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Aug , 2017 Week: 32 \ Day: 218
86004 Today: H 78° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 22mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 90°[1983] Record Low: 36°[1953]
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Quote of the Day
Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Observances Today
American Family Day Link
Friendship Day Link
Hiroshima Day
National Doll Day Link
National Kids' Day Link
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis) Day
National Root Beer Float 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
4-7
Rock for Life Week Link
Satchmo Days Link
4-13
Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link
6-12
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
1400’s
★1497 Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America (Newfoundland) - first European to do so since the Vikings
1500’s
★1538 Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada.
1700’s
1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY
1800’s
1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Francis II renounces the title, becoming Emperor of Austria.
1806 Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman, nor an empire. Francis II renounces the title, becoming Emperor of Austria.
★1825 Bolivia gains independence from Peru (National Day)
1900’s
1901 Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white settlement, effectively dissolving the contiguous reservation.
1909 Alice Ramsey and three friends become the first women to complete a transcontinental auto trip.
1926 "Don Juan" starring John Barrymore is released, the 1st feature-length film to utilize the Vitaphone sound-on-disc sound system with a synchronized musical score and sound effects
★1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"
1946 US officially submits to jurisdiction of World Court
★1948 Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London Olympics
★1948 Fanny Blankers-Koen (Neth) is 1st women to win 3 golds at Olympics
★1964 Prometheus, the world's oldest tree, is cut down in Nevada US
1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities
1980 University adm declares 5 Pac-10 schools ineligible for conference titles & post-season play due to transcript & curriculum abuses
1984 Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold medals in Summer Olympics
1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.
1996 NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars after examining meteorite ALH84001, thought to be from Mar
★1996 George R.R. Martin publishes the epic fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones", the first in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire"
1996 US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya
2000’s
2015 Comedian Jon Stewart hosts "The Daily Show" for the last time
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My Rambling Thoughts
Woke up to a nice monsoon. Had to have the bedroom window closed last night because of the wind. More rain appears to be on the way.
While reading the morning news on the internet machine. Checked out the authenticity and all I can say is WOW. I am sick and tired of robocalls. I have tried blocking the number. Found out they just use a new number. I’ve tried just not answering. They keep coming. I’ve tried talking to them and demanding I be dropped from their call list. That works for a while, but suddenly the pitch changes a little and I’m back on. Now thanks to free enterprise and the need to drive people crazy, there is now technology that leaves a voicemail without ever having your phone ring. It magically just shows up as a new voicemail. This may be a good thing but I’ll have to get one of the calls/message before I am sold on it.
So glad our president is taking a long working vacation. Wonder if he is taking a vacation from Twitter?
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@87- Edith Roosevelt,
US First Lady and wife of Teddy Roosevelt, born in Norwich, Connecticut
(d. 1948)
@83- Alfred Lord Tennyson,
British Poet Laureate of Great Britain, born in Somersby, Lincolnshire
(d. 1892)
@81- Leo Carrillo,
actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid), born in Los Angeles,
(d. 1961)
70’s
@79- Robert Mitchum,
actor (Winds of War, North & South), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut
(d. 1997)
79- Peter Bonerz,
actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5), born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire
@77- Lucille Ball,
American comedienne and actress (I Love Lucy, Mame), born in Jamestown, New York
(d. 1989)
75- George Jung [Boston George],
American convicted drug felon whose story was portrayed in the biopic "Blow", born in Boston, Massachusetts
@73- Alexander Fleming,
Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945), born in Lochfield, Scotland
(d. 1955)
50’s
@58- Andy Warhol,
American pop artist and film producer (Frankenstein, Bad), born in Pittsburgh
(d. 1987)
40’s
47- M. Night Shyamalan,
Indian/American film director (The 6th Sense, Wayward Pines)
45- Geri Horner [Halliwell],
British pop singer "Ginger Spice" (Spice Girls), born in Watford, England
41- Soleil Moon Frye,
Glendora California, actress (Punky Brewster)
Early childhood
@6- Jon Benet Ramsey,
little beauty queen
(murdered in 1996)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@86-2016 Pete Fountain,
American jazz clarinetist (Lawrence Welk 1957-59)
@80-1978 Pope Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini],
(1963-78)
60’s
@68-1991 Harry Reasoner,
newscaster (60 Minutes),
blood clot from fall
@67-1623 Anne Hathaway,
wife of William Shakespeare
@65-1637 Ben Jonson,
English playwright and poet,
strokes
@60-1881 James Springer White,
American theologian (co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church),
fever
50’s
@56-2004 Rick James,
American funk musician ("Super Freak"),
pulmonary and cardiac failure
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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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