Sep 6

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Sept 6, 2018 Week: 36\ Day: 249

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 50% 

Nearest Lightning: 18.3 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 87°[1975]   Record Low: 33°[1985]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

 What happens is not as important as

 how you react to what happens.

 Ellen Glasgow

More Observances This Month

One-on-One Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pain Awareness Month  Link
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Awareness Month  Link
Save The Koala Month Link
Save Your Photos Month  Link
Sea Cadet Month
Self-Care Awareness Month Link
Self Improvement Month Link
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
Superior Relationships Month

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

4-8      Play Days 

6-10    National Environmental Services Week Link

   Popcorn Days   Link

Observances for Today

Fight Procrastination Day

Read a Book Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1651 King Charles II of England spends a day hiding in an oak tree during his escape after losing the Battle of Worcester

1666 After St Paul's Cathedral and much of the city had been burned down over four days, the Great Fire of London is finally extinguished.

1700’s                                         

1716 1st lighthouse built in north America (Boston)

1800’s                                         

1819 Thomas Blanchard patents lathe

1839 Cherokee Nation unites and ratifies constitution at Tahlequah, Oklahoma

1866 Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention

1900’s                                         

1901 US President William McKinley is shot by Leon Czolgosz, an anarchist, while visiting the Pan-American Exposition in New York

1916 1st true supermarket, the "Piggly Wiggly" is opened by Clarence Saunders in Memphis, Tennessee

1954 US plane shot down above Siberia

1965 India invades West Pakistan - official beginning of the Indo-Pakistani War

1971 British Prime Minister Edward Heath meets with Irish Prime Minister/Taoiseach Jack Lynch at Chequers in England to discuss the situation in Northern Ireland

1971 William Craig and Ian Paisley speak at a rally in Belfast before a crowd of approximately 20,000 people and call for the establishment of a 'third force' to defend 'Ulster'

1983 Soviet Union admits that it shot down the South Korean airliner KAL 007 on September 1st

1991 The name Saint Petersburg is restored to Russia's second largest city, which had been renamed Leningrad in 1924.

1997 Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales held at Westminster Abbey in London

2000’s                                         

2017 Catalonia's parliament passes law to allow referendum on independence from Spain

My Rambling Thoughts

Cooler evenings mean I have closed my deck door at night. Guess fall is near. Monsoon still around. Clouds, lightning, thunder, and some rain seem to be the order of today.

First Wednesday is ‘old people shopping day’…10% of everything in the grocery store. Always busy but worth the trip and the hassle.  My dad would be so proud.

I never wanted to be a politician. I never wanted to be a lawyer. I never worked to become a full-time principal because there was too much politics. As I watch the politicians and lawyers during the Supreme Court nomination, I am even more glad I made the choices I made. Several times I have just had to shake my head at either a stupid question or a stupid answer.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@81►Joseph P Kennedy, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy, born in Boston, (d. 1969)

70’s

@76►Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot and French revolutionary, born in Chavaniac, France (d. 1834)

@74►Jane Addams, American pacifist, social worker and feminist (Nobel 1931), born in Cedarville, Illinois (d. 1935)

74►Swoosie Kurtz, Actress

50’s

56►Chris Christie, American politician (Governor of New Jersey (R) 2010-), born in Newark, NJ

30’s

35►Pippa [Philippa] Middleton, English sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, born in Berkshire, England

Historical Obits Today

0’s

@88►2007 Madeleine L'Engle, American author

@86►1966 Margaret Sanger, US feminist and birth control pioneer