Jun 26

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Jun 26, 2018 Week: 26\ Day: 177

86004 Today: H 88° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  904 miles away

Wind ave.:   2mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 96°[1970]   Record Low: 26°[1975]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

  Allan Bloom

Harper’s Index

25

Number of staff the Zimbabwean government has guaranteed to Robert Mugabe as part of his retirement package

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

Beautician's Day

Forgiveness Day

Harry Potter Day
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
National Canoe Day
National Columnists Day 
Same Sex Marriage Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                          

1498 Toothbrush invented in China using boar bristles

1700’s                                          

1721 Dr Zabdiel Boylston gives 1st smallpox inoculations in America

1797 Charles Newbold patents 1st cast-iron plow, though farmers fear effects of iron on soil

1800’s                                          

1843 Hong Kong proclaimed a British Crown Colony

1848 1st pure food law enacted in US

1870 1st section of Atlantic City (NJ) Boardwalk opens

1870 Wagner's opera "Valkyrie" premieres in Munich

1894 Karl Benz of Germany receives US patent for gasoline-driven auto

1900’s                                          

1900 Dr Walter Reed begins research that beats Yellow Fever

1914 The Indian Relief Act, passes after a protracted period of Passive Resistance led by Gandhi; it abolishes a £3 tax imposed on Indians who had not renewed their indentures and recognizes "the validity of Indian customary marriages"

1919 NY Daily News begins publishing

1945 United Nations Charter signed by 50 nations in San Francisco 1959 Queen Elizabeth & President Eisenhower open St Lawrence Seaway

1960 British Somaliland (now Somalia) gains independence from Britain

1960 Madagascar (formerly Malagasy Rep) declares independence from France

1963 US President John F. Kennedy gives his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" (intended to mean "I am a Berliner", but may actually mean "I am a dougnut") speech in West Berlin

1968 Iwo Jima & Bonin Islands returned to Japan by US 1971 "Man of La Mancha" closes at ANTA Wash Sq Theater NYC after 2329 performances

1975 Two FBI agents and a member of the American Indian Movement are killed in a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota; Leonard Peltier is later convicted of the murders in a controversial trial.

1990 122°F in Phoenix Arizona

1993 The U.S. launches a cruise missile attack targeting Baghdad intelligence headquarters in retaliation for a thwarted assassination attempt against former President George H. W. Bush in April in Kuwait.1974 The Universal Product Code is scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley's chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio

My Rambling Thoughts

Typical Monday…very warm, no clouds, not a lot of breeze. Hurry up Monsoon!

Did some early running around to pick up a present for Mary’s b-day party Wed. her day isn’t until Jul 4, but Cheryl won’t be available that day.

While I do not agree with most of 45’s policies, I also do not agree on the public shaming of his staff. They do not deserve public humiliation when they are off-duty. Save the protests for them at their press conferences or when they are attending meetings as part of their job.  

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Colonel Tom Parker [Andreas Cornelis van Kuijk], Dutch-born talent manager (Elvis Presley), born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1997)

70’s

@73- Abner Doubleday, Union general-major and inventor (baseball), born in Ballston Spa, New York (d. 1893) heart disease

60’s

61- Chris Isaak, American rock singer-songwriter (Wicked Game), born in Stockton, California

50’s

@59- Peter Lorre, Hungarian-American actor (M, Casablanca, Beast with 5 Fingers), born in Rózsahegy, Austria-Hungary (d. 1964) stroke

57- Greg LeMond, US professional road cyclist (Tour de France winner-1986, 1989, 1990), born in Lakewood, California

40’s

48- Sean Hayes- actor, producer, comedian

48- Chris O'Donnell, American actor (School Ties, Robin-Batman Forever), born in Winnetka, Illinois

@45- Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American all-round athlete (10 LPGA majors, Olympic gold medals 80m hurdles, javelin 1932), born in Port Arthur, Texas (d. 1956) cancer

44- Derek Jeter, American baseball shortstop (NY Yankees, Rookie of Year 1996), born in Pequannock, New Jersey

30’s

38- Michael Vick, American football player, former dog fighter

@31- Branwell Brontë [Patrick Branwell Brontë], English painter and writer and brother of the writers Charlotte, Emily and Anne, born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England (d. 1848)TB

20’s

25- Ariana Grande, American singer (Problem, The Way), born in Boca Raton, Florida

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@78-2007 Liz Claiborne, American fashion designer, entrepreneur and founder of Liz Claiborne Inc, cancer 

@71-1993 Roy Campanella, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (NL MVP 1951,53,55 Brooklyn Dodgers), heart attack 

60’s

@67-1938 James Weldon Johnson, African American leader (NAACP), car crash

@±65-1541 Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire assassinated 

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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