Sep 5

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Sept  5, 2018 Week: 36\ Day: 248

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Nearest Lightning:  9.4 miles away

Wind ave.:   7mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 89°[1945]   Record Low: 31°[1961]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

Opportunity is missed by most people because

it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas Edison

More Observances This Month

National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month Link
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month Link
National Mushroom Month Link
National Organic Harvest Month Link
National Osteopathic Medicine Month Link
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (Gov't)
National Passport Awareness Month  Link
National Pet Memorial Month Link
National Preparedness Month  Link
National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month  Link
National Prime Beef Month Link
National Prosper Where You Are Planted Month
National Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month  Link
National Recovery Month
National Rice Month
National Save A Tiger Month Link  Link
National Sewing Month  Link
National Service Dog Month
National Shake Month (Ice Cream)
National Sickle Cell Month  Link
National Skin Care Awareness Month
National Spinal Cord Injury Awareness Month  Link
National Suicide Prevention Month  Link
National Translators Month (Moved from Feb.)  Link
National Pediculosis (Head Lice)  Prevention Month Link
National Piano Month Link  Link
National Preparedness Month
National Wilderness Month

Observances This Week

1-7      International Enthusiasm Week

National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link

Self-University Week Link

2-8      National Waffle Week

Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
National Payroll Week

4-8      Play Days 

Observances for Today

Be Late for Something Day

Cheese Pizza Day
International Day of Charity Link
Jury Rights Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1698 Russian Tsar Peter the Great imposes a tax on beards

1700’s                                         

1786 Montplaisir Ceramic factory opens in Schaarbeek Belgium

1800’s                                         

1882 10,000 workers march in 1st Labor Day parade in NYC

1900’s                                         

1905 The Treaty of Portsmouth is signed concluding the Russo-Japanese War; US President Theodore Roosevelt will receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his role as mediator

1914 US President Woodrow Wilson orders US Navy to make its wireless stations accessible for any transatlantic communications - even to German diplomats sending coded messages; leads to interception of the Zimmermann telegram, helping bring the US into the war

1929 French premier Aristide Briand requests a United States of Europe

1939 New Zealand Prime Minister, Michael Joseph Savage declares New Zealand's support for Britain in the war with Germany; Savage famously told the nation 'where she goes, we go. Where she stands,we stand'

1957 "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac is published by Viking Press in New York

1958 "Doctor Zhivago" novel by Boris Pasternak published in US

1958 "The Huckleberry Hound Show" by Hanna-Barbera featuring Yogi Bear premieres on US TV

1961 US President JFK signs law against hijacking (death penalty)

1975 First Assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Lynette Fromme in Sacramento

1990 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein urges Arabs to rise against the West

1991 Nelson Mandela chosen as president of African National Congress

1993 Noureddine Morceli runs world record mile (3:44,39)

2000’s                                         

2014 World Health Organization estimates 1,900 people have died from the Ebola virus out of 3,500 infected in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, and Sierra Leone

2017 Togo's government shuts down the internet for a week to quell government opposition

My Rambling Thoughts

And the monsoon continues on and on and on. Another day of clouds, lightning, thunder, and rain. I headed out early to successfully gather the essentials I needed. Back at home by the time the rain hit.

Congressional committee hearings for the Supreme Court nominee are becoming more and more aggressive with each nominee. Can’t believe all the shouting from the gallery. I really don’t think the hearing is the place for such discourtesy. This hearing will go on and on and on, much like the Flagstaff monsoon.  

So, the governor of AZ has appointed former senator Jon Kyl to fill McCain’s seat. Here in AZ it is always best to go with a retiree for the any seat. I guess we don’t have any young whipper snappers here who could be a senator. Kly retired and AZ voted in Jeff  Flake. At his retirement Kyl was known as one of the most conservative senators in office.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

91►Paul Volcker, American economist and Chairman of the US Federal Reserve (1979-87), born in Cape May, New Jersey

80’s

89►Bob Newhart, comedian, actor

@88►Justin Kaplan, editor and biographer (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain - Pulitzer Price 1967), born in NYC (d. 2014)

70’s

77►Raquel Welch, actress

@76►Louis XIV [Sun King], King of France (1643-1715), born in Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France (d. 1715) gangrene

60’s

67►Michael Keaton, actor

@61►Jack Daniel, Distiller

40’s

@45►Freddie Mercury, rock singer (Queen) (d. 1991) AIDS

45►Rose McGowan, actress (Charmed)

30’s

@34►Jesse James, American outlaw, son of a clergyman, born in Kearney, Missouri (d. 1882) shot in the back

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-2016►Phyllis Schlafly, American right-wing crusader, Eagle Forum President

80’s

@87-1997►Mother Teresa [Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu], Albanian born Indian nun and founder of Missionaries of Charity (Nobel Peace Prize, 1979)

30’s

@37±-1877►Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko: His Horse is Crazy], last great Sioux war chief, suspiciously killed at Ft Robinson