Aug 5

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Aug 5, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 217

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 56°

Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Nearest Lightning: 0.2 miles away

Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  --mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 90°[1944]   Record Low: 35°[1976]

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Quote of the Day

Without labor nothing prospers.

Sophocles

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Observances Today

Campfire Day

International Hangover Day Link 

Mead Day Link 

National Clown Day

National Disc Golf Day  Link

National Jamaican Patty Day  Link

National Mustard Day  Link

National Oyster Day  Link

National Underwear Day Link

Sandcastle Day 

Work Like a Dog Day

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Observances This Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link

National Minority Donor Awareness Week

Simplify Your Life Week Link

World Breastfeeding Week Link

4-7

Rock for Life Week Link

Satchmo Days  Link

4-13

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link

Sturgis Rally Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

★1693 Date traditionally ascribed to Dom Perignon's invention of Champagne

1700’s

★1772 English poet and artist William Blake aged 14 is first apprenticed to engraver James Basire in London

1790 US Coast Guard founded as Revenue Cutter Service

1800’s

1821 1st edition of Saturday Evening Post (publishes until 1969)

1862 US government collects its 1st income tax

1873 Indian Wars: whilst protecting a railroad survey party in Montana, US 7th Cavalry, under Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, clashes for the 1st time with the Sioux near the Tongue River. 1 man killed on each side.

1892 Sunday school teacher Lizzie Borden arrested in Fall River, Massachusetts on two counts of murder

1900’s

★1918 Adolf Hitler receives the Iron Cross first class for bravery on the recommendation of his Jewish superior, Lieutenant Hugo Gutmann

★1919 Rodin Museum opens in Paris in The hôtel Biron containing works left to the state by the sculptor Auguste Rodin

1929 Jones Beach in NY opens

★1946 An earthquake of magnitude 8.0 hits northern Dominican Republic. 100 are killed and 20,000 are left homeless.

★1956 1st motorcycle rode over 200 mph (Wilhelm Herz-210 mph/338 kph)

1961 Spokane, Washington reaches August record 108°F

★1972 Uganda dictator Idi Amin orders the expulsion of 50,000 Asians with British passport from Uganda

1984 Carl Lewis wins gold medal in 100-meter dash at LA Summer Olympics

1984 Prince's "Purple Rain" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 24 weeks

1985 "Dreamgirls" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1522 performances

★1996 26th Olympic games close at Atlanta, Georgia

1997 185,000 Teamsters union United Parcel Service drivers walk off the job.

2000’s

★2009 Kim Jong-il meets former president Bill Clinton. He pardons and releases captured American journalists Euna Lee and Laura Ling who were found guilty of entering the country illegally.

★2012 South African Oscar Pistorius becomes first amputee to compete at the Olympics

2015 Muppets Missy Piggy and Kermit the Frog announce the end to their relationship on Twitter

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My Rambling Thoughts

I had lunch with Mary yesterday and it lasted much longer than either of expected. Good conversation, good time. She leaves Sat. for 3 weeks at her beach house in Oregon. Thus no posting yesterday.

Woke up to a cloudy day. Headed out to do some shopping. Suddenly lightning and loud thunder. Checked my weather app and the lightning was 0.1mi away. It said in big bold letters: Seek Shelter Immediately. I ran to the store and waited for the lightning to subside while I shopped. I got what I needed and headed home. Amazing, I was 6 miles from the store and the nearest lighting was now 0.2 miles away. Guess there is a lot of lightning everywhere from this storm. Not complaining as we love the moisture here in the high desert. It’s now been raining for about an hour with no end in sight, sometimes a drizzle, sometimes a hard rain.

Got a call from my college roommate/HS friend who was encouraging me to set aside some days in Sept. for our 50^th HS reunion. Wow! Time sure flies. Still thinking about it. It was a good time in HS, but such greater times were ahead, I’m still not sure if I want to return. Time will tell, if it doesn’t fly by too fast.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@82- Neil Armstrong,

American X-15 pilot and astronaut - 1st man on the Moon (Gemini 8, Apollo 11), born in Wapakoneta Ohio,

(d. 2012)

70’s

72- Loni Anderson,

American actress (Jennifer-WKRP in Cincinnati), born in Saint Paul, Minnesota

60’s

@64- Selma Diamond,

comedienne (Selma-Night Court), born in London, Ontario

(d. 1985)

61- Maureen McCormick,

American actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch), born in Encino, California

@60- Hugh S. Johnson,

American head of the National Recovery Administration and member of FDR's Brain Trust, born in Fort Scott, Kansas

(d. 1942)

50’s

@57- Robert Taylor,

actor (Death Valley Days), born in Filley, Nebraska

(d. 1969)

55- Patrick Ewing,

NBA center (NY Knicks/Olympic-gold-92), born in Kingston, Jamaica

50- Reid Hoffman,

American entrepreneur (co-founder of LinkedIn), born in Stanford, California

40’s

49- Marine Le Pen,

French politician (President of the National Front Party), born in Neuilly-sur-Seine

@42- Guy de Maupassant,

France, author (Boule de Suif)

(d. 1893)

20’s

@27- Joseph Merrick,

"The Elephant Man", Leicester, England

(d. 1890)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-2000 Alec Guinness,

British actor (Bridge on River Kwai)

60’s

@66-1983 Judy Canova,

American comedian and actress (Cannonball),

cancer

50’s

@58-1984 Richard Burton,

Welsh stage and screen actor (Cleopatra, The Robe),

stroke

30’s

@36-1962 Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson],

American actress (Some Like It Hot), apparent self-inflicted drug overdose

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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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