Jun 8

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Jun 8, 2018 Week: 23\ Day: 159

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 44° \ Average Sky Cover: % 

Nearest Lightning:  406miles away

Wind ave.:  11 mph\Gusts:  27mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 89°[1985]   Record Low: 24°[1950]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

Well done is better than well said.

  Benjamin Franklin

Harper’s Index

22

Number of US vets who have been waiting more than 30 years for decisions on disability-benefits appeals

2

Who have been waiting more than 50 years

More Observances This Month

Dairy Alternatives Month
Dementia Care Professionals Month

Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month

Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Fireworks Safety Month

Observances This Week

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
Superman Days: 7-10  Link

Observances for Today

Banana Split Days -9  Link

Ghostbusters Day  Link
National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link

Poultry Days-10 Link 

Upsy Daisy Day
World Oceans Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

00’s                                               

68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River

1500’s                                          

1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England

1800’s                                          

1802 US Academy at West Point founded

1860 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens

1869 Charles E. Hires sells his 1st root beer, in Philadelphia

1900’s                                          

1902 1st Automat restaurant opens (818 Chestnut St, Philadelphia)

1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days

1923 Brinks unveils 1st armored security vans

1934 1st appearance of Donald Duck in a cartoon, "The Wise Little Hen"

1943 "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized

1958 "Purple People Eater" by Sheb Wooley hits #1

1970 Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University

1970 Bob Dylan given honorary Doctorate of Music at Princeton University

1972 14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237

1978 Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, the first book produced using the printing press, (1 of 21 complete versions) sells for $2.4 million, London

1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood

2000’s                                          

2001 Stanley Cup: Colorado Avalanche defeat New Jersey Devils 4-3

2006 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrates the 1st of 3 national holidays to commemorate his 60 years on the throne.

2013 Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents

My Rambling Thoughts

Our Focus group in the Amazon adventure was an excellent group of travlers. We were together for the trip and only people om the ship. This gave us a great time to really learn about each other. I had traveled with quite a few of them on other trips, but this time we really had a chance to get to know about each other’s lives, VERY NICE.

On the last trek, we climbed another 8 rope bridges to get to the top of the canopy. These bridges were narrower and sturdier than t the lodge. It was a great time, and everyone made it with no problems…As we were returning to the boat I somehow slipped on wet leaves and injured my wrist. The guide wrapped it in a T-shirt and made a sling. The nearest Dr. was 2 hours by boat and another hour by vehicle, so we went to the Shaman lady we had met the day before. She put some Dragon’s blood on it to ease the pain and some tree bark mixture to stop the welling. Both worked very well. I finished the trip, thanks to some Oxy that Ellie had.  We visited several more villages, had more great meals, including ice cream!, and left the boat to return to Lima and fly back to the USA.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Robert S McNamara, US Sec of Defense (1961-68)/head (World Bank) d. 2009

@92- Barbara Bush, 1^st lady

91- Jerry Stiller, TV & movie actor

80’s

87- Jackie Mason, Wisc, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup)

@84- Joe Santos, American actor (Rockford Files), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)

@81- Joan Rivers (Joan Alexandra Molinsky), TV host

@81- Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, 1st qualified woman physician in Britain, first woman mayor (Aldeburgh), born in London (d. 1917)

70’s

79- Charles Webb, American writer (The Graduate), born in San Francisco, California

78- Nancy Sinatra, singer

@73- Cole Porter, Indiana, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate) d. 1964, kidney failure

60’s

@67- George Stephenson, English engineer known as the "Father of Railways" (Locomotion No. 1, Standard Guage), born in Newcastle, England d. 1848

67- Bonnie Tyler, pop singer

50’s

57- Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor, author, comedian and activist (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf), born in Edmonton, Alberta

55- Johnny Depp, American actor (21 Jump Street, Pirates of the Caribbean), born in Owensboro, Kentucky

@52 Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov],Tsar of Russia (1682-1725), born in Moscow (d. 1725) gangrene of bladder

40’s

41- Kanya West, rapper

30’s

37- Natalie Portman [Neta-Lee Hershlag], Israeli-American actress (V for Vendetta, Black Swan, Star Wars), born in Jerusalem, Israel

Historical Obits Today

8/0’s

@88-2017 Adam West [William West Anderson], American actor (Batman, Last Precinct)

@88-1927 Victoria Woodhull, American civil rights activist (1872 presidential candidate, woman's suffrage movement)

70’s

@72-1871 Anna Atkins, English botanist, photographer and the 1st person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images, paralysis, rheumatism, and exhaustion

@70-1991 Charles Loloma, Hopi painter/sculptor

60’s

@64-1911 Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader

@63-1981 Allen Ludden, game show host (Password), stomach cancer

50’s

@58-1870 Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist), stroke 

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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