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Almanac: Week: 23 \ Day: 154
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 81°\L 43° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 29mph
Ave. High: 75° Record High: 86°
(1996) Ave. Low: 38° Record
Low: 23° (1971)
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Observances Today:
Chimborazo Day- Technically highest point on Earth
National Running Day
National Tailors Day
Repeat Day
Confederate Memorial Day (KY, LA,
TN)
Labor Day (Bahamas)
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Observances This Week:
National Sun Safety Week: 1-8
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1539 - Hernando
de Soto claims Florida for Spain
1621 - Dutch
West India Company (WIC) receives charter for The West Indies (included, The
Americas, Caribbean and West Africa)
1851 - 1st
baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt &
blue long trousers
1888 - "Casey
at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
1916 - US
National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps
1921 - A sudden
cloudburst kills 120 near Pikes Peak, Colorado
1939 - Beer Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles
chart by Will Glahe
1943 - A mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval
Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived to be Hispanic, starting the
week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
1944 -
Alianza Hispano Americana, founded in Tucson in 1894 as a fraternal benefits society,
was celebrating its 50th year . Alianza Hispano Americana had grown into one of
the largest and best known Mexican-American sociedades mutualistas in
the Southwest, counting nearly 20,000 members.
The organization sought to provide equal opportunities for
citizens of Mexican descent, to offer its members life insurance at low rates and
to provide social and cultural activities for Mexican Americans.
1949 - 1st
negro to graduate from US Naval Academy (Wesley Anthony Brown)
1959 - 1st US
Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado Springs, Colorado
1967 - Aretha Franklin's "Respect"
reaches #1
1970 - 1st
artificial gene synthesized
1970 - Ray Davies of Kinks travels round trip
NY-London to change 1 word in "Lola," (Coca-Cola to Cherry Cola)
because of BBC coml reference ban
1972 - "Hot
Rod Lincoln," by Commander Cody & His Lost Planet Airmen hits #9
1976 - Queen's
"Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold
1977 - US & Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
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Today’s World Events through History
1620 - Construction
of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges,
begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
1886 - 24
Christians burn to death in Namgongo, Uganda
1889 - The
Canadian Pacific Railway is completed from coast to coast.
1934 - Dr Frederick
Banting co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1946 - 1st
bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
1979 - Ex-president Idi Amin of Uganda flees to
Libya
1989 - Beginning
of the Tiananmen Square Massacre as Chinese troops open fire on pro-democracy
supporters in Beijing
1992 - World's largest environmental summit opens
(Rio De Janeiro Brazil)
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy day with lots of high clouds. Still nice. Ran some errands
this morning.
After the laser treatment yesterday, I can now see better without
glasses except for reading the newspaper. Hope that lasts. Our discussion group
meets on Sat to discuss India. I have lots of reading to do.
Note to self: When I safari again, be aware of surroundings and follow the guides rules.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill
in the blank below with a word that means the same as the word on the left when
read normally and fits the definition on the right when read backwards.
Wicked __________ Exist
Make a picture ________ Municipal sector
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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***New***…Celebrity
Facts…
In the mid-70s, the actor who portrays Mike from “Breaking Bad”
began his acting career in an education film on menstruation and puberty.
George Clooney once cleaned his roommate's cat litter box for four
consecutive days, then crapped in it himself, causing his roommate to think it
was from his constipated cat.
…Cool Facts…
A man sued Bank of America for erroneously foreclosing on his home
and won. When they didn’t pay the fees, he foreclosed their bank.
The world’s largest swimming pool can be found at the San Alfonso
del Mar resort in Chile. The pool is 1,013 m (3,324 ft) long, has a maximum
depth of 35 m, and even has sailing boats.
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
The Forest Service has agreed to allow the County Road Supervisor
to lower the water level on Davenport Lake 18 inches by putting a drain in at
the north end of the lake. The lake has recently been so high it is running
over the roadway, causing some wash away to occur.
There is a discussion going on about creating a toll road up the
San Francisco Peaks. It could be done for a few thousand dollars and would be a
tourist site, with its sweeping view of northern Arizona, the Painted
Desert and the Grand Canyon.
…Harper’s Index…
10/29/14-date on
which Federal Reserve ended its assest-purchase program because of the economy’s
‘underlying strength’
10/2/14-on which
former Fed Chair Bernanke announced that his mortgage-refinance application had
been denied
…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
In 1835, John Wilkes Booth’s father Junius threatened to kill
President Andrew Jackson.
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2 jokes for the day
A woman on the phone to her friend;
Q. Where did the Egyptian Mummy go to get her back fixed?
A. The Cairo..practor!
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A man was just waking up from anesthesia after
surgery, and his wife was sitting by his side.
His eyes fluttered open and he said, “You are beautiful.”
Then he fell asleep again.
His wife had never heard him say that, so she stayed by his side.
A few minutes later, his eyes fluttered open and he said, “You are cute!”
The wife was disappointed because instead of “beautiful,” it was now “cute.”
She said, “What happened to ‘beautiful’?”
Her husband replied, “The drugs are wearing off!”
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Yep, It Really
Happened
EVANSTON,
Ill. (UPI) - Scientists have figured out how to mimic nature by creating an
artificial molecular pump that can power cells in a feat of "radical
chemistry," as one scientist involved with the development called it.
The design of the tiny device is significant because scientists managed to
figure out how to transfer energy from molecule to molecule the same way that
it happens naturally -- no small feat.
"All living organisms, including humans, must continuously transport and
redistribute molecules around their cells, using vital carrier proteins,"
said Sir Fraser Stoddart, the Board of Trustees Professor of Chemistry in Northwestern's
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, in a press release. "We are trying
to recreate the actions of these proteins using relatively simple small
molecules we make in the laboratory."
The pump uses energy from chemical reactions to move smaller molecules around
in order to metabolize and store energy from food.
As researchers managed to siphon energy from molecules while forcing them to
act in ways they may not normally, the next goal will be to increase how much
energy is siphoned and stored, closer to the real thing.
"This is completely unlike the process of designing the machinery we are
used to seeing in everyday life," Stoddart said. "In a way, one must
learn to see things from the molecules' point of view, considering forces such
as random thermal motion that one would never consider when building an
agricultural water pump or any other mechanical device."
The study is published in Nature Nanotechnology.
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Birthday’s Today
86 - Chuck Barris,
Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show)
84 - Raúl Castro, Cuban statesman
48 - Anderson Cooper, American reporter
29 - Rafael Nadal,
Manacor, Majorca, Balearic Islands, Spanish tennis player
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Remembered for being born today
1901-1989@87 - Maurice
Evans, Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched)
1911-1999@87 - Ellen
Corby, Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-Waltons)
1925-2010@85 - Tony Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz], Bronx,
actor (Some Like It Hot)
1881-1889@81 - Jefferson
F Davis, President of Confederate States of America
1865-1936@70 - George
V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain
1926-1997@70 - Allen
Ginsberg, Newark, NJ, American beat poet (Howl)
1942-1999@57 - Curtis Mayfield, rock vocalist
(Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
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Historical Obits Today
Ayatollah
Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini], Supreme leader of Iran-1989@89
James
Arness, American actor (Gunsmoke)-2011@88
Anthony
Quinn, Mexican-born actor-2001@86
Robert
Morley, actor (Around the World in 80 Days)-1992@84
Pope John
XXIII [Angelo G Roncalli], Pope (1958-63)-1963@81
Rue
McClanahan, American actress ("The Golden Girls"), stroke-2010@76
Deacon
Jones, American NFL Hall of Fame Defensive End, cancer-2013@74
Ozzie
Nelson, actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), cancer-1975@69
Will
Sampson, Creek actor (From Here to Eternity), scleroderma-1987@54
Stephen A Douglas, "Little
Giant", senator (Lincoln Debates), typhoid-1861@48
Franz
Kafka, Czech writer (Amerika, Metamorphosis), TB-1924@40
Georges
Bizet, French composer, heart attack-1875@36
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Brain Teasers Answers
Evil, live.
Draw, ward.
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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…§
