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June 17, 2017 Week: 24 \
Day: 168
86004 Today: H 87° \ L 46°
Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
13mph
Visibility:
10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1940]
Record Low: 23°[1923]
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╬Quote
of the Day╬
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will
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╬Observances
Today╬
Polar Bear Swim (Nome, AK) Link
Stewarts Root Beer Day
World Day To Combat Desertification and Drought
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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
16-18 Duct Tape Days Link
17-23 National Week of Making Link
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╬Today’s
Significant US Historical Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>1500’s<§>░░░
★1579 Sir Francis
Drake lands on coast of California at Drakes Bay, names it "New
Albion"
░░░<§>1700’s<§>░░░
1700 Massachusetts
orders priest to leave the colony
1775 Battle
of Bunker Hill (actually it was Breed's Hill)
★1788 After
a lengthy stay in Europe, future US President John Adams and his wife Abigail
Adamsreturn to Boston
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
1824 US
Bureau of Indian Affairs established
★1839 King
of Hawaii Kamehameha III issues Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics
freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the
Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established
1877 Indian
Wars: Battle of White Bird Canyon - the Nez Perce defeat the US Cavalry at
White Bird Canyon in the Idaho Territory.
★1885 Statue
of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship `Isere'
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
1901 The
College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT
1919 "Barney
Google" cartoon strip, by Billy De Beck, premieres
★1939 Last
public guillotining in France. Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is
guillotined in Versailles outside the prison Saint-Pierre
★1944 Iceland
declares independence from Denmark
1950 1st
kidney transplant (Chicago)
★1954 CIA
exile army lands in Guatemala. Organized by John Foster Dulles and
United Fruit Co.
★1958 The
Wooden Roller Coaster at Playland, which is in the Pacific National Exhibition,
Vancouver, Canada opened, and is still open to this day
1963 Supreme
Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools
1968 Ohio
Express' "Yummy Yummy Yummy" goes gold
1970 Edwin
Land patents the Polaroid camera
1976 ABA
(Nets, Pacers, Nuggets & Spurs) merges into NBA
★1982 US President
Reagan's 1st UN General Assembly address "We must serve mankind through
genuine disarmament."
1986 US
Chief Justice Warren Earl Burger resigns and Antonin Scalia nominated as his
replacement
1991 The
body of Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the USA, is exhumed to test how
he died; rumours had persisted since his death in 1850 of arsenic poisoning -
no evidence of this was found
★1991 South
Africa abolishes last of its apartheid laws
1994 O.J.
Simpson doesn't turn himself in on murder charges, LA cops chase his Ford
Bronco for 1½ hours, eventually gives up (seen live on TV)
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
2006 Sci-Fi
author Anne McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame
2015 US
Treasury announced that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be
replaced from the US $10 bill by an image of a woman
<§>00’s<§>░░░
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╬My
Rambling Thoughts╬
Yesterday turned out to be
a busy day. Had lunch with Mary and we had great conversations remembering our
teen years. Then I got a call that a friend needed a ride. Turned out she
needed to do shopping, so I didn’t get home until around 4p. All good.
After doing some early
morning running around, I listened to the president talk about Cuba. Sadly,
what he said does not match the document he signed. The speech certainly made
his base happy, but if they could read they would see that his words do not
match his actions.
I admit I have been
fascinated with Cuba since the JFK days. I have been fortunate enough, thanks
to Focus Travel Club, to visit the island twice. And with what the president signed
today, the tourists going to the Cuba will not be affected. So tired of his
doublespeak.
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╬Today’s
Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
Who was the first woman
awarded a Nobel Prize?
Marie
Curie Jane
Addams
Mother
Teresa Elinor Ostrom
70.6%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s
Index╬
20→Percentaage by which a person reduces their paper
consumption immediately after chopping down trees in virtual reality
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╬Yep,
It Really Happened╬
*-- Beaver cuts
lights on Canada wedding by chomping on power pole --*
A beaver disrupted a wedding in Canada after cutting off the power by knocking
down a nearby electrical pole.
Saskatoon Power shared photos of the toppled electrical pole complete with
beaver bite marks as it rested in a muddy field.
"Crews were busy safely restoring power in the Maple Creek area on
[Saturday] -- the culprit -- a beaver!" the power company said.
Kim Martin of Regina told the CBC the beaver caused a power outage that nearly
derailed her wedding by leaving the venue in the dark.
"It really took a while to believe that it was a beaver because that just
seems like a really ridiculous thing to have happen," she said.
The manager of the venue for Martin's wedding reception said the building lost
power because of the beaver, but would be able to receive power from its backup
power generator.
"We were definitely worried but once they assured us that there would be
food and music...we didn't really have time to worry," Martin said.
"It was such of a blur of a day that we just kept on going. It was more of
an adventure that way, with no power."
Martin initially struggled to believe a beaver was able to nearly sidetrack her
big day, but eventually found the humor in the situation.
"Once we realized that was a true story -- that it was a beaver -- it was
just funny," she said.
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╬Somewhat
Useless Information╬
Clark Gable is said to
have made donuts fashionable while teaching Claudette Colbert how to
"dunk" in Frank Capra's It Happened One Night.
***
"Time to make the donuts!" Actor Michael Vale made the line famous
playing Dunkin Donuts' beloved Fred the Baker for 15 years. He beat out
hundreds of actors for the gig and became perhaps the most famous 'baker' for
an entire generation.
***
The top 10 doughnut brands in the U.S. alone produced $1,008 billion in sales
revenue last year.
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╬Birthdays
Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@88- Igor
Stravinsky,
Russian
composer (Rite of Spring) [OS 5th June], born in Oranienbaum, Russia
(d.
1971)
@87- Ralph
Bellamy,
actor
(Air Mail, Dive Bomber, Trading Places), born in Chicago,
(d.
1991)
85- Peter
Lupus,
actor
(Mission Impossible)
@80- John
Robert Gregg,
Ireland,
inventor (shorthand) (d. 1948)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
77- Dickey
Do, [Gerry Granahan],
rocker
(Dickey Doo & The Dont's) (Click Clack)
74- Newt
Gingrich,
American
politician (Rep-R-GA, 1979-99) and Speaker of the House (1995-97), born in
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
74- Barry
Manilow [Barry Alan Pincus],
American
singer/pianist (Mandy, I Write the Songs), born in New York City
70- George
S. Clinton,
American
composer and musician
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@68- Edward
I,
King
of England (1272-1307) subdued Wales, expelled Jews from England
(d.
1307)
@67- James
Weldon Johnson,
American
civil rights activist, leader of the NAACP and Harlem Renaissance poet, born in
Jacksonville, Florida
(d.
1938)
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
54- Greg
Kinnear,
actor/talk
show host (Talk Soup, Sabrina, Later)
52- Dan
Jansen,
West
Allis Wisc, speed skater (Oly-gold-1984, 88, 92)
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
47- Will
Forte,
American
writer, actor and comedian
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
37- Venus
Williams,
American
tennis star considered one of the all-time greats of women's tennis, born in
Lynwood, California
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╬Historical
Obits Today╬
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@86-2008 Cyd
Charisse,
American
dancer and actress
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@78-1986 Kate
Smith,
singer
(God Bless America), respiratory arrest
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@62-1947 Maxwell
Perkins,
American
editor and publisher for Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Thomas
Wolfe, pneumonia
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@47-2012 Rodney
King,
African
American motorist beaten by LA cop, drowns/PCP
@42-1961 Jeff
Chandler, [Ira Grossel],
American
actor (Broken Arrow), a result of medical malpractice
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╬Trivia
Hive Answers╬
Marie Curie
Between 1901 and 2016,
women have been awarded the Nobel Prize and Prize in Economic Sciences a total
of 49 times. Of those ladies, only one has had the opportunity to accept the
praise twice, and her initial acknowledgment was the first ever given to a
woman. In 1903, Marie Curie was the first woman to receive a Nobel Prize, in
physics, to be specific. In 1911, she received her second, this time in
chemistry. Source: Nobelprize.org
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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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