Aug 20

 

Aug 16, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 232
Ave. Sky Cover:  10%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   74°\ 48° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 20mph
Low risk of fire Active fire: 361mi. \ Lightning: 189mi.
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

  

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Environmental Services Week: Link	2-20
National Aviation Week National Chef's Appreciation Week Link	15-21
Minority Enterprise Development Week	18-24
National Little League Week Link	19-29

 

Daily Oberservations

 

Bacon Lovers Day Chocolate Pecan Pie Day Lemonade Day Radio Day

  

Favorite Memes

 

  

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 Mary is back in town so Faith, another retired teacher from Tuba and I had lunch. She had a great time in Oregon, except for all the smoke on the drive up and back and at the beach. Mary’s neighbor got her chimney hit by lightning yesterday. Burned out the washing machine, dryer, and dishwasher that are now in the driveway. It knocked out Mary’s internet and TV. The TV is no more. Faith is busy doing some great crafts. She loves crafts and has a 10-needle embroidery sewing machine. We caught up on school gossip too and remembered some great Tuba stories. Good conversation and great food.

One of my former students and T-ball player now lives in Flag. She was on the Phx news after her Flag house flooded. Sad. Clouds are rolling in again for another monsoon afternoon. I didn’t open any windows until afternoon as the while it was in the low 70’s, the air feels different. 

 

Historical Events

 1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 muslim prisoners in Akko

1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over

1905 Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus (Qing dynasty)

1920 – The first(?) commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), began operating in Detroit.

1920 – The National Football League was organized as the American Professional Football Conference in Canton, Ohio.

1957 USAAF balloon breaks an altitude record at 102,000' (310,896 m)

1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion

1986 – In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shot and killed14 of his co-workers, injured 6 more, and then committed suicide. It was the initial example of “going postal”.

2018 Pope Francis releases letter to all Catholics condemning sexual abuse atrocities and clerical cover-ups "We showed no care for the little ones; we abandoned them"

2020 Former adviser to Donald Trump, Steve Bannon arrested and charged with fraud over a fundraising campaign to build a wall on the Mexican border

2020 Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny falls into a coma after a suspected poisoning (later confirmed to be Novichok poisoning)

2020 Kamala Harris accepts her nomination for vice-president, becoming the 1st US woman of color on a major-party ticket saying "there is no vaccine for racism"

 

Birthdays Today

 @67 – Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President (d. 1901; pneumonia)

90 – Don King, American boxing promoter

86 – Ron Paul, American politician, and physician

75 – Connie Chung, American journalist

73 – Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter

67 – Al Roker, American news anchor, television personality

@65 – Isaac Hayes, singer-songwriter, producer (d. 2008, strokes)

59 – James Marsters, American actor

@46 – H.P. Lovecraft, short story writer, editor, novelist (d. 1937; cancer)

@40 – Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter (d, 1964; plane crash)

29 – Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress