Sep 27

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Sept 27, 2018 Week: 39 \ Day: 270

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 83°[2009]   Record Low: 23°[1900]

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

The past always looks better than it was.

It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

Harper’s Index

            3.4

            Factor by which the gender pay gap in the

            White House has INCRREASED under 45

Observances This Week

21-30 National Ballroom Dance Week  Link

23-29  Banned Books Week

Child Passenger Safety Week Link

Deaf Dog Awareness Week

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

24-28 Ally Week Link

International Week of the Deaf  Link   

International Women's E-Commerce Days

Observances for Today

Ancestor Appreciation Day
Crush a Can Day Link
Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Google's Birthday
Remember Me Thursday 
World Maritime Day  
World Tourism Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola confirmed by Pope Paul III in Rome

1864 Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed

1900’s                                         

1909 US President Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes

1916 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians

1937 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)

1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time

1954 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush

1962 Rachel Carson publishes 'Silent Spring' about the deleterious impacts of pesticide use in the US on the environment

1988 The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded in Burma (Myanmar)

1989 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash

1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court

1996 The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.

2000’s                                         

2012 The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars

2017 Researchers confirm existence of giant tree rat "Vika" in the Solomon Islands that can crack open coconuts

My Rambling Thoughts

Getting older seems to mean more time with doctors. Cheryl just had to get crowns on her front teeth, Mary had a pre-cancerous thing frozen on her face, and I get to have my plate removed. We all had decades of only annual checkups.

One argument from the Kavanaugh side has been: ‘but where are the collaborators?”. Now every day we get new names added to the list of women. Hard to see how there can’t be an investigation outside the senate.

Yesterday,  45 stood at the UN and the delegates laughed as he listed his inflated accomplishments. At the time he said he wasn’t expecting that reaction. Then after the speech, he said he was joking. Hmmm. Then the US Ambassador to the UN says the laughing was in respect of 45’s honesty. Really?!?

Mary and I are having lunch tomorrow, Friday is my surgery, and Saturday I have a discussion group with lots of reading beforehand. Looks like no more posts until Sunday.

45’s first press conference in forever is very frightening. He is showing everyone how delusional he really is. So many people are believing this horsepucky. I have been hoping for a real press conference…I was wrong.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@85►William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)

85►Kathleen Nolan, American actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside), born in St Louis, Missouri

@81►Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and politician (Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94), born in Boston,(d. 1803)

70’s

@74►Cosimo de Medici, Italian banker and de facto ruler of Florence and patron of the arts, born in Florence (d. 1464)

@73►William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1994) heart failure

@73►Hiram R. Revels, 1st African American US Senator, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 1901)

71►Meat Loaf, [Marvin Lee Aday], Dallas, rocker (Bat Out of Hell)

71►Liz Torres, actress (Mahalia Sanchez-John Larroquette Show), born in The Bronx, New York

70►A Martinez (Adolfo Larrue Martínez III), American actor (L.A. Law, Santa Barbara), born in Glendale, California

60’s

60►Shaun Cassidy, American actor/singer (Hardy Boys, Breaking Away), born in Los Angeles

50’s

@53►Will Sampson, Creek tribe actor (d. 1987) scleroderma

40’s

46►Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress (Pallbearer, Emma, Hard Eight), born in Los Angeles, California

30’s

36Lil Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.), rapper

34►Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter (Complicated, Sk8er Boi), born in Belleville, Ontario

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96►1993 James Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942)

@94►2017 Anne Jeffreys [Annie Carmichael], American singer and actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital)

80’s

@83►1917 Edgar H G Degas, French impressionist artist (ballerina)

70’s

@79►2009 William Safire, American Columnist, pancreatic cancer

50’s

@50►1870 Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, suicide

40’s

@45►1956 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American all-round athlete (10 LPGA majors, Olympic gold medals 80m hurdles, javelin 1932), colon cancer