Jun 5

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Jun. 5, 2019 Week: 22 \ Day: 156

86004:   H 72° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Nearest wildfire:  52mi. Nearest lightning:  5mi

Wind:   5mph\Gusts: 12mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 88°[2010]   Record Low: 25°[1943]

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

Today’s Quote

The greater our knowledge increases

the more our ignorance unfolds.

John F. Kennedy

Random Tidbits

Spaghetti and meatballs are not considered an Italian dish, though they were made by Italian immigrants in the U.S. If you go to Italy you won't find spaghetti and meatballs on their menus because they don't put meatballs in their pasta.

English muffins aren't muffins and they weren't invented in England. They are really a form of crumpet, with the holes and pockets on the inside of the bread rather than the top. They were invented by Samuel Bath Thomas, an Englishman living in 1880s New York and didn't make their way to England until a century later.

More Observances This Month

Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month  Link
Potty Training Awareness Month Link
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month Link

Rebuild Your Life Month

Scleroderma Awareness Month Link
Skyscraper Month
Sorghum Month Link
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month

Turkey Lovers Month  

Vision Research Month Link

World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere) Link Link
Women's Golf Month Link   Link
World Infertility Month
World Sponge Month Link

Observances This Week

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

Apple II Day
Baby Boomers Recognition Day
Festival of Popular Delusions Day Link
Global Running Day Link 
Hot Air Balloon Day
National Ketchup / Catsup Day

National Moonshine Day
National Tailors Day 
National Veggie Burgers Day  Link
World Environment Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Looks, feels sounds, and smells like a big rainstorm is on the horizon. It came in very fast over the mountain. Just waiting for the cloud to burst.

I learned a long time ago that meeting new people helps people realize that we are not that different. That is why I was so happy when Obama opened Cuba for Americans. It was called ‘people-to-people’ and as visitors we learned that Cubans were not that different from ourselves. I heard a story on NPR this morning that the current administration is stopping most travel to Cuba, including the ‘people to people’ travel. While I do not want to live under their government, the people are amazing. Ending the ‘people to people’ program is going to hurt the Cuban people, not the Cuban government. Tourism is a big part of their economy and Americans were slowly adding their $$$ to the people of Cuba. Focus did two trips, a year apart, to the island. Amazing changes had taken place in that short time…more independent restaurants and hotels, not owned by the government, more access to internet, more knowledge of America for them and more knowledge of Cuba by Americans. Of course, the administration did not ask for my input before making this Draconian decision. It is a sad day for Cubans and a sad day for all Americans.

I spent last evening cleaning up my Master closet. Moving the winter clothes to make room for summer clothes. Getting a bag ready for donation of clothes I no longer wear. Closet looks much better, and it is much easier to find my clothes. Happy camper here.

Late this afternoon I finally get my crown. Lots of ‘oops’ at the dentist. They sent the mold off and then changed labs and just forgot about my mold. Then the old lab called and said the mold was ‘imperfect’, went in and got a new mold. It has been almost 2 months, but I get it today!

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

There was a green house. Inside the green house there was a white house. Inside the white house there was a red house. Inside the red house there were lots of babies. What is it?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge

1700’s

1794 US Congress passes the Neutrality Act, banning Americans from serving in foreign armed forces

1800’s

1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland

1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention

1876 Bananas become popular in US, at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia

1900’s

1912 US marines invade Caimanera, Cuba

1937 Henry Ford initiates a 32 hour work week

1940 A synthetic rubber tire exhibited in Akron, Ohio by Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company

1944 As part of Operation Tonga, the 1st British gliders touch down on French soil to prepare for the D-Day invasion

1944 After receiving favorable weather reports, General Eisenhower decides to proceed with the D-Day invasion on June 6

1947 US Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the "Marshall Plan" to rebuild Western Europe

1951 Anti-slavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe first published in serial form in "The National Era"

1963 State of siege proclaimed in Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini arrested

1967 Six-day war begins between Israel and the neighboring Arab states of Egypt, Jordan and Syria

1975 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat reopens Suez Canal (closed since 1967)

1977 National Council of Women of Kenya led by Wangari Maathai march to Kamukunji Park, Nairobi, and plant seven trees - beginning of the Green Belt Movement

1981 AIDS Epidemic officially begins when US Centers for Disease Control reports on pneumonia affecting five homosexual men in Los Angeles

1984 Indira Gandhi orders an attack on Sikh's holiest site, the Golden Temple in Amritsar

1988 Russian orthodox church celebrates it's 1,000th anniversary

1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize

1998 A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks)

2000’s

2000 Armed conflict between Rwanda and Uganda erupts in Kinsangani, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

2007 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a second flyby of Venus

2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK

2017 Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt sever ties with Qatar, citing its support of terrorist groups, Yemen, the Maldives and Libya follow suit

2017 Puerto Rico declares its Zika virus epidemic over

2018 US President Trump administration's policy of separating immigrant children from their families violates international law according to the UN

Birthdays Today

1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia,

(d. 1684: @38: TB)

Italian mathematician and the 1st woman to receive an academic degree from a university,

born in Venice, Italy

1718 Thomas Chippendale,

(d. 1779: @61: TB)

English furniture maker,

baptized in Otley, Yorkshire, England

1819 John Couch Adams,

(d. 1892: @72)

English astronomer (co-discover Neptune),

born in Laneast, Launceston, Cornwall

1878 Pancho Villa

[José Doroteo Arango Arámbula],

(d. 1923: @45: assassinated)

Mexican revolutionary general and guerrilla leader,

born in La Coyotada, San Juan del Río, Durango, Mexico

1883 John Maynard Keynes,

(d. 1946: @62: heart attacks)

English economist whose ideas changed the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics,

born in Cambridge, England

1895 William Boyd,

(d. 1972: @77: Parkinson’s)

American film actor, cowboy hero (Hopalong Cassidy),

born in Hendrysburg, Ohio

1900 Dennis Gabor,

(d. 1979: @78)

Hungarian-British engineer and physicist

(invented holography, Nobel Prize 1971),

born in Budapest, Hungary

1915 Lancelot Ware,

(d. 2000: @85)

English barrister and co-founder of Mensa, the international society for intellectually gifted people,

born in Mitcham, Surrey, England

1919 Richard McClure Scarry,

(d. 1994: @74: heart attack)

children's author and illustrator

70’s

70- Ken Follett,

Welsh spy author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions),

born in Cardiff, Wales

60’s

68- Suze Orman,

American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.

66- Kathleen Kennedy,

American film producer (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jurassic Park) President of Lucasfilm (2012-),

born in Berkeley, California

63- Kenny G

[Kenneth Bruce Gorelick],

saxophonist (Duotones)

40’s

48- Mark Wahlberg,

rap singer (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and

actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

40-Pete Wentz,

bassist

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2004 Ronald Reagan,

40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and actor (Bedtime for Bonzo)

@91-2012 Ray Bradbury,

American author (Fahrenheit 451)

80’s

@86-1984 Frederick Russell,

English Marine Biologist

(plankton life history and long-term changes in marine ecosystems)

70’s

@73-1999 Mel Tormé,

American singer (The Velvet Fog) and composer (The Christmas Song),

dies strokes

60’s

@69-1893 Mary Ann Shadd Cary,

American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher,

dies of stomach cancer

50’s

@59-1993 Conway Twitty,

country star (Linda on My Mind),

dies in surgery

@55-2018 Kate Spade,

American fashion designer,

commits suicide by hanging

40’s

@47-1910 O. Henry

[William Sydney Porter],

American short story writer (Cabbages and Kings),

dies of enlarged heart/diabetes

20’s

@28-1900 Stephen Crane,

author (Red Badge of Courage),

dies of pulmonary issues

Puzzle answer:

WATERMELON