Sep 19


FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!

Sept  19, 2018 Week: 38 \ Day: 262
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 84°[1956]   Record Low: 25°[1971]
Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

   If moderation is a fault,
   then indifference is a crime.
      Jack Kerouac

Harper’s Index

            $10,000,000
            Estimated kilowatt-hours of energy consumed
            In June by Bitcoin-mining operations

            $28,000,000
By Latvia


Observances This Week

15-22  Farm Animal Awareness Week
Balance Awareness Week Link   
Build A Better Image Week
International Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week
National Indoor Plant Week
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Love Your Files Week Link  
National Singles Week
Tolkien Week

17-23  Constitution Week
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link
Pollution Prevention Week Link
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week  

Observances for Today

National Rehabilitation Day
Talk Like A Pirate Day 
Link  Link 
Yom Kippur


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1600’s                                         
1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown, Virginia on fire

1800’s                                         
1849 1st commercial laundry established, in Oakland, California

1865 Atlanta University founded

1876 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)

1900’s                                         
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a resistance

1956 1st international conference of black writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)

1974 The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications with Soviet dissidents

1979 No Nukes Concert at Madison Square Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash

1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a NYC Central Park concert

1984 Britain & China complete a proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997

1985 8.1 earthquake in Mexico City kills an estimated 10,000 and leaves 250,000 homeless

1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto

2000’s                                         
2017 US President Donald Trump addresses the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US


2017 President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in his UN speech criticizes US President Donald Trump for his comments about Iran in his own UN speech


My Rambling Thoughts
I should get a call from the hospital today, regarding my upcoming removal of one plate in my wrist. For some reason, they are more important than the patient when it comes to phone calls. All the letter says is they will call Sept. 18, no time frame.  They are using my cell number, but I don’t want to be standing in a store when they call. And there is a good chance they will call my landline since I just recently changed my primary contact with the surgeon to my cell phone.

Spent a little time this morning updating the Focus website. Still have a little work left to do on the Previous Trips part. I’m trying to list all the trips over the past 4 decades with it still making sense.

As a border state, the political groups are making ‘immigration’, ‘the wall’, and ‘safety’ as primary issues in our senator and governor races. Lots of groups are putting ads all over my TV screen. Sadly, these groups have directly attacked candidates with less than truthful statements about candidates from both parties. It’s still a long time to the election and I am already fed up with the negative ads. Thank goodness for the TV remote.


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

80’s
@88Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (Porsche AG), born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)

@88Adam West [William West Anderson], American actor (Batman, Last Precinct), born in Walla Walla, Washington (d. 2017)

85David McCallum, actor (Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE), born in Glasgow, Scotland

@82Christopher Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)

@81William Golding, English novelist (Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize for Literature 1983), born in Newquay, Cornwall (d. 1993)
0’s
78Bill Medley, American singer-songwriter (The Righteous Brothers), born in Santa Ana, California

78Paul Williams, American singer, actor and composer (Rainy Days and Mondays, Evergreen), born in Omaha, Nebraska

@76Ricardo Cortez [Jacob Krantz], American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), born in NYC, New York (d. 1977)

73Randolph Mantooth, actor (Emergency, Loving), born in Sacramento, California

70Jeremy Irons, actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King), born in Isle of Wight, England

60’s
69Twiggy Lawson, [Leslie Hornby], England, model/actress (Boyfriend, W)

50’s
@57Tin-Tan [Germán Valdés], Mexican actor, singer and comedian (Spanish dubbing of The Jungle Book, The Aristocats), born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico (d. 1973), cancer

54Trisha Yearwood, Monticello GA, country singer (Sweetest Gift)

52Soledad O'Brien, American journalist

40’s
45Jimmy Fallon, American actor and comedian, born in NYC, New York

30’s
32"Mama" Cass Elliot, rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas), born in Baltimore Maryland, (d. 1974) heart failure


Historical Obits Today

90’s
@952017 Jake LaMotta, American middleweight boxing champion (1949-51) (immortalized in Raging Bull)

80’s
@881995 Orville Redenbacher, American popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn)

70’s
@772015 Jackie Collins, British-American author (The Stud, Lucky), cancer

@722004 Skeeter Davis, American singer, breast cancer

40’s
@491881 James A. Garfield, 20th US President (Republican: 1881), gunshot wound


No comments:

Post a Comment

Followers

Total Pageviews

Blog Archive

About Me

My photo
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.