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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 124
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 67°\L 46° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind
ave: 13mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave. High: 64° Record High: 88°
(1947) Ave. Low: 33° Record
Low: 7° (1915)
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Observances Today:
Bird
Day International
Firefighters Day
Day
of Vesak (Buddhist) International
Respect for Chickens Day
Great
American Grump Out Melanoma Monday
Greenery
Day (Japan) National Candied
Orange Peel Day Renewal Day
Independence
Day (Rhode Island) National Library
Legislative Day
Memorial
Day (Curacao) Petite
and Proud Day
Youth
Day (China) World Give
Day
Intergalactic
Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!)
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Observances This Week:
1-7
Choose Privacy Week
2-10 National Tourism Week
3-9 Be Kind To Animals Week National
Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
Children's Mental Health Week National
Correctional Officer's Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week National
Family Week
Drinking Water Week National
Hug Holiday Week
Dystonia Awareness Week National
Pet Week
Flexible Work Arrangement Week National
Post Card Week
Goodwill Industries Week National
Raisin Week
Kids Win Week Public
Service Recognition Week
NAOSH Week
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week
4-10
Children's
Book Week PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
National Occupational Safety &
Health Week Screen-Free Week
National Small Business Week Teacher Appreciation Week
National Wildflower Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1780 - American
Academy of Arts & Science founded
1846 - US state
Michigan ends death penalty
1863 - After the Minnesota
uprising of the Santee Sioux,
and their
subsequent defeat, their lands are forfeited
1878 - Phonograph
shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 - John
Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 - Haymarket
riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1893 - Cowboy
Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at
Cripple Creek Colorado
1904 - Construction
begins by the United States on the Panama Canal
1921 - State Supreme
Court rules that Arizona law taxing sheep, cattle
and horses owned by non-residents of the
state was invalid.
1927 - 1st
balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1932 - Al
Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion
1933 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1936 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1942 - Battle
of Coral Sea begins in the Pacific (1st sea battle fought solely
in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies
and air forces
1942 - Food 1st rationed in US
1942 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In
this our Life)
1944 - "Gaslight",
starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film
debut, is released
1946 - 5 die in
a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1952 - Babe
Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
1953 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway for The Old Man & The Sea
1959 - 1st
Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgeraldwin
1959 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish
(JB)
1964 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter
(Anti-intellectualism)
1970 - National
Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson
(Gandhi's Truth)
1991 - Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to
Parkinson disease
1998 - A
federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Ted
Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30
years after Kaczynski accepts
a plea agreement sparing him from the death
penalty.
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Today’s World Events through History
1715 - French
manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
1896 - 1st
edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
1904 - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry
Royce in Manchester,
England. Go on to form Roll-Royce
1910 - Tel Aviv founded
1916
- Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan
and Joseph Plunkett
are executed by British authorities following
the Easter Rising, at
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
1924 - 8th
Olympic games open at Paris, France
1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling
environmental
organization founded in Canada in 1971,
officially changes its
name to "Greenpeace Foundation"
1981 - After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old
Bobby Sands MP
died in the Maze; 9 further hunger strikers
die over the next 3 months
2007 - The Scottish National Party wins the
Scottish general election
and becomes the largest party in the Scottish
Parliament for the
first time ever.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Sunday. Read the newspaper on the deck….before the breeze
started. Then deep cleaned all 3 bathrooms and laundry room. Then caught up on
DVR shows from last week. Quiet and nice. Also caught my Sunday news shows.
Nice way to spend a Sunday.
It is hard for me to see that after all the marching, protesting,
and change from the late 1960’s that there is still such a disparity in so many
areas of this country. Back then citizens were arrested for trying to vote,
choosing to sit at a lunch counters, or sit on a bus or drink from a fountain.
Some were even killed. Now some young Blacks are killed by cops for minor
violations. Baltimore has taught many
that this is not a black-white racial issue but a ‘have v have not’ issue. Black
politicians run Baltimore and Black cops were involved in the death of a young
man. I continue my soul searching about why this occurred.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I'm
the smallest of my kind, no doubt about that;
Compared to my brothers, I seem like a rat.
A blue face have I, a blue face, you know;
It's awfully cold here, with poisonous snow.
My name came from a god, a god with great might;
Although you know of me, I'm way out of your sight.
What am I?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cat
Facts…
Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to
care.
The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which
still exists today.
…Cool
Facts…
Americans buying a Volvo can get a free holiday to Sweden to test
drive their new car. All costs, including airfare and shipment of the car, are
covered by the Volvo Overseas Delivery program.
Let's Pizza is the world's first pizza vending machine. Just select
your topping, insert coins, and watch your pizza bake!
There's a cruise ship named "The World" where residents
permanently live as it travels around the globe.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The Cinco de Mayo Parade marched on Birch Street Saturday morning.
Six bomb threats were made on Monday: Thomas, Weitzel, Sinagua
High and Elden Jr. High were evacuated . Two businesses were also threatened.
The calls were made by a young male caller and seem to have been pranks. Police
Sergeant Pasqual Macias.
City officials have returned from Kmart Headquarters in Detroit
where they met with Kmart management about local concerns with the new Kmart
development here fitting in with the community, in particular our Urban Trail
which can become a park with the moving of the planned entrance.
…Harper’s
Index…
19-- Percentage by which a Muslim in India
is less likely than a Hindu to die in infancy
…100
People…
The world population has now reached 7 billion people. This
milestone inspired us to conduct research to update our statistics, and the
changes over the past 5 years are remarkable. In 2006, only 1 person out of 100
would have had a college education-- today that number has jumped to 7 thanks
in part to advances in higher education in Asia. The detailed research and
source information can be found here and the statistics provided by Donella
Meadows in 1990 that originally inspired our project can be viewed here.
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
12. She's always
late. In fact, her ancestors arrived
on the "Juneflower."
13. You have the right to
remain silent. Anything you say will
be misquoted, and used against you.
…Unusual Fact
of the Day…
Hands Across America (1986) had four celebrity co-chairs: Bill
Cosby, Kenny Rogers, Lily Tomlin, and Pete Rose.
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2 jokes
for the day
Little Johnny wasn't very good at spelling.
During an oral spelling exam, the teacher wrote the word "new" on the
blackboard. "Now," she asked Johnny, "what word would we have if
we placed a "K" in the front?"
After a moment's reflection, Johnny said, "Canoe?"
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A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of
America, walked into the Branch and wrote "This iz a stikkup. Put all your
muny in this bag."
While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to
worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before
he reached the teller's window.
So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to the Wells Fargo Bank.
After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo
teller.
She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn't the
brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup
note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would
either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of
America.
Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK" and left. He was
arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of
America.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
AURORA,
Colo. (UPI) - A Colorado mother said her daughter's preschool teacher barred
her from eating the Oreo cookies packed in her lunch because they are not
"nutritious." Leeza Pearson, whose 4-year-old daughter, Natalee,
attends private school The Children's Academy in Aurora as an Aurora Public
Schools student under the state's preschool option plan, said Natalee returned
home from school Friday and told her she was not allowed to eat her Oreo
cookies at lunch. Pearson said Natalee still had the cookies, which had been
packed along with a ham and cheese sandwich and a stick of string cheese, along
with a note from her teacher.
The note read: "Dear Parents, It is very important that all students have
a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are
required to have a fruit, a vegetable, and a healthy snack from home, along
with milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along
with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered
to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program and we need
everyone's participation." "I don't agree with it at all,"
Pearson told KMGH-TV. "They don't provide lunch for my daughter. I provide
lunch," Pearson said. "It's between me and the doctor in terms of
what's healthy for her." An Aurora Public Schools spokeswoman said Natalee
was offered a healthy alternative to the cookies. The director of The
Children's Academy said the note should not have been sent out and is being
investigated. She said the school does not have any policies regarding telling
students what they can or can't eat at lunch time.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
(returns
tomorrow)
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Birthday’s Today
87 - Betsy Rawls,
golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
87 - Hosni Mubarak,
Egyptian president (1981-2011)
72 - William J Bennett, US Secretary of
Education (1985-88)
74 - George Will, Champaign, Illinois,
American political analyst (Night Line)
62 - Pia Zadora, American actress
56 - Randy Travis,
Marshville NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones)
45 - Will Arnett, Toronto Ontario,
Canadian-American actor
42 - Mike Dirnt [Michael
Ryan Pritchard], musician (Green Day)
36 - Lance Bass, singer (*NSYNC)
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Remembered for being born today
- Alice Liddell,
English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland 1852-1934@82
- Frederick Church,
US landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) 1826-1900@73
- Horace Mann, educator/author
(pioneered public schools) 1796-1859@63
- Audrey Hepburn,
Brussels, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady) 1929-1993@63
- Keith Haring, American
graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review) 1958-1990@31
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Historical Obits Today
Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia
(1943-80)-1980@87
Moe
Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), cancer-1975@77
Dom
Deluise, American comedian, actor, cancer-2009@75
Bob
Clampett, cartoonist (Bugs Bunny, Beanie & Cecil), heart
attack-1984@70
MCA [Adam
Yauch], Beastie Boys vocalist, cancer-2012@47
Paul
Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, OD, 1987@44
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Brain Teasers Answers
The planet Pluto.
Stanza 1: Pluto is the smallest planet.
Stanza 2: Pluto's surface is blue because of frozen gases. The snow is a
methane and nitrogen snow that is poisonous to us.
Stanza 3: Pluto is the Roman god of the Underworld (Hades in Greek myths).
Pluto is too far away to be seen from Earth (without a telescope).
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
