Jun 20

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Jun 20, 2018 Week: 25\ Day: 171

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 44° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning: 468 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1936]   Record Low: 30°[1979]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

Many a trip continues long after movement

in time and space have ceased.

  John Steinbeck

Harper’s Index

11/14/17

Date on which Japan’s Metro Intercity Railway issued an apology for a train leaving early

20

Number of seconds before the departure time that the train left

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
International Listening Days: 20-23

Observances for Today

American Eagle Day Link
Flitch of Bacon Day Link  Link
Ice Cream Soda Day

Lambrusco Day Link
National Bald Eagle Day

National Hike With A Geek Day  Link
National Kouign Amann Day Link
World Productivity Day
 World Refugee Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1675 Abenaki, Massachusetts, Mohegan and Wampanoag Native Americans form anti-English front under Metacom

1700’s                                          

1782 Congress approves Great Seal of the United States of America and the bald eagle as its symbol

1787 Oliver Ellsworth moves at the Federal Convention to call the government the United States

1800’s                                          

1837 Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. She rules for 63 years till 1901

1840 Samuel Morse patents his telegraph

1863 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)

1867 US President Andrew Johnson announces purchase of Alaska

1893 Lizzie Borden acquitted of the 1892 axe murders of her father and stepmother in Fall River, Massachusetts

1895 1st female PhD from an American University, earned by Caroline Willard Baldwin (in Science) at Cornell University

1900’s                                          

1900 Baron Von Ketteler, German Minister, decides to go to the Chinese authorities to demand more guards for European protection from Boxers and is killed by Boxers en route

1901 Charlotte Maxeke becomes the first native African to graduate from a US college (Wilberforce University in Ohio)

1907 1st Portland Rose festival held in Portland, Oregon

1911 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) incorporates (NY)

1936 Jesse Owens of US sets 100 meter record at 10.2

1943 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) founded in Chicago

1943 New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3½ km dia)

1944 Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency

1944 Nazis begin mass extermination of Jews at Auschwitz

1960 "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna-Barbera becomes the first animated programme to win an Emmy

1966 Sheila Scott completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman

1967 Muhammad Ali convicted of refusing induction into armed services
1967 Mohammed Ali [Cassius Clay] sentenced to 5 years by jury after 21 minutes of deliberation for refusing to be inducted into the armed forces during the Vietnam War

1969 150,000 attend Newport '69, Jimi Hendrix gets $120,000 to appear

1975 "Jaws", based on the book by Peter Benchley, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Roy Scheider is released

1980 Roberto Duran takes WBC welterweight title from Sugar Ray Leonard at Olympic Stadium in Montreal by unanimous decision

1990 Nelson Mandela lands in NYC to begin a tour of US

1991 The Bundestag (German parliament) decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin

1994 O.J. Simpson arraigned on murder of Nicole Simpson & Ronald Goldman

2000’s

2013 LeBron James is named NBA finals MVP for the second straight year

2017 Uber founder Travis Kalanick resigns as CEO after a shareholder revolt

My Rambling Thoughts

The top-notch educators I know have empathy. People I consider true friends also have empathy. This, in part helps me understand why I am having such a hard time with the current border crisis. When I joined the Bureau of Indian Affairs in 1971 I was told by my bosses that we had to treat the boarding school students as if they were our own kids. I was shocked to learn that students as young as 5 were brought (forced) to school by BIA employees each fall. Most of these kids came from homes with no electricity, no running water, and one running vehicle that was shared by several related families. Back then parents were told to help their children by NOT coming to the school, as it would upset the students. Most students stayed in the dorm from late August until Thanksgiving, commonly called Little Christmas. Then they would go home for 2 weeks at Christmas, and then stay until late May when school ended. This was horrific for many students. The teaching staff did what they could to make this very bad situation a little better. Many of us volunteered at the dorms for ‘art’ night, movie night, and game night. The vast majority of students dealt with it, but some still hate their boarding school life. All have mental scars from it.

All these years later, while hearing those little kids crying at the detention center, I remember going into the little kid’s dorm at the beginning of each school year and hearing similar cries.

We were told that education was important and the dorm concept was the only way to prepare the young kids for the future. 45 and his cronies are using the same line today. They learned nothing from our history. THIS IS NOT NORMAL, THIS IS NOT MORAL, THIS IS NOT HUMANE…AND IT NEEDS TO STOP NOW!

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@89- Martin Landau, American actor (Mission Impossible, Space 1999, Ed Wood), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)

70’s

@79- Lillian Hellman, American playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1984) heart attack

@77- John Mahoney, British-born American actor (Fraiser, Frantic, 8 Men Out), born in Manchester, England (d. 2018) throat cancer

76- Brian Wilson, American singer-songwriter and producer (Beach Boys), born in Inglewood, California

73- [Morna] Anne Murray, Springhill Nova Scotia Canada, singer (Snow Bird)

60’s

69- Lionel Richie, American singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover), born in Tuskegee, Alabama

66- John Goodman, American actor (Dan Conner on Roseanne, Babe), born in St Louis, Missouri

50’s

51- Nicole Kidman, American actress (Dead Calm, The Hours), born in Honolulu, Hawaii

40’s

@45- Audie Murphy, American soldier who was among the most decorated in WW II with 33 medals and actor (To Hell and Back, Whispering Smiths), born in Kingston, Texas (d. 1971) plane crash

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@81-2005 Jack Kilby, American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator, integrated circuit)

70’s

@79-2016 Bill Ham [Billy Mack Ham], American music impresario and manager (ZZ Top)

@76-2003 Bob Stump, American politician, U.S. House of Representatives from Arizona, blood disease

50’s

@55-1920 Dmitry Ivanovsky, Russian Botanist who discovered the organisms that came to be known as viruses

40’s

@41-1947 Bugsy Siegel, American gangster who created casinos in Las Vegas, shot dead

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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼