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Jun. 13, 2019 Week: 23 \ Day: 164
86004: H 82° \ L 46° \ Average
Sky Cover: 50%
Nearest wildfire: 11mi. Nearest lightning: 890mi
Wind: 5mph\Gusts: 11mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 92°[1974] Record
Low: 36°[1976]
Jun Averages: 78°\42° (1 day with rain)
Today’s Quote
There are remarks that sow
and remarks that reap.
--Ludwig Wittgenstein
Random Tidbits
There
are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world. About 83 million in the U.S.
alone.
The
smallest dog on record was a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier. It was 2.5"
tall at the shoulder, 3.5" from nose tip to tail, and weighed only 4
ounces.
Zorba,
an English mastiff, is the biggest dog ever recorded. He weighed 343 pounds and
measured 8' 3" from his nose to his tail.
Observances This Week
Greencare For
Troops Week: 9-15
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 9-15
National Right of Way Professionals Week: 9-15 Link
National Flag Week: 9-15
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 9-15
National Right of Way Professionals Week: 9-15 Link
National Flag Week: 9-15
Duct Tape Days: 13-15 Link
US Open Golf Championship: 13-16
National Hermit
Week: 13-20
Observances for Today
International Albinism Awareness Day
National Career Nursing Assistants Day Link
National Weed Your Garden Day
National Career Nursing Assistants Day Link
National Weed Your Garden Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Another
warm day for our mountain town…just glad I’m not living in boiling hot Phoenix.
The
13th may be National Weed Your Garden Day, but as I was growing up
my brother and I were relegated to weed the garden every few days. My mother
was a big canner, and we had carrots, green beans, beets, squash, along with
rhubarb, strawberries, and fruit trees. Kept everyone busy during the summer
months. All that bounty was turned into Mason jars of veggies and lots of jelly
and jam with paraffin lids. I don’t think I learned that people actually bought
cans and jars of that until I started working at a grocery store. Great
memories.
I
was getting an ingrown toenail on my second toe. I headed out for a pedicure
before it became too painful. All better now.
Something
is happening at the only indoor mall here. It had 3 anchors, Penny’s, Sears,
and Dillards. Sears closed last year. When I went to get my pedi, I walked the
mall. Lots of stores by the food court and the closed Sears. At the other end
is Penny’s. ½ the mall from Penny’s is closed stores. Sad to see it in such a
bad way. I hope they find something exciting to put in all that empty space.
Keeping
an eye on Hong Kong/China turmoil. I hope this doesn’t turn into another Tiananmen
Square.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at the bottom of this page
You have a big bag of flour, two 5lbs weights,
and an inaccurate balance scale. How can you measure exactly 10lbs of flour?
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1700’s
1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to
prohibit importation of slaves
1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine
diving suit
1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream
for dessert to Washington
1800’s
1881 The USS Jeannette, under the command of
George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of
drifting after becoming trapped in the ice
1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in
Vancouver, British Columbia
1888 US Congress creates Department of Labor
1900’s
1920 US Post Office says children cannot not
be sent by parcel post (after various instances)
1922 Longest recorded attack of hiccups
begins: Charlie Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years, dies 11
months after it stops
1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A
Lindbergh to NYC
1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo -
Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering
1942 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS)
formed
1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of
Medicine laid in Bronx
1966 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision;
suspects must be informed of rights
1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st
African American Supreme Court justice
1971 "The New York Times" begins
publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long
history of the U.S. in Vietnam
1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in
compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota
1980 UN Security Council calls for South
Africa to free Nelson Mandela
1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on
"Tomorrow"
1990 Boeing 767 sets non-stop commercial
flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya
1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames
recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez
disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages
1996 Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day
standoff with FBI agents
2000’s
2000 President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea
meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever
inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.
2006 The US Senate issues a formal resolution
apologizing for failure to create anti-lynching legislation
2007 First large scale exhibition of Mexican
artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the
100th anniversary of her birth
2017 Otto Warmbier returns to the US in an
unresponsive state after being held in Norther Korean jail for 17 months,
2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating
rate - 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report
published in "Nature" journal
2018 Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by
German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal
Birthdays Today
1865 W. B. Yeats,
(d. 1939: @73)
Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923),
born in Sandymount, Ireland
1892 Basil Rathbone,
(d. 1967: @75: heart attack)
South African born British actor (Sherlock
Holmes),
born in Johannesburg, South Africa
1910 Mary Wickes,
(d. 1995: @85)
American actress (Dennis the Menace, Sister
Act),
born in St. Louis, Missouri
1911 Luis Alvarez,
(d. 1988: @77: cancer)
American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel
1968),
born in San Francisco, California
1913 Ralph Edwards,
(d. 2005: @92)
American TV host (This is Your Life),
born in Merino, Colorado
1926 Paul Lynde,
(d. 1982: @55: heart attack)
American comedian and actor
(The Hollywood Squares, Uncle
Arthur-Bewitched),
born in Mt Vernon, Ohio
1928 John Nash,
(d. 2015: @86)
American mathematician (subject of movie
"A Beautiful Mind"),
Nobel laureate,
born in Bluefield, West Virginia
80’s
84- Christo [Javacheff],
Bulgaria, artist, wrapper (Running Fence)
60’s
66- Tim Allen,
Canadian comedian (Home Improvement, Jungle2Jungle),
born in Denver, Colorado
50’s
57- Hannah Storm,
sports journalist (CNN, NBC)
55- Kathy Burke,
English actress and playwright
(Absolutely Fabulous, Tinker Tailor Soldier
Spy),
born in London, England
30’s
38- Chris Evans,
American actor (Captain American, Human
Torch-Fantastic Four),
born in Boston, Massachusetts
Historical Obits Today
80’s
@82-2014 Chuck Noll,
NFL head coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)
@81-2010 Jimmy Dean,
American country music singer, television
host, actor, and businessman (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)
@81-1989 Fran Allison,
actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)
70’s
@77-1986 Benny Goodman,
clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing),
dies of heart attack
60’s
@65-1871 Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin,
French magician and father of modern magic,
dies of pneumonia
50’s
@58-2008 Tim Russert,
American television host, NBC News Meet the
Press moderator,
dies coronary heart disease
Puzzle answer:
Put both weights on one side, then fill the
other side with flour so that the scale balances out. Then remove the weights
and replace them with flour so that the balance scale is balanced again. The
amount of flour you put there is exactly 10lbs.
