Jun 19

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Jun 19, 2018 Week: 25\ Day: 170

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  385 miles away

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1936]   Record Low: 25°[1929]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

It doesn't matter who my father was;

it matters who I remember he was.

  Anne Sexton

Harper’s Index

$1400

Average cost of traffic  congestion to a US driver in 2016

Observances This Week

National Hermit Week: 13-20
National Nursing Assistants Week: 14-21 
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 14-23
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 17-23 Link    Link
National Week of Making: 17-23  Link
Meet A Mate Week: 18-24
National Pollinator Week: 18-24  Link
Universal Father's Week: 18-24 

Observances for Today

Free BSD Day Link
Garfield the Cat Day
International Day For The Elimination

     of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Juneteenth
National Kissing Day

World Sickle Cell Day Link

National Watch Day Link
World Sauntering Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1603 Merga Bien arrested for witchcraft in Fulda, Germany, part of Fulda witch trials. She and about 250 people later burned at the stake.

1610 Samuel de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec

1800’s                                          

1829 Sir Robert Peel introduces the Metropolitan Police Act 1829 into Parliament to establish a unified police force for London

1900’s                                          

1910 Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Washington)

1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College

1913 Natives Land Act, Act No 27, passed in South Africa: confines Africans to hopelessly overcrowded reserves and deprives them of rights to purchase land outside the native reserves

1917 The British Royal Family, which has had strong German ties since George I, renounces its German names and titles and adopts the name of Windsor

1934 Federal Communications Commission (FCC) created

1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host

1956 Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films

1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God

1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth

1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign

1978 "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 performances

1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip

1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation

1987 Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia

1991 Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police

1999 At about 4:30 pm, Stephen King is hit by a car on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. He would suffer numerous injuries, including a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip

2000’s                                          

2012 A man is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia

2014 4th Critics' Choice Television Awards: Orange Is the New Black wins; Best Comedy Series, Breaking Bad wins Best Drama Series

2017 First full genetic study of cats published in "Nature Ecology and Evolution", reveals domesticated 9,000 years ago, descended from one species (African wildcat)

2017 Record 65.6 million people displaced around the world in 2016 reported by UN refugee agency

My Rambling Thoughts

Warm and windy day. Headed out early for a blood draw to check my thyroid. Should have done it a month ago, but due to wrist surgery I postponed it. Expect a good report when I see the doc on Thursday.

A tad windy for my taste. Only hope is that it will bring some more moisture.

More hearings about investigations. Lots of the same old stuff. I’m still awaiting someone to slip and release a smoking gun. Until that happens it is just little more than blah, blah, blah. But I still listen.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@89- Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], American divorcee whom British King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry, born in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania (d. 1986)

70’s

@77- Moe Howard [Moses Horowitz], American actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1975) lung cancer

@75- Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne) d. 1977, heart attack

72- Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, leader of the National League for Democracy and human rights activist (1991 Nobel Peace Prize), born in Rangoon, British Burma

70- Phylicia Rashad, American actress and singer (The Cosby Show, One Life to Live), born in Houston, Texas

60’s

64- Kathleen Turner, American actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile), born in Springfield, Missouri

50’s

@58- James Stuart, King James VI of Scotland (1567-1625) and James I of England and Ireland (1603-25), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1625) dysentery

56- Paula Abdul, American singer-songwriter, choreographer (Straight Up) and TV personality (American Idol), born in San Fernando, California

40’s

46- Jean Dujardin, 1st French actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor (The Artist), born in Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France

40- Zoe Saldana, American actress (Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl), born in Passaic, New Jersey

30’s

@39- Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, physicistand Christian philosopher (Pascal's Law, Pascal's Wager), born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (d. 1662) cancer/TB

@37- Lou Gehrig [Henry Louis Gehrig], American first baseman (NY Yankees), nicknamed "The Iron Horse", born in NYC, New York (d. 1941) ALS

35- Macklemore, rapper

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88-2007 Antonio Aguilar [Barraza], Mexican singer, producer and actor (Emiliano Zapata) who popularized the Mexican equestrian sport la charrería

@81-1993 William Golding, author (Lord of the Flies, Nobel 1983)

70’s

@79-1966 Ed Wynn [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], American comedian (Ed Wynn Show)

@77-1937 J. M. [James Matthew] Barrie, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter Pan) pneumonia

60’s

@67-1975 Sam Giancana, American gangster, multiple gunshot wounds

50’s

@51-2013 James Gandolfini, American actor (The Sopranos), heart attack 

30’s

@37-1953 Ethel Rosenberg, 1st US civilian executed (in 5 tries) at Sing Sing, NY, for espionage

@35-1953 Julius Rosenberg, 1st US civilian executed at Sing Sing, NY for espionage

@34-1867 Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire executed by firing

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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼