Aug 1

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Aug 1, 2018 Week: 31\ Day: 213

86004 Today: H 83° \ L °58 \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest Lightning:  144 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  11mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1977]   Record Low: 42°[1915]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

  J. B. Priestley

Harper’s Index

98

Number of 7-Elevn stores that US Immigration &Customs

            Enforcement (ICE) agents raided on a single morning.

Observances This Month

American Adventures Month
American Artists Appreciation Month Link
American Indian Heritage Month Link 
American History Essay Contest (8/1 - 12/15)
Arrr-gust: International Pirate Month  Link

Observances This Week

29^th-8/4th
Single Working Women's Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link
International Mathematicians Week
National Minority Donor Awareness Week
Simplify Your Life Week Link
World Breastfeeding Week Link

Observances for Today

Earth Over Shoot Day or Ecological Debt Day Link
Girlfriend's Day
International Albarino Day (First Wednesday) Link
International Can-It-Forward Day  Link   (Mason Jars)
Mead Day Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Day
National Mountain Climbing Day

National Raspberry Cream Pie Day

Respect For Parents
Rounds Resounding Day
Spider-Man Day (See also Oct. 14)
Start Up Day Across America Link
US Air Force Day Link
World Lung Cancer Day
World Wide Web Day
World Scout Scarf Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1774 Joseph Priestley, English theologian, chemist and author

            discovers oxygen by isolating it in its gaseous state

1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral

 Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet

at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt

1800’s                                         

1869 1st voyage down Colorado River

1876 Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union

1900’s                                         

1914 Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany declares war on his

 nephew Tsar Nicholas II (WWI) of Russia in WWI

1936 Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

1944 Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested

1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's

1946 US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy

 Commission (AEC)

1950 Guam Organic Act establishes Guam as an

            unincorporated US territory

1954 South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into being,

            empowers the Government to remove Africans from any

            area within and next to the magisterial district of

            Johannesburg

1957 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque,

 New Mexico)

1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"

1963 Arthur Ashe becomes first African-American tennis player

            to be named in the US Davis Cup team

1972 1st article exposing Watergate scandal by Bernstein and

            Woodward in "The Washington Post"

1976 21st Summer Olympic Games, Montreal, Canada:

            Officially close

1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM

1982 American Greg Louganis becomes 1st diver to score 700

            (752.67) in 11 dives in winning 3m springboard gold,

            World Championships in Guayaquil, Ecuador

1988 Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.

1996 American athlete Michael Johnson wins 200m at the

 Atlanta Olympics in a world record 19.32 seconds to

become the first man to complete the 200m-400m

double

2000’s                                         

2001 Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Roy Moore has a

            Ten Commandments monument installed in the judiciary

building, leading to a lawsuit to have it removed and his

own removal from office

2013 Robert Mugabe continues to maintain power after

            winning 142 out of 210 seats in the Zimbabwean election

2016 Anthrax outbreak in Yamalo-Nenets, Siberia kills one and

            infects 8 others, also kills 2,300 reindeer, global warming

            blamed

My Rambling Thoughts

Wow! August already. Teachers and staff are heading back to work on the Rez. Nice to be retired. Did some quick shopping this morning and the stores are filled with ‘back to school’ stuff. That brought back some great memories…but not enough to want to go back to daily work schedule.

Big storm in Phoenix yesterday. Glad it didn’t make it to Flag. Watching huge palm trees snap on TV was enough for me.

Can’t believe the US State Department approved the Aug 1 release of plans to make a 3D untraceable weapon with a home computer and a 3D printer. While there are many state Attorney Generals trying to block it, the designer is claiming his 1^st Amendment Free Speech will be taken away if he can’t publish them. ‘Hell in a handbasket’ comes to mind. Only good news is some just released filming showing how the gun ‘sometimes’ blows up when fired. Gun crazies won’t care with statements like ‘What are the odds?’

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Mother Jones, American labor organizer (d. 1930)

70’s

@77- Robert James Waller, American author (Bridges of Madison County), born in Charles City, Iowa (d. 2017) multiple myeloma

@75- Dom DeLuise, American comedian (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso), born in Brooklyn, (d. 2009) kidney failure

@72- Herman Melville, American author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd), born in NYC, New York (d. 1891) cardiac dilation

@71- Yves Saint-Laurent, Oran Algeria, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession) (d. 2008) brain cancer

@70- Maria Mitchell, 1st US woman astronomer on Nantucket Island (d. 1889)

60’s

@68- William Clark, American explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States, born in Ladysmith, Virginia (d. 1838)

@68- Lionel Bart [Begleiter], British pop music composer and writer (Oliver!), born in London, England (d. 1999) liver cancer

@63- Francis Scott Key, American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star-Spangled Banner", born in Carroll County, Maryland (d. 1843) pleurisy

50’s

55- Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.], American rapper (Gangsta's Paradise), born in Monessen Pennsylvania

@53- Jerry Garcia, musician (d. 1995) heart attack in rehab

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@76-2009 Corazon Aquino, 11th President of the Philippines (1986-92), colon cancer

@75-1866 John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

60’s

@61-1980 Strother Martin, American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot), heart attack

50’s

@58-1981 Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network, Hospital) cancer

@53-30 BC Mark Antony, Roman Politician and General, commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium

@51-1903 Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], American frontierswoman, pneumonia

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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