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Today's Dose of Humour (August 20)

'This woman sneezed like 300 times. She said, "There must be something in the air." I said, "Yeah, your germs."'
- Linda Herskovic

This Week in Music Chart History (August 17)

From Billboard Top 100!
Number One Songs this Week in History
August 17 - 23

1963 - Fingertips (Part II), Little Stevie Wonder
1981 - Endless Love, Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
1979 - Good Times, Chic
1978 - Three Times a Lady, Commodores
1974 - The Night Chicago Died, Paper Lace
1971 - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, Bee Gees
1968 - People Got to Be Free, The Rascals
1967 - All You Need Is Love, The Beatles
1966 - Summer in the City, The Lovin' Spoonful
1965 - I Got You Babe, Sonny & Cher

Thinking Cap (August 20)

"You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality."
- Walt Disney

Today In History (August 20)

1970
An F3 tornado hit the Sudbury, Ontario area at approximately 8:30 a.m. It was considered to be unusual because tornadoes of such strength rarely occur in Northern Ontario. It had touched down in Lively and quickly tracked eastward into Sudbury hitting Copper Cliff and the Robinson and Lockerby communities throughout the course of 10 minutes. Less than an hour later the same storm had generated another tornado hitting the community of Field nearly 90 kilometres east of Sudbury. The storm continued through North Bay uprooting some trees only in the wilderness. That city was spared. The storm then tracked southeasterly toward Ottawa losing its strength in the Chalk River area. By the time it hit Ottawa, it produced only a few millimetres of rain. As the Sudbury Airport did not have weather radar forecasting equipment at the time people of the area had little to no warning. In fact it was a frantic woman calling CKSO Radio and TV in Sudbury reporting that a twister had blown her house away that first triggered public warnings via the media. Tragically six people died and 200 were injured. The estimated cost of damage amounted to some $17 million, which would be about 6.6 times that amount in 2018).

Born on this Date (August 20)

1962 - Geoffrey Lewis Blake (actor; Forrest Gump, Apollo 13, Cast Away)
1956 - Joan Allen (actress; Nixon, Searching for Bobby Fischer)
1953 - Peter Horton (American actor, director; Thirtysomething)
1948 - Robert Plant (singer)
1946 - Connie Chung 'Yu-Hwa' (journalist)
1944 - Shri Rajiv Gandhi (India’s Prime Minister 1989-1991; assassinated May 21, 1991)
1942 - Isaac Hayes (Grammy and Academy Award-winning singer, songwriter, actor; died August 10, 2008)
1942 - Anthony Earl Numkena (actor, registered radiologic technologist and diagnostic medical sonographer)
1936 - Sam Melville (actor; The Rookies; died March 9, 1989)
1923 - Jim (James Travis) Reeves (singer; killed in plane crash near Nashville July 31, 1964; elected posthumously to the Country Hall of Fame in 1967)

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