Jun 5

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Jun 5, 2018 Week: 23\ Day: 156

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  1136miles away

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 87°[2006]   Record Low: 25°[1943]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

  J. Paul Getty

Harper’s Index

100

  Estimated number of arthropod species living in a US home

More Observances This Month

Beautiful in Your Skin Month Link
Black Music Month Link

Observances This Week

Beer Pong Days: 1-5 
International Clothesline Week: 2-9 (First Sat-Sun Week)
National Lemonade Days: 2-10 Link
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 3-9
Black Single Parents Week: 3-9(First Full Week)
End Mountain Top Removal Week:  3-9 Link   (First Full Week)
National Business Etiquette Week:  3-9 (First Full Week)
National Headache Awareness Week: 3-9Link  (First Full Week)
National Sun Safety Week: 3-9 Link
Pet Appreciation Week: 3-9  (First Full Week)   Link

Observances for Today

Apple II Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Beer Pong Day  Link
Festival of Popular Delusions Day  Link
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Moonshine Day:
National Veggie Burgers Day   Link
World Environment Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                          

1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)

1900’s                                          

1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage

1937 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe

1950 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation

1953 US Senate rejects China People's Republic membership to UN

1960 "George Gobel Show" last airs on CBS-TV

1967 Six-day war begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria

1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)

1977 National Council of Women of Kenya led by Wangari Maathai march to Kamukunji Park, Nairobi, and plant seven trees - beginning of the Green Belt Movement

1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles

1987 "Nightline" presents its 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM

1988 Russian orthodox church celebrates it's 1,000th anniversary

1990 South African troops plunder Nelson Mandela's home

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

2000’s                                          

2012 American gubernatorial recall election is held in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker wins and becomes the first governor to survive a recall election.

2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK

2017 Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over

My Rambling Thoughts

On our Amazon trip we stayed at Ceiba Tops Lodge. This is where we got our first view of the Amazon River and local villages along the river. One night we had a local high school group entertain us with music and song…and one girl who danced with an Anaconda. The students really enjoyed entertaining us. I learned not to be too afraid of that huge snake. Little did I know, each village would greet us with a teenage boy holding an Anaconda.

Day 5 took us to our river ship for a 7-day cruise on the Amazon. Our 1^st night included a night boat ride to see the nocturnal life in the Amazon. An amazing ride. Our crew also entertained us with local music. Never figured out who had more fun, the crew or the passengers.

On the home front…healing is progressing as some of the tape is starting to break loose from each of the two scars.  Yeah!

Watching the news for the past few weeks sure has me glad that 1984 was required reading in my youth. Doublespeak seems to be in full swing. One with a rudimentary education is having a very hard time knowing the truth.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

60’s

69- Ken Follett, Welsh spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions), born in Cardiff, Wales

67- Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.

65- Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer(E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park) President of Lucasfilm (2012-), born in Berkeley, California

@62- John Maynard Keynes, English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1946)

61- Kenny G (Kenneth Bruce Gorelick), musician

40’s

@49- Stan Jones, American songwriter, composer and actor (Rio Grande, The Sheriff of Cochise), born in Douglas, Arizona (d. 1963) cancer

47- Mark Wahlberg, rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed), born in Boston, Massachusetts

@45- [Francisco] Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary/guerrilla leader (d. 1923) assassinated

30’s

39- Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy), born in Wilmette, Illinois

@38- Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and the 1st woman to receive an academic degree from a university, born in Venice, Italy (d. 1684) TB

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2004 Ronald Reagan, 40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)

70’s

@73-1999 Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor strokes

50’s

@59-1993 Conway Twitty, country star (Linda on My Mind), in surgery

40’s

@47-1910 O. Henry (William Sidney Porter), American author cirrhosis

20’s

@28-1900 Stephen Crane, author (Red Badge of Courage), hemorrhages

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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