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Sept 19, 2018 Week: 38 \ Day: 262
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 10mph\Gusts:
22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 84°[1956]
Record Low: 25°[1971]
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Today’s Quote
If moderation is
a fault,
then indifference
is a crime.
Jack Kerouac
Harper’s Index
$10,000,000
Estimated
kilowatt-hours of energy consumed
In June
by Bitcoin-mining operations
$28,000,000
By Latvia
Observances This
Week
15-22 Farm Animal Awareness
Week
Build A Better Image Week
International Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities
Week
National Indoor Plant Week
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
National Security Officer Appreciation Week
Tolkien Week
17-23 Constitution
Week
Prostate
Cancer Awareness Week
Observances for
Today
Today’s Significant
US Historical Events
Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1600’s
1676 Rebels under Nathaniel Bacon set Jamestown,
Virginia on fire
1800’s
1849 1st commercial laundry established,
in Oakland, California
1865 Atlanta University founded
1876 1st carpet sweeper patented (Melville
Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich)
1900’s
1940 Witold Pilecki is voluntarily
captured and sent to Auschwitz in order to smuggle out information and start a
resistance
1956 1st international conference of black
writers & artists meets (Sorbonne)
1974 The KGB begin a large-scale operation
to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and cut his communications
with Soviet dissidents
1979 No Nukes Concert at Madison Square
Garden includes Springsteen & Crosby, Stills & Nash
1981 Simon & Garfunkel reunite for a
NYC Central Park concert
1984 Britain & China complete a
proposed agreement to transfer Hong Kong to China by 1997
1985 8.1 earthquake in Mexico City kills
an estimated 10,000 and leaves 250,000 homeless
1995 The Washington Post and The New York
Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto
2000’s
2017 US President Donald Trump addresses
the United Nations vowing to “totally destroy North Korea” if threatens the US
2017 President Hassan Rouhani of Iran in
his UN speech criticizes US President Donald Trump for his comments about Iran
in his own UN speech
My Rambling Thoughts
I
should get a call from the hospital today, regarding my upcoming removal of one
plate in my wrist. For some reason, they are more important than the patient
when it comes to phone calls. All the letter says is they will call Sept. 18,
no time frame. They are using my cell number,
but I don’t want to be standing in a store when they call. And there is a good
chance they will call my landline since I just recently changed my primary
contact with the surgeon to my cell phone.
Spent
a little time this morning updating the Focus website. Still have a little
work left to do on the Previous Trips part. I’m trying to list all the trips
over the past 4 decades with it still making sense.
As
a border state, the political groups are making ‘immigration’, ‘the wall’, and ‘safety’
as primary issues in our senator and governor races. Lots of groups are putting
ads all over my TV screen. Sadly, these groups have directly attacked
candidates with less than truthful statements about candidates from both
parties. It’s still a long time to the election and I am already fed up with
the negative ads. Thank goodness for the TV remote.
Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@88Ferry
Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (Porsche AG), born in Wiener Neustadt,
Austria-Hungary (d. 1998)
@88Adam
West [William West Anderson], American actor (Batman, Last Precinct), born in
Walla Walla, Washington (d. 2017)
85David
McCallum, actor (Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE), born in Glasgow, Scotland
@82Christopher
Stone, first disc jockey in the United Kingdom (d. 1965)
@81William
Golding, English novelist (Lord of the Flies, Nobel Prize for Literature 1983),
born in Newquay, Cornwall (d. 1993)
0’s
78►Bill Medley,
American singer-songwriter (The Righteous Brothers), born in Santa Ana,
California
78►Paul Williams,
American singer, actor and composer (Rainy Days and Mondays, Evergreen), born
in Omaha, Nebraska
@76►Ricardo Cortez [Jacob
Krantz], American actor and director (The Maltese Falcon), born in NYC, New
York (d. 1977)
73►Randolph Mantooth,
actor (Emergency, Loving), born in Sacramento, California
70►Jeremy Irons,
actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King), born in Isle of Wight, England
60’s
69►Twiggy Lawson,
[Leslie Hornby], England, model/actress (Boyfriend, W)
50’s
@57►Tin-Tan [Germán
Valdés], Mexican actor, singer and comedian (Spanish dubbing of The Jungle
Book, The Aristocats), born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, Mexico (d. 1973),
cancer
54►Trisha Yearwood,
Monticello GA, country singer (Sweetest Gift)
52►Soledad O'Brien,
American journalist
40’s
45►Jimmy Fallon,
American actor and comedian, born in NYC, New York
30’s
32►"Mama"
Cass Elliot, rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas),
born in Baltimore Maryland, (d. 1974) heart failure
Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95►2017 Jake LaMotta, American middleweight boxing champion
(1949-51) (immortalized in Raging Bull)
80’s
@88►1995 Orville Redenbacher, American popcorn magnate (Orville
Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn)
70’s
@77►2015 Jackie Collins, British-American author (The Stud,
Lucky), cancer
@72►2004 Skeeter Davis, American singer, breast cancer
40’s
@49►1881 James A. Garfield, 20th US President (Republican: 1881),
gunshot wound
