Aug 14

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Aug 14, 2018 Week: 33\ Day: 226

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest Lightning:  169 miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 89°[2002]   Record Low: 33°[1976]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.

  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

Harper’s Index

  minus 42

  Percentage change last year in the protion of people in

  US-allied nations who approve of US leadership

  minus 11

  In non-allied nations

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

International Rose' Day Link
National Creamsicle Day

National Navajo Code Talker Day

Spirit of '45 Day  Link

V-J Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s                                         

1281 During Kublai Khan's Second Invasion of Japan his invading Chinese fleet of 3,500 vessels disappears in a typhoon near Japan

1400’s                                         

1457 Oldest known exactly dated printed book (c 3 years after Gutenberg)

1800’s                                         

1842 Second Seminole War declared over by Colonel Worth; Indians go on to be removed from Florida to Oklahoma

1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes

1848 Oregon Territory created

1862 Abraham Lincoln receives the first group of African Americans to confer with a US president

1873 "Field & Stream" begins publishing

1882 Queen Victoria receives Zulu chief Cetewayo

1900’s                                         

1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925

1920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp

1925 Mount Rushmore Monument first proposed

1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes

1935 Social Security Act becomes law

1936 The Berlin Olympics rowing competition concludes with Germany winning 5 of 7 gold medals, although the United States wins the coveted eights gold

1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone)

1945 Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh movement launch a coordinated uprising against French rule across Vietnam following the Japanese surrender

1947 Pakistan gains independence from Great Britain

1948 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain

1951 "A Place in the Sun", directed by George Stevens, starring Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor and Shelley Winters, is released (Academy Awards Best Director 1952)

1973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts

1973 US ends secret bombing of Cambodia

1986 Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto arrested

1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise

2000’s                                         

2016 Usain Bolt wins 100m Olympic gold at Rio - 1st man to win this event 3 times

2017 Cholera has now infected more than 500,000 people in Yemen and killed over 2,000 according to the World Health Organization

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice monsoon cooled us off yesterday in the late afternoon, early evening.

Nothing like starting a new week with a pedi. Headed over and the place was packed. Came back an hour later, still packed but got right in.

Updated the Focus website this morning. I hope people have signed up for the adventures they are planning as quite a few are filled. Siberia has one opening for a double cabin, and one female roommate is needed for the trip.

45 was at a military base to sign a new law that raises soldier’s pay and does a whole lot more. I’m glad the military protects us and I know that they signed up for the job. I just wish that 45 would stop the exaggerating everything out of his mouth. And I’m very tired of ‘this person is the best in the history of the world has ever seen’, then when that same person disagrees or leaves ‘this person is the lowest lowlife on this planet’. And why was he paying her $200,000/year of tax-payer dollars? And did he really offer her $180,000/year to stay quiet?

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@84- Alice Ghostley, American singer and actress (Bewitched, Designing Women), born in Eve, Vernon County, Missouri (d. 2007)

@81- John Ringling North, circus director (Ringling Bros) (d. 1985)

70’s

78- Dash Crofts, Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)

77- David Crosby, rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross), born in Los Angeles

73- Steve Martin, American comedian, musician, author and actor (Parenthood, Jerk, Roxanne), born in Waco, Texas

72- Susan Saint James, [Miller], actress (Kate & Allie), born in Los Angeles

71- Danielle Steel, author (Rememberance, Zoya, Star, Daddy), born in NYC, New York

60’s

68- Gary Larson, cartoonist (Far Side), born in Tacoma, Washington

50’s

59- Earvin "Magic" Johnson, American NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic gold 1992), born in Lansing, Michigan

@57- John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and father of the television, born in Helensburgh, Scotland (d. 1946) stroke

52- Halle Berry, American actress (X-Men: The Last Stand, Monsters Ball), born in Cleveland, Ohio

30’s

@36- Doc Holliday, American gambler, dentist and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), born in Griffin, Georgia (d. 1887) TB

35- Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-American actress (Friends with Benefits), born in Chernivtsi, Ukraine

31- Tim Tebow, American football player

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88-1992 John Sirica, US federal judge (Watergate hearings)

@88-1951 William Randolph Hearst, American newspaper publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I)

@82-2016 Lita Roza, English singer ("How Much is That Doggie in the Window"), dies at 82

@81-1999 Pee Wee [Harold] Reese, American baseball player (Dodgers)

70’s

@74-1913 Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (automatic dishwasher), stroke

60’s

@69-1870 David Farragut, American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), heart attack

@63-2012 Ron Palillo, American actor (Arnold Horshack-Welcome Back Kotter), heart attack

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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