Aug 21

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Aug 21, 2018 Week: 34\ Day: 233

86004 Today: H 85 ° \ L 58 ° \ Average Sky Cover: 45% 

Nearest Lightning:  19.8 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  17mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[2009]   Record Low: 33°[1979]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.

   Ann Landers

Harper’s Index

 $5.90

 Amount charged by Zain, Iraq’s largest telecom company,

  for a phone number with nonconsecutive digits

  $1,340

  For a phone number whose last five digits are the same

Observances This Week

15-21  National Aviation Week  

16-26  Little League World Series

18-24  Minority Enterprise Development Week

 National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

20-24  National Safe at Home Week 

Observances for Today

Brazilian Blow-out Day Link
Internet Self-care Day  Link
National Spumoni Day  Link
Poet's Day
Senior Citizen's Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1680 Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish

1689 Battle of Dunkeld fought in Scotland between supporters of King James VII of Scotland and troops of William of Orange

1700’s                                         

1760 The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city.

1800’s                                         

1831 Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery

1852 Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.

1858 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)

1878 American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY

1888 American inventor William Seward Burroughs patents the adding machine

1900’s                                         

1911 "Mona Lisa" stolen from the Louvre by Vincenzo Perugia (Recovered in 1913)

1959 Hawaii becomes the 50th US state

1972 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps

1987 Clayton Lonetree, 1st US marine court-martialed for spying, convicted

2000’s                                         

2012 Kateri Tekakwitha canonized as the 1st Native American saint by Pope Benedict XVI

2017 Total solar eclipse visible from North America

2017 Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $417m to woman who developed ovarian cancer after using their talc-based products

My Rambling Thoughts

Lazy Monday…just waiting for the monsoon to return. Looks like it will arrive late this afternoon or early this evening.

I have been confused by this administration since day 1 of his campaign. Now I finally know why: ‘truth is not truth’. So happy 45 has a lawyer who can explain it for us.

No matter what 45 states, most Dems and most Americans do not want ICE abolished…but many do want changes in its policy and enforcement. So sad that the leader misinterprets anything he decides is against him. We certainly need border security. We do not need Federal agents going after families that have lived here for decades, never been involved in a crime, and working to support their family.

Nice to see the emotional reunions of a few Korean families that have been separated for over half a century. Too bad it only for three days and only about 11 hours of that time to be with family members. Hard to believe these reunions are constantly monitored by N. Korean ‘minders’.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

80►Kenny Rogers, singer

60’s

@63►Wilt Chamberlin, basketball player, (d. 1999) congestive heart failure

44- Sergey Brin, Russian-born American computer scientist and businessman (co-founded Google with Larry Page), born in Moscow, Soviet Union

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88-2017 Thomas Meehan, American writer (Annie, The Producers, Hairspray)

70’s

@74-1960 David Barnard Steinman, American bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)

60’s

@65-1947 Ettore Bugatti, Italian-French automobile designer and manufacturer (Automobiles E. Bugatti) paralysis of his mental faculties

@62-1940 Leon Trotsky, Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army, assassinated by an icepick wielding Ramón Mercader

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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