Happy Hump Day Yonkersonians, currently on the hills it is mostly cloudy and 67 degrees with east/south-east winds at 2 mph, 87% humidity, the dew point is 63 degrees, the barometer is 29.9 inches and steady, and the visibility is 9 miles. Sunshine is the word for Yonkers today, a high of 81 degrees with east/south-east winds at 5 to 10 mph. A few passing clouds tonight, otherwise mostly clear, a low of 66 degrees with south-east winds at 5 to 10 mph. Sun-up occurs at 6:11 AM and descends gracefully beyond the Palisades at 7:46 PM. You’ll have 13 hours and 34 minutes of available daylight. Snowmass, Pitkin County, Colorado, Population: Unknown. At 2:49 AM MDT Snowmass is cloudy and 55 degrees. Variably cloudy overnight with scattered thunderstorms, a low of 53 degrees with light and variable winds. There is a 50% chance of rain. Today will be partly to mostly cloudy with the chance of a thunderstorm, a high of 74 degrees with west winds at 5 to 10 mph. The chance of rain is 40%. Clear to partly cloudy tonight, a low of 48 degrees with south/south-west winds at 5 to 10 mph. San Salvador de Jujuy, Jujuy Department, Argentina, Population: 257,970. At 5:56 AM ART San Salvador de Jujuy is fair and 50 degrees. Today will be mostly sunny, a high around 80 degrees with north/north-east winds at 5 to 10 mph. Mostly clear tonight, a low of 56 degrees with north-west winds at 5 to 10 mph. Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. At 3:58 AM CDT Dothan is clear and 72 degrees. Today Dothan will be sunny to partly cloudy, a stray shower or thunderstorm is possible, a high of 92 degrees with west winds at 5 to 10 mph. Partly cloudy tonight, a low of 73 degrees with light and variable winds. Today 8/20 In HISTORY: 1 - 1794 - American Revolution - General Mad Anthony Wayne proves that the fragile young republic can counter a military threat when he puts down Shawnee Chief Blue Jackets confederacy near present-day Toledo, Ohio, with the newly created 3,000-man strong Legion of the United States at the Battle of Fallen Timbers. Wayne had earned the moniker mad for his enthusiastic and successful undertaking of a seemingly impossible mission in 1779 at Stony Point, New York; much of Waynes subsequent career involved divesting Native Americans of their land. Following the victory at Yorktown, Wayne traveled to Georgia, where he negotiated treaties with the Creeks and Cherokees. They paid dearly in land for their decision to side with the British, and Georgia paid Wayne in land—giving him a large plantation--for his efforts on their behalf. When President George Washington confronted a frontier Indian crisis in 1794, he called upon Wayne to bring the ongoing violence to a close. Wayne was victorious and gained much of what would become Ohio and Indiana for the U.S. in the Treaty of Greenville signed a year later. 2 - 1862 - Civil War - New York Tribune editor Horace Greeley publishes a passionate editorial calling on President Abraham Lincoln to declare emancipation for all slaves in Union-held territory. Greeleys blistering words voiced the impatience of many Northern abolitionists; but unbeknownst to Greeley and the public, Lincoln was already moving in the direction of emancipation. In 1841, Greeley launched the Tribune, a newspaper to promote his reform ideas. He advocated temperance, westward expansion, and the labor movement, and opposed capital punishment and land monopoly. Greeley served a brief stint in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he introduced legislation that eventually became the Homestead Act of 1862. Greeley was most passionate in his opposition to slavery, and was an important organizer of the Republican Party in 1854. When the war erupted, Greeley, along with many abolitionists, argued vociferously for a war policy constructed on the eradication of slavery. President Lincoln did not outwardly share these sentiments. For the wars first year and a half, Lincoln was reluctant to alienate the border states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware, which practiced slavery but had not seceded. In his editorial, The Prayer of Twenty Millions, Greeley focused on Lincolns reluctance to enforce the Confiscation Acts of 1861 and 1862. Congress had approved the appropriation of Confederate property, including slaves, as a war measure, but many generals were reluctant to enforce the acts, as was the Lincoln administration. Greeley argued that it was preposterous and futile to try to put down the rebellion without destroying slavery. The Union cause, he wrote, has suffered from a mistaken deference to Rebel slavery. Although he did not admit it publicly at that time, Lincoln was planning to emancipate slaves. He did so a month later with his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation. 3 - 1968 - Cold War - n the face of rising anti-Soviet protests in Czechoslovakia, Soviet troops (backed by troops from other Warsaw Pact nations) intervene to crush the protest and restore order. The brutal Soviet action shocked the West and dealt a devastating blow to U.S.-Soviet relations The Soviet action in August 1968 shocked the West. Not since 1956, when Soviet troops intervened in Hungary, had the Russian government resorted to such force to bring one of its communist allies into line with its own policies. The Czech invasion was particularly damaging to U.S.-Soviet relations. In June 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson met with Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin to begin discussions related to a number of issues, including arms control. It was agreed that Johnson would visit the Soviet Union in October 1968 to continue the talks. The Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia caused Johnson to cancel his visit abruptly. 4 - 1995 - A collision between two trains in northern India kills 358 people on this day in 1995. It was the worst train accident in the countrys history, eclipsing a deadly 1981 accident. Both of the killer crashes involved cows. Due to the special significance of the cow in the Hindu religion, the animals are permitted to roam freely throughout India; occasionally, this can cause serious problems. The rail disaster on this day in 1995 at Firozabad was partially caused by a cow, but was also a result of problems with Indias rail system. 5 - 1940 - Exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded by an ice-ax-wielding assassin at his compound outside Mexico City. The killer--Ramón Mercader--was a Spanish communist and probable agent of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Trotsky died from his wounds the next day. 6 - 1975 - Viking 1, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, is launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Mars. 7 - 1982 - During the Lebanese Civil War, a multinational force including 800 U.S. Marines lands in Beirut to oversee the Palestinian withdrawal from Lebanon. It was the beginning of a problem-plagued mission that would stretch into 17 months and leave 262 U.S. servicemen dead. 8 - 1833 - Future President Benjamin Harrison is born in North Bend, Ohio. 9 - 1954 - Vietnam War - President Eisenhower approves a National Security Council paper titled Review of U.S. Policy in the Far East. This paper supported Secretary of State Dulles view that the United States should support Diem, while encouraging him to broaden his government and establish more democratic institutions. Ultimately, however, Diem would refuse to make any meaningful concessions or institute any significant new reforms and U.S. support was withdrawn. Diem was subsequently assassinated during a coup by opposition generals on November 2, 1963. 10 - 1971 - Vietnam War - General Duong Van Minh and Vice President Nguyen Cao Ky, fellow candidates for the October presidential election, accuse incumbent President Nguyen Van Thieu of rigging the election and withdraw from the race. In the United States, the FBI began investigating journalist Daniel Schorr, who was targeted by the Nixon administration because of his critical reporting of the presidents handling of the situation in Vietnam. 11 - 1974 - Vietnam War - In the wake of Nixons resignation, Congress reduces military aid to South Vietnam from $1 billion to $700 million. This was one of several actions that signaled the North Vietnamese that the United States was backing away from its commitment to South Vietnam. 12 - 1932 - World War One - in Flanders, Belgium, the German artist Kathe Kollwitz unveils the monument she created to memorialize her son, Peter, along with the hundreds of thousands of other soldiers killed on the battlefields of the Western Front during World War I. Born in 1867 in Koningsberg, East Prussia, Kollwitz was schooled privately and sent to study art in Berlin, an unusually progressive education for a woman in the 1880s. Influenced by Realist artists and writers including Max Klinger and Emile Zola, as well as the works of Edvard Munch, Kollwitz became known for her drafting and printmaking skills, as well as for the dark subject matter of her work, which chronicled scenes from the poverty-ridden lives of working-class people in Germany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work before the beginning of World War I included drawings with such titles as Homeless, Waiting for the Drunkard and Unemployment. Soon after the Great War began in the summer of 1914, Kollwitz’s 19-year-old son Peter enlisted voluntarily as a soldier in the German army. He was killed in battle on October 22, 1914, on the Western Front, at Diksmuide, Belgium. This personal tragedy in Kollwitz’s life was reflected in her art, along with her political ideology and strong social conscience—by 1910 she had become a committed socialist. Over the war years, Kollwitz produced a series of drawings exploring the war’s impact, with titles like Widows and Orphans, Killed in Action and The Survivors. In 1917, with World War I in full swing, Kollwitz celebrated her 50th birthday with an exhibition at the Berlin gallery owned by the internationally known art dealer Paul Cassirer. Kollwitz’s memorial to her son Peter was dedicated on August 20, 1932, at the German military cemetery near Vladslo in Flanders, Belgium. The grieving Kollwitz had worked for years to create the monument, struggling to reconcile her hatred for the war and mistrust of its leadership with the desire to honor her son’s sacrifice for the cause. Entitled The Parents, the statue depicts an elderly couple kneeling before the grave of their son. It bears no date or signature. Kollwitz continued her support of German and international socialism in the post-war years, and was eventually punished for her outspoken political beliefs. She became the first woman elected to the Prussian Academy of Arts but was forced to resign after Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist (Nazi) Party rose to power in 1933. Three years later the Nazis classified Kollwitz’s art—like that of so many others during that period—as degenerate, and barred her from exhibiting her work. Kollwitz’s husband Karl died in 1940; in 1942, her grandson, also named Peter, was killed at the Russian front during World War II. Her own home, and much of her work, was destroyed by Allied bombs the following year, and Kollwitz was evacuated from Berlin to Moritzburg, near Dresden. In days to come people will hardly understand this age, Kollwitz wrote during her time in Moritzburg. What a difference between now and 1914...People have been transformed so that they have this capacity for endurance....Worst of all is that every war already carries within the war which will answer it. Every war is answered by a new war, until everything, everything is smashed. She died on April 22, 1945, just two weeks before World War II ended. As she wrote in her final letter: War accompanies me to the end. 13 - 1944 - World War Two - 60 British soldiers, commanded by Major Roy Farran, fight their way east from Rennes toward Orleans, through German-occupied forest, forcing the Germans to retreat and aiding the French Resistance in its struggle for liberation. Code-named Operation Wallace, this push east was just another nail in the coffin of German supremacy in France. The extended forecast is as follows: Thu., isolated thunderstorms, 30% chance, 78/66; Fri., rain, 60%, 78/66; Sat., partly cloudy, 10%, 75/61; Sun., partly cloudy, 10%, 76/60. In baseball last night, the Yankees came up short losing to the Astros 7-4 while the Orioles were beating the White Sox 5-1. The rest of the division seen Detroit beat Tampa Bay 8-6, The Angels topped the Red Sox 4-3 and the Brewers defeated the Blue Jays 6-1. The Yankees maintain a 1/2 game edge over Toronto for 2nd place. In the National League the Athletics handed a loss to the Mets 6-2. Enjoy today and get ready for some possible storms tomorrow and Hump Day means after the afternoon lunch break the rest of the work week is a downhill ride. Everybody pray that the situation in Ferguson calms down so no more people or police get injured and no more property be destroyed. As always please keep safe and keep smiling!
Posted on: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:18:45 +0000
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