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The Advertiser – August 28, 2013
Gillette Advertiser Weather Report Gillette's Five Day Day Forecast
August 22 - 1847 - What would come to be known as the Mormon Tabernacle Choir gave its ďŹ rst public performance in Salt Lake City, Utah. 1862 - French musician and composer Claude Debussy was born in St. Germain-en-Laye, France. 1942 - The ďŹ ve-month long Battle of Stalingrad began as German forces began an offensive to capture Stalingrad, resulting in the loss of 1,480,000 troops on all sides. August 23 - 1912 - Actor, dancer, director, and choreographer Gene Kelly was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1977 - Bryan Allen became the ďŹ rst person to pilot a man-powered ight, pedaling a 70-pound plane for a mile. 1989 - Cincinnati Reds manager Pete Rose received a lifetime ban from baseball as punishment for betting on the game. 1999 - The ďŹ rst cases of West Nile virus were reported in New York City. August 24 - 79 - Located in southern Italy, the volcano Vesuvius erupted, destroying the cities of Pompeii, Stabiae, and Herculaneum. 1814 - Washington, D.C., was invaded by British forces that set ďŹ re to the Capitol, the president’s house and most other public buildings, before departing two days later. 1979 - “The Facts of Life,â€? a spin-off of the sitcom “Diff’rent Strokes,â€? premiered on television. August 25 - 1918 - American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein was born in Lawrence, Massachusetts. 1939 - “The Wizard of Ozâ€? was released, starring Judy Garland and eventually winning two Academy Awards. 1944 - Paris was liberated from the Germans as the 2nd French Armored Division entered the city. August 26 - 1883 - The Indonesian volcanic island, Krakatoa, erupted in the largest volcanic explosion in recorded history. 1939 - A baseball game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field became the ďŹ rst baseball game ever televised. 1957 - The Ford Motor Company rolled out the ďŹ rst Edsel automobile. 1968 - Thousands of antiwar demonstrators took to Chicago’s streets as the Democratic National Convention got underway, leading to four days of violence. 1974 - Charles Lindbergh, the ďŹ rst man to y solo nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, died in Maui, Hawaii, at the age of 72. August 27 - 1655 - “Ye Bare and Ye Cubb,â€? by Phillip Alexander Bruce, became the ďŹ rst play presented in the North American colonies in Acomac, Virginia. 1859 - The ďŹ rst American commercial oil well was tapped in western Pennsylvania. 1908 - The 36th president of the U.S., Lyndon Baines Johnson, was born near Stonewall, Texas. 1910 - Mother Teresa, founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity and Nobel Prize winner, was born in Skopje, Macedonia, and named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. August 28 - 1749 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German author, poet, dramatist, and philosopher, was born in Frankfurt. 1774 - St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, the ďŹ rst American-born Catholic saint, was born in New York City. 1922 - WEAF in New York ran the ďŹ rst commercial radio “spot,â€? sponsored by the Queensboro Realty Corporation of Jackson Heights to promote Hawthorne Court, a group of apartment buildings in Queens, making this the ďŹ rst ever radio advertisement. 1963 - Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his “I Have a Dreamâ€? speech to about 250,000 people attending the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. 1996 - Charles, Prince of Wales and heir to the British throne, and his wife, Princess Diana, formally divorce.
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Mostly Sunny 93 / 65
Sunny 91 / 64
Mostly Sunny 90 / 64
Mostly Sunny 89 / 62
Mostly Sunny 87 / 59
Last Week’s Almanac & Growing Degree Days Date 8/19 8/20 8/21 8/22 8/23 8/24 8/25
High 94 89 89 87 93 88 91
Low 55 56 60 63 65 59 55
Normals 83/53 83/53 83/53 82/52 82/52 82/52 81/52
Precip 0.00" 0.00" 0.00" 0.00" 0.00" 0.00" 0.00"
Farmer's Growing Degree Days Date Degree Days Date Degree Days 8/19 24 8/23 29 8/20 22 8/24 24 8/21 24 8/25 23 8/22 25 Growing degree days are calculated by taking the average temperature for the day and subtracting the base temperature (50 degrees) from the average to assess how many growing days are attained.
Peak Fishing/Hunting Times Day Wed Thu Fri Sat
Peak Times AM PM 4:43-6:43 5:13-7:13 5:31-7:31 6:01-8:01 6:19-8:19 6:49-8:49 7:06-9:06 7:36-9:36
Peak Times Day AM PM Sun 7:53-9:53 8:23-10:23 Mon 8:39-10:39 9:09-11:09 Tue 9:24-11:24 9:54-11:54
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Sun/Moon Chart Last 8/28
New 9/5
Day Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun Mon Tue
Sunrise 6:21 a.m. 6:22 a.m. 6:23 a.m. 6:25 a.m. 6:26 a.m. 6:27 a.m. 6:28 a.m.
Sunset 7:44 p.m. 7:42 p.m. 7:40 p.m. 7:38 p.m. 7:37 p.m. 7:35 p.m. 7:33 p.m.
Today's Local UV Index
0 - 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11+ 0-2: Low, 3-5: Moderate, 6-7: High, 8-10: Very High, 11+: Extreme Exposure
Moonrise No Rise 12:08 a.m. 12:57 a.m. 1:49 a.m. 2:44 a.m. 3:42 a.m. 4:42 a.m.
Moonset 2:32 p.m. 3:21 p.m. 4:06 p.m. 4:46 p.m. 5:22 p.m. 5:54 p.m. 6:24 p.m.
First 9/12
Full 9/19
Weather Trivia Has there ever been a year without an Atlantic hurricane?
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Answer: In 1907, four tropical storms formed, but none became hurricanes.
This Month in History
StarWatch By Gary Becker - How Dark are your Clouds? Clouds can tell you a lot about your observing location, whether it’s pristine, salvageable, or downright urban. One of my favorite stories regarding clouds occurred on the morning of July 11, 1991. It was barely dawn, and I was off the coast of Hawaii’s Big Island on the Independence, a cruise ship positioned on the centerline of a solar eclipse that was to take place some three hours later. I was out scouting a location on deck where the group I was hosting would be able to view the event as a unit and not be scattered all around the vessel. When I emerged on deck, the sky appeared nearly clear with a few slightly brighter LQVLJQLĂ€FDQW SDWFKHV ZKHUH FORXGV ZHUH ORFDWHG , ZDV HFVWDWLF EHFDXVH WKH IRUHFDVW WKDW , KDG VHHQ WKH SUHYLRXV HYHQLQJ was grim with mostly cloudy conditions predicted for the Big Island. I was judging the sky like a “city slickerâ€?—city lights FDXVH FORXGV WR DSSHDU EULJKWHU 7KDW ODVWHG DERXW Ă€YH PLQXWHV XQWLO P\ H\HV DGMXVWHG WR WKH GLPQHVV DQG IHDWXUHV EHFDPH PRUH SODLQO\ YLVLEOH 7R P\ GLVPD\ WKRVH IHZ EULJKWHU SDWFKHV WKDW , KDG FRQMHFWXUHG ZHUH Ă LPV\ FLUUXV ZHUH DFWXDOO\ OLWWOH SDWFKHV RI FOHDU VN\ DJDLQVW DQ DOPRVW RYHUFDVW Ă€UPDPHQW :H VDZ WKH HFOLSVH EHFDXVH WKH VKLS KDG D FHUWDLQ DPRXQW RI maneuverability, and we were able to steer away from our nemesis; but over 50,000 eclipse chasers, stuck on the Big Island with no place to go, saw nothing except the clouds get even darker when the moon covered the sun completely around 7:30 D P 7KH VN\ KDV D QDWXUDO Ă RUHVFHQFH EULJKW HQRXJK WR DOORZ FORXGV WR DSSHDU GDUNHU DJDLQVW LW IURP UXUDO VHWWLQJV ,Q XUEDQ DQG VXEXUEDQ ORFDOHV WKLV HIIHFW LV XQREVHUYDEOH EHFDXVH OLJKW SROOXWLRQ LV UHĂ HFWHG EDFN IURP WKH FORXGV FDXVLQJ WKHP WR appear brighter than the backdrop of the glowing sky. It is an easy enough observation to make to allow anyone to measure qualitatively the darkness of the nighttime sky. www.astronomy.org
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