Aug 21, 2021 Week: 34 Day: 233
Ave. Sky Cover: 15%\Visibility:
10 miles
Local Temp: 75°\ 48° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 11mph
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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National
Aviation Week |
15-21 |
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Minority
Enterprise Development Week |
18-24 |
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National Little League Week Link |
19-29 |
Daily Oberservations
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Brazilian
Blowout Day Poet’s
Day Senior
Citizens Day Spumoni
Day |
Favorite Memes
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My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A
nice warm day, clouds in the west say rain, weather guy says no moisture…I’ll
wait and see.
Heavy
snow last night on several Colorado mountain passes. WOW. Seems a tad early,
but moisture is moisture.
Colleges
and Universities are having ‘double’ orientation week this year. Since both freshman
and sophomores have not been on campus for living or classes. During my freshman
year, soon after the University had just dropped the requirement that students
had to carry at least two quill pens and their own ink bottle, I learned a lot
from upperclassmen. The virus has certainly changed campus life for years to
come.
The
Afghan withdrawal is not going as well as hoped for. This is an ongoing endeavor
and one that I certainly hope will save Americans and those who helped us. The
pictures are horrifying.
Historical
Events
1264 Kublai
Khan accepts the surrender of his younger brother Ariq Böke at Xanadu, at the
end of the Mongol civil war
1541 Ottoman
Turks under Suleiman the Magnificent capture Buda, the capital of the Hungarian
Kingdom and go on to dominate central Hungary for 150
years
1831 Former
slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1911 –
The Mona Lisa was stolen by Vincenzo Peruggia, a Louvre employee. It was
returned to the Louvre on January 4, 1914. Peruggia served six months in prison
for the crime.
1939 –
5 young African-Americans were denied library cards at the Alexandria, VA
Library and arrested after sitting down and reading books. The civil
disobedience was one of the earliest in the American Civil Rights Movement.
1961 –
Motown released what would be its first #1 hit, Please Mr. Postman by The
Marvelettes.
1968
Warsaw Pact forces complete their invasion of Czechoslovakia by arresting the
Czech leader Alexander Dubček and forcing him to sign the Moscow Protocols
1986 –
The Lake Nyos, Cameroon disaster resulted in the deaths of 1,800 people when a
volcano suddenly burst with a wave of carbon dioxide.
1996
Netscape Browser 3.0 is released
2018
Michael Cohen, President Trump's personal lawyer, pleads guilty to charges
including illegal payment at direction of Trump to women Trump had affairs with
2019
74,155 fires caused by land clearing are burning in the Amazon rain forest, the
most ever recorded, according the Brazil's National Institute for Space
Research
Birthdays
Today
@85 – William Murdoch, Scottish engineer, and inventor, created
gas-powered lighting (d. 1839)
@81 – Kenny Rogers, American singer-songwriter, actor (d. 2020)
80
– Jackie DeShannon [Sharon Lee Myers], American
singer-songwriter
@79 – [William James ] Count Basie, pianist,
composer, bandleader (1984; cancer)
65
– Kim Cattrall, English-Canadian actress
@63 – Wilt Chamberlain, basketball player, coach (d. 1999; heart
failure)
35
– Usain Bolt, runner
32
– Hayden Panettiere, American actress
