Daily Calendar for Monday, August 12, 2024
Question of the Day
I want to plant bulbs this fall, but rodents always manage to find them. How can I keep the critters away?
You can try using soup-size cans with both ends removed. Punch several holes in the cans for drainage, then push each one down into the ground so that it forms a cylinder around a bulb.
Advice of the Day
To avoid dying, never shave at night.
Home Hint of the Day
To clean leather, rub on a solution of equal parts white vinegar and boiled linseed oil. Wipe off any excess with a clean rag.
Word of the Day
Mean temperature
The average of the maximum and the minimum temperatures for a particular period; the mean equals the sum of the max and min divided by two.
Puzzle of the Day
The Sunshine State. (Name the U.S. state!)
Florida
Died
- William Blake (poet) β
- The Viscount Willingdon (Canadian Governor General 1926-1931) β
- Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (oldest child of Rose and Joseph P. Kennedy; brother of President John F. Kennedy) β
- Ian Fleming (writer, creator of Agent 007 James Bond) β
- Henry Fonda (actor) β
- Loretta Young (actress) β
- Enos "Country" Slaughter (baseball player) β
- Ed Headrick (designed the frisbee) β
- Merv Griffin (entertainer) β
- Lauren Bacall (actress) β
Born
- Christy Mathewson (baseball hall-of-famer) β
- Cecil B. DeMille (director) β
- Cantinflas (aka Mario Moreno Reyes [actor]) β
- George Hamilton (actor) β
- Ann M. Martin (author) β
- Bruce Greenwood (actor) β
- Peter Krause (actor) β
- Michael Ian Black (comedian & actor) β
- Pete Sampras (tennis player) β
- Matt Clement (baseball player) β
- Casey Affleck (actor) β
- Cindy Klassen (Olympic speed skater; only Canadian Olympian to win five medals in a single Olympic games) β
Events
- Philip, chief of the Wampanog tribe, was killed by a renegade Indian of his own tribe, bringing to an end the first and bloodiest war between American Indians and white settlers of New England, a war that had raged for nearly two years and was known as King Philip’s Warβ
- Isaac Singer received a patent for the continuous-stitch sewing machineβ
- Thomas Edison received a patent for his phonographβ
- Marjorie Gestring, at age 13, won an Olympic gold medal for springboard divingβ
- Actor William Shatner married Gloria Randβ
- The first successful communications satellite, Echo I, was launchedβ
- Space shuttle Enterprise completed its first free-flight testβ
- The IBM PC was introducedβ
- Patent issued for therapeutic horseshoeβ
- Cathy Gerring won the Stratton Mountain LPGA Golf Classic, in Vermontβ
- Fossil hunter Susan Hendrickson found Tyrannosaurus rex bones near Faith, South Dakotaβ
- 232-day baseball strike began, causing World Series to be canceledβ
Weather
- A Rhode Island hurricane prevented a major British-French sea battleβ
- 1.8 inches of rain fell in San Diego, Californiaβ
- Record temperature of 120 degrees F, Seymour, Texasβ