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Aug 2, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 214
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 60°
Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 18mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 93°[1902] Record Low: 43°[1976]
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Quote of the Day
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of
a fuzzy concept.
Ansel Adams
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Observances Today
Earth
Over Shoot Day or Ecological Debt Day Link
International Albarino Day Link
National Coloring Book Day Link
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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
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
★1610 Henry
Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay
1700’s
★1701 Great Peace
of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at
urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk
1776 Formal
signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted
by modern historians)
1790 1st US census
conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves
1800’s
1819 1st parachute
jump in US
1858 1st mailboxes
installed in Boston & NYC streets
★1865 Lewis
Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"
★1870 Tower Subway,
the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.
1873 1st trial run
of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones
★1875 1st roller
skating rink opens (London)
1877 SF Public
Library opens with 5,000 volumes
★1880 British
Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
1900’s
1909 1st Lincoln
head pennies minted
★1928 Benito
Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1943 Lt John
F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands
1961 Beatles 1st
gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club
1964 North Vietnam
fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would eventually
escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War
1967 "In the
Heat of the Night" directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sidney
Poitier and Rod Steiger premieres in New York (Best Picture
1968)
★1970 Rubber
bullets used for the first time in Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles'
1973 "American
Graffiti" directed by George Lucasand starring Richard
Dreyfuss and Ron Howard premieres at the Locarno International Film
Festival, Switzerland
1986 Jackie
Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)
1990 US President George
H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia
★1995 Saudi
Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the Council of
Ministers who do not have blood ties so the royal Family
2000’s
2008 "Breaking
Dawn", 4th book in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga"
is published by Little Brown at midnight with a print run of 3.7 million copies
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My Rambling Thoughts
I knew it has been a
fairly wet monsoon season. Today the weatherman sez we had 4.6” of
precipitation in July, while the normal is 2.7”. And more rain is on the way.
So great for our forest.
So I took off this
morning to get some new bedroom slippers on the other side of town. I’m busy
searching the selections and my phone rings. I answer the call and when I put
it back I realize I didn’t have my wallet. Checked all my pockets, and
remembered I had on clean pants and forgot to pick up my wallet. I put the
wallet on a table right by the bedroom door, so I will see it when I leave the
bedroom. Not today. So I had to come home, driving much more carefully than
usual, without any purchase. Bummed.
Over the years in
Education, I had a few times where I did not agree with the board. I would try
my best to explain my position, but in the end the board was boss on local
decisions. I had to swallow my pride and simply drop the matter. In most cases,
it would come up again in a better time, and the board would agree with me.
Other times, it was just forgotten. In either case, the board and I just moved
on to other things. I am reminded of this as the Senate is still trying to
revitalize the Repeal and Replace. My advice, just drop it. This is NOT the
right time or the right place to continue a losing battle. After 50+ votes to
repeal and replace have not passed, just drop it and move on.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates
age at death
90’s
@93- Shimon Peres,
Israeli Prime Minister
(Labor), President (2007-14) and Nobel Peace Prize (1994), born in Wiszniewo,
Poland
(d. 2016)
80’s
@88- Myrna Loy,
American actress (Jazz
Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair), born in Helena, Montana
(d. 1993)
@81- Peter O'Toole,
Ireland, actor (Lord
Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia),
(d. 2013)
70’s
@78- John Pinkerton,
English computer
scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO
computer, born in London
(d. 1997)
@76- Carroll O'Connor,
American actor (All in
the Family, In the Heat of the Night), born in NYC
(d. 2001)
@76- Wes Craven,
American film director
(Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream), born in Cleveland, Ohio
(d. 2015)
@75- Frank Alvord Perret,
American volcanologist
renowned for his research at Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli and Kilauea, born in
Philadelphia,
(d. 1943)
75- Isabel
Allende,
Chilean-American
author, novelist (The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts) and Nobel Prize
winner, born in Lima, Peru
72- Jewell Jackson
McCabe,
American feminist and
social and political activist who led the National Coalition of 100 Black Women
movement in the 1970s, born in Washington, D.C.
@70- Pierre Charles L'Enfant,
French-born American
architect who laid out Washington, D.C., born in Paris
(d. 1825)
@70- Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi,
French sculptor
(designed the Statue of Liberty), born in Colmar, France
(d. 1904)
60’s
67- Lance Ito,
judge (O.J. Simpson
trial)
@65- Elisha Grey,
inventor (Telephone)
(d. 1901)
@63- James Baldwin,
American author (Go
Tell it on Mountain, Another Country), born in Harlem
(d. 1987)
50’s
53- Mary-Louise
Parker,
Ft Jackson SC, actress
(Fried Green Tomatoes)
40’s
41- Michael Weiss,
figure skater (1997
World Champ-7th), born in Washington, D.C.
41-Sam Worthington,
movie actor (Avatar)
40- Edward Furlong,
movie actor
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Historical Obits Today
70’s
@75-1922 Alexander
Graham Bell,
Scottish-born British
American inventor (telephone),
diabetes complications
@73-1965 N. Howell
Furman,
American Chemist whose
work on separating uranium contributed to the development of the atomic bomb
60’s
@65-1998 Shari
Lewis,
American puppeteer and
ventriloquist (Lamb Chop),
cancer
@63-1859 Horace
Mann,
American education
advocate
@61-1788 Thomas
Gainsborough,
English painter (Blue
Boy)
50’s
@57-1923 Warren
G. Harding,
29th Pres (1921-23),
heart attack
40’s
@48-1978 Totie
Fields, [Sophie Feldman],
comedienne,
blood clot
@48-1921 Enrico
Caruso,
Italian opera singer,
peritonitis
30’s
@39-1876 Wild
Bill" Hickok [James Butler],
American cowboy and
scout,
shot dead from behind
by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's.
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for
Now…☼☼☼☼
