Jun 3

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Jun. 3, 2019 Week: 22 \ Day: 154

86004:   H 67° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Nearest wildfire:  53mi. Nearest lightning:  154mi

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  17mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 86°[1996]   Record Low: 23°[1971]

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

Today’s Quote

Zeal is a volcano,

the peak of which the grass of indecisiveness does not grow.

Khalil Gibran

Random Tidbit

The international distress signal, "mayday," has nothing to do with the first of May. It derives from the French venez m'aider, meaning "come help me."

More Observances This Month

Dairy Alternatives Month
Dementia Care Professionals Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Pride Month Link
Georgia Blueberry Month
Give A Bunch of Balloons Month Link
Great Outdoors Month
Hydranencephaly Awareness Month  Link
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month Link
Dairy Month Link

Observances This Week

Ramadan 5/5-6/4

Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3

International Clothesline Week: 1-8 
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link

Bed Bug Awareness Week: 2-8
Black Single Parents Week: 2-8 
Community Health Improvement Week (CHI): 2-8  Link
End Mountain Top Removal Week:  2-8  Link 
National Business Etiquette Week:  2-8 
National Headache Awareness Week: 2-8  Link 
National Sun Safety Week: 2-8  Link
Pet Appreciation Week: 2-8  Link

Hemp History Week: 3-9  Link

Observances for Today

Chimborazo Day
Leave the Office Early Day
National Chocolate Macaroon Day

National Egg Day

National Stuffed Shrimp Scholars Day  Link
National Thank God It's Monday Day 
Repeat Day

Wonder Woman Day  Link  Link
World Bicycle Day
World Clubfoot Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Spring weather had me outside this morning, washing my car and getting it ready for summer. Windows were covered with pollen and what I assume were former bugs. Now the vehicle is clean and shiny.

May was the second wettest month in Flagstaff Weather history (since 1898). The average rain in .63” and this year we received 3.02”. It makes everything green for sure. Now I hope it keeps staying wet or our beautiful green forest will become a tinderbox when summer arrives.

The Trans-Siberian adventure begins later this month and ends in July. It should be a great trip. I’m already starting to lay out stuff I need to take. I have things I only use occasionally that I will need to this adventure. Always the Boy Scout: Be Prepared.

Our little mountain town has had 2 female mayors, each with two terms. Our first moved to Phoenix. Our current mayor just announced she is running for state office in the House for our district. She will make a very good Rep down in Phoenix. Now I’m wondering what will be ahead in 2020 for our little mountain town.

I’m very happy that 45 is headed for another visit to England. Hopefully he will be busy insulting the Brits and forgetting his stupid tariff plan on Mexico. His history on this planet shows that he is great at talking, not so good at carrying through, just look at his many ventures in the business world.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

0 > 2, 2 > 5, 5 > 0.     What is this?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1000’s

1083 Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral

1500’s

1540 Hernando de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so

1600’s

1620 Construction of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada

1800’s

1856 Cullen Whipple patents a machine for making screws

1876 Lacrosse introduced in Britain and Canada

1889 The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.

1900’s

1906 Belgian King Leopold II claims Congo as his private possession

1921 A sudden cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado

1934 Dr Frederick Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted

1943 A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots

1946 1st bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)

1949 1st African American to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)

1959 1st US Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado

1959 US President Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker a message off the Moon

1961 JFK & Khrushchev meet in Vienna

1968 Valerie Solanas, American radical feminist, author of SCUM Manifesto, attempts to assassinate Andy Warhol in 1968 by shooting him three times. She was later diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and pleaded guilty to "reckless assault with intent to harm", serving a 3 year sentence

1970 1st artificial gene synthesized

1976 US presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta

1979 Ixtoc I rig in the Gulf of Mexico blows, spilling 3 million barrels of oil in one of the worst oil spills in history

1982 55th National Spelling Bee: Molly Dieveney wins spelling psoriasis

1989 Beginning of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy supporters in Beijing

1993 66th National Spelling Bee: Geoff Hooper wins spelling kamikaze

2000’s

2005 'The Knight of Sainte-Hermine' by Alexandre Dumas is published in France by Editions Phébus, completed by Claude Schopp, 135 years after the author's death.

2014 President Obama announces his plan for a $1 billion fund to increase deployment of US troops to Europe

2017 The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum opens in Springfield, Massachusetts

Birthdays Today

1770 Manuel Belgrano,

(d. 1820: @50: dropsy)

Argentine politician and military leader who took part in the Argentine Wars of Independence and created the Flag of Argentina,

born in Buenos Aires, Argentina

1808 Jefferson Davis,

 (d. 1889: @81)

President of the Confederate States of America (1861-65),

born in Fairview, Kentucky

1864 Ransom Eli Olds,

(d. 1950: @86)

auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer

1901 Maurice Evans,

(d. 1989: @87)

British actor (Planet of the Apes, Bewitched),

born in Dorchester, Dorset, England

1904 Charles R. Drew,

(d. 1950: @45: auto crash)

American physician and surgeon who pioneered blood plasma research and developed the blood bank concept,

born in Washington, D. C.

1925 Tony Curtis,

[Bernard Schwartz],

(d. 2010: @85)

actor (Some Like It Hot),

born in The Bronx,

1926 Allen Ginsberg,

(d. 1997: @70: liver cancer)

American beat poet (Howl, The Fall of America) and

1960s counterculture icon,

born in Newark, New Jersey

1929 Chuck Barris,

(d. 2017: @87)

TV game show producer and host (Gong Show),

born in Philadelphia

1942 Curtis Mayfield,

(d. 1999: @57: diabetes)

American singer-songwriter and soul musician (Freddie's Dead, Superfly),

born in Chicago, Illinois

80’s

88- Raúl Castro,

18th President of Cuba (2008-2019) and former revolutionary,

born in Biran, Holguin, Cuba

50’s

52- Anderson Cooper,

CNN news

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-1841 Nicolas Appert,

French inventor of airtight food preservation (food canning, bouillon tablet)

80’s

@89-1989 Ayatollah Khomeini [

Ruhollah Khomeini],

Supreme leader of Iran (1979-89)

@88-2011 James Arness,

American actor (Gunsmoke, How the West Was Won)

@81-1963 Pope John XXIII

[Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli],

261st Pope (1958-63)

@80-2009 Koko Taylor

[Cora Walton],

American blues singer known as the "Queen of the Blues"

70’s

@79-1949 Amadeo Giannini,

American banker and entrepreneur (founded Bank of America)

@76-2010 Rue McClanahan,

American actress ("The Golden Girls"),

dies from brain hemorrhage

@74-2016 Muhammad Ali

[Cassius Clay],

American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1964-7 74-8),

dies of respiratory illness

@73-2013 Deacon Jones,

American NFL Hall of Fame Defensive End,

dies from natural causes

@72-2009 David Carradine,

American actor,

dies from accidental hanging

@70-1992 William E Gaines,

publisher (Mad Magazine)

60’s

@69-1975 Oswald "Ozzie" Nelson,

American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet),

dies from cancer

50’s

@54-1987 Will Sampson,

Muscogee/Creek actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose),

dies of auto-immune disease

40’s

@40-1924 Franz Kafka,

Czech writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis),

dies of TB

30’s

@37-1900 Mary Kingsley,

English ethnographer and explorer who became the first European to enter parts of Gabon, Africa,

dies of typhoid fever

@36-1875 Georges Bizet,

French composer (Carmen),

dies after 2 heart attacks

Puzzle answer:

This is the game “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. Rock (0 fingers) beats scissors (2 fingers). Scissors (2 fingers) beats paper (5 fingers). Paper (5 fingers) beats rock (0 fingers).