Aug 25

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Aug 25, 2018 Week: 34\ Day: 237

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Nearest Lightning:  2.9 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[1985]   Record Low: 36°[2002]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.

  Marcus Aurelius

Harper’s Index

 1

  Rank of Disneyland among the happiest places on Earth,

  according to Disneyland

  56

  Percentage of Disneyland employees who worry about

  being evicted from their homes

Observances This Week

16-26  Little League World Series

23-26

North American Organic Brewers Week

25-31

Be Kind To Humankind Week
World Water Week Link

Observances for Today

Brother's Day  Link 
International Bat Night 
Kiss and Make Up Day

National Park Service Day
National Second-hand Wardrobe Day
National Whiskey Sour Day  
Sand Castle Day Link
Franchise Appreciation Day 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1900’s                                         

1910 Yellow Cab is founded.

1916 US Department of Interior forms National Park Service

1936 Odorless cornstarch is patented in the US by Ralph W Kerr

1944 General Charles de Gaulle walks the Champs Elysees in Paris after the liberation of the city from Nazi occupation

1952 Puerto Rico becomes a US commonwealth

1958 Momofuku Ando markets the first package of precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen)

1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloudtops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps

1991 Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system

2000’s                                         

2003 The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).

2007 1st Women's Snow Polo World Championship takes place in Bariloche, Argentina

2017 President Donald Trump grants presidential pardon to Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of contempt of court for racial profiling

2017 Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong jailed for 5 years for corruption in South Korea

My Rambling Thoughts

Had lunch with Mary yesterday. Turned into a long lunch as she caught me up on her 3 weeks at her Oregon Beach House. Fun times for all that were there.

Looks like there are only a couple more days of our annual monsoon. Cloudy and lightning. We will take all the moisture we can get, spread over a few hours.

Sad news for AZ, and America as Senator John McCain stops further medical treatment. Didn’t always agree with his politics, but he continues to be a war hero and a statesman.

So, Rep. Hunter (R-CA) has thrown his wife under the bus. “She had my power of attorney and was my campaign manager”. What a cheap shot.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96► Monty Hall, Canadian►American TV game show host (Let's Make a Deal), born in Winnipeg Canada (d. 2017)

80’s

88► Sean Connery, actor 007

87► Regis Philbin, American talk & game show host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee), born in The Bronx, New York

70’s

@79► George Wallace, American politician (Gov►D►Ala) and presidential candidate, born in Clio, Alabama (d. 1998) septic shock

60’s

69► Gene Simmons, singer (KISS)

64► Elvis Costello, singer

@60► Walt Kelly, American cartoonist and animator (Pogo), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973) long illness

50’s

57► Billy Ray Cyrus, singer

@53► Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], 1st tsar of Russia (1533►84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia (d. 1584) stroke

50► Rachael Ray, Food host

40’s

42►Alexander Skarsgard, actor (True Blood)

30’s

31► Blake Lively, actress (Gossip Girl)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83-1822 William Herschel, German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 83

@83-1819 James Watt, Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist (steam engine), dies at 83

@82-2012 Neil Armstrong, American astronaut, 1^st to walk on moon

70’s

@77-2009 Edward [Ted] M. Kennedy, United States Senator from Massachusetts brain cancer

@75-1867 Michael Faraday, English scientist who discovered principle of electric motor

50’s

@59-1984 Truman Capote, American author (In Cold Blood), liver cancer

@55-1908 Henri Becquerel, French physicist who discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), radiation?

@55-1900 Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher and philologist (Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return), brain tumor? Syphilis?

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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