Sep 2

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Sept  2, 2018 Week: 36\ Day: 245

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest Lightning:  55 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1948]   Record Low: 35°[1953]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  A person who won't read has no advantage over

   one who can't read.

       Mark Twain

More Observances This Month

Children’s Good Manners Month
Childhood Cancer Awareness Month Link
Cholesterol Education Month Link
Classical Music Month  Link
College Savings Month
Craniofacial Acceptance Month  Link

Eat Chicken Month

Fall Hat Month

Global Pulmonary Fibrosis Awareness Month  Link
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month Link
Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat Pizza Bake Month
Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month

                                                                                                        

Observances This Week

1-7      International Enthusiasm Week

National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link

Self-University Week Link

2-8      National Waffle Week

Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
National Payroll Week

Observances for Today

Bison Ten Yell Day

Bowling League Day  Link  
National No Patrick Day   Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants)
Skyscraper Day

VJ Day, WWII

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s                                         

1192 Sultan Saladin and King Richard the Lionheart of England sign treaty over Jerusalem, at end of the Third Crusade

1600’s                                         

1666 Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is destroyed

1700’s                                         

1789 US Treasury Department established by Congress

1792 September Massacres of the French Revolution: In Paris rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic bishops, more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist sympathizers.

1798 First bank robbery in the US: Bank of Pennsylvania robbed of $162,821 at Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia

1800’s                                         

1807 The Royal Navy bombards Copenhagen with fire bombs and phosphorus rockets to prevent Denmark from surrendering its fleet to Napoleon.

1859 A solar super storm affects electrical telegraph service.

1864 Union General William T Sherman captures and burns Atlanta during Savannah Campaign (US Civil War)

1885 In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of town.

1900’s                                         

1901 Theodore Roosevelt advises "Speak softly & carry a big stick"

1914 The US Treasury Department establishes the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to provide up to $5 million worth of insurance for merchant ships and their crews

1929 Unilever forms by merger of Margarine Union & Lever Bros

1930 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)

1940 Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated

1944 Future US President George H. W. Bush bails from a burning plane during a mission in the Pacific

1945 Ho Chi Minh declares Vietnam independent from France (National Day)

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (Japanese date, 1st September in US)

1958 National Defense Education Act was signed

1963 Alabama Governor George Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee High School

1969 The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in Rockville Center, New York.

1974 US President Gerald Ford signs Employee Retirement Income Security Act

1987 Donald Trump takes out a full-page NY Times ad lambasting Japan

1998 The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide

2000’s                                         

2015 Earth's trees number just over 3 trillion according to study in "Nature" by Thomas Crowther of Yale University

2015 US President Barack Obama becomes the first president to visit the Arctic Circle at Kotzebue, Alaska

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice quiet Saturday. A tad windy for me. But I did enjoy the nice little rain storm early this morning. Guess I’ll do the County Fair tomorrow.  Busy making some beef jerky in the dehydrator after overnight marinade of Teriyaki sauce and hot sauce.

Even in death, John McCain is a statesman. Requesting so many from different political views to speak at his DC funeral. I also learned that McCain also knew that the Vietnamese history of his capture did not match his experience. Even so, he didn’t hold a grudge. Not sure I could be that magnanimous.  His lessons are being heard, I hope they are also learned by all.

About the Google hub-bub started by 45. He claims that Google is distorting information about him in its search algorithm. I’m not buying it. Google is not evil. It shows the most popular (most read) articles and websites. It is not Google’s fault that 45’s rants are not the most popular among people who use Google.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

@79►Andrew Grove, Hungarian-American pioneer in the semiconductor industry and one of the founders and CEO of Intel, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2016)

70►Terry Bradshaw, football player and TV announcer

60’s

67►Mark Harmon, actor (NCIS)

50’s

54►Kenau Reeves, actor

52►Selma Hayek, actress

30’s

@37►Christa McAuliffe, American teacher, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1986) Challenger space shuttle disaster

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-1994 Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES

70’s

@78-2001 Christiaan Barnard, South African cardiac surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant), severe asthma attack

@76-1964 Alvin York, American World War I soldier who led a famed attack on a German machine gun nest (Medal of Honor)

60’s

@66-1910 Henri Rousseau, French post-impressionist painter (The Dream, The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope), blood clot

Pre-teen’s

@3-2015 Alan Kurdi, Syrian refugee drowns off the coast of Turkey, his death and photograph prompt international reaction

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…☼☼☼☼

Sep 1

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Sept  1, 2018 Week: 35\ Day: 244

86004 Today: H 78° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 65% 

Nearest Lightning: 254  miles away

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1948]   Record Low: 33°[1962]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and

  I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

     Aretha Franklin

Observances This Month

AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month   Link
All American Breakfast Month Link
Attendance Awareness Month Link
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month

Baby Safety Month Link
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month Link
Bourbon Heritage Month Link

Observances This Week

Thru-9/1

Minimally Invasive Surgery Week Link
Chuckwagon Races
National Sweet Corn Week

1-7      International Enthusiasm Week

National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link

Self-University Week Link

Observances for Today

Bacon Day Link and Link
Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day
Calendar Adjustment Day
Chicken Boy's Day
Cow Chip Throwing days thru 3 
Emma M. Nutt Day, the first woman telephone operator-1878
Franchise Appreciation Day  Link
International Day of Awareness for the Dolphins of Taiji Link
National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days thru 3  Link  

National Cherry Popover Day

National Cowgirl Day  Link
National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day
National Tailgating Day   Link Link   
National Writing Date Day Link
Random Acts of Kindness Day or Be Kind Day  Link  

Save Japan's Dolphins Day Link 

Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day
World Beard Day  Link  

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1715 King Louis XIV of France dies after a reign of 72 years—the longest of any major European monarch.

1799 Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)

1800’s                                         

1807 Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire

1821 1st colonies along Santa Fe Trail

1859 1st Pullman sleeping car in service

1866 Last Navaho chief Manuelito turns himself in at Fort Wingate

1897 The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.

1900’s                                         

1906 The International Federation of Intellectual Property Attorneys (FICPI) is established.

1914 St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

1914 The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo

1916 US Keating-Owen Act (child labor banned from interstate commerce)

1939 Adolf Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill through the "T4 Euthanasia Program," arguing that wartime "was the best time for the elimination of the incurably ill"

1939 In the "scoop of the century," Telegraph journalist Clare Hollingworth becomes the first to report the outbreak of World War II

1945 V-J Day, formal surrender of Japan aboard USS Missouri marks the end of WW II (US date, 2nd September in Japan)

1961 The Eritrean War of Independence officially begins with the shooting of the Ethiopian police by Hamid Idris Awate

1962 United Nations announces Earth's population has hit 3 billion

1978 Jacqueline Smith of Great Britain scores 10 straight dead center strikes on a 4" disk in World Parachute Championships in Yugoslavia

1982 Max speedometer reading mandated at 85 MPH

2000’s                                         

2004 The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North Ossetia.

2015 Pope Francis tells priests to pardon women who have had an abortion, in a letter released by the Vatican

2015 Google changes its logo, biggest redesign since 1999

My Rambling Thoughts

Stayed up way to late…thanks Netflix.

Laundry and grocery shopping today. And a little work on the Focus website. I added a short slideshow on the home page and changed the picture. I’ll check back a few more times before I decide if I should add slideshows to each upcoming trip.

Lots of Aretha and McCain tributes at public events today. Both believed that ‘there is room for everyone’.  As I listen to the many paying tribute to McCain, everyone mentions his ability to keep his values and still work with those who disagree. I sure hope some of the politicians speaking and all those listening will remember the words and start living a life of values and compassion. I have certainly been a fan of Aretha but am only now learning of her great works outside music. Also a long time fan of 91 year old Cicely Tyson, who did an amazing speech. Both Aretha and McCain left us with great lessons. As a life-long learner and teacher, I hope their lessons are understood and followed.                       

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

80►Alan Dershowitz, American attorney (Claus Von Bulow, O.J. Simpson), born in NYC

70’s

79►Lily Tomlin, comedian

@76►James Gordon Bennett, Sr., American newspaper publisher (New York Herald), born in Keith, Scotland (d. 1872)

@76►Tarsila do Amaral, Brazilian modernist artist, born in Capivari, Brazil (d. 1973)

@74►Edgar Rice Burroughs, American sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga) (d. 1950) heart attack

@73►Ann W. Richards, Lakeview Texas, American politician (d. 2006) cancer

60’s

68►Dr. Phil McGraw, TV host

61►Gloria Estefan, singer, dancer

50’s

@59►Conway Twitty, country singer (d. 1993) aneurysm

@51►Roger David Casement, Irish nationalist (Easter uprising 1916) (d. 1916) executed

40’s

@45►Rocky Marciano, boxer (d. 1969) private plane crash

20’s

22►Zendaya (Zendaya Maree Stoermer Coleman), Disney actress

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@76►1715 Louis XIV, the sun king of France (1643-1715), gangrene

@71►1983 Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash), aneurysm

60’s

@68►1838 William Clark, American explorer, soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who lead the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States

@65►1557 Jacques Cartier, French explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France, typhus

@60►1967 Ilse Koch, Nazi war criminal (commonly known as "The Bitch of Buchenwald") hangs herself in prison

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…☼☼☼☼