Aug 8

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Aug 8, 2017 Week: 32 \ Day: 220

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 51°

Average Sky Cover: 35% 

Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  14mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 90°[1980]   Record Low: 39°[1950]

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Quote of the Day

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  Albert Einstein

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Observances Today

Dalek Day Link 

International Cat Day  Link   Link

The Date to Create

Happiness Happens Day

Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day

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Observances This Week

4-13

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link

Sturgis Rally Link

6-12

Assistance Dog Week  Link  Link  

Exercise With Your Child Week

Knights of Columbus Family Week

National Farmers' Market Week  Link 

National Fraud Awareness Week Link   

(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)

National Health Center Week Link

Stop on Red Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s

★1576 Cornerstone laid for Tycho Brahe's observatory in Uraniborg, Denmark, at the time world's most advanced research institution

1600’s

★1605 The city of Oulu, Finland, is founded by Charles IX of Sweden.

1700’s

1786 US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money

1800’s

★1843 Natal (in South Africa) is made a British colony

1844 Brigham Young chosen as head of Mormon Church following the death of Joseph Smith

1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges

1876 Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph

1900’s

1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.

1929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated

1937 Bonneville Dam on Columbia River begins producing power

★1945 President Harry Truman signs the United Nations Charter

★1955 Fidel Castro forms the "26th of July Movement", a Cuban vanguard revolutionary organization

1960 "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polkadot Bikini" hits #1

1960 Ivory Coast declares independence

1963 Great Train Robbery in England, £2.6 million ($7.3 million)

1963 Kingsmen release "Louie, Louie", radio stations label it obscene

1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day

1988 Matt Biondi swims US record 200m freestyle (1:47.72)

1988 Renovated Central Park Zoo reopens after 4 years

★1997 The UN approves a sale-price formula for Iraqi crude oil sales under the oil-for-food plan

2000’s

2004 John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

★2008 29th Olympic Games opens at Beijing, China

2014 The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO

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My Rambling Thoughts

Took a nice walk this morning…before the clouds and expected rain. Forest near my house is wet and beautiful. Lots of pre-school age kids around, the school aged kids must be buying the stuff they need for school or celebrating the end of summer far from here. It’s too nice a day for them to be inside for any reason.

I bought a curved shower rod for my master bath. WOW, should have done that decades ago. I can’t believe how much more room I now have in the shower. Good purchase.

My goodness, the UN passes sanctions against N Korea, and China and Russia voted for the sanctions, along with all other members. This area is quickly becoming a real hot spot for the entire world. Not a lot of options to stop Kim and his band from making an atomic bomb that can be transported by a missile to just about anywhere in the world, even to places that N Korea doesn’t expect.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Dino De Laurentiis,

Torre Annunziata Italy, producer (King Kong)

(d. 2010)

@91- Esther Williams,

Inglewood Cal, actress/swimmer (Dangerous when Wet),

(d. 2013)

91- Richard Anderson,

Long Beach NJ, actor (Oscar Goldman-6 Million $ Man)

80’s

85- Mel Tillis,

American country singer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel), born in Pahokee, Florida

@82- Paul Dirac,

English physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1933), born in Bristol, England

(d. 1984)

80- Dustin Hoffman,

American actor (Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer), born in Los Angeles

70’s

79- Connie Stevens,

singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach), born in Brooklyn

@71- Bob Smith,

American founder of Alcoholics Anonymous

(d. 1950)

70- Larry Wilcox,

SD California, actor (Lassie, Officer Jon Baker-CHiPs)

60’s

68- Keith Carradine,

San Mateo California, actor (Young Guns, Pretty Baby)

64- Don Most,

American actor and director (Ralph Malph-Happy Days), born in Brooklyn

50’s

@57- Ernest Lawrence,

American nuclear scientist and inventor (Cyclotron - Nobel 1939), born in Canton, South Dakota

(d. 1958)

40’s

@48 Sara Teasdale,

US, poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs")

(d. 1933)

30’s

@39- Emiliano Zapata,

Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader

(d. 1919)

36- Roger Federer,

Swiss tennis star (19 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Bottmingen, Switzerland

20’s

20- Peyton List,

American Disney actress

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-1994 Leonid Leonov,

Russian writer and playwright (Russky Lesson)

80’s

@89-1996 Frank A Whittle,

 inventor of the Jet engine

@85-1988 Alan Napier,

actor (Alfred-Batman)

@84-2010 Patricia Neal,

American actress

@82-2005 Barbara Bel Geddes,

American actress (Vertigo, Dallas)

70’s

@74-2013 Karen Black,

American actress,

ampullary cancer

@74-1980 Jacqueline Cochran,

US pilot and 1st woman to break sound barrier

60’s

@63-1984 Richard Deacon,

actor (Mel Cooley in Dick Van Dyke Show),

cardiovascular disease

50’s

@56-1984 Ellen Raskin,

American author (Newberry winner),

connective-tissue disease

40’s

@48-1965 Shirley Jackson,

US author (Road Through the Wall),

heart failure

@46-1975 Julian "Cannonball" Alderly,

saxophonist/bandleader,

stroke

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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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