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Sep 9, 2017 Week: 36 \ Day: 252
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 50°
Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 18mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 87°[1977] Record Low: 31°[2007]
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Quote of the Day
Color is my day-long obsession, joy, and torment.
Claude Monet
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Observances Today
Banana Day Link
Care Bears Share Your Care Day Link
International Buy A Priest A Beer Day Link
International Drive Your Studebaker Day
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day Link
Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day Link
National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children Link
National Hollerin' Day Link
National Iguana Awareness Day Link
Opposite Day (Do the Opposite of What You Normally Do. Breathing, living, etc. is the exception) Link (SpongeBob Squarepants)
Prairie Day
Wonderful Weirdoes Day
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Observances This Week
3-9
National Waffle Week
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
4-10
Suicide Prevention Week
5-9
Play Days
Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link
7-9
Popcorn Days: 7-9 Link
National Days
8-10
Prayer & Remembrance
9-11
Mushroom Days
9-17
International Air Ambulance Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
★1543 Mary Stuart, at nine months old, is crowned "Queen of Scots" in the central Scottish town of Stirling
1700’s
★1753 1st steam engine arrives in North American colonies
1776 Congress officially renames the country as the United States of America (Was the United Colonies)
1800’s
★1867 Luxembourg gains independence
1900’s
1904 Mounted police 1st used in NYC
1908 Orville Wright makes 1st 1-hr airplane flight, Fort Myer, Va
1942 1st bombing on continental US soil at Mount Emily, Oregon during WWII by Japanese planes
1945 1st "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweezers from a relay & taped into the log
1956 Elvis Presley appears on the Ed Sullivan Show for the 1st time
1957 US President Eisenhower signs 1st civil rights bill since Reconstruction
1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace served a federal injunction to stop orders of state police to bar black students from enrolling in white schools
★1965 Tibet is made an autonomous region of China
1966 The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act is signed into law by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1971 1,000 convicts riot & seize Attica, NY prison
★1971 John Lennon releases his "Imagine" album
★1976 New Zealand government establishes the country’s first centralized electronic database through the Wanganui Computer Act, raising questions about the state’s ability to gather information on its citizens
1985 President Reagan orders sanctions against South Africa2010 A court in the Philippines orders Imelda Marcos to repay the government almost $280,000 for funds taken from the National Food Authority by Ferdinand Marcos in 1983
2000’s
★2015 Queen Elizabeth II becomes Great Britain's longest-reigning monarch at 63 years and seven months, beating the previous record set by her great-great-grandmother, Queen Victoria
2015 Apple unveils the iPad Pro and iPhone 6S in San Francisco
★2016 North Korea conducts nuclear test at the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site, largest ever test at 10 kilotons
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My Rambling Thoughts
A strange couple of days. Yesterday our power company shut off power for 5 hours to give us new electricity. Guess the old electricity was tired. Oh, and they just raised our rates and ‘gave’ us better electricity. Then about 2 hours after the power returned, the cable company lost most channels for 3 hours. I called to find out why and an automated voice said they would call me when the video was repaired. They did.
I saw the Dr. this morning and have been ‘released’, told to finish the antibiotic, eat lots of fiber, and enjoy life. That’s my plan too. And I checked on shots for my Amazon trip. Turns out there is a Passport Health here in Flag and they offer all the shots. I’ll check them out as soon as I know the exact list from Tumlare.
As I was leaving the Dr. a colleague from Kayenta, where I was Acting Principal for a year, was coming in. Her husband, who helped me immensely while I was acting was seeing my Dr. We chatted for about 20 minutes, then her husband came out. The husband and I worked on sports at different schools for decades. We gave each other a big hug, sat down and talked another 20 minutes. He is still working. I gave him the ‘retire now and enjoy life speech’. He has over 45 years with the bureau and just turned 70. He’s thinking about joining the retirees in Dec. 2018. I get loving your career but told him he was crazy. Good visit.
I got several emails from Florida friends. Some are evacuating, others are ‘still thinking’ about evacuating. All are around my age or older. Makes no sense to me why anyone would stay, but it isn’t my place to tell them what to do. Can't walk a mile in their shoes.
Messaged my brother in Mexico, they are fine, but their friends in Mexico City are still feeling tremors after the early morning quake. Scary.
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Bizarre News
A Good Samaritan was shocked to get attacked by a shoplifter after he offered to pay for the stolen items, according to police in California.
Responding deputies have learned the suspect was stealing items from the 7-Eleven location when the victim offered to pay for the items. The suspect became upset, refused the victim's offer and a struggle ensued.
As the victim left the location, the suspect pulled out an ax and began to hit the victim in the head several times.
After the assault, the suspect fled the location and out of view of surveillance cameras.
The victim was transported to a hospital and treated for his injuries.
"This suspect should be considered armed and dangerous. If you believe you have seen the suspect, Do not make contact. Please call 9-1-1 or West Hollywood Station," police wrote.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
100’s
@100- Alf (Alfred) Landon,
(R-Ks) American politician and Presidential candidate (1932, 1936).
(d. 1987)
90’s
@90- Colonel Harland Sanders,
American founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, born in Henryville, Indiana
(d. 1980)
80’s
@88- Cliff Robertson,
American actor (Charly) and spokesman for AT&T, born in La Jolla, California
(d. 2011)
60’s
66- Tom Wopat,
Lodi, Wisconsin, American actor and singer (The Dukes of Hazzard, One Life to Live)
65- Angela Cartwright,
England (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space)
@63- William Bligh,
nasty ship's captain (HMS Bounty)
(d. 1817)
50’s
57- Hugh Grant,
London England (4 Weddings & a Funeral, 9 Months)
51- Adam Sandler,
actor, comedian (Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, Saturday Night Live), born in Brooklyn
40’s
46- Eric Stonestreet,
actor (Modern Family)
20’s
@26- Otis Redding,
Dawson Ga, rock bassist (Sitting on the Dock of the Bay)
(d. 1967)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@88-1997 Burgess Meredith,
actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky)
@84-1996 Bill Monroe,
bluegrass vocalist (created bluegrass music)
@82-1976 Mao Zedong,
Chinese revolutionary and Chairman of the Communist Party of China (1949-76)
@80-2014 Denny Miller,
American actor (Wagon Train)
60’s
@63-1876 American Horse (Wašíčuŋ Tȟašúŋke),
Lakota Sioux chief,
natural causes
@61-1975 John McGiver,
actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show),
heart attack
50’s
@±59-1087 William I,
The Conqueror, King of England/Duke of Normandy,
injured by horse
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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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