Good Morning *National Heat Awareness Day*

Rise and Shine Please don't leave your kids/animals in a hot vehicle.

National Heat Awareness Day is observed each year on the last Friday in May. Resulting in numerous fatalities each year, heat exhaustion and dehydration due to heat are some of the leading weather-related killers in the United States.

-1980 heat wave claimed 1,250 lives
-1995 heat wave killed more than 700 lives in -Chicago (the deadliest weather event in Chicago history)
-2003 August, record heat wave in Europe claimed an estimated 50,000 lives

Most American summers see heat waves in one or more parts of the United States. Some regions of the country have both high temperatures and high humidity. However, some of the worst heat waves have been dry.

585 BC Thales of Greece makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse.

1085 Alfonso VI takes Toledo, Spain from the Muslims.

1787 The Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.

1810 Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain.

1851 Jose Justo de Urquiza of Argentina leads a rebellion against Juan Manuel de Rosas, his former ally.

1911 Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, resigns his office.

1914 The British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.

1925 John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.

1935 Jesse Owens sets six world records in less than an hour in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain.



JOTD: A man sued an airline company after it lost his luggage. Sadly, he lost his case.