Sep 14

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Sept  14, 2018 Week: 37\ Day: 257

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 45° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   10mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[2000]   Record Low: 29°[1988]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

   

    If you can’t convince them,

    confuse them

    Harry Truman

Harper’s Index

38

Percent of judges working in NY state

that do not have a law degree

Observances This Week

9-15    International Air Ambulance Week  Link

Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week  Link

International Housekeepers Week   Link

National Assisted Living Week   

Suicide Prevention Week 

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week  Link

Line Dance Week

12-16  National Guitar Flat-Picking Days  Link

Hummingbird Celebration Link

Observances for Today

Hug Your Boss Day Link 
Live Creative Day  Link
National Kreme Filled Donut Day Link  and  Link
Stand Up To Cancer Day Link  

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1752 Britain (and American colonies) adopt the Gregorian calendar (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)

1800’s                                         

1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later becomes lyrics of the "Star-Spangled Banner"

1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)

1848 Alexander Stewart opens 1st US department store

1886 George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee, patents typewriter ribbon

1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M

1900’s                                         

1901 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo

1937 President Franklin D. Roosevelt bans US ships from trading arms with China or Japan

1948 Gerald Ford upsets Rep Bartel J Jonkman in Mich 5th Dist Rep primary

1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed in Washington, D.C.

1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)

1973 US President Richard Nixon signed into law a measure lifting pro football's blackout

1975 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam

1992 1st subway car completed to be exported from US (to Taiwan)

1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.

2000’s                                         

2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

2015 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb - Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets

2017 Bodleian Library reveals earliest evidence of the zero symbol in 3rd or 4th Century Bakhshali (Pakistan) manuscript, through carbon dating

My Rambling Thoughts

I have never lived in an area where there are hurricanes. I have never been in a hurricane. I have never had any travel changed due to a hurricane. Yet, I am fascinated watching the weather people, the charts, et. al. It is amazing that all the technology still makes the path and rainfall little more than educated guesses. Living at 7000’ forecasting a snow storm here is much the same.  But we are a small town, so our storms are not on National news. Our weatherman has some great moving graphs et.  al.  when a storm arrives, but we are the only ones who really see it.

45’s twitter account is like SNL. Many are hilarious, but some of them  just miss the mark. Today it’s a Dem plot to claim there were 3,000 deaths in Puerto Rico. Disgusting! If his Twitter account was required to be based on truth it would have been cancelled a long time ago.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@86►Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel Prize 1904), born in Ryazan, Russia (d. 1936)

@86►Margaret Sanger, American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist, born in Corning, New York (d. 1966)

@86►John Gutfreund, American investment banker, CEO of Salomon Brothers (King of Wall Street), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)

50’s

55►Robert Herjavec, entrepreneur, ‘Shark Tank’

53►Dmitry Medvedev, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister of Russia), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union

40’s

45►Nas (Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones), rapper

20’s

@27►Amy Winehouse, soul singer, 5 Grammy awards

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@80►1836 Aaron Burr, 3rd US Vice President (D-R: 1801-05) who killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel

60’s

@65►2009 Jody Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter, heart attack

@61►1851 James Fenimore Cooper, American author (Last of Mohicans), dropsy

50’s

@57►1637 Pierre Vernier, French mathematician and inventor of the vernier caliper used for taking accurate measurements

@53►1898 William Seward Burroughs, American inventor ‘calculating machine’

30’s

@37►2017 Basi, world's oldest giant panda in captivity, dies in Fuzhou, China, (in the wild, lifespan 20 years)