Aug 7

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Aug 7, 2018 Week: 32\ Day: 219

86004 Today: H 87° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  209 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1978]   Record Low: 39°[1991]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

I'd rather regret the things I've done

than regret the things I haven't done.

  Lucille Ball

Harper’s Index

46

Percentage of US gun owners who report

storing all their guns fafely

11

Who report storing some of their guns ‘on my person’

More Observances This Month

National Breastfeeding Month Link
National Catfish Month Link
National Crayon Collection Month  Link
National Goat Cheese Month Link
National Immunization Awareness Month Link
National Panini Month  Link 
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Novel Month
National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month Link
National Water Quality Month Link
National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month

Observances This Week

1-7

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

3-12

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link

4-12

Gay Games

4-7

Rock for Life Week Link

5-11

Assistance Dog Week  Link  Link   
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week  
National Farmers' Market Week  Link 
National Fraud Awareness Week Link   
National Health Center Week Link
Stop on Red Week Link

6-10

Exhibitor Appreciation Week

6-12

National Bargain Hunting Week
National Psychic Week Link   
Old Fiddlers' Week

Observances for Today

National Lighthouse Day Link
National Night Out Link
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
Professional Speakers Day
Purple Heart Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1782 George Washington creates the Purple Heart medal (original name Badge of Military Merit) as commander of the Continental Army

b US Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service

1800’s                                         

1882 Hatfields of south West Virginia and McCoys of east Kentucky feud, 100 wounded or die

1900’s                                         

1909 US issues 1st Lincoln penny

1927 Peace Bridge between US and Canada dedicated

1930 A large mob estimated at 2,000, lynch two young black men Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marion, Indiana

1934 US Court of Appeals upheld lower court ruling striking down government's attempt to ban controversial James Joyce novel "Ulysses"

1946 1st US commemorative coin of an African American, Booker T. Washington (half dollar)

1947 Thor Heyerdahl and his crew of the Kon-Tiki crash into a reef in the Tuamotu Islands, French Polynesia after 101 days crossing the Pacific Ocean

1959 The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design

1960 Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) gains independence from France

1984 The US collects its first Olympic gold medal in women's basketball history with a 85-55 win over South Korea in the final at the LA Games

2000’s                                         

2015 US Presidential hopeful Donald Trump says in a CNN interview that news anchor Megyn Kelly had “blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever”

My Rambling Thoughts

Warm lazy Monday with no hope for monsoon until late in the week. Cooler running to cool off a little. It’s 20% humidity and the normal breeze is very warm.

A battle seems to be brewing between VISA and Kroger. Kroger is threatening to refuse VISA cards if fees aren’t lowered. Hmmm. My bank only issues VISA and I do most of my grocery shopping at Fry’s (AZ’s Kroger). Hope they work it out cause I ain’t gonna stop at my bank to get cash to buy my groceries. This ain’t 1965. Maybe I’ll have to pull out my old checkbook.

Sure glad I don’t live in Venezuela, for many reasons, but today’s reason is their hyper-inflation. It is rising so fast the government is going to lope off 5 zeros on its currency. Here that would mean $100,000 would be worth $1. Ona trip to Africa, a loaf of bread in Zimbabwe cost $1,000,000,000 of their currency.

First day of school at my old stomping grounds. Nice to see the pictures, hear the stories, just glad I don’t have to deal with the pressure.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Stan Freberg, satirist/ad executive/cartoon voice (Bertie), born in Los Angeles, (d. 2015)

@85- Billie Burke [Mary William Ethelbert Appleton], American actress (The Wizard of Oz (Glenda), Merrily We Live), born in Washington, D.C. (d. 1970)

70’s

@79- Carl Ritter, co-founder of modern science of geography (d. 1859)

76- B J Thomas, Hugo, Oklahoma, American singer (Raindrops, Growing Pains Theme)

76- Garrison Keillor, Minn, PBS radio personality (Prairie Home Companion)

74- Robert Mueller, American lawyer, FBI Director (2001-13) Special Counsel Russian Investigation (2017-), born in New York City

60’s

@69- Louis Leakey, British paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (1964 Richard Hooper Medal), born in Kabete, Kenya (d. 1972) heart attack

@68- Ralph Bunche, American diplomat to the UN (Nobel Peace Prize1950), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 1971) diabetes

60- Alberto Salazar, marathoner (NYC Marathon Winner)

50’s

58- David Duchovny, actor (X-Files)

52- Jimmy Wales, American internet entrepreneur and cofounder of Wikipedia, born in Huntsville, Alabama

40’s

43- Charlize Theron, South African actress (Mad Max, The Cider House Rules, Monster), born in Benoni, Transvaal

@41- Mata Hari [Margaretha Geertruida Zelle], Dutch exotic dancer, courtesan and convicted German WWI spy, born in Leeuwarden, Netherlands (d. 1917) firing squad

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-2004 Red Adair, American oil field firefighter (b. 1915)

60’s

@67-2005 Peter Jennings, Canadian-American news anchor (ABC Evening News), lung cancer

@65-1957 Oliver Hardy, American comedian (Laurel & Hardy films), stroke

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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