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My newest granddog, Buff, being shy. |
Edited to add -- Blogger is being difficult today and won't give me my reading list. While i am going to try to go to every blog i follow and check each one individually to see if you published today, i may take a while to get around to everyone as i also have work. My hope is Blogger will get over this "hiccup" soon.
Today is:
Today is:
Aquino Day -- Philippines
Badminton World Championships -- Glasgow, Scotland (through Sunday)
Buhe -- Ethiopian Orthodox Church (Christian remembrance of the Transfiguration.)
Cadillac Day -- the first Caddy was built this day in 1902
Consualia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival of Consus, god of grain and silos)
Crazy Day -- go crazy, in honor of Patsy Cline recording Willie Nelson's song Crazy on this date in 1961
Fete de la Jeunesse -- Morocco; Western Sahara (Youth Day, on the Birthday of HM Mohammed VI)
Gospel Day -- Kosrae, Micronesia
National Pecan Torte Day
National Senior Citizens Day -- US
National Spumoni Day
Poet's Day -- a day to celebrate the poet in you, and share special thoughts about poets and poetry
RSPCA Cupcake Day -- a fun and delicious way to raise funds to stop animal cruelty
Senior Citizens Day -- US (by Presidential proclamation in 1988)
Stay at Home With Your Kids Day -- begun by Work at Home Moms ezine in 1999, to encourage and support parents who work from home
St. Pius X's Day (Patron of first communicants, pilgrims; Des Moines, Iowa, US; Great Falls-Billings, Montana, US; Kottoyam, India; Santa Lucija, Malta; Springfield-Cape Girardeau, MO, US; Zamboanga, Philippines)
Total Eclipse Day -- US
Yukon Discovery Day -- YT, Canada
Anniversaries Today
Seminole Tribe of Native Americans is legally established and recognized, 1957
Hawai'i becomes the 50th US state, 1959
Birthdays Today
Ozma, Queen of Oz, year unconfirmed
Hayden Panettiere, 1989
Usain Bolt, 1986
Brody Jenner, 1983
Alicia Witt, 1975
James Robert "Jim" McMahon, 1959
Steve Case, 1958
Kim Cattrall, 1956
Jackie DeShannon, 1944
Peter Weir, 1944
Clarence Williams III, 1939
Kenny Rogers, 1938
Wilt Chamberlain, 1936
Melvin Van Peebles, 1932
Shimon Peres, 1923
Christopher Robin Milne, 1920
Friz Freleng, 1906
Count Basie, 1904
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, 1872
William Murdoch, 1754
Francis de Sales, 1567
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"La Cage Aux Folles"(Musical), 1983
Today in History
Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shogun and therefore de facto ruler of Japan, 1192
Pueblo Indians capture Santa Fe from Spanish during the Pueblo Revolt, 1680
James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales, 1770
The Nat Turner slave revolt in Virginia leaves 55 dead, 1831
Mighty Casey (Dan Casey) is struck out! In a game against the N.Y. Giants, 1887
William S Burroghs patents the adding machine, 1888
Oldsmobile is incorporated as a division of General Motors Corp., 1897
Arthur Rose Eldred becomes the first Boy Scout to earn the rank of Eagle Scout, 1912
Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality incident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory, 1945
James Anderson, Jr., posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine, 1968
Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino, Jr. is assassinated at the Manila International Airport, 1983
Carbon dioxide gas erupts from volcanic Lake Nyos in Cameroon, killing up to 1,800 people within a 20-kilometer range, 1986
Coup attempt against Mikhail Gorbachev collapses, 1991
The Red Cross announces the famine in Tajikistan and calls for international aid there and in Uzbekistan, 2001
Hurricane Dean becomes the first storm to make landfall as a Catagory 5 since Hurricane Andrew, 2007
Pope Benedict XVI canonizes Kateri Tekakwitha as the first Native American born saint, 2012
The oldest "message in a bottle" to date is recovered, 108 years after being thrown into the ocean by the UK Marine Biological Association, on a beach in Amrum, Germany, 2015
Cute dog Mimi. Enjoy the eclipse my friend. See ya.
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Such a cutie :) Have a great day! XO
ReplyDeleteAwww, he's a cutie pie and then some. I'm sure he'll give out lots of doggie kisses.
ReplyDeleteHave a woof woof Awww Monday. ☺
Aww Buff is beautiful I doubt he will stay shy for long LOL
ReplyDeleteHave a cutetastic day Mimi :-)
Buff is a pretty boy. Aren't grand-anythings grand?
ReplyDeleteAwww...I want to hug your grand dog! So cute and shy!
ReplyDeleteBuff may be shy, but he looks like a love sponge.
ReplyDeletePuppies are so adorable and that one especially.
ReplyDeleteI love your dog
ReplyDeletewhat a sweetheart!
ReplyDeleteWhat a sweet dog! Google and Blogger give me a headache! I wonder what it is next? But I love blogging and will find a way. Have a terrific week. HUGS
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