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Aug 26, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 238
86004 Today: H 78° \ L 48°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 18mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 88°[1974] Record Low: 37°[1989]
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Quote of the Day
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
Ogden Nash
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Observances Today
Franchise Appreciation Day
Go Topless Day Link
International Bat Night: 25-26
International Tongue Twister Day Link
National Toilet Paper Day Link
National WebMistress Day Link
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Observances This Week
20-26
National Safe at Home Week
24-27
North American Organic Brewers Week
25-31
Be Kind To Humankind Week
26-9/3
Chuckwagon Races
World Water Week Link
Happily Married Husband and Wife Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1400’s
★1498 Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
1600’s
★1652 Battle of Plymouth: General-at-Sea George Ayscue of the Commonwealth of England attacked a convoy of the Dutch Republic commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter. Dutch victory
1700’s
★1778 The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia.
1791 John Fitch granted US patent for his working steamboat
1900’s
1907 Harry Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 seconds
★1933 Jan van Houten bicycles world record time (44,588 km)
★1944 Charles de Gaulle marches along the Champs-Elysees, despite coming under fire.
★1945 Japanese diplomats board USS Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WWII
1951 "An American in Paris" with music by George Gershwin, directed by Vincente Minnell and starring Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron premieres in London (Academy Awards Best Picture 1952)
★1967 Beatles, Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull meet Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1971 Bobby Orr signs a five-year contract with the Boston Bruins worth one million dollars, the first million dollar contract in NHL history
★1972 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR
1973 University of Texas (Arlington) is first accredited school to offer belly dancing
★1985 French government denies knowledge of attack on Rainbow Warrior
1996 US President Bill Clinton signs welfare reform into law, representing major shift in welfare policy
2000’s
2003 The Columbia Accident Investigation Board releases its final reports on Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.
★2012 15 year-old New Zealand golfer, Lydia Ko, becomes the youngest LPGA Tour event winner and the first amateur winner since 1969
★2014 Democratic Republic of Congo's health ministry informs the WHO of an outbreak of Ebola; later confirmed as a different strain to that affecting west Africa
★2014 Burger King agrees to purchase Canadian donut chain Tim Hortons for $11.4 billion
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My Rambling Thoughts
Big monsoon again last evening. So nice! Not excited about night temps dropping so much, but it is all part of the cycle.
Hurricane Harvey is hitting land. Very frightening…especially for those who decided to stay and not believe the Fake News.
One of our Discussion group members is celebrating #75 tomorrow. Her husband is having a lunch at a great locally owned steakhouse. Should be fun for all, especially since she is recovered from her recent knee replacement. Looking forward to seeing all. I got her a small miniature rose. Nothing was said about gifts and nothing was said how the lunch would be paid for, but however, it works out I’ll have a good time.
45 is headed for Camp David. Should be surprised, it is the weekend. And as a big shot businessman, he knows that Saturday and Sunday are for relaxation. Never mind how he bashed Obama for his occasional weekend getaways. And there is no FEMA director so this is being coordinated by an acting person. I spent much of my last 7 years as ‘acting’ principal at various schools. It was a great experience, but when one is ‘acting’ you can’t really do any long range planning and you simply move from crisis to crisis during the tenure. Not the best way to run the government. And if you mess up, you are simply sent back to your real job. That never happened to me, but the pressure was always there.
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Bizarre News
*--- I See Your Snake and Raise You a Baboon ---*
Last week a snake knocked out power to 4,790 residents in South Carolina after it slithered into the wrong section of a electrical substation. But that is small potatoes compared to the baboon who just blacked out 50,000 customers. ZESCO, Zambia's electricity producer and distributor, said a baboon tampered with high voltage machines at the Livingston station, causing about 50,000 customers to lose power. The company said employees investigating the outage found the baboon suffering from injuries related to the shock it received from the machines. The primate was turned over to the Zambia Wildlife Authority, which said the baboon was being treated in an Intensive Care Unit. "The lines the baboon was tampering with are extremely high voltage," ZESCO spokesman Henry Kapata told local news. "You can see that it was electrocuted in so many ways but it has survived. It is an animal, we cannot prosecute it otherwise if it was a human we would have taken it to court." Kapata said the baboon likely survived the encounter thanks to the animals' heavily insulated palms. He said a human would have probably been killed in the same situation.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
99-Katherine Johnson,
mathematician at NASA introduced African American women to the space program
80’s
@87- Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu],
Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979), born in Skopje, Ottoman Empire (d. 1997)
70’s
72- Tom Ridge,
first United States Secretary of Homeland Security (Rep-R-Pennsylvania), born in Munhall, Pennsylvania
71- Valerie Simpson,
singer, (Ashford & Simpson- "Like a Rock"), born in The Bronx, New York
60’s
68- Leon Redbone [Dickran Gobalian],
American blues and jazz musician (theme to Mr. Belvedere), born in Cyprus
65- Will Shortz,
American crossword editor
50’s
52- Chris Burke,
actor with downs syndrome (Corky-Life Goes On)
40’s
47- Melissa McCarthy,
comedian and actress (Mike and Molly, Spy), born in Plainfield, Illinois
30’s
37- Macaulay Culkin,
American actor (Home Alone, My Girl, Richie Rich), born in NYC
37- Chris Pine,
American actor (Star Trek), born in Los Angeles, California
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-1723 Thonis van Leeuwenhoek,
biologist/inventor (microscope)
80’s
@86-1995 Evelyn Wood,
speed reading guru
@83-2009 Dominick Dunne,
American writer, Vanity Fair correspondent
@82-1937 Andrew Mellon,
American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32)
70’s
@78-1978 Charles Boyer,
actor (Gaslight, Rogues),
suicide
@72-1974 Charles Lindbergh,
US aviator,
lymphoma
@±72-1894 Te Wherowhero Tāwhia,
Second Māori King and leader of the Waikato tribes in New Zealand
60’s
@68-1910 William James,
American psychologist and philosopher (Pragmatism)
40’s
@47-1930 Lon Chaney,
American actor (Thunder, Big City, Unholy 3),
throat hemorrhage
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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