Jun 30

 

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Jun 30, 2020 Week: 27 Day: 182

86004:   H 74° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  439mi.; Nearest active fire:  131mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1936]   Record Low: 25°[1972]

Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)

Today’s  Quote

"Live in the sunshine,

swim the sea,

drink the wild air."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Random Tidbits

 On May 30, 1943, a verbal confrontation between a group of U.S. sailors and a group of zoot-suiters ended in the beating of one of the sailors. In retaliation, about 50 sailors left the local U.S. Navy Reserve Armory on the evening of June 3, armed with makeshift weapons and targeting zoot-suiters.

The Zoot Suit Riots finally died down after June 8, when military officials banned all military personnel from Los Angeles and called on military police to patrol the city.

In 1997 the American swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies released the song "Zoot Suit Riot" on an album of the same name. The song references the Los Angeles Zoot Suit riots in the first verse:

Who's that whisperin' in the trees?

It's two sailors and they're on leave

Pipes and chains and swingin' hands

Who's your daddy? Yes I am!

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

I saw Arnold Schwarzenegger at the grocery store, and it was hard to resist asking him to say one of his famous movie lines... but... I played it cool and casually asked him if he knew where they stock the eggs. He said, "Aisle B, back."

Remember these movie quotes?

77 "Soylent Green is people!" Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973

Observations This Week

American Library Week: 25-30
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Punxsutawney Groundhog Days: 28-7/5 
 Link

Observations for Today

Asteroid Day
California Avocado Day  
Link
Disabled Veterans Day  
Link
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Meteor Day

National Mai Tai Day

National Meteor Watch Day  Link
National Outfit Of The Day Day 
Link 
NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
Social Media Day 
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My Rambling Thoughts

Another nice day…not too hot, and not too much wind. Have to keep windows closed to keep out the wind.

Changed my front door decoration for Independence Day. It looks very patriotic. It will be strange with no gatherings, no parades. Our town seldom has fireworks due to the dryness, and I’m sure they would have been cancelled this year without the virus. Over the past few days there have been small fires in town in brush or treed areas. Thankfully, the local Fire Dept. has had them out very quickly. This weekend will be the real challenge. A 3-acre fire just broke out on Snowbowl road. It has been contained. I can see the smoke from my office window.

Navajo Nation has a fire near Ganado that has led to evacuations. So scary. To add to the reservation problems, the coal mine at Kayenta, now closed, drained a major aquifer making it even more difficult for residents to get fresh water.

When I was growing up in Wheat Ridge, everyone had huge green yards front and back. All the neighbors used well water to save money. Over the years we had to dig three wells…mostly by hand. Just before my parents downsized, all the neighborhood wells went dry. Construction, about a mile away, had drained all the water from the underground water. Sad, because everyone had to cut way back on their beautiful lawns.

Mississippi is changing their state flag, the last remaining state flag with the bars and stars. History takes time.   

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

In a lake, there is a patch of lily pads. Every day, the patch of lily pads doubles in size.

If it takes 48 days for the patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover half the lake?

Historical Events

1520 Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and Aztec emperor Montezuma II dies in the struggle

1831 - A patent for a platform scale was issued to brothers Erastus and Thaddeus S. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

1859 - Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as Emile Blondin, became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1860 - The 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History took place.

1886 - The United States Division of Forestry was recognized and established by an Act of Congress

1894 - The Tower Bridge across the River Thames in London was officially opened
1906 - The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.

1908 - The Tunguska Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia. Destroying 770 square miles in Eastern Siberian Taiga. It was probably a big meteor. Or was it?

1914-Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa

1936 - Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published.

1952 - The Guiding Light premiered on CBS.

1953 - The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1966 - The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded.
1971 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, putting the amendment into effect.

1972 - The first leap second was added to the UTC time system.

1987 - Iran-Contra hearings aired during daytime television, pre-empting most programming.

1967-Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut

2014-US Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provision of 'Obamacare' on religious grounds

2019-President Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong Un

Birthdays Today

@92-Singer Lena Horne (d. 2010)

@62-Magician Harry Blackstone Jr. (d. 1997; cancer)

60-Actor Vincent D' Onofrio

54-Boxer Mike Tyson

35-Swimmer Michael Phelps

Puzzle Answer

47 Days.  The next day it doubled and covered the entire lake.

 

 


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