Sep 3 Labor Day

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Sept  3, 2018 Week: 36\ Day: 246

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  2.1 miles away

Wind ave.:   3mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1948]   Record Low: 34°[1973]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

  We cannot change anything until we accept it.

  Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

    Carl Jung

More Observances This Month

Happy Cat Month Link
Histiocytosis Awareness Month Link
Hunger Action Month  Link  Link

Intergeneration Month
International  or National Guide Dogs Month Link  Link
International People Skills Month
International Self-Awareness Month Link  
International Speak Out Month
International Strategic Thinking Month
International Square Dancing Month
International Women's Friendship Month Link
ITP Awareness Month Link

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

Cow Chip Throwing Days  
Great Bathtub Race 

Labor Day

National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days   Link  

National Day of Prayer for Victims of Hurricane Harvey  Link

Skyscraper Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

300’s                                           

301 San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, founded by Saint Marinus

1100’s                                         

1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned in Westminster. 30 Jews are massacred after the coronation - Richard ordered the perpetrators be executed

1700’s                                         

1777 Flag of the United States flown in battle for the 1st time at Cooch's Bridge, Delaware, a skirmish during American Revolutionary War

1800’s                                         

1812 World's first cannery ( Donkin, Hall and Gamble) opens in London, England to supply food to the Royal Navy

1855 Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.

1882 French/Vietnamese/Chinese battle at Hanoi, 100s die

1900’s                                         

1916 US President Woodrow Wilson signs Adamson Act, providing an 8-hour day on interstate railroads, preventing a national railroad strike

1944 68th & last transport of Dutch Jews (including Anne Frank) from Westerbork leaves for Auschwitz concentration camp

1964 Wilderness Act signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson

1967 Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road

1976 Viking 2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), returns photos

1988 Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in aftermath of Iran-Iraq War

1995 eBay (Electronic Bay) founded by Pierre Omidyar

2000’s                                         

2004 The Beslan school massacre ends in the deaths of approximately 344 people, mostly teachers and children.

2015 Chris the sheep breaks the world record for biggest shorn fleece 40kg (88lb) near Canberra, Australia

My Rambling Thoughts

Happy Labor Day (since 1894), and great traveling to Focus Group that is headed for a French Luxury Barge Adventure.

Monsoon dampened my plans to head to the County Fair. Not a lot of rain, but lots of lightning. Maybe tomorrow.

Sunday news shows have me really questioning 45. Having citizens born near the border refused renewal of their passports, blaming Google et. al. for his not being a popular president. The US has been a pretty middle-of-the-road political country. There have always been minor differences between the parties. There have always been outliers from each party in power. Some have been too liberal or too conservative for most of the country. What we have now is an outlier in the Oval Office who does not want to listen to anyone who doesn’t agree with him 100% of the time. His ‘base’ are also outliers. They are in the minority and always have been. We will learn that in the November elections. The most important thing is that 2018 elections show ourselves that we are a nation of voters. Here’s hoping that we have the largest turnout in our history.   

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94►Mort Walker, cartoonist (Beetle Bailey, Hi & Lois)(d. 2018)

80’s

89►Whitey Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.], American gangster, born in Boston, Massachusetts

70’s

@75►Ferdinand Porsche, German automotive engineer (Volkswagen Beetle, Mercedes-Benz SS) and founder of the Porsche car company, born in Maffersdorf, Bohemia, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d. 1951) stroke

@74►Sally Benson, American writer (Meet me in St. Louis), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1972)

60’s

@67►Louis Sullivan, American architect (father of skyscrapers), born in Boston, (d. 1924)

50’s

54►Adam Curry, Internet entrepreneur, Father of the Podcast

52►Charlie Sheen (Carlos Estevez), actor (Two & ½ Men)

30’s

32►Shaun White, Olympic snowboarder

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92►2012 Sun Myung Moon, South Korean evangelist (Unification Church)

@90►2017 John Ashbery, American poet (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror)

80’s

@86►2015 Adrian Cadbury, British confectionery manufacturer (Cadbury) and author of report on Corporate Governance

@80►2005 William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States

70’s

@79►1969 Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung], Vietnamese communist revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69), heart failure

@77►1893 James Harrison, Scottish-born inventor ‘Father of Refrigeration’

60’s

@67►1962 e. e. cummings, American poet (Tulips & Chimneys), stroke

@63►2007 Steve Fossett, American adventurer (1st person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon,) plane crash

50’s

@59►1658 Oliver Cromwell, English general (1653-58)/Lord Protector, septicemia

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 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…☼☼☼☼