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

@87►Ida 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

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

30’s

39►Alecia Beth Moore (Pink), singer

37►Jonathan Taylor Thomas, actor (Home Improvement)

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

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92►2004 Frank Thomas, Disney animator

80’s

@86►2017 Pierre Bergé, French industrialist and co-founder of Yves Saint Laurent Couture House

@84►1980 Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist

70’s

@71►1980 Willard Libby, American chemist (radiocarbon dating), pneumonia

60’s

@61►1969 Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), circulatory ailment

40’s

@48►1784 Ann Lee, American founder of the Shakers, fragility

@42►1935 Huey Long, American politician (40th Governor of Louisiana), assassinated