Welcome to Hump-Day ya’ll! You are halfway there, you can do it!!
Here are some facts for Hump Day August 22, 2018:
- Today is the 234th day of the year.
- August 22, 2018, in Roman Numerals, is: VIII • XXII • MMXVIII
- There are 131 days left in 2018.
- Today is the 34th Wednesday of the year.
- There are only 31 days until Fall!! 🙂
- Tonight’s moon is a Waxing Gibbous. It is visible 87%
- Here in PA, the sunrise is 6:13 a.m. and the sunset is 7:43 p.m.
- Today is:
- National Bao Day
- Never Bean Better Day
- National Tooth Fairy Day
- National Pecan Torte Day
- Nation Be An Angel Day
- National Eat A Peach Day
- Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
- National Spumoni Day
- National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day
- Famous People Born Today include:
- Connie B. Gay -1914, American Businessman, co-founder of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum
- Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr., -1934, US Army 4-Star General
- Valerie Harper -1939, American actress/singer
- Bill McCartney -1940, American football player, coach and founder of the Promis Keepers men’s ministry
- Cindy Williams -1947, American actress/singer
- Tori Amos -1963, American singer/songwriter
- Kristen Wiig -1973, American comedian/actress/producer/screenwriter
- 565 – St. Colomba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, Scotland
- 1642 – The English Civil War begins after Charles I calls the English Parliament traitors.
- 1654 – Jacob Barsimson arrives in New Amsterdam(Manhattan) as the 1st Jewish immigrant to America.
- 1848 – The US annexes New Mexico.
- 1849 – 1st air raid in history, Austria launches pilotless balloons against the city of Venice.
- 1864 – The 1st Geneva Convention is signed by 12 nations.
- 1902 – US President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the 1st President of the US to ride in an automobile.
- 1964 – Alvin & the Chipmunks cover album of Beatles songs sells 25,000 copies a day!
- 1989 – Nolan Ryan becomes 1st Major League Baseball pitcher to record 5,000 strikeouts.
- 2006 – Grigori Perelman is awarded the Fields Medal for his proof of the Poincaré conjecture in mathematics but refuses to accept the medal.
- 2007 – The Texas Rangers defeat the Baltimore Orioles 30–3, the most runs scored by a team in modern Major League Baseball history.
Here are a few random facts for around the water cooler:
- 1. German chocolate cake is named after a guy named Sam German, not the country.
- The Sun City Poms is a cheerleading squad in Arizona that only people 55 or older can join.
- Until the 1980s, it was illegal for a woman to drive a car down Main Street in Waynesboro, Virginia unless her husband was walking in front of the car waving a red flag.
- Iceland has an elf whisperer who inspects construction sites before anything gets built to make sure no elves are hanging around.
- Wombat poop is cube-shaped.
Remember, you are NOT alone!! Until next time–Jenn
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