Jun 24

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Jun 24, 2018 Week: 26\ Day: 175

86004 Today: H 90° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  511miles away

Wind ave.:   10mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 94°[1974]   Record Low: 32°[1975]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure

an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

    John Dewey

Harper’s Index

59

Percentage of US news stories about poverty that feature black families

23

Of US families living under the poverty line that are black

Observances This Week

Meet A Mate Week: 18-24
National Pollinator Week: 18-24  Link
Universal Father's Week: 18-24
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week: 24-30
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 24-30 Link 
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 24-30 Link
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 24-30 Link 
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week: 24-30
Windjammer Days: 24-30

Observances for Today

ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field DayLink  
America's Kids Day
Celebration of the Senses
Descendants Day
International Fairy Day or Faerie Day  Link
Log Cabin Day
Stonewall National Monument Day  Link

Swim a Lap Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s                                          

1374 Sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion

1400’s                                          

1497 John Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he has found Asia in Nova Scotia)

1500’s                                          

1509 Henry VIII is crowned King of England in Westminster Abbey

1540 English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court

1600’s                                          

1664 The colony of New Jersey is founded

1800’s                                          

1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx

1853 US President Franklin Pierce signs the Gadsden Purchase, buying 29,670 square-miles (76,800 square km) from Mexico for $10 million (now southern Arizona and New Mexico)

1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from Union

1880 First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français

1894 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years

1900’s                                          

1901 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris

1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract

1938 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

1949 "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)

1957 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States

1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976

1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat

1982 US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office

1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail

1993 Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber

2000’s                                          

2004 Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York

2007 The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours

2010 In the longest match in tennis history, John Isner of the U.S. defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon after 11 hours, 5 minutes of play over three days

2016 British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns after the UK votes to leave the EU

2017 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.

2017 World record for highest altitude football match ever played at 18,799ft on Mount Kilimanjaro by women's international team

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s been a busy few days.

Dr. visit was a report. Just found out that one of the thyroid meds I take has to be taken alone, first thing in the morning. I’ve been taking it for a few years and was never told that. Three months ago it was a little high. Took ½ a pill one day a week, now it is a tad low. So she checks to see how I take the pill and learned I take it in the morning with a couple of others. Hopefully this new procedure will solve the problem.

I had a good Chinese lunch with our retirement group Thursday.

Yesterday I started the post, accidently hit the wrong keys and closed it without saving.  Wrist it healing well, but still typing with just one hand. It was too hot to start over. Then I called and found my 2^nd pair of new glasses was awaiting pick up, so now I have two new pairs, both with UV protection, and both scratch resistance. Happy camper! The lady said she didn’t want to send a text message Thursday evening as some company policy doesn’t let them send late night messages. And then she forgot to send it Friday morning because they were soooo busy. When I picked them up the manager was fitting me so I told her the story. She apologized and said she would talk to the young lady about it. I told her I’d been buying glasses there since the 1970’s and just laughed when I heard the lady’s story.

This morning I figured out how to get my portable cooler downstairs with only one arm. It is now cooling very well. The last two days have been in the low 90’s/high 80’s. And there as only been a small breeze.

Our discussion group meets tonight, so after setting up my cooler I did the readings. Should be a good discussion…the topic is US/Russia relations after the fall of communism. Since I’m doing the Trans-Siberian RR trip in about a year, it is nice to learn more about modern day Russia. With the current administration here, I hope 45 doesn’t do something stupid with the relations.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

0’s

@87- Jack Dempsey, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1919-26), born in Manassa, Colorado (d. 1983)

@83- Billy Casper, American golfer and three time PGA Player of the Year (1966, 1968 and 1970), born in San Diego, California (d. 2015)

@78- Roy O. Disney, co-founder of the Walt Disney Company and brother of Walt (d. 1971) stroke

@±71- Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust), born in Meigs County, Ohio (d. 1914) lost in Mexico

71- Mick Fleetwood, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way), born in London, England

31- Lionel Messi, Argentine soccer striker (5 FIFA Ballon d’Or, FC Barcelona), born in Rosario, Argentina

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@98-2014 Eli Wallach, American actor

80’s

@82-2005 Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (Jerry Mahoney and Knucklehead Smiff.)

70’s

@71-1987 Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), colon cancer

@71-1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President (1885-89, 93-97), heart attack

40’s

@44-1935 Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of tango, plane crash 

30’s

@39-1519 Lucrezia Borgia, Italian noblewoman,daughter of Pope Alexander VI, following child birth

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…☼☼☼☼