Sep 11


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Sept  11, 2018 Week: 37\ Day: 254
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 
Nearest Lightning:  175 miles away
Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[1990]   Record Low: 54°[1952]
Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  The past cannot be cured.
  Elizabeth I

Harper’s Index

  1/2
  Portion of Canada’s black population
  that lives in Greater Toronto

  79
  Percentage of black Toronto men aged 25-44
  who report having been stopped by police in public



Observances This Week
9-15    International Air Ambulance Week  Link
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week  Link
International Housekeepers Week   Link
National Assisted Living Week   
Suicide Prevention Week 
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week  Link
Line Dance Week

Observances for Today

  Ants On A Log Day  Link 
  Islamic New Year
  Libraries Remember Day
  Make Your Bed Day
  National Day of Service and Remembrance Link
  Patriot Day
 Link
  Remember Freedom Day


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1200’s                                         
1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English

1600’s                                         
1649 Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists

1700’s                                         
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"

1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pennysylvania; Americans lose to the British, Polish soldier Casimir Pulaski saves life of George Washington

1792 The French Blue gem (later the Hope Diamond) is stolen with other French crown jewels from Royal storehouse in Paris during Reign of Terror

1800’s                                         
1847 1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)

1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert

1897 After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.

1900’s                                         
1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.

1930 Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles

1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam

1941 Construction of the Pentagon begins (completed 15 Jan 1943)

1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes

1961 Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.

1998 Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.

1998 16th Commonwealth Games open in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia making Malaysia the first Asian country to host the games

2000’s                                         
2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,752 people:  Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people: Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board

2012 The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down, killing five people, including the US ambassador

2017 One million march on this state's national day in Barcelona in support of independence for Catalonia


My Rambling Thoughts
Busy making some more beef jerky. Started yesterday with marinating, now have it all in the dehydrator. I scarfed down the batch I made about 2 weeks ago and needed more.

Remember the good ol’ days when much of the merchandise at Wal-Mart was Made in the USA. Then almost overnight the majority of the merchandise was Made in China. Now I am reading several articles that Wally World will soon have to raise its prices by quite a bit. Tariffs. I’m waiting for China to put tariffs on 45’s and Ivanka’s stuff. And for 45 to stop the US tariffs as no one wins in a trade war.

Happy with the Bronco win, a nail biter, but as my mom said, a win is a win. Was a good weekend for Colorado.

Keeping an eye on Syrian news. From what I read, it is very bad. Haven’t figured out how anyone can use chemical attacks on any human or animal. Or bomb with no concern for innocent civilians. Sick people in this world.

Today is the day in 2001 that our country changed in ways none of us expected. 


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

70’s
@72Ferdinand Marcos, Deposed President of the Philippines (1965-86), born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines (d. 1989) organ failure

50’s
53Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria (2000-present), born in Damascus, Syria

51Harry Connick, Jr., pop singer

40’s
@47O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910) cirrhosis

@44D. H. Lawrence, English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (d. 1930) TB

41Ludacris (Christopher Brian Bridges), rapper

Historical Obits Today

80’s
@871712 Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer and engineer who discovered four of Saturn's moons

70’s
@772017 Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability of the solar system)

@771971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, heart attack

60’s
@651973 Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through an open election, commits suspected suicide by shooting himself during a military coup

50’s
@531988 Roger Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children's books (Mr. Men and Little Miss), stroke

30’s
@322001 Todd Beamer, American passenger and hero on United Airlines Flight 93, plane crash trying to stop the 9/11 terrorists

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