Sep 23

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Sept  23, 2018 Week: 39 \ Day: 266

86004 Today: H 76° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 35% 

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 86°[1944]   Record Low: 25°[1970]

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

    With a new day comes new strength & new thoughts

    Eleanor Roosevelt

Harper’s Index

104

Average number of hours that a driver in LA spends

sitting in traffic

107

That a driver in NYC spends looking for parking

Observances This Week

17-23  Constitution Week

National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link

Pollution Prevention Week Link

Prostate Cancer Awareness Week  

21-30 National Ballroom Dance Week  Link

23-29  Banned Books Week

Child Passenger Safety Week Link

Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link 

International Interpreters and Translators Week

National Dog Week Link and  Link

National Keep Kids Creative Week

Remember to Register to Vote Week

Sea Otter Awareness Week Link

World Hearing Aid Awareness Week Link   

World Reflexology Week

Observances for Today

Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day
Checkers Day or Dogs in Politics Day Link
Innergize Day 
National Great American Pot Pie Day  Link
National Snack Stick Day  Link
Restless Legs Awareness Day  
Teal Talk Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1st commencement

1800’s                                         

1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest

1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

1889 Nintendo Koppai (Later Nintendo Company, Limited) founded by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce and market the playing card game Hanafuda.

1900’s                                         

1908 University of Alberta opens

1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph Bunche for mediation in Israel - 1st African American winner

1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

1969 Northern Star and Illinois Univ newspaper start rumors that Paul McCartney is dead

2000’s                                         

2012 Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer

2017 Women are allowed in King Fahd International Stadium in Riyadh for the first time during Saudi Arabia's 87th anniversary celebrations

My Rambling Thoughts

Guess it’s time to start looking for fall. It was a good summer and the monsoon was nice. The monsoon doesn’t officially end until Sep 30 but the weather guy says it’s over for us. Not sure I’m ready for cooler temps and all the other stuff that comes with fall, but I’ll slowly get ready.

I’m so weary of the Supreme Court Justice confirmation hearings. The conservatives just don’t get it. Just like the Dems didn’t get it with Anita Hill. I see this as a very sad commentary of our system. My dad taught me that it is never OK to do something to a woman who says no. I cannot believe that so many men, in and out of politics, are giving him a pass because he was just 17, without even hearing both sides of the story. My new idea is that any Senator who votes to confirm him without a real investigation should not be re-elected. This is a big deal and will change our country forever. I remain concerned about the direction our country is taking.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93►Mickey Rooney, movie actor

80’s

@88►Victoria Woodhull, American civil rights activist (1872 presidential candidate, woman's suffrage movement), born in Homer, Ohio (d. 1927)

@85►Walter Lippmann, American journalist/political writer (Public Opinion), born in NYC (d. 1974)

70’s

@78►Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (1260-94) and founder of the Yuan dynasty in China (1271-94), born in Monoglia (d. 1294)

75►Julio Iglesias, singer

@74►Euripides, Greek playwright (Medea), born in Salamis, Greece (d. 406 BC)

@73►Ray Charles, singer (d. 2004) liver disease

60’s

@69►Mary Mallon, Irish-American patient ('Typhoid Mary') 1st person in the US known to be immune to typhoid, and carrier of the disease (infected at least 51 people in New York City), born in Cookstown, Ireland (d. 1938) pneumonia

69►Bruce Springsteen [The Boss], American singer, songwriter and rock musician (Born to Run, Born in the USA), born in Long Branch, New Jersey

50’s

59►Jason Alexander, actor (Seinfeld)

40’s

47►Sean Spicer, American political strategist, White House Press Secretary (2017), born in Barrington, Rhode Island

@40►John Coltrane, jazz saxophonist and composer (Blue Train), born in Hamlet, North Carolina (d. 1967) liver cancer

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84►1900 William Marsh Rice, American philanthropist and university founder

@83►1939 Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist and creator of psychoanalysis

@82►1981 Chief Dan George [Tes-wah-no], [Tsleil-Waututh Nation]Canadian Indian author, poet and actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man, Smith!),

70’s

@77►1994 Robert Bloch, American sci-fi author (Hugo, Psycho), cancer

60’s

@69►1973 Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet (Residence on Earth-Nobel 1971), poisoned

@68►1974 Cliff Arquette, American comedian (Charlie Weaver), stroke

@68►1902 John Wesley Powell, US geologist (Grand Canyon)