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Almanac: Week: 23 \ Day: 153
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 80°\L 45° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 27mph\Gusts: 13mph
Ave. High: 74° Record High: 86°
(1977) Ave. Low: 38° Record
Low: 22° (1955)
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Observances Today:
National Bubba Day-for those named or
nicknamed Bubba
Ryan Moran Day
Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras
in North America Day
National Rocky Road Day
National Leave The Office Early Day
Ascension Day/Feast of the Ascension
(Christian)
Coronation Day (Bhutan)- Jigme Singye Wangchuck,
the 4th Druk Gyalpo (1974). It also doubles as Social Forestry Day, where
children plant trees
Coronation Day (UK)-1953 of Elizabeth II
Republic Day (Italy)-end of monarchy-1946
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Observances This Week:
National Sun Safety Week: 1-8
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1763 - Pontiac's
Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort
Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse,
then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 - Intolerable
Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allowed governor in
colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses,
barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided.
1835 - P
T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 - 1st
US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1863 - Harriet
Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1866 - Renegade Irish
Fenians surrender to US forces
1875
- Alexander Graham Bell makes first sound transmission
1883
- Chicago's "El" opens to traffic
1886
- Grover
Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom) 1899 - Black Americans
observed day of fasting in protest against lynchings
1919 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
1920 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1924 - Snyder
Act: US citizenship granted to all American Indians
1928 - Velveeta
Cheese created by Kraft
1930 - Sarah
Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1930 - Auto prices were cut and Ford
sedans sold in Arizona for $495.
1933 - FDR authorizes
1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1957
- US TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
1959 - Allen
Ginsberg writes his poem "Lysergic Acid", SF
1964
- Rolling Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in
Lynn, Mass
1966 - US
Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum; 1st lunar soft-landing
1997
- Timothy McVeigh found guilty of 1995
Oklahoma City bombing, killing 168
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Today’s World Events through History
455 - King
Gaiseric & the Vandals sack Rome - Rome looted for 14 days
1615 - First
Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
1910
- Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea
1972
- Two
British Army soldiers die in a land mine attack by the Irish Republican Army
(IRA) near Rosslea, County Fermanagh
1989
- 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by
100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen
Square, Beijing
1994
- Indonesian censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's
List"
1999 - The
Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for
the first time.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Busy Monday. Laundry in the am, all washed, dried, folded and put
away.
This afternoon I had my left eye laser treatment to remove scar
tissue from cataract procedure. Now I am done…I hope. I can see better without
my glasses except for reading…then I need my cheap reading glasses. In two
weeks I return for checkup and new prescription. That will be great.
I must be a glutton for punishment as I watched C-Span today to
see what was happening with the bill on gathering phone records. Operation of
government can be so boring.
School is out here. Kids were out and about all weekend, which is
not unusual. Then starting about 9a and continuing all day, with a short lunch
break, there are between 6 and 15 kids playing outside. All seem to be having
fun, no fights or bullying, just brown and white kids having fun. And the Ice
Cream Man has returned for his daily run. There is hope for the future.
Able to open upstairs and downstairs windows all day. Summer has
arrived. Soon they will be open 24/7.
The TSA is not one of my favorite organizations. While I certainly
don’t want to be blown out of the air or hijacked to somewhere not on my ticket…the
idea of checking passengers is a good one. But like so many good ideas, TSA
seems to go overboard…especially at the airport check points. Long lines, not
always a lot of screeners, many times with screening areas only running one or
two machines when there are four or five present in the area. I have been pulled
out of line more than a couple of times. The ‘machine’ ‘saw’ something that
wasn’t there. In the most recent screening test where agents were sent through
lines with stuff taped to their bodies…the result…TSA failed the test at
multiple airports…95% of the time. WOW, now I have to be inconvenienced by an
organization that fails 95% of the time. But they have a tube of my toothpaste and
one of sun screen that was too big.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Explosive
as the daylight and with the dust I tease,
I whisper through the willows, wreak havoc with the leaves.
You feel me on your face, and hear me in the night,
And with my lonely mournful cries I give you such a fright .
I dance across the landscape, carefree and full of gust,
You can chase me all around, try and catch me if you must .
And in the cold of winter I give you such a chill,
But with the spring I race young foals swiftly up the hills.
The clues now spoken you have my friend, have you guessed me yet ?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…China Facts…
Ice Cream was first made in China!
30% of Chinese adults live with their parents.
There's a company in China that allows you to hire someone to
stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
…Cool Facts…
There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean
floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens
when you smile.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS AGO - 1990
The first small step in developing a recycling program will begin
June 1 in the Cheshire, Cherry Hill, Smoke-rise and Siler Homes areas. 533
homes will use their regular curb-side containers for card board, glass
aluminum, newspaper, small appliances and 2-liter soda bottles. No separation
is required and no extra charge will be made.
The Ponderosa Advisory Council says forest conditions -- although
similar to last year at this time -- and the unusually high temperatures and
lack of precipitation have created the most severe forest conditions in the
past 10 years. The warm dry trend is expected to continue or the next three
months.
For all the small showers that have swept the area, forest fire
danger remains extreme and no forest closures have been announced.
…Harper’s Index…
54 –percentage
of Americans who believe that economic conditions are getting worse in this
country
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
President Grover Cleveland's first name is Stephen. Grover is his
middle name.
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2 jokes for the day
A fish walks into a bar, the bartender asks,
"What would you like?"
The fish says holding his neck, "Water."
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Three explorers became lost in the jungle and
wandered for days with no food and little water. One day, just as they were
finally about to give up, they crawled into a clearing and there right in front
of them stood a Cannibal's Restaurant. Out front near the entrance was a large
menu board. With the little energy they had left, they dragged themselves
across the clearing and looked up to see the following menu:
Par boiled Priest $12.00
Roast Lion Hunter $14.00
Steamed Politician $198.50
They struggled in, dragged themselves to a table, and a waiter came to take
their order. Before they ordered, one of the explorers asked the waiter
"Can you help me understand your menu? The first two items are priced
about the same, but the third item, the politician, is priced so much higher.
Why is that?"
"Are you kidding?" replied the waiter, "Did you ever try to
clean one of those suckers?"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
Lambert was friends with the late Miguel Martinez of Citrus
Heights, California. Somewhere Miguel got hold of a bullet proof vest and
decided he wanted to test it to see if it would really stop a bullet.
But why put it on a mannequin or tie it to a tree when you can put it on
yourself? As long as you have a friend like Lambert who is willing to pull a
trigger for you.
Deputies arrested Lambert for the shooting, but the Sacramento County Sheriff's
Department has characterized the incident as an "unintentional
killing".
Martinez's brother reported that, "The bullet had actually penetrated the
top of his vest," indicating that not only does Lambert have bad judgment,
he is also a lousy shot.
The pair were with two other friends, the police said. The group initially
reported the shooting as a robbery but later confessed it was an accident.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
Dutch are credited with bringing donuts to the U.S. in the 1800s. They were
first called "olykoeks", or oily cakes.
While the traditional spelling of the tasty treat is 'doughnut', the Dunkin
Donuts chain popularized the 'donut' version.
Boston has the most donut shops per person -- one for every 2,480 people.
Clark Gable is said to have made donuts fashionable while teaching Claudette
Colbert how to "dunk" in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night.
"Time to make the donuts!" Actor Michael Vale made the line famous
playing Dunkin Donuts' beloved Fred the Baker for 15 years. He beat out
hundreds of actors for the gig and became perhaps the most famous 'baker' for
an entire generation.
The top 10 doughnut brands in the U.S. alone produced $1,008 billion in sales
revenue last year.
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Birthday’s Today
78 - Sally
Kellerman, actress (M*A*S*H, Back to School)
74 - Charlie
Watts, drummer (Rolling Stones)
74 - Stacy Keach, Savannah Ga, actor (Mickey
Spillane's Mike Hammer)
67 - Jerry Mathers, Sioux City Iowa, actor
(Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
60 - Dana Carvey, Missoula MT, comedian
(SNL, Garth-Wayne's World)
43 - Wayne Brady, actor
and comedian (Whose Line Is It Anyway?)
43 - Wentworth Miller, American actor
(Prison Break)
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Remembered for being born today
1824-1911@87-Samuel Wilks,
Br. Physician and founding father of clinical science
1840-1928@87-Thomas Hardy,
England, novelist (Far from the Madding Crowd)
1904-1984@79-Johnny
Weissmuller, actor (Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Oly-5 gold)
1857-1934@76-Edward William
Elgar, English composer (Pomp & Circumstance)
1740-1814@74-Marquis de
Sade, Paris, French philosopher and writer (Justine). The words sadism and
sadist are derived from his name.
1944-2012@68-Marvin Hamlisch, composer/pianist (Sting,
Chorus Line)
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Historical Obits Today
Andres
Segovia, Spanish composer/guitarist-1987@94
Imogene
Coca, American actress-2001@92
Mel
Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer-2008@90
Bo
Diddley (Ellas Otha Bates), musician, heart failure-2008@79
Richard
Dawson, English-American actor, cancer-2012@79
Lou
Gehrig, 1st baseman (NY Yankee), ALS-1941@37
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Brain Teasers Answers
I am the wind.
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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…§
