Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 32 Day 218 \ Ave. Sky Cover 15% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 83° \52°
Wind 8mph \ Gusts 16mph Air Quality Fair
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 28mi \ Nearest
Lightning 183mi
Aug Averages for Flagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
Fresh
Breath Day
Root
Beer Float Day
Wiggle
Your Toes Day
Beach
Volley Ball Day Link
Hiroshima Day
International
Hangover Day Link (Always the day after International Beer Day)
Mead Day Link
National Clown Day
National Disc Golf Day Link
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis) Day
National Jamaican Patty Day Link
National Mustard Day Link
National Play Outside Day Link
National Root Beer Float Day Link
National Summit Day Link
Sandcastle Day
Tisha B'Av (Jewish
Fast Day)
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice
summer day.
Quite the
legal day yesterday…Alex Jones must pay $4million to family who lost sone at
Sandy Hook…today will add more to the fine. Then, Griner got 9 years in prison
in Russia for drugs. Negotiations continue to get her back here. A few years
ago, she asked the WNBA not to play the National Anthem at games. When they
declined, she stayed in the locker room until the song was over. Finally, the
Chief of Police in our mountain town was put on administrative leave as the
massage parlor incident is fully investigated. Not a good time to be involved
with illegalities.
An
intoxicated driver tried to drive a pickup truck into the Gallup Ceremonial
Parade yesterday. He was in the area of NN President Nez and his group marching
in the parade. A few parade goers suffered minor injuries. This was the opening
of the 100th annual Ceremonial that brings Natives from around the
country. So sad.
I did some
shopping at Sam’s this morning. Gas is coming down slowly…it was $3.49 today.
Favorite Memes
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One Hit Wonders
In this 1961
song, Ernie K-Doe talks about the difficulties of life with a meddling
mother-in-law, and it snagged the #1 spot on both the Billboard Hot 100 and the
Billboard R&B chart. In 1994, K-Doe opened "The Mother-in-Law
Lounge," in New Orleans. After his death in 2001, his wife Antoinette kept
the music venue going. Though she died in 2009, the popular neighborhood club
remains open to this day.
Historical Events
1890 – The first electrocution as the
death penalty was carried out in Auburn, NY. William Kemmler was executed for
murdering his common-law wife, Matilde Ziegler.
1926 – Gertrude Ederle became the first
woman to swim across the English Channel (14 hours, 31 minutes).
1945, 8:15 AM, an atomic bomb (Little
Boy) was dropped over Hiroshima, Japan, injuring or killing over 200,000
people.
1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and
the world’s oldest tree, at least 4862 years old, was cut down in Nevada.
1965 – The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was
signed, designed to make voting easier for minorities.
1966 – In a post-fight interview, Howard
Cosell honors Muhammad Ali’s wishes to no longer be referred to as Cassius
Clay, making his new name more acceptable by everyone.
1986 – Rain fell a record 13 inches of
rain in a single day in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
1996 – NASA announced that the ALH 84001
meteorite, thought to originate from Mars and found in Antarctica, contained
evidence of primitive life-forms.
Birthdays Today
@91 – Louella
Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
@79 – Robert
Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997; Emphysema)
@77 – Lucille Ball,
American comedic actress and television producer (d. 1989; aneurysm)
@73 – Alexander
Fleming, Scottish biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955; heart attack)
@6 – JonBenet Ramsey,
kidnapped (d.1996)
