Jun 28

 

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Jun 28, 2020 Week: 27 Day: 180

86004:   H 85° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  10mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  111mi.; Nearest active fire:  99mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1936]   Record Low: 25°[1972]

Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)

Today’s  Quote

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

-Albert Einstein

Random Tidbits

 In 1923, jockey Frank Hayes won a race at Belmont Park in New York despite being dead - he suffered a heart attack mid-race, but his body stayed in the saddle until his horse crossed the line for a 20-1 outsider victory

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

Question: What kind of key opens a banana?

 

A monkey.

Remember these movie quotes?

82 "Toga! Toga!" John Belushi  National Lampoon's Animal House 1978

Observations This Week

National Insect Week: 22-28
National Pollinator Week: 22-28  Link 
American Library Week: 25-30
Watermelon Thump Seed Spitting Week: 25-28 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
North American Organic Brewers Days: 26-28 Link   August 4.
Water Ski Days: 26-28 
*National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness: 27 -7/4
Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Punxsutawney Groundhog Days: 28-7/5  Link

Observations for Today

ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field Day Link 
Tour de France- moved to August; Covid

Descendants Day
International Body Piercing Day

Insurance Awareness Day
Log Cabin Day
National Logistics Day Link

National Tapioca Day
Paul Bunyan Day

Tau Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A warm day. Watched Netflix into the late night. Just lazy today.

Trump has good days and bad days, just like everybody. He moved $$ from the military to build the wall. Now a court has ruled that is illegal. Many appeals are in the wind. Then another judge ruled that the 124 children being held in detention for immigration issues must be released by July 17 due to the threat of the Covid19. Since Trump doesn’t see Covid as a great threat in this country, I doubt he will release any children, his team will simply appeal…again.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Returns tomorrow

Historical Events

The first American case of a cholera epidemic was reported in New York City.
1838 - Coronation of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.

1846 - Adolphe Sax patented the saxophone.

1894 - Labor Day became an official US holiday.

1895 - The US Court of Private Land Claims rules James Reavis' claim to Barony of Arizona is "wholly fictitious and fraudulent."

1914 - World War One (originally 'The Great War') began with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand, in Serajevo.

1926 - Mercedes-Benz was formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1964 - Malcolm X formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

1969 - Stonewall Riots began in New York City, marking the start of the Gay Rights Movement.

1997 - Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield's ear in the third round of their heavyweight rematch, earning a disqualification.

2009 - Stephen Hawking threw a party for time-travelers. He announced the party the day after it happened, and according to Hawking, no one came.

2011 Christine Lagarde becomes the 1st women to be elected head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)

2017 China’s president, Xi Jinping begins 3-day trip to Hong Kong to mark 20 years since the territory handed back to China

2019 Highest-ever temperature recorded in France 45.9C in Gallargues-le-Montueux, southern France

2019 3,400 year old Bronze Age palace from the Mittani Empire uncovered on the banks of the Tigris River, due to lack of rainfall dropping the water level in the Mosul Dam reservoir

Birthdays Today

94-Comedian Mel Brooks
@73-Actor Pat Morita (d. 2005; kidney failure)

72-Actor Kathy Bates

60- Bronco Star John Elway

54-Actor John Cusack

49-Elon Musk, Inventor
@42-Comedian Gilda Radner (d. 1989; cancer)

34-Singer Kellie Pickler