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Almanac: Week: 26 \ Day: 178
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 91°\L 52° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave. High: 81° Record High: 94°
(1974) Ave. Low: 45° Record
Low: 26° (1965)
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Observances Today:
"Happy Birthday To You"
Day
ARRL (American Radio Relay League)
Field Day
Decide To Be Married Day
Great American Backyard Campout
Industrial Workers of The World Day
National Columnists Day
National HIV Testing Day
Please Take My Children to Work Day
PTSD Awareness Day
Sunglasses Day
Independence Day (Djibouti-1977 from
France)
Ramadan (Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Meet A Mate Week:21-27
Old Time Fiddlers Week:22-27
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week:22-28
North American Organic Brewers Days:25-28
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week:25-28
World Police and Fire Games:26-7/5
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness:27 -7/4
Water Ski Days:27-28
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1542 - Juan
Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
1652 - New
Amsterdam (New York City) enacts 1st speed limit law in North America
1778 - Liberty
Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British departure
1833 - Prudence
Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females
at Canterbury Conn
1847 - New York
& Boston linked by telegraph wires
1881 – 30,000 pounds of
gun-powder exploded in Zeckendorf's powder magazine at the edge of Tucson,
smashing windows and dishes and damaging buildings all over town. Churches were
quickly filled with people who feared the end of the world
1893 - Great
stock crash on NY stock exchange
1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1922 - Newberry
Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1929 - 1st
color TV demo (NYC)
1934 - Federal
Savings & Loan Association created
1942 - FBI
captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1950 - US sends 35 military advisers to South
Vietnam
1950
- North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea,
Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1954 - CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected
government of Guatemala
1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted
(Illinois)
1963 - US President John Kennedy spent 1st full day
in Ireland
1964 - Jan & Dean release "Little Old Lady
From Pasadena"
1967 - Race
riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
1969 - 50,000
attend Denver Pop Festival
1969 - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich
Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
1973 - John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about
Nixon's "enemies list"
1974 - US president Nixon visits USSR
1979 - Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas
to help minorities
1984 - Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college
football telecasts
1985 - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is
decertified
1992 - Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief
2003 - The
United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted
telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls
almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
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Today’s World Events through History
1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies'
Mercury" published (London)
1759 - General James
Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1806 - Buenos
Aires captured by British
1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in
Enfield, London
1976 - In South Africa, the National President of
the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots in
Soweto have lead to a new era of political consciousness
1990 - Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran,
contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice hot day…again. June is usually very dry and seldom this hot.
Wonder what the monsoon and July will have in store for us.
Did some laundry early this morning. Everything is folded or hung
and put away.
I’m more than a little confused by the failure of the OPM infrastructure
that occurred. First, that letter I got has a Security Company letterhead but
states it is from the OPM. Then I get a very long password, needed to sign up…but
the entire long password is capital letters. Really, everyone requires a
combination of small and caps AND numbers. All the tech sites say to add a
character somewhere…like a * or $ or something. That makes me feel really safe…NOT.
Then the letter states that we get 18 months of free security checking. This is
all about security and we have been told many times that the US should not tell
the enemy when we are pulling out of a conflict because they will just sit and
wait us out. So now the Chinese know not to use any of the credit stuff for at
least 18 months. Then it will OK for them to use it? Really? Finally the letter
contains no names of people sending the letter, only the office with no address.
When I was in the government every letter had to be signed with a typed name
under the signature along with contact information. This really is a mess.
Amazing news day…being part of history…and OUR President can sing!
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find
out what the animals are! (for example, "To run away or escape" could
be a "flea")
1. hair-control foam
2. very exposed
3. tellin' falsities
4. a lamenting cry
5. a dull person
6. a precious or loved one
7. first you get a parking ticket, then you get this
8. these make up a chain
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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… America Facts…
As many as one third Americans flush the toilet while they are
still on it.
One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each
year. Most of them are children.
…Cool Facts…
Apollo 17 astronaut Gene Cernan, the last man to walk on the Moon,
wrote his daughter initials there. They’ll last at least 50,000 years.
The iconic roar made by Godzilla was produced by rubbing a leather
glove across the strings of a double bass.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS
AGO-1915
The Fire Department. was out on the jump Tuesday evening when a
small fire ignited in a shed behind Mrs. Greenlaws’s house on Birch. The shed
was destroyed. The fire’s origin is in doubt, but it is suspected that some
small boys with matches were playing there.
Jack Crabb reports that sometime during the past month, a small
cyclone laid flat a strip of timber near Antelope Park. The swath is about 70
to 100 yards in width and over a mile and half long! Some great trees 3 feet in
diameter were uprooted and blown flat, while trees along the edges were totally
stripped of their branches.
…Harper’s Index…
1:1 – ratio of
money spent by Britons on prostitution to that spent on hairdressing
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
After Bill Clinton won the 1992 election, the 3rd call
he took— after President Bush’s concession & Vice President Quayle’s
congrats— was from Whoopi Goldberg.
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2 jokes for the day
A frog telephones a psychic hotline and is
told, "You are going to meet a beautiful young girl who will want to know
everything about you."
"Great," says the frog, "Will I meet her at a party?"
"No," said the psychic, "Next year - in biology class."
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Fire swept the plains and burned down the
farmer’s barn.
While he surveyed the wreckage, his wife called their insurance company and
asked them to send a check for $75,000, the amount of insurance on the barn.
“We don’t give you the money,” a company official explained. “We replace the
barn and all the equipment in it.”
“In that case,” replied the wife, “cancel the policy I have on my husband.”
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Yep, It Really
Happened
They say Australians are tough. Even so, it seems a little extreme
to go wandering around the streets punching babies in the face. But then, if
you have to grow up in Australia you might as well get acclimated to it early.
Maybe that was the motivation of a homeless man who unloaded a knuckle sandwich
on a little girl's face outside a cafe in Sydney.
Police reported the 16-month-old was in her baby stroller with her parents
outside the cafe around 11:30 a.m. The homeless man approached the baby
stroller and punched her in the face, apparently without reason or provocation.
The man ran from the scene and the baby's father ran after him while telling
passersby to contact the police.
Officers who arrived at the scene, caught the homeless man hiding inside a
nearby building. The 28-year-old Nicholas Troy Bolas was arrested and charged
with assault causing actual bodily harm.
The baby suffered a small laceration to the face and was treated at the scene
by paramedics.
Nobody asked how the assailant's hand felt after punching the iron-like jaw of
that baby.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The
"invention" of language is not known except for references in the
Bible. It is not known what language Adam and Eve spoke. The first mention of
different languages is the reference to the tower of Babel when different
tongues were bestowed.
The invention of writing, however, is credited to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia
in the 4th millennium BC. Their descendants, the Sumero-Babylonians, developed
the time system that we use today: an hour divided into 60 minutes, which are
divided into 60 seconds.
Today, there are more than 2,700 different languages spoken in the world, with
more than 7,000 dialects. In Indonesia alone, 365 different languages are
spoken. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken in Africa.
The most difficult language to learn is Basque, which is spoken in
north-western Spain and south-western France. It is not related to any other
language in the world. Mandarin is the most spoken language in the world,
followed by English. But as home language, Spanish is the second most spoken in
the world.
The youngest language in the world is Afrikaans, spoken by South Africans.
Dutch and German Protestants fled persecution from the Roman Catholic Church in
the 17th and 18th century to settle in the Dutch colony of Cape of Good Hope on
the southern point of Africa. By the early-20th century Afrikaans had developed
from Dutch, German and other influences into a fully fledged language with its
own dictionaries.
The smallest country in the world is the Vatican. It also is the only country
where Latin is the official language.
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Birthday’s Today
85 - H Ross Perot,
Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)
77 - Bruce E
Babbitt, (Gov-D-AZ)/secretary of interior
64 - Julia Duffy
[Julia Margaret Hinds], actress (Newhart, Baby Talk)
59 - Ted Haggard, American evangelical
preacher
49 - J. J. Abrams, American television
writer and producer
44 - Jo Frost, English nanny and television
host
40 - Tobey Maguire,
American actor (Spider-Man, The Great Gatsby)
31 - Khloe Kardashian, American reality
television star
29 - Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter /
American actor
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Remembered for being born today
1880-1968@87 - Helen
Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer
1924-2010@86 - Paul
F Conrad, US cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84)
1927-2004@76 - Bob
Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle
1859-1916@56 - Mildred
J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1787-1834@47 - Thomas
Say, USA, naturalist and father of descriptive entomology
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Historical Obits Today
Gale
Storm (Josephine Owaissa Cottle), TV Personality-2009@87
Jack
Lemmon, American actor, cancer-2001@76
Bobby
Womack, American Hall of Fame R&B singer, Alzheimer's-2014@70
Don Grady
[Agrati], actor (My 3 Sons-Robbie), cancer-2012@68
James
Smithson, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute-1829@63
Joseph
Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob-1844@38
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.Moose (Mousse)
2. Bear (Bare)
3. Lion (Lyin')
4. Whale (Wail)
5. Boar (Bore)
6. Deer (Dear)
7. Toad (Towed)
8. Lynx (Links)
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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…§
