Aug 19

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Aug 19, 2018 Week: 34\ Day: 231

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Nearest Lightning:  123 miles away

Wind ave.:   1mph\Gusts:  10mph Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  Henry David Thoreau

Harper’s Index

9/10

Portion of Hawaii’s drinking water that comes from underground wells

53,000,000

Gallons of raw sewage that leak into the ground from Hawaii cesspools each day

Observances This Week

15-21

National Aviation Week  

16-26

Little League World Series

18-24

Minority Enterprise Development Week
National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

Observances for Today

Aviation Day
"Black Cow" Root Beer Float Day
Chef Appreciation Day Link  
Coco Chanel Day
International Bow Day Link
International Geocaching Day

International Orangutan Day   Link
National Honey Bee Day Link  
World Humanitarian Day Link  
World Photo Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1692 Five more people hanged for witchcraft (20 in all) in Salem, Massachusetts

1700’s                                         

1745 Jacobite Rising 1745 : Bonnie Prince Charlie, raises his standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, igniting the second Jacobite rebellion.

1800’s                                         

1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

1887 Dmitri Mendeleev makes a solo ascent by balloon to an altitude of 11,500 feet (3.5 km) above Klin, Russia to observe an eclipse

1897 1st electric taxis drive in London

1900’s                                         

1914 In a message to the Senate, US President Woodrow Wilson urges the American people to be 'neutral in fact as well as name'

1934 The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.

1942 World War II: Over 4,000 Canadian and British soldiers killed, wounded or captured raiding Dieppe, France

1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India

1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)

1960 Soviet Sputnik 5 carries 2 dogs, 2 rats, 40 mice, 1 rabbit and fruit flies into orbit, - 1st animals to return alive from obit

1970 The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status

1979 "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)

1993 Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge

2000’s                                         

2015 US Food and Drug administration approves Female Viagra libido pill Addyi

My Rambling Thoughts

My computer went crazy last night. Thankfully I have a good tech support team and they brought it back, except for all my browser bookmarks. I had a list of the most sites so it just took some time to re-enter them.

The readings for our China discussion certainly opened my eyes. I knew China was busy in Africa, and the water around China, but they are everywhere. We are not keeping up. Our current administration is trying to play a different game with China, but so far, it ain’t slowing down their plans. Hopefully our seasoned diplomats will figure out a way to stay ahead of China’s plans.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87►Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel, French fashion designer (Chanel), born in Saumur, France (d. 1971)

@85►Charles E. Hires, American pharmacist, inventor and manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1937)

70’s

@76► Orville Wright, aviator (Wright Brothers), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 1912)

@73►Seth Thomas, American pioneer in mass production of clocks (d. 1859)

72►Bill Clinton [William Jefferson], 42nd US President (Democrat, 1993-2001), born in Hope, Arkansas

@70►Malcolm Forbes, American publisher of Forbes Magazine, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990) heart attack

70►Tipper Gore, wife of US Vice President Al Gore (1993-01)

60’s

@68►Ogden Nash, humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself), born in Rye, NY (d. 1971) Crohn’s diseast

@62- Edward John Dent, British Clockmaker to Queen Victoria and commissioned to make Big Ben, London (completed after his death by his son Frederick Dent), born in London, (d. 1853)

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-1994 Linus Pauling, Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate)

80’s

@86-2009 Don Hewitt, television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes

@83-1887 Alvan Clark, American astronomer and maker of the Dearborn Observatory telescope, the largest telescope in the world at the time

@82-2016 Donald Henderson, American epidemiologist, led world campaign that eradicated smallpox

40’s

49►Mathew Perry, actor (Friends)

30’s

@39-1662 laise Pascal, French mathematician, physicist and Christian philosopher (Pascal's Law, Pascal's Wager), stomach tumor

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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