Jun 14

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Jun 14, 2018 Week: 24\ Day: 165

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 50° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest Lightning:  43miles away

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  24mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1974]   Record Low: 25°[2001]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

To be treated well in places where you don't expect to be treated well, to find things in common with people you thought previously you had very, very little in common with, that can't be a bad thing.

    Anthony Bourdain

Harper’s Index

58

Percentage by which the 1^st FBI crime  report under the current President contained fewer data tables than the previous years

More Observances This Month

Rebuild Your Life Month

Scleroderma Awareness Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Sorghum Month Link
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month

Observances This Week

National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 10-16
National Flag Week: 10-16 
National Little League Baseball Week: 11-16   Link
US Open Golf Championship: 11-17
Men's Health Week: 11-17 Link
*National Hermit Week: 13-20
Duct Tape Days: 14-16 Link
National Nursing Assistants Week: 14-21 
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 14-23 

Observances for Today

Army's Birthday
Family History Day
Flag Day
International Bath Day  Link
Monkey Around Day

National Bourbon Day  Link
Pause for the Pledge Day
(World) Blood Donor Day Link
National Nursing Assistants Day Link  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

1700’s                                          

1777 US Continental Congress adopts the Stars & Stripes flag, designed by Francis Hopkinson, replacing the Grand Union flag

1789 Captain William Bligh and his loyal men cast off from HMS Bounty reach Timor, after sailing 5,800 km in a 6-metre launch

1834 Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont

1847 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner

1881 Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Massachusetts)

1900’s                                          

1913 The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by Gandhi

1922 US President Warren G. Harding is 1st US President to use radio, dedicates the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

1940 Auschwitz concentration camp opens in Nazi controlled Poland with Polish POWs (approx. 3 million would die within its walls)

1942 Walt Disney's animated movie "Bambi", based on the book by Felix Salten, is released

1953 Eisenhower condemns McCarthy's book burning proposal

1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge

1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency

1968 "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" 2nd studio album by Iron Butterfly is released

1972 Tropical storm (later hurricane) Agnes forms over Yucatán Peninsula

1974 "All the President's Men" by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward detailing their Watergate investigation is published by Simon and Schuster in the US

1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)

1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg is nominated to the United States Supreme Court by President Bill Clinton

My Rambling Thoughts

Started the day with a hassle with our local paper’s subscription policy. Turns out paying for an annual subscription is not for a year. They offer several ‘special issues’ and each one takes a day or two off the annual subscription. This year there were so many of these ‘special issues’ that my 12-month annual subscription turned into 10 months and 2 weeks. After a few phone calls I learned the policy is clearly stated on page 2 of the paper, in ultra-tiny print. Live and learn.

It’s very warm and cloudy with hope that the monsoon is very close. We need the moisture. Weather guy sez monsoon showers on Friday. Yeah! The fear today and tomorrow is the dry lightning that could ignite our beautiful but extremely dry forest.  I’ve been following the fires around Durango, CO. I have friends up there and also know several rez families who have kids going to the college there. A tough time for all who love Durango and the surrounding beauty.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90- Gene Barry [Eugene Klass], American actor (The Atomic City, Bat Masterson), born in NYC, New York (d. 2009)

80’s

87- Marla Gibbs, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227), born in Chicago, Illinois

86- Joe Arpaio, American former sheriff of Maricopa County (1993-2016), born in Springfield, Massachusetts

@85- Harriet Beecher Stowe, American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), born in Litchfield, Connecticut (d. 1896)

@85- Burl Ives, American folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), born in Hunt City, Illinois (d. 1995)

70’s

72- Donald Trump, 45th US President, real estate tycoon (Trump Towers) and TV personality (The Apprentice), born in NYC, New York

60’s

60- Eric Heiden, US speed skater (5 Olympic gold medals 1980), born in Madison, Wisconsin

50’s

57- Boy George [O'Dowd], British singer-songwriter (Culture Club), born in Bexley, Kent, England

@51- Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist/neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease) (d. 1915)

40’s

49- Steffi Graf, German tennis star who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, born in Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

30’s

@39- Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Argentine Marxist revolutionary (Cuban Revolution), author and physician, born in Rosario, Argentina (d. 1967) executed in Bolivia

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-1993 Vincent T Hamlin, cartoonist (Alley Oop)

80’s

@88-2007 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the United Nations (1972-81) and 9th President of Austria (1986-92)

@86-1986 Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine author (Book of Sand)

@82-1926 Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist artist

@81-1986 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)

70’s

@70-1994 Henry Mancini, composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), pancreatic  cancer

@70-1825 Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born American architect who laid out Washington, D.C.

60’s

@69-1928 Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragette who formed the Women's Social & Political Union (1903)

@67-1986 Alan Jay Lerner, American lyricist (Lerner & Loewe-My Fair Lady), lung cancver

@67±-1824 Agustín de Betancourt, Spanish civil engineer (steam engines, hot air balloons)

@66-1968 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), stroke

@60-1801 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War general, dropsy

50’s

@57-1946 John Logie Baird, Scottish inventor and father of the television, 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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