Aug 3

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Aug 3, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 215

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 57°

Average Sky Cover: 45% 

Wind ave:   14mph\Gusts:  18mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 91°[1994]   Record Low: 37°[1956]

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Quote of the Day

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  Oscar Wilde

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Observances Today

Take A Penny/Leave A Penny Day  Link 

Friendship Day Link (Also July 30)

Grab Some Nuts Day

India Pale Ale Beer Day Link  

National Watermelon Day  Link

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Observances This Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link

National Minority Donor Awareness Week

Simplify Your Life Week Link

World Breastfeeding Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s

★1492 Christopher Columbus sets sail on his first voyage with three ships, Santa María, Pinta and Niña from Palos de la Frontera, Spain for the "Indies"

1600’s
1678 Robert LaSalle builds 1st ship in America, Griffon

1800’s
1860 American Canoe Association founded at Lake George NY

1900’s
1900 Firestone Tire Rubber Company founded.

★1907 Emperor Wilhelm (Germany) meets with Tsar Nicholas (Russia) to discuss Germany's plan to build a railroad to Baghdad; the discussion helps move Russia towards Britain and eventually the Triple Alliance

★1908 French brothers Amadee and Jean Bouyssonie discover the fossil remains of a nearly complete 60,000 year-old Neanderthal man 'Old man of La Chappelle' at La Chappelle-aux-Saints, France

1923 VP Calvin Coolidge becomes 30th US President upon death of President Warren G. Harding

1943 Gen Patton slaps a US GI in hospital, accusing him of cowardice

★1952 15th Olympic games close in Helsinki Finland

1955 Automobile Association of America ends support of auto racing

1958 The Billboard Hot 100 is founded

★1966 South African government bans Beatle records

★1967 45,000 US soldiers sent to Vietnam

★1980 22nd Olympic games close at Moscow, USSR

1981 13,000 Air Traffic Controllers (PATCO) begin their strike; US President Ronald Reagan offers ultimatum to workers: 'if they do not report for work within 48 hours, they have forfeited their jobs and will be terminated'

1992 "Unforgiven" directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman premieres in Los Angelese (Best Picture 1993)

★1995 CNN en Espanol premieres

2000’s
2001 US President George W. Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001

2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.

★2012 United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria

2015 US President Obama unveils his Clean Power Plan to cut greenhouse gases

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My Rambling Thoughts

Sam’s Club day. Old People’s grocery shopping day. Both very successful. Saved money and got stuff that was needed.

Parking has become a minor issue here at my complex. One neighbor has 4 vehicles, the other has 6. Because of summer visitors. I have changed my parking habit. I have not parked directly in front of my place since we are required to have a parking permit with the name of our complex displayed in the front window. To park in front of any unit, one needs a permit. But to park in the area around the ‘commons’, no permit is needed. (This adds about 30 feet to the walk from the car to the unit…good exercise for me!) It may sound strange, but let’s say I buy a big screen TV at a local store. The guy who helps me loads it now knows where I live. If he decides he wants my TV he can drive over here, but since my vehicle isn’t parked in front of my unit, he has no idea which unit to rob. Well, the hassle of finding parking around the commons has become more of an issue than to park in front of my unit. Guess I’m not too old to change. This change also means that when I have my front door open, I see my vehicle just about 15’ away, which means I guess I will be washing my dirty vehicle more often, now that I see it all the time.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

91- Tony Bennett,

singer (Left a body part in SF), born in Queens, New York

70’s

@78- Leon Uris, novelist (Exodus, QB VII, Battle Cry), born in Baltimore, (d. 2003)

77- Martin Sheen, [Ramon Estevez],

actor (Badlands, The West Wing), born in Dayton, Ohio

76- Martha Stewart,

American business magnate and TV personality who founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, born in Jersey City, NJ

0’s

67- John Landis,

director (Animal House, Michael Jackson's Thriller video), born in Chicago

66- Jay North,

actor (Dennis the Menace, Maya), born in Hollywood

50’s

54- James Hetfield,

American heavy metal rocker (Metallica-Helpless), born in Downey, California

40’s

@49- Elisha Otis,

American founder of the Otis Elevator Company and inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the hoisting cable fails, born in Halifax, Vermont

(d. 1861)

40- Tom Brady,

American football player (New England Patriots, 4 Super Bowls), born in San Mateo, California

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-2008 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,

Russian writer

70’s

@77-1995 Ida Lupino,

Anglo-American actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) and director (The Hitch-Hiker),

stroke

60’s

@66- Bubba Smith,

American football player and actor,

acute drug interaction

@66-1924 Joseph Conrad,

Polish/British writer (Heart of Darkness),

heart attack

50’s

@54-1983 Carolyn Jones,

American actress (Morticia-Addams Family),

cancer

@51-1916 Sir Roger Casement,

an Ulster Protestant and ardent Irish nationalist,

executed by the British

30’s

@39-1966 Lenny Bruce,

comedian,

morphine overdose

@39-1964 Flannery O'Connor,

writer (Good Man is Hard to Find),

lupus

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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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Aug 2

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Aug 2, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 214

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 60°

Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  18mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 93°[1902]   Record Low: 43°[1976]

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Quote of the Day

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

  Ansel Adams

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Observances Today

Earth Over Shoot Day or Ecological Debt Day Link

International Albarino Day Link

National Coloring Book Day Link

National Ice Cream Sandwich Day

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Observances This Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link

National Minority Donor Awareness Week

Simplify Your Life Week Link

World Breastfeeding Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

★1610 Henry Hudson enters bay later named after him, the Hudson Bay

1700’s

★1701 Great Peace of Montreal signed between New France and North American Indian nations at urging of Huron chief Kondiaronk

1776 Formal signing of the US Declaration of Independence by 56 people (date most accepted by modern historians)

1790 1st US census conducted, the population was 3,939,214 including 697,624 slaves

1800’s

1819 1st parachute jump in US

1858 1st mailboxes installed in Boston & NYC streets

★1865 Lewis Carroll publishes "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland"

★1870 Tower Subway, the world's first underground tube railway, opens in London.

1873 1st trial run of SF cable car, Clay Street between Kearny & Jones

★1875 1st roller skating rink opens (London)

1877 SF Public Library opens with 5,000 volumes

★1880 British Parliament officially adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

1900’s

1909 1st Lincoln head pennies minted

★1928 Benito Mussolini signs peace treaty with Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

1934 1st airplane train, plane tows 3 mail gliders behind it

1943 Lt John F. Kennedy's PT-boat 109 sinks at Solomon islands

1961 Beatles 1st gig as house band of Liverpool's Cavern Club

1964 North Vietnam fires on a US destroyer in the Gulf of Tonkin incident which would eventually escalate US involvement in the Vietnam War

1967 "In the Heat of the Night" directed by Norman Jewison and starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1968)

★1970 Rubber bullets used for the first time in Northern Ireland during 'The Troubles'

1973 "American Graffiti" directed by George Lucasand starring Richard Dreyfuss and Ron Howard premieres at the Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland

1986 Jackie Joyner-Kersee (US) sets record for heptathlon (7161 pts)

1990 US President George H. W. Bush orders troops to Saudi Arabia

★1995 Saudi Arabia's King Fahd issues a decree replacing all members of the Council of Ministers who do not have blood ties so the royal Family

2000’s

2008 "Breaking Dawn", 4th book in Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight Saga" is published by Little Brown at midnight with a print run of 3.7 million copies

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My Rambling Thoughts

I knew it has been a fairly wet monsoon season. Today the weatherman sez we had 4.6” of precipitation in July, while the normal is 2.7”. And more rain is on the way. So great for our forest.

So I took off this morning to get some new bedroom slippers on the other side of town. I’m busy searching the selections and my phone rings. I answer the call and when I put it back I realize I didn’t have my wallet. Checked all my pockets, and remembered I had on clean pants and forgot to pick up my wallet. I put the wallet on a table right by the bedroom door, so I will see it when I leave the bedroom. Not today. So I had to come home, driving much more carefully than usual, without any purchase. Bummed.

Over the years in Education, I had a few times where I did not agree with the board. I would try my best to explain my position, but in the end the board was boss on local decisions. I had to swallow my pride and simply drop the matter. In most cases, it would come up again in a better time, and the board would agree with me. Other times, it was just forgotten. In either case, the board and I just moved on to other things. I am reminded of this as the Senate is still trying to revitalize the Repeal and Replace. My advice, just drop it. This is NOT the right time or the right place to continue a losing battle. After 50+ votes to repeal and replace have not passed, just drop it and move on.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Shimon Peres,

Israeli Prime Minister (Labor), President (2007-14) and Nobel Peace Prize (1994), born in Wiszniewo, Poland

(d. 2016)

80’s

@88- Myrna Loy,

American actress (Jazz Singer, Thin Man, Vanity Fair), born in Helena, Montana

(d. 1993)

@81- Peter O'Toole,

Ireland, actor (Lord Jim, Beckett, Lawrence of Arabia),

(d. 2013)

70’s

@78- John Pinkerton,

English computer scientist who designed the first business computer in England, the LEO computer, born in London

(d. 1997)

@76- Carroll O'Connor,

American actor (All in the Family, In the Heat of the Night), born in NYC

(d. 2001)

@76- Wes Craven,

American film director (Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream), born in Cleveland, Ohio

(d. 2015)

@75- Frank Alvord Perret,

American volcanologist renowned for his research at Vesuvius, Etna, Stromboli and Kilauea, born in Philadelphia,

(d. 1943)

75- Isabel Allende,

Chilean-American author, novelist (The House of the Spirits, City of the Beasts) and Nobel Prize winner, born in Lima, Peru

72- Jewell Jackson McCabe,

American feminist and social and political activist who led the National Coalition of 100 Black Women movement in the 1970s, born in Washington, D.C.

@70- Pierre Charles L'Enfant,

French-born American architect who laid out Washington, D.C., born in Paris

(d. 1825)

@70- Frédéric-Auguste Bartholdi,

French sculptor (designed the Statue of Liberty), born in Colmar, France

(d. 1904)

60’s

67- Lance Ito,

judge (O.J. Simpson trial)

@65- Elisha Grey,

inventor (Telephone)

(d. 1901)

@63- James Baldwin,

American author (Go Tell it on Mountain, Another Country), born in Harlem

(d. 1987)

50’s

53- Mary-Louise Parker,

Ft Jackson SC, actress (Fried Green Tomatoes)

40’s

41- Michael Weiss,

figure skater (1997 World Champ-7th), born in Washington, D.C.

41-Sam Worthington,

movie actor (Avatar)

40- Edward Furlong,

movie actor

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Historical Obits Today

70’s

@75-1922 Alexander Graham Bell,

Scottish-born British American inventor (telephone),

diabetes complications

@73-1965 N. Howell Furman,

American Chemist whose work on separating uranium contributed to the development of the atomic bomb

60’s

@65-1998 Shari Lewis,

American puppeteer and ventriloquist (Lamb Chop),

cancer

@63-1859 Horace Mann,

American education advocate

@61-1788 Thomas Gainsborough,

English painter (Blue Boy)

50’s

@57-1923 Warren G. Harding,

29th Pres (1921-23),

heart attack

40’s

@48-1978 Totie Fields, [Sophie Feldman],

comedienne,

blood clot

@48-1921 Enrico Caruso,

Italian opera singer,

peritonitis

30’s

@39-1876 Wild Bill" Hickok [James Butler],

American cowboy and scout,

shot dead from behind by Jack McCall while playing poker. He held a pair of Aces and a pair of 8's.

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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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Aug 1

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Aug 1, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 213

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 59°

Average Sky Cover: 65% 

Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  18mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)

Record High: 92°[1977]   Record Low: 42°[1915]

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Quote of the Day

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

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Observances Today

Girlfriend's Day

Lughnasa  Link

Mead Day Link

National Girlfriends Day

National Minority Donor Awareness Day

National Mountain Climbing Day

National Night Out Link  

National Raspberry Cream Pie Day

Respect For Parents

Rounds Resounding Day

Spider-Man Day 

Tisha B'Av

US Air Force Day Link

World Lung Cancer Day

World Wide Web Day

World Scout Scarf Day

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Observances This Week

1-7

International Clown Week Link

National Minority Donor Awareness Week

Simplify Your Life Week Link

World Breastfeeding Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s

1789 US Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act

★1793 France becomes 1st country to use the metric system

1794 Whiskey Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania

★1798 Battle of the Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt

1800’s

★1831 London Bridge opens to traffic

1832 The Black Hawk War ends.

★1838 Apprenticeship system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer indentured to former owners.

1867 Blacks vote for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn)

1869 1st voyage down Colorado River

1876 Colorado becomes 38th state of the Union

1900’s

1917 Frank Little, IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT

★1936 Adolf Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin

1941 The first Jeep is produced.

1944 Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st African-American congressman from New York

1946 US President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC)

★1950 Guam Organic Act establishes Guam as an unincorporated US territory

1953 California introduces sales tax (for education)

★1954 South African Natives Resettlement Act comes into being, empowers the Government to remove Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of Johannesburg

1957 1st commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)

1960 Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"

★1968 Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins

1972 1st article exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)

★1976 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada

1981 MTV premieres at 12:01 AM

★1987 In New Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings.

★1988 Rush Limbaugh begins his national radio show.

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My Rambling Thoughts

Monday…still having monsoon…lots of rain in July, looks like only light showers today. NICE!

Cleaned up after having a visitor over the weekend. Laundry, changed sheets and towels, vacuumed, ready for the week now.

My mom always hung a flag on holidays. Today she would have had the CO flag flying on our front porch.

Turned on the news to find that the Mooch is out. Yeah, there is no chaos in the WH. Very confused. I’ve heard our president talk about the importance of securing the border and protecting all Americans. So, he takes the head of Homeland Security, the very office responsible for security, and moves him to the Chief of Staff at WH and doesn’t name anyone to replace him. Yeah, national security is very important, but not, I guess, as important as the WH offices. Sitting here dumbfounded.

More upsetting for me is that there were a number of reports over the weekend that the president’s supporters think he is doing a great job. Scary.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Mother Jones (Mary Harris "Mother" Jones),

American labor organizer

(d. 1930)

70’s

@75- Dom DeLuise, 

American comedian (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso), born in Brooklyn, 

(d. 2009)

@72- Herman Melville,

author (Moby-Dick, Billy Budd),born in New York City

(d. 1891)

@71- Yves Saint-Laurent,

Oran Algeria, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)

(d. 2008)

60’s

@68- 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, born in Ladysmith, Virginia

(d. 1838)

@63- Francis Scott Key,

American lawyer, poet and composer of the lyrics to "Star-Spangled Banner", born in Carroll County, Maryland

(d. 1843)

@61- Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov,

Russian Biologist who perfected the artificial insemination of animals and showed that his technology allowed one stallion to fertilize up to 500 mares

(d. 1932)

60- Bart Conner,

US, parallel bars gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)

50’s

58- Joe Elliott,

lead singer (Def Leppard)

54- Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.],

American rapper (Gangsta's Paradise), born in Monessen Pennsylvania

@53- Jerry Garcia,

SF, rocker (Grateful Dead) (d. 1995)

40’s

44- Tempestt Bledsoe,

actress (Cosby Show)

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Historical Obits Today

70’s

@76-2009 Corazon Aquino,

11th President of the Philippines (1986-92),

colon cancer

@75-1866 John Ross (aka. Koo-wi-s-gu-wi),

Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation

60’s

@62-1983 Peter Arne,

actor (Straw Dogs),

bludgeoned to death

@61-1980 Strother Martin,

actor (Slapshot),

heart attack

50’s

@58-1981 Paddy Chayefsky,

screenwriter (Network, Hospital)

cancer

@53-30 BC Mark Antony,

Roman Politician and General,

commits suicide after he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium

@51-1903 Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary],

American frontierswoman,

pneumonia

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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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