Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 32 Day 213 \ Ave. Sky Cover 35% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 80° \54°
Wind 7mph \ Gusts 9mph Air Quality Fair
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 10mi \ Nearest
Lightning 40mi
Aug Averages for Flagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
August is Biniant’aats’ozi: Ripening of Early Crops (Navajo)
American Adventures Month
American Artists Appreciation Month Link
American Indian Heritage Month Link (See
also November)
American History Essay Contest (8/1 - 12/15)
Arrr-gust: International Pirate Month Link
Black Business Month
Boomers Making A Difference Month
Bystander Awareness Month
Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
Assistance
Dog Day Link Link
Girlfriend's Day
International Can-It-Forward Day Link (Mason
Jars)
Lammas Day (Merry Loafmas) Link
Lughnasa or Lughnasadh [Gaelic] Link Link
Mahjong Day
Minority
Donor Awareness Day
National
Mahjong Day Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Day
Raspberry Cream Pie Day
Respect
For Parents
Rounds Resounding Day
Spider-Man Day (See also Oct. 14)
US Air Force Day Link
World Lung Cancer Day
World Wide Web Day
World Scout Scarf Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Happy
statehood day to Colorado. My family always flew the CO flag on this holiday.
Lots of rain
yesterday…sadly that means flooding for many.
Last week,
including yesterday, US 89 North of Flagstaff has been closed to traffic for
hours at a time due to flooding coming from the newest burn scars. I have lived
in the area for 4+ decades and it has never closed so many times. I can only
remember 2 times it closed for extended periods and that was due to a couple of
fires.
Last night’s
discussion group was very good. The lady who founded our Flagstaff chapter is
visiting Flagstaff and joined our group. She was also my financial advisor. We
are having lunch this week. Our group was able to discuss many of the things
Biden has done since taking office. While we are both Dems and Republicans,
very liberal to leaning conservative, we all agree that Biden needs to get
kudos for what he has done.
Biden has
tested positive for the 2nd time in a few weeks. Wishing him another
speedy recovery.
China
attempted to send up a rocket to deliver modules for its space station. The
rocket fell back to earth, into the ocean. Thankfully, there were no injuries.
Favorite Memes
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One Hit Wonders
This hit
single features Canadian actor Lorne Greene speaking throughout much of the
song, which tells the wondrous tale of an infamous gunslinger named Ringo and
his snafu with a lawman in the Old West. It topped the Billboard charts, much
to the dismay of many music aficionados.
Historical Events
1789 – The US Customs Service began.
1790 – The first U.S. Census took place;
there were 3,929,326 people living here.
1794 – The Whiskey Rebellion Western.
Pennsylvania farmers revolted, protesting the excise duty (tax) on stills and
spirits distilled in the U.S.
1834 – Slavery was abolished in Jamaica
1876 – Colorado became the 38th state.
1916 – Hawaii Volcanoes National Park was
established.
1943 – The Oak Ridge (Tennessee) Atomic
Plant was started.
1944 – The last entry for Anne Frank’s
diary
1946 – In Athens, Tennessee,
battle-hardened WWII veterans won a shootout with highly corrupt police
deputies who were manipulating ballots and illegally holding ex-GIs in the
county jail.
1952 – The extinction of the San
Benedicto Rock Wren, a previously unendangered species, can be traced almost to
the minute on the morning of August 1st when a volcanic eruption covered their
entire island.
1957 – The United States and Canada
formed the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD). Due to a wrong
phone number Sears ad misprint, a child called to check on where Santa was that
evening (December 24), and NORAD has been tracking Santa every Christmas Eve,
since its inception.
1961- Six Flags Over Texas, the first
park in the Six Flags chain opened in Arlington, Texas.
1966 – China’s Cultural Revolution began,
with purging (killing) the remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from
Chinese society, and to re-impose Maoist thought as the dominant ideology
within the Party. About 1.5 million people were ‘purged’.
1969 – The Zodiac Killer’s letters
arrived at several San Fransisco newspapers. The killer was never caught.
1980 – Vigdis Finnbogadottir was elected
President of Iceland, the world’s first democratically elected female head of
state.
1981 – MTV network debuted on cable
television, actually playing music videos 24 hours a day. The Buggles’ “Video
Killed the Radio Star” was the first video shown, followed by Pat Benatar’s
“You Better Run”.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee and Robert
Cailliau created the prototype HTML language and the World-Wide Web.
Birthdays Today
@75 – Dom
DeLuise, American actor (D. 2009; cancer)
74
– Avi Arad, Israeli-American producer, founded Marvel Studios
@72 –
Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, poet (D. 1891; heart
attack)
@71 –
Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint
Laurent (D. 2008; cancer)
@68 –
William Clark, American explorer, of Lewis & Clark (D. 1838)
@64 –
Claudius, Roman emperor (D. 54; poisoned)
@61 –
Francis Scott Key, American author, and poet (D. 1843; pleursy)
59
– Coolio, American rapper
@53 –
Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (D. 1995; heart attack)
43
– Jason Momoa, American actor
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