Aug 28

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Aug 28, 2018 Week: 35\ Day: 240

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  459 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  21mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 89°[1948]   Record Low: 33°[1920]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

 I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

 Oscar Wilde

Observances This Week

25-31

Be Kind To Humankind Week
World Water Week Link

Observances for Today

National Bow Tie Day  Link
Pony Express Day
Race Your Mouse Around  the Icons Day
Radio Commercials Day
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day (lost pets) Link
Crackers Over The Keyboard Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1789 William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus

1800’s                                         

1845 Scientific American magazine publishes its first issue

1859 A geomagnetic storm causes the Aurora Borealis to shine so brightly that it is seen clearly over parts of USA, Europe, and even as far afield as Japan.

1900’s                                         

1907 United Parcel Service is founded by James E. Casey in Seattle, Washington.

1937 Toyota Motors becomes an independent company.

1939 Journalist Care Hollingworth observes the “large numbers of troops, literally hundreds of tanks, armored cars and field guns” Germany had aligned along the Polish border. Three days later, Hitler invades Poland and WWII begins.

1957 US Senator James Thurmond (Rep, SC) begins 24-hr filibuster against civil rights bill

1963 200,000 march and demonstrate for African American civil and economic rights in Washington, D.C.

1963 Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I have a dream speech" addressing civil rights march at Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

1965 1st Subway sandwich shop opens in Bridgeport, Connecticut

1968 Police & anti-war demonstrators clash at Chicago's Democratic National Convention

1973 Bobby "Boris" Pickett's song "Monster Mash" goes gold

1973 "Smoke on the Water" by Deep Purple goes gold

1981 John Hinckley Jr. pleads innocent in attempt to assassinate President Reagan

2000’s                                         

2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail

My Rambling Thoughts

Petty little man, 45, does not keep the flag at half-mast for John McCain. Amazing that 45 has been a non-invited person to so many events: Barbara Bush’s funeral, British wedding, and now John McCain’s funeral. And so far today, he ignored 4 questions from reporters on McCain. Suddenly, the flag is at half-mast over the White House again. Craziness reigns. As I drove to my hand Dr. appointment, every flag I saw on businesses and schools were at half-mast.

Met with the PA at my hand doc and she said I needed to have the large plate removed. Everything is healing just fine, but the plate is affecting the tendon to my thumb. Hmmm. It won’t happen until mid-Sept as I must wait at least 4 months after the surgery to do it. Not happy, but understand now, so I’m OK with it. Still must go to the hospital for the 15-minute procedure because of my age and my blood issues. As I was leaving the Dr. stopped me in the hall, checked the tendon and said ‘yep, that plate needs to come out.’ As I was waiting to see the surgery scheduler, I made a comment to the PA about how hard it was to call their office. One must go thru a couple of people before reaching voice mail. She said she had talked to ‘them’ but they just don’t do anything. Then the Dr. turned the corner and asked me if I had a few minutes. I said yes, and he went and go the head tech guy for phones. He listened to my complaint and said he would work on it. I told him I was very happy with the staff I dealt with, just hated the phone system. I’ll see if that helps.

Still disappointed that the Pope didn’t do anything but apologize for the abuse. Somehow allowing those abusers to remain in the church hierarchy needs so much more than an apology.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@82►Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German social philosopher (Faust), born in Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1832)

70’s

@76►Jack Kirby, American cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Capt America), born in NYC, New York (d. 1994) heart failure

75 David Soul, Actor (Starsky & Hutch)

60’s

61►Ai Weiwei, Chinese artist and activist (Sunflower Seeds, Remembering), born in Beijing, China

50’s

@57►Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, 1st lady of the United States (1877-81), born in Chillicothe, Ohio (d. 1889) stroke

53►Shania Twain, country singer     

40’s

49►Jack Black, actor, comedian

@46►Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, 1st American Catholic saint (1975), born in NYC, New York (d. 1821)

30’s

36►LeAnn Rimes, country singer

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@81-1903 Frederick Law Olmsted, American writer and landscape architect (designed Central Park)

@80-2007 Arthur Jones, American inventor of the Nautilus exercise machines

Teen’s

@14-1955 Emmett Till, kidnapped & lynched

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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