Jun 18

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Jun 18, 2018 Week: 25\ Day: 169

86004 Today: H 68° \ L 45° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning: 295 miles away

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1940]   Record Low: 24°[1945]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

The notion that before you even set out to go to Thailand, you say, 'I'm not interested,' or you're unwilling to try things that people take so personally and are so proud of and so generous with, I don't understand that, and I think it's rude. You're at Grandma's house, you eat what Grandma serves you.

   Anthony Bourdain

Harper’s Index

1/3

Percentage change in the level of glyphosate, an herbicide, in American’s urine since 1993

Observances This Week

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
Meet A Mate Week: 18-24
National Pollinator Week: 18-24  Link
Universal Father's Week: 18-24 

Observances for Today

Dollars Against Diabetes Day(s)   Link
Autistic Pride Day  Link
Clark Kent's Birthday (Superman)  Link
Go Fishing Day

International Panic Day

International Picnic Day

International Sushi Day
National Splurge Day 
Ride To Work Day (Motorcycles)  Link
Sustainable Gasteronomy Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1682 William Penn founds Philadelphia, US

1700’s                                          

1767 Samuel Wallis, an English sea captain, sights Tahiti, considered the first European to reach the island

1800’s                                          

1812 War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain

1873 Susan B. Anthony fined $100 for voting for US President

1892 Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii

1898 1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, New Jersey

1900’s                                          

1936 1st bicycle traffic court in America established, Racine, Wisconsin

1940 Winston Churchill's "this was their finest hour" speech urging perseverance during Battle of Britain delivered to British House of Commons

1948 UN Commission on Human Rights adopts the International Declaration of Human Rights

1959 Governor of Louisiana Earl K. Long is committed to a state mental hospital; he responds by having the hospital's director fired and replaced with a crony who proceeds to proclaim him perfectly sane

1961 CBS radio cancels Gunsmoke

1967 Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California

1968 Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale and rental of housing

1981 Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires (replaced by Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman on US Supreme Court)

1981 The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco, California

1983 7th Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 launches Sally Ride as 1st US woman in space

2000’s                                          

2001 "The Fast and the Furious" film directed by Rob Cohen starring Paul Walker, Vin Diesel and Michelle Rodriguez premieres

2014 Ian McKellen is awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University, becoming a Doctor of Letters

2015 Pope Francis blames human selfishness for global warming in his encyclical, named "Laudato Si (Be Praised), On the Care of Our Common Home"

2017 Rare magnitude-four earthquake causes a tsunami to hit Nuugaatsiaq in northwestern Greenland

My Rambling Thoughts

Quiet Sunday. Wind returned and sent the rain somewhere else. Yesterday we got 3/10’s of an inch. Nice! Now the wind is drying us out again. Boo.

Did some light cleaning. So hard to vacuum or mop with one arm, but I got it done.

Looking forward to another week of healing. This is working, but at a much slower pace than I expected. Can’t wait to be able to stop wearing this brace. Can’t wait till I have use of my right hand again. This continues to be quite the learning experience.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@84- E G Marshall [Everett Eugene Grunz], American actor (12 Angry Men, The Defenders), born in Owatonna Minnesota (d. 1998)

70’s

76- Paul McCartney, English musician and member of The Beatles, born in Liverpool, England

40’s

42- Blake Shelton, American Country Singer (Doin' What She Likes), born in Ada, OK

30’s

@37- George Mallory, English mountain climber ("because it is there"), born in Mobberley, England (d. 1924) on Mt. Everest

Teen’s

@17- Anastasia Nikolaevna, daughter of Czar Nicholas II

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2017 Hope Ryden, American wildlife activist and photographer

@87-2010 José Saramago, Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate

@85-2017 Lord Joffe [Joel Goodman Joffe], South African-born British lawyer (instructing solicitor for Nelson Mandela’s defence team) and businessman

70’s

@79-1959 Ethel Barrymore [Blythe], American actress (None but the Lonely Heart), cardiovascular disease

@77-1880 John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land)

@71-2000 Nancy Marchand, American actress (The Sopranos, Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant), lung cancer

60’s

@66-1673 Jeanne Mance, French Canadian settler and founder of the first hospital in North America, dies at 66

50’s

@55-1928 Roald Amundsen, Norwegian polar explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, plane crash while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic

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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