Sep 9

 

Sep 9, 2021 Week: 37 Day: 252
Ave. Sky Cover:  %\Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   84°\ 47° Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 6mph
Extreme risk of fire Active fire: 178mi. \ Lightning: 433mi.
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
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week Suicide Prevention Week National Waffle Week	5-11
National Payroll Week	6-10
Play Days	7-11
World Orienteering Days Link	8-14
Craft Brewers Week Link	9-12
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link	9-15
Popcorn Days Link	9-11

 

Daily Observations

 

Teddy Bear Day Wiener Schnitzel Day Wonderful Weirdos Day

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

A quick smile!

 

What can you always hear at a bowling alley?   A pin drop.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A nice day…I’m surviving my tooth extraction. I’m just tired today. The early morning earthquake in Acapulco, Mexico didn’t effect my brother, his wife, the dogs, or the property. Good news. Nebraska Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry introduced the Care for Her Act, legislation that seeks to bridge gaps between existing resources for women facing unplanned pregnancies. The bill would not restrict abortion. Instead, it would make expectant mothers eligible for the existing child tax credit. It would also create “a new Federal-State entity” to access and publicize resources for expectant mothers and families, including job training and food and housing resources, as well as provide grants for those services. It would also incentivize states to improve maternal and child health outcomes by awarding grants to states that reduce their maternal and infant mortality rates. Good news.

 

Historical Events

 

1836 Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes his influential essay "Nature" in the US, outlining his beliefs in transcendentalism

1888 Easter Island / Rapa Nui in the Pacific is annexed by Chile

1888 – The body of Jack the Ripper’s second murder victim, Annie Chapman, was found in London.

1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance was first recited.

1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va

1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log

1957 US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction

1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.

1999, Sega Dreamcast released, Video Game Console

September 9 is the most popular birthdate in the United States.

2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria

2019 Poet John Milton's own copy of Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623 has survived with his annotations according to scholar Jason Scott-Warren in Philadelphia library, could be world's most important modern literary discovery

 

Birthdays Today

 

@90 – Colonel ‘Harland’ Sanders, businessman, founded KFC (d. 1980)

@82 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author, playwright (d. 1910)

69 – Angela Cartwright, English-born American actress

61 – Hugh Grant, English actor

55 – Adam Sandler, American actor, and screenwriter

46 – Michael Bublé, Canadian singer-songwriter