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Sep 20, 2017 Week: 38 \ Day: 263
86004 Today: H 72° \ L 43°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 25mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 83°[2000] Record Low: 23°[1971]
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Quote of the Day
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.
The world owes you nothing.
It was here first.
Mark Twain
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Observances Today
National Rehabilitation Day
National String Cheese Day Link
School Backpack Awareness Day Link
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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
1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men
1700’s
1737 Runner Edward Marshall completes his journey in the Walking Purchase forcing the cession of 1.2 million acres (4,860 km²) of Lenape-Delaware tribal land to the Pennsylvania Colony
★1746 Bonnie Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
1800’s
1814 "Star Spangled Banner" published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune by John Stafford Smith
1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury
1873 Panic sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks for 10 days due to a bank scandal
1877 Chase National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
1884 Equal Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President
1891 The first gasoline-powered car debuts in Springfield, Massachusetts, United States.
1900’s
★1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
1963 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
1973 Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
1976 Playboy releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
1985 Walt Disney World's 200-millionth guest
1988 Greg Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
2000’s
★2015 Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro in Havana, on the 1st day of his tour of Cuba
2015 Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cooler temps are here our mountain town. Cool wind gusts are just reminding us that Fall is in the air.
Today is the anniversary of several life-changing events in my life.
First, on this day in 1971, I started work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Shonto AZ. Third-grade teacher there for 5 years before moving to Tuba City as a Jr. High English teacher. I had a 36-year career and many great memories. Gov’t employees have their ‘service comp date’ burned into their minds as it used to appear on every Leave and Earnings Statement we received every two weeks. Also required for most official personnel paperwork.
Second, on this day in 1994, my 80-year-old father passed away. I was fortunate enough to be there for his last days. He had worked hard all his life. Joined the Navy at 17, married his sweetheart at 25, joined the army during WWII, became an accountant, thanks to the GI bill, adopted two great baby boys, worked into his 70’s and then began traveling around the US with his wife. He grew up with without a dad, who died on Christmas Eve of his 5th year. He made sure my brother and I had experiences he never had. We did Scout camping, other camping, family trips every year, great holiday events, and always knew we were loved. When he bought our unfinished basement home, he and my grandfather and many others completed the basement with a shop, a ‘canning kitchen’, a bathroom, a huge rec room, a sewing room for my mom, and a ‘fruit room’ for all the canning. His sister’s husband had a bad stroke and couldn’t work and barely talk. My dad stepped in and did the ‘father’ things for my cousin. He even bought a gym membership for him so that he could be in good shape, as my cousin was kind of a nerd. Dad was active in the local Episcopal Church, joining soon after it opened in the late 50’s. We always had a enough money, but none to waste. We were loved and treated well. He was wise enough to set up accounts so that my mother could live her last 14 years without having to ‘be a burden’ (his words, not mine) to my brother and I. Great man and still missed.
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Bizarre News
*-- President Trump Saving Money on Lawn Care --*
An 11-year-old boy had his wish to mow the White House lawn fulfilled, and not even a chat with President Donald Trump could slow him down. Frank Giaccio of Falls Church, Va., wrote a letter to the president earlier this year expressing his wish to visit the White House and mow its famed lawn. Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shared the request with the media and said the White House would grant the wish. Giaccio was invited to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and spent Friday morning with one of the groundskeepers. When given a push mower, he got to work trimming the grass in the Rose Garden, outside the Oval Office. In the middle of the job, Trump walked outside and spoke to the boy. Video shared on social media showed him mow straight past the commander-in-chief. Eventually, when he reached the end of the row, Giaccio stopped and chatted with Trump, who also gave the boy a high-five.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@91- Gogi Grant, [Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg],
singer (The Wayward Wind), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(d. 2016)
@90- Upton Beall Sinclair,
US writer (Jungle), born in Baltimore, Maryland
(d. 1968)
80’s
@89- [Arnold] Red Auerbach,
NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtic), born in Brooklyn, New York
(d. 2006)
@84- Ernesto Teodoro Moneta,
Italian journalist, soldier, and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), born in Milan, Lombardy
(d. 1918)
83- Sophia Loren,
Italian actress (La Ciociara, Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid), born in Rome, Italy
60’s
68- Chuck Panozzo [John],
rocker (Styx), born in Chicago, Illinois
60- Gary Cole,
Park Ridge, Illinois, American actor (Pineapple Express, Midnight Caller)
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Historical Obits Today
0’s
@96-2005 Simon Wiesenthal,
Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter
@87-2015 Jack Larson,
American playwright and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
@78-1863 Jacob Grimm,
German philologist, folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales"
@76-1852 Philander Chase,
American university founder
@71-2016 Curtis Hanson,
American film director and screenwriter (LA Confidential, 8 Mile),
dementia
@63-1987 Michael Stewart [Myron Stuart Rubin],
American playwright (Hello, Dolly!)
@30-1973 Jim Croce,
vocalist (Time in a Bottle),
plane crash
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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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