Jun 16

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Jun. 16, 2019 Week: 25 \ Day: 167

86004:   H 74° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Nearest wildfire:  11mi. Nearest lightning:  111mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1940]   Record Low: 24°[1907]

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

Today’s Quote

Great things are done

when men and mountains meet.

William Blake

Random Tidbits

Dogs can smell about 1,000 times better than humans. While humans have 5 million smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million. The part of the brain that interprets smell is also four times larger in dogs than in humans.

Dogs like sweets a lot more than cats do. While cats have around only 473 taste buds, dogs have about 1,700 taste buds. Humans have approximately 9,000.

Observances This Week

Men's Health Week: 10-16 Link

US Open Golf Championship: 13-16

National Nursing Assistants Week: 13-19  Link

National Hermit Week: 13-20

Animal Rights Awareness Week: 16-22 Link   Link
National Craft Spirits Week: 16-22 Link 
National Play Catch Week: 16-22 
Old Time Fiddlers Week: 16-22 
Universal Father's Week: 16-22

Observances for Today

Bloomsday Link
Dollars Against Diabetes Day Link

Family Awareness Day
Father's Day  Link Link
Fresh Veggies Day

Fudge Day Link
Husband Caregiver Day  
Ladies' Day (Baseball)
Turkey Lovers Day:  16  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s been a few busy days, lunches with friends, getting stuff ready for the Trans-Siberian trip, annual eye exam, and enjoying the great weather. No complaints. The clouds just dropped a nice gentle rain, with a fresh smell and enough to wet the sidewalk.

I enjoyed a number of History classes in high school and college. I have to say I wondered what it would be like to live in a country with a king. No matter what the king said, his followers honored him and did whatever he asked, while praising him. I guess my wondering has ended with our current leader. It isn’t as enjoyable as I had imagined.

Just need to pack in a few days, pick up some cash for the trip, and enjoy the adventure. It’s been over a year since my last international trip and I am ready to go.

News has been full of 45’s gaffs…even Fox News is upset. Maybe something will happen while I’m out of the country.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat, and a half goat?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1858 Abraham Lincoln says "A house divided against itself cannot stand" accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate

1873 US President Ullyses Grant decrees Wallowa Valley for the Nez-Perce

1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore" debuts at Bowery Theater NYC

1880 Salvation Army forms in London

1882 17" hailstones weighing 1.75 lbs fall in Dubuque Iowa

1884 1st roller coaster used (Coney Island NY)

1897 A treaty annexing the Republic of Hawaii to the United States is signed; the Republic would not be dissolved until a year later

1900’s

1903 Pepsi Cola company forms

1913 South African Government pass the segregationist Native Land Act, which restricts purchase or lease of land by native Africans

1933 US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created

1941 1st US federally owned airport opened Washington, D.C.

1944 George Stinney, a 14-year-old African-American boy, is wrongfully executed for the murder of two white girls, becoming the youngest person ever executed in 20th-century America

1963 Valentina Tereshkova (USSR) is 1st woman in space, aboard Vostok 6

1969 Supreme Court rules suspension of Adam Clayton Powell Jr from House

1976 Students in Soweto, South Africa, march against the use of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in Black secondary schools

1979 Muslim Brotherhood kills 62 sheiks in Aleppo Syria

1987 New York City subway gunman Bernhard Getz acquitted on all but gun possession charges after shooting 4 black youths who tried to rob him

1992 Longest salami is 68'9 & 25 circumference, weighed 1,492lbs/5oz in Flekkefjord, Norway

2000’s

2016 Philadelphia is the first US state to pass a tax on sweetened drinks

2017 US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama

2017 Amazon announces it is buying Whole Foods for $13.7 billion

Birthdays Today

1723 Adam Smith,

(d. 1790: @67)

Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher (date of baptism),

born in Kirkaldy, Fife, Scotland

1829 Geronimo

(d. 1909: @79)

Mescalero-Chiricahua: Goyaałé [kòjàːɬɛ́] "the one who yawns",

Apache leader and resistance fighter,

born in No-doyohn Canon, Mexico

1890 Stan Laurel,

[Arthur Stanley Jefferson],

(d. 1965: @74:  heart attack)

English comedian (Laurel & Hardy films),

born in Ulverston, England

1896 Jean Peugeot,  

(d. 1966: @70)

French auto manufacturer (Peugeot)

1889 Nelson Doubleday,

(d. 1949: @69)

American publisher (Doubleday)

1907 Jack Albertson,

(d. 1981: @74: cancer)

American actor (Chico and the Man, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory),

born in Malden, Massachusetts

1937 Erich Segal,

(d. 2010: @72: heart attack)

author (Love Story, Oliver's Story),

born in Brooklyn,

1971 Tupac Shakur,

(d. 1996: @25: drive-by shooting)

American rapper and actor (Juice, Bullet),

born in East Harlem, New York

40’s

46- John Cho,

Korean-American actor

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2017 Helmut Kohl,

German chancellor (West Germany, 1982-90, unified Germany, 1990-98)

@81-2017 John G. Avildsen,

American film director (Rocky, The Karate Kid)

60’s

@65-1977 Wernher von Braun,

rocket scientist (V1/V2),

dies of smoking

40’s

@45-1959 George Reeves,

actor (Superman, Gone with the Wind),

commits suicide by shooting himself in the head

20’s

@26-1970 Brian Piccolo,

American football player,

dies of multiple cancers

Puzzle answer:

CHICAGO. CHI is 3/7 of CHICKEN, CA is 2/3 of CAT, GO is a half of GOAT