Aug 2

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Aug 2, 2018 Week: 31\ Day: 214

86004 Today: H 84° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Nearest Lightning:  3 miles away

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 93°[1902]   Record Low: 43°[1976]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many

            things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

Robert Benchley

More Observances This Month

Black Business Month
Boomers Making A Difference Month
Bystander Awareness Month

Observances This Week

29^th-8/4th
Single Working Women's Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link
International Mathematicians Week
National Minority Donor Awareness Week
Simplify Your Life Week Link
World Breastfeeding Week Link

2-5

Lollapalooza Link 
Satchmo Days Link
International Tree Climbing Days Link 

Observances for Today

International Sister Cities Day thru 4 Link 

National Coloring Book Day Link
National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day  Link 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1610 Henry Hudson enters the bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay

1700’s                                         

1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

1790 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves

1800’s                                         

1819 1st parachute jump in US

1832 Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US

1865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

1887 Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire

1892 Charles A Wheeler patents a prototype of the escalator

1900’s                                         

1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted

1939 Hatch Act prohibits political activity by federal workers

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands

1945 After 3½ days suffering exhaustion, lack of water and shark attacks in the Philippine Sea, the surviving crew of USS Indianapolis are spotted by Wilbur “Chuck” Gwinn, a PV-1 Ventura pilot on a routine sector search. 316 had survived.

1965 Morley Safer's sends 1st Vietnam report indicating the US is losing

1967 "In the Heat of the Night" directed by Norman Jewison, based on John Ball's novel of the same name, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1968)

1990 US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia

1991 Pan Am games open in Havana

1992 American Jacki Joyner-Kersee becomes first athlete to win consecutive gold medals in the gruelling heptathlon with a 199 point win over Irina Belova (Soviet Union) at the Barcelona Olympics

1995 Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties to the royal Family

1996 The star-studded United States men's basketball team beats Yugoslavia 95-69 to win the gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics

2000’s                                         

2009 Michael Phelps ends the World Swimming Championships in Rome with his 5th gold medal as part of the US 4x100m medley relay team that recorded the 43rd world record of the controversial meet

2012 American swimmer Michael Phelps wins an unprecedented third consecutive gold medal in the 200m individual medley in 1:54.27 at the London Olympics

2017 US President Donald Trump signs legislation imposing sanctions on Russia, limiting his ability to ever lift them

2017 Great Britain's Prince Philip aged 96 makes his final solo public appearance before retiring from public engagements

2017 First footage of white giraffes posted by Hirola Conservation Program in north eastern Kenya

My Rambling Thoughts

First Wednesday means ‘old people’s day’ at our local grocery…10% off everything for card holders over 60, including sale items. Makes it easy to stock up and save money.

Had a nice conversation with Ellie last night. She was able to get enough people for the Holland Tulip tour, all getting the great discount that Joe Greene was able to pull off. Great news. I updated the website this morning as the discount ended yesterday.

So, the guy who wants to post the 3D untraceable gun says he is doing it because in CA, too many gun shops have shut down. No concern from him the crazies, felons, or terrorists who will be able to make those guns. He just kept saying in an interview, it is a first amendment issue. No concern that many of the guns blow up. It is first amendment issue. Where do these people come from?

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Shimon Peres, Israeli Prime Minister (Labor), President (2007-14) and Nobel Peace Prize (1994), born in Wiszniewo, Poland (d. 2016)

80’s

@86- Jack L Warner [Jacob Warner], Canadian-American film executive and president of the Warner Bros. Studios, born in London, Ontario, Canada (d. 1978)

@81- Peter O'Toole, Irish actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia), (d. 2013)

70’s

@77- Wes Craven, director (d. 2015) brain cancer

76- Isabel Allende, Chilean-American author (The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts), born in Lima, Peru

@76- Carroll O'Connor, American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night), born in NYC, New York (d. 2001) heart attack

@73- John Tyndall, Leighlinbridge, County Carlow Ireland, Irish physicist who demonstrated why the sky is blue and proved that the Earth's atmosphere has a greenhouse effect (d. 1893)

@70- Pierre Charles L'Enfant, French-born American architect who laid out Washington, D.C., born in Paris, France (d. 1825)

@70- Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor (designed the Statue of Liberty), born in Colmar, France (d. 1904)

60’s

68- Lance Ito, judge (O.J. Simpson trial)

@63- James Baldwin, American author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country), born in Harlem, New York (d. 1987) stomach cancer

40’s

42- Michael Weiss, figure skater (1997 World Champ-7th), born in Washington, D.C.

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@75-1922 Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish-born British American inventor (telephone), diabetes complications

60’s

@65-1998 Shari Lewis, American puppeteer and ventriloquist (Lamb Chop), uterine cancer

@63-1859 Horace Mann, American education advocate

@61-1963 Oliver Hazzard Perry La Farge, US anthropologist/writer

@61-1788 Thomas Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy)

50’s

@57-1923 Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (1921-23), heart attack

40’s

@48-1978 Totie Fields [Sophie Feldman], American comedienne, blood clot

@48-1921 Enrico Caruso, Italian opera singer, peritonitis

30’s

@39-1876 Wild Bill" Hickok [James Butler], American cowboy and scout, shot dead from behind by Jack McCall while playing poker (he held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's)

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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