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June 2, 2017 Week: 22 \ Day: 153
86004 Today: H 78° \
L 41°
Average Sky
Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 29mph
Visibility: 10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970)
L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 86°[1977] Record Low: 22°[1955]
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╬Quote of the Day╬
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is
conformity.
Rollo May
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╬Observances Today╬
Doughnut
Day or Donut Day Link ([Salvation
Army]
Horseradish Days →4 Link
Hug Your Cat Day Link
Leave The Office Early Day
Mike, The Headless Chicken Day →3 Link
National Rotisserie Chicken Day Link
National Gun Violence Awareness Day
Ramadan-→6/25
Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day
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╬Observances This Week╬
May 26-6/12 Louis
Vuitton Cup (America's Cup)
May 28-6/3 Black Single Parents Week
National Tire Safety Week
June 1-4 Milk
Week
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╬Today’s Significant US Historical
Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>1700’s<§>░░░
1763 Pontiac's
Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort
Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse,
then chasing a ball into the fort.
1774 Intolerable
Acts: Amendment to original Quartering Act enacted, allowed governor in
colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses,
barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters not provided.
1797 1st
ascent of "Great Mountain" (4,622') in Adirondack, NY (C Broadhead)
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
1835 P
T Barnum & his circus begin 1st tour of US
1851 1st
US alcohol prohibition law enacted (Maine)
1855 The
Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
1857 James
Gibbs of Virgina, patents the chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine
1863 Harriet
Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves
1875 James
Augustine Healey became 1st Black Catholic Bishop in US
1875 Alexander
Graham Bell makes first sound transmission 1886 Grover
Cleveland is 1st to wed during presidency (Frances Folsom)
★1896 Guglielmo
Marconi applies to patent the radio, accepted 2 July 1897
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
★1910 Pygmies
discovered in Dutch New Guinea
★1917 Canadian
ace Billy Bishop undertakes a solo mission behind enemy lines,
shooting down three aircrafts as they were about to take off and several more
on the ground, for which he is awarded the Victoria Cross
★1919 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Carl Sandburg (Cornhuskers)
★1920 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Eugene O'Neill (Beyond the Horizon)
1928 Velveeta
Cheese created by Kraft
1933 FDR authorizes
1st swimming pool built inside the White House
1952 Maurice
Olley of General Motors begins designing the Corvette
★1953 Coronation
of Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey
1957 US
TV interviews Nikita Khrushchev
1964 Rolling
Stones 1st US concert tour debuts in Lynn, Mass
★1979 John
Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit a Communist country (Poland)
1979 Los
Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley signs first homosexual rights bill
1981 Barbara
Walters asks Katharine Hepburn what kind of tree she would be
1986 NYC
transit system issues a new brass with steel bullseye token
★1989 10,000
Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students
demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing
★1994 Indonesian
censors ban Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List"
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
2004 Ken
Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show
Jeopardy!.
★2015 100
volunteers in Bhutan set a world record for tree planting - 49,672 in 1 hour
★2015 FIFA
President Sepp Blatter announces his resignation, 5 days after his re-election,
amid FIFA's involvement in a bribery scandal░<§>00’s<§>░░░
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╬My Rambling Thoughts╬
Today is the last day of
school for our town’s students K-12. Mary and I headed to a new restaurant for
lunch. It was packed. So we headed to our favorite Chinese place and had a
great lunch.
Enjoying our great
weather. Keeps looking like rain, but had a few drops yesterday and nothing
today. Hoping for some moisture.
On the way home our
president was making a speech. So depressing. We are becoming isolated from the
rest of the world. That has never worked in the past, and it won’t work now. This
withdrawal from the Paris Accord has little to do with American jobs and a
whole lot to do with undoing everything President Obama did. In my career I had
bosses that would arrive and decide to ‘fix’ everything as quickly as possible.
They never lasted. They would upset their bosses, the local school board, the
staff, or the community and they would be shown the door. Sometimes their boss
would let them leave gracefully, other times, not so much.
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╬Today’s Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
Scientists discovered
T-rex teeth were useful when the dinosaur wanted to enjoy what snack?
Rocks Bones
Dirt
Vegetation
58.5% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s Index╬
5→Number of hours after the 1st US
election polls closed that the Canadian Immigration Services website crashed
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╬Yep, It Really Happened╬
*- Who Would Have
Though? Candy Contains Sugar -*
A woman filed a class action lawsuit against Jelly Belly because she did not
know their Sport Beans jellies contained sugar. Jessica Gomez of California
filed the lawsuit against the candy maker, claiming that she had no idea that
their Sport Beans contained sugar. The Sport Beans are marketed as an exercise
supplement. On the Jelly Belly company's website, the Sport Beans are
advertised as supplements that is "scientifically formulated to maximize
sports performance." The company wrote that the jellies are
"clinically proven to maximize sports performance as each bean is loaded
with carbs for fuel, electrolytes to help maintain fluid balance and vitamins
to optimize energy release." Gomez said that company used "fancy
phrasing" such as "evaporated cane juice," which is a form of
sugar, on the packaging, tricking her into believing that the product was
sugar-free. Jelly Belly is trying to get the lawsuit dismissed. They claim that
"Gomez could not have seen the words 'evaporated cane juice' without also
seeing the product's sugar content on its Nutrition Facts panel."
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╬Somewhat Useless Information╬
A trefoil is a kind of
three-leafed plant-hence the shape of the shortbread cookie with the same name.
The word trefoil comes from the Latin trifolium, "three leaf." The
trefoil is also the emblem of both the Girl Scouts of the U.S. and the Girl
Guides of Canada.
***
If the name Savannah
Smiles sounds familiar, that's because it was a 1982 family-friendly movie
about an unhappy little girl named Savannah who runs away from home, but in the
end is happily reunited with her mother. However, the actress who played
Savannah, Bridgette Andersen, didn't have such a happy ending; she died of an
apparent drug overdose at age 21.
***
While the Girl Guides of
Canada were established two years before the Girl Scouts, they began selling
cookies later, in 1927. Past cookie varieties included vanilla creme, maple
cream, and shortbread, but nowadays, the Canadian cookie selection is much more
streamlined than the Girl Scouts'. In the spring they offer "classic
chocolate and vanilla cookies," and in the fall, their version of Thin
Mints: Chocolately Mint cookies.
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╬Birthdays Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
@92- Lloyd
Shapley,
Mathematician
(2012 Nobel Prize Game Theory), born in Cambridge,
(d.
2016)
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
80- Sally
Kellerman,
actress
(M*A*S*H, Back to School), born in Long Beach, California
@80- Hedda
Hopper, [Elda Furry],
PA,
gossip columnist (From Under My Hat)
(d.
1966)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@79- Johnny
Weissmuller,
actor
(Tarzan)/100m swimmer (Oly-5 gold-1924, 28)
(d.
1984)
76- Charlie
Watts,
drummer
(Rolling Stones), born in London, England
76- Stacy
Keach,
actor
(Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer), born in Savannah, Georgia
@74- Marquis
de Sade,
French
philosopher and writer (Justine). The words sadism and sadist are
derived
from his name., born in Paris,
(d.
1814)
@70-
Martha Washington,
1st
first lady
(d.
1802)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
69- Jerry
Mathers,
Sioux
City Iowa, actor (Beaver-Leave It To Beaver)
63- Dennis
Haysbert,
San
Mateo California, actor (Code Red)
62- Dana
Carvey,
Missoula
MT, comedian (SNL, Garth-Wayne's World)
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
49-
Andy Cohen,
TV
host
49- Beetlejuice
[Lester Napoleon Green],
member
of Howard Stern's Wack
45- Wayne
Brady,
American
actor and comedian (The Wayne Brady Show, Whose Line Is It
Anyway?)
44- Wentworth
Miller,
American
actor (Prison Break)
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╬Historical Obits Today╬
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
@92-2001 Imogene
Coca,
American
actress (b. 1908)
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@82-1990 Rex
Harrison,
English
actor (My Fair Lady)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@79-2008 Bo
Diddley,
American
musician, heart failure
@74-1882 Guiseppi Garibaldi,
Italian
general and nationalist (Risorgimento) who helped unify Italy,
arthritis
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@66-1927 Lizzie
Borden,
American
woman acquitted of the murder of her parents, pneumonia
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@45-1979 Jim
Hutton,
actor
(Ellery Queen), liver cancer
@45-1977 Stephen
Boyd,
Irish
actor (Ben Hur), heart attack
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
@37-1941 Lou
Gehrig,
1st
baseman (NY Yankee), ALS
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╬Trivia Hive Answers╬
Bones
Have you ever strolled into
a natural history museum, grabbed a dinosaur bone and tried to take a bite out
of it? If the answer's 'yes' (and we sincerely hope it isn't), then you know
how hard those bones can be. Fortunately, the late, great Tyrannosaurus rex
didn't have that problem. The chewing force of your average T-rex was so
powerful, it could shatter bones. Just don't try to do the same the next time
you're finishing off a batch of chicken wings - the king of the dinosaurs, you
are not. Source: The Washington Post
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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