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Aug 13, 2018 Week: 33\ Day: 225
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81° \ L 57° \ Average
Sky Cover: 45%
Nearest Lightning: 14.2 miles away
Wind ave.: 5mph\Gusts:
13mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 90°[2002] Record Low: 39°[1999]
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Today’s Quote
Much
that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or
disguised
love of power.
Bertrand Russell
Harper’s Index
31
Percentage of US college students who have a
worse
opinion
of conservatives after their first year
50
Who have a better opinion
Observances This Week
9-16
12-18
National
Motorcycle Week Link
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
Weird Contest Week
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week Link Link
National Resurrect Romance Week
Weird Contest Week
Observances for Today
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1500’s
1521
Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in
Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire
1700’s
1792
Revolutionaries imprison French royals, including Marie Antoinette
1800’s18vvv
1889
William Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1900’s
1907
1st taxicabs operate in New York City, imported by Harry N. Allen
1913
Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England
1918
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany
1948
Hungarian boxer László Papp wins the first of 3 consecutive Olympic gold
medals; beats British middleweight Johnny Wright on points at the London Games
1948
3 Finnish gymnasts dead heat for the gold medal in the pommel horse section at
London Olympics; Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen & Heikki Savolainen all
awarded gold
1950
US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai
1953
US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance
Committee
1967
"Bonnie and Clyde", directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren
Beatty and Faye Dunaway, is released
1987
Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump
1991
US Vice-President Dan Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers
1993
US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
2000’s
2004
28th Olympic Games opens at Athens, Greece
2015
Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks
founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion
2015
US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting La Coiffeuse,
stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001
2016
American swimmer Michael Phelps ends his career at the Rio Olympics as part of
the winning 4x100 medley relay, his record 23rd gold medal
My
Rambling Thoughts
Having a quiet
Sunday, just waiting for the monsoon later this afternoon or evening.
I am watching
some of the protests in DC. It is part of being in America. First Amendment
stuff. Hopefully there will be no violence.
The Broncos didn’t
play well last night. The AZ Cards looked good…but it is pre-season, so who
knows what will happen when the games really count.
One of the things
I like about our local paper…it covers local politics pretty well. Today there
was lots of information on each of the city council candidates. Sadly, their
vision and reality are sometimes far apart. Last election a candidate came out
with some great ideas, won a seat of the council, got pushback, and isn’t
running again. Reminds me: Some politicians are sparklers while others are
embers. Personally, I prefer embers, but it is very hard to find out what a
first time candidate will be.
Birthdays
Today
@-
indicates age at death
90’s
@90- Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary,
Prime Minister (1959-76) and President (1976-2008), born in Birán, Holguin
Province (d. 2016)
80’s
@86- Pat Harrington Jr, American actor
(Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)
@86- Anna Mae Winburn, African American band
leader of all female band (International Sweethearts of Rhythm),
born in Port Royal, Tennessee (d. 1999)
85- Jocelyn Elders, 15th US Surgeon General
(1993-94) 1st African American holder, born in Schaal, Arkansas
@84- Ben Hogan, American PGA golfer (US Open
1950, 51, 53), born in Stephenville, Texas (d. 1997)
@80- Alfred Hitchcock, English director
(Psycho, Birds, Rear Window), born in Leytonstone, Essex (d. 1980)
70’s
@76- Don Ho [Donald Tai Loy Ho],
Chinese-American musician (Tiny Bubbles), born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2007)
heart failure
74- Kevin Tighe, actor (Newsie, Another 48
Hours, K-9), born in Los Angeles
@72- Bert Lahr [Irving Lahrheim], American
comic and actor (The Wizard of Oz), born in NYC, New York (d. 1967) anemia
72- Janet Yellen, American economist (Chair
of US Federal Reserve 2014-2018), born in Brooklyn
@71- Neville Brand, American soldier and
actor (DOA, Love Me Tender), born in Griswold, Iowa (d. 1992) emphysema
@66- Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses],
American sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), born in North Star, Ohio (d.
1926) anemia
60’s
@61- Samuel De Champlain, explorer (d. 1635)
stroke
50’s
@56- Dan Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same
Auld Lang Syne) (d. 2007) prostate cancer
@54- Sridevi Kapoor [Shree Amma Yanger
Ayyapan], Indian actress and film producer referred to as Indian cinema's
"first female superstar" (Himmatwala, Solva Sawan), born in Sivakasi,
Madras State (d. 2018) accidental drowning
@51- Johann Christoph Denner, inventor
(clarinet) (d. 1707)
Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@94-2009 Les Paul, American jazz, country and
blues guitarist, songwriter and inventor (solid-body electric guitar)
@91-2004 Julia Child, American chef, author and
television personality (The French Chef)
@90-2012 Helen Gurley Brown, American
author/publisher
@90-1910 Florence Nightingale, British nurse
(Crimean War)
70’s
@79-1946 H. G. Wells, English sci-fi author (The
War of the Worlds, Time Machine)
60’s
@68-1982 Joe E Ross (Joseph Roszawikz), American
comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), heart attak
@63-1995 Mickey Mantle, American Baseball Hall
of Fame outfielder (1956 Triple Crown, 20-time All Star), liver cancer
40’s
@46-1826 René Laënnec, French physician who
invented the stethoscope, tuberculosis
30’s
@33-1995 Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer
and 1st woman to climb Mount Everest alone without bottled oxygen (1995), in a
storm on top of K2 summit
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…☼☼☼☼
