As a life-long learner and teacher, I hope their lessons are understood and followed.                       

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

80►Alan Dershowitz, American attorney (Claus Von Bulow, O.J. Simpson), born in NYC

70’s

79►Lily Tomlin, comedian

@76►James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), born in Keith, Scotland (d. 1872)

@76►Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist, born in Capivari, Brazil (d. 1973)

@74►Edgar Rice Burroughs, American sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga) (d. 1950) heart attack

@73►Ann W. Richards, Lakeview Texas, American politician (d. 2006) cancer

60’s

68►Dr. Phil McGraw, TV host

61►Gloria Estefan, singer, dancer

50’s

@59►Conway Twitty, country singer (d. 1993) aneurysm

@51►Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916) (d. 1916) executed

40’s

@45►Rocky Marciano, boxer (d. 1969) private plane crash

20’s

22►Zendaya (Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman), Disney actress

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@76►1715 Louis XIV, the sun king of France (1643-1715), gangrene

@71►1983 Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), aneurysm

60’s

@68►1838 William Clark, American explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States

@65►1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France, typhus

@60►1967 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald") hangs herself in prison

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…☼☼☼☼

Aug 30

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Aug 30, 2018 Week: 35\ Day: 242

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Nearest Lightning:  523 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[1948]   Record Low: 36°[1975]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to

  preserve  democracy as we know it, you have to have a free

  and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that

  we would lose  so much of our individual liberties over time.

  That's how dictators get started.

  John McCain

Observances This Week

25-31

Be Kind To Humankind Week
World Water Week Link

29-9/1

Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link
Chuckwagon Races
National Sweet Corn Week

Observances for Today

Frankenstein Day

Internat’l Cabernet Sauvignon Day  Link
Internat’l Day of The Victims of Enforced

            Disappearances Link
International Whale Shark Day
National Grief Awareness Day
National Holistic Pet Day
Toasted Marshmallow Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s                                         

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time

1300’s                                         

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1800’s                                         

1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.

1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products

1900’s                                         

1914 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army, ca. 170,000 killed or injured, German victory on Eastern Front

1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so

1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas

1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.

1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice

1979 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs

1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia

1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower

1995 Cable News Network joins the internet

2000’s                                         

2015 English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years

2017 Late author Terry Pratchett' unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per his instructions

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday was Primary voting day here in AZ and on the Navajo Rez. I did my vote early, then helped out a friend so she could vote on the Rez. Long day, some free Navajo food at the polling place, and a job well done.

Headed out to get a blood test, then home for a relaxing day.

AZ TV stations are covering and recovering every second of the events as the McCain’s casket lies in state in our state capital building. Lots of supporters are honoring his service to the state and to the country.

From my small mountain town, I now realize that organized churches are BUSINESS. We have these mega-churches with millionaire leaders who pay NO taxes. Now Pope Francis is remaining mum about the rape of children in America by his subordinates and offering only prayers for survivors in other countries. It is time to tax churches and it is time to stop allowing church officials to abuse children and having the higher-ups cover it up. The Jesus I was raised to believe in must be shaking his head in disgust and wondering how his teachings could lead to any of this insanity.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

88►Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha, Nebraska

@85►Maurice R. Hilleman, Miles City Montana, American Microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia (d. 2005)

70’s

75►Robert Crumb, American cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

60’s

@66►Ernest Rutherford [1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson], New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), born in Brightwater, New Zealand (d. 1937) intestinal paralysis

50’s

@53►Mary Shelley, English author (Frankenstein), born in London, England (d. 1851) brain tumor

40’s

46►Cameron Diaz, movie actress

45►Lisa Ling, American journalist

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95►2016 Joe Sutter, American engineer and head of the Boeing 747 program

@91►2015 Brad Anderson, American cartoonist (Marmaduke)

@91►1862 Charles Bernard Desormes, French Physicist and Chemist (carbon monoxide and carbon disulphide compositions)

80’s

@84►1985 Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell], Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician)

@83►1940 J. J. Thomson, English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906)

70’s

@74►2013 Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), after a fall

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@65►1938 Max Factor [Maksymilian Faktorowicz], make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer

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…☼☼☼☼