Sep 24

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Sept  24, 2018 Week: 39 \ Day: 267

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Wind:   13mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 85°[1947]   Record Low: 25°[1918]

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

     I often quote myself.

     It adds spice to my conversation

     George Bernard Shaw

Harper’s Index

         7

          Factor by which average home price exceeds

average yearly income in NYC

28

In Shenzhen, China

Observances This Week

21-30 National Ballroom Dance Week  Link

23-29  Banned Books Week

Child Passenger Safety Week Link

Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link 

International Interpreters and Translators Week

National Dog Week Link and  Link

National Keep Kids Creative Week

Remember to Register to Vote Week

Sea Otter Awareness Week Link

World Hearing Aid Awareness Week Link   

World Reflexology Week

24-28 Ally Week Link

International Week of the Deaf  Link   

International Women's E-Commerce Days

Observances for Today

Family Day  

National Cherries Jubilee Day

National Familial Hypercholesterolemia Day  Link 
Punctuation Day Link
Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1786 African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon makes his "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at meeting of African Society in NY

1789 US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution

1900’s                                         

1930 Noel Coward's "Private Lives" premieres in London

1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.

1952 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah

1955 US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver

1958 Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC

1964 "The Munsters" premieres on TV

1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by US President Jimmy Carter

1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service

1994 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar

1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

2000’s                                         

2012 Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores

2015 Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.

2017 Plastic polystyrene rubbish discovered for first time only 1,000 miles from the north pole by international team of scientists

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice Sunday for the first Sunday of fall. Warm and I have both the Bronco and the Cardinal games on my TV...with a little overlap. Not excited by the play of the Broncos or their first loss. Not expecting very much from the Cardinals either. They do look good in the first half.

During the summer was up and about by 6a most days. As the days get shorter, now I’m not up until about 7a. Hmmm.

Got 2 loads of laundry done before noon. I have a canvas laundry set-up with four canvas bags. For a long time, I waited for all the bags to be filled, then did all the laundry.  Took me quite a while to realize that it is easier to wash each bag when it is full. I think the ‘do all the laundry at once’ came from my working days when Saturday or Sunday were the best times to do a day of laundry. The new way seems much easier.

I guess I’ll be watching the hearing on Thursday, or Wednesday, or whenever it is. My stand is still no investigation and a yes vote for Brett is a vote for the other candidate at their next election.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@89►Georges Claude, inventor (neon light)

@86►Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), religious figure and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, born in Khomeyn, Persia (d. 1989)

@84►Donald "Don" Porter, American actor (Gidget, The Ann Sothern Show), born in Miami, Oklahoma (d. 1997)

70’s

@79►Audra Lindley, American actress (Three's Company, The Relic, Ropers), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1997) leukemia

@77►Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)

73►Lou Dobbs, American journalist

72►"Mean" Joe Greene, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman

50’s

@53►Jim Henson, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), born in Greenville, Mississippi (d. 1990) viral infection

40’s

@49►Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor (SNL, Peewee's Playhouse), born in Brantford, Ontario (d. 1998) shot my wife

@44►F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author (Great Gatsby, Zelda), born in St. Paul, Minnesota (d. 1940) heart attacks

30’s

36►Paul Hamm, American gymnast

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87►1991 Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), children's author

30’s

@31►1848 Branwell Brontë [Patrick Branwell Brontë], English painter and writer and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne, TB, alcoholism