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Aug 30, 2017 Week: 35 \ Day: 242
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 17mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 90°[1948] Record Low: 36°[1975]
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Quote of the Day
The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.
William Ralph Inge
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Observances Today
International Cabernet Sauvignon Day Link
International Day of The Victims of Enforced Disappearances Link
International Whale Shark Day
National Grief Awareness Day
National Holistic Pet Day
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Observances This Week
25-31
Be Kind To Humankind Week
26-9/3
Chuckwagon Races
World Water Week Link
Happily Married Husband and Wife Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1100’s
★1146 European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending to end war for all time
1600’s
★1645 Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New Amsterdam (NY))
1800’s
★1835 Melbourne, Australia is founded.
1836 The city of Houston is founded by Augustus Chapman Allen and John Kirby Allen
★1850 Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city
1862 Second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, Virginia ends with a Confederate victory over Union forces
1890 President Benjamin Harrison signed the first U.S. law requiring inspection of meat products
★1895 Belgium begins compulsory Roman Catholic education
1900’s
★1963 Hotline communication link between the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. and the Kremlin in Moscow installed. Often known as the "red telephone" no phones were ever used relying instead on Teletype equipment, fax machines and most recently secure email.
1965 Casey Stengel announces his retirement after 55 years in baseball
1967 US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
★1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1979 US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga
1990 Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in 1st inning
★1993 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
2000’s
2013 "12 Years a Slave" based on the memoir by Solomon Northup, directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender and Benedict Cumberbatch premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture 2014)
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My Rambling Thoughts
Amazing human endeavors happening in Texas. So many neighbors helping neighbors. So many strangers helping strangers. Humanity is winning this disaster in so many ways.
Our monsoon is hangin’ around. The weather guy says just isolated showers today. Not complaining.
News I missed until today…45 put out another EO. Obama had issued one that said FEMA funds for rebuilding would on be only done if the repair included flood mitigation. 45’s EO drops that requirement, so tax payer $$ can again be used to rebuild in an area that is in a flood plain and the rebuild doesn’t have to include protection from flood…like raising the house on stilts. 45 signed this last Thursday, just before the current situation was simply a warning. Hard to believe.
Never been a fan of Evangelical TV preachers. Even so, I am shocked that Joel Olsteen has not opened his mega church in Houston as a shelter. He just keeps telling everyone to pray and of course, donate $$$ to his church to help those in need. Unbelievable. He is worth nearly $50 billion, thanks to not having to pay taxes on HIS church stuff.
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Bizarre News
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Police in Arkansas shared security camera footage of a thief using a forklift to steal an entire ATM from the drive-through lanes at a bank. The Conway Police Department posted a video showing a person in a forklift using the construction vehicle to uproot the ATM from its foundation and lift it into the air before it was loaded onto a truck and hauled away. Police said a worker at the First Service Bank discovered the ATM was missing and the drive-through area was damaged when she arrived for work. A review of the security camera footage revealed the 3 a.m. theft. Police said they suspect the thieves work in the construction industry.
Police in Florida, have released a video, showing a wanted thief engaging in sex acts with a woman during a burglary.
The incident unfolded at around 9:15 p.m., in the parking lot of Twin Lakes Pool and BBQ in Cooper City. The suspect was seen on surveillance video backing a truck into the parking lot.
According to detectives, before he stole the trailer, the suspect "dived into some adult behavior with a companion." In the video, the man was seen standing at the door of the vehicle while the woman was performing sex acts on him.
Once that deed was done, the man was seen pulling his pants up and walking towards the trailer.
He removed the trailer from the fence on which it was chained, and hooked it up to his pickup. The man then drove away with the $1,200 trailer.
Police said that the male thief wore a baseball cap, long sleeve shirt and a shit-eating grin. He was driving a silver two-door pickup with a retractable bed cover.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@94- Shirley Booth,
American actress (Hazel), born in NYC,
(d. 1992)
@90- Angelo Dundee [Angelo Mirena],
boxing trainer and cornerman (Muhammad Ali, Sugar Ray Leonard, George Foreman), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(d. 2012)
90- Bill Daily,
American actor and comedian (I Dream of Jeannie, The Bob Newhart Show), born in Des Moines, Iowa
90- Ruth Westerheimer,
sex therapist (Dr Ruth)
80’s
87- Warren Buffett,
American business magnate (world's wealthiest person in 2008), born in Omaha, Nebraska
@86- Raymond Massey,
actor (Dr Gillespie-Dr Kildare), born in Toronto,
(d. 1983)
@83- Fred MacMurray,
Kankakee, Illinois, American actor (Double Indemnity, My Three Sons)
(d, 1991)
70’s
74- Jean Claude Killy,
alpine skier (Olympic-3 golds-1968), born in Paris, France
60’s
69- Lewis Black,
comedian
@66- Ernest Rutherford [1st Baron Rutherford of Nelson],
New Zealand physicist and father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908), born in Brightwater, New Zealand
(d. 1937)
66- Timothy Bottoms,
actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden), born in Santa Barbara, California
50’s
@53- Mary Shelley,
author (Frankenstein), born in London,
(d. 1851)
@51- John Leonard Swigert Jr,
astronaut (Apollo 13), born in Denver,
(d. 1982)
40’s
45- Cameron Diaz,
American actress (Mask, My Best Friend's Wedding), born in Long Beach, CA
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-1723 Anton van Leeuwenhoek,
Dutch tradesman and scientist
80’s
@84-1985 Taylor Caldwell [Janet Miriam Holland Taylor Caldwell],
Anglo-American novelist (Dynasty of Death, Dear and Glorious Physician)
@83-1940 J. J. Thomson,
English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906)
@81-2003 Charles Bronson,
American actor (The Dirty Dozen, Death Wish)
70’s
@76-2015 Wes Craven,
American filmmaker (A Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream), brain cancer
@74-2013 Seamus Heaney,
Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), short illness
60’s
@65-1938 Max Factor,
make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer
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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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