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Aug 17, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 229
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 40°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: -mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 89°[1939] Record Low: 37°[1968]
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Quote of the Day
The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas Carlyle
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Observances Today
I Love My Feet Day Link
Meaning of "Is" Day
National Nonprofit Day Link
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Observances This Week
11-19
Elvis Week Link
13-19
National Resurrect Romance Week
15-21
National Aviation Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier
1700’s
★1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1800’s
1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River
1846 Commodore Robert F Stockton, US Navy, annexes California
★1858 1st bank in Hawaii opens
1859 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana
1870 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1891 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1891 Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1900’s
1903 Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America
1908 Bank of Italy (now Bank of America) opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery, San Francisco
★1908 Projection in Paris of the very first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl
1933 Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game
1938 1st aircraft owned by US Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1939 "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY
★1946 George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom
★1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
★1960 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)
1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
★1976 An earthquake & tsunami in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
★1979 Monty Python's "Life of Brian" directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese premieres
★1982 First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany
1988 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9-year-old Bronx boy)
1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship
★1999 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.
2000’s
2015 World's first flower could be underwater plant Montsechia Vidalii claim US botanists (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
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My Rambling Thoughts
Technology was not my buddy today. I easily updated the Focus Travel site, then went to my bank site to update a repeating payment for my abode. Couldn’t get it to do it, even though I have been doing it for a decade. Called Customer Service for Chase. After 2 calls and 3 people, including a supervisor I got no help. Finally, I went to the bank. We were able to set it up in a few minutes. Concerns about Chase: Customer service was in Manila, Philippines; before you can speak to a human, you have to put in your account number, pin, and last 4 of SS. Scary to give out all that info to a machine that is in a foreign country. Then you have to go through 2 menus to get to a human. Boring. I had called my local bank and got the message: “All our personal bankers are assisting other customers, call back later.” Click. Again not good for customer service. Thankfully my personal banker at the branch was able to give me some shortcuts to avoid all this hassle. All good now.
The break from our Monsoon continues. It’s kinda nice to have a few days with no rain and a good amount of sunshine. Not excited about the dropping night temperatures, but know it has to happen for fall to arrive. I’m just not ready for that yet.
I am embarrassed by our President. He certainly needs some lessons in history. One should not equate Robert E. Lee, a traitor to the US to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The Nazi’s and White Supremacists were carrying water bottles of cement, water bottles of urine, and one of their members killed a woman and injured 20. Those American patriots who protested this gathering were not the enemy and should not have had one of their own killed.
Will he ever wake up and figure out why the members of his 2 of his councils have quit? Nope, he just disbanded both groups. So childish.
This is a true crisis and we need Congress to step up more than they have already.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@94- Samuel Goldwyn [Shmuel Gelbfisz],
Jewish Polish American movie producer (MGM), born in Warsaw, Poland
(d. 1974)
@95- Maureen O'Hara [FitzSimons],
Irish actress and singer (Miracle on 34th St, The Quiet Man), Ranelagh, County Dublin
(d. 2015)
80’s
@87- Mae West,
American actress and singer (She Done Him Wrong), born in Brooklyn,
(d. 1980)
70’s
74- Robert De Niro,
American actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), born in NYC, New York
@71- Floyd Red Crow Westerman,
Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe/Dakota Nation musician-actor
(d. 2007)
50’s
57- Sean Penn,
actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), born in Santa Monica,
@52- Marcus Garvey,
began back-to-Africa movement among US African Americans
(d. 1940)
40’s
@49- Davy Crockett,
American frontiersman, adventurer, and politician, born in Greene County, Tennessee
(d. 1836)
48- Donald E Wahlberg Jr,
rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough), born in Boston
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@93-1987 Rudolf Hess,
German Nazi official (Deputy Fuhrer who dramatically escaped to Britain in 1941, sentenced to life in Spandau Prison), commits suicide
@92-2016 Arthur Hiller,
Canadian director (Love Story)
80’s
@86-1983 Ira Gershwin,
lyricist
@84-1973 Conrad Aiken,
US poet (Pulitzer)
70’s
@72-1990 Pearl Bailey,
actress (Landlord)/singer,
heart attack
@72-1850 Jose de San Martin,
South American revolutionary hero and general
60’s
@67-1979 Vivian Vance,
American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy),
cancer
@62-1987 Gary Chester [Cesario Gurciullo],
drummer (Monkees, Lovin' Spoonful) and drum instructor
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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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