Aug 13

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Aug 13, 2018 Week: 33\ Day: 225

86004 Today: H 81° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 45% 

Nearest Lightning:  14.2 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[2002]   Record Low: 39°[1999]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or

  disguised love of power.

       Bertrand Russell

Harper’s Index

  31

  Percentage of US college students who have a worse

   opinion of conservatives after their first year

  50

  Who have a better opinion

Observances This Week

9-16

Elvis Week Link
National Hobo Week Link
National Scrabble Week  Link  

12-18

National Motorcycle Week Link 
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week  Link  Link 
National Resurrect Romance Week
Weird Contest Week 

Observances for Today

Left Hander's Day Link
Persoid Meteor Showers

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1521 Spanish conquistadors under Hernán Cortés capture Aztec Emperor Cuauhtémoc in Tenochtitlan marking the end of the Aztec Empire

1700’s                                         

1792 Revolutionaries imprison French royals, including Marie Antoinette

1800’s18vvv                             

1889 William Gray patents coin-operated telephone

1900’s                                         

1907 1st taxicabs operate in New York City, imported by Harry N. Allen

1913 Invention of stainless steel by Harry Brearley, Sheffield, England

1918 Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany

1948 Hungarian boxer László Papp wins the first of 3 consecutive Olympic gold medals; beats British middleweight Johnny Wright on points at the London Games

1948 3 Finnish gymnasts dead heat for the gold medal in the pommel horse section at London Olympics; Paavo Aaltonen, Veikko Huhtanen & Heikki Savolainen all awarded gold

1950 US President Harry Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime of Bao-Dai

1953 US President Dwight Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee

1967 "Bonnie and Clyde", directed by Arthur Penn and starring Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway, is released

1987 Jackie Joyner-Kersee ties world record with 24'5½" jump

1991 US Vice-President Dan Quayle makes a speech attacking lawyers

1993 US Court of Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail

2000’s                                         

2004 28th Olympic Games opens at Athens, Greece

2015 Swedish Prosecutors announce they are dropping allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange of sexual molestation and coercion

2015 US Government formally returns to France Picasso's painting La Coiffeuse, stolen from Paris' National Museum of Modern Art in 2001

2016 American swimmer Michael Phelps ends his career at the Rio Olympics as part of the winning 4x100 medley relay, his record 23rd gold medal

My Rambling Thoughts

Having a quiet Sunday, just waiting for the monsoon later this afternoon or evening.

I am watching some of the protests in DC. It is part of being in America. First Amendment stuff. Hopefully there will be no violence.

The Broncos didn’t play well last night. The AZ Cards looked good…but it is pre-season, so who knows what will happen when the games really count.

One of the things I like about our local paper…it covers local politics pretty well. Today there was lots of information on each of the city council candidates. Sadly, their vision and reality are sometimes far apart. Last election a candidate came out with some great ideas, won a seat of the council, got pushback, and isn’t running again. Reminds me: Some politicians are sparklers while others are embers. Personally, I prefer embers, but it is very hard to find out what a first time candidate will be.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90- Fidel Castro, Cuban revolutionary, Prime Minister (1959-76) and President (1976-2008), born in Birán, Holguin Province (d. 2016)

80’s

@86- Pat Harrington Jr, American actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)

@86- Anna Mae Winburn, African American band leader of all female band (International Sweethearts of Rhythm), born in Port Royal, Tennessee (d. 1999)

85- Jocelyn Elders, 15th US Surgeon General (1993-94) 1st African American holder, born in Schaal, Arkansas

@84- Ben Hogan, American PGA golfer (US Open 1950, 51, 53), born in Stephenville, Texas (d. 1997)

@80- Alfred Hitchcock, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window), born in Leytonstone, Essex (d. 1980)

70’s

@76- Don Ho [Donald Tai Loy Ho], Chinese-American musician (Tiny Bubbles), born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 2007) heart failure

74- Kevin Tighe, actor (Newsie, Another 48 Hours, K-9), born in Los Angeles

@72- Bert Lahr [Irving Lahrheim], American comic and actor (The Wizard of Oz), born in NYC, New York (d. 1967) anemia

72- Janet Yellen, American economist (Chair of US Federal Reserve 2014-2018), born in Brooklyn

@71- Neville Brand, American soldier and actor (DOA, Love Me Tender), born in Griswold, Iowa (d. 1992) emphysema

@66- Annie Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], American sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), born in North Star, Ohio (d. 1926) anemia

60’s

@61- Samuel De Champlain, explorer (d. 1635) stroke

50’s

@56- Dan Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne) (d. 2007) prostate cancer

@54- Sridevi Kapoor [Shree Amma Yanger Ayyapan], Indian actress and film producer referred to as Indian cinema's "first female superstar" (Himmatwala, Solva Sawan), born in Sivakasi, Madras State (d. 2018) accidental drowning

@51- Johann Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) (d. 1707)

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-2009 Les Paul, American jazz, country and blues guitarist, songwriter and inventor (solid-body electric guitar)

@91-2004 Julia Child, American chef, author and television personality (The French Chef)

@90-2012 Helen Gurley Brown, American author/publisher

@90-1910 Florence Nightingale, British nurse (Crimean War)

70’s

@79-1946 H. G. Wells, English sci-fi author (The War of the Worlds, Time Machine)

60’s

@68-1982 Joe E Ross (Joseph Roszawikz), American comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), heart attak

@63-1995 Mickey Mantle, American Baseball Hall of Fame outfielder (1956 Triple Crown, 20-time All Star), liver cancer

40’s

@46-1826 René Laënnec, French physician who invented the stethoscope, tuberculosis

30’s

@33-1995 Alison Hargreaves, British mountaineer and 1st woman to climb Mount Everest alone without bottled oxygen (1995), in a storm on top of K2 summit

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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