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Jun. 16, 2019 Week: 25 \ Day: 167
86004: H 74° \ L 46° \ Average
Sky Cover: 60%
Nearest wildfire: 11mi. Nearest lightning: 111mi
Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 11mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 92°[1940] Record
Low: 24°[1907]
Jun Averages: 78°\42° (1 day with rain)
Today’s Quote
Great things are done
when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
Random Tidbits
Dogs
can smell about 1,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million
smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain
that interprets smell is also four times larger in dogs than in humans.
Dogs
like sweets a lot more than cats do. While cats have around only 473 taste
buds, dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000.
Observances This Week
US Open Golf Championship: 13-16
National Hermit
Week: 13-20
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 16-22 Link Link
National Craft Spirits Week: 16-22 Link
National Play Catch Week: 16-22
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 16-22
Universal Father's Week: 16-22
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 16-22 Link Link
National Craft Spirits Week: 16-22 Link
National Play Catch Week: 16-22
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 16-22
Universal Father's Week: 16-22
Observances for Today
My Rambling Thoughts
It’s
been a few busy days, lunches with friends, getting stuff ready for the
Trans-Siberian trip, annual eye exam, and enjoying the great weather. No
complaints. The clouds just dropped a nice gentle rain, with a fresh smell and
enough to wet the sidewalk.
I
enjoyed a number of History classes in high school and college. I have to say I
wondered what it would be like to live in a country with a king. No matter what
the king said, his followers honored him and did whatever he asked, while praising
him. I guess my wondering has ended with our current leader. It isn’t as
enjoyable as I had imagined.
Just
need to pack in a few days, pick up some cash for the trip, and enjoy the
adventure. It’s been over a year since my last international trip and I am
ready to go.
News
has been full of 45’s gaffs…even Fox News is upset. Maybe something will happen
while I’m out of the country.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at the bottom of this page
What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and a half goat?
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1800’s
1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house
divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's
nomination for the Senate
1873 US President Ullyses Grant decrees
Wallowa Valley for the Nez-Perce
1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS
Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC
1880 Salvation Army forms in London
1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs
fall in Dubuque Iowa
1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)
1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii
to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a
year later
1900’s
1903 Pepsi Cola company forms
1913 South African Government pass the
segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by
native Africans
1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
(FDIC) created
1941 1st US federally owned airport opened
Washington, D.C.
1944 George Stinney, a 14-year-old
African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls,
becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century America
1963 Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman
in space, aboard Vostok 6
1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam
Clayton Powell Jr from House
1976 Students in Soweto, South Africa, march
against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary
schools
1979 Muslim Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in
Aleppo Syria
1987 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz
acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who
tried to rob him
1992 Longest salami is 68'9 & 25
circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway
2000’s
2016 Philadelphia is the first US state to
pass a tax on sweetened drinks
2017 US President Donald Trump reinstates
Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President
Obama
2017 Amazon announces it is buying Whole Foods
for $13.7 billion
Birthdays Today
1723 Adam Smith,
(d. 1790: @67)
Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) and
moral philosopher (date of baptism),
born in Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland
1829 Geronimo
(d. 1909: @79)
Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé [kòjàːɬɛ́]
"the one who yawns",
Apache leader and resistance fighter,
born in No-doyohn Canon, Mexico
1890 Stan Laurel,
[Arthur Stanley Jefferson],
(d. 1965: @74:
heart attack)
English comedian (Laurel & Hardy films),
born in Ulverston, England
1896 Jean Peugeot,
(d. 1966: @70)
French auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1889 Nelson Doubleday,
(d. 1949: @69)
American publisher (Doubleday)
1907 Jack Albertson,
(d. 1981: @74: cancer)
American actor (Chico and the Man, Willy Wonka
& the Chocolate Factory),
born in Malden, Massachusetts
1937 Erich Segal,
(d. 2010: @72: heart attack)
author (Love Story, Oliver's Story),
born in Brooklyn,
1971 Tupac Shakur,
(d. 1996: @25: drive-by shooting)
American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet),
born in East Harlem, New York
40’s
46- John Cho,
Korean-American actor
Historical Obits Today
80’s
@87-2017 Helmut Kohl,
German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90,
unified Germany, 1990-98)
@81-2017 John G. Avildsen,
American film director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)
60’s
@65-1977 Wernher von Braun,
rocket scientist (V1/V2),
dies of smoking
40’s
@45-1959 George Reeves,
actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind),
commits suicide by shooting himself in the
head
20’s
@26-1970 Brian Piccolo,
American football player,
dies of multiple cancers
Puzzle answer:
CHICAGO. CHI is 3/7 of CHICKEN, CA is 2/3 of
CAT, GO is a half of GOAT
