Sep 27

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Sept 27, 2018 Week: 39 \ Day: 270

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 83°[2009]   Record Low: 23°[1900]

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

The past always looks better than it was.

It's only pleasant because it isn't here.

Finley Peter Dunne

Harper’s Index

            3.4

            Factor by which the gender pay gap in the

            White House has INCRREASED under 45

Observances This Week

21-30 National Ballroom Dance Week  Link

23-29  Banned Books Week

Child Passenger Safety Week Link

Deaf Dog Awareness Week

International Interpreters and Translators Week

National Dog Week Link and  Link

National Keep Kids Creative Week

Remember to Register to Vote Week

Sea Otter Awareness Week Link

World Hearing Aid Awareness Week Link   

World Reflexology Week

24-28 Ally Week Link

International Week of the Deaf  Link   

International Women's E-Commerce Days

Observances for Today

Ancestor Appreciation Day
Crush a Can Day Link
Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Google's Birthday
Remember Me Thursday 
World Maritime Day  
World Tourism Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded by Ignatius Loyola confirmed by Pope Paul III in Rome

1864 Jesse James' gang surprise attack train: 150 killed

1900’s                                         

1909 US President Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes

1916 1st Native American Day celebrated, honoring American Indians

1937 1st Santa Claus Training School opens (Albion NY)

1945 US General and head of the Allied occupation of Japan, Douglas MacArthur, meets Emperor Hirohito in Tokyo for the first time

1954 1st African American Supreme Court page is CV Bush

1962 Rachel Carson publishes 'Silent Spring' about the deleterious impacts of pesticide use in the US on the environment

1988 The National League for Democracy, led by Aung San Suu Kyi is founded in Burma (Myanmar)

1989 Sony purchases Columbia Pictures for $3.4 billion cash

1990 Senate Judiciary committee approves Souter's Supreme Court

1996 The Julie N. tanker skip crashes into the Million Dollar Bridge in Portland, Maine spilling thousands of gallons of oil.

2000’s                                         

2012 The Mars Curiosity rover discovers what evidence of a fast-moving streambed-in Mars

2017 Researchers confirm existence of giant tree rat "Vika" in the Solomon Islands that can crack open coconuts

My Rambling Thoughts

Getting older seems to mean more time with doctors. Cheryl just had to get crowns on her front teeth, Mary had a pre-cancerous thing frozen on her face, and I get to have my plate removed. We all had decades of only annual checkups.

One argument from the Kavanaugh side has been: ‘but where are the collaborators?”. Now every day we get new names added to the list of women. Hard to see how there can’t be an investigation outside the senate.

Yesterday,  45 stood at the UN and the delegates laughed as he listed his inflated accomplishments. At the time he said he wasn’t expecting that reaction. Then after the speech, he said he was joking. Hmmm. Then the US Ambassador to the UN says the laughing was in respect of 45’s honesty. Really?!?

Mary and I are having lunch tomorrow, Friday is my surgery, and Saturday I have a discussion group with lots of reading beforehand. Looks like no more posts until Sunday.

45’s first press conference in forever is very frightening. He is showing everyone how delusional he really is. So many people are believing this horsepucky. I have been hoping for a real press conference…I was wrong.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@85►William T. Orr, American television producer (d. 2002)

85►Kathleen Nolan, American actress (Real McCoys, Janie, Broadside), born in St Louis, Missouri

@81►Samuel Adams, US revolutionary and politician (Lt Gov-Mass, 1789-94), born in Boston,(d. 1803)

70’s

@74►Cosimo de Medici, Italian banker and de facto ruler of Florence and patron of the arts, born in Florence (d. 1464)

@73►William Conrad [John Cann], American actor (The Killers, Bullwinkle Show, Cannon), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1994) heart failure

@73►Hiram R. Revels, 1st African American US Senator, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina (d. 1901)

71►Meat Loaf, [Marvin Lee Aday], Dallas, rocker (Bat Out of Hell)

71►Liz Torres, actress (Mahalia Sanchez-John Larroquette Show), born in The Bronx, New York

70►A Martinez (Adolfo Larrue Martínez III), American actor (L.A. Law, Santa Barbara), born in Glendale, California

60’s

60►Shaun Cassidy, American actor/singer (Hardy Boys, Breaking Away), born in Los Angeles

50’s

@53►Will Sampson, Creek tribe actor (d. 1987) scleroderma

40’s

46►Gwyneth Paltrow, American actress (Pallbearer, Emma, Hard Eight), born in Los Angeles, California

30’s

36Lil Wayne (Dwayne Michael Carter Jr.), rapper

34►Avril Lavigne, Canadian singer-songwriter (Complicated, Sk8er Boi), born in Belleville, Ontario

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96►1993 James Doolittle, US air force general (Tokyo 1942)

@94►2017 Anne Jeffreys [Annie Carmichael], American singer and actress (Dick Tracy, Topper, General Hospital)

80’s

@83►1917 Edgar H G Degas, French impressionist artist (ballerina)

70’s

@79►2009 William Safire, American Columnist, pancreatic cancer

50’s

@50►1870 Henry TP Comstock, Canadian silver prospector, suicide

40’s

@45►1956 Babe Didrikson Zaharias, American all-round athlete (10 LPGA majors, Olympic gold medals 80m hurdles, javelin 1932), colon cancer

Sep 26

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Sept  26, 2018 Week: 39 \ Day: 269

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 84°[1899]   Record Low: 22°[1934]

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

     I believe things cannot make themselves impossible

     Stephen Hawking

Harper’s Index

            16

            Percentage of DC residents making less than $50,000

            who have marched in protest against #45

            50

            Of residents making more than $100,000

Observances This Week

21-30 National Ballroom Dance Week  Link

23-29  Banned Books Week

Child Passenger Safety Week Link

Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link 

International Interpreters and Translators Week

National Dog Week Link and  Link

National Keep Kids Creative Week

Remember to Register to Vote Week

Sea Otter Awareness Week Link

World Hearing Aid Awareness Week Link   

World Reflexology Week

24-28 Ally Week Link

International Week of the Deaf  Link   

International Women's E-Commerce Days

Observances for Today

Banned Websites Awareness Day  Link 
Compliance Officer Day  Link
Johnny Appleseed Day
Love Note Day

National Dumpling Day Link
National Women's Health & Fitness Day 
School Backpack Awareness Day  Link 
Shamu the Whale Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                         

1872 The first Shriners Temple (called Mecca) was established in New York City.

1900’s                                         

1950 UN troops in Korean War recapture South Korean capital of Seoul

1970 The Laguna Fire starts in San Diego County, California, burning 175,425 acres (710 km²).

1984 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1990 Motion Picture Association of America creates new NC-17 rating

1995 "George" magazine premieres, published by John F. Kennedy Jr

2000’s                                         

2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

2014 World Health Organizations estimates that Ebola death toll has reached 3,091 - with Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone hit hardest

2017 Saudi Arabia announces it is overturning its ban on women driving - last country in the world to do so

2017 World's second-largest gem-quality diamond, the "Lesedi La Rona", sells for $53m

My Rambling Thoughts

Had an early regular Dr. appt. All good. Next appt in 6 months. Good news all the way around. Dr. said some people at your age feel better with 3-month appointments. I said I wasn’t one to them.

My Dr. and her husband are headed to Patagonia for 2 weeks of trekking. Sounds exciting.

I was a fan of Bill Cosby back in the day. When the allegations came out, I didn’t want to watch his old shows anymore. Now that he is in prison my hope is that all his shows simply disappear from all TV screens. There is no way he or his estate should be getting residual payments while he is in prison.

The weatherman was a little off, we have had two small showers early today and then one full of lightning and thunder and rain. Good…we need the moisture.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96►Jack LaLanne, exercise mogul (Juice Tiger)

80’s

@81►Winnie Mandela [Winnie Madikizela-Mandela], South African anti-apartheid activist and ANC politician, born in Bizana, Pondoland, South Africa (d. 2018)

70’s

@76►T. S. Eliot, American poet (The Waste Land), dramatist and critic (Nobel Prize 1948), born in St Louis Missouri, (d. 1965) emphysema

@70±►John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], frontier nurseryman (d. 1845)

70►Olivia Newton-John, Australian singer and actress (Lets Get Physical), born in Cambridge, England

60’s

@67►Lynn Anderson, American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), born in Grand Forks, North Dokota (d. 2015) heart attack

50’s

@57►Marty Robbins, American country singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone), born in Glendale, Arizona (d. 1982) heart failure

40’s

@44±►Saint Francis of Assisi, Italian founder of the Franciscan Order, born in Assisi, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1226) bacteria infection

30’s

37►Serena Williams, American tennis star (23 Grand Slam singles), born in Saginaw, Michigan

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90►2006 Tokyo Rose [Iva Toguri D'Aquino], American-born Japanese propagandist (WWII)

80’s

►@85►1820 Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer (US Hall of Fame 1915)

@83►2008 Paul Newman, American actor (Hud, Hombre, Hustler), racing car driver and charity food company founder (Newman's Own)

70’s

@73►1902 Levi Strauss, American clothing manufacturer