Jun 16

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Jun 16, 2018 Week: 24\ Day: 167

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Nearest Lightning:  344miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  18mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1940]   Record Low: 24°[1907]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it's the restaurant business.

  Anthony Bourdain

Harper’s Index

2/5

Estimated portion of US workers whose employers do NOT grant paid leave for jury duty

$50

Amount guaranteed in daily payment for serving on a jury in Arkansas

$10

In Kansas

More Observances This Month

Turkey Lovers Month  Link

Vision Research Month Link

World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere) Link Link
Women's Golf Month Link   Link
World Infertility Month
World Sponge Month Link

Observances This Week

National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 10-16
National Flag Week: 10-16 
National Little League Baseball Week: 11-16   Link
US Open Golf Championship: 11-17
Men's Health Week: 11-17 Link
*National Hermit Week: 13-20
Duct Tape Days: 14-16 Link
National Nursing Assistants Week: 14-21 
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 14-23

Observances for Today

Bloomsday Link
Fresh Veggies Day

Fudge Day Link
Ladies' Day (Baseball)
Mermaid Day
National Hollerin' Contest Day

Polar Bear Swim (Nome, AK) Link 
World Juggler's Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison, Scotland

1800’s                                          

1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate
1871 The University Tests Act allows students to enter the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge and Durham without religious tests, except for courses in theology

1873 US President Ullyses Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for Nez-Perce

1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC

1880 Salvation Army forms in London

1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)

1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later

1900’s                                          

1903 Pepsi Cola company forms

1903 Roald Amundsen commences the first east-west navigation of the Northwest Passage by leaving Oslo, Norway

1909 Jim Thorpe makes his pro baseball pitching debut for Rocky Mount (ECL) with 4-2 win, this will cause him to forfeit his Olympic medals

1915 The foundation of the British Women's Institute

1932 US President Herbert Hoover and Vice President Charles Curtis renominated by Republican Convention

1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

1935 US Congress accepts FDR's "New Deal"

1959 South African Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to newly established black township Kwa Mashu, on outskirts met with violent resistance

1960 "Psycho", psychological horror film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Janet Leigh, Anthony Perkins, and Vera Miles, opens in New York City

1961 Soviet ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects to West at Le Bourget Airport in Paris

1963 Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

1987 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

2000’s                                          

2000 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 after 22 years, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon. Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon, except the disputed Sheba Farms

2017 US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama

2017 Amazon announces it is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

My Rambling Thoughts

Busy day yesterday. Our retirement group met for lunch. We’d been there about 15 minutes when 2 retired Tuba teachers came in. We joined them and spent about 2 hours catching up. Nice way to spend a warm afternoon. I hadn’t seen either one since I retired.

Still waiting for the monsoon. Thought it would start yesterday, but no such good fortune. Fire danger is sooooo high. There have been a couple of fires near Flagstaff and they were controlled very quickly.

The more I learn about the new immigration policy, the angrier I get. There is a huge difference between people sneaking across the border and those who go to the authorities at the border and seek asylum. What is happening to our country? And what can we do to change this? Every time I hear about young children and babies being taken from parents who are seeking asylum, I remember the Miramar couple on our plane who had asylum papers and 2 small children. I saw them leave the plane and be sent to a small room where they would have to wait for hours. I thought that was a rough greeting to the freedom of America. What is happening now is inhumane, barbaric, and should not be happening in my country…ever! I had believed that the horrific way we have treated people of color was behind us. We have massacred millions of Natives, forced African’s into slavery, locked up Japanese-Americans, mistreated Mexican migrant workers, and the list goes on.  Sadly we are now simply continuing this horrific legacy.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@81- Nelson Doubleday, American publisher (Doubleday) d. 2015, pneumonia

70’s

@79- Geronimo, Apache leader and resistance fighter, born in No-doyohn Canon, Mexico (d. 1909) pneumonia

@74- Stan Laurel, [Arthur Stanley Jefferson], English comedian (Laurel & Hardy films), born in Ulverston, England (d. 1965) heart attck

73- Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion

60’s

@67- Adam Smith, Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher (date of baptism), born in Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland (d. 1790) painful illness

40’s

48- Phil Mickelson, PGA golfer (five-time major winner), born in San Diego, California

46- John Cho, Korean-American actor

20’s

@25- Tupac Shakur (Lesane Parish Crooks), American rapper and actor(Juice, Bullet), born in East Harlem, New York (d. 1996) shot

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2017 Helmut Kohl, German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified Germany, 1990-98)

60’s

@65-1977 Wernher von Braun, rocket scientist (V1/V2), smoking

40’s

@45-1959 George Reeves, actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind), commits suicide

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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