Jun 27

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Jun 27, 2018 Week: 26\ Day: 178

86004 Today: H 90° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Nearest Lightning:  387miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 94°[1974]   Record Low: 26°[1965]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

Music is the divine way to tell beautiful, poetic things to the heart. Pablo Casals
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/pablo_casals_100781

Harper’s Index

2,200,000

Acres of land owned by John Malone, the largest private land owner in the US

3.3

Factor by which that is larger than Rhode Island

Observances This Week

Carpenter Ant Awareness Week: 24-30
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 24-30 Link 
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 24-30 Link
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 24-30 Link 
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week: 24-30
Windjammer Days: 24-30
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4

Observances for Today

Decide To Be Married Day
 "Happy Birthday To You" Day
Industrial Workers of The World Day
Micro-, Small-, And Medium-Sized Enterprises Day
National HIV Testing Day Link
National Parchment Cooking Day Link 
National Sunglasses Day  Link  Link
PTSD Awareness Day Link
Sun Glasses Day

Windjammer Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1652 New Amsterdam (now New York City) enacts first speed limit law in North America

1693 1st women's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)

1700’s                                          

1759 British general James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.

1778 Liberty Bell returns home to Philadelphia after the British departure

1800’s                                          

1894 American Annie Londonderry [Annie Kopchovsky] sets out to become first woman to bicycle around the world (completes her journey September 1895)

1900’s                                          

1915 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon, Alaska (state record)

1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)

1950 North Korean troops reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders US Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict

1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities

2000’s                                          

2008 Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

2016 US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3

2017 Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook has reached 2 billion monthly users

My Rambling Thoughts

Great news and good news from the hand doc. Only need to wear the brace when I am out and about and to slowly stop using the brace at all. That’s the great news. The other news is that I go back in late Aug. to talk about removing the biggest plate. He says it’s a simple operation, 15 minutes, to unscrew and remove, then short healing for the skin to heal. Seems the location of the largest plate can lead to problems with my tendons in the future. OK I’ll take that as a plus to remove it.

For the first time since the injury, I am typing with both hands. Right hand is a little slow, especially when using the space bar. Still happy though. I fully understand that readers can’t tell the difference, but believe me, this is much better than one-handed typing and only using my right hand to the mouse. My wrist is still very stiff and I don’t have a lot of movement at the wrist, but I am told it will loosen up with time.

So ‘the third time is the charm’ seems to have worked for 45. It was a close decision, but still very disturbing. I have never traveled to any of the countries on the final list but I have seen pictures and videos. Don’t want to visit any of them right now, wouldn’t want to live there now, and certainly understand when a common citizen wants to leave.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

88- H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)

@87- Helen Keller, American political activist, author(The Story of My Life) and lecturer, who was the 1st deaf-blind person to earn a BA, born in Tuscumbia, Alabama (d. 1968)

80- Bruce E Babbitt, (Gov-D-AZ)/secretary of interior

70’s

@76- Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning) (d. 2004)

60’s

69- Vera Wang, American fashion designer (Vera Wang Fashions), born in New York City

67- Julia Duffy [Julia Margaret Hinds], American actress (Newhart, Baby Talk), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

@65- Doc Pomus [Jerome Solon Felder], American blues singer and songwriter ("Save the Last Dance for Me", born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1991) lung cancer

50’s

59- Janusz Kamiński, Polish cinematographer (Schindler's List), born in Ziębice, Poland

52- J. J. Abrams, American writer, producer and director (Lost, Star Wars: the Force Awakens), born in NYC

40’s

@47 Thomas Say, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1834) typhoid fever

43- Tobey Maguire, American actor (Spider-Man, The Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, CA

30’s

34- Khloé Kardashian, American reality television star (Keeping Up with the Kardashians), born in Los Angeles

@33- Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet and novelist (Oak & Ivory), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1906) TB

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2009 Gale Storm [Josephine Owaissa Cottle], American singer and actress (My Little Margie, Gale Storm Show)

70’s

@76-2001 Jack Lemmon, American actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing), colon cancer and metastatic cancer of the bladder

60’s

@68-2012 Don Grady [Agrati], American actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons), cancer

@64-1829 James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute

30’s

@38-1844 Joseph Smith Jr, American founder of the Mormon Church, shot by a mob

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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