Aug 20

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Aug 20, 2017 Week: 34 \ Day: 232

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49°

Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind ave:   3mph\Gusts:  15mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 88°[1949]   Record Low: 35°[1979]

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Quote of the Day

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  Nelson Mandela

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Observances Today

Chef Appreciation Day Link  

National Radio Day Link

World Mosquito Day

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Observances This Week

15-21

National Aviation Week

18-24

Minority Enterprise Development Week

20-26

National Chef's Appreciation Week  Link  Link  

National Safe at Home Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s

★1191 Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 Muslim prisoners in Akko

1600’s

1619 1st known African Americans in English North America (approx. 20) land at Point Comfort (Fort Monroe), Virginia. They are then sold or traded into servitude.

1700’s

★1741 Alaska first sighted by Danish explorer Vitus Bering at head of Russian expedition

1800’s

1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over

★1882 Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow

★1886 Second Salon exhibition by Society of Independent Artists held in Paris; includes Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte"

1900’s

★1905 Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bring down the Manchus

★1908 America's Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to be greeted with a tremendous welcome; 221 American sailors desert to remain in Australia

★1940 British PM Churchill says of Royal Air Force, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"

★1953 General Fazlollah Zahedi arrests Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in a CIA supported coup d'état

1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion

★1965 Rolling Stones release their single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK

1974 Nelson Rockefeller is selected as US Vice President by President Gerald Ford

★1990 Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)

2000’s

2015 30 students at West Point Military Academy are injured in a mass pillow fight

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My Rambling Thoughts

Good Saturday, blue sky, little wind, warm temps. Gotta love life at 7000’

Things seem to have gone well in Boston, thankfully. Surfing and stopped at FoxNews to hear ‘…and there is no violence in Boston, yet.’ Yeah, they are fair and balanced.

I am so thankful that I was raised and educated to be tolerant of other’s beliefs. I will never understand how a person can ‘hate’ a group because of their color, religion, … But then again, I can’t understand how a person can ‘love’ a group so much that the person feels obligated to force the group to believe only certain things. Live and let live is my philosophy. But watch out if you try to intimidate me into believing something.  

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

60’s

69- Robert Plant,

English rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin), born in West Bromwich, England

68- Don King,

boxing promoter best known for his unusual hairstyles

@67- Benjamin Harrison,

23rd President of the United States (Republican: 1889-93), born in North Bend, Ohio

(d. 1901)

@66- Salvatore Quasimodo,

Italian poet, critic and translator (Nobel 1959), born in Modica, Italy

(d. 1968)

@65- Isaac Hayes,

composer (Shaft), born in Covington, Tennessee

(d. 2008)

@64- Bernardo O'Higgins,

Chillán, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule (1817-1823 Supreme Director of Chile)

(d. 1842)

@64- Slobodan Milosevic,

President of Serbia (1991-97) and Yugoslavia (1997-2000), born in Pozarevac

(d. 2006)

63- Al Roker,

weatherman (NBC, Today), born in Queens, New York

50’s

@56- Jacqueline Susann,

author (Valley of the Dolls), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(d. 1974)

40’s

43- Amy Adams,

American actress

@40- Jim Reeves,

US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim), born in Panola County, Texas

(d. 1964)

30’s

34- Andrew Garfield,

actor (2012 Batman)

20’s

25- Demi Lovato,

American actress (Camp Rock) and singer/songwriter (Unbroken), born in Dallas, Texas

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-2012 Phyllis Diller,

American comedienne and actress

@91-1980 Otto Frank,

father of Anne Frank

80’s

@87-2007 Leona Helmsley,

American hotel operator and real estate investor

50’s

@57-2012 Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian Prime Minister, liver cancer

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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 19

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Aug 19, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 231

86004 Today: H 84° \ L 46°

Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  16mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 88°[1973]   Record Low: 35°[1979]

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Quote of the Day

We pledge ourselves to liberate all our people from the continuing bondage of poverty, deprivation, suffering, gender and other discrimination.

  Nelson Mandela

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Observances Today

Aviation Day

 "Black Cow" Root Beer Float Day

 (8/19/1893 by Frank J. Wisner, Cripple Creek Brewing Co., CO.  Link  

Coco Chanel Day

International Orangutan Day   Link

National Honey Bee Awareness Day  Link  

World Humanitarian Day Link  

World Photo Day  Link

National Potato Day

International Geocaching Day ay)

International Homeless Animals Day  

World Honey Bee Day Link   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

18-24

Minority Enterprise Development Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s

★1263 King James I of Aragon censors Hebrew writing

1700’s

★1745 Jacobite Rising 1745 : Bonnie Prince Charlie, raises his standard at Glenfinnan, Scotland, igniting the second Jacobite rebellion.

1791 Benjamin Banneker sends a copy of his Almanac and writes a letter to Thomas Jefferson criticizing his pro-slavery stance and requesting justice for African Americans using language from the Declaration of Independence

1800’s

★1839 Details of Louis Daguerre's 1st practical photographic process are released in Paris

★1887 Dmitri Mendeleev makes a solo ascent by balloon to an altitude of 11,500 feet (3.5 km) above Klin, Russia to observe an eclipse

★1897 1st electric taxis drive in London

1909 Indianapolis 500 race track opens

1900’s

★1919 Afghanistan declares independence from UK

1934 The first All-American Soap Box Derby is held in Dayton, Ohio.

★1953 The democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran Mohammad Mosaddegh is overthrown in a coup orchestrated by the United Kingdom (under the name 'Operation Boot') and the United States (under the name TPAJAX Project)

1955 US raises import duty on bicycles 50%

1955 WINS radio, announces it will not play "copy" white cover versions of R&B (DJs must play Fats Domino's "Ain't It A Shame," not Pat Boone's)

★1960 Francis Gary Powers convicted of spying by USSR (U-2 incident)

1960 The first commercial atomic energy reactor, owned by the Yankee Atomic Electric Company, achieves a self-sustaining nuclear reaction in Rowe, Deerfield River, Massachusetts

★1970 The Chinese Community in South Africa is granted 'White' status

1979 "My Sharonna" by the Knack hits #1 (stays for 42 days)

★1985 Following the Rubicon speech four days earlier, Archbishop Desmond Tutu snubs P. W. Botha's invitation to attend a meeting to discuss the role and actions of the police and security forces in South Africa

1993 Mattel & Fisher Price toy companies merge

★1998 South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairperson, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, releases documents revealing an alleged plot by Western countries to assassinate UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld of Sweden

2000’s

2015 US Food and Drug administration approves Female Viagra libido pill Addyi

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice Friday. Headed out for my haircut and everything went well. Stylist was about 15 minutes late (not unusual) but her reason was priceless. She had a guy work on her car. He returned it and drove off with his assistant. Forgot to leave her the keys. Hmmm. Sounds possible.   (A few years ago I took my ride in for service. Hopped on the dealer’s shuttle to go home. Got home and realized the keys to the house were in the vehicle. Called them, they picked me up, took me back to get the keys and then home. In my case is was snowing, 15° outside and the wait was 20 minutes.)

 Nice day to spend some time on the deck.

Can’t say #45 didn’t show us his style of leadership: either you are with me 100% or you are fired. The door just keeps swinging on the butts of his inner circle.  

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel,

French fashion designer (Chanel), born in Saumur, France

(d. 1971)

@86- Charles Hires,

American Inventor and Manufacturer of the Hires Root Beer beverage, born in Philadelphia,

(d. 1937)

70’s

79- Diana Muldaur, 

American actress (McCloud, Star Trek Next Gen, LA Law), born in NYC

78- Ginger [Peter] Baker,

England, drummer (Cream-White Room)

77- Jill St John, [Oppenheim],

actress (Diamonds are Forever), born in Los Angeles, California

@76- Orville Wright,

aviator (Wright Brothers), born in Dayton, Ohio

(d. 1948)

74- Billy J Kramer,

rock vocalist (Little Children), born in Liverpool, England

@73- Seth Thomas,

American pioneer in mass production of clocks (

d. 1859)

@73- Fred Thompson,

US senator (R-Tenn)/actor (In the Line of Fire), born in Sheffield, Alabama

(d. 2015)

@72- Willie Shoemaker,

jockey (won 8,833 of 40,350 starts)

(d. 2003)

71- Bill Clinton [William Jefferson],

42nd US President (Democrat, 1993-2001), born in Hope, Arkansas

70- Gerald McRaney,

American actor (Simon & Simon, Major Dad), born in Collins, Mississippi

@70- Malcolm Forbes,

American publisher of Forbes Magazine, born in Brooklyn, New York

(d. 1990)

@70- Gene Roddenberry,

executive producer (Star Trek), born in El Paso,

(d. 1991)

60’s

@68- Ogden Nash,

humorous poet (I'm a Stranger Here Myself), born in Rye, NY,

(d. 1971)

@62- Edward John Dent,

British Clockmaker to Queen Victoria and commissioned to make Big Ben, London (completed after his death by his son Frederick Dent), born in London, England

(d. 1853)

50’s

54- John Stamos,

Cypress California, actor (General Hospital, Full House)

52- Kyra Sedgwick,

actress (Phenomenon, Singles, Julia-Another World)

@51- Dawn Steel,

American filmmaker, 1st woman to head Hollywood studio, born in The Bronx, New York (d. 1997)

40’s

48- Matthew Perry,

Canadian/American actor (Chandler Bing on Friends), born in Williamstown, Massachusetts

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-1994 Linus Pauling,

Nobel prize scientist (Vitamin C advocate)

80’s

@86-2009 Don Hewitt,

television news producer & director; creator of 60 Minutes

@86-1977 Groucho Marx,

NYC, comedian (Marx Bros)

@83-1819 James Watt,

Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist (steam engine)

70’s

@71-2011 Raúl Ruiz,

Chilean filmmaker, lung infection

50’s

@53-1974 Rodger Davies,

US ambassador to Cyprus, murdered by Greek Cypriot gunmen during a demonstration outside the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia

@50-14 Augustus Caesar [Gaius Octavius],

First Roman Emperor (27BC-14AD)

30’s

@39-1662 laise Pascal,

French mathematician, physicist and Christian philosopher (Pascal's Law, Pascal's Wager), stomach tumor

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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 18

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Aug 18, 2017 Week: 33 \ Day: 230

86004 Today: H 79° \ L 45°

Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind ave:   1mph\Gusts:  12mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

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

Record High: 88°[2002]   Record Low: 36°[1975]

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Quote of the Day

It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.

  Nelson Mandela

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Observances Today

Bad Poetry Day

Birth Control Pills Day

Mail Order Catalog Day

Men's Grooming Day Link  

National Badge Ribbon Day

National Fajita Day  Link

Serendipity Day

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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

18-24

Minority Enterprise Development Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

BC’s

★293 BC The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the institution of Vinalia Rustica (grape harvest festival)

1200’s

★1201 the city of Riga, Latvia is founded. (Now largest Metropolis in Baltics)

1700’s

1735 Evening Post begins publishing (Boston, Mass)

★1737 First public admittance to the Salon de Paris art exhibition at the Louvre in Paris

1800’s

1840 American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)

1862 Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)

1872 1st mail-order catalog issued by A M Ward

1894 US Congress creates Bureau of Immigration

1900’s

★1909 Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River.

1920 US ratifies the 19th Amendment to the constitution bringing in women's suffrage, when Tennessee votes to ratify

1926 Weather map televised for 1st time

1938 FDR dedicates Thousand Islands Bridge connecting US & Canada

★1958 "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov published

1962 Peter, Paul & Mary release their first hit "If I Had a Hammer"

★1964 South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies

1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair closes with Jimi Hendrix / Band of Gypsys as the final act

1988 FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment

2000’s

★2005 Massive power blackout hits the Indonesian island of Java, affecting almost 100 million people.

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My Rambling Thoughts

Got half my plans done today. Pedi: done; Haircut: hopefully tomorrow. My favorite stylist called in sick. While getting my pedi I had a nice conversation with 2 ‘old’-er bikers. The lady came in first, then the man. They are biking buds and didn’t know the other would be there. They had biked Yellowstone and talked about the hassle with tourists and buffalo. Very interesting and made the work on one of my smaller toe’s ingrown nail much easier.

I was fortunate enough to visit Barcelona with Focus Travel Club. Now today I watch the horror on the very streets I walked down. Barcelona is a beautiful, friendly city and does not deserve this kind of publicity, now or ever.

MAKE IT STOP!

I can’t believe that #45 tweeted about General Pershing. The story he is referencing has been debunked for decades. Pershing did NOT shoot Muslim terrorists with bullets soaked in pig’s blood, NOR did he bury Muslim terrorists with pigs.  

Also, the many pictures circulating the internet machine, showing #45’s parents in KKK garb are ALL Photoshopped. While his father was arrested at a KKK brawl, he was never charged and many believe he was just a ‘swept up bystander’ While I find plenty wrong with #45, I will never believe that false stories should hurt him.

FYI: #45 only waits for all the facts to come out when it is to HIS benefit, or he needs time to make it about him.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Max Factor Jr,

CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics)

80’s

@85- Shelley Winters,

actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of Blue, Poseidon Adventure), born in St. Louis, Missouri

(d. 2006)

84- Roman Polanski,

Polish-French film director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates), born in Paris

82- Rafer Johnson, decathlete (Olympics gold 1960), born in Hillsboro Texas

81- Robert Redford,

American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby), born in Santa Monica

70’s

@71- Marshall Field,

Conway Massachusetts, owner (Dept Stores)

(d. 1906)

60’s

60- Denis Leary,

American actor/comic (Rescue Me), born in Worcester, Massachusetts

50’s

@57- Patrick Swayze,

actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost), born in Houston,

(d. 2009)

56- Bob Woodruff,

American journalist, anchor

@53- Grant Williams,

American actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man), born in NYC,

(d. 1985)

40’s

48- Christian Slater,

actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers)

48- Edward Norton,

American actor (American History X), born in Boston, Massachusetts

47- Malcolm Jamal Warner,

actor (Theodore-Cosby Show), born in Jersey City, New Jersey

@46- Brook Taylor,

England, mathematician, discoverer of Taylor's Theorem (Calculus)

(d. 1731)

39- Andy Samberg,

American comedian and actor (Brooklyn Nine Nine), born in Berkeley, California

30’s

@38- Roberto Clemente,

Puerto Rican baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates), born in Carolina, Puerto Rico

(d. 1972)

@35- Meriwether Lewis,

American soldier and public administrator (Lewis & 71- Expedition), born in Ivy, Virginia

(d. 1809)  

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2014 Don Pardo,

TV announcer (Jeopardy, Saturday Night Live)

80’s

@86-1990 B F Skinner,

psychologist (Skinner Box)

60’s

@65-1940 Walter Chrysler,

American founder of car company Chrysler,

strokes

@65-1227 Genghis Khan,

Mongol conqueror,

unknown cause

40’s

@47-1991 Rick Griffin,

American artist and a leading designer of psychedelic posters in the 1960s (Grateful Dead),

motorcycle accident on his Harley

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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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