Jul 20

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Jul 20, 2018 Week: 29 \ Day: 201

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Nearest Lightning:  0.2 miles away

Wind ave.:   3mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 2 mi

Record High: 91°[1939]   Record Low: 42°[1940]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

  Malcolm X

Harper’s Index

1/5

Portion of US greenhouse gas emissions that results from energy produced on federal lands.

Observances This Week

15^th-21^st

Rabbit Week
Captive Nations Week1
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link 
National Body Piercing Week  Link
National Parenting Gifted Children Week Link 
National Zoo Keeper Week Link 
National Independent Retailers Week Link  

18^th-21^st

National Baby Food Week Link
National Ventriloquism Week  Link

18^th-25^th

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

19^th-22^nd

Comic Con International
Hemingway Look-alike Days
Quilt Odyssey Week

Observances for Today

International Cake Day Link
Moon Day
National Ice Cream Soda Day

National Lollipop Day Link

Space Exploration Day  Link
Ugly Truck Day-

World Jump Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1773 Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova Scotia (Canada)

1800’s                                         

1808 Napoleon decrees all French Jews adopt family names

1878 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii

1881 Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops

1900’s                                         

1921 Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the floor of US House of Representatives

1926 A convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.

1928 The government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place, subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians

1933 Vatican state secretary Pacelli (Pius XII) signs accord with Hitler

1933 In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism

1942 1st detachment of Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, begin basic training

1949 Israel's 19 month war of independence ends

1960 USSR recovers 2 dogs; 1st living organisms to return from space

1969 1st Moon Landing: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin step out from Apollo spacecraft 11, 530 million watch live global broadcast

1977 The Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments

1984 Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss America

1989 Burma government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest

2000’s                                         

2000 The leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering

2000 Terrorist Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him.

2005 Canada becomes the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage, after the bill C-38 receives its Royal Assent

2012 12 people are killed and 59 injured after a gunman opens fire at a Dark Knight movie premier in Aurora, Colorado,

2017 Elon Musk tweets he has "verbal government approval" to build 29 minute Hyperloop between New York and Washington D.C.

2017 China announces a plan against “foreign garbage” banning 24 categories of plastic and recyclable waste from 2018

My Rambling Thoughts

The monsoon has hit was with great vigor. Yesterday, a neighborhood about 4 miles from where I live got 5” of rain in less than 2 hours. There was a lot of roads in that area covered with small and large debris. Two friends live in that area and have debris everywhere but luckily their homes were not flooded.  There was so much lightning yesterday that was close by that I didn’t turn on the computer. Today that area as well as my area are getting hit again with torrential rain. We are the high desert and we always need moisture, but…if anyone has any control, please cut the rain way back. This is not helping the forest, and is certainly not helping people. Just got a phone alert that our area is expected to have flash flooding until 4p. Alert said “Heavy rains and flooding of roadways in the East Flagstaff area. Please drive carefully. Hazardous driving conditions. Don’t drown, turn around.”

I spent some time early this morning updating the Focus Travel site. There is a great deal to see the Tulips in bloom next April on a cool river trip. Check it out. The host we use has changed its business model. When I was ready to publish it, a pop-up said I was using things not covered in the plan we have. I called Ellie and she got it straightened out by upgrading.  Like everything else in our money-driven business world, things that used to be covered in one agreement are not covered in the new agreement. Hmmm

Our HOA is on the ‘get-‘em’ kick again. The complex has about 60 units. We have had permit parking only in front of the residences for about 8 years. Visitors had to park in an area around the center commons area. About a month ago they took away about 45 of the visitor parking spaces and made them permit only. This leave about 20 parking spaces for visitors and a walk of about a block to most of the units. Last night about 10p my neighbor come over to see if my vehicle was OK. A friend of his had stopped by and parked in the wrong area. The tow company had showed up with 3 tow trucks and about 2 dozen boots. They booted all the non-permitted vehicles. It cost $200 cash or $200 + 3% service charge to use a credit or debit card to get the boot taken off. Quite the racket. Not sure how much it cost if it was actually towed.  I have lived here a dozen years and have never had a problem with parking. This is not about parking, it’s all about the power to do it.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Edmund Hillary, Explorer and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing Norgay), born in Auckland, New Zealand (d. 2008)

@87- Mike Ilitch, American businessman (founded Little Caesars Pizza, owner Detroit Red Wings, Tigers), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2017)

@86- Marina Popovich, Soviet Air Force colonel, engineer and test pilot (102 world records), born in Leonenki, Smolensk Oblast, USSR, birth date uncertain (d. 2017)

70’s

79- Diana Rigg, Doncaster England, actress (Emma Peel-Avengers, Hospital)

71- Carlos Santana, Mexican rock guitarist (Santana-Black Magic Woman), born in Autlán de Navarro

60’s

@61- Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), born in Heinzendorf, Austria (d. 1884) kidney disease

50’s

52- Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico (2012-2018), born in Atlacomulco, State of Mexico

40’s

46- Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress (Grey's Anatomy), born in Nepean,Ontario

@43- Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin], American actress (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1981) drowning

30’s

@32- Alexander the Great, Macedonian king and military leader, born in Pella, Macedonia (modern Greece) (d. 323 BC) fever, alcohol related

30- Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer

Historical Obits Today

60’s

@68-1912 Andrew Lang, Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and anthropologist (Andrew Lang's Fairy Books), Heart failure

@65-2007 Tammy Faye Messner (Bakker), American televangelist colon cancer

@63-1937 Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer/marquis (radio, Nobel 1909), heart attack

50’s

@52-1984 Jim Fixx, American jogger and writer (Jim Fixx on Running), heart attack

40’s

@41-2017 Chester Bennington, American singer and songwriter (Linkin Park), commits suicide

30’s

@32-1973 Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam], Hong Kong and American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon), stroke

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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Jul 18

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Jul 18, 2018 Week: 29 \ Day: 199

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: % 

Nearest Lightning:  36.7 miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 93°[2005]   Record Low: 42°[1940]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Life consists not in holding good cards

but in playing those you hold well.

  Josh Billings

Harper’s Index

8

Number of passengers the Subaru Ascent, a new sport-utility vehicle is designed to transport

19

Number of cupholders it has

Observances This Week

15^th-21^st

Rabbit Week
Captive Nations Week
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link 
National Body Piercing Week  Link
National Parenting Gifted Children Week Link
National Zoo Keeper Week Link
National Independent Retailers Week Link
18^th-21^st

National Baby Food Week Link
National Ventriloquism Week  Link
18^th-25^th

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

Observances for Today

National Caviar Day  Link
National Hot Dog Day Link
National Sour Candy Day Link
Nelson Mandela International Day Link
Take Your Poet To Work Day 

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

00’s                                              

64 Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero

1300’s                                         

1323 Pope John XXII proclaims theologian Thomas Aquinas a saint in Avignon

1700’s                                         

1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)

1800’s                                         

1864 US President Abraham Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service

1870 Pontifical infallibility proclaimed

1872 The Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously votes made openly

1900’s                                         

1914 Gandhi leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance

1925 Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")

1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched

1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland after a 28 hours flight, supposedly left NY flying for California

1947 King George VI signs Indian Independence Act

1952 KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, Colorado (IND) begins broadcasting

1963 Failed military coup in Syria

1963 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum

1972 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aides

1972 Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army

1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Forbes of Boston Bruins (1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)

1976 Nadia Comăneci becomes the first person in Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at 1976 Summer Olympics

1980 Federal court voids Selective Service Act as it doesn't include women

1984 21 people are killed and 19 are injured in a massacre in a McDonalds restaurant in San Ysidro, California; it ends with the shooting of its perpetrator, James Oliver Huberty

1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains

1994 Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons

1994 "Kiss From a Rose" released by Seal (Grammy Record and Song of the year)

1995 "Dreams from My Father", a memoir by Barack Obama is published by Times Books

1996 The UN approves an Iraqi aid distribution plan, a major step forward in the direction of allowing Iraq to sell oil under Resolution 986 2015 PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ

2000’s                                         

2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army

2013 Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy ever at $18.5 billion

2014 The Israeli Defense Force (IDF) call 18,000 additional reserves soldiers in campaign against Gaza

2015 PayPal is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ

My Rambling Thoughts

Another day of monsoon rain. Not complaining. Today it is just showers on and off. Other parts of AZ are still having flash flooding, but we seem to be saved from that.

45 really believes his supporters are idiots. Today he holds a press briefing in the WH and says that he had planned to say ‘wouldn’t’ instead of ‘would’. Really, the whole world was watching and heard his words. Sorry I don’t buy it. Especially since he added ‘it could be other people, there’s a lot of people out there.’ He has decried the intelligence agencies for months. He has never said a bad word about Russia or Putin. Too bad the old adage “Liar, Liar, Pants on fire” is not a real thing.

I was and educator for decades. I believe that everyone should be a life-long learner. Here’s how I see the problem about the Russians stealing stuff from various computers: If an armed Russian had walked into any or all the offices they hacked and grabbed paper files and left, everyone would be shocked and up in arms to catch them and stop them. But it was done in cyber-space. Most of us don’t understand cyber-space. I probably have a third-grade education on it. We like cyber-space when it lets us have social media, web sites, automatically pay our bills, email, and get money from our ATM (almost)anywhere in the world.  We get frustrated when cyber-space doesn’t work the way expect to work. Sometimes some unknown person will copy our information from a social media site and open another site under our name, with our picture and background information. It takes time to fix that problem and you have to have some idea how to do it. Then there are the emails that promise big $$$ if we click and give out our personal information. Or the email that simply clicking on it will put a program on your computer to watch everything you do, including stealing your information, credit card information, or your actual bank money. We are not alone in the frustration or the lack of knowledge. Turns out even computer gurus who have our private information are also unprepared. Everyone has read stories about credit card information stolen from reputable stores, or having credit information stolen from the companies that control our credit score.

The problem is we don’t have any tools to stop it until it happens to us.

We have demand that every company and organization that has our information needs to be a better job or pay the piper.  If my information is stolen in a computer hack, I should expect a big check from the company or organization that was hacked. Let’s say that a company has your credit card information stolen, they owe each person who had information stolen a check for $5,000. When an organization, like a political party or state or Federal office, has the voter information stolen each person gets a check for $10,000. No excuses, no long court battles, just pay up within 30 days of the intrusion.

We have some responsibility by not clicking on stuff we didn’t ask for. We should not hand out personal information, just because the store asks for it. Find out why they need it and what they are going to do with it, in writing. If they do something else, $5,000 fine for every time they broke their agreement.

I know there are cyber technicians who could encrypt everything so that any stolen information would be unreadable. Sure, it will cost some money, but would you feel sorry for a neighbor who had a burglary and found out they had left the door and windows unlocked and had no photos of the expensive items in their house?

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Nelson Mandela, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner (1962-90) and South African President (1994-99), born in Mvezo, Umtatu, South Africa (d. 2013)

@95- John Glenn, American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio), born in Cambridge, Ohio (d. 2016)

80’s

89- Dick Totten Button, figure skater (Olympic gold 1948, 52), born in Englewood, New Jersey

@85- Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Follow the Fleet), born in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 1994)

@84- Red Skelton, [Richard], Vincennes Ind, comedian (Red Skelton Show)

70’s

77- Martha Reeves, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St), born in Detroit, Michigan

@76- Chill Wills, American singer and actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), born in Seagoville Texas (d. 1978) cancer

@71- Marvin Miller [Mueller], American actor (Space Patrol, Dead Reckoning, Millionaire), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1985) heart attack

60’s

68- Richard Branson, British music entrepreneur (Virgin Group), born in London, England

@67- Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) (d. 2005) suicide

@67- Robert Hooke, Scientist (Micrographia), born in Isle of Wight, England (D.1703)

@65- Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown, Titanic survivor (d. 1932) brain tumor

64- Ricky Skaggs, Cordell Ky, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)

61- Nick Faldo, English golfer (six-time Major Championship winner), born in Welwyn Garden City Hertfordshire

50’s

54- Wendy Williams, TV host

51- Vin Diesel [Mark Sinclair], American actor (The Fast and the Furious), born in Alameda County, California

Historical Obits Today

60’s

@69-1997 Eugene M. Shoemaker, American planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet), car accident

@66-1872 Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general (battle of Acapulco), heart attack

50’s

@59-1954 George Machine Gun Kelly, American gangster, heart attack

40’s

@45-1792 John Paul Jones, American naval commander intestinal disease

@41-1817 Jane Austen, English novelist (Pride and Prejudice), Addison’s disease

30’s

@38-1610 Caravaggio [Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio], Italian painter, (Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy)

20’s

@23-1966 Bobby Fuller, American rock singer and guitarist (I Fought the Law), suicide? Murder?

Jul 17

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Jul 17, 2018 Week: 29 \ Day: 198

86004 Today: H 81° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Nearest Lightning:  68 miles away

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1980]   Record Low: 40°[1904]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. Ella Maillart

Harper’s Index

1:2

Ratio of homeless Americans to empty investor-owned properties in the US

1:1

Ration of the wealth held by the world’s 42 richest people to that held by the poorest 50%

Observances This Week

15^th-21^st

Rabbit Week
Captive Nations Week1
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link 
National Body Piercing Week  Link
National Parenting Gifted Children Week Link 
National Zoo Keeper Week Link 
National Independent Retailers Week Link 

Observances for Today

Disneyland Day
Peach Ice Cream Day

Victims of Baton Rouge, Louisianna Attack Day  Link
World Day for International Criminal Justice  Link
World Emoji Day  Link
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Yellow Pig Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

100’s                                           

180 6 inhabitants of Carthage, North Africa executed for being Christians. Earliest record of Christianity in this part of the world.

1200’s                                         

1203 Siege of Constantinople begins during the fourth Crusade, Crusaders aboard a Venetian fleet attack the city

1600’s                                         

1686 A meeting takes place at Lüneburg between several Protestant powers in order to discuss the formation of an 'evangelical' league of defense, called the 'Confederatio Militiae Evangelicae', against the Catholic League.

1800’s                                         

1861 US Congress authorizes paper money

1900’s                                         

1903 The Russian Social Democratic Workers Party meets, first in Brussels and then London because their leaders have been forced into exile by the Russian Government

1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor

1918 The Romanov royal family and several of their retainers are executed by a Bolshevik firing squad in the basement of Ipatiev House, in Yekaterinburg, Siberia 1942 3' of rain falls on Pennsylvania, flooding kills 15

1945 Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting 1948 US Air Force pilot Gail Halvorsen encounters children in at Templehof Airport in Berlin during the Berlin Blockade, giving him the idea to drop candy in 'Operation Little Vittles' 1954 Construction of Disneyland commences

1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.

1959 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago

1962 Senate rejects Medicare for aged

1964 ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace

1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)

1967 Monkees perform at Forest Hills NY, Jimi Hendrix is opening act

1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa

1984 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds

1988 4 Billion tv-viewers watch Mandela's 70th Birthday Tribute

1998 Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II and family, 80 years after they died

2000’s

2004 Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators

2004 Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against Aids

2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 is shot down over Eastern Ukraine by a Buk surface-to-air missile launched from pro-Russian separatist-controlled territory, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew on board

2016 17 works by Swiss architect Le Corbusier included in UNESCO World Heritage sites list as "an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement"

My Rambling Thoughts

Just as I was getting ready to start this post yesterday a storm hit. Lots of lightning (so didn’t turn on my computer). The closest lightning was 3/10 miles from my place. Then the rain hit. Our little mountain town got 2-1/2” of rain in 2 hours. One forgets how much rain it takes to do some flooding in the high desert. Roads throughout Flagstaff were soon rivers. Several parked cars were flooded out in the downtown area. This morning I headed out for some essentials before the next monsoon hits. Many main roads were covered with dirt and debris from the flooding yesterday. The Flagstaff City workers were everywhere cleaning up the mess. Hopefully we get much smaller storms for the rest of the monsoon. The forest needs moisture, but that moisture needs a little time to soak in for it to be of any real value.

The plastic headlights on my vehicle had become very murky. The dealership offered to clean them for $25. I could by some special stuff for about $15. The I saw a DIY thing on the internet machine. It said to put toothpaste, not gel, on the plastic, rub it a little and rinse it off. I tried it Saturday and it did the job in no time. Happy camper.

Our discussion on Turkey was outstanding. We concluded that Turkey has been a crossroads for centuries and that is how they want to remain. Many Turks are becoming very Anti-American for our siding with the Kurds, the segment of the population that wants to be its own country. Their leader is a democratically elected leader who is quickly becoming a dictator as he has purged much of the military and judges who do not side with him. We need a strong diplomatic leader to work with Turkey and to keep our very strategic military bases there. Hmmmm. Sadly, the US State Dept. has a travel advisory for Turkey: Level 3: Reconsider travel. The only higher level is a Level 4: Do Not Travel. This is not a good thing.

All I can say about the 45/Putin Press Conference is WHOA! Even FoxNews is not happy. Even Republicans are not happy. Will this be the tipping point?

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- Art Linkletter, Saskatchewan Canada, TV host (People are Funny) (d. 2010)

@95- Phyllis Diller, American comedienne and actress (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), born in Lima, Ohio (d. 2012)

80’s

@86- James Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), born in NYC, (d. 1986)

@85- Gordon Gould, American physicist (inventor of the laser), born in NYC, New York (d. 2005)

@84- John Jacob Astor [Johann Jakob Astor] German-American businessman (first multi-millionaire in the United States), born in Walldorf, Electoral Palatinate, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1848)

83- Diahann Carroll, actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty), born in The Bronx, New York

83- Donald Sutherland, St John New Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)

83- P D Q Bach, [Peter Schickele], Iowa, composer (5th of Beethoven)

@80- Erle Stanley Gardner, American detective writer (Perry Mason), born in Malden, Massachusetts (d. 1970)

70’s

79- Spencer Davis, Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)

79- Ali Hosseini Khamenei, Supreme Leader of Iran (1989- ) and Muslim cleric, born in Mashhad, Khorasan, Iran

76- Gale Garnett, singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine), born in Auckland, New Zealand

71- Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall), wife of Prince Charles, born in London, England

@70- Elbridge Gerry, (DR) 5th VP (Mass-Gov), invented gerrymandering (d. 1814)

60’s

66- David Hasselhoff, American actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch), born in Baltimore, Maryland

64- Angela Merkel, German politician, Chancellor of Germany (2005-), born in Hamburg, West Germany

40’s

42- Luke Bryan, country singer

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-2009 Walter Cronkite, American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)

80’s

@89-2014 Elaine Stritch, American actress (30 Rock, Two's Company), singer and member of the American Theater Hall of Fame

@88-2006 Mickey Spillane [Frank Morrison Spillane], American mystery writer (I the Jury)

@85-1887 Dorothea Dix, American social activist

@84-1958 Henri Farman, British-French aviator who broke several aviation records

70’s

@77-1881 Jim Bridger, American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer

@74-1961 Ty Cobb, American baseball great (Detroit Tigers) who set 90 MLB records during his career, cancer

60’s

@67-1790 Adam Smith, Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher

40’s

@44-1959 Billie Holiday, jazz singer, cirrhosis of the liver

@40-1967 John Coltrane, American jazz saxophonist & composer (Blue Train), cancer 

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…☼☼☼☼