Jun 29

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Jun 29, 2018 Week: 26\ Day: 180

86004 Today: H 85° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

RED FLAG WARNING

Nearest Lightning:  352miles away

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

Record High: 93°[1990]   Record Low: 30°[1913]

Jun Averages: 68°\41°

Today’s Quote

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

Harper’s Index

400,000

Estimated number of NYC apartments for which tenants can pay with cryptocurrency

41

Number of tenants who have actually done so

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
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
North American Organic Brewers Days: 29-7/1
Water Ski Days: 29-7/1 

Observances for Today

 Camera Day

Drive Your Corvette to Work Day Link 
Hug Holiday

International Mud Day

Waffle Iron Day

World Scleroderma Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

✪ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                          

1863 George Armstrong Custer, aged 23, appointed Union Brigadier General

1880 France annexes Otaheite (Tahiti)

1891 US National Forest Service organized

1900’s                                          

1936 George M. Cohan is the first artist to be presented with a US Congressional Gold Medal, by Franklin D. Roosevelt (for raising war morale)

1956 US Federal interstate highway system act signed

1972 Supreme Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual

1982 Voting Rights Act of 1965 extended

1986 Richard Branson aboard Virgin Atlantic Challenger II reaches Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, fastest crossing of Atlantic

1994 US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees

1996 Superman's Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900

2000’s                                          

2002 Naval clashes between South Korea and North Korea lead to the death of six South Korean sailors and sinking of a North Korean vessel.

2006 Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law.

2007 Enya receives an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway

2008 Glastonbury music festival in England; Leonard Cohen the highlight singing ""Hallelujah"2014 Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announces establishment of worldwide "caliphate" at the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul, Iraq

2015 Beijing Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural forces and stealing of bricks

2017 Battle for Mosul: Iraqi forces retake destroyed Great Mosque of al-Nuri from Islamic State - symbolic site where their leader declared a "caliphate"

My Rambling Thoughts

Our retirement group had a nice lunch yesterday for Mary’s birthday. Cheryl has family coming in next week.

Had my annual EKG this morning. Good news is both the machine and I worked well. Of course, must wait a few weeks for results. Not concerned.

Wrist is doing fine without fine without the brace. Nice!

A shooting at a local newspaper in Annapolis. The Gov. of MD is the first on the news to offer prayers. When will our elected officials stop this craziness. Guns are simply too easy to buy and way too easy to use when one has a ‘break’ of some kind. It won’t happen with the current Congress, who can’t even protect innocent children who are brought across the border for asylum.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

88- Robert Evans, American director/actor (Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown), born in NYC

70’s

@78- William James Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder Mayo clinic in Minnesota, born in Le Sueur, Minnesota (d. 1939)

@78- Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis, Indian scientist and applied statistician (Mahalanobis distance), whose birthdate is celebrated annually in India as "National Statistics Day", born in Calcutta, Bengal, British India (d. 1972)

74- Gary Busey, movie actor

71- Richard Lewis, American comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love), born in NYC

60’s

@69- George Washington Goethals, American engineer (built Panama Canal), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1928)

@64- Slim Pickens [Louis Burton Lindley Jr], American rodeo performer and actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles), born in Kingsburg, California (d. 1983) brain tumor

50’s

@57- Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], American Black Power-activist d. 1998 prostate cancer

@59- Little Eva [Eva Boyd], American pop singer(Locomotion), born in Belhaven, North Carolina (d. 2003) cervical cancer

30’s

36- Colin Jost, comedian, SNL

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2003 Katharine Hepburn, American actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)

70’s

@75-1852 Henry Clay, American politician known as "the Great Compromiser", tuberculosis 

@74-1995 Lana Turner, American actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest, The Postman Always Rings Twice), cancer 

60’s

@63-2007 Joel Siegel, American film critic colon cancer

50’s

@55-1861 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet and writer ("How Do I Love thee")

40’s

@49-1978 Bob Crane, American DJ and actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes, Donna Reed), murdered

30’s

@34-1967 Jayne Mansfield, American actress (The Girl Can't Help It), car crash

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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