Aug 30

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Aug 30, 2018 Week: 35\ Day: 242

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Nearest Lightning:  523 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[1948]   Record Low: 36°[1975]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  If you want to preserve - I'm very serious now - if you want to

  preserve  democracy as we know it, you have to have a free

  and many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that

  we would lose  so much of our individual liberties over time.

  That's how dictators get started.

  John McCain

Observances This Week

25-31

Be Kind To Humankind Week
World Water Week Link

29-9/1

Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link
Chuckwagon Races
National Sweet Corn Week

Observances for Today

Frankenstein Day

Internat’l Cabernet Sauvignon Day  Link
Internat’l Day of The Victims of Enforced

            Disappearances Link
International Whale Shark Day
National Grief Awareness Day
National Holistic Pet Day
Toasted Marshmallow Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s                                         

1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time

1300’s                                         

1363 Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty

1800’s                                         

1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.

1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen

1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city

1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products

1900’s                                         

1914 Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army, ca. 170,000 killed or injured, German victory on Eastern Front

1941 Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national leader to do so

1956 White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas

1962 Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.

1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.

1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice

1979 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to one million hydrogen bombs

1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Georgia

1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower

1995 Cable News Network joins the internet

2000’s                                         

2015 English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked for MI6 for more than 20 years

2017 Late author Terry Pratchett' unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per his instructions

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday was Primary voting day here in AZ and on the Navajo Rez. I did my vote early, then helped out a friend so she could vote on the Rez. Long day, some free Navajo food at the polling place, and a job well done.

Headed out to get a blood test, then home for a relaxing day.

AZ TV stations are covering and recovering every second of the events as the McCain’s casket lies in state in our state capital building. Lots of supporters are honoring his service to the state and to the country.

From my small mountain town, I now realize that organized churches are BUSINESS. We have these mega-churches with millionaire leaders who pay NO taxes. Now Pope Francis is remaining mum about the rape of children in America by his subordinates and offering only prayers for survivors in other countries. It is time to tax churches and it is time to stop allowing church officials to abuse children and having the higher-ups cover it up. The Jesus I was raised to believe in must be shaking his head in disgust and wondering how his teachings could lead to any of this insanity.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

88►Warren Buffett, American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha, Nebraska

@85►Maurice R. Hilleman, Miles City Montana, American Microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis, pneumonia (d. 2005)

70’s

75►Robert Crumb, American cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

60’s

@66►Ernest Rutherford [1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson], New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), born in Brightwater, New Zealand (d. 1937) intestinal paralysis

50’s

@53►Mary Shelley, English author (Frankenstein), born in London, England (d. 1851) brain tumor

40’s

46►Cameron Diaz, movie actress

45►Lisa Ling, American journalist

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95►2016 Joe Sutter, American engineer and head of the Boeing 747 program

@91►2015 Brad Anderson, American cartoonist (Marmaduke)

@91►1862 Charles Bernard Desormes, French Physicist and Chemist (carbon monoxide and carbon disulphide compositions)

80’s

@84►1985 Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell], Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician)

@83►1940 J. J. Thomson, English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906)

70’s

@74►2013 Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), after a fall

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@65►1938 Max Factor [Maksymilian Faktorowicz], make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer

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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