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text is a link. Click to check it out!
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June 3, 2017 Week: 22 \ Day: 154
86004 Today: H 78° \
L 40°
Average Sky
Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: -mph
Visibility: 10 mi
June Averages: 79°\41°
June Records: H: 96° (1970)
L: 22 (1955)
Record High: 86°[1986] Record Low: 23°[1971]
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╬Quote of the Day╬
You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few
nickels in the machine.
Flip Wilson
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╬Observances Today╬
Chimborazo Day
Do-Dah Parade Day (Kalamazo,Mi)
Drawing Day or Pencil Day
Loving Day Link
Mike, The Headless Chicken Day →3
National Prairie Day
National Trails Day
Ramadan-→6/25
The Wicket World of Croquet Day Link
Turtle Races 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
3-11 International
Clothesline Week
National
Lemonade Days Link
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╬Today’s Significant US Historical
Events╬
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>1500’s<§>░░░
★1539 Hernando
de Soto claims Florida for Spain
1540 Hernando
de Soto crosses Appalachian Mountain, 1st European to do so
░░░<§>1600’s<§>░░░
★1620 Construction
of the oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges,
begins at Quebec City, Quebec, Canada.
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
1851 1st
baseball uniforms worn, NY Knickerbockers wear straw hat, white shirt &
blue long trousers
1888 "Casey
at the Bat" published (SF Examiner)
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
★1907 Centro
Escolar University is established by Librada Avelino and Carmen de Luna in
Manila, Philippines.
1916 US
National Defense Act establishes Reserve Officers Training Corps
★1934 Dr Frederick
Banting, co-discoverer of insulin, is knighted
1939 Beer
Barrel Polka hits #1 on the pop singles chart by Will Glahe
1943 A
mob of 60 from the Los Angeles Naval Reserve Armory beat up everyone perceived
to be Hispanic, starting the week-long Zoot Suit Riots.
★1946 1st
bikini bathing suit displayed (Paris)
1948 Korczak
Ziolkowski begins sculpture of Crazy Horse near Mt Rushmore
★1959 US
President Eisenhower routes Canadian premier Diefenbaker a message
off the Moon
1967 Aretha
Franklin's "Respect" reaches #1
1970 1st
artificial gene synthesized
1972 1st
female US rabbi installed, Sally J Priesand at 25
1976 Queen's
"Bohemian Rhapsody" goes gold
1976 US
presented with oldest known copy of Magna Carta
★1977 US
& Cuba talk about diplomatic relations
1989 Sports
casting legend Vin Scully broadcasts 23 innings in two different
cities on one day
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
★2001 Iraq
announces that it will halt crude oil exports in response to the UN's
resolution that extends the oil-for-food program by only 1 month, instead of
the normal 6-month period
★2005 'The
Knight of Sainte-Hermine' by Alexandre Dumas is published in France
by Editions Phébus, completed by Claude Schopp, 135 years after the author's
death.
2014 President Obama announces
his plan for a $1 billion fund to increase deployment of US troops to Europe
★2016 A
week of heavy rains in Germany and France leave 10 dead and closing Paris
museums along the Seine, including the Louve░<§>00’s<§>░░░
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╬My Rambling Thoughts╬
Nice warm spring day…lots
of clouds…hoping for rain.
Got a call that a friend
from Tuba passed away last night. He had been in poor health for the last few
years. He was a Superintendent, Councilman, and Interim VP of the Navajo Nation,
a husband, father, grandfather, and great grandfather. Certainly will be missed
by many.
So we are out of the Paris
accord. Sad that the President believes we can only do one thing at a time…Help
our planet.
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╬Today’s Trivia Hive╬
(answers
at the end of post)
A recent study discovered
which primate nurses its young for longer than any other?
Lemurs Orangutans
Baboons Chimpanzees
46.5%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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╬Harper’s Index╬
+8→Average percentage change in the stock value of
the five largest US defense contractors the week of the election
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╬Yep, It Really Happened╬
*---------- Hairspray,
the Explosive ----------*
A Washington state woman returned to her car after work to discover a can of
hairspray had exploded and embedded itself in her windshield. Karmen Ayres said
she walked out of work in Vancouver and immediately noticed her windshield was
severely cracked and there was an object embedded in it. "At first I
looked up, because I thought maybe something fell," Ayres said. "But
then I noticed it was from the inside out. I was in shock and then I realized
what it was. Sure enough, it was my hairspray that exploded, and it was in the
back seat... it's a far distance to travel and with a lot of force to break
through the window." She said temperatures were in the low 90s and that
apparently caused the inside of her car to reach levels the aerosol can
couldn't tolerate. "It launched like a rocket," she said. Ayres
posted a photo of the damage to Facebook. "TIP OF THE DAY: Don't leave
your hairspray unattended in your car on a hot and sunny day," she wrote.
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╬Somewhat Useless Information╬
There have been a few
states that never managed to make the cut and become incorporated into the
United States we know today. Some of these state names were quite inventive and
the dedicated residents who petitioned for them were very frustrated when the
states never manifested.
Absaroka
It was named after the Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains, which claimed
parts of South Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. Residents of this area attempted
to secede in 1939.
Deseret
Although you might assume as much, it was not named for the desert. It was
actually named after a Mormon word meaning honeybee. Parts of modern day
Nevada, Utah, Southern California, most of Arizona, and a portion of New Mexico
were claimed by Mormon settlers escaping religious persecution in New York.
Franklin
This region was comprised of eight counties that originally belonged to North
Carolina but are now eastern Tennessee. In fact, Franklin almost became the
14th State, only needing two more votes to reach the 2/3 majority vote needed
for statehood. The larger state of Tennessee was formed instead.
Kanawha
This region later became the largest portion of the state of West Virginia, and
included some of the far northwestern counties of Virginia. It came about
during the crazy tensions of the Civil War. They voted to secede when Virginia
joined the Confederate States of America.
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╬Birthdays Today╬
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@87- Ellen
Corby,
actress
(Grandma Walton-Waltons), born in Racine, Wisconsin
(d.
1999)
@87- Chuck
Barris,
TV
game show producer and host (Gong Show), born in Philadelphia,
(d.
2017)
86- Raúl
Castro,
18th
President of Cuba (2008-) and former revolutionary, born in Biran,
Holguin,
Cuba
@85- Tony
Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz], actor (Some Like It Hot), born in The Bronx, (d.
2010)
@81- Jefferson
Davis,
President
of the Confederate States of America (1861-65),
born
in Fairview, Kentucky
(d.
1889)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@70- James
Hutton,
geologist,
born in Edinburgh, Scotland
(d.
1797)
@70- George
V, King of Great Britain (1910-36),
born
in Marlborough House, London,
(d.
1936)
@70- Allen
Ginsberg,
American
beat poet (Howl), born in Newark,
(d.
1997)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@68- Josephine
Baker,
American
dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-Bergere) in St. Louis,
(d.
1975)
@63- Aristides
Agramonte y Simoni,
Camagüey
Cuba, Cuban-American Physician, Pathologist and
Bacteriologist
(yellow fever)
(d.1931)
@61- Charles
Bernard Desormes,
Dijon,
French Physicist and Chemist who determined the ratio of the
specific
heats of gases as well as the exact composition of carbon
monoxide
and carbon disulphide
(d.
1838)
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
59- Tom
Arnold,
former
husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids)
@57- Curtis
Mayfield,
rock
vocalist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly), born in Chicago,
(d.
1999)
50- Anderson
Cooper,
American
reporter
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@49- David
Gregory,
Scottish
astronomer
(d.
1708)
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
31- Rafael
Nadal,
Spanish
tennis player considered the greatest clay-court player in
history,
born in Manacor, Balearic Islands, Spain
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╬Historical Obits Today╬
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@89-1989 Ayatollah
Khomeini [Ruhollah Khomeini],
Supreme
leader of Iran
@88-2011 James
Arness,
American
actor (Gunsmoke)
@86-2001 Anthony
Quinn,
Mexican-born
actor
@83-2011 Jack
Kevorkian,
American
pathologist, right-to-die activist
@81-1963 Pope John
XXIII [Angelo G Roncalli],
Pope
(1958-63)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@76-2010 Rue
McClanahan,
American
actress ("The Golden Girls"), stroke
@74-2016 Muhammad
Ali [Cassius Clay],
American
world heavyweight boxing champion, septic shock
@72-2009 David
Carradine,
American
actor, autoerotic asphyxiation
@72-1992 William
Gaines,
publisher
(Mad Magazine)
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@69-1975 Ozzie
Nelson,
American
actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), liver cancer
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@53-1987 Will
Sampson,
Muscogee
(Creek) actor (From Here to Eternity, Yellow Rose),
scleroderma
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
@40-1924 Franz
Kafka,
Czech
writer (Trial, Amerika, Metamorphosis), TB
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
@36-1875 Georges
Bizet,
French
composer (Carmen), heart attacks
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╬Trivia Hive Answers╬
Orangutans
Not content with only the
title of largest tree climbers, orangutans have also claimed the record for
nursing their young for longer than other primates. In fact, they nurse for up
to eight years! By tracking barium levels in young orangutans' teeth, scientist
determined how many years each one nursed. This study represents a
groundbreaking discovery, as orangutans' natural habitat up in the trees makes
them hard to study. (The researchers used bones from deceased primates).
Moreover, this study proves once and for all that people need to stop telling
my mom to cut the cord. I'm 34, but that's like 6 in orangutan years, right?
Source: National Geographic
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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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