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Jun 29, 2018 Week: 26\ Day: 180
86004 Today: H
85° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
RED FLAG WARNING
Nearest Lightning: 352miles away
Wind ave.: 7mph\Gusts:
23mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 93°[1990] Record Low: 30°[1913]
Jun Averages: 68°\41°
Today’s Quote
The home is the chief
school of human virtues.
William Ellery Channing
Harper’s Index
400,000
Estimated number of NYC
apartments for which tenants can pay with cryptocurrency
41
Number of tenants who have
actually done so
Observances This Week
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week: 24-30
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 24-30 Link
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 24-30 Link
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 24-30 Link
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week: 24-30
Windjammer Days: 24-30
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
North American Organic Brewers Days: 29-7/1
Water Ski Days: 29-7/1
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 24-30 Link
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 24-30 Link
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 24-30 Link
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week: 24-30
Windjammer Days: 24-30
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
North American Organic Brewers Days: 29-7/1
Water Ski Days: 29-7/1
Observances for Today
Drive Your Corvette to
Work Day Link
Hug Holiday
Hug Holiday
World Scleroderma
Day Link
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
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Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1800’s
1863 George
Armstrong Custer, aged 23, appointed Union Brigadier General
1880 France
annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)
1891 US
National Forest Service organized
1900’s
1936 George
M. Cohan is the first artist to be presented with a US Congressional Gold
Medal, by Franklin D. Roosevelt (for raising war morale)
1956 US
Federal interstate highway system act signed
1972 Supreme
Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual
1982 Voting
Rights Act of 1965 extended
1986 Richard
Branson aboard Virgin Atlantic Challenger II reaches Bishop Rock, Isles of
Scilly, fastest crossing of Atlantic
1994 US
reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees
2000’s
2002 Naval
clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South
Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.
2007 Enya receives
an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway
2008 Glastonbury
music festival in England; Leonard Cohen the highlight singing
""Hallelujah"2014 Islamic State leader Abu Bakr
al-Baghdadi announces establishment of worldwide "caliphate" at the
Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq
2015 Beijing
Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural
forces and stealing of bricks
2017 Battle
for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic
State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"
My
Rambling Thoughts
Our retirement
group had a nice lunch yesterday for Mary’s birthday. Cheryl has family coming
in next week.
Had my
annual EKG this morning. Good news is both the machine and I worked
well. Of course, must wait a few weeks for results. Not concerned.
Wrist is doing
fine without fine without the brace. Nice!
A shooting at a
local newspaper in Annapolis. The Gov. of MD is the first on the news to offer
prayers. When will our elected officials stop this craziness. Guns are simply
too easy to buy and way too easy to use when one has a ‘break’ of some kind. It
won’t happen with the current Congress, who can’t even protect innocent
children who are brought across the border for asylum.
Birthdays
Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
88- Robert
Evans, American director/actor (Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown), born in
NYC
70’s
@78- William
James Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota, born in
Le Sueur, Minnesota (d. 1939)
@78- Prasanta
Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and applied statistician (Mahalanobis
distance), whose birthdate is celebrated annually in India as "National
Statistics Day", born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India (d. 1972)
74- Gary Busey, movie
actor
71- Richard
Lewis, American comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love), born in NYC
60’s
@69- George
Washington Goethals, American engineer (built Panama Canal), born in Brooklyn,
New York (d. 1928)
@64- Slim
Pickens [Louis Burton Lindley Jr], American rodeo performer and actor (Dr
Strangelove, Blazing Saddles), born in Kingsburg, California (d. 1983) brain
tumor
50’s
@57- Stokeley
Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], American Black Power-activist d. 1998 prostate
cancer
@59- Little
Eva [Eva Boyd], American pop singer(Locomotion), born in Belhaven,
North Carolina (d. 2003) cervical cancer
30’s
36- Colin Jost,
comedian, SNL
Historical
Obits Today
90’s
@96-2003 Katharine
Hepburn, American actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)
70’s
@75-1852 Henry
Clay, American politician known as "the Great Compromiser", tuberculosis
@74-1995 Lana
Turner, American actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest, The Postman Always Rings
Twice), cancer
60’s
@63-2007 Joel
Siegel, American film critic colon cancer
50’s
@55-1861 Elizabeth
Barrett Browning, British poet and writer ("How Do I Love thee")
40’s
@49-1978 Bob
Crane, American DJ and actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed), murdered
30’s
@34-1967 Jayne
Mansfield, American actress (The Girl Can't Help It), car crash
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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All
for Now…☼☼☼☼
