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Almanac: Week: 25 \ Day: 171
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 87°\L 48° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave. High: 80° Record High: 92°
(1936) Ave. Low: 43° Record
Low: 30° (1979)
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Observances Today:
American Eagle Day
Dollars Against Diabetes Day
Flitch of Bacon Day
Ice Cream Soda Day
National Hollerin' Contest Day
World Juggler's Day
World Productivity Day
World Refugee Day
Admission Day (West Virginia-1863-35th)
Flag Day (Argentina)
Ramadan (Muslim)
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Observances This Week:
National Hermit Week:13-20
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week:13-21
National Flag Week:14-20
US Open Golf Championship:15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week:17-23
Duct Tape Days:19-21
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US &
eagle as it's symbol
1840 - Samuel Morse patents his telegraph
1863 - 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of
Davenport Iowa)
1867 - US President Andrew
Johnson announces purchase of Alaska
1893 - Lizzie Borden acquitted of axe murders
of her father and stepmother
1895 - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline
Willard Baldwin) from an American University
1910 - "Krazy Kat" comic strip by George
Herriman debuts in NY Journal
1910 - Phoenix Arizona
Republican announced a boom in auto sales as one company sold three machines in
a single week.
1936 - Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at
10.2
1943 - National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
organizes
1949
- Central Intelligence Agency Act passes
1963 - US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1967 - Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing
induction into armed services
1975 - "Jaws", based on the book by Peter
Benchley, is released
1988 - Supreme Court upholds a law that made it
illegal for private clubs to discriminate against women & minorities
1994 - OJ Simpson arraigned on murder of
Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman
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Today’s World Events through History
451 - Germans & Romans beat Atiila the Hun at
Catalarinische Fields
1214 - University of Oxford receives its charter.
1567 - Jews are expelled from Brazil by order of
regent Don Henrique
1631 - The sack of Baltimore: the Irish village of
Baltimore is attacked by Algerian pirates.
1675 - Start of
"King Philip's war.
1756 - Black Hole of Calcutta - 146 British
soldiers imprisoned in small dungeon in Calcutta, India where most die
1837 - Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne
following death of uncle King William IV. She ruled for 63 years ending in 1901
1911 - NAACP incorporates (NY)
1919 - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends
incorporation of Austria
1968 - Catholic Irish Civil rights activists
protest against discrimination in the allocation of housing by illegally
occupying a house in Caledon, County Tyrone
1969 - White Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) agrees to race separation
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another very warm day.
The Confederate Flag still flies in SC and other southern states.
Something about Southern Pride and state’s rights. Turns out that flag hadn’t
been flying after the War of Northern Aggression—the Civil War—but returned in
many states during the Civil Rights Era and still remains today. Certainly now
is the time to place it in a museum or a trash bin. White Supremacy groups will
certainly fight that. Others, not so much.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Starting
with a one-letter word or abbreviation, add a letter and rearrange the letters
to produce the next. A clue is given for each.
Maybe your car does 0 to 60 in 10 sec., but can you do 0 to 10 in 60 sec.? Go
on - get out the stopwatch!
1. Prefix meaning "without"
2. Commercial, flyer, or junk mail
3. Bundle (of bank notes)
4. No winner, no loser
5. Flask to keep things cool
6. Prize or present
7. (It was) sketched again
8. A rolling stone
9. Boxers, bloomers, bra, or briefs
10. Submarine
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… *NEW* America Facts…
In 2012, a national survey found that 51% of people thought stormy
weather affected cloud computing.
The Häagen-Dazs ice cream creator was American and made up the
brand name to sound Danish, unique, and sophisticated. It doesn't mean
anything.
…Cool Facts…
There's a rare breed of pig that looks like a sheep.
Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every
second.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Herb Hirst Productions Manager Edward Small and other movie
officials arrived here on Sunday and set off immediately for Window Rock to set
up for the filming of “Kit Carson.“ They also expect to employ about 150
Indians. Joe Flores will provide the livestock for this picture, bringing in
about 150 head of horses, mules and burros. Lee Doyle will be taking care of
the local aspects.
The city Beautification Board has secured 500 seedling shade trees
through its appeal and all were planted yesterday in the new city nursery
located north of the old Clarke residence by Supervisor of City Streets Art
Kennedy and his crew. It will be three years before the seedlings have
grown enough so they can be planted on the properties of residents.
…Harper’s Index…
1.43:1 – ratio of
animal opioid painkillers prescrriptions in Alabama to the people in the state
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Albert Einstein never received a Nobel Prize for his theory of
relativity.
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2 jokes for the day
Q: HOW DO YOU MAKE A TISSUE DANCE?
A: PUT A LITTLE BOOGI IN IT
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A police officer in a small town stopped a
motorist who was speeding down Main Street.
"But officer." the man began, "I can explain,".
"Just be quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to let you cool
your heels in jail until the chief gets back..."
"But officer, I just wanted to say...."
"And I said to keep quiet! You're going to jail!"
A few hours later the officer looked in on his prisoner and said, "Lucky
for you that the chief is at his daughter's wedding. He'll be in a good mood
when he gets back."
"Don't count on it," answered the fellow in the cell. "I'm the
groom."
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Yep, It Really
Happened
A couple was arrested on charges of assault after they allegedly
stabbed their neighbor because he complained about them having loud sex, police
in Tennessee said.
Hawkins County Police said that they have arrested 33-year-old Johnny Allen
Richards and 32-year-old Erin Brooke Lawson, after they were accused of
stabbing their next-door neighbor.
The neighbor called the police to report loud noises coming from a nearby
apartment. Police came and determined that the couple were making loud noises
during sex.
When the neighbor called the police for the second time, the couple went to his
door and forced their way into the apartment (because the couple that breaks
and enters together stays together).
Richards and Lawson went on to stab the man. Richards was charged with
aggravated assault.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
George
Washington, the celebrated Father of Our Country, had no children of his own.
Researchers believe that childhood illnesses may have rendered him sterile. He
did adopt the two children from Martha Custis' first marriage.
A.A. Milne created Winnie the Pooh for his son, Christopher Robin. Pooh was
based on Robin's teddy bear, Edward, a gift Christopher had received for his
first birthday, and on their father/son visits to the London Zoo, where the
bear named Winnie was Christopher's favorite.
In 2001, Yuri Usachev, cosmonaut and commander of the International Space
Station, received a talking picture frame from his 12-year-old daughter while
in orbit. The gift was made possible by RadioShack, which filmed the
presentation of the gift for a TV commercial.
The only father-daughter collaboration to hit the top spot on the Billboard pop
music chart was the 1967 hit single "Something Stupid" by Frank &
Nancy Sinatra.
In Thailand, the King's Birthday also serves as National Father's Day. The
celebration includes fireworks and acts of charity and honor - the most
distinct being the donation of blood and the liberation of captive animals.
Halsey Taylor invented the drinking fountain as a tribute to his father, who
succumbed to typhoid fever after drinking from a contaminated public water
supply in 1896.
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Birthday’s Today
87 - Martin Landau, Brooklyn actor (Mission
Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood)
84 - Olympia Dukakis, Lowell Mass, actress
(Moonstruck, Cemetery Club)
75 - John Mahoney, Manchester England, actor
(Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out)
73 - Brian Wilson, Inglewood California,
vocalist (Beachboys-In My Room)
70 - [Morna] Anne Murray, Springhill Nova Scotia
Canada, singer (Snow Bird)
69 - Bob Vila, television presenter
66 - Lionel Richie, Alabama, singer
(Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover)
63 - John Goodman, St Louis Mo, actor (Dan
Conner-Roseanne, Babe)
48 - Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress
(Dead Calm, Far & Away)
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Remembered for being born today
1919-2011@94 - Bruce Gordon, actor (Frank
Nitti-Untouchables)
1924-2001@77 - Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist
(Me & My Guitar)
1909-1959@50 - Errol Flynn, Hobart Tasmania, actor
(Captain Blood, Robin Hood)
1925-1971@45 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American
WW II hero/actor
1674-1718@44 - Nicholas Rowe, England, poet laureate
(Jane Shore, Tamerlane)
1899-1943@44 - Jean Moulin, hero of the French
Resistance (WW II)
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Historical Obits Today
Jack
Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate, 2005@81
Bob Stump,
American politician, blood disorder-2003@76
Howard
Johnson, US restaurant/hotel founder-1972@ 75
Gordon
Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), heart attack-1963@52
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel,
gangster, shot-1947@41
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. A
2. Ad
3. Wad
4. Draw
5. Dewar
6. Reward
7. Redrawn
8. Wanderer
9. Underwear
10. Underwater
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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…§
