Aug 18

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Aug 18, 2018 Week: 33\ Day: 230

86004 Today: H 76° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Nearest Lightning:  16.7 miles away

Wind ave.:   2mph\Gusts:  9mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 87°[2002]   Record Low: 36°[1975]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  Music does a lot of things for a lot of people.

  It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back,

  years back, to the very moment certain things

  happened in your life.

  It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening.

    Aretha Franklin

Harper’s Index

  95

  Percentage of US adults who claim

  to support organ donation

  54

  Who register to donate their organs

Observances This Week

12-18

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

15-21

National Aviation Week  

16-26

Little League World Series

18-24

Minority Enterprise Development Week
National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

Observances for Today

Bad Poetry Day
Birth Control Pills Day
Clear The Shelters Day  Link 
International Homeless Animals Day
World Honey Bee Day Link   Link
Mail Order Catalog Day
National Badge Ribbon Day
National Fajita Day  Link
Serendipity Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

BC’s                                             

293 BC The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica (grape harvest festival)

1700’s                                         

1737 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris

1800’s                                         

1835 Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago

1862 Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)

1868 French Astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse

1872 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward

1900’s                                         

1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.

1920 22 year old representative Harry T. Burn is deciding vote in Tennessee's and thus America's ratification of the 19th Amendment to the constitution allowing women's suffrage after letter from his mother

1938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada

1956 Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" reaches #1

1958 "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov published

1962 Peter, Paul & Mary release their first hit "If I Had a Hammer"

1963 James Meredith becomes the 1st black graduate from University of Mississippi

1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies

1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act

1976 Korean axe murder incident: 2 US soldiers tasked with cutting down a poplar tree blocking the view of UN observers are killed by North Koreans claiming it was planted by Kim Il-sung in the Korean Demilitarized Zone

1982 Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)

1984 Triangle Oil Corp, above-ground storage tank at Jacksonville Fla, spills 2.5 m gallons of oil burned after lightning sparked a fire

2000’s                                         

2000 A Federal jury finds the US Environmental Protection Agency guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring passage of the No FEAR Act.

2008 An American 1-2-3 in the 400m hurdles at the Beijing Olympics; Angelo Taylor wins gold in 47.25 ahead of Kerron Clement and Bershawn Jackson

2016 Jamaica's Usain Bolt wins the gold medal in the men's 200m for the 3rd successive Summer Olympics, recording a time of 19.78 in Rio de Janeiro

2017 White House chief strategist Stephen Bannon is fired by US President Donald Trump

My Rambling Thoughts

Cloudy and awaiting afternoon monsoon.

Finally got around to doing some grocery shopping. Quick trip as I didn’t need much.

Looking forward to the weekend. Tomorrow night our discussion group meets to discuss China. Got lots of articles to read, so better get started.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

91►Rosalynn Smith Carter, American 1st lady (1977-1981), born in Plains, Georgia

80’s

85►Roman Polanski, Polish-French film director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates), born in Paris, France

82►Robert Redford, American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica, California

60’s

61►Denis Leary, American actor and comedian (Rescue Me), born in Worcester, Massachusetts

50’s

@57►Patrick Swayze, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), born in Houston, (d. 2009) pancreatic cancer

40’s

49►Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)

49►Edward Norton, American actor (American History X), born in Boston, Massachusetts

48►Malcolm Jamal Warner, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show), born in Jersey City, New Jersey

40► Andy Samberg, actor

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-1990 B F Skinner, American psychologist (Skinner Box)

70’s

@78-1919 Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder

60’s

@65-1940 Walter Chrysler, American founder of car company Chrysler, stroke

@65-1227 Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, KIA

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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