Aug 6

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Aug 6, 2018 Week: 32\ Day: 218

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  180 miles away

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  24mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[1983]   Record Low: 36°[1953]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

You have to make it happen.

  Denis Diderot

Harper’s Index

+41

Percentage change in the portion of Republicans satisfied with the ‘moral and ethical climate’ since 45’s inauguraton

More Observances This Month

Get Ready for Kindergarten Month
Happiness Happens Month Link
Motor Sports Awareness Month

Observances This Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link
International Mathematicians Week
National Minority Donor Awareness Week
Simplify Your Life Week Link
World Breastfeeding Week Link

3-12

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link

4-12

Gay Games

4-7

Rock for Life Week Link

5-11

Assistance Dog Week  Link  Link 
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week  
National Farmers' Market Week  Link 
National Fraud Awareness Week Link 
National Health Center Week Link 
Stop on Red Week Link

6-10

Exhibitor Appreciation Week

6-12

National Bargain Hunting Week
National Psychic Week Link  
Old Fiddlers' Week

Observances for Today

Assistance Dog Day  Link Link 
Hiroshima Day
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis)  Day
National Root Beer Float Day Link  

Wiggle Your Toes Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1675 Russian Tsar Alexis bans foreign hair styles to those below the nobility

1700’s                                         

1774 Founder of the Shaker Movement, Mother Ann Lee, arrives in NY

1787 Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia begins debate on the first draft of the Constitution

1800’s                                         

1856 The Great Bell is cast in the Great Clock of Westminster (Big Ben)

1870 White conservatives capture the Tennessee legislature by suppressing the black vote

1900’s                                         

1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima by the US B-29 Superfortress "Enola Gay"

1964 Prometheus, the world's oldest tree (at least 4862 years old), is accidently cut down in Nevada, US

1965 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting discrimination against minorities

1984 American athlete Carl Lewis wins long jump (8.54m), his second of 4 gold medals at Los Angeles Olympics

1990 President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan

1990 UN Security Council votes 13-0 (2 abstensions Cuba and Yemen) to place economic sanctions against Iraq

1991 Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet

1995 Thousands gather in Hiroshima for the 50th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city

1996 George R.R. Martin publishes the epic fantasy novel "A Game of Thrones", the first in his series "A Song of Ice and Fire"

1996 US President Bill Clinton signs a new bill imposing sanctions on non-US companies which invest over $40 million a year in the energy sectors of Iran or Libya

2000’s                                         

2006 Tiger Woods (30) becomes the youngest player to compile 50 PGA Tour wins with a 3-stroke victory in the Buick Open at Grand Blanc, Michigan

2015 Comedian Jon Stewart hosts "The Daily Show" for the last time

My Rambling Thoughts

Been busy the last few days. Friday Cheryl called that she was coming to town. Hadn’t seen her for about a month, so we had a nice very long lunch and caught up. She had been back in Michigan and surrounding states visiting relatives. She had a great time.

Yesterday I headed to the annual Navajo Art show at the local museum. Saw a few friends, saw some great art work, and had a good time. So nice to see the younger generations producing amazing art.

Got a call yesterday evening from one of our discussion group members. It was to inform me that her mother-in-law had passed at 101 years old. The mother, father, son and daughters had escaped Germany during the war. I had heard the great stories of their tromping through fields, in the dark, over fences, with small bags to get away. They ended up in Canada. She spent the rest of her life there. Klaus and his sister were holding her hand as she passed. Sad to here but before and after the war, she had a great life.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Edith Roosevelt, US First Lady and wife of Teddy Roosevelt, born in Norwich, Connecticut (d. 1948)

@83- Alfred Lord Tennyson, British Poet Laureate of Great Britain, born in Somersby, Lincolnshire (d. 1892)

@81- Leo Carrillo, American actor (American Empire, Cisco Kid), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1961)

80- Peter Bonerz, actor (Jerry-Bob Newhart Show, 9 to 5), born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

70’s

@79- Robert Mitchum, American actor (Out of the Past, Winds of War, North & South), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 1997) lung cancer

@77- Lucille Ball, American comedienne and actress (I Love Lucy, Mame), born in Jamestown, New York (d. 1989) aneurysm

@77- Catherine Beecher, educator (championed higher education for women), born in East Hampton, New York (1878)

@73- Alexander Fleming, Scottish bacteriologist (invented penicillin; Nobel Prize 1945), born in Lochfield, Scotland (d. 1955) heart attack

@70- Edmund "Hoot" Gibson, American rodeo champion, western actor, director, and producer (Horse Soldier, Last Outlaw), born in Tekamah, Nebraska (d. 1962) cancer

50’s

@58- Andy Warhol, American pop artist and film producer (Frankenstein, Bad), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1987) irregular heartbeat after surgery

40’s

46- Geri Horner [Halliwell], British pop singer "Ginger Spice" (Spice Girls), born in Watford, England

42- Soleil Moon Frye, Glendora California, actress (Punky Brewster)

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@80-1978 Pope Paul VI, [Giovanni Montini], (1963-78)

70’s

@72-1973 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Cuban Dictator (1940-58), dies at 72 heart attack

60’s

@68-1991 Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes), blood clot

@65-1637 Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet, dies at 65

50’s

@56-2004 Rick James, American funk musician ("Super Freak"), pulmonary failure and cardiac failure

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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