Jun 21

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Jun 21, 2018 Week: 25\ Day: 172

86004 Today: H 85° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  767miles away

Wind ave.:   2mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 93°[1936]   Record Low: 28°[1975]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.   

   Lao Tzu

Harper’s Index

331

Hours last year that Germans were paid to use power because supply outstripped demand

7

Number of other European Union countries that experienced negative power prices last year

Observances This Week

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
International Listening Days: 20-23

Observances for Today

Ann & Samantha Day (Summer& Winter Solstices. Also Dec. 21)   Link
Atheists Solidarity Day Link
Cuckoo Warning Day (First Day of Summer)
Dump The Pump Day Link 
Finally Summer Day / Summer Solstice 

Global Orgasm Day Link (Always on Winter Solstice and Summer Solstice)
Go Skate Day

Go Skateboarding Day Link
International Yoga Day  Link
Midsummer
National Daylight Appreciation Day
National Day of The Gong  Link
National Sea Shell Day  Link
National Selfie Day Link
Recess At Work Day
Tall Girl Appreciation Day
World Giraffe Day  Link
World Handshake Day Link
World Humanist Day
World Hydrography Day  Link
World Music Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

1547 Great fire in Moscow, 2-3,000 killed

1600’s                                          

1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown

1684 King Charles II revokes Massachusetts Bay Colony charter

1700’s                                          

1734 In Montreal, New France (Quebec), black slave Marie-Joseph Angélique, having been convicted of the arson that destroyed much of the city, is tortured and hanged by the French authorities in a public ceremony

1749 Halifax, Nova Scotia, is founded

1800’s                                          

1877 The Molly Maguires, ten Irish immigrants, are hanged at the Schuylkill County and Carbon County, Pennsylvania prisons

1879 Frank W. Woolworth opens his 1st successful "F. W. Woolworth Great Five Cent Store" on North Queen Street, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

1887 Britain celebrates golden jubilee of Queen Victoria

1893 1st Ferris wheel premieres (Chicago's Columbian Exposition)

1898 US captures Guam from Spain during the Spanish-American War

1900’s                                          

1900 In the Philippines, General Arthur McArthur, US military governor of the Philippines, issues an amnesty proclamation to those Filipinos who will renounce the insurgent movement and accept US sovereignty

1907 E W Scripps founded United Press

1915 The U.S. Supreme Court hands down its decision in Guinn v. United States 238 US 347 1915, striking down an Oklahoma law denying the right to vote to some citizens

1919 The German Navy, feeling betrayed by the terms of the Versailles Treaty, scuttles most of its ships interned at Great Britain's Scapa Flow Naval base in the Orkney Islands

1948 33 1/3 RPM LP record introduced and 78's planned to be phased out (Dr Peter Goldmark-Columbia Records)

1964 Three civil rights workers, Michael H Schwerner, Andrew Goodman & James E Chane, disappeared after release from a Mississippi jail

1966 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?", directed by Mike Nichols and based on the 1962 play of the same name, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1967)

1969 Zager & Evans release "In the Year 2525"

1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Evita" premieres in London

1989 Supreme Court rules ok to burn US flag as a political expression

2000’s                                          

2001 A federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicts 13 Saudis and a Lebanese in the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia that killed 19 American servicemen

2001 Mexican artist Frida Kahlo is the 1st Hispanic woman to be honored on a US postage stamp

2004 SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight

My Rambling Thoughts

After yesterday’s rant, I did enjoy my career. I run into many former staff and students who also enjoyed their time in the Bureau system.

All I can say about today’s Executive Order, it is one very small step. The damage is done for thousands of minors. Awaiting to see how these kids get back to their parents. Waiting to see where these families will be held.

Let us all remember both the kids and parents are currently being held in facilities that are run by private for profit companies.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

85- Bernie Kopell, American actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl), born in NYC, New York

70’s

79- Ron Ely [Ronald Pierce], American actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage), born in Hereford, Texas

@74- Jean-Paul Sartre, French existentialist philosopher and writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined), born in Paris (d. 1980) edema

71- Michael Gross, American actor (Family Ties, FBI murders), born in Chicago, Illinois

71- Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, human rights activist and 1st Iranian Muslim woman to receive a Nobel Peace Prize (2003), born in Hamadan, Iran

60’s

@69- Max Wolf, German astronomer, pioneer in the field of astrophotography, born in Heidelberg, Germany (d. 1932)

@69- Frank Sherman Land, founder of the Order of DeMolay, born in Kansas City, Missouri (d. 1959)

50’s

@54- Benazir Bhutto, 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan and 1st female leader of a Muslim nation, born in Karachi, Pakistan (d. 2007) assassinated

53- Lana [formally Larry] Wachowski, American film director (Matrix trilogy), born in Chicago Illinois

30’s

39- Chris Pratt, American actor (Guardians of the Galaxy, Jurassic World,), born in Virginia, Minnesota

36- Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana, born in London, England

35- Edward Snowden, American NSA contractor who leaked classified information, born in Elizabeth City, NC

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@82-1992 Li Xiannian, President of the People's Republic of China (1983-88)

70’s

@78-2003 Leon Uris, American writer (Exodus), renal failure

@76-2001 Carroll O'Connor, American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night), heart attack

60’s

@68-1970 Sukarno, 1st President of Indonesia (1945-67), kidney failure while under house arrest

50’s

@58-1527 Niccolo Machiavelli, Florentine statesman/author

@51-1631 John Smith, English explorer (Chesapeake Bay, New England) and leader of the Virginia Colony (Jamestown)

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.