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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
Career Nurse Assistants Day Link  Link
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)
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83- Mario Cuomo,
American (Gov-D-NY, 1983-95), born in NYC, New York
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@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
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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
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@98-2015 Kirk Kerkorian,
American CEO and "father of the mega-resort" (MGM, UA)
@91-2003 Hume Cronyn,
Canadian actor
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@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
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@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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