Aug 17

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Aug 17, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 229

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 40°

Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 89°[1939]   Record Low: 37°[1968]

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Quote of the Day

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

  Thomas Carlyle

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Observances Today

Black Cat Appreciation Day Link   Link

I Love My Feet Day Link

Meaning of "Is" Day

National Nonprofit Day  Link

National Thriftshop Day Link

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Observances This Week

11-19

Elvis Week Link

13-19

National Motorcycle Week Link 

Feeding Pets of the Homeless WeekLink  Link  

National Resurrect Romance Week

15-21

National Aviation Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s

1590 Governor of Roanoke Island colony, John White, returns from England to find no trace of the colonists he had left there 3 years earlier

1700’s

★1787 Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups

1800’s

1807 Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins first trip up Hudson River

1846 Commodore Robert F Stockton, US Navy, annexes California

★1858 1st bank in Hawaii opens

1859 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette, Indiana

1870 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington

1891 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)

1891 Electric self-starter for automobile patented

1900’s

1903 Joe Pulitzer donates $1 million to Columbia University & begins the Pulitzer Prizes in America

1908 Bank of Italy (now Bank of America) opens new HQ at Clay & Montgomery, San Francisco

★1908 Projection in Paris of the very first animated cartoon, Fantasmagorie realized by Émile Cohl

1933 Lou Gehrig plays record 1,308th consecutive game

1938 1st aircraft owned by US Forest Service in service (Oakland)

1939 "Wizard of Oz" opens at Loew's Capitol Theater in NY

★1946 George Orwell publishes "Animal Farm" in the United Kingdom

★1960 Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow

★1960 Gabon gains independence from France (National Day)

1961 Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress

★1976 An earthquake & tsunami in the Philippines kills up to 8,000

★1979 Monty Python's "Life of Brian" directed by Terry Jones, starring Graham Chapman & John Cleese premieres

★1982 First Compact Discs (CDs) released to the public in Germany

1988 NYC 1st case of Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever (9-year-old Bronx boy)

1998 Monica Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony he had an "improper physical relationship" with the intern and on the same day admits before the nation he "misled people" about the relationship

★1999 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.

2000’s

2015 World's first flower could be underwater plant Montsechia Vidalii claim US botanists (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)

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My Rambling Thoughts

Technology was not my buddy today. I easily updated the Focus Travel site, then went to my bank site to update a repeating payment for my abode. Couldn’t get it to do it, even though I have been doing it for a decade. Called Customer Service for Chase. After 2 calls and 3 people, including a supervisor I got no help. Finally, I went to the bank. We were able to set it up in a few minutes. Concerns about Chase: Customer service was in Manila, Philippines; before you can speak to a human, you have to put in your account number, pin, and last 4 of SS. Scary to give out all that info to a machine that is in a foreign country. Then you have to go through 2 menus to get to a human. Boring. I had called my local bank and got the message: “All our personal bankers are assisting other customers, call back later.” Click. Again not good for customer service. Thankfully my personal banker at the branch was able to give me some shortcuts to avoid all this hassle. All good now.

The break from our Monsoon continues. It’s kinda nice to have a few days with no rain and a good amount of sunshine. Not excited about the dropping night temperatures, but know it has to happen for fall to arrive. I’m just not ready for that yet.

I am embarrassed by our President. He certainly needs some lessons in history. One should not equate Robert E. Lee, a traitor to the US to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. The Nazi’s and White Supremacists were carrying water bottles of cement, water bottles of urine, and one of their members killed a woman and injured 20. Those American patriots who protested this gathering were not the enemy and should not have had one of their own killed.

Will he ever wake up and figure out why the members of his 2 of his councils have quit? Nope, he just disbanded both groups. So childish.

This is a true crisis and we need Congress to step up more than they have already.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94- Samuel Goldwyn [Shmuel Gelbfisz],

Jewish Polish American movie producer (MGM), born in Warsaw, Poland

(d. 1974)

@95- Maureen O'Hara [FitzSimons],

Irish actress and singer (Miracle on 34th St, The Quiet Man), Ranelagh, County Dublin

(d. 2015)

80’s

@87- Mae West,

American actress and singer (She Done Him Wrong), born in Brooklyn,

(d. 1980)

70’s

74- Robert De Niro,

American actor (Taxi Driver, Raging Bull), born in NYC, New York

@71- Floyd Red Crow Westerman,

Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribe/Dakota Nation musician-actor

(d. 2007)

50’s

57- Sean Penn,

actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High), born in Santa Monica,

@52- Marcus Garvey,

began back-to-Africa movement among US African Americans

(d. 1940)

40’s

@49- Davy Crockett,

American frontiersman, adventurer, and politician, born in Greene County, Tennessee

(d. 1836)

48- Donald E Wahlberg Jr,

rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough), born in Boston

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-1987 Rudolf Hess,

German Nazi official (Deputy Fuhrer who dramatically escaped to Britain in 1941, sentenced to life in Spandau Prison), commits suicide

@92-2016 Arthur Hiller,

Canadian director (Love Story)

80’s

@86-1983 Ira Gershwin,

lyricist

@84-1973 Conrad Aiken,

US poet (Pulitzer)

70’s

@72-1990 Pearl Bailey,

actress (Landlord)/singer,

heart attack

@72-1850 Jose de San Martin,

South American revolutionary hero and general

60’s

@67-1979 Vivian Vance,

American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy),

cancer

@62-1987 Gary Chester [Cesario Gurciullo],

drummer (Monkees, Lovin' Spoonful) and drum instructor

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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 16

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Aug 16, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 228

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 48°

Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind ave:   18mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 89°[1939]   Record Low: 37°[1968]

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Quote of the Day

If we open a quarrel between past and present,

we shall find that we have lost the future.

  Winston Churchill

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Observances Today

Joe Miller's Joke Day

National Airborne Day

National Medical Dosimetrist Day 

National Rollercoaster Day Day

National Tell a Joke Day

Wave at Surveilance Day Link 

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Observances This Week

11-19

Elvis Week Link

13-19

National Motorcycle Week Link 

Feeding Pets of the Homeless WeekLink  Link  

National Resurrect Romance Week

15-21

National Aviation Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

1691 Yorktown, Virginia founded

1700’s

★1743 Earliest boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)

1800’s

1812 British forces under the command of Major General Sir Isaac Brock capture Fort Detroit with the help of Indigenous warriors led by Tecumseh

★1858 Britain's Queen Victoria telegraphs US President James Buchanan

★1865 Restoration Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains its independence after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation.

1894 Indian chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people to renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith

1896 Gold first discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek, Alaska by George Carmack

1900’s

1930 The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.

★1936 11th Olympic games closes in Berlin

1954 "Sports Illustrated" magazine begins publishing

★1960 Britain grants independence to crown colony of Cyprus

★1960 Joseph Kittinger parachutes from balloon at 31,330 m (84,700')

★1960 Republic of Congo (Zaire, Dem Rep of Congo) forms

1969 Second day of the Woodstock rock festival in NY

1984 LA federal jury acquits auto maker John Z DeLorean on cocaine charges

1988 Mayor Koch says he plans to wipe out street-corner windshield washers

★1989 A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market.

★1990 South African President F. W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold emergency talks in Pretoria about increasing violence in Soweto

2000’s

★2002 Africa Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg

2003 U.S. Representative from South Dakota Bill Janklow hits and kills a motorcyclist with his car at a rural intersection near Trent, South Dakota; he will eventually be convicted of manslaughter and will resign from Congress.

★2008 Usain Bolt sets a new 100 meters world record of 9.69 seconds at the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics

★2012 Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange is granted political asylum by Ecuador

2016 Wildfire breaks out in San Bernardino County, California, engulfing 15,000 acres, prompting evacuation of 82,000 people

2016 "When the Levees Broke" documentary directed by Spike Lee, of effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, premieres at New Orleans Arena

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My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday started as a lazy day as two different friends stopped by last night. We stayed up way late talking and watching Netflix. One friend didn’t leave till late in the afternoon so I didn’t take the time to do a post.

Finally, our leader spoke out against hate groups by name. Finally. This, of course, is after the WH tweet condemning all those ‘nephew-nazi’ people that are running around. He calls it an executive action, not an executive order. A little research showed me the only real difference is that an executive order must be published in the Federal Register, none of the other signings need to do that. Yet whenever this leader signs a piece of paper, it is put in a fancy leather folder and he sits at a table, signs it, passes the pen to someone, holds it up for the press and walks out of the room. It is all nothing more than theater. For some reason, unknown to me, the press snaps away and the news networks play it live, followed by numerous replays. Each network seems to believe that each of these signings is of historic importance or that if they don’t cover the signing, another network will and get more viewers. It’s time for all the networks to simply tell the WH that they will no longer attend these theatrical experiences.

I am beginning to believe that Russia’s meddling has won if their goal was to get our country to question our democratic choices. Our democracy is in crisis. There are still enough sane people in government’s 3 branches to fix this. But it is becoming a tougher uphill climb with each passing day.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@85- George Meany,

labor leader (headed AFL-CIO), born in NYC, New York

(d. 1980)

@85- Fess Parker,

actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller), born in Fort Worth

(d. 2010)

@84- Frank Gifford,

American NFL halfback (NY Giants)/ABC sportscaster, born in Santa Monica

(d. 2015)

@84- Eydie Gorme [Edithe Gormezano],

American singer (Bossa Nova), born in The Bronx

(d. 2013)

84- Julie Newmar,

actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll), born in Hollywood, California

70’s

@79- Robert Culp,

Berkley California, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)

@78- Menachem Begin,

Israeli Prime Minister (1977-83, Nobel 1978), born in Brest, Belarus

(d. 1992)

60’s

64- Kathie Lee Gifford,

Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee)

63- James Cameron,

Canadian film director and writer (Titanic, Avatar), born in Kapuskasing, Ontario

50’s

59-Angela Bassett,

actress

59 Madonna [Ciccone],

American singer and actress (Like a Virgin), born in Bay City, Michigan

55- Steve Carell,

American actor and comedian

40’s

@46- T. E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia],

British author, soldier and diplomat famous for his liaison role in Arabia during WWI, born in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales

(d. 1935)

20’s

29- Rumer Willis,

actress, DWTS

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-1995 John Cameron Swayze,

news anchor (NBC)

@88-2012 William Windom,

American actor, (Murder She Wrote)

@88-1899 Robert Bunsen,

German chemist who invented the Bunsen Burner

70’s

@74-80-2003 Idi Amin,

Ugandan dictator (1971-79) who killed an estimated 100,000 to 500,000 people

kidney failure

@73-1956 Bela Lugosi,

actor (Dracula),

heart attack

60’s

@60-1989 Amanda Blake [Beverly Louise Neill],

American actress (Gunsmoke),

AIDS

50’s

@55-1888 John Pemberton,

American pharmacist (inventor of Coca-Cola),

stomach cancer

@53-1948 Babe Ruth,

Baseball legend (NY Yankees),

cancer

40’s

@48-1949 Margaret Mitchell,

US writer (Gone With the Wind),

struck by a drunk driver

@42-1977 Elvis Presley,

American musician,

Official cause of death is cardiac arrhythmia

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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 14

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Aug 14, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 226

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 50°

Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  15mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 89°[2002]   Record Low: 33°[1976]

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Quote of the Day

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

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Observances Today

International Rose' Day Link

National Creamsicle Day
National Navajo Code Talkers Day

Spirit of '45 Day  Link

V-J Day (14 or 15…International Date Line thing) 
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Observances This Week

11-19

Elvis Week Link

13-19

National Motorcycle Week Link 

Feeding Pets of the Homeless WeekLink  Link  

National Resurrect Romance Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s

★1281 During Kublai Khan's Second Invasion of Japan his invading Chinese fleet of 3,500 vessels disappears in a typhoon near Japan

1700’s

1765 Massachusetts colonists challenge British rule by an Elm (Liberty Tree)

1800’s

1846 Henry David Thoreau jailed for refusing to pay taxes

1848 Oregon Territory created

1862 Abraham Lincoln receives the first group of African Americans to confer with a US president

1873 "Field & Stream" begins publishing

★1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral completed after it was began in 1248 - largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe

★1882 Queen Victoria receives Zulu chief Cetewayo

★1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.

★1893 France introduces motor vehicle registration, includes a driving test

★1894 Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge demonstrates wireless telegraphy (radio) using Morse code at a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at Oxford University

1900’s

★1912 2,500 US marines invade Nicaragua; US remains until 1925

★1920 Olympic Games open in Antwerp

1925 Mount Rushmore Monument first proposed

★1932 10th Olympic Games at Los Angeles closes

1935 Social Security Act becomes law

★1936 1st Olympic basketball game (Berlin)

★1943 1st allied air raid on Borneo

★1945 V-J Day, Japan surrenders unconditionally to end WW II (also August 15 depending on time zone)

★1945 Ho Chi Minh's Viet Minh movement launch a coordinated uprising against French rule across Vietnam following the Japanese surrender

★1948 14th Olympic games close at London, Great Britain

1965 Sonny & Cher's "I Got You Babe" hits #1

1973 Johnny Unitas files $725,000 suit against Balt Colts

★1976 10,000 Northern Ireland women demonstrate for peace in Belfast

★1979 Rainbow seen in Northern Wales for a 3 hours duration

1990 Denver vote for a 1% sales tax to pay for a baseball franchise

1994 Space telescope Hubble photographs Uranus with rings

2000’s

★2007 Coordinated bombings in Yazidi communities in Iraq kill at least 500 people, the second-deadliest terror attack of all time

★2013 638 people are killed in violent clashes between police and protesters across Egypt

★2016 Usain Bolt wins 100m Olympic gold at Rio - 1st man to win this event 3 times

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another great day after a nice long monsoon rain last night. Doing laundry of linens. More rain on the horizon…yeah!

One of my neighbors is outside with a toddler and they are blowing huge bubbles that are floating by my office window. Very cool.

So another day, another odd comment from our leader. Watching the footage of the Friday night protest with Tiki Torches was frightening. Listening to the leader talk about the next day rally and he death missed the point again. He is proud to say ‘Muslim terrorist’ but won’t say ‘White supremacy’ is just odd.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90- Buddy Greco,

jazz singer (Away We Go, Broadway Open House), born in Philadelphia,

(d. 2017)

80’s

@84- Alice Ghostley,

Eve Montana, actress (Bewitched, Designing Women)

(d. 2007)

70’s

77- Dash Crofts,

Cisco Tx, singer (Seals & Crofts-Summer Breeze)

@76- Trevor Bannister,

British actor (Are You Being Served?), born in Durrington, Wiltshire

(d. 2011)

76- David Crosby,

rocker (Crosby, Stills & Nash-Southern Cross), born in Los Angeles

72- Steve Martin,

American comedian and actor (Parenthood, Jerk, Roxanne), born in Waco, Texas

71- Antonio Fargas,

actor (Huggy Bear-Starsky & Hutch), born in The Bronx

70- Danielle Steel,

author (Remembrance, Zoya, Star, Daddy), born in NYC

60’s

67- Gary Larson,

cartoonist (Far Side), born in Tacoma, Washington

61- Jackée [Harry],

actress (Sandra-227), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina

50’s

58- Earvin "Magic" Johnson,

American NBA Forward (LA Lakers/Olympic-gold-92), born in Lansing, Michigan

@57- John Logie Baird,

Scottish inventor and father of the television, born in Helensburgh, Scotland

(d. 1946)

51- Halle Berry,

American actress (Monsters Ball), born in Cleveland, Ohio

50’s

@36 ‘Doc’ [John Henry] Holliday,

American gambler, dentist, and gunfighter (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), born in Griffin, Georgia

(d. 1887)

34- Mila Kunis,

Ukrainian/American actress (That 70’s Show)

30- Tim Tebow,

American football player

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-1988 Enzo Ferrari,

Italy, sports car manufacturer (Ferrari)

80’s

@88-1992 John Sirica,

US federal judge (Watergate hearings)

@88-1951 William Randolph Hearst,

American newspaper publisher (San Francisco Examiner, Seattle P-I)

@81-1999 Pee Wee [Harold] Reese,

American baseball player (Dodgers)

70’s

@74-1913 Josephine Cochrane,

American inventor (automatic dishwasher), stroke

60’s

@69-1870 David Farragut,

American Admiral ("Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!"), heart attack

@63-2012 Ron Palillo,

American actor (Welcome Back, Kotter), heart attack

50’s

@58-1982 Patrick Magee,

Northern Irish actor (Clockwork Orange, King Lear), natural causes

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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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