Jun 12

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Jun 12, 2018 Week: 24\ Day: 163

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 45° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  786miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1918]   Record Low: 27°[1976]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

   Indira Gandhi

Harper’s Index

14

Years of Irish-language study that are required in Irish schools

3/10

Portion of Irish who feel confident speaking the language

More Observances This Month

National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month Link
National Camping Month Link
National Candy Month Link
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month Link
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Pride Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National Ice Tea Month
National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
National Oceans Month
National Pet Preparedness Month Link  Link
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month  Link
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness  Month Link
National Smile Month Link
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Zoo and Aquarium Month Link

Observances This Week

National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 10-16
National Flag Week: 10-16 
National Little League Baseball Week: 11-16   Link
Men's Health Week: 11-17 Link 

US Open Golf Championship: 11-17

Observances for Today

Call Your Doctor Day Link 
Crowded Nest Awareness Day
Loving Day Link
National Jerky Day
National Peanut Butter Cookie Day Link
Red Rose Day

Superman Day Link
Victims of Orlando, Florida Attack Day  Link
World Day Against Child Labor Link
World Pet Memorial Day 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s

1787 US Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old

1800’s

1819 Dutch colonial troops driven out of Palembang, Sumatra

1830 Beginning of the French colonization of Algeria: 34,000 French soldiers land 27 kilometers west of Algiers, at Sidi Ferruch

1897 Possibly most severe quake in history strikes Assam, India; shock waves felt over an area size of Europe (low mortality rate given size of earthquake, 1,500 casualties)

1900’s

1917 US Secret Service extends protection of the President to include his family

1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in NYC

1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury

1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana speaks continually for 15½ hours in then Senate's longest speech (150,000 words)

1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY

1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present in Amsterdam

1947 Babe Didrikson is 1st American to win British Women's Amateur Golf Championship

1954 Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" is originally released

1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa

1965 Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies

1968 U.S. premiere of horror film "Rosemary's Baby", based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Ira Levin

1981 "Raiders of the Lost Ark", the first Indiana Jones film directed by Stephen Spielberg, produced by George Lucas and starring Harrison Ford premieres

1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park NYC

1987 US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down" the Berlin wall

1990 Orioles Cal Ripken plays in his 1,308th consecutive game to move past Everett Scott into 2nd place on the all-time list

2000’s

2004 A 1.3 kilogram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries

2007 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian novelist and historian, is awarded the State Prize of the Russian Federation for his humanitarian work by President Putin

2015 Zimbabwe discards its own currency, offering an exchange of $1 for 35 quadrillion Zimbabwean dollars

2016 Cristiano Ronaldo becomes 1st footballer to top Forbes' Highest-Paid Athletes List, earning $88 million

2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions testifies before Senate Intelligence Committee, denies secretly meeting Russians

My Rambling Thoughts

Every day is a better healing day. Nice to be able to more and more each day.  Headed out this morning for a mani-pedi, since it is very difficult to trim the nails on my one good hand and the nails were getting too long for me. My favorite pedi lady was there so I was a very happy camper. Then it was off to do some shopping @ Sam’s since I didn’t have time last week. I can now use both hands to guide the cart, another plus.

Just before my Amazon trip I got a new script for glasses. The now defunct plan was to get new ones when I returned. Today I finally ordered the new glasses. VisionWorks has this crazy offer…buy one, get one free. I went to another chain and they wanted $350 for one pair. VisionWorks was $605 for two pair. I’m kinda spoiled and like being able to change glasses every so often, so VisionWorks it is. I call it a crazy offer because at first glance it seems really high, but after checking around it isn’t that bad a deal.

So, the summit is still on, and to add to the drama Dennis Rodman just happens to be visiting Singapore, hmmm. Wonder if Kim invited him…in case the summit doesn’t work out? I was in Singapore on a trip. We didn’t go to the tiny island, but really enjoyed the trip anyway.  Haha!

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

@101- David Rockefeller, American CEO (Chase Manhattan Bank) and philanthropist, born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)

90’s

94- George H. W. Bush, 41st US President (R, 1989-93) and 43rd US Vice President (R, 1981-89), born in Milton, Massachusetts

80’s

@89- Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], singer (Street Where You Live), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2018)

@88- Jameel Jalibi, Pakistani scholar, writer, and Urdu linguist (d. 1929)

@87- Jim Nabors, American actor and singer (Gomer Pyle, Back Home Again in Indiana), born in Sylacauga, Alabama (d. 2017)

teen’s

@15- Anne Frank, Dutch Diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust (Diary of Anne Frank), born in Frankfurt, Germany (d. 1945)

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@97-2016 Janet Waldo, American radio and actress (Judy Jetson, Shazzan, Penelope Pitstop)

80’s

@89-2007 Don Herbert aka "Mr. Wizard", American television host

@87-2003 Gregory Peck, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur)

70’s

@79-2002 Bill Blass, American fashion designer, throat cancer

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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