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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