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6.19.16
Week: 25 \ Day: 171
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 86° \ L 44°
Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 12mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 92°[1936]
Record Low: 25°[1979]
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Quote
of the Day
My father always used to say that when you
die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life. Lee Iacocca
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Observances
Today
Emancipation Day
Family Awareness Day
Garfield the Cat Day
Husband Caregiver Day
Juneteenth
Ramadan: -7/5
"War is
Hell" Day
World Sickle Cell
Day Link
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Observances
This Week
○ 11-19
Worldwide Knit (and
crotchet) in Public Week Link
○ 12-19
Men's Health
Week Link
○ 13-20
National Hermit Week
○ 16-19
Nat’l Nursing
Assistants Week
US Open Golf
Championship
Duct Tape Days Link
○ 19-25
Animal Rights
Awareness Week Link
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week Link
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1610 Samuel
de Champlain and his French army defeat the Mohawk people at the Battle of
Sorel in New France, present-day Sorel-Tracy, Quebec
1910 Father's
Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)
1936 German
boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
1941 Cheerios
Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1956 Jerry
Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
1961 US
Supreme Court struck down a provision in Maryland's constitution requiring
state office holders to believe in God
1978 "Best
Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 performances
1978 Garfield,
created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1987 Supreme
Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1987 Ben
& Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream
flavor, Cherry Garcia
1999 At
about 4:30 pm, Stephen King is hit by a car on the shoulder of Route
5, in Lovell, Maine. He would suffer numerous injuries, including a collapsed
right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken
hip
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1810 Parliament
passes Unlawful Acts Bill, extending powers against secret societies
1829 Robert
Peel founds the London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies) 1875 Formal
opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
1961 Kuwait
declares independence from UK
1963 Valentina
Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth1964 Civil
Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27
1991 Colombian
drug lord Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
2006 Prime
ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial
"laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in
Spitsbergen, Norway.
2012 A
man is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery in Saudi Arabia
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Still amazed
at the importance of my internet connection. 24+ hours passed with CenturyLink
giving a variety of messages when calling to find out why there is no internet
connection. First they said by midnight, then 6a, then no time given, then 4p
given. Angry enough when they gave no time, that I played their press 1 for game
…to get to a human. All he could do was ‘guess’, his words, what was wrong.
Really? They don’t even inform their tech people who answer phones as to what
is going on. The worst customer
non-service ever.
I have been
on trips where the internet was only at the hotel in the evening and early
morning. That is fine. No internet at my home means no Netflix. Hmmm. Living in
the 1960’s again.
Happy Father’s
Day to all those fathers out there. I had a great dad and really miss him, especially
at days like today.
We are
living through a heat wave for our little mountain town. Very little wind,
humidity at 9%, and mid 90’s expected starting tomorrow through several day.
Not my favorite time.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at
the end of post)
Pertaining Interest
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first,
but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
What is
short enough to gain interest and long enough to cover the subject?
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…Harper’s
Index…
-140,000 Net
change in the number of Mexican immigrants living in the US between 2009 and
2014
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Photograph by @ (Daria Chuvaeva). While on a trip to #Portugal, Your Shot member
Daria Chuvaeva “heard from a local #barman [about] an unusual
stone house located in the #Fafe #Mountains ,” she says.
Chuvaeva decided to journey to the offbeat dwelling, known as the Casa do
Penedo, and this image is the result of her effort. “Even if I got lost a few
times, I can say that it was definitely worth it,” she writes. “There was
something mysterious in that boulder #house
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2
jokes for the day
I couldn’t
decide whether to go to Salt Lake City or Denver for vacation, so I called the
airlines to get prices. “Airfare to Denver is $300,” the cheery salesperson
replied.
“And what about Salt Lake City?”
“We have a really great rate to Salt Lake—$99,” she said “but there is a
stopover.”
“Where?”
“In Denver,” she said.
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It's Black Friday and mall is packed with shoppers and Frank
can't find his wife. He goes up to a very attractive woman and says,
"Excuse me, can you help me? I cannot see my wife, and I know that she is
here in the shopping mall somewhere. Can you just talk to me for a couple of
minutes?"
The attractive woman replies, "Why?"
Frank replies, "Because every time I talk to a beautiful woman, my wife
materializes out of thin air."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- Bride
in Wedding Gown Saves Woman With CPR --*
A newlywed
woman still in her bridal gown after her wedding reception stopped on her way
to a Pittsburgh hotel to give CPR to an unresponsive woman. Julie Stroyne Nixon
left her wedding reception with husband just before midnight, when they heard a
call for help outside of the Westin Convention Center. "We were just about
to go through the doors," Nixon told said, "and then we heard
somebody scream, 'Does anybody know CPR? Is anybody a doctor?'" Nixon, a
trauma nurse, jumped into action. "I looked over, and I think my nursing
instincts took over," she said, "And I bolted over to the bench to
see if she was all right." Nixon said the woman was barely breathing when
she arrived. "I started compressions right away. They told me she didn't
have a pulse," she said. The newlywed nurse said the woman gradually
started to recover. "Never knew that would happen on my wedding
night!" Nixon said. "There's no time off."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Father's Day
was thought up by Spokane, Washington resident Sonora Dodd in 1909 while
listening to a Mother's Day sermon. She wanted to honor her own father, William
Smart, who was a widowed farmer left alone to raise his six children
single-handedly.
***
Residents
embraced the ideas so warmly that by June 19, 1910 the first Father's Day
celebration was proclaimed in Spokane because it was the month of Dodd's
father's birth.
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Due to her
efforts, Sonora Dodd is now known as "the mother of Father's Day".
***
The first
presidential proclamation honoring fathers was issued in 1966 when President
Lyndon Johnson designated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day.
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Father's Day
in America has been officially celebrated annually since 1972 when President
Richard Nixon signed the public law that made it permanent.
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Roses are
the official flower for Father's Day. A red rose is worn in the lapel if your
father is living, a white rose if he is deceased.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
[89] Wallis
Simpson [Duchess of Windsor],
American
divorcee whom British King Edward VIII abdicated his throne to marry, born in
Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania (d. 1986)
[84] Charles
Coburn,
Macon
Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) [d1961]
[78] Pat
Buttram,
actor
(Mr Haney-Green Acres) [d1994]
[77] Moe
Howard, [Moses Horowitz],
American
actor and comedian (The 3 Stooges), born in Brooklyn, [d1975]
[75] Guy
Lombardo,
London
Ontario Canada, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne) [d1977]
71- Aung
San Suu Kyi,
Burmese
politician, leader of the National League for Democracy and human rights
activist (1991 Nobel Peace Prize), born in Rangoon, British Burma
69- Salman
Rushdie,
British
Indian novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses), born in Mumbai, India
68- Phylicia
Rashad,
American
actress and singer (The Cosby Show, One Life to Live), born in Houston, Texas
[64] Lester
Raymond Flatt,
TN,
bluegrass (Earl-Ballad of Jed Clampett) [d1979]
62- Kathleen
Turner,
Springfield,
Missouri, American actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
54- Paula
Abdul,
American
singer-songwriter, choreographer (Straight Up) and TV personality (American
Idol), born in San Fernando, California
[39] Blaise
Pascal,
French
mathematician, physicist and Christian philosopher (Pascal's Law, Pascal's
Wager), born in Clermont-Ferrand, France (d. 1662)
[37] Lou
Gehrig [Henry Louis Gehrig],
American
first baseman (NY Yankees), nicknamed "The Iron Horse", born in NYC,
New York (d. 1941)
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Historical
Obits Today
@79-1966 Ed
Wynn,
comedian
(Ed Wynn Show), cancer
@77-1937 J.
M. [James Matthew] Barrie,
Scottish
novelist and playwright (Peter Pan), pneumonia
@70-1811 Samuel
Chase,
US
judge (signed Declar of Independence), heart attack
@67-1975 Sam
Giancana,
American
gangster, multiple gunshots
@51-2013 James
Gandolfini,
American
actor, heart attack
@34-1867 Maximilian
I of the Mexican Empire,
executed
by firing squad
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A miniskirt
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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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