Jun 11

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Jun. 11, 2019 Week: 23 \ Day: 162

86004:   H 76° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Nearest wildfire:  11mi. Nearest lightning:  211mi

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  9mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[1918]   Record Low: 26°[1954]

Jun Averages: 78°\42° (1 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

No amount of experimentation can ever

prove me right;

a single experiment can prove me wrong. Albert Einstein

Random Tidbits

Fingertips planted and spread apart on a surface are a significant territorial display of confidence and authority.

Hand-steepling may be the most powerful high-confidence hand gesture. It involves touching the spread fingertips of both hands in a gesture similar to praying hands, but the fingers are not interlocked and the palms may not be touching. In the U.S., women tend to steeple low (at the waist), while men tend to steeple at chest level.

Observances This Week

Greencare For Troops Week: 9-15
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 9-15 
National Right of Way Professionals Week: 9-15 Link 
National Flag Week: 9-15

Men's Health Week: 10-16 Link

Observances for Today

Corn on the Cob Day
National German Chocolate Cake Day

National Cotton Candy Day Link
National Making Life Beautiful Day  Link
World Pet Memorial Day
Call Your Doctor Day Link  

My Rambling Thoughts

Started off with a busy morning. Made my shuttle and motel reservations for my upcoming trip. The shuttle company has changed names and ownership. Their new website is for nation-wide shuttles doesn’t say anything about home pickup. So, I had to use the phone. Strangely, when I called the number, it said it was disconnected. I called on my cell and got right through. For some strange reason I had to key in the 1 and my local area code, and the number to get through on my landline. Weird. The lady was helpful, but a tad incompetent. I have an afternoon flight from Phx to Denver, and she said I’d be picked up around 9a. Fine. Then she changed it to a 6a pickup. Not fine. Then she twice changed the dates of travel. Finally got it right and confirmed it with an email. And then I have been using Booking.com for hotel reservations. My two favorite hotels are no longer listed, so I’ll be staying at Econo-Lodge…since they have a 24hr shuttle. We get back just after midnight, so I had to call the hotel to see what day to use. Then I had to have the techs check my computer for it’s monthly tune-up.  It’s all completed, so I’m ready for the rest of the week.

The weather is very nice today, I spent the morning on my computer or cell making reservations for the trip. Oh well, I take a walk this afternoon.

Sure glad I’m not in Manhattan today. The helicopter ‘hard landing’ is making movement difficult. From all the news coverage, NYC has it’s act together for such emergencies.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

It is flat as a leaf, round as a ring,

Has two eyes, yet cannot see a thing.

What is it ?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

600’s

631 Emperor Taizong of Tang of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk for the release of Chinese prisoners captured during transition from Sui to Tang from northern frontier; succeeds in freeing 80,000

1700’s

1742 Benjamin Franklin invents his Franklin stove

1770 Captain James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia

1776 Continental Congress creates committee (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration of Independence

1800’s

1837 The Broad Street Riot occurs in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between English-Americans and Irish-Americans

1891 Puerto Rican flag adopted

1896 US Assay Office in Deadwood South Dakota authorized

1898 1st US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba during Spanish-American War

1900’s

1927 Charles Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross

1935 Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting in the United States, at Alpine, New Jersey

1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia

1936 International Surrealist Exhibition opens in London, England

1939 King and Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party

1947 WW II sugar rationing finally ends in US (began May 28, 1942)

1959 Postmaster General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)

1963 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is "time to act"

1963 Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức immolates himself at a Saigon intersection, creating one of the Vietnam War's most iconic images

1964 Manfred Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do

1975 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield

1984 US Supreme Court declares illegally obtained evidence may be admitted at trial if it could be proved that it would have been discovered legally

1987 Margaret Thatcher is 1st British Prime Minister in 160 years to win a third consecutive term

2000’s

2002 Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress

2004 Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.

2008 Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper made an official historic apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to a residential school abuse in which children were isolated from their homes, families and cultures for a century

2009 The World Health Organization declares H1N1 swine flu to be a global pandemic, the first such incident in over forty years

2018 Net neutrality is officially repealed by The Federal Communications Commission in the US

2018 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez accepts migrant rescue ship Aquarius with 629 people on board after Italy refuses it

2018 In landmark ruling, US Attorney General Jeff Sessions rejects El Salvador woman's asylum request based on domestic abuse

Birthdays Today

1572 Ben Jonson,

(d. 1637: @65: strokes)

English playwright and poet (Volpone, Alchemist),

born in London

1880 Jeannette Rankin,

 (d. 1973: @92)

American politician, 1st woman elected to US Congress (R-Montana), women's rights advocate and pacifist,

born in Missoula, Montana

1900 Lawrence E. Spivak,

(d. 1994: @93)

American news panelist (Meet the Press),

born in Brooklyn, New York

1910 Jacques Cousteau,

(d. 1997: @87)

French oceanic explorer (Calypso),

born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France

1913-Vince Lombardi,

(d. 1970: @57: cancer)

football coach

1933 Gene Wilder

[Jerome Silberman],

(d. 2016: @83)

American actor (Blazing Saddles, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory),

born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1937 Chad Everett

[Raymon Lee Cramton],

(d. 2012: @75: lung cancer)

American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II),

born in South Bend, Indiana

1943 Henry Hill Jr.,

(d. 2012: @69: heart disease)

American mobster and FBI informant (inspired Goodfellas),

born in Brooklyn, New York

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70’s

74- Adrienne Barbeau,

American actress (Maude, Swamp Thing),

born in Sacramento, California

72- Henry Cisneros,

first Hispanic to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), later Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration

60’s

60- Hugh Laurie,

English actor (Strapless, Dr Gregory House-House),

born in Oxford, England

50’s

59- Mehmet Oz,

surgeon and TV personality (The Dr. Oz Show),

born in Cleveland, Ohio

50- Peter Dinklage,

American actor (Games of Thrones),

born in Morristown, New Jersey

30’s

33- Shia LaBeouf,

American actor (Disturbia, Transformers),

born in Los Angeles, California

Historical Obits Today

100’s

@103-1992 Marjorie Newell Robb,

oldest living survivor of Titanic

90’s

@91-2014 Ruby Dee,

American actress (A Raisin in the Sun, American Gangster)

80’s

@82-2003 David Brinkley,

American NBC news anchor (The Huntley-Brinkley Report)

70’s

@79-1999 DeForest Kelley,

American actor, screenwriter, poet and singer (Star Trek),

dies of stomach cancer

@72-1979 John Wayne

[Marion Mitchell Morrison],

American actor (Green Berets, True Grit),

dies of stomach cancer

@72-1930 Henry Clay Folger,

American CEO of Standard Oil and founder of the Folger Shakespeare Library

@70-1958 Clarence DeMar

[Mr. DeMarathon],

American marathon runner and 7-time winner of the Boston Marathon,

dies of cancer

40’s

@40-1993 Ray Sharkey,

actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body Rock),

dies of AIDs

30’s

@31-1985 Karen Ann Quinlan,

comatose patient

Puzzle answer:

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