Jun 17

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Jun 17, 2018 Week: 25\ Day: 168

86004 Today: H 64° \ L 45° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  172miles away

Wind ave.:   2mph\Gusts:  10mph Visibility: 9 mi

Record High: 92°[1940]   Record Low: 23°[1923]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones

you find when Plan A falls through.

   Anthony Bourdain

Harper’s Index

$357,000,000,000

Amount the federal government spent between 2006 and 2016 responding to extreme weather

4,764,976

Minimum number of Americans who registered for federal disaster aid last year

456,000

Average annual number over the previous decade

Observances This Week

Dollars Against Diabetes Day(s) & 18  Link

US Open Golf Championship: 11-17
Men's Health Week: 11-17 Link
National Hermit Week: 13-20
National Nursing Assistants Week: 14-21 
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 14-23
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 17-23 Link    Link
National Week of Making: 17-23  Link

Observances for Today

Eat Your Vegetables Day Link
Family Awareness Day
Father's Day  Link Link
Husband Caregiver Day 
National Garbage Man Day Link
Stewarts Root Beer Day
Turkey Lovers Day:  17  Link 
World Day To Combat Desertification and Drought
World Tessellation Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s                                          

1291 After 200 years of crusader control, Acre is the last crusader stronghold reconquered and destroyed by the Mamluks under Sultan al-Ashraf Khalil

1500’s                                          

1579 Sir Francis Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New Albion"

1700’s                                          

1775 Battle of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)

1800’s                                          

1824 US Bureau of Indian Affairs established1877 Indian Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory

1885 Statue of Liberty arrives in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'

1894 1st US poliomyelitis epidemic breaks out in Rutland, Vermont

1898 The United States Navy Hospital Corps is established

1900’s                                          

1901 The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT

1902 US Congress pass the New Lands Reclamation Act, which establishes a fund from sale of public lands to build irrigation dams for arid Western lands

1932 Bonus Army: around a thousand World War I veterans amass at the United States Capitol as the U.S. Senate considers a bill that would give them certain benefits

1933 Kansas City Massacre: 1 FBI agent, 4 cops & 1 gangster killed by mob

1939 Last public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre

1947 Pan Am Airways chartered as 1st worldwide passenger airline

1950 1st kidney transplant (Chicago)

1954 CIA exile army lands in Guatemala. Organised by John Foster Dulles and United Fruit Co.

1958 "Things Fall Apart" by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe published by Heinemann - considered most widely read book in African literature

1963 Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools

1967 "Somebody To Love" by Jefferson Airplane peaks at #5

1967 China becomes world's 4th thermonuclear (H-bomb) power

1968 Ohio Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold

1970 Edwin Land patents the Polaroid camera

1972 Five men arrested after trying to bug Democratic National Committee office in Watergate Complex, Washington

1975 Voters in Northern Mariana Islands approve commonwealth status with US

1976 ABA (Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA

1982 US President Reagan's 1st UN General Assembly address "We must serve mankind through genuine disarmament."

1986 US Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns and Antonin Scalia nominated as his replacement

1991 The body of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the USA, is exhumed to test how he died; rumours had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning - no evidence of this was found

1991 South Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws

1992 Philadelphia 76ers trade Charles Barkley to Phoenix Suns

1994 O.J. Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford Bronco for 1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)

2000’s                                          

2008 First day of legal same-sex marriage in California

2015 9 people are shot and killed inside Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a 21 year old gunman

2015 US Treasury announced that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be replaced from the US $10 bill by an image of a woman

My Rambling Thoughts

I woke up to wonderful female rain, soaking our town and more importantly the forest with much needed rain. Not to mention, it is much cooler.

One of the two pairs of new glasses has arrived. Very happy with them and they got here very fast. Now waiting for the free pair.

Yesterday afternoon I got a call from an artist friend in Tuba. He said he would be dropping by later in the afternoon. We had a nice visit, remembering times in Red Lake and Tuba. After about 30 minutes he mentioned he had come to town with his Aunt who had been sitting in the car sleeping. I found out she was one of the retired aides from Tuba. She joined us and we had great conversation catching up on lots of Tuba people. Always nice to see people I used to work with and share experiences.

I can’t believe the conservatives keep supporting 45. He saluted a North Korean army officer, he is tearing asylum families apart, he has started a world-wide trade war, he has dissed our closest allies and added a tariff on top of that, he praised one of the worst dictators in our current world…and the list goes on. Wake up…THIS IS NOT NORMAL!!!

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer (Rite of Spring) [OS 5th June], born in Oranienbaum, Russia (d. 1971)

@87- Ralph Bellamy, American actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday, Trading Places), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1991)

85- Peter Lupus, actor (Mission Impossible)

@83- George Cormack, cereal inventor (Wheaties) d. 1953

@80- John Robert Gregg, Irish inventor (shorthand) d. 1948

70’s

75- Newt Gingrich, American politician (Rep-R-GA, 1979-99) and Speaker of the House (1995-97), born in Harrisburg, PA

75- Barry Manilow [Barry Alan Pincus], American singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs), born in New York City

@73- Maurits C Escher, Dutch graphic artist d. 1972

60’s

@67- James Weldon Johnson, American civil rights activist, leader of the NAACP and Harlem Renaissance poet, born in Jacksonville, Florida (d. 1938) his car hit by train

50’s

55- Greg Kinnear, actor/talk show host (Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later)

53- Dan Jansen, West Allis Wisc, speed skater (Olympic gold 1984, 88, 92)

40’s

42- Luke Bryan, American country singer (I'll Stay Me), born in Leesburg, Georgia

30’s

38- Venus Williams, American tennis starconsidered one of the all-time greats of women's tennis, born in Lynwood, California

31-Kendrick Lamar, rapper

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-2008 Cyd Charisse [Tula Finklea], American dancer and actress (Singin' in the Rain)

60’s

@62-1947 Maxwell Perkins, American editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe, pneumonia

50’s

@58-1936 Henry B Walthall, American actor (The Birth of a Nation, Klondike), intestional infection

40’s

@47-2012 Rodney King, African American motorist beaten by LA cop, drowning

@42-1961 Jeff Chandler [Ira Grossel], American actor (Broken Arrow), result of medical malpractice

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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