Aug 31

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Aug 31, 2017 Week: 35 \ Day: 243

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 46°

Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  --mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 89°[1950]   Record Low: 35°[1957]

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Quote of the Day

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

  William S. Burroughs

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Observances Today

International Overdose Awareness Day Link

Love Litigating Lawyers Day

National Diatomaceous Earth Day  Link

National Eat Outside Day

National Matchmaker Day  Link

National Trail Mix Day

Tug-of-War Day Link 

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Observances This Week

International Overdose Awareness Day Link

Love Litigating Lawyers Day

National Diatomaceous Earth Day  Link

National Matchmaker Day  Link

Tug-of-War Day Link 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s                                 

★1142 Possible date for establishment of the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah

1700’s                                 

★1745 Jacobite Rising

★1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland

1800’s                                 

1881 1st US men's single tennis championships (Newport, Rhode Island)

1886 1st major earthquake recorded in eastern US, at Charleston SC, 110 die

1887 Thomas Edison patents Kinetoscope, a device which produces moving pictures

1900’s                                 

1910 Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be 'the servant and not the master of the commonwealth'

★1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 10,000m (30:06.2)

★1929 Committee chaired by Owen D. Young finalizes the "Young Plan" to reduce German reparations from World War I to 112 billion Gold Marks ($US8 billion) paid over 59 years

1935 1st national skeet championship (Indianapolis)

1935 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents

★1951 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf

★1957 Federation of Malaya gains independence from Great Britain

★1962 Trinidad & Tobago gain independence from Britain (National Day)

1965 US Congress establishes Department of Housing & Urban Development

★1968 12,000 die in 7.8 quake destroys 60,000 buildings in NE Iran

★1972 Olga Korbut, USSR, wins olympic gold medal in gymnastics

★1976 George Harrison found guilty of plagiarizing "My Sweet Lord"

★1976 Mexican peso devalued

1979 16 yr old Tracy Austin defeats 14 yr old Andrea Jaeger at US Open Tennis

1988 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle begins

★1994 Sinn Fein proclaims ceasefire in Northern Ireland

★1994 Pentium computer beats world chess champ Gari Kasparov

★1997 Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car crash in a road tunnel in Paris

2000’s                                 

★2006 Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" is recovered from a raid by Norwegian police. The painting was said to be in a better-than-expected condition.

2012 "Argo" directed by Ben Affleck and starring Ben Affleck, Bryan Cranston and John Goodman premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2013)

2015 President Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, its Alaska Native Athabaskan name 

2015 US President Barack Obama arrives in Alaska on a 3 day tour highlighting climate change

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My Rambling Thoughts

I don’t have any friends or acquaintances in Texas or Louisiana. Our school did have a program for parent involvement and I met a lot of teachers from Port Arthur who were also using the same program. This is that areas second flooding in the past decade. As I see all this humanity working together, there is hope for this country.

When there was damage from Hurricane Sandy, several Texans in the Congressional delegation voted against the Sandy funding bill. Now Ted Cruz is changing history, stating that he voted against it because over 50% of the money had nothing to do with Sandy. Guess Ted doesn’t understand the internet machine. Several of those pesky fake news networks have pulled up information, and less than 2% went for disaster aid not directly related to Sandy. Don’t like to agree with 45 but his ‘Lying Ted’ label fits in this case.

My mother lived in an upscale independent living place for a decade then a few years in a upscale healthcare facility. Whenever a disaster strikes the news always shows those places evacuating. Always thankful that my mom never had to go through that.

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Bizarre News

*- Waiter Draws Straight Line in the Ice Cream -*

A restaurant in Washington, has come under fire after a gay couple claimed that a waiter refused to serve them an ice cream with two spoons for them to share. 55-year-old Ron Gage and 58-year-old Henry McKinnon said they went to the Prime Rib restaurant to enjoy a romantic night out. They said that everything went fine until they asked for a single serving of ice cream with two spoons. The waiter's mood soured, and he refused to serve them the ice cream in a single serving, saying that it would not sit well with the ambiance of the restaurant. Gage and McKinnon were speechless and did not say anything to the waiter or the manager. The following day, the couple made their story public on social media sites after which James MacLeod, the manager of the Prime Rib restaurant, fired the waiter.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

0’s

@93- Daniel Schorr,

broadcast journalist (CBS)

(d. 2010)

86- Dan Rather, news anchor (CBS-TV)

@81- Maria Montessori,

Italian educator (spontaneous response), born in Chiaravalle, Marche, Italy

(d. 1952)

@74- James Coburn,

Laurel Nebr, actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven)

(d. 2002)

72- Van Morrison [George Ivan],

Northern Irish singer (Them, Brown Eyed Girl), born in Bloomfield, Belfast, Bloomfield, Belfast

@70- Richard Basehart,

Zanesville Oh, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)

(d. 1984)

68- Richard Gere,

actor (Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman), born in Philadelphia

@67- Alan Jay Lerner,

lyricist composer (Lerner & Loewe-My Fair Lady)

(d. 1986)

@62- Eldridge Cleaver,

Black Panther turned Republican

(d.1998)

34- Larry Fitzgerald, Cardinal football player

@28- Caligula [Gaius Caesar],

3rd Roman Emperor (37-41 AD), born in Anzio, Italy

(d. 41)

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Historical Obits Today

0’s

@79-1973 John Ford,

American director (Stagecoach, The Searchers)

@75-1979 Sally Rand,

 American burlesque dancer, vedette and actress known for her ostrich feather fan and balloon bubble dances,

congestive heart failure

@45-1969 Rocky Marciano,

former heavyweight champ,

plane crash

@36-1997 Diana Spencer,

Princess of Wales,

car crash in Paris

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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.

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Aug 30

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Aug 30, 2017 Week: 35 \ Day: 242

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 51°

Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  17mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 90°[1948]   Record Low: 36°[1975]

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Quote of the Day

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

William Ralph Inge

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Observances Today

Frankenstein Day

International Cabernet Sauvignon Day  Link

International Day of The Victims of Enforced Disappearances Link

International Whale Shark Day 

National Grief Awareness Day

National Holistic Pet Day

Toasted Marshmallow Day Link

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Observances This 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 

1100’s                                 

★1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time

1600’s                                 

★1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))

1800’s                                 

★1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.

1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

★1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

1862 Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces

1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products

★1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education

1900’s                                 

★1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.

1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball

1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice

★1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)

1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga

1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning

★1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower

2000’s                                 

2013 "12 Years a Slave" based on the memoir by Solomon Northup, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2014)

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My Rambling Thoughts

Amazing human endeavors happening in Texas. So many neighbors helping neighbors. So many strangers helping strangers. Humanity is winning this disaster in so many ways.

Our monsoon is hangin’ around. The weather guy says just isolated showers today. Not complaining.

News I missed until today…45 put out another EO. Obama had issued one that said FEMA funds for rebuilding would on be only done if the repair included flood mitigation. 45’s EO drops that requirement, so tax payer $$ can again be used to rebuild in an area that is in a flood plain and the rebuild doesn’t have to include protection from flood…like raising the house on stilts. 45 signed this last Thursday, just before the current situation was simply a warning. Hard to believe.

Never been a fan of Evangelical TV preachers. Even so, I am shocked that Joel Olsteen has not opened his mega church in Houston as a shelter. He just keeps telling everyone to pray and of course, donate $$$ to his church to help those in need. Unbelievable. He is worth nearly $50 billion, thanks to not having to pay taxes on HIS church stuff.

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Bizarre News

*------- The Right Tool For The Right Job -------*

Police in Arkansas shared security camera footage of a thief using a forklift to steal an entire ATM from the drive-through lanes at a bank. The Conway Police Department posted a video showing a person in a forklift using the construction vehicle to uproot the ATM from its foundation and lift it into the air before it was loaded onto a truck and hauled away. Police said a worker at the First Service Bank discovered the ATM was missing and the drive-through area was damaged when she arrived for work. A review of the security camera footage revealed the 3 a.m. theft. Police said they suspect the thieves work in the construction industry.

Police in Florida, have released a video, showing a wanted thief engaging in sex acts with a woman during a burglary. 

The incident unfolded at around 9:15 p.m., in the parking lot of Twin Lakes Pool and BBQ in Cooper City. The suspect was seen on surveillance video backing a truck into the parking lot. 

According to detectives, before he stole the trailer, the suspect "dived into some adult behavior with a companion." In the video, the man was seen standing at the door of the vehicle while the woman was performing sex acts on him.

Once that deed was done, the man was seen pulling his pants up and walking towards the trailer.

He removed the trailer from the fence on which it was chained, and hooked it up to his pickup. The man then drove away with the $1,200 trailer.

Police said that the male thief wore a baseball cap, long sleeve shirt and a shit-eating grin. He was driving a silver two-door pickup with a retractable bed cover.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94- Shirley Booth,

American actress (Hazel), born in NYC,

(d. 1992)

@90- Angelo Dundee [Angelo Mirena],

boxing trainer and cornerman (Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(d. 2012)

90- Bill Daily,

American actor and comedian (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show), born in Des Moines, Iowa

90- Ruth Westerheimer,

sex therapist (Dr Ruth)

80’s

87- Warren Buffett,

American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha, Nebraska

@86- Raymond Massey,

actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare), born in Toronto,

(d. 1983)

@83- Fred MacMurray,

Kankakee, Illinois, American actor (Double Indemnity, My Three Sons)

(d, 1991)

70’s

74- Jean Claude Killy,

alpine skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968), born in Paris, France

60’s

69- Lewis Black, 

comedian

@66- Ernest Rutherford [1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson],

New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), born in Brightwater, New Zealand

(d. 1937)

66- Timothy Bottoms,

actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden), born in Santa Barbara, California

50’s

@53- Mary Shelley,

author (Frankenstein), born in London,

(d. 1851)

@51- John Leonard Swigert Jr,

astronaut (Apollo 13), born in Denver,

(d. 1982)

40’s

45- Cameron Diaz,

American actress (Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding), born in Long Beach, CA

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek,

Dutch tradesman and scientist

80’s

@84-1985 Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell],

Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician)

@83-1940 J. J. Thomson,

English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906)

@81-2003 Charles Bronson,

 American actor (The Dirty Dozen, Death Wish)

70’s

@76-2015 Wes Craven,

American filmmaker (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream), brain cancer

@74-2013 Seamus Heaney,

Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), short illness

60’s

@65-1938 Max Factor,

make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer

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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.

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Aug 29

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Aug 29, 2017 Week: 35 \ Day: 241

86004 Today: H 80° \ L 54°

Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  14mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 0.4mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 91°[1948]   Record Low: 37°[1956]

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Quote of the Day

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

Adlai E. Stevenson

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Observances Today

According to Hoyle Day

Individual Rights Day Link

International Day Against Nuclear Tests

More Herbs, Less Salt Day

National Sarcoidosis Day Link 

National Whiskey Sour Day  

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Observances This 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 

700’s                                   

★708 Copper coins are minted in Japan for the first time (Traditional Japanese date: August 10, 708).

1500’s                                 

★1533 Francisco Pizarro orders the death of the last Incan King of Peru, Atahualpa

1800’s                                 

★1844 1st white-Indian lacrosse game in Montreal, Indians win

1862 US Bureau of Engraving & Printing begins operation

★1896 Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese Ambassador

1898 The Goodyear tire company is founded.

1900’s                                 

★1904 3rd modern Olympic Games opens in St Louis, the 1st held in the U.S.

1908 NY gives a ticker tape parade to returning US Olympians from London

★1929 Aviator Anne Morrow Lindbergh makes her first solo flight

★1930 The last 36 remaining inhabitants of St Kilda are voluntarily evacuated to other parts of Scotland.

1932 United Cigar Stores shuts 800 shops

★1944 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees

1958 US Air Force Academy's permanent site opens in Colorado Springs, Colorado

1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke is released

1970 Black Panthers confront cops in Philadelphia (1 cop killed)

★1990 Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq

2000’s                                 

★2004 28th Olympic Games closes at Athens, Greece

2005 Hurricane Katrina makes its 2nd landfall as a category 3 hurricane devastating much of the U.S. Gulf Coast from Louisiana to Florida Panhandle. Kills more than 1,836, causes over $115 billion in damage.

2012 The USADA claims to have stripped Lance Armstrong of his seven Tour de France titles

★2014 Riots break out in Guinea following rumors that health workers are deliberately transmitting the Ebola virus to locals

★2016 Italian coast guard says 6,500 migrants rescued at sea in 40 separate incidents in 1 day off coast of Sabratha, Libya

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My Rambling Thoughts

Watching the flooding in Texas now is so different than the Katrina mess. While this is devastating, so many government agencies are working well together. And the message is very coordinated. There is no timetable to reopen Houston airports. Scary.

Monsoon continues. Nice. This morning there was a hard rain, then all of a sudden pea sized hail for a few minutes. Then a gentle rain and within 30 minutes all the moisture stopped. Usually, it is hail first, but not this Monday. Thankfully our rain is not related to Harvey.

Phx news is reporting that Arpaio may be running for the Senate to replace Sen. Flake in 2018. Flake is not a Trump minion and 85-year-old Arpaio is. Let's see, yeah, a first time 86 year old Senator from AZ sounds normal for this state.  

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Bizarre News

*----- Car Thief Stopped to Look At Eclipse -----*

Authorities in Florida said they arrested a suspected car thief who pulled into a store while being pursued so he could buy a welding mask and look at the eclipse. The Orange County Sheriff's Office said members of the Auto Theft Unit were pursuing a car driven by Jocsan Feliciano Rosado, 22, when the vehicle pulled into a parking lot in Kissimmee. Deputies said Rosado went into the store and bought a welding helmet with blue flame decals on it. He was arrested while standing next to the stolen car and looking at the solar eclipse. "He never saw it coming," the sheriff's office said. "That only happens every 99 years."

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90- Richard Attenborough,

Cambridge, English actor/director (Gandhi, Young Winston)

(d. 2014)

80’s

@86- Maurice Maeterlinck,

Belgian poet (Blue Bird, Nobel 1911), born in Ghent, Belgium

(d. 1949)

@86- Mr. Blackwell,

American fashion critic

(d. 2008)

@82- Charles F Kettering,

Ohio, inventor (auto self-starter)

(d. 1958)

82- William Friedkin,

American director, producer, writer (The Exorcist, The French Connection), born in Chicago, Illinois

81- John McCain,

American war hero and politician (Rep-R-Arizona, 1983-, Presidential nominee 2008), born in Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone

70’s

79- Elliott Gould,

actor (M*A*S*H, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice), born in Queens

@73- James Brady,

US press secretary (wounded during Reagan assassin attempt)

(d. 2014)

76- Robin Leach,

TV host (Life Styles of Rich & Famous), born in London, England

@72- John Locke,

English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government), born in Wrington, England

(d. 1704)

70- Temple Grandin,

American animal welfare and autism expert

60’s

@67- Ingrid Bergman,

Swedish actress (Casablanca, Cactus Flower), born in Stockholm, Sweden

(d. 1982)

50’s

@50- Michael Jackson,

recording artist and King of Pop (Thriller, Bad), born in Gary, Indiana

(d. 2009)

30’s

36- Brian Chesky,

American internet entrepreneur (CEO of Airbnb), born in Niskayuna, New York

@34- Charlie "Bird" Parker,

Kansas City, American jazz saxophonist

(d. 1955)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@±96-1769 Edmond Hoyle,

games expert

80’s

@89-1981 Lowell Thomas,

newscaster (High Adventure)

@83-2016 Gene Wilder [Jerome Silberman],

American actor (Blazing Saddles, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

@82-1844 Edmund Ignatius Rice,

Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers

70’s

@77-1976 Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary and philosopher, many ailments

@76-1877 Brigham Young,

2nd president of Mormon Church,

peritonitis

@75-2015 Wayne Dyer,

American psychologist and author (Universe Within You),

heart attack

60’s

@67-1982 Ingrid Bergman,

Swedish actress (Casablanca, Gaslight), dies on her birthday,

breast cancer

@64-1931 David Abercrombie,

Abercrombie & Fitch founder

@63-1987 Lee Marvin,

actor (Cat Ballou, Gorky Park),

heart attack

50’s

@50-2005 Barry Cowsill,

rock bassist (The Cowsills),

believed drowned during Hurricane Katrina

40’s

@44-2007 Richard Jewell,

central figure in the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing,

kidney disease

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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.

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