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Aug 16, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 228

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 48°

Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind ave:   18mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 89°[1939]   Record Low: 37°[1968]

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Quote of the Day

If we open a quarrel between past and present,

we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

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Observances Today

Joe Miller's Joke Day

National Airborne Day

National Medical Dosimetrist Day 

National Rollercoaster Day Day

National Tell a Joke Day

Wave at Surveilance Day Link 

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Observances This Week

11-19

Elvis Week Link

13-19

National Motorcycle Week Link 

Feeding Pets of the Homeless WeekLink  Link  

National Resurrect Romance Week

15-21

National Aviation Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

1691 Yorktown, Virginia founded

1700’s

★1743 Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)

1800’s

1812 British forces under the command of Major General Sir Isaac Brock capture Fort Detroit with the help of Indigenous warriors led by Tecumseh

★1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan

★1865 Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.

1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith

1896 Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Alaska by George Carmack

1900’s

1930 The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.

★1936 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin

1954 "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing

★1960 Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus

★1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')

★1960 Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms

1969 Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY

1984 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges

1988 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers

★1989 A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.

★1990 South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto

2000’s

★2002 Africa Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg

2003 U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.

★2008 Usain Bolt sets a new 100 meters world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics

★2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador

2016 Wildfire breaks out in San Bernardino County, California, engulfing 15,000 acres, prompting evacuation of 82,000 people

2016 "When the Levees Broke" documentary directed by Spike Lee, of effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, premieres at New Orleans Arena

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My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday started as a lazy day as two different friends stopped by last night. We stayed up way late talking and watching Netflix. One friend didn’t leave till late in the afternoon so I didn’t take the time to do a post.

Finally, our leader spoke out against hate groups by name. Finally. This, of course, is after the WH tweet condemning all those ‘nephew-nazi’ people that are running around. He calls it an executive action, not an executive order. A little research showed me the only real difference is that an executive order must be published in the Federal Register, none of the other signings need to do that. Yet whenever this leader signs a piece of paper, it is put in a fancy leather folder and he sits at a table, signs it, passes the pen to someone, holds it up for the press and walks out of the room. It is all nothing more than theater. For some reason, unknown to me, the press snaps away and the news networks play it live, followed by numerous replays. Each network seems to believe that each of these signings is of historic importance or that if they don’t cover the signing, another network will and get more viewers. It’s time for all the networks to simply tell the WH that they will no longer attend these theatrical experiences.

I am beginning to believe that Russia’s meddling has won if their goal was to get our country to question our democratic choices. Our democracy is in crisis. There are still enough sane people in government’s 3 branches to fix this. But it is becoming a tougher uphill climb with each passing day.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@85- George Meany,

labor leader (headed AFL-CIO), born in NYC, New York

(d. 1980)

@85- Fess Parker,

actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller), born in Fort Worth

(d. 2010)

@84- Frank Gifford,

American NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster, born in Santa Monica

(d. 2015)

@84- Eydie Gorme [Edithe Gormezano],

American singer (Bossa Nova), born in The Bronx

(d. 2013)

84- Julie Newmar,

actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll), born in Hollywood, California

70’s

@79- Robert Culp,

Berkley California, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)

@78- Menachem Begin,

Israeli Prime Minister (1977-83, Nobel 1978), born in Brest, Belarus

(d. 1992)

60’s

64- Kathie Lee Gifford,

Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)

63- James Cameron,

Canadian film director and writer (Titanic, Avatar), born in Kapuskasing, Ontario

50’s

59-Angela Bassett,

actress

59 Madonna [Ciccone],

American singer and actress (Like a Virgin), born in Bay City, Michigan

55- Steve Carell,

American actor and comedian

40’s

@46- T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia],

British author, soldier and diplomat famous for his liaison role in Arabia during WWI, born in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales

(d. 1935)

20’s

29- Rumer Willis,

actress, DWTS

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-1995 John Cameron Swayze,

news anchor (NBC)

@88-2012 William Windom,

American actor, (Murder She Wrote)

@88-1899 Robert Bunsen,

German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner

70’s

@74-80-2003 Idi Amin,

Ugandan dictator (1971-79) who killed an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 people

kidney failure

@73-1956 Bela Lugosi,

actor (Dracula),

heart attack

60’s

@60-1989 Amanda Blake [Beverly Louise Neill],

American actress (Gunsmoke),

AIDS

50’s

@55-1888 John Pemberton,

American pharmacist (inventor of Coca-Cola),

stomach cancer

@53-1948 Babe Ruth,

Baseball legend (NY Yankees),

cancer

40’s

@48-1949 Margaret Mitchell,

US writer (Gone With the Wind),

struck by a drunk driver

@42-1977 Elvis Presley,

American musician,

Official cause of death is cardiac arrhythmia

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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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