Aug 9

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Aug 9, 2018 Week: 32\ Day: 221

86004 Today: H 86° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  68 miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 89°[1980]   Record Low: 44°[1999]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Leonardo da Vinci

Harper’s Index

58

Minutes after refusing to debate an assult weapons ban that the Florida Legislature declared port a ‘public health risk’

Observances This Week

3-12

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link

4-12

Gay Games

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

9-16

Elvis Week Link
National Hobo Week Link
National Scrabble Week  Link  

Observances for Today

Book Lover's Day

International Day of The World's Indigenous People
Veep Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                         

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany patents the diesel internal combustion engine

1900’s                                         

1905 Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him

1930 Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes

1936 Jesse Owens is part of the American 4 x 100m relay team that wins gold in world record (39.8) at the Berlin Olympics; his 4th gold medal of the Games

1944 Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention

1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki

1965 Singapore separates from the Federation of Malaysia and gains its independence

1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as US President and VP Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President

1992 Future 6-weight boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya of the US beats German Marco Rudolph on points to win the lightweight gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics

2000’s                                         

2000 South African President Thabo Mbeki unveils the Women's Monument commemorating the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle

2001 US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.

2012 Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics

2017 Giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump placed outside US White House as a political protest

2017 North Korea says it plans to fire rockets on US territory Guam in continuing escalation of tension between it and the US

My Rambling Thoughts

Middle of the week and it’s still hot. Wish the monsoon would return here sooner. More smoke this morning, this time from AZ fires south of Flagstaff. These fires were lightning caused and being allowed to burn and smoke just works its way to town.

I’ve been in need of a hair trim for about a week, but my stylist isn’t back until Friday. Maybe my longer hair makes me uncomfortable during this heat wave.

A possible crook in the House of Representatives. Big surprise. A long trial, lots of coverage, and probably not much else.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- Elizabeth Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s wife (d. 1854)

@96- Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins), (d. 1996)

80’s

@86- Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon), born in Boca Raton, Florida (d. 2014)

@84- Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (d. 1980)

@82- Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace), born in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia (d. 1910)

70’s

74- Smokey the Bear, named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin

74- Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty), born in Sacramento, California

60’s

@65- Robert Aldrich, American director and producer (Dirty Dozen), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1983) kidney failure

61- Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then)

50’s

@59- Chris Haney, Canadian journalist who created the board game "Trivial Pursuit", born in Welland, Ontario (d. 2010) long illness

59- Michael Kors, American fashion designer and Project Runway judge, born in Long Island, New York

54- Hoda Kotb, TV host

50- Gillian Anderson, actress (The X-Files, Bleak House), born in Chicago, Illinois

50- Eric Bana, Australian actor (Time Traveler’s Wife)

40’s

@48- Whitney Houston, American singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2012) drowned in bathtub

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-2014 Edwin "Ed" Nelson, American actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider), dies of heart failure at 85

@85-1962 Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946)

50’s

@57-2003 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer, liver cancer

@53-1995 Jerry Garcia, American rock musician (Grateful Dead), heart attack

@50-2008 Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor.(b. 1957) cardiac arrest

20’s

@26-1969 Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), murdered by Manson's gang

@25-1969 Abigail Folger, American coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered by Manson gang

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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