Aug 22

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Aug 22, 2018 Week: 34\ Day: 234

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  5 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[1938]   Record Low: 32°[1968]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  Never apologize for showing feeling.

  When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

    Benjamin Disraeli

Harper’s Index

  -24

  Percentage change since 2001 in the number of

  slot machines in Nevada

Observances This Week

16-26  Little League World Series

18-24  Minority Enterprise Development Week

 National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

20-24  National Safe at Home Week 

Observances for Today

Be an Angel Day

National Bao Day Link
National Tooth Fairy Day 

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Take Your Cat To The Vet Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

500’s                                           

565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness

1600’s                                         

1639 Madras (now Chennai), India, founded by the British East India Company on sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

1700’s                                         

1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport, Rhode Island, Mercury

1800’s                                         

1848 The United States annexes New Mexico

1862 Santee Sioux indian attack Fort Ridgely

1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

1877 Nez Perce (Niimíipu) indians flee into Yellowstone National Park

1900’s                                         

1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car

1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured

1952 The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed.

2000’s                                         

2003 Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building

2004 "The Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

2017 India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq)

My Rambling Thoughts

Woke up to a cloudy sky and a steady light rain. It was unexpected but is nice. Cool outside. A day of rain is very relaxing for me. I had plans to do some shopping today but decided I don’t need to get wet.

During my career, I became known as a fixer. I went to six different schools after the principal of each school was removed or demoted. My assignment was to keep the school operating through the transition and to help the board find a new permanent principal for the school. Each assignment was difficult but enjoyable. I got to meet lots of new people, I got accolades from the staff and the board at each school before I departed. It is sad that another ‘fixer’ decided the only way to fix things was to break the law. My job was to protect the Bureau’s mission, Cohen’s job was to protect his boss. There is a big difference!

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95►Henri Cartier-Bresson, French photographer famous for 'The Decisive Moment', born in Chanteloup-en-Brie, France (d. 2004)

@91- Ray Bradbury, American sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451), born in Waukegan, Illinois (d. 2012)

@91- James Hillier, Canadian-American inventor (co-created the electron microscope), born in Brantford, Canada (d. 2007)

70’s

@73►Dorothy Parker, American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), born in Long Branch, New Jersey (d. 1967) heart attack

73►Steve Kroft, American journalist and longtime correspondent for 60 Minutes, born in Kokomo Indiana

60’s

68- I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney and convicted felon, born in New Haven, Connecticut

@66►Charles Francis Jenkins, American Inventor (altimeter, automobile self-starter, and early television pioneer), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1934)

40’s

48- Giada De Laurentiis, chef, Food Channel host

30’s

39- James Corden, comedian, late night host

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-1989 Diana Vreeland, French-American fashion editor (Harper's Bazaar, Vogue)

@83-1978 Jomo Kenyatta, 1st Prime Minister of Kenya (1963-78)

60’s

@60-1965 Ellen Church, American 1st female airline stewardess (United flight in 1930 from San Francisco to Cheyenne), horse riding accident

30’s

@31-1922 Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush by anti-treaty forces during the Irish Civil War at 31

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.