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Sep 3, 2017 Week: 36 \ Day: 246

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 49°

Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave:   3mph\Gusts:  14mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)

Record High: 91°[1948]   Record Low: 34°[1973]

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Quote of the Day

We cannot change anything until we accept it.

Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Carl Jung

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Observances Today

Bowling League Day Link  

Cow Chip Throwing days: 2-4  

National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days: 2-3  Link  

Skyscraper Day

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Observances This Week

1-7

International Enthusiasm Week

National Nutrition Week7 (UNICEF-India) Link

Self-University Week Link

3-9

National Waffle Week 

Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

300’s                                   

★301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

1100’s                                 

★1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed

1800’s                                 

1855 Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.

1900’s                                 

★1904 St Louis Olympics closes

1916 US President Woodrow Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike

★1917 1st night bombing of London by German aircraft

★1919 President Woodrow Wilson set out on a tour of the USA to rouse public opinion behind the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations

★1938 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland

★1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp

1964 US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy resigns

1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson

★1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road

★1971 Qatar regains complete independence from Britain

★1976 Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos

1981 Longest game in Fenway Park, suspended in 19, Seattle Mariners 7, Boston Red Sox 7

★1995 eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar

2000’s                                 

★2004 The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.

★2007 Panama Canal's "Third Set of Locks" expansion project begins with a huge initial explosion under Paraíso Hill that is watched by thousands of people

★2011 13th World Championships in Athletics: Usain Bolt wins 200m

2013 Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion

★2015 Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia

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My Rambling Thoughts

Slowly getting my intestines back to normal. Never wanted to pay so much attention of poop. Looks like recovery is just around the corner. Went to bed early (7p) and didn’t get up till 7a. Very unusual for me, but worked. BRAT diet is less than enjoyable…bananas, rice, applesauce, and toast. But it works.

Glad to see 45 out with the victims of the hurricane. Trying so hard to be a ‘silk purse’. But I recall one of my mom’s favorites: You can’t make a silk purse out of sow’s ear.

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Bizarre News

Naked Skydiver Plays Violin: Australia ---*

An Australian man celebrated his 30th birthday by skydiving naked while playing a violin to promote male body image. Musician Glen Donnelly leapt from a plane over New South Wales in hopes of raising a total of $15,000 for a trio of charities related to mental health and body image. "I'm being a real man by sharing the struggles that have plagued my life for ten years," Donnely wrote on the GoFundMe page. Donnelly completed the tandem jump wearing nothing but a harness as he played "Happy Birthday" for himself on the $50 violin. Donnelly compared his nerves prior to the nude skydiving stunt to the anxiety he felt dealing with his body dysmorphic disorder. In the two days following Donnelly's jump he was able to raise nearly $3,500 of his $15,000 goal.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96- Kitty Carlisle,

American actress and television personality, born in New Orleans, Louisiana

(d. 2007)

80’s

88- Whitey Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.],

American gangster, born in Boston, Massachusetts

70’s

@75 Ferdinand Porsche,

German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle, Mercedes-Benz SS) and founder of the Porsche car company, born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire

(d. 1951)

75- Al Jardine,

Lima Oh, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-Surfin, In My Room)

74- Valerie Perrine,

American actress and model (Steam Bath, Superman, Lenny), born in Galveston

60’s

@67- Louis Sullivan,

American architect (father of skyscrapers), born in Boston,

(d. 1924)

50’s

52- Costas Mandylor,

Australian-born actor

52- Charlie Sheen, [Carlos Estévez],

American actor (Wall St, Platoon), born in NYC

30’s

31 Shaun White,

snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010), born in San Diego

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-1991 Frank Capra,

American film director (It's a Wonderful Life)

@92-2012 Sun Myung Moon,

Korean evangelist

80’s

@86-2015 Adrian Cadbury,

British confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance

70’s

@79-1969 Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung],

Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69),

heart failure

@76-2015 Judy Carne,

English Comedienne and Actress (Laugh-In),

pneumonia

60’s

@67-1962 E. E. Cummings,

American poet (Tulips & Chimneys),

stroke

50’s

@59-1658 Oliver Cromwell,

English general (1653-58)/Lord Protector,

malaria

@57-1970 Vince Lombardi,

football coach (Packers)

cancer

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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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