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Aug 20, 2018
Week: 34\ Day: 232
86004 Today: H84 ° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest
Lightning: 421 miles away
Wind ave.: 1mph\Gusts:
11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 90°[2009]
Record Low: 35°[1979]
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Today’s Quote
People really don't have to give you anything,
so appreciate
what people give you.
Aretha
Franklin
Harper’s Index
+391
Percentage change since 2009 in reports of
human waste on San Francisco streets
Observances This
Week
15-21 National
Aviation Week
16-26 Little League
World Series
18-24 Minority
Enterprise Development Week
20-24 National Safe at Home Week
Observances for
Today
Today’s Significant
US Historical Events
Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1600’s
1619
1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point
Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.
1800’s
1866
President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
1886
Second Salon exhibition by Society of Independent Artists held in Paris;
includes Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande
Jatte"
1896
Dial telephone patented
1900’s
1908
America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a
tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia
1920
1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting
1939
1st black bowling league formed (National Bowling Assoc)
1940
British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human
conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"
1953
General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in a
CIA supported coup d'état
1964
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an
anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion
1980
UN Security Council condemns (14-0, US abstains) Israeli declaration that all
of Jerusalem is its capital
1990
Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1998
The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada
without the federal government's approval.
2000’s
2015
30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight
My Rambling Thoughts
Our
discussion group had a good talk about China Today. China is working to expand its
influence in the region and beyond. Since the US administration does not have a
clear policy on China, it looks like their expansion will just keep happening. Hopefully
there will be some policy before it is too late.
Looks
like our monsoon is taking a break. No rain yesterday, and with this almost
cloudless sky it doesn’t look good for any rain today or tonight.
One
of the biggest issues in our small mountain college town is the growth of the
University. The University keeps adding more and more students, which allows
the President to get big bonuses from the Board of Regents. This has been going
on for several years and is reaching a boiling point. While the University
increases students, they are not increasing dorm spaces. So builders have come
in from everywhere to build huge housing complexes near campus. And these ain’t
the dorms of yesteryear. They are luxury apartments with many amenities and
come at quite the cost. These new structures do not have adequate parking nor is
there an offer of transportation to campus. On top of that, the roads in our
town are not ready for all the new traffic congestion. [Back in the day when I was in undergrad school in Boulder, the
University bought some land away from campus and built a huge dormitory complex
(Williams Village). It came with free bus transportation by the University to
campus. I lived there my sophomore year and really like it. Getting to and from
campus was no problem.] This is a small town and we don’t seem to need to
study other ‘big’ campuses around the country, the University will just keep
growing, the town will complain, infrastructure will not meet the needs, and
life will go on. SAD!
Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
83►Ron Paul, US Congressman, 1988 and 2008
presidential candidate
70’s
70►Robert Plant, singer (Led Zepplin)
60’s
@67►Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President
of the United States (Republican: 1889-93), born in North Bend, Ohio (d. 1901) pneumonia
@64►Bernardo O'Higgins, Chillán, Chile,
South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823
Supreme Director of Chile) (d. 1842) heart problems
@64-
Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia (1991-97) and
Yugoslavia (1997-2000), (d. 2006) heart attack in prison
64►Al Roker, TV weather guy
50’s
58-
Sally Yates, American lawyer and Acting Attorney General
(Jan 2017), born in Atlanta, Georgia
@56►Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley
of the Dolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1974) cancers
20’s
26-Demi Lovato, Disney singer/actress
Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-1980
Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank
80’s
@87-2007
Leona Helmsley, American real estate billionaire and
convicted of federal income tax evasion
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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
