Sep 8


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Sept  8, 2018 Week: 36\ Day: 251
86004 Today: H 76° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 
Nearest Lightning:  107 miles away
Wind ave.:   0mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[1977]   Record Low: 33°[1935]
Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

   I just invent, then wait until man
   comes around to needing what I’ve invented.
      Buckminster Fuller


More Observances This Month

Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month  Link

Update Your Resume Month

Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month 
Link
Women's Friendship Month
World Alzheimer's Month
World Animal Remembrance Month   
Link  Link
World Speak Out Month

National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)

Observances This Week

2-8      National Payroll Week
           National Waffle Week
           Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week

4-8      Play Days 

6-10    National Environmental Services Week Link
   Popcorn Days   Link

7-9      National Days of Prayer & Remembrance

8-10    Mushroom Days

Observances for Today
Banana Day Link 
International Drive Your Studebaker Day
Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day    
Link
International Literacy Day
National Ampersand Day  Link
National Date Nut Bread Day
National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children Link 
National Dog Walker Appreciation Day 
National Hollerin' Day 
Link 
National Iguana Awareness Day
 Link    
Pardon Day 
Link
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Nurses Day
 Link
Prairie Day
Virgin Mary Day (birthday)
World Physical Therapy Day 
Link 


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1500’s                                         
1504 Michelangelo's statue of David is unveiled in Florence

1522 Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completing 1st circumnavigation of the globe (expedition began under Ferdinand Magellan)

1565 1st permanent European settlement in the US founded at St. Augustine, Florida

1800’s                                         
1858 Abraham Lincoln supposedly says in a speech "You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time"

1892 1st appearance of "Pledge of Allegiance" (Youth's Companion)

1920 US Air Mail service begins (NYC to San Francisco)

1930 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"

1930 NYC public schools begin teaching Hebrew

1952 Ernest Hemingway's novel "The Old Man & the Sea" published

1967 Surveyor 5 launched; makes soft landing on Moon Sept 10

1971 John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington, D.C.

1974 US President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard Nixon of all federal crimes

1994 Last US, British & French troops leave West Berlin
                                        
2000’s                                         
2015 Pope Francis announces moves to streamline the annulment process within the Catholic Church

2016 Giraffe DNA study published in "Current Biology" reveals there are 4 species not just 1, as previously assumed


My Rambling Thoughts
Had a good lunch with Mary yesterday. She is getting ready for her adventure to Italy with her daughter. They leave next week.

I’ve been contemplating the now famous NY Times editorial. From its release I hoped that the writer would come forward. I was very happy to hear Obama in speech talk about why the anonymity is not patriotic. If it is as bad as the editorial professes, stand up and be counted.

Don’t forget, there are still 400+ children separated at the border from their families. Many parents have been deported without their children. This is shameful.

Focus is traveling France on a barge. Thankfully one of the adventurers is posting and annotating the trip very well. Thanks!

Our monsoon is slowing down, but we did have rain, thunder, and lightning yesterday. We need so much more moisture. Hoping for a warm, wet winter.


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

80’s
@87Ida Henrietta Hyde, American physiologist who invented the micro-electrode and the first woman allowed to do research at Harvard Medical School and to be elected to the American Physiology Society, born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1945)

70’s
77Bernie Sanders, American politician and Senator (Independent - Vt), born in Brooklyn, New York

30’s
39Alecia Beth Moore (Pink), singer

37Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor (Home Improvement)

@30Patsy Cline, country singer (d. 1963) plane crash

Historical Obits Today

90’s
@922004 Frank Thomas, Disney animator

80’s
@862017 Pierre Bergé, French industrialist and co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House

@841980 Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist

70’s
@711980 Willard Libby, American chemist (radiocarbon dating), pneumonia

60’s
@611969 Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), circulatory ailment

40’s
@481784 Ann Lee, American founder of the Shakers, fragility

@421935 Huey Long, American politician (40th Governor of Louisiana), assassinated

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