Sep 9

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Sept  9, 2018 Week: 37\ Day: 252

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Nearest Lightning:  335 miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 87°[1977]   Record Low: 31°[2001]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

   Beware the fury of a patient man.

   John Dryden

Harper’s Index

  3

  Percentage of income and wealth taxes in

  Norway, Sweden and Denmark that are evaded each year

  30

  That are evaded among those nations’

  top .01 percent of earners

Observances This Week

6-10    National Environmental Services Week Link

Popcorn Days   Link

7-9      National Days of Prayer & Remembrance

8-10    Mushroom Days

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

Observances for Today

Bluebird of Happiness Day  Link  Link
Care Bears Share Your Care Day  Link
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day Link
Grandparent's Day
International Buy A Priest A Beer Day Link
National Hug Your Hound Day
National Pet Memorial Day Link
National Teddy Bear Day  Link 
Opposite Day (Do the Opposite of What You Normally Do. Breathing, living, etc. is the exception)  Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants)
Pet Rock Day Link 
Teddy Bear Day

AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Day  Link
Rosh Hashanah

Wonderful Weirdoes Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1000’s                                         

1000 Battle of Svolder, Baltic Sea: King Olaf on board the Long Serpent defeated in one of the greatest naval battles of the Viking Age.

1500’s                                         

1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling

1600’s                                         

1675 New England colonies declare war on Wampanoag Tribe

1700’s                                         

1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)

1800’s                                         

1850 Territories of New Mexico & Utah created

1850 California is admitted as the thirty-first state of the Union

1861 Nurse Sally Tompkins is officially commissioned as an officer (and its only woman officer) by the Confederate US Army

1886 The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works is finalized

1900’s                                         

1942 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes

1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log

1957 US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction

1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools

1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China

1967 Uganda declares independence from Great Britain

1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa

2000’s                                         

2010 A court in the Philippines orders Imelda Marcos to repay the government almost $280,000 for funds taken from the National Food Authority by Ferdinand Marcos in 1983

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

2017 Egyptian archaeologists announce the discovery of a 3,500-year-old tomb of a goldsmith and his family in Draa Abul-Naga, Egypt

My Rambling Thoughts

My brother’s birth family story just keeps expanding. He is in Colorado to meet a newly found half-sister who lives in Grand Junction. My brother called his long-time friend to stay at his place in Denver. Turns out, his friend had recently found out that he had a son. His girlfriend in high school had one of them ‘secret babies’, but the father just learned about it. Anyway, his friend found out his son was living in….yep…Grand Junction. So tomorrow they are headed that way to meet, for the first time my brother’s half-sister and for his friend to meet his son.

While in Denver, they drove around to our family home in Wheat Ridge, which looks great from the outside, and our first home @ 52^nd and Newton. We moved from there when I was 5 to our Wheat Ridge home. He also went by my grandfather’s house where my grandfather lived until he died, and my parents had lived in when they got married…it was a two-story house with one family upstairs and one family downstairs. Then, very soon, my parents bought the house on Newton. Sadly, my grandfather’s house has been demolished.  But all the picks he sent brought back lots of memories. They also visited his friend’s home in Edgewater.

A few clouds are coming in, but not a lot of hope for any rain, thunder, or lightning today.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90►Colonel Harland Sanders, American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, born in Henryville, Indiana (d. 1980)

80’s

@82►Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace), born in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia (d. 1910)

70’s

@79►Don Hogan Charles, American photographer and first African-American photographer hired by The New York Times, born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)

@70►Dennis Ritchie, American computer scientist (created C programming language, helped developed Unix), born in Bronxville, New York (d. 2011) heart failure

60’s

66►Angela Cartwright, England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)

@63►William Bligh, British naval commander (mutinied against on HMS Bounty), born in Plymouth (probable), England (d. 1817)at home

50’s

@58►Cardinal Richelieu, religious leader, TB

58►Hugh Grant, London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9 Months)

58►Mario Batali, Disgraced American chef and restaurateur, born in Seattle, Washington

52►Adam Sandler, movie actor

40’s

43►Michael Bublé, jazz singer

20’s

@26►Otis Redding, singer “Sittin on the Dock”, plane crash

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95►2003 Edward Teller, Hungarian-American physicist, father of the Hydrogen bomb (Manhattan Project)

80’s

@86►1978 Jack L Warner [Jacob Warner], Canadian-American film executive and president of the Warner Bros. Studios

@82►1976 Mao Zedong, Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76)

@80►2014 Denny Miller, American actor (Wagon Train), ALS

40’s

@45±►1876 American Horse, Sioux chief, in battle