Sep 5

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Sep 5, 2017 Week: 36 \ Day: 248

86004 Today: H 87° \ L 52°

Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind ave:   3mph\Gusts:  6mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

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

Record High: 89°[1945]   Record Low: 31°[1961]

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Quote of the Day

Opportunity is missed by most people

because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

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Observances Today

Another Look Unlimited Day

Be Late for Something Day

Cheese Pizza Day

International Day of Charity

Jury Rights 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 

4-8

National Payroll Week 

4-10

Suicide Prevention Week 

5-9

Play Days 

Minimally Invasive Surgery Week  Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                 

★1622 Richelieu appointed Cardinal under French King Louis XIII

★1666 Great Fire of London ends, leaving 13,200 houses destroyed and 8 dead

★1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards

1700’s                                 

★1786 Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium

1800’s                                 

1836 Sam Houston elected President of the Republic of Texas

★1839 The First Opium War begins in China

1877 Southern blacks led by Pap Singleton settle in Kansas

1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC

1900’s                                 

★1905 The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Theodore Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator

★1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war

1939 FDR declares US neutrality at start of WW II in Europe

★1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands, we stand'

★1944 "Mad Tuesday" 65,000 Dutch Nazi collaborators flee to Germany

★1957 Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista bombs an uprising in Cienfuegos

1957 "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac is published by Viking Press in New York

★1958 "Doctor Zhivago" novel by Boris Pasternakpublished in US

1958 "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear premieres on US TV

1960 Cassius Clay wins Olympic light heavyweight gold medal

1960 Wilma Rudolph wins her 2nd gold medal

1961 US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)

1966 Jerry Lewis' 1st Muscular Dystrophy Labor Day telethon raises $1 million

★1972 11 Israeli athletes taken hostage and later killed by Palestinian Black September group at the Munich Olympics

1975 First Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette Fromme in Sacramento

★1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter begin Egypt-Isreal peace conference at Camp David

1987 2nd World Championships in Athletics: Carl Lewis wins gold in Men's Long Jump

★1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

★1991 Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress

1994 San Francisco 49ers Jerry Rice catches NFL record 127th touchdown pass

2000’s                                 

★2014 World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone

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My Rambling Thoughts

Taking a day of rest and recovery this Labor Day. Still recovering. So tired of apple juice, dry toast, and chicken broth with rice. Added Gatorade today for a little change.

Watching too much Netflix and old TV shows. Actually took a short walk today. Made it around the full block without worrying about where the next toilet is. Guess I am getting better. Haha.

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Bizarre News

A man who walked into a mixed martial arts studio with a loaded gun ended up heading to the hospital after he was "subdued by another man inside the facility," police said. 

Matthew Lloyd was carrying a "black messenger-style bag" as he entered Defiant MMA in Burbank, California. It is unclear what his intentions were, but local media reported that police suspect the 30-year-old was about to attempt an armed robbery.

When police arrived at the scene, Lloyd was "being subdued by another male inside the facility." Lightweight MMA fighter Jacobe Powell knocked the gun out of the suspect's hand and pinned him down until police arrived to take him into custody," Burbank Police said in a statement. 

"In order to protect himself, the instructor used martial arts to control and subdue the suspect until police arrived," they added. "It was learned the suspect was in fact armed with a loaded handgun, which was inside the messenger bag."

No shots were fired within the gym. But numerous chest and fist bumps were reported afterward. 

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

90- Paul Volcker,

American economist and Chairman of the US Federal Reserve (1979-87), born in Cape May, NJ

80’s

88- Bob Newhart,

comedian (Bob Newhart Show, Newhart), born in Oak Park, Illinois

@85- Jack Valenti,

Pres (Motion Picture Association of America)

(d. 2007)

85- Carol Lawrence,

Illinois, dancer/actress (West Side Story)

@82- Arthur C Nielsen,

market researcher (TV's Nielsen's Ratings)

(d. 1980)

80- William Devane,

actor (Family Plot, Missiles of October), born in Albany, New York

70’s

78- George Lazenby,

Goulburn Australia, actor (OHMSS-James Bond)

@77- Darryl F Zanuck,

film magnate/president (20th Century Fox)

(d. 1979)

77- Raquel Welch,

Actress (Myra Breckenridge, 1,000,000 BC, 100 Rifles), born in Chicago

@76- Louis XIV [Sun King],

King of France (1643-1715), born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

(d. 1715)

60’s

66- Michael Keaton,

actor (Gung Ho, Batman, Beetlejuice), born in Pittsburgh

@61- Jack Daniel,

entrepreneur (Whiskey)

(d. 1911)

40’s

48- Dweezil Zappa,

rock guitarist/son of Frank/VJ (MTV), born in Hollywood

@45- Freddie Mercury, British singer-songwriter (Queen - We are Champions), born in Stone Town, Sultanate of Zanzibar,

AIDS (d. 1991)

30’s

@34- Jesse James,

American outlaw, son of a clergyman, born in Kearney, Missouri

(d. 1882)

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Historical Obits Today

0’s

@87-1997 Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu],

Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979)

@71-1566 Suleiman the Magnificent,

Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566)

@±37 Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko],

Lakota Sioux war chief,

killed by guards

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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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