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Sep 24, 2017 Week: 39 \ Day: 267
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 30°
Average Sky Cover: 1%
Wind ave: 20mph\Gusts: -mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 85°[1947] Record Low: 25°[1918]
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Quote of the Day
Happy is the man whom the Muses love:
sweet speech flows from his mouth.
Hesiod
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Observances Today
Gold Star Mother's Day
International Day of The Deaf
National Familial Hypercholesterolemia Day Link
Punctuation Day Link
Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving
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Observances This 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
24-30
Banned Books Week
Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link
International Interpreters and Translators Week
National Fall Foliage Week Link
National Keep Kids Creative Week
Remember to Register to Vote Week
Sea Otter Awareness Week Link
World Hearing Aid Awareness Week Link
World Reflexology Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
★1529 Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege
1700’s
1786 African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon makes his "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at meeting of African Society in NY
1789 US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution
1789 US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court
1800’s
1890 The President of the Mormon Church Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1900’s
★1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
1924 Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport
★1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1952 American fast food restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] opens its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah
1955 US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver 1957 President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
1958 Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC
1968 "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by US President Jimmy Carter
1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
★1982 Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26
1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)
★1990 Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait; French President Mitterrand called the action a violation of international law; a U.S. warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah
★1994 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
2000’s
★2001 Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand
★2007 Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
2007 "The Big Bang Theory" created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady and starring Johnny Galecki, Jim Parsons and Kaley Cuoco premieres on CBS
★2015 Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress. Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his American heroes.
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My Rambling Thoughts
A windy Saturday here. Very cool temps last night. Not a day to be out and about.
Exhausted by 45’s tweets. Now the leader of our country is having Kindergarten exchanges with the NFL and NBA. If for nothing else, he will be remembered as the Great Divider. Someone needs to remind him that he is the President, not the Emperor. In a free society, we have the right to disagree with just about everything. When I was back in 4th grade my teacher, Miss Bolen, was a JW. Two words had been recently added to the Pledge. Her religion did not allow her to say the then-new phrase ‘Under God’. On the first day of the school year, she talked to us about the fact that she couldn’t be in the room during the Pledge for religious reasons. She appointed a student each morning to lead the Pledge and quietly left the room. When we finished she returned and taught us. Good solution. If this came up in today’s world, a great teacher would have probably been fired. Sad.
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Bizarre News
*------------ Euro Turning to Crap ------------*
Prosecutors in Switzerland are investigating mysterious instances involving thousands of euro bills turning up in toilets. The first bundle of 500 euro bills turned up several months ago in a bathroom near a UBS Group AG bank vault at a branch in Geneva. Days later, even more, banknotes appeared inside toilets at nearby restaurants causing damage that required expensive repairs to unclog the pipes. Police have collected tens of thousands of euros -- many apparently cut with scissors -- from the pipes and are working to determine where the mystery bills came from. "We are not so interested in the motive but we want to be sure of the origin of the money," Vincent Derouand, of the Geneva prosecutor's office, said. Derouand added neither throwing away the bills nor clogging the toilet are considered crimes and there was no reason to believe the money was obtained nefariously.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@89- Georges Claude,
inventor (neon light)
(d. 1960)
@86- Ayatollah Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini],
Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89), religious figure and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, born in Khomeyn, Persia
(d. 1989)
70’s
@79- Horace Walpole,
England, British horror writer (Castle of Otranto)
(d. 1797)
@79- John Marshall,
4th Chief Justice of the United States (1801-35), born in Germantown, Virginia
(d. 1835)
75- Gerry Marsden,
rock vocalist (Gerry & Pacemakers-Ferry crossed Mersey)
71- "Mean" Joe Greene,
NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman
60’s
@69- Howard Florey,
Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who purified penicillin (Nobel 1945), born in Adelaide, South Australia
(d. 1968)
50’s
@56- Linda Eastman McCartney,
American photographer and musician (Wings-Ram) and wife of Paul McCartney, born in NYC,
(d. 1998)
@53- Jim Henson,
muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), born in Greenville, Mississippi
(d. 1990)
40’s
@49- Phil Hartman,
Canadian-American actor (SNL, Peewee's Playhouse), born in Brantford, Ontario
(d. 1998)
@44- F. Scott Fitzgerald,
American author (Great Gatsby, Zelda), born in St. Paul, Minnesota
(d. 1940)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@87-1991 Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss),
children's author
60’s
@68-1961 Sumner Welles,
US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy)
30’s
@31-1848 Branwell Brontë [Patrick Branwell Brontë],
English painter and writer and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne,
TB
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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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