Sep 3 Labor Day

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Sept  3, 2018 Week: 36\ Day: 246

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  2.1 miles away

Wind ave.:   3mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1948]   Record Low: 34°[1973]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  We cannot change anything until we accept it.

  Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

    Carl Jung

More Observances This Month

Happy Cat Month Link
Histiocytosis Awareness Month Link
Hunger Action Month  Link  Link

Intergeneration Month
International  or National Guide Dogs Month Link  Link
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month Link  
International Speak Out Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Women's Friendship Month Link
ITP Awareness Month Link

Observances This Week

1-7   International Enthusiasm Week

National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link

Self-University Week Link

2-8      National Waffle Week

Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
National Payroll Week

Observances for Today

Cow Chip Throwing Days  
Great Bathtub Race 

Labor Day

National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days   Link  

National Day of Prayer for Victims of Hurricane Harvey  Link

Skyscraper Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

300’s                                           

301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

1100’s                                         

1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed

1700’s                                         

1777 Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during American Revolutionary War

1800’s                                         

1812 World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy

1855 Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.

1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die

1900’s                                         

1916 US President Woodrow Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike

1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp

1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson

1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road

1976 Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos

1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War

1995 eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar

2000’s                                         

2004 The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.

2015 Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia

My Rambling Thoughts

Happy Labor Day (since 1894), and great traveling to Focus Group that is headed for a French Luxury Barge Adventure.

Monsoon dampened my plans to head to the County Fair. Not a lot of rain, but lots of lightning. Maybe tomorrow.

Sunday news shows have me really questioning 45. Having citizens born near the border refused renewal of their passports, blaming Google et. al. for his not being a popular president. The US has been a pretty middle-of-the-road political country. There have always been minor differences between the parties. There have always been outliers from each party in power. Some have been too liberal or too conservative for most of the country. What we have now is an outlier in the Oval Office who does not want to listen to anyone who doesn’t agree with him 100% of the time. His ‘base’ are also outliers. They are in the minority and always have been. We will learn that in the November elections. The most important thing is that 2018 elections show ourselves that we are a nation of voters. Here’s hoping that we have the largest turnout in our history.   

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94►Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)(d. 2018)

80’s

89►Whitey Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.], American gangster, born in Boston, Massachusetts

70’s

@75►Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle, Mercedes-Benz SS) and founder of the Porsche car company, born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1951) stroke

@74►Sally Benson, American writer (Meet me in St. Louis), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1972)

60’s

@67►Louis Sullivan, American architect (father of skyscrapers), born in Boston, (d. 1924)

50’s

54►Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur, Father of the Podcast

52►Charlie Sheen (Carlos Estevez), actor (Two & ½ Men)

30’s

32►Shaun White, Olympic snowboarder

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92►2012 Sun Myung Moon, South Korean evangelist (Unification Church)

@90►2017 John Ashbery, American poet (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror)

80’s

@86►2015 Adrian Cadbury, British confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance

@80►2005 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States

70’s

@79►1969 Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69), heart failure

@77►1893 James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor ‘Father of Refrigeration’

60’s

@67►1962 e. e. cummings, American poet (Tulips & Chimneys), stroke

@63►2007 Steve Fossett, American adventurer (1st person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon,) plane crash

50’s

@59►1658 Oliver Cromwell, English general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, septicemia

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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