Sep 12

 

Sep 12, 2021 Week: 38 Day: 255
Ave. Sky Cover:  15%\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   79°\ 62° Wind: 2mph\ Gusts: 9mph
High risk of fire Active fire: 179mi. \ Lightning: 16mi.
Sep Averages: 74°\32° (5 days w/moisture) 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

US Open Tennis Championships	30-9/12
International Air Ambulance Week   Link	4-12
World Orienteering Days Link	8-14
Craft Brewers Week Link	9-12
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link	9-15
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance	10-12
Mushroom Days  Link	11-12
International Housekeepers Week: Link National Assisted Living Week National Security Officer Appreciation Week National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link	12-18

 

Daily Observations

 

Chocolate Milkshake Day Day of Encouragement Video Games Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What is yours but you can't actually hold it? Your heart.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

My mother was born in 1919 and lived a life of 89 years. She was a great wife, a homemaker, a seamstress who raised her 2 adopted sons from birth to also have great lives. She is still missed after all these years. The horrors of 9-11 drew our nation together for a few months of unity. The politicians, news networks, and news commentators started the process to separate us. Right now, the ‘separate us’ groups are still winning. That needs to end.  For Christians, judgement day will come, and certain non-Christian behaviors may not be tolerated…. especially those who did not ‘love they neighbor as thyself.’ Only time will tell. I’m still recovering from my tooth pulling. Each day is a little better. Guess it takes more time as one gets older.

 

 

Historical Events

 

490 BC Traditional date of the Battle of Marathon, where a small Athenian force defeats the Persian Empire

1755 Giacomo Casanova is sentenced to 5 years imprisonment in Venice without trial for affront to religion and common decency

1940 – 17,000 year-old Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

1954 – Lassie premiered on CBS

1958 US Supreme Court orders the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas to integrate

1962 – President Kennedy delivered his “We Choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University.

1974 Coup overthrows Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie on Ethiopia's national day

1984 – Dwight Gooden set the MLB record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954.

1992 Mae Jemison is the 1st African American woman to go into space (aboard Endeavour STS-47)

2012 Excavators announce that they may have found the remains of King Richard III of England under a carpark in Leicester

2018 Oldest known human drawing discovered, a hashtag-like abstract drawing with red ochre, 73,000 years old, in Blombos Cave, South Africa published in "Nature"

 

Birthdays Today

 

@83 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer and dancer (died in 1972)

81 – Linda Gray, American actress

@81 – George Jones, singer (d. 2013)

@66 – Jesse Owens, sprinter, and long jumper, Olympic Gold Medalist (d. 1980)

@58 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003; cardiac arrest)

54 – Louis C.K., American comedian and actor

41 – Jennifer Hudson, American singer

@40 – Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013; auto accident)