Aug 9

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Aug 9, 2018 Week: 32\ Day: 221

86004 Today: H 86° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  68 miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 89°[1980]   Record Low: 44°[1999]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

  Leonardo da Vinci

Harper’s Index

58

Minutes after refusing to debate an assult weapons ban that the Florida Legislature declared port a ‘public health risk’

Observances This Week

3-12

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link

4-12

Gay Games

5-11

Assistance Dog Week  Link  Link 
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week  
National Farmers' Market Week  Link 
National Fraud Awareness Week Link 
National Health Center Week Link 
Stop on Red Week Link

6-10

Exhibitor Appreciation Week

6-12

National Bargain Hunting Week
National Psychic Week Link  
Old Fiddlers' Week

9-16

Elvis Week Link
National Hobo Week Link
National Scrabble Week  Link  

Observances for Today

Book Lover's Day

International Day of The World's Indigenous People
Veep Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                         

1898 Rudolf Diesel of Germany patents the diesel internal combustion engine

1900’s                                         

1905 Mistaking her husband for a burglar, Ty Cobb's mother kills him

1930 Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes

1936 Jesse Owens is part of the American 4 x 100m relay team that wins gold in world record (39.8) at the Berlin Olympics; his 4th gold medal of the Games

1944 Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire prevention

1945 US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki

1965 Singapore separates from the Federation of Malaysia and gains its independence

1969 Manson family commits Tate-LaBianca murders

1974 Richard Nixon resigns as US President and VP Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the 38th US President

1992 Future 6-weight boxing world champion Oscar De La Hoya of the US beats German Marco Rudolph on points to win the lightweight gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics

2000’s                                         

2000 South African President Thabo Mbeki unveils the Women's Monument commemorating the role of women in the anti-apartheid struggle

2001 US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.

2012 Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics

2017 Giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump placed outside US White House as a political protest

2017 North Korea says it plans to fire rockets on US territory Guam in continuing escalation of tension between it and the US

My Rambling Thoughts

Middle of the week and it’s still hot. Wish the monsoon would return here sooner. More smoke this morning, this time from AZ fires south of Flagstaff. These fires were lightning caused and being allowed to burn and smoke just works its way to town.

I’ve been in need of a hair trim for about a week, but my stylist isn’t back until Friday. Maybe my longer hair makes me uncomfortable during this heat wave.

A possible crook in the House of Representatives. Big surprise. A long trial, lots of coverage, and probably not much else.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- Elizabeth Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton’s wife (d. 1854)

@96- Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins), (d. 1996)

80’s

@86- Daniel Keyes, American author (Flowers for Algernon), born in Boca Raton, Florida (d. 2014)

@84- Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist and zoologist, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland (d. 1980)

@82- Leo Tolstoy [Lev Nikolayevich], Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace), born in Yasnaya Polyana, Russia (d. 1910)

70’s

74- Smokey the Bear, named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin

74- Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty), born in Sacramento, California

60’s

@65- Robert Aldrich, American director and producer (Dirty Dozen), born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1983) kidney failure

61- Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then)

50’s

@59- Chris Haney, Canadian journalist who created the board game "Trivial Pursuit", born in Welland, Ontario (d. 2010) long illness

59- Michael Kors, American fashion designer and Project Runway judge, born in Long Island, New York

54- Hoda Kotb, TV host

50- Gillian Anderson, actress (The X-Files, Bleak House), born in Chicago, Illinois

50- Eric Bana, Australian actor (Time Traveler’s Wife)

40’s

@48- Whitney Houston, American singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2012) drowned in bathtub

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-2014 Edwin "Ed" Nelson, American actor (Peyton Place, A Long Came a Spider), dies of heart failure at 85

@85-1962 Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946)

50’s

@57-2003 Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer, liver cancer

@53-1995 Jerry Garcia, American rock musician (Grateful Dead), heart attack

@50-2008 Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor.(b. 1957) cardiac arrest

20’s

@26-1969 Sharon Tate, actress (Valley of Dolls), murdered by Manson's gang

@25-1969 Abigail Folger, American coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered by Manson gang

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…☼☼☼☼

Aug 8

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Aug 8, 2018 Week: 32\ Day: 220

86004 Today: H 89° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Nearest Lightning:  146 miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  12mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[1980]   Record Low: 39°[1950]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence

we have that people are still thinking.

  Jerry Seinfeld

Harper’s Index

1 in 10

Chance an American has taken an ‘active shooter’ preparedness class

21

Percentage of US ‘active shooters’ from 2009 to 2016 who were killed by police

1

Who were killed by armed civilians  

Observances This Week

3-12

Gallop International Tribal Indian Powwow Link
Sturgis Rally Link

4-12

Gay Games

5-11

Assistance Dog Week  Link  Link 
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week  
National Farmers' Market Week  Link 
National Fraud Awareness Week Link 
National Health Center Week Link 
Stop on Red Week Link

6-10

Exhibitor Appreciation Week

6-12

National Bargain Hunting Week
National Psychic Week Link  
Old Fiddlers' Week

Observances for Today

Sneak Some Zucchini onto Your Neighbor's Porch Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1508 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León founds Caparra the first European settlement in Puerto Rico

1576 Cornerstone laid for Tycho Brahe's observatory in Uraniborg, Denmark, at the time world's most advanced research institution

1700’s                                         

1786 US Congress adopts silver dollar & decimal system of money

1800’s                                         

1854 Smith & Wesson patents metal bullet cartridges

1876 Thomas Edison is granted the patent for Autographic Printing (US Patent 180,857)

1898 Will Kellogg invents Corn Flakes

1900’s                                         

1900 1st Davis Cup tennis competition, named after Dwight Filley Davis, began at Longwood Cricket Club in Mass, & won by US 2 days later

1911 The millionth patent is filed in the United States Patent Office by Francis Holton for a tubeless vehicle tire.

1919 Treaty of Rawalpindi, British recognise Afghanistan's independence

1925 1st national march of Ku Klux Klan (200,000) in Washington, D.C.

1929 Salem Oregon airport dedicated

1936 American Glenn Morris' decathlon total of 7,254 points is a world record; team mates Bob Clark & Jack Parker complete US sweep in the gruelling event at the Berlin Olympics

1945 President Harry Truman signs the United Nations Charter

1949 Bhutan, land of Dragon, becomes an independent monarchy

1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew says reports he took kickbacks are "damned lies" from government contracts in Maryland. Vowed not to resign.

1974 US President Richard Nixon announces he will resign at 12pm the next day

1983 1st Athletics World Championships: Carl Lewis wins gold in 100m

2000’s                                         

2000 Confederate submarine H.L. Hunley is raised to the surface after 136 years on the ocean floor.

2004 John Elway is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame

2007 Carlos Slim overtakes Bill Gates as world's richest person with estimated net worth of US$59 billion, according to "Fortune"

2008 29th Olympic Games opens at Beijing, China

2014 The West African Ebola outbreak is categorized as an international concern by the WHO

2017 The Walt Disney Company announces plans to create its own streaming service, cancelling ties with Netflix

My Rambling Thoughts

Another hot day at 7000’. Awoke this morning with smoke all around Flagstaff. Freaked a little until I turned on NPR and found that we are getting smoke from the CA fires. It must be horrible in California. And if the smoke wasn’t enough, it is expected to reach 90+ today. Portable Cooler has been on since 8a and doing a decent job. Working hard to stay hydrated. No moisture until the weekend. UGH!

My newspaper carrier gets the paper near my unit most days. I called when I had no paper this morning. The idiots promised it would be delivered by 11a. At 11:15 my neighbor came over with my paper. Seems someone came by early (before 6:30a) this morning and thought the paper belonged to the neighbor, so took it inside and put it on a counter. When my neighbor saw it, she brought it back. I called the paper call center, in Montana, to tell them that story and to tell them I never got a replacement paper. And that I am paying to have the paper to be delivered to MY unit, and not any of the units in the nearby area. I’ll see if that does any good. I figure the driver is just too lazy to get out of the vehicle to get the paper to the right unit.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Esther Williams, American swimmer and actress (Dangerous when Wet), born in Inglewood California (d. 2013)

@91- Richard Anderson, American actor (Oscar Goldman- The 6 Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman television series), born in Long Branch, New Jersey (d. 2017)

80’s

81- Dustin Hoffman, American actor (Graduate, Tootsie, Kramer vs Kramer), born in Los Angeles, California

80- Connie Stevens [Concetta Ingoglia], singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach), born in Brooklyn

40’s

@48- Sara Teasdale, American poet (1st Pulitzer Prize-1918-"Love Songs") suicide

30’s

37- Roger Federer, Swiss tennis player (20 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Bottmingen, Switzerland

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2004 Fay Wray, Canadian American actress (King Kong)

80’s

@85-1988 Alan Napier, British actor (The Sword in the Stone, Batman)

@84-2010 Patricia Neal, American actress (Hud, Subject Was Roses) and wife of Roald Dahl

@82-2005 Barbara Bel Geddes, American actress (Vertigo, Dallas, Caught)

@81-2017 Glen Campbell, American actor and singer (Time I Get to Phoenix)

70’s

@74-2013 Karen Black, American actress, ampullary cancer

60’s

@62-1984 Richard Deacon, American actor (Dick Van Dyke Show), Cardiovascular disease

40’s

@48-1965 Shirley Jackson, American author (Road Through the Wall), heart failure

@46-1975 Julian "Cannonball" Alderly, saxophonist/bandleader, 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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼