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June 15, 2017 Week: 24 \
Day: 166
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 37°
Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
16mph
Visibility:
10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1974]
Record Low: 28°[2001]
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╬Quote
of the Day╬
Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
Billie Holiday
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╬Observances
Today╬
Dump The Pump Day Link
Magna Carta Day
Native American Citizenship Day
Nature Photography Day Link
National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers
Recess At Work Day
World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Link
Worldwide Day of Giving Link
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╬Observances
This Week╬
Ramadan-→6/25
11-17 National Automotive Service
Professionals Week
National Body Piercing Week Link
National Flag Week
12-18 Men's Health Week Link
13-20 National Hermit Week
15-18 US Open Golf Championship
15-22 Nursing
Assistants Week
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╬Today’s
Significant US Historical Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
★1094 Rodrigo
Diaz de Vivar [El Cid] occupies Valencia on the Moren
★1215 King
John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, near Windsor, England
★1219 Dannebrog
is the flag of Denmark and the oldest national flag in the world. According to
legend, it fell from the sky during the Battle of Lyndanisse (now Tallinn) in
Estonia, and turned the Danes' luck.
★1785 2
French balloonists die in world's 1st fatal aviation accident
1804 12th
amendment to the US constitution ratified; deals with regulating judicial power
1836 Arkansas
becomes 25th state of the Union
1844 Charles
Goodyear patents the vulcanization of rubber
1860 1st
White settlement in Idaho (Franklin)
1876 Sara
Spencer (R) is 1st woman to address a US presidential convention
1878 1st
attempt at motion pictures (used 12 cameras, each taking 1 picture) done to see
if all 4 of a horse's hooves leave the ground
★1896 Tsunami
strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000
injured and 13,000 houses destroyed
1916 Boys
Scouts of America forms
1924 Ford
Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile
1924 J.
Edgar Hoover assumed leadership of the FBI
1934 Great
Smokey Mountains National Park dedicated
1960 "The
Apartment" directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack
Lemmon and Shirley MacLainepremieres in New York (Best Picture 1961)
1963 "Sound
of Music" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 1443 performances
1963 "Sukiyaki"
sung by Japanese singer Kyu Sakamoto, hits #1
1969 "Hee
Haw" with Roy Clark & Buck Owens premieres on CBS TV
★1985 Rembrandt's
painting Danaë is attacked by a man later judged insane; he threw sulfuric acid
on the canvas and cut it twice with his knife.
★1986 Pravda
announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity
★1991 Climactic
eruption of the Mount Pinatubo volcano in the Philippines, the second-largest
volcanic eruption on Earth in this century
1994 Disney's
animated musical film "The Lion King" opens in theaters with $42
million
1994 Ruth
Bader Ginsburg sworn in as US Supreme Court Justice
★2015 Remains
of a 2,000 year old women dubbed "the sleeping beauty" are announced
discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum
★2015 800
year anniversary of "the birthplace of modern democracy", the signing
of the Magna Carta by King John at Runymede, England
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╬Birthdays
Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
@91- Erik
Erikson,
Frankfurt
Germany, American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the
phrase "identity crisis"
(d.
1994)
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
83- Mario
Cuomo,
American
(Gov-D-NY, 1983-95), born in NYC, New York
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@76- Mo[rris
K] Udall,
(Rep-D-AZ)
(d. 1998)
74- Xaveria
Hollander, [DeVries],
Surabaya
Indonesia, auth (Happy Hooker)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
69- Yuri
Andropov,
General
Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1982-84) and KGB Chief
(1967-82), born in Nagutskaya, Stavropol Region, Russian Empire
(d.
1984)
@67- Sam
Giancana,
American
Mafioso, born in Chicago,
(d.
1975)
@64- Edvard
Grieg,
Norwegian
composer (Bewitched One), born in Bergen, Norway
(d.
1907)
@64- Waylon
Jennings,
country
singer/guitarist (Ramblin' Man)
(d.
2002)
64- Xi
Jinping,
General
Secretary of the Communist Party of China (2012-) and President of the People's
Republic of China, born in Beijing
63- James
Belushi,
comedian
(Sat Night Live, Trading Places), born in Chicago
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
54- Helen
Hunt,
actress
(Jamie-Mad About You, Twister), born in Los Angeles
53- Courteney
Cox,
American
actress (Monica Geller on Friends), born in Birmingham, Alabama
@52- Harry
Nilsson,
American
singer/guitarist (Midnight Cowboy), born in Brooklyn,
(d.
1994)
@50- Jim
Varney,
American
actor (Ernest Goes to Jail, Hey Vern), born in Lexington, KY
(d.
2000)
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
48- Ice
Cube [O'Shea Jackson],
American
rapper and actor (Boyz in the Hood, Anaconda), born in Los Angeles
44- Neil
Patrick Harris,
actor
(Doogie Howser MD), born in Albuquerque
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╬Historical
Obits Today╬
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
@98-2015 Kirk
Kerkorian,
American
CEO and "father of the mega-resort" (MGM, UA)
@91-2003 Hume
Cronyn,
Canadian
actor
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@87-1993 Vera,
scarf/linen
designer
@82-2014 Casey
Kasem,
creator
of American Top 40 and the voice of Shaggy on Scooby-Doo, Lewy body dementia
@82-1984 Meredith
Willson,
composer
(Music Man)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@79-1996 Ella
Fitzgerald,
singer,
long illnesses
@76-1993 John
Connally,
(Gov-D/R-Texas),
lung disease
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@54-1989 Victor
French,
actor
(#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), lung cancer
@53-1849 James
Knox Polk,
11th
US President (1845-1849), cholera
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