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Jun 17, 2020 Week: 25 Day: 169
86004: H 79° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind: 10mph\Gusts:
21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest
lightning: 237mi.; Nearest active
fire: 98mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1940]
Record Low: 23°[1923]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."
-Anne Frank
Random
Tidbits
Irving Berlin wrote patriotic songs in WWI and WWII.
In 1917, during World War
I, the U.S. Army drafted Berlin to write patriotic songs. In order to raise
funds for a community building on his Long Island army base, he wrote Yip!
Yip! Yaphank! During World War II, Berlin wrote This Is The Army,
which became a Broadway musical and 1943 film starring Ronald Reagan. Berlin
chose not to personally profit from the show - he gave all the earnings, over
$9.5 million, to the U.S. Army Emergency Relief Fund.
Have
a smile
Thanks to one
of my readers
"Children
today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and
tyrannize their teachers.”
– Socrates
Observations
This Week
National Hermit Week: 13-20
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 14-20 Link Link
Greencare For Troops Week: 14-20
National
Little League Week: 14-20 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Play Catch Week: 14-20
National Pet Wedding Week:14-20 Link
National
Right of Way Professionals Week: 14-20 Link
National Flag Week: 14-20
National
Waste & Recycling Workers Week: 14-20 Link
Bartender
of The Year Week: 15-18 Link
Meet A Mate Week: 15-21
Men's
Health Week: 15-21 Link Link
US Open Golf
Championship: 15-21 Note: Canceled due
to the COVID19
Royal Ascot:
16-20 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Week of Making: 17-23 Link
Observations
for Today
National Garbage Man Day Link
Stewarts Root Beer Day
World Day To Combat Desertification and Drought
World Tesselation Day Link
My
Rambling Thoughts
A
windy day. Typical.
Andy
and Faith are back from their short vaca with her family. They had a great
time. I dropped off their garage opener after my successful blood draw.
My
appointment with the blood doc was changed to a video one tomorrow. Glad because
his office takes a long time to even get inside…fill out a form, take your
temp, wear a mask and then check in and wait for blood draw. Crazy.
As
the country opens and AZ has staggering positive cases, this sounds like a good
idea: Businesses would be part of a grading system for their Covid19
precautions. Restaurants already have a successful grading protocol for safety
violations and the letter grade they get directly affects the number of
patrons. So why not a grading system for how a business is having precautions
for their patrons. The more precautions, the higher the grade.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
Two mothers and two
daughters went out to have hamburgers for lunch. Everyone ate exactly one
burger, yet only three burgers were eaten. How is this possible?
Historical
Events
1462 - Vlad III the Impaler
attempted to assassinate Mehmed II, forcing him to retreat from Wallachia, in
Romania.
1631 - Mumtaz
Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, spent
the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.
1837 - Charles
Goodyear obtained his first rubber-processing patent (#240). The success of his
company came after he died in 1860.
1852 - W.H.
Fancher and C.M. French of Waterloo, N.Y. received a patent (#35,600) for a
combined plow and gun.
1885 - The
Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.
1944 - Iceland
declared independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1963 - The US Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v.
Schempp, against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer
in public schools.
1971 - President Richard Nixon declared the US War on Drugs.
1987 - Florida's Dusky Seaside Sparrow became extinct when 'Orange band', the
last known of the species, died.
1994 - All
major networks provided live coverage of the O.J. Simpson low-speed car chase
in the White Bronco. The chase concluded with Simpson's surrender to
authorities in front of his mansion in Brentwood, CA.
1996 The Fifteenth
Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which removes the prohibition on divorce,
is signed into law following a vote the previous year
2006 Sci-Fi author Anne
McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
2015 US Treasury announced
that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be replaced from the US $10 bill by
an image of a woman
2019 Activist Joshua Wong
calls on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to resign after leaving prison amid street
protests the day before of over 2 million people.
Birthdays
Today
@87-Actor Ralph Bellamy (d.
1991)
77-Politician Newt Gingrich
77-Singer Barry Manilow
69-Comedian Joe
Piscopo
57-Actor Greg
Kinnear
54-Musician David Michael
Navarro (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
54-Actor Jason
Patric
39-Tennis Star Venus
Wiliams
Puzzle
Answer
A grandmother, mother and
daughter went out to eat.
