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6.30.16
Week: 26 \ Day: 182
June
Averages: 79°\41°
86004
Today: H 92° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 14mph Visibility: 8 mi
Record
High: 92°[1990]
Record Low: 31°[1913]
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Quote
of the Day
Life is 10% what you
make it and90% how you take it. ~Irving
Berlin
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Observances
Today
Leap
Second Time Adjustment Day
NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
Social Media Day Link
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Ramadan:
-7/5
Armed
Forces Day (Guatemala)
Independence Day (Congo-1960-from Belgium)
Revolution Day (Sudan-bloodless coup-1989)
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Observances
This Week
○ 26-7/2
○ 27-7/4
National
Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1834 Congress
creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1865 8
alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1906 US
Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act; these
laws owe much to the expose journalism of the period (Upton Sinclair's
'The Jungle' in particular)
1925 Charles
Jenkins is granted the U.S. patent for Transmitting Pictures over Wireless
(early television)
1927 US
Assay Office in Deadwood, South Dakota closes
1936 40
hour work week law approved for US federal employees
1936 Margaret
Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1938 Superman
1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1940 US
Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1944 World
War II: The Battle of Cherbourg ends with the fall of the strategically
valuable port to American forces.
1945 17-day
newspaper strike in NY begins
1960 US
stops sugar import from Cuba
1967 Robert
Henry Lawrence, Jr. named 1st black astronaut
1971 Ohio
becomes 38th state to approve of lower voting age to 18, thus ratifying 26th
amendment
1982 Federal
Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification
1994 US
Ice Skating Federation bars Tonya Harding for life
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1520 Spanish
conquistadors under Hernán Cortés take gold from Aztecs
1860 Famous
debate on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution held at the Oxford
University Museum and dominated by arguments between Thomas Henry Huxley and
Bishop Samuel Wilberforce
1914 Mahatma
Gandhi's 1st arrest after campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1933 50,000
demonstrate in Antwerp against fascism/war
1934 "Night
of Long Knives" - Hitler stages a bloody purge of the Nazi party
1966 Leopoldville
Congo is renamed Kinshasa
2005 Spain
legalizes same-sex marriage.
2007 A
car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a
terrorist attack.
2012 Mohamed
Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another warm day, but it
has clouded up and the monsoon should be hitting soon.
I made my final airline,
shuttle, and hotel arrangements to get to and from Denver for my trip to
Barcelona. It is nice because, thanks to my Visa Freedom Card, I paid for all
of it with my cash back from the card. Always saving money. My dad would be
proud.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of
post)
Warner Bros.
Rebus brain teasers use words or letters in
interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
What does this Rebus
represent?
Cockroach
Ant
Worms
Rabbit
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…Harper’s
Index…
100,000,000 – Estimated number of people who will
be driven into extreme poverty by 2030 because of climate change
-66 – Estimated percentage change in the
rate of extreme poverty worldwide over that past 20 years
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Ireland.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*---------- Like a
Rhinestone Cowboy... ----------*
A horse-riding cowboy
leading a second horse by the reins caused a major traffic jam Monday by riding
over a busy New York bridge. A video shows the man, dressed in western garb,
riding a horse and leading a second equine by the reins while crossing Staten
Island's Outerbridge Crossing bridge in front of a long line of backed-up
traffic. "In case you're wondering why there's traffic on the Outerbridge
Crossing," the tweet said. The man is closely followed by a Port Authority
Police Department patrol car with its emergency lights on. A Port Authority
police spokesman confirmed the patrol car was dispatched to escort the man to
the other side of the bridge, but it was unclear whether the rider would face
any fines or trespassing charges on the other side.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
A huge mysterious blast
rocked eastern Siberia on June 30th, 1908, leaving millions of trees lying on
the ground, mostly pointing in the same direction, over an area of many kilometers.
***
It was a difficult area to
reach at the time and it was not until 1927, nearly 20 years later, that the
first Soviet research expedition arrived at the scene.
***
It is estimated that the
Tunguska explosion knocked down some 80 million trees over an area of 2,150
square kilometers (830 sq mi), and that the shock wave from the blast would
have measured 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale. An explosion of this
magnitude would be capable of destroying a large metropolitan area, but due to
the remoteness of the location, no fatalities were documented.
***
Witnesses from hundreds of
miles away reported fire in the sky like 'a second sun', sounds like artillery
fire or thunder, a hot wind, the earth shaking, and windows broken and
buildings damaged.
***
The first conclusion was
that a meteor had struck, though scientists were baffled by the absence of a
crater. Over the years, a number of theories were put forward to explain what
became known as the Tunguska Event. They included claims of an alien spacecraft
colliding with Earth, and the sudden appearance of a mini black hole.
***
Today, scientists believe
they know the answer. It is thought that an incoming meteor or comet exploded
on contact with our atmosphere, causing what is known as an air burst five to
ten kilometers above the Earth's surface.
***
That's the theory, but
nobody knows for sure.
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Birthdays
Today
“[ ]” indicates age at
death
[92] Lena Horne,
American
actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz), born in Brooklyn, [d2010]
[81] David Wayne,
actor
(Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve) [d1995]
78- Billy Mills,
Pine
Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64)
[62] Elizabeth
Kortright Monroe,
1st
lady [d1830]
[62] Harry Blackstone
Jr,
magician
(Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion) [d1997]
60- David Alan Grier,
comedian
(In Living Color, Boomerang)
57- Vincent
D'Onofrio,
American
actor [CSI-criminal intent]
50- "Iron" Mike Tyson,
American
boxer and youngest ever heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90), born in Brooklyn,
New York
[47] John Gay,
English
poet and dramatist (The Beggar's Opera) (d. 1732)
[32] Florence Ballard,
rocker
(Supremes), born in Detroit, [d1976]
31- Michael Phelps,
American
swimmer (16 Olympic medals), born in Baltimore, Maryland
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Historical
Obits Today
@89-1995 Gale Gordon,
comedian
(Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)
@88-2003 Robert McCloskey,
American
children's book writer and illustrator
@88-1785 James Oglethorpe,
English
general and founder of the state of Georgia
@78-2003 Buddy Hackett,
American
comic, stroke
@76-2001 Chet Atkins,
American
country guitar player and producer, cancer
@76-1919 John William
Strutt,
3rd
Baron Rayleigh, English physicist and discoverer of argon (Nobel Prize 1904)
@54-1520 Moctezuma II,
Aztec
emperor (1502-20), killed either by the Spanish or stoned by his own people
@41-1996 Margaux
Hemingway,
model/actress
(Lipstick), suicide
@40-1882 Charles J.
Guiteau,
assassin
(President Garfield), hanged
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Bugs Bunny
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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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