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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
