Jun 14

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June 14, 2017 Week: 24 \ Day: 165

86004 Today: H 75° \ L 37°

Average Sky Cover: 0% 

Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

June Averages: 79°\41°

June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)

Record High: 92°[1974]   Record Low: 25°[2001]

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╬Quote of the Day╬

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Leo Tolstoy

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╬Observances Today╬

Army's Birthday

Family History Day

Flag Day

International Bath Day  Link

Monkey Around Day

National Bourbon Day  Link

Pause for the Pledge Day

(World) Blood Donor Day 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

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╬Today’s Significant US Historical Events╬

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

░░░<§>1600’s<§>░░░

1642 1st compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts

░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░

1846 California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed in Sonoma, declaring independence from Mexico

★1847 Robert Bunsen invents the Bunsen burner

1850 Fire destroys part of San Francisco, starts in bakery chimney

░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
★1900 Having been annexed to the USA on 12 August 1898, Hawaii is constituted as an organized territory

★1913 The South African Government pass the Immigration Act, which restricts the entry and free movement of Asians; it leads to widespread agitation and rioting by resident Indians, led by Gandhi

1916 Democratic Convention convenes in St Louis; Woodrow Wilson campaigns on the slogan "he kept out of the war"

1922 US President Warren G. Harding is 1st US president to use radio, dedicates the Francis Scott Key memorial in Baltimore

1923 Recording of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)

1938 Chlorophyll patented by Benjamin Grushkin

1938 Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)

1942 Walt Disney's animated movie "Bambi", based on the book by Felix Salten, is released

★1946 Canadian Library Association established

1951 1st commercial computer, UNIVAC 1, enters service at Census Bureau

1954 President Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge

1962 Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, murders Anna Slesers, his first victim

★1962 The European Space Research Organisation is established in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency.

1973 US President Richard Nixon administration imposes 60-day economy-wide price freeze, superseding Special Rule No. 1 for oil companies

1989 Groundbreaking begins in Minnesota on world's largest mall

★1989 Ronald Reagan is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II (honorary knighthood)

1990 Supreme Court rules police check for drunk drivers constitutional

░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░

★2012 The world's first stem-cell assisted vein transplant is undertaken by Swedish doctors on a 10 year old girl

★2013 Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran

2013 The US government charges NSA leaker Edward Snowden with violating the Espionage Act and theft of government property

2015 "Jurassic World", 1st film to make $500 million worldwide in its opening weekend

★2016 First mammal made extinct by human-induced climate change announced - the Bramble Cay melomys, mosaic-tailed rat, from Torres Strait

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╬My Rambling Thoughts╬

Finally a great day without wind…nice walk earlier this morning.

When I got back I did three loads of laundry…linens and towels. Not a lot of fun, but needed to be done.

TV was out for about an hour, and the wonderful cable company had no idea why, how, or when it would be back on. As with most cable companies, customer service in less than stellar. But, it did come back on. So I get to listen to the Senate hearings.

I can hardly listen to the AG. He sure knows how to ramble, but I’m sure his supporters will see him as a great statesman who speaks the truth, better than any human in the history of the world. Many of his supporters also believe that the world in a mere 6000 years old.

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╬Today’s Trivia Hive╬

(answers at the end of post)

What comedian was named for the 2017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor?

Jon Stewart               David Letterman

Tracy Morgan            Jerry Seinfeld

28.0% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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╬Harper’s Index╬

$2,200,000→Amount invested by the Obama Administration in training former coal workers to operate drones

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╬Somewhat Useless Information╬

Poison is absorbed or ingested; a poisonous animal can only deliver toxic chemicals if another animal touches or eats it. 

Venom, on the other hand, is always injected. Every venomous animal has a mechanism to inject toxins directly into another animal. Stab with tails. Slash with spines. Pierce with fangs or stings. Spike with spurs. Shoot with harpoons. Chew with teeth. 

For example, frogs are usually poisonous while snakes are usually venomous.

Some animals you might now know are venomous; the duck-billed platypus, the Gila monster, centipedes, Millipedes, the Komodo dragon and coral!

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╬Birthdays Today╬

@  indicates age at death

░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░

@92- Alonzo Church,

American Mathematician whose work provided foundation for computer

science, born in Washington D.C.

(d. 1995)

@90- Gene Barry [Eugene Klass],

American actor (The Atomic City, Bat Masterson), born in NYC,

(d. 2009)

░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░

86- Marla Gibbs,

actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227), born in Chicago

@85- Harriet Beecher Stowe,

American author (Uncle Tom's Cabin), born in Litchfield, Connecticut

(d. 1896)

@85- Burl Ives, Hunt Ill,

folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)

(d. 1995)

░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░

@79- Pierre Salinger,

newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John F. Kennedy)

(d. 2004)

@78- Al "Lash" LaRue,

Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)

(d. 1996)

71- Donald Trump, real estate tycoon (Trump Towers), TV personality (The

          Apprentice) and US President, born in New York City

░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░

@64- Pat Summitt,

American basketball coach (University of Tennessee), born in Clarksville,

Tennessee

(d. 2016)

░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░

56- Boy George [O'Dowd],

British singer-songwriter (Culture Club), born in Bexley, Kent, England

@51- Alois Alzheimer,

Marktbreit, Bavaria, German  psychiatrist; neuropathologist (Alzheimer

Disease)

(d. 1915)

░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░

49- Yasmine Bleeth,

American actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live, Baywatch), born in NYC

48- Steffi Graf,

German tennis star who won 22 Grand Slam singles titles, born in

Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany

░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░

@39- Ernesto "Che" Guevara,

Argentine Marxist revolutionary (Cuban Revolution), author and

physician, born in Rosario, Argentina

(d. 1967)

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╬Historical Obits Today╬

░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░

@88-2007 Kurt Waldheim,

Austrian 4th Secretary-General of the UN (1972-81) and 9th President of

Austria (1986-92)

@87-2016 Ann Morgan Guilbert,

American actress (The Dick Van Dyke Show-Millie Helper)

@86-1986 Jorge Luis Borges,

Argentine author (Book of Sand)

@82-1926 Mary Cassatt,

American Impressionist artist

@81-1986 Marlin Perkins,

TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom)

░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░

@70-1994 Henry Mancini,

composer (Pink Panther, Moon River), pancreatic cancer

@70-1825 Pierre Charles L'Enfant,

French-born American architect who laid out Washington, D.C.

░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░

@67-1986 Alan Jay Lerner,

Broadway librettist, lung cancer

@66-1968 Salvatore Quasimodo,

Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), stroke

@60-1801 Benedict Arnold,

Revolutionary War general, delirium, gout

░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░

@57-1946 John Logie Baird,

Scottish inventor and father of the television, stroke

@56-1920 Max Weber,

German sociologist/economist/historian, Spanish flu

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╬Trivia Hive  Answers╬

David Letterman

And the No. 1 person to win this year's Mark Twain Prize is...oh wait, this isn't a Top Ten List. Regardless, Dave is indeed the most recent honoree and will emerge from retirement to accept the award this October. It's hard to believe it's been two years since his final, star-studded episode of the 'Late Show,' but that's the passage of time for ya. In a statement quoted by The New York Times, Letterman jokingly called Mark Twain a 'friend of the show.' Source: The New York Times

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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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