Sep 20

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Sept  20, 2018 Week: 38 \ Day: 263

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 44° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 83°[2000]   Record Low: 23°[1971]

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

     I am a part of everything that I have read.

     Theodore Roosevelt

Harper’s Index

     1:10

     Ratio of public hydrogen charging station to hydrogen-

     powered vehicles in Germany

Observances This Week

15-22  Farm Animal Awareness Week

Balance Awareness Week Link   

Build A Better Image Week

International Clean Hands Week

National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week

National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week

National Indoor Plant Week

National Rehabilitation Awareness Week

National Security Officer Appreciation Week

National Love Your Files Week Link  

http://www.p2.org/p2-week/National Singles Week

Tolkien Week

17-23  Constitution Week

National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link

Pollution Prevention Week Link

Prostate Cancer Awareness Week  

20-22 Great American Beer Festival Link

Observances for Today

National String Cheese Day  Link
National Teach Ag Day Link 

National Pepperoni Pizza Day

National Punch Day (the fruity kind)

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1664 Maryland passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women & black men

1800’s                                         

1814 "Star Spangled Banner" published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune by John Stafford Smith

1848 The American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.

1870 Mayor William Tweed accused of robbing NY treasury

1900’s                                         

1909 The British Parliament passes the South Africa Act; it calls for union of Cape Colony, Natal, Orange River Colony, and Transvaal; and both English and Dutch as official languages

1932 Gandhi begins hunger strike against treatment of untouchables

1942 Gunther Hagg becomes world champ of all records from 1500m to 5000m

1954 Roger Bannister awarded Britain's Silver Pears Trophy

1960 UN General Assembly admit 13 African countries & Cyprus (96 nations)

1963 JFK proposes a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon

2000’s                                         

2001 In an address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".

2011 The United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

2015 Pope Francis meets Fidel Castro in Havana, on the 1st day of his tour of Cuba

2017 Hurricane Maria makes landfall on Puerto Rico as a category 4 hurricane, knocking out all power

My Rambling Thoughts

When I first woke up I didn’t know if it was cloudy or smoky. By 7a I discovered it was clouds, and they are full of water, which is being dumped on our town. Guess the monsoon ain’t quite over yet. Not complaining, just reporting. We always need moisture, even if it in inconvenient to my plans.

Today was my 'service comp date', meaning the day in 1971 when I became an official government employee and a teacher at Shonto Boarding School beginning a 36 year career. Sadly, it is also the day in 1994 when my dad passed away at 80 years old. Tomorrow is the day my mom passed at 89 in 2008. 

Hospital called this morning at 9a to review procedures for my plate removal on the 28^th. Best news was that I don’t have to show up until 8:30a that day. For the first wrist surgery I had to be there at 6a. This is all good.

Remember when Canada was our quiet friend who was always there to help. Not so much anymore. Canada hasn’t changed, we have.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91►Gogi Grant, [Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg], singer (The Wayward Wind), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)

@90►Upton Beall Sinclair, US writer (The Jungle), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1968)

80’s

@89► [Arnold] Red Auerbach, NBA coach/GM (Boston Celtic), born in Brooklyn, (d. 2006)

84►Sophia Loren, Italian actress (La Ciociara, Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid), born in Rome, Italy

@84►Margaret "Peg" Phillips, American actress (Northern Exposure, ER, Suddenly Susan), born in Everett, Washington (d. 2002)

70’s

77►Sylvester [J. Pussycat Sr.,], Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Friz Freleng (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series), first debuts in "Notes to You"

@76►Fernando Rey [Arambillet], Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time), born in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain (d. 1994) bladder cancer

70►George RR Martin, writer, playwright (Game of Thrones)

60’s

62►Gary Cole, Park Ridge, Illinois, American actor (Pineapple Express, Midnight Caller)

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96►2005 Simon Wiesenthal, Austrian-Polish Nazi hunter

80’s

@87►2015 Jack Larson, American playwright and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)

@84►2014 Polly Bergen [Nellie Burgin], American actress, singer, television host, and writer (Rhoda-Winds of War, The Helen Morgan Story)

70’s

@78►1863 Jacob Grimm, German philologist, folklorist and editor of "Grimm's Fairy Tales"

30’s

@30►1973 Jim Croce, vocalist (Time in a Bottle), plane crash