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Sep 17, 2017 Week: 38 \ Day: 261
86004 Today: H 71° \ L 40°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 22mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 86°[1956] Record Low: 27°[2006]
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Quote of the Day
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over
than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis Bacon
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Observances Today
Air Force Birthday
Chiropractic Founders Day Link
Hug A Greeting Card Writer Day
National Ceiling Fan Day Link
National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day Link
National Respect Day Link
Respect for The Aged Day Link
World Water Monitoring Day Link
Yom Kippur - begins at sundown
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Observances This Week
16-23
Farm Animal Awareness Week
17-23
Build A Better Image Week
Child Passenger Safety Week Link
Constitution Week
International Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week
National Indoor Plant Week
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week:17-23
National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Love Your Files Week Link
National Singles Week
Tolkien Week
18-24
Balance Awareness Week Link
International Week of the Deaf Link
International Women's E-Commerce Days
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link
Pollution Prevention Week Link
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
1679 New Hampshire becomes a county in Massachusetts Bay Colony
1700’s
1769 John Harris of Boston, Massachusetts, builds 1st spinet piano
1793 US President George Washington lays the cornerstone of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C.
1800’s
★1810 Chile declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1842 1st edition of Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, published
1900’s
★1906 A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast
1947 US Air Force created as a separate military service by passing of the National Security Act
★1948 Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine
1957 "Wagon Train" premieres
1964 "The Addams Family", starring John Astin, Carolyn Jones, Ted Cassidy, and Jackie Coogan, premieres on ABC
1965 TV comedy "Get Smart" created by Mel Brooksand starring Don Adams premieres
1965 "I Dream of Jeannie", starring Barbara Eden as a 2,000-year-old genie, and Larry Hagman as an astronaut who becomes her master, premieres on NBC
★1971 Momofuku Ando markets the first Cup Noodle, packaging it in a waterproof polystyrene container
1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity, the United Nations Foundation
★1997 Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.
1998 Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is formed.
2000’s
2001 First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attacks.
★2014 Emma Watson delivers an address to a standing ovation at UN Headquarters in New York City, helping launch the UN Women campaign HeForShe, which calls for men to advocate for gender equality
★2016 Earliest known fishhooks at 23,000 years old discovered on Okinawa Island, Japan, findings published in PNAS journal
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My Rambling Thoughts
Temps have dropped about 10°, guess fall is nearing. Still nice, but certainly noticeable.
Reminded on Bill Maher: There is a difference between bipartisan and bipolar. On a Sunday morning show: Americans should be counting their blessings that Mexico is our border neighbor. Look around the world and see what we could have gotten.
Looking forward to the Bronco’s game this afternoon…on my TV. Doesn’t happen a lot, but always nice when it does. Cards are trying, but…they are the Cards. WT*? Cards miss field goal, and Broncos are on the same station…so the OT wait begins. WOW! Cards recover and score FG. Where’s the Broncos? Don’t need no after game interviews! Crazy day...finally get the Bronco's game and now a game delay due to weather. Hmmm.
Got a play by play of Irma from a friend (colleague) in Florida. They are good now, no serious house damage, but they left for better weather and got a call that their home was fine, but no electricity. They lost lots of food. Glad they fared so well. It was hot and had no electricity for at least 3 days. Another friend, who has a son who works at DisneyWorld, sent pics of the place. When I was there soon after Epcot opened, everything was so ‘fake’. Many trees, many rocks, and some of the attractions seemed to be just stucco over chicken wire. Guess they upgraded as there was very little damage to the area…mostly real trees that were uprooted, or branches that littered the walkways and gardens. Glad to hear that.
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Bizarre News
A man who was angry that his boyfriend ended their relationship, cut off his own fingers and then tried to frame his boyfriend with a crime, according to police in Wisconsin.
The Wood County Sheriff's Office said that they have arrested 21-year-old Damon J. Laru, after trying to set his former boyfriend on fire.
According to the police investigation, Laru and the victim were together for a period of time. When the victim decided to end the relationship, Laru became mad.
On Saturday Laru broke into the victim's home. Laru told the victim that he wanted to know why the relationship was ended. When the victim asked him to leave, Laru tried to set a bed on fire. He then pulled out a knife and cut the victim.
The suspect then bit the victim's finger.
The victim managed to flee from the home, and went to a neighbor's house to call the police. Laru then trashed the victim's home and used a knife to cut off his own fingers. Laru yelled that he would tell police that the victim did it to get him in trouble.
Laru later admitted to cutting off his own fingers to frame the victim.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@85- Jack Warden,
actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby), born in Newark,
(d. 2006)
@84- Greta Garbo,
Swedish actress (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille), born in Stockholm, Sweden
(d. 1990)
70’s
78- Fred Willard,
Ohio, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People)
@75- Samuel Johnson,
English scholar and lexicographer (A Dictionary of the English Language), born in Lichfield Staffordshire
(d. 1784)
60’s
67- [Benjamin] Ben Carson,
American neurosurgeon and political candidate (R), HUD, born in Detroit
50’s
@51- James Gandolfini,
American actor (The Sopranos), born in Westwood, New Jersey
(d. 2013)
40’s
47- Aisha Tyler,
American actress and comedian
46- Lance Armstrong,
American road cyclist (7 Tour de France wins) barred from sport for using banned drugs, born in Plano, Texas
46- Jada Pinkett Smith,
American actress (Set it Off, Nutty Professor, Menace II Society), born in Baltimore, Maryland
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Historical Obits Today
70’s
@76-1783 Leonhard Euler,
Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant),
brain hemorrhage
@70-2013 Ken Norton,
American heavyweight boxer,
strokes
50’s
@56-1961 Dag Hammarskjöld,
Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961),
air crash over Congo
20’s
@27-1970 Jimi Hendrix,
American rock guitarist (Purple Haze),
asphyxiation
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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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