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6.11.16 Week: 23 \ Day: 163
June Averages: 79°\41°
86004 Today: H 86° \ L 50°
Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 90°[1918]
Record Low: 28°[1998]
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Quote of the Day
To love oneself is the beginning of a
lifelong romance ~Oscar Wilde
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Observances Today
Abused
Women and Children's Awareness Day
Belmont Stakes Link
Corn on the Cob Day
International Young Eagles Day
Missing Mutts Awareness Day Link
National
Cotton Candy Day Link
National Making Life Beautiful
Day Link
National Rose' (wine) Day Link
Poultry Festival -12 Link
Queen's Official Birthday Link (aka Trooping of The Colours)
Shavuot
World Bike Naked Day Link
World
Gin Day Link
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King
Kamehameha I Day (Hawaii)
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Observances This Week
○ 4-11
International
Clothesline Week
Bed Bug Awareness Week
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week Link
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week Link
National Sun Safety Week Link
Pet Appreciation Week
Rip Current Awareness
Week Link
○ 6-12
National
Automotive Service Professionals Week
○ 9-12
Superman
Days Link
○ 11-19
Worldwide
Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week Link
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1742 Benjamin
Franklin invents his Franklin stove
1776 Continental
Congress creates committee (Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin
Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston) to draft a Declaration
of Independence
1837 The
Broad Street Riot occurres in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions between
English-Americans and Irish-Americans.
1838 Iowa
Territory is organized
1878 DC
is given a new government by Congress, 3 commissioners appointed by president
(change in 1974)
1898 1st
US Marines (600) land at Guantanamo Cuba during Spanish-American War
1927 Charles
Lindbergh is awarded the 1st Distinguished Flying Cross
1937 Marx
Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
1939 King
& Queen of England taste 1st "hot dogs" at FDR's party
1944 1st
Serbian Orthodox cathedral in US, Cathedral of St Sava, NYC
1959 Postmaster
General bans D H Lawrence's book, Lady Chatterley's Lover (overruled by US
Court of Appeals in Mar 1960)
1959 Charlie
Sifford becomes the 1st African American to play in a US Golf Open
1963 US President JFK says segregation is morally wrong &
that it is "time to act"1966 "I
Am A Rock" by Simon & Garfunkel peaks at #3
1982 "E.T.
the Extra-Terrestrial", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Henry
Thomas and Drew Barrymore, is released
1990 Supreme
Court says law prohibiting desecration of US flag unconstitutional
1993 "Jurassic
Park", starring Sam Neill and Jeff Goldblum opens, sets box
office weekend record of $502 million
2004 Ronald
Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
631 Emperor
Taizong of Tang of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk
for the release of Chinese prisoners captured during transition from Sui to
Tang from northern frontier; succeeds in freeing 80,000
1594 Philip
II recognized the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains
in the Philippines, which paves way to the creation of the Principalía (i.e.,
elite ruling class of native nobility in Spanish Philippines).
1644 Florentine
scientist Evangelista Torricelli describes his invention of the mercury
barometer in 1643 in a letter to Michelangelo Ricci
1770 Capt James
Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1870 1st-stone
Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1951 Mozambique
becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1964 Manfred
Mann record Do Wah Diddy Diddy Dum Diddy Do
1975 1st
oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
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My Rambling Thoughts
Did
a lot of reading for our discussion group tomorrow evening. Discussing ‘The New
Middle East’. It is time some politicians open up to the new order over there. Whenever
gov’ts from afar draw political boundaries with no input from the locals, it is
doomed to failure. Both the Middle East and Africa are examples of how it doesn’t
work.
Mohammad
Ali planned his memorial service. The people who spoke were from many religions
and a Native speaker. It was a true celebration of his life and his belief in
having all people living together. Amazing.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Red
and Green
Difficulty
2.0
When
do you start on red and stop on green?
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…Harper’s Index…
37-Percentage increase
in the likelihood a gay man will contract chlamydia if he meets a partner
through a mobile app
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
RIP
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2 jokes for the day
A
police officer saw a woman knitting as she was driving. He could not believe
his eyes. He yelled at her to pull over. She rolled down her window and yelled
back, "No, its a scarf!"
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A jogger running down a country road is
startled as a horse yells at him, "Hey, come over here buddy!" The
jogger is stunned but runs over to the fence where the horse is standing and
asks, "Were you talking to me?"
The horse replies, "Sure was, man I've got a problem. I won the Kentucky
Derby a few years ago and this farmer bought me and now all I do is pull a plow
and I'm sick of it. Why don't you run up to the house and offer him $5,000 to
buy me. I'll make you some money cause I can still run."
The jogger thought to himself, "Boy, a talking horse!" Dollar signs
started appearing in his head. So he runs to the house and the old farmer is
sitting on the porch. The jogger tells the farmer, "Hey man, I'll give you
$5,000 for that old broken down nag you've got in the field."
The farmer replies, "Son, you can't believe anything that horse says. He's
never even been to Kentucky."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
1.He
was one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned
“Sportsman of the Century” by Sports Illustrated and “Sports Personality of the
Century” by the BBC
2.
Cassius Marcellus Clay Jr. was born on January 17, 1942, in Louisville,
Kentucky.
3.
The older of two boys, he was named for his father, Cassius Marcellus Clay Sr.,
who himself was named in honor of the 19th century abolitionist and politician
of the same name.
4.
Clay’s paternal grandparents were John Clay and Sallie Anne Clay; Clay’s sister
Eva quoted that Sallie was a native of Madagascar.
5.
Although Cassius Sr. was a Methodist, he allowed Odessa to bring up both
Cassius and his younger brother Rudolph “Rudy” Clay (later renamed Rahman Ali)
as Baptists.
6.
He was a descendant of pre-Civil War era American slaves in the American South,
and was predominantly of African-American descent, with Irish and English
heritage.
7.
He was first directed toward boxing by Louisville police officer and boxing
coach Joe E. Martin, who encountered the 12-year-old fuming over a thief
taking his bicycle. He told the officer he was going to “whup” the thief. The
officer told him he better learn how to box first.
8.
Clay won six Kentucky Golden Gloves titles, two national Golden Gloves titles,
an Amateur Athletic Union National Title, and the Light Heavyweight gold medal
in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.
9.
Clay’s amateur record was 100 wins with five losses. Ali claimed in his 1975
autobiography that shortly after his return from the Rome Olympics he threw his
gold medal into the Ohio River after he and a friend were refused service at a
“whites-only” restaurant and fought with a white gang.
10. Clay
became at age 22 the youngest boxer to take the title from a reigning
heavyweight champion, though Floyd Patterson was the youngest to win
the heavyweight championship at 21, during an elimination bout following Rocky
Marciano’s retirement. Mike Tyson broke both records in 1986 when he defeated
Trevor Berbick to win the heavyweight title at age 20.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
[93] Lawrence E
Spivak,
American news panelist (Meet the
Press), born in Brooklyn, [d1994]
[92] Jeannette
Rankin,
1st woman elected to US Congress
(R-Montana), born in Missoula, Montana (d. 1973)
[87] Jacques
Cousteau,
French oceanic explorer (Calypso),
born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France (d. 1997)
86- Charles B
Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
83- Gene Wilder,
[Jerome Silberman],
actor (Silver Streak, Blazing
Saddles), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
[78] Charles Fabry,
Discoverer (ozone layer in upper
atmosphere)
77- Jackie
Stewart,
Scotland, driver/sports announcer
(27 Grand Prix)
[75] Chad Everett
[Raymon Lee Cramton],
South Bend, Indiana, American actor
(Medical Center, Airplane II) [d2012]
71- Adrienne
Barbeau,
actress (Maude, Swamp Thing), born
in Sacramento, California
[69] Henry
Hill Jr.,
mobster and FBI informant (inspired
Goodfellas), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2012)
69- Henry
Cisneros,
1st Hispanic to serve as
mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), later Secretary of Housing and Urban
Development in the Clinton Administration
60- Joe Montana,
NFL quarterback (San Francisco
49ers), born in New Eagle, Pennsylvania
[57] Vince Lombardi,
NFL coach (Green Bay Packers), born
in Brooklyn, New York [d1970]
57- Hugh Laurie,
English actor (Strapless, Dr
Gregory House-House), born in Oxford, England
47- Peter
Dinklage,
American actor (Games of Thrones),
born in Morristown, New Jersey
30- Shia LaBeouf,
American actor (Disturbia, Transformers),
born in Los Angeles, California
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Historical Obits Today
@90-1941 Daniel Carter Beard,
founder of the Boy Scouts of
America
@82-2003 David Brinkley,
American television reporter
@81-1994 Jack Hannah,
animator
@79-1999 DeForest Kelley,
American actor (bones-Star Trek),
cancer
@72-1979 John Wayne [Marion
Mitchell Morrison],
actor (Green Berets, True Grit), stomach
cancer
@40-1993 Ray Sharkey,
actor (Wiseguy, No Mercy, Body
Rock), AIDs
@33-2001 Timothy McVeigh,
American terrorist, by execution
@31-1985 Karen Ann Quinlan,
comatose patient
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Brain Teasers Answers
When
you are eating a watermelon.
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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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