Jun 25

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Jun 25, 2018 Week: 26\ Day: 176

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  413miles away

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 95°[1970]   Record Low: 30°[1965]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

Harper’s Index

125

Minimum number of companies and recruiters accused of using Facebook to keep older workers from seeing their job ads

Observances This Week

Carpenter Ant Awareness Week: 24-30
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week: 24-30 Link 
Lightning Safety Awareness Week: 24-30 Link
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week: 24-30 Link 
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week: 24-30
Windjammer Days: 24-30

Observances for Today

Color TV Day (CBS)
Day of The Seafarer Link
Global Beatles Day Link
Leon Day  Link
Log Cabin Day

National Catfish Day  Link
Please Take My Children To Work Day  

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

1672 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Massachusetts

1678 Venetian Elena Cornaro Piscopia is awarded a doctorate of philosophy, the 1st woman to receive a university doctoral degree or PhD

1700’s

1798 US passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens

1800’s

1867 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio

1868 US President Andrew Johnson passes a law that government workers would work 8 hr day

1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn: US 7th Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custerwiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer's Last Stand"

1900’s

1929 US President Herbert Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1938 Federal minimum wage law guarantees workers 25 cents per hour (rising to 40 cents by 1945) and a maximum 44 hour working week

1962 Supreme Court rules NY school prayer unconstitutional

1972 Bernice Gera becomes 1st female umpire in pro baseball

1975 After a prolonged liberation struggle against Portuguese colonial rulers, Mozambique becomes independent as People Republic of Mozambique

1976 The Soweto Uprising in South Africa leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting

1978 First use of the rainbow flag, symbol of gay pride, made by Gilbert Baker at a march in San Francisco

1983 "Evita" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 1568 performances

1984 Prince releases his "Purple Rain" album

1990 120°F in Phoenix Arizona

2000’s

2014 The US Supreme Court rules that police cannot examine the digital contents of a cell phone without a court order

My Rambling Thoughts

The discussion group went well. I learned a lot. Russia has a long history of feeling that they are not respected for their greatness. The current Putin regime is simply using that deep held historical belief. However; with falling energy prices, Russia is not doing well economically. So, much of their threat is just words.

There is a nice breeze, bringing down our hot temps. Yeah!

Wrist is healing well. Hoping I lose the brace after my Tuesday morning appointment. Then I can start using both hands again.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

93- June Lockhart, American actress (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction), born in NYC, New York

@92- Bill Dana [William Szathmary], American comedian, characters actor (José Jiménez), and screenwriter (The Nude Bomb, The Bill Dana Show), d. 2017

70’s

73- Carly Simon, American singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain), born in NYC

60’s

@61- Anthony Bourdain, American-French celebrity chef, author, and TV personality considered one of the most influential chefs in the world (No Reservations, Parts Unknown), born in NYC, New York (d. 2018) suicide

50’s

57- Ricky Gervais, English actor and comedian (The Office), born in Reading, England

@53- George Michael [Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou], English singer-songwriter and pop superstar (Wham!, I Want Your Sex), born in London, England (d. 2016) heart failure

40’s

@46- George Orwell [Eric Arthur Blair], Bihar, British writer (Animal Farm, 1984), born in Motihari, British India (d. 1950) burst artery

Historical Obits Today

@36-1876 George Armstrong Custer, United States Army officer and cavalry commander in the American Civil War and the American Indian Wars, @ Battle of Little Bighorn

@52-1906 Stanford White, American architect, shot dead atop Madison Square Garden which he designed by Harry Thaw jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit at 52

@66-1976 Johnny Mercer, US songwriter (That old Black Magic), brain tumor

@87-1997 Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer

@87-2003 Lester Maddox, American businessman, one-time segregationist and Governor of Georgia

@50-2009 Michael Jackson, American recording artist, entertainer and King of Pop music (The Jackson 5, Thriller, Dangerous) cardiac arrest 

@62-2009 Farrah Fawcett, American actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed), anal 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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