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Sept 11, 2018 Week: 37\ Day: 254
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%
Nearest
Lightning: 175 miles away
Wind ave.: 13mph\Gusts:
0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[1990]
Record Low: 54°[1952]
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Today’s Quote
The past cannot
be cured.
Elizabeth I
Harper’s Index
1/2
Portion of Canada’s
black population
that lives in Greater
Toronto
79
Percentage of
black Toronto men aged 25-44
who report having
been stopped by police in public
Observances This
Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
National Assisted Living Week
Suicide Prevention Week
Line Dance Week
Observances for
Today
Today’s Significant
US Historical Events
Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1200’s
1297
Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace defeats the English
1600’s
1649
Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000 royalists
1700’s
1773
Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1777
Battle of Brandywine, Pennysylvania; Americans lose to the British, Polish
soldier Casimir Pulaski saves life of George Washington
1792
The French Blue gem (later the Hope Diamond) is stolen with other French crown
jewels from Royal storehouse in Paris during Reign of Terror
1800’s
1847
1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
1850
"Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1897
After months of pursuit, generals of Menelik II of Ethiopia capture Gaki
Sherocho, the last king of Kaffa, bringing an end to that ancient kingdom.
1900’s
1906
Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the
Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1930
Stromboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1936
FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941
Construction of the Pentagon begins (completed 15 Jan 1943)
1951
Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim English Channel from England to
France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1961
Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1998
Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing
President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
1998
16th Commonwealth Games open in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia making Malaysia the
first Asian country to host the games
2000’s
2001
Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade
Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,752 people: Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash
it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people: Attempt by passengers
and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane
from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64
people on board
2012
The US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, is stormed, looted and burned down,
killing five people, including the US ambassador
2017
One million march on this state's national day in Barcelona in support of
independence for Catalonia
My Rambling Thoughts
Busy
making some more beef jerky. Started yesterday with marinating, now have it all
in the dehydrator. I scarfed down the batch I made about 2 weeks ago and needed
more.
Remember
the good ol’ days when much of the merchandise at Wal-Mart was Made in the USA.
Then almost overnight the majority of the merchandise was Made in China. Now I
am reading several articles that Wally World will soon have to raise its prices
by quite a bit. Tariffs. I’m waiting for China to put tariffs on 45’s and
Ivanka’s stuff. And for 45 to stop the US tariffs as no one wins in a trade
war.
Happy
with the Bronco win, a nail biter, but as my mom said, a win is a win. Was a
good weekend for Colorado.
Keeping
an eye on Syrian news. From what I read, it is very bad. Haven’t figured out
how anyone can use chemical attacks on any human or animal. Or bomb with no
concern for innocent civilians. Sick people in this world.
Today is the day in 2001 that our country changed in ways none of us expected.
Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
70’s
@72►Ferdinand Marcos, Deposed President
of the Philippines (1965-86), born in Sarrat, Ilocos Norte, Philippines (d.
1989) organ failure
50’s
53►Bashar al-Assad, President
of Syria (2000-present), born in Damascus, Syria
51►Harry Connick, Jr., pop
singer
40’s
@47►O Henry, [William Sydney
Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910) cirrhosis
@44►D. H. Lawrence, English
poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire
(d. 1930) TB
41►Ludacris (Christopher
Brian Bridges), rapper
Historical Obits Today
80’s
@87►1712 Giovanni
Domenico Cassini, Italian-French mathematician, astronomer and
engineer who discovered four of Saturn's moons
70’s
@77►2017 Pierre-Simon,
marquis de Laplace, French mathematician, astronomer and physicist (stability
of the solar system)
@77►1971 Nikita
Khrushchev, Soviet premier, heart attack
60’s
@65►1973 Salvador
Allende, President of Chile (1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become
president of a Latin American country through an open election, commits
suspected suicide by shooting himself during a military coup
50’s
@53►1988 Roger
Hargreaves, English author and illustrator of children's books (Mr.
Men and Little Miss), stroke
30’s
@32►2001 Todd Beamer,
American passenger and hero on United Airlines Flight 93, plane crash trying to
stop the 9/11 terrorists
