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Aug 7, 2017 Week: 32 \ Day: 219
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 33%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 14mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 92°[1978] Record Low: 39°[1991]
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Quote of the Day
A brier rose whose buds yield fragrant harvest for the honey bee.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Observances Today
Lighthouse Day Link
National Psychic Day Link
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
Professional Speakers Day
Purple Heart Day
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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
7-11
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
National Psychic Week Link
Old Fiddlers' Week
Weird Contest Week
7-13
National Bargain Hunting Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
★1620 Astronomer Johannes Kepler's mother arrested for witchcraft
1700’s
1760 Ft Loudon, Tennessee surrenders to Cherokee Indians
1789 US Congress creates Department of War & Lighthouse Service
1900’s
1909 US issues 1st Lincoln penny
★1914 Lord Kitchener says "Your country needs you" poster spreads over UK
★11933 The Iraqi Government slaughters over 3,000 Assyrians in the village of Sumail. The day becomes known as Assyrian Martyrs Day.
1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"
1939 Millionaire Howard Hughes is presented with a Congressional Gold Medal
1942 1st American offensive in Pacific in WW2, Guadalcanal, Solomon Is
1946 1st US commemorative coin of an African American, Booker T. Washington (half dollar)
★1947 Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean
★1955 Bar-Ilan University founded in Israel
★1955 Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, begins selling its first transistor radios in Japan
1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design
★1960 Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France
★1961 Soviet Premier Khrushchev predicts USSR economy will surpass US
1963 Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st US First Lady to give birth (Patrick Kennedy) since Mrs Cleveland
1964 US Congress approves Gulf of Tonkin resolution
1977 "Shenandoah" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 1,050 performances
1981 The Washington Star ceases all operations after 128 years of publication.
★1990 Operation Desert Shield begins - US deploys troops to Saudi Arabia
★1991 Court rules Manuel Noriega, may access some secret US documents
1994 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan
2000’s
2007 Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
★2008 Georgia launches a military offensive to surround and capture the capital of South Ossetia, Tskhinvali, from Russian control, starting the South Ossetia War.
2015 US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”
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My Rambling Thoughts
And our monsoon continues, clouding up for another wet storm. This has been an amazing season for us. After the initial heat wave, the monsoon has turned out be a good one.
Catching up on my DVR programs, I saw one of the best Real Time in a very long time. Bill Maher was right on target. He had a good discussion with VP Al Gore on climate change, a good panel, and then the best part was the guy who played Obama on TV did an amazing and very frightening reading of our current President’s most ‘odd’ statements. The premise was to suggest that the current supporters of Trump might have had a different opinion if Obama had said the same thing. For me, it was more chilling than humorous, as I believe the whole country would have freaked out if Obama had spoken like that.
Quiet Sunday. Got a call from my traveling buddy Bob, who wanted to know if I was interested in 10 days on Lake Powell with some other former neighbors. I declined as it is about the same time as my HS reunion. I don’t think Bob was that into it either as he is heading to his brother’s 90th birthday a few days after the trip. Nice to talk to Bob, but he seemed to repeat himself a lot during our 30-minute conversation. I know aging is part of the deal we have in life, but just concerning as it plays out.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@88- Stan Freberg,
satirist/ad executive/cartoon voice (Bertie), born in Los Angeles,
(d. 2015)
@85- Billie Burke [Mary William Ethelbert Appleton],
American actress (The Wizard of Oz, Merrily We Live), born in Washington D.C.
(d. 1970)
@84- Taylor Caldwell,
pop fiction novelist
(d. 1985)
@80- Carl Ritter,
co-founder of modern science of geography
(d. 1859)
70’s
75- Garrison Keillor,
Minn, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)
60’s
@69- Louis Leakey,
Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal), born in Kabete, Kenya
(d. 1972)
@68- Ralph Bunche,
founder/diplomat (UN) (Nobel 1950), born in Detroit, Michigan
(d. 1971)
50’s
57- David Duchovny,
American actor (The X-Files, Californication), born in NYC
40’s
42- Charlize Theron,
South African actress (The Cider House Rules, Monster), born in Benoni, Transvaal
@41- Mata Hari [Margaretha Geertruida Zelle],
Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and WWI spy, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands
(d. 1917)
infancy
@3days- Patrick Kennedy,
son of US President JFK
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Historical Obits Today
100’s
@101-2015 Frances Oldham Kelsey,
Canadian-American FDA Director (stopped thalidomide use in the US)
80’s
@89-2004 (Paul Neal) ‘Red’ Adair,
American oil field firefighter
@80-1941 Rabindranath Tagore,
Indian philosopher/poet/writer (Nobel 1913)
60’s
@67-2005 Peter Jennings,
Canadian-American news anchor (ABC Evening News),
lung cancer
@65-1957 Oliver Hardy,
American comedian (Laurel & Hardy films),
strokes
20’s
@25-1917 Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning,
first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship,
plane crash attempting 2nd landing
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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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