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Sep 14, 2017 Week: 37 \ Day: 257
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 22mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 88°[2000] Record Low: 29°[1988]
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Quote of the Day
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S Truman
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Observances Today
Live Creative Day Link
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Observances This Week
10-16
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
International Housekeepers Week Link
Line Dance Week
National Assisted Living Week
National Environmental Services Week Link
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link
13-17
American Massage Therapy Week
Natio7zal Guitar Flat-Picking Days7 Link
Hummingbird Celebration Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
★1682 Bishop Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded.
1700’s
1716 1st lighthouse in American colonies lit (Boston Harbor)
★1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days
1800’s
★1812 Napoleon occupies Moscow and the fires start, extinguished by the 19th
1814 Francis Scott Key inspired to write the poem "Defence of Fort M'Henry", later becomes lyrics of the "Star-Spangled Banner"
1847 US Marines under General Scott enter Mexico City (halls of Montezuma)
1891 "Empire State Express" train goes from NYC to East Buffalo, a distance of 436 miles, in a record 7H6M
1900’s
1901 Theodore Roosevelt is sworn in as the youngest man to serve as US President, after William McKinley finally dies after an anarchist shoots him in Buffalo
1940 US Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
★1948 Groundbreaking ceremony for UN world headquarters
1948 Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
★1949 India's Constituent Assembly adopts Hindi as an official language. Celebrated today as Hindi Day.
1954 Hurricane Edna (2nd of 1954) hits NYC, $50 million damage
1956 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed in Washington, D.C.
★1960 Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
1964 Walt Disney awarded Medal of Freedom at White House
1964 President Lyndon Johnson presents Walter Lippmann with the Presidential Medal of Freedom
1965 "F-Troop" premieres in the US on ABC
1968 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
1972 "Waltons" TV program premieres
1975 Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton canonized as 1st US-born saint by Pope Paul VI
★1975 Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam
★1978 The Provisional Irish Republican Army explode over 50 bombs in towns across Northern Ireland over the next 5 days, injuring 37 people
1983 US House of Representatives votes, 416 to 0, in favor of a resolution condemning Russia for shooting down a Korean jetliner
1985 "The Golden Girls", starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC
1987 Cal Ripken's streak of 8,243 consecutive innings (908 games) is broken
1998 Telecommunications companies MCI Communications and WorldCom complete their $37 billion merger to form MCI WorldCom.
2000’s
2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.
2015 14 yr old Texan Ahmed Mohamed arrested at school when home-made clock assumed to be a bomb - Mark Zuckerberg and US President Barack Obama send supportive tweets
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My Rambling Thoughts
Got a little rain last night. The way it’s blowing and the dark clouds to the west look like more is on the way.
Ran into some friends from TC. Found out my great superintendent had fallen and broken his femur. Called him, as we have lunch every so often. He is doing fine. Got a pin, and rotates between a walker and crutches. Says it will take 4-6 weeks to heal. Tough. Glad he is dealing with it well.
I’m heading to the Amazon in the spring. So I am very aware of news and stuff from that area. I was shocked when I read articles about illegal gold miners finding Indigenous people who have had no contact with outsiders and deciding the best thing to do was to shoot them, killing many women and children. I hope they identify and prosecute these idiots.
Cleanup in Florida and the Keys is amazing. What a mess. I am all for helping those who lost everything. However so of these people were not eligible for flood insurance, because of their location. Others just didn’t buy available flood insurance. Seems to me there should some kind of penalty for those people. It is great to live your life in your own paradise, but not at the expense of others. Just a thought.
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Bizarre News
Horry County police said that they stopped a local town mayor for cutting his mother-in-law's lawn. And riding his lawn mower on a public road while drinking beer.
Police released a video showing John Gardner, the mayor of Aynor, South Carolina, riding a lawnmower with an open can of beer. After police officers stopped him, they ordered Gardner to pour the beer on the ground.
The officers then allowed Gardner to continue, because rank hath its privileges, and reported the incident to the Town of Aynor.
Gardner defended himself, saying that he cut the grass of his mother-in-law's lawn and then went to the gas station to refuel.
Gardner bought the can of beer at the gas station.
Gardner said that he only opened the can of beer after police ordered him to pour the beverage on the ground.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@86- Ivan Pavlov,
Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904), born in Ryazan, Russia
(d. 1936)
@86- Margaret Sanger,
American nurse, birth control proponent and feminist, born in Corning, NY
(d. 1966)
@85- Clayton Moore,
American actor (Lone Ranger), born in Chicago
(d. 1999)
@86- John Gutfreund,
American investment banker, CEO of Salomon Brothers (King of Wall Street), born in NYC
(d. 2016)
70’s
70- Sam Neill,
New Zealand actor (Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, The Piano), born in Omagh, Northern Ireland
60’s
62- Joe Penny,
actor (Gangster Wars, Riptide, Jake & the Fatman), born in London, England
50’s
53- Faith Ford, Louisiana,
actress (Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown)
52- Dmitry Medvedev,
Russian politician (President and Prime Minister of Russia), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union
40’s
44- Nas,
rapper
20’s
28- Jesse James,
American actor (As Good As It Gets)
@27- Amy Winehouse,
British singer (Stronger Than Me, Rehab), born in London
(d. 2011)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@80-2000 Beah Richards,
American actress
@80-1836 Aaron Burr,
3rd US Vice President (D-R: 1801-05) who killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel
70’s
@73-2009 Henry Gibson,
American actor and songwriter (Laugh In)
60’s
@65-2015 Fred DeLuca,
American co-founder of the Subway chain,
cancer
@62-1851 James Fenimore Cooper,
American author (Last of Mohicans),
dropsy
50’s
@59-1996 Juliet Prowse,
actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey),
pancreatic cancer
@58-1901 Pres William McKinley,
after being shot 8 days earlier
@57-2009 Patrick Swayze,
American actor, dancer, and songwriter,
pancreatic cancer
@52-1982 Grace Kelly,
princess of Monaco,
car crash
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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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