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June 29, 2017 Week: 26 \
Day: 180
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 44°
Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Red Flag Warning; very smoky
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
21mph
Visibility:
9 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970) L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 93°[1990]
Record Low: 30°[1913]
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Quote of the Day
Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin
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Observances Today
National Bomb Pop Day Link
National Hand Shake Day Link
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Observances This Week
27-7/1 Fish Are
Friends, Not Food! Week Link
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week Link
27-7/4 National
Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
29-7/2 Rosewell UFO Days
Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
<§>1500’s<§>
★1534 Jacques
Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
★1540 Former
Lord Privy Seal and Chancellor of the Exchequer of England Thomas
Cromwell indicted as heretic
<§>1600’s<§>
★1613
Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down
<§>1700’s<§>
1776 Mission
Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay
1776 Virginia
state constitution adopted and Patrick Henry made governor
<§>1800’s<§>
1863 George
Armstrong Custer, aged 23, appointed Union Brigadier General
★1888 First
(known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax
cylinder
1891 US
National Forest Service organized
<§>1900’s<§>
1906 US
Congress pass the Hepburn Act, permitting the regulation of rates charged by
railroads, pipelines, and terminals engaged in interstate commerce
1927 1st
flight from West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1936 Empire
State Building broadcasts high definition TV-343 lines
1940 Batman
Comics, mobsters rubbed out a circus highwire team known as the Flying
Graysons, leaving their son Dick (Robin) an orphan
1949 US
troops withdraw from Korea after WW II
1967 Jayne
Mansfield, American actress, and Samuel S. Brody, attorney and Mansfield's current
partner, die in a car crash
1968 "Tip-Toe
Thru' The Tulips With Me" by Tiny Tim peaks at #17
1972 Supreme
Court rules (5-4) that death penalty is cruel & unusual
1983 Angel
Cordero wins his 5,000th horse races
1996 Superman's
Action Comic #1 (1938) auctioned at Sotheby at $61,900
<§>2000’s<§>
2000 Eminem's
mother goes to court claiming defamation of character in a $10 million civil
suit, after taking exception to the line "My mother smokes more dope than
I do" from her son's single 'My Name Is'
2006 Hamdan
v. Rumsfeld: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W.
Bush's plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S.
and international law.
★2007 Enya receives
an honorary doctorate from the National University of Ireland, Galway
★2015 Beijing
Times reports 30% of the Great Wall of China has disappeared due to natural
forces and stealing of bricks
2016 US
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter lifts Pentagon's ban on transgendered people
serving in the US armed forces░░<§>00’s<§>░░░
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My Rambling Thoughts
Woke up to a smoky town
from a fire miles away from here. Most of the morning has looked like a very
long solar eclipse. Eerie. And now officials are saying people with asthma or
other respiratory issues should stay indoors.
Never been a big fan of
cliffhangers when you have a long wait time. So not excited when the president said
‘something big’ is on the way regarding health care. Seems to me he is running
this country like a reality show. ‘More after a commercial’ administration.
Sadly, his big waits have yet to meet the hype.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What hip-hop artist
started to go by the legal and stage name Yasiin Bey in 2012?
Nas Mos Def
Talib
Kweli Busta Rhymes
43.6%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
43→Factor by which the number of Chinese students
attending US high schools has increased over the past ten years
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Yep, It Really Happened
Shoppers and employees at
a Walmart store in Texas, were shocked to see Batman detaining a shoplifter and
giving him a citation.
Fort Worth Police officer Damon Cole said that he was outside the Walmart store
for a kids fair and was dressed as Batman.
At some point, Cole received an alert that a man was attempting to steal 4 DVDs
from the Walmart store. Cole, who was dressed as Batman, located the suspect
and he identified himself as an off-duty police officer.
When Cole saw that one of the DVDs was a Batman movie, he told the suspect that
he cannot steal his videos. Since the four DVDs were valued at less than $100,
the suspect received a citation for shoplifting.
"I was at Wal-Mart as Batman for kids day. This male attempted to steal 4
DVD's. I stopped him as Batman. He asked me for a selfie as Batman,"
Officer Cole reported later.
Before leaving the scene, the suspect asked to take a selfie with Batman, and
Cole agreed.
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Somewhat Useless Information
There are two suborders of
whales to which all species of whales belong: toothed whales and baleen whales.
Toothed whales include sperm, killer, and beluga whales, and they prey on large
fish in deep waters as their main source of food. Baleen whales include blue
and humpback whales, and they are filter feeders that feed on small organisms
such as krill and plankton by straining large amounts of sea water through a
comb-like structure in their mouth called a baleen.
While ancient fishermen used the meat of whales for food, in the modern era
whales were primarily hunted for oil and whalebone, a term used for the baleen.
Whalebone was used to make corsets, umbrella ribs, handles, and brushes, while
the oil was used for cooking, candle wax and, much later, making margarine.
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Birthdays Today
@ indicates age at death
<§>80’s<§>
87- Robert
Evans,
American
director/actor (Love Story, The Godfather, Chinatown), born in NYC
<§>70’s<§>
73- Gary
Busey,
Goose
Creek Tx, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born)
70- Richard
Lewis,
American
comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love), born in NYC, New York
<§>60’s<§>
@69- George
Washington Goethals,
engineer
(built Panama Canal)
(d.
1928)
@64- Slim
Pickens,
Kingsburg
California, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
(d.
1983)
<§>50’s<§>
@59- Little
Eva [Eva Boyd],
American
pop singer (Locomotion), born in Belhaven, North Carolina
(d.
2003)
@57- Stokeley
Carmichael, [Kwame Toure],
US,
Black Power-activist
(d.
1998)
<§>40’s<§>
@44- Antoine
de Saint-Exupéry,
French
writer (The Little Prince)
(d.
1944)
<§>30’s<§>
35- Colin Jost,
comedian
(SNL)
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Historical Obits Today
<§>90’s<§>
@96-2003 Katharine
Hepburn,
American
actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)
<§>80’s<§>
@82-2016 Elechi
Amadi,
Nigerian
novelist (The Concubine)
<§>70’s<§>
@75-1995 Lana
Turner,
American
actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest), cancer
@75-1852 Henry
Clay,
American
politician known as "the Great Compromiser", TB
@74-2002 Rosemary
Clooney,
American
singer and actress, lung cancer
<§>50’s<§>
@55-1861 Elizabeth
Barrett Browning,
British
poet and writer ("How Do I Love thee"), lengthy illness
<§>40’s<§>
@49-1978 Bob
Crane,
actor
(Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), murdered
@46-1933 Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle,
US
actor (Keystone comedies), heart attack
<§>30’s<§>
@34-1967 Jayne
Mansfield,
American
actress (The Girl Can't Help It), car crash
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Trivia Hive Answers
Mos Def
The Brooklyn-bred emcee
and actor Mos Def announced he would begin to go by his legally changed name of
Yasiin Bey beginning in 2012, although friends and family had used the new
moniker for years before Bey's public switch. What prompted this? Fame. "I
began to fear that Mos Def was being treated as a product, not a person,"
he explained in an interview with GQ. Bey, a Muslim, borrowed the name from the
36th surah of the Qu'ran, titled "Ya Sin." Sources: GQ, the Guardian
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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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That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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