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Aug 22, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 234

86004 Today: H 77° \ L 53°

Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 88°[1938]   Record Low: 32°[1968]

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Quote of the Day

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  Nelson Mandela
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Observances Today

Be an Angel Day
National Bao Day Link
National Tooth Fairy Day

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Take Your Cat To The Vet Day

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Observances This Week

18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week

20-26
National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  
National Safe at Home Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

500’s

★565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness

1700’s

1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury

1800’s

1848 The United States annexes New Mexico

★1849 The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice

1862 Santee Sioux attack Fort Ridgely

★1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

1865 William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap

1877 Nez Perce (Niimíipu) flee into Yellowstone National Park

1900’s

1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI

★1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

★1966 The Beatles arrive in New York

★1969 Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road"

★1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered

1990 US President George H. W. Bush calls up military reserves

1994 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman

2000’s

★2004 "The Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

★2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Last night I thought I had chipped a molar, but hadn’t done anything like biting on something hard. Called the dentist early this morning. In at 10a this morning. Upon looking he said root canal and crown. Then he started working and said extraction and implant. Not how I wanted to spend the day. Now have to wait 6 months to get the implant…the bone graph has to take hold. Hardest part, no soda for 3 days and no straws for a week. So much fun as I get old-er.

And to add to my pity party. When I got home I got now am suffering from my angio-edema…meaning I have a swollen lip about 3 times it’s normal size. Bring it all on. Won’t tear me apart. Haha.

I did get to observe the effect of the eclipse from the dentist's chair. He has a nice window in the room. 

Guess I'll be watching 45's new idea on Afghanistan this evening. My guess is more troops for a war he campaigned against.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Deng Xiaoping,

Chinese revolutionary and paramount leader of China (1978-92), born in Guang'an, Sichuan

(d. 1997)

92- Honor Blackman,

Plaistow, London, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers)

@91- Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill,

sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451),

(d. 2012)

70’s

78- Valerie Harper,

Suffern, New York, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda)

@73- Dorothy Parker,

American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), born in Long Branch, New Jersey

(d. 1967)

70- Cindy Williams,

Van Nuys California, actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley)

50’s

@55- Claude Debussy,

French composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

(d. 1918)

50- Ty Burrell,

American actor (Modern Family)

40’s

47- Giada De Laurentiis,

Chef,

44- Kristen Wiig,

American comedian and actress (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), born in Canandaigua, New York

30’s

39- James Corden,

British actor, comedian and television host (The Late Late Show with James Corden), born in Hillingdon, London

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Historical Obits Today

50’s

@59-1977 Sebastian Cabot,

actor (Mr French-Family Affair), strokes

30’s

@31-1922 Michael Collins,

Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush

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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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