Aug 25

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Aug 25, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 237

86004 Today: H 77° \ L 50°

Average Sky Cover: 35% 

Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  15mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 88°[1985]   Record Low: 36°[2002]

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Quote of the Day

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

Epictetus

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Observances Today

Brother's Day  Link 

Kiss and Make Up Day

International Bat Night: 25-26  

National Park Service Day

National Second-hand Wardrobe Day

National Whiskey Sour Day  

World Daffodil Day Link  

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Observances This Week

20-26

National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

National Safe at Home Week

24-27

North American Organic Brewers Week

25-31

Be Kind To Humankind Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

300’s

★325 Council of Nicaea ends with adoption of the Nicene Creed establishing the doctrine of the Holy Trinity

1600’s

★1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

★1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois

1800’s

★1814 British forces destroy Library of Congress, containing 3,000 books (War of 1812)

★1825 Uruguay declares independence from Brazil (National Day)

1900’s

1908 National Association of Colored Nurses forms

1910 Yellow Cab is founded.

1916 US Department of Interior forms National Park Service

1925 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters organizes (Harlem NY)

★1929 Graf Zeppelin passes over SF for LA after trans-Pacific voyage

★1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight

★1958 Momofuku Ando markets the first package of precooked instant noodles (Chikin Ramen)

1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st African American to win the US singles championship

★1970 Elton John's 1st US appearance (Los Angeles)

★1971 Leader of the Social Democratic and Labour Party Gerry Fitt presents a number of allegations of brutality by the security forces in Northern Ireland to representatives of the United Nations

★1989 After 12-year, 4-billion-mile journey, Voyager 2 flies over cloud tops of Neptune & its moon Triton, sending back photographs of swamps

★1990 UN security council authorizes military action against Iraq

1991 Linux was born when Linus Torvalds sent off the email announcing his project to create a new operating system

2000’s

★2003 The Tli Cho land claims agreement is signed between the Dogrib First Nations and the Canadian federal government in Rae-Edzo (now called Behchoko).

★2012 85,000 people are displaced by severe floods in Myanmar

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My Rambling Thoughts

Cheryl came into town yesterday so we had lunch. Then I did my weekly shopping. By the time I finally got home and put all the stuff away I was too lazy to post anything.

Still enjoying a pain free mouth. This is not what I expected, but am not complaining. Never had to use a pain pill. Did take a couple of strong Tylenol to prevent swelling and the antibiotic. No complaints.

We had a hard rain with lots of thunder and lightning around 1a-3a. Good for the forest, not so good for sleep. Another monsoon is building up right now.

I did watch 45 in Phx. It takes a lot for me not to just scream when he lies to his base about most things. There was lots of tear gas released outside the venue as supporters were filing out. NO injuries. Just a tad overreaction. ACLU is working on a lawsuit for overzealous officers. And 45 got the crowd all excited about their former sheriff, about news media, about the wall. He didn’t pardon Arpaio, but came really close. Turns out his WH lawyers say he must wait until Joe is sentenced before doing a pardon. Cannot believe that now I look at the Bush administrations, I wish either one was our leader now.  

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Van Johnson,

actor (Brigadoon) always wore red socks, born in Newport, Rhode Island

(d. 2008)

@90- Mel Ferrer,

Elberon New Jersey, American actor (Longest Day, Eaten Alive, 5th Floor)

(d. 2008)

80’s

87- Sean Connery,

actor (James Bond films), born in Edinburgh, Scotland

86- Regis Philbin,

American talk & game show host (Joey Bishop Show, Live with Regis & Kathie Lee), born in The Bronx

@80- Don Defore,

actor (George-Hazel, The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa

(d. 1993)

70’s

@78- George Wallace,

American politician (Gov-D-Ala) and presidential candidate, born in Clio, Alabama

(d. 1998)

@72- Leonard Bernstein,

Lawrence MA, conductor/composer (West Side Story)

(d. 1990)

60’s

68- Gene Simmons, [Chaim Witz],

Haifa Israel, rock guitarist (KISS-Beth)

@66- Richard Greene,

Plymouth England, composer/actor (The Adventures of Robin Hood)

(d. 1985)

63- Elvis Costello, [Declan Patrick McManus],

London, rock vocalist (Allison)

@61- Michael Rennie,

England, actor (Robe, Klatuu-Day the Earth Stood Still)

(d. 1971)

50’s

59- Tim Burton,

American film director (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands), born in Burbank,

56- Billy Ray Cyrus,

country singer (Achy Breaky Heart), born in Flatwoods, Kentucky

@53- Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible],

1st tsar of Russia (1533-84), born in Kolomenskoye, Russia

(d. 1584)

53- Blair Underwood,

Tacoma Wash, actor (Jonathan-LA Law, High Incident)

40’s

49- Rachael Ray,

TV chef

47- Claudia Schiffer,

Rheinbach Germany, supermodel (Elle, Rolling Stone)

30- Blake Lively,

American actress

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83-1822 William Herschel,

German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus)

@83-1819 James Watt,

Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer and chemist (steam engine)

@82-2012 Neil Armstrong,

American astronaut,

heart surgery complications  

70’s

@77-2009 Edward [Ted] M. Kennedy,

United States Senator from Massachusetts,

brain cancer

60’s

@65-1776 David Hume,

Scottish philosopher and historian (A Treatise of Human Nature),

abdominal cancer

50’s

@59-1984 Truman Capote,

American author (In Cold Blood),

liver cancer

@55-1900 Friedrich Nietzsche,

German philosopher and philologist (Übermensch and the doctrine of eternal return),

strokes

@53-1688 Henry Morgan,

Welsh pirate and privateer who raided Spanish settlements and shipping,

dropsy, alcoholism

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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.

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Aug 23

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Aug 23, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 235

86004 Today: H 80° \ L 51°

Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 90°[1985]   Record Low: 24°[1968]

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Quote of the Day

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  Nelson Mandela

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Observances Today

Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade & Its Abolition

Ride the Wind Day

Valentino Day

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Observances This Week

18-24

Minority Enterprise Development Week

20-26

National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

National Safe at Home Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

70’s

★79 Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on feast day of Vulcan, Roman god of fire (goes on to destroy Pompeii)

1300’s

★1305 William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I of England.

1600’s

★1617 1st one-way streets open (London)

1700’s

1784 Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it

1800’s

1838 Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class

1869 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston

★1872 1st Japanese commercial ship visits SF, carrying tea

1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)

1900’s

1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune

★1933 Mahatma Gandhi released from Indian jail following another hunger strike

1938 "You Can’t Take It With You" from the play by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart, directed by Frank Capra and starring James Stewart and Jean Arthur premieres. Best Picture (1939)

1960 World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught (Equatorial Guinea)

★1979 Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC

1985 Paul Hornung awarded $1,160,000 by a Louisville court against NCAA who barred him as a college football analyst for betting on games

1990 US begins call up of 46,000 reservists to the Persian Gulf

★1990 East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3

★1992 Wilhelm Verwoerd, grandson of former South African Prime Minister, Hendrik Verwoerd, main architect of apartheid, joins the African National Congress

★1996 Osama bin Laden issues message entitled "A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places"

2000’s

★2011 Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound during the 2011 Libyan Civil War.

★2015 12 year old boy trips and rips 17th-century painting "Flowers" by Paolo Porpora worth $1.5m at exhibition in Taiwan

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My Rambling Thoughts

I am amazed. While talking to the dentist yesterday, he gave me an antibiotic, and two different pain meds for the expected pain and swelling from my molar extraction. It’s been 28+ hours and I’m taking the antibiotic and am just waiting for some kind of pain. So far, none. No swelling, no pain, just two pesky ends to the stitches that are in my mouth. Very happy camper here.

What? 45 is sending more troops into Afghanistan. Only surprise there is that he waited this long. Look how many Generals are around him. Have to agree that he doesn’t publicize numbers now, we will know soon enough as the planes take off with troops. I also like the idea that we don’t announce withdrawal timelines. Never understood why Obama did that. Somehow I fear that we will soon have troops or airstrikes in Pakistan, a nuclear power. And I doubt they will be happy about that.

People in Phx are awaiting the arrival of 45 and his sidekick, the VP. Phx mayor asked him to hold off, 45 declined. Our Governor will meet him on the now infamous tarmac (remember Obama getting a finger shook at him by then Gov. Brewer), but the Governor will not attend the rally, saying he will stay back to ensure safety for all involved. I am busy going back in my memory as to any other President being on the campaign trail in the 1st year in office. Nobody coming to mind. Oh well, 45 does whatever he wants, all on tax dollars. Local news in Phx is expecting big protests downtown when 45 and crew arrive. And many Phx locals are hoping that 45 will pardon their convicted former sheriff for his racist acts. I’ll be watching.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

88- Vera Miles,

American actress (Psycho), born in Boise City, Oklahoma

86- Barbara Eden,

American actress (Dream of Jeannie), born in Tucson

85- Mark Russell,

political satirist/pianist (Real People), born in Buffalo, NY

@83- Gene Kelly,

dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way)

(d.1996)

60’s

@68- Tex Williams,

American singer

(d. 1985)

68- Rick Springfield,

Australia, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl)

68- Shelley Long,

American actress (Diane in Cheers, Money Pit), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana

40’s

47- Jay Mohr,

American actor and comedian

41- Scott Caan,

American actor (Hawaii Five-0)

30’s

39- Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

@32- Keith Moon,

drummer (The Who)

(d. 1978)

20’s

@23- River Phoenix,

American actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me), born in Madras, Oregon

(d. 1993)  

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-2016 Steven Hill,

American actor (Mission Impossible, Law & Order)

80’s

@84-1723 Increase Mather,

New England Puritan minister

60’s

@65-1960 Oscar Hammerstein II,

Broadway librettist,

stomach cancer

30’s

@±35-1305 William Wallace,

Scottish patriot,

hanged, disemboweled & beheaded

@31-1926 Rudolph Valentino,

silent movie idol (Sheik),

pleuritis

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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.

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Aug 22

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Aug 22, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 234

86004 Today: H 77° \ L 53°

Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 88°[1938]   Record Low: 32°[1968]

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Quote of the Day

Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.

  Nelson Mandela
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Observances Today

Be an Angel Day
National Bao Day Link
National Tooth Fairy Day

Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Take Your Cat To The Vet Day

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Observances This Week

18-24
Minority Enterprise Development Week

20-26
National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  
National Safe at Home Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

500’s

★565 St Columba reports seeing monster in Loch Ness

1700’s

1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury

1800’s

1848 The United States annexes New Mexico

★1849 The first air raid in history; Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice

1862 Santee Sioux attack Fort Ridgely

★1864 First Geneva Convention adopted in Geneva "for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded in Armies in the Field"

1865 William Sheppard is issued the first US patent for liquid soap

1877 Nez Perce (Niimíipu) flee into Yellowstone National Park

1900’s

1901 Cadillac Motor Company is founded.

1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes Assistant Director of the FBI

★1945 Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup

★1966 The Beatles arrive in New York

★1969 Beatles record a video for "Long & Winding Road"

★1989 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered

1990 US President George H. W. Bush calls up military reserves

1994 DNA testing links O.J. Simpson to murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman

2000’s

★2004 "The Scream" (1910 painted version) and "Madonna", two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway.

★2007 The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Last night I thought I had chipped a molar, but hadn’t done anything like biting on something hard. Called the dentist early this morning. In at 10a this morning. Upon looking he said root canal and crown. Then he started working and said extraction and implant. Not how I wanted to spend the day. Now have to wait 6 months to get the implant…the bone graph has to take hold. Hardest part, no soda for 3 days and no straws for a week. So much fun as I get old-er.

And to add to my pity party. When I got home I got now am suffering from my angio-edema…meaning I have a swollen lip about 3 times it’s normal size. Bring it all on. Won’t tear me apart. Haha.

I did get to observe the effect of the eclipse from the dentist's chair. He has a nice window in the room. 

Guess I'll be watching 45's new idea on Afghanistan this evening. My guess is more troops for a war he campaigned against.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Deng Xiaoping,

Chinese revolutionary and paramount leader of China (1978-92), born in Guang'an, Sichuan

(d. 1997)

92- Honor Blackman,

Plaistow, London, English actress (Goldfinger, The Avengers)

@91- Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill,

sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451),

(d. 2012)

70’s

78- Valerie Harper,

Suffern, New York, American actress (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda)

@73- Dorothy Parker,

American short story writer (1958 Marjorie Peabody Award), born in Long Branch, New Jersey

(d. 1967)

70- Cindy Williams,

Van Nuys California, actress (Shirley- Laverne & Shirley)

50’s

@55- Claude Debussy,

French composer (La Mer, Clair de lune), born in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France

(d. 1918)

50- Ty Burrell,

American actor (Modern Family)

40’s

47- Giada De Laurentiis,

Chef,

44- Kristen Wiig,

American comedian and actress (Bridesmaids, Ghostbusters), born in Canandaigua, New York

30’s

39- James Corden,

British actor, comedian and television host (The Late Late Show with James Corden), born in Hillingdon, London

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Historical Obits Today

50’s

@59-1977 Sebastian Cabot,

actor (Mr French-Family Affair), strokes

30’s

@31-1922 Michael Collins,

Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush

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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.

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