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Jun 30, 2020
Week: 27 Day: 182
86004: H 74° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind: 9mph\Gusts:
18mph Visibility: 10mi
Nearest
lightning: 439mi.; Nearest active
fire: 131mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 25°[1972]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"Live in the sunshine,
swim the sea,
drink the wild air."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Random
Tidbits
On May 30, 1943, a verbal confrontation
between a group of U.S. sailors and a group of zoot-suiters ended in the
beating of one of the sailors. In retaliation, about 50 sailors left the local
U.S. Navy Reserve Armory on the evening of June 3, armed with makeshift weapons
and targeting zoot-suiters.
The Zoot Suit Riots
finally died down after June 8, when military officials banned all military
personnel from Los Angeles and called on military police to patrol the city.
In 1997 the American
swing band the Cherry Poppin' Daddies released the song "Zoot Suit
Riot" on an album of the same name. The song references the Los Angeles
Zoot Suit riots in the first verse:
Who's that whisperin' in the trees?
It's two sailors and they're on leave
Pipes and chains and swingin' hands
Who's your daddy? Yes I am!
Have
a smile
Thanks to one
of my readers
I saw Arnold
Schwarzenegger at the grocery store, and it was hard to resist asking him to
say one of his famous movie lines... but... I played it cool and casually asked
him if he knew where they stock the eggs. He said, "Aisle B, back."
Remember these movie quotes?
77 "Soylent Green is
people!" Charlton Heston Soylent Green 1973
Observations
This Week
American Library Week: 25-30
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
Asteroid Day
California Avocado Day Link
Disabled Veterans Day Link
Leap Second Time
Adjustment Day
Meteor Day
National Meteor
Watch Day Link
National Outfit Of The Day Day Link
NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
Social Media Day Link
My
Rambling Thoughts
Another
nice day…not too hot, and not too much wind. Have to keep windows closed to
keep out the wind.
Changed
my front door decoration for Independence Day. It looks very patriotic. It will
be strange with no gatherings, no parades. Our town seldom has fireworks due to
the dryness, and I’m sure they would have been cancelled this year without the virus.
Over the past few days there have been small fires in town in brush or treed
areas. Thankfully, the local Fire Dept. has had them out very quickly. This
weekend will be the real challenge. A 3-acre fire just broke out on Snowbowl
road. It has been contained. I can see the smoke from my office window.
Navajo
Nation has a fire near Ganado that has led to evacuations. So scary. To add to
the reservation problems, the coal mine at Kayenta, now closed, drained a major
aquifer making it even more difficult for residents to get fresh water.
When
I was growing up in Wheat Ridge, everyone had huge green yards front and back.
All the neighbors used well water to save money. Over the years we had to dig
three wells…mostly by hand. Just before my parents downsized, all the neighborhood
wells went dry. Construction, about a mile away, had drained all the water from
the underground water. Sad, because everyone had to cut way back on their
beautiful lawns.
Mississippi
is changing their state flag, the last remaining state flag with the bars and
stars. History takes time.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
In a lake, there is a patch
of lily pads. Every day, the patch of lily pads doubles in size.
If it takes 48 days for the
patch to cover the entire lake, how long would it take for the patch to cover
half the lake?
Historical
Events
1520 Spanish conquistadors are expelled from Tenochtitlan following an Aztec
revolt against their rule under Hernán Cortés during "La Noche
Triste" (the Night of Sadness). Many soldiers drown in the escape, and
Aztec emperor Montezuma II dies in the struggle
1831 - A
patent for a platform scale was issued to brothers Erastus and Thaddeus S.
Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
1859 -
Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as Emile Blondin, became the first daredevil to
walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 -
The 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the
Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
took place.
1886 -
The United States Division of Forestry was recognized and established by an Act
of Congress
1894 -
The Tower Bridge across the River Thames in London was officially opened
1906 - The United States Congress passes
the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 -
The Tunguska Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia. Destroying 770 square
miles in Eastern Siberian Taiga. It was probably a big meteor. Or was it?
1914-Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in
South Africa
1936 -
Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind was published.
1952 -
The Guiding Light premiered on CBS.
1953 -
The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.
1966 - The National Organization for Women
(NOW) was founded.
1971 - Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to
the US Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, putting the amendment into
effect.
1972 -
The first leap second was added to the UTC time system.
1987 -
Iran-Contra hearings aired during daytime television, pre-empting most
programming.
1967-Robert
Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
2014-US
Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provision of
'Obamacare' on religious grounds
2019-President
Donald Trump becomes first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea in
the Korean Demilitarized Zone meeting Kim Jong Un
Birthdays
Today
@92-Singer Lena Horne (d. 2010)
@62-Magician
Harry Blackstone Jr. (d. 1997; cancer)
60-Actor
Vincent D' Onofrio
54-Boxer
Mike Tyson
35-Swimmer Michael Phelps
Puzzle
Answer
47 Days. The next day it doubled and covered the
entire lake.
