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Aug 30, 2018
Week: 35\ Day: 242
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Nearest
Lightning: 523 miles away
Wind ave.: 5mph\Gusts:
14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 90°[1948] Record
Low: 36°[1975]
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Today’s Quote
If you want to preserve - I'm very serious
now - if you want to
preserve
democracy as we know it, you have to have a free
and
many times adversarial press. And without it, I am afraid that
we
would lose so much of our individual
liberties over time.
That's how dictators get started.
John McCain
Observances This
Week
25-31
29-9/1
Observances for
Today
Disappearances Link
International Whale Shark Day
National Grief Awareness Day
National Holistic Pet Day
Toasted Marshmallow Day Link
International Whale Shark Day
National Grief Awareness Day
National Holistic Pet Day
Toasted Marshmallow Day Link
Today’s Significant
US Historical Events
Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1100’s
1146
European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time
1300’s
1363
Beginning of the Battle of Lake Poyang; two Chinese rebel leaders Chen Youliang
and Zhu Yuanzhang are pitted against each other in what was one of the largest
naval battles in history during Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty
1800’s
1835
Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836
The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
1850
Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city
1890
President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of
meat products
1900’s
1914
Battle of Tannenberg (WWI) ends in destruction of Russian 2nd Narev army, ca.
170,000 killed or injured, German victory on Eastern Front
1941
Winston Churchill approves a nuclear programme (Tube Alloys), first national
leader to do so
1956
White mob prevents enrollment of blacks at Mansfield High School, Texas
1962
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and
its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
1963
Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the
Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no
phones were ever used, relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and
most recently secure email.
1967
US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1979
1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting the sun, releases energy equal to
one million hydrogen bombs
1979
US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains,
Georgia
1993
150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
1995
Cable News Network joins the internet
2000’s
2015
English author Frederick Forsyth (The Day of the Jackal) reveals that he worked
for MI6 for more than 20 years
2017
Late author Terry Pratchett' unfinished works destroyed by steamroller as per
his instructions
My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday
was Primary voting day here in AZ and on the Navajo Rez. I did my vote early,
then helped out a friend so she could vote on the Rez. Long day, some free Navajo
food at the polling place, and a job well done.
Headed
out to get a blood test, then home for a relaxing day.
AZ
TV stations are covering and recovering every second of the events as the McCain’s
casket lies in state in our state capital building. Lots of supporters are
honoring his service to the state and to the country.
From
my small mountain town, I now realize that organized churches are BUSINESS. We
have these mega-churches with millionaire leaders who pay NO taxes. Now Pope
Francis is remaining mum about the rape of children in America by his
subordinates and offering only prayers for survivors in other countries. It is
time to tax churches and it is time to stop allowing church officials to abuse
children and having the higher-ups cover it up. The Jesus I was raised to
believe in must be shaking his head in disgust and wondering how his teachings
could lead to any of this insanity.
Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
88►Warren Buffett,
American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha,
Nebraska
@85►Maurice R. Hilleman,
Miles City Montana, American Microbiologist who developed over 36 vaccines
including measles, mumps, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, chickenpox, meningitis,
pneumonia (d. 2005)
70’s
75►Robert Crumb,
American cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat), born in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
60’s
@66►Ernest Rutherford
[1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson], New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear
physics (Nobel 1908), born in Brightwater, New Zealand (d. 1937) intestinal
paralysis
50’s
@53►Mary Shelley,
English author (Frankenstein), born in London, England (d. 1851) brain
tumor
40’s
46►Cameron Diaz,
movie actress
45►Lisa Ling,
American journalist
Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95►2016
Joe Sutter, American engineer and
head of the Boeing 747 program
@91►2015
Brad Anderson, American cartoonist
(Marmaduke)
@91►1862
Charles Bernard Desormes, French
Physicist and Chemist (carbon monoxide and carbon disulphide compositions)
80’s
@84►1985
Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam
Holland Taylor Caldwell], Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and
Glorious Physician)
@83►1940
J. J. Thomson, English physicist who
discovered the electron (Nobel 1906)
70’s
@74►2013
Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and
playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), after a fall
6
@65►1938
Max Factor [Maksymilian Faktorowicz],
make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer
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…☼☼☼☼
