Jul 17

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July 17, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 198
86004 Today: H 84° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 75% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 91°[1980]   Record Low: 40°[1904]
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Quote of the Day
Golf is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain

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Observances Today
Disneyland Day
National Get Out of the Doghouse Day  

Victims of Baton Rouge, Louisianna Attack Day  Link
World Emoji Day  Link
Wrong Way Corrigan Day


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Observances This Week
Rabbit Week: 15-21
Captive Nations Week: 16-22 
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 16-22 Link 
National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 16-22Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week: 16-22 Link  
National Independent Retailers Week:16-22 Link  


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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
 Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1700’s
1775 1st military hospital approved

1800’s
1850 Harvard Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1861 US Congress authorizes paper money
1863 Māori forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
1867 1st US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 1st railroad opens in Hawaii
1897 1st ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon

1900’s
1917 Royal Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
1945 Potsdam Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1951 Western New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered.
1954 Construction begins on Disneyland. . .
1955 Disneyland televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
1959 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor, Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa almost 2 million years ago
1959 "North by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
1962 Senate rejects Medicare for aged
1964 ANC leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
1966 Jim Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
1976 21st modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33 nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South Africa

1979 Sebastian Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo

1984 US passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds
1998 Russia buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died2004 Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home confinement for lying to federal investigators

2000’s
2004 Former South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by the world to take action against Aids
2007 TAM Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an estimated 199 deaths.

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My Rambling Thoughts
Still waiting for today’s monsoon, but I am confident that it will arrive sometime this afternoon. Right now warm and 33% humidity makes it warmer.

Lots of good stuff on Sunday morning news programs. Glad to hear that John McCain is recovering well from his eye surgery. He certainly caused a stir by having it as the vote on the crazy Senate plan is delayed until he returns. More of a lame excuse than anything else as he has been telling his constituents that he is not in favor of the bill as presented.

Only once a day I have started watching about 30-60 minutes of Fox news. Turns out many of their people are not strong Trump supporters as some would have us believe. Certainly I don’t watch the shows that are only pro-Trump, but I watch some that simply keep wondering what the heck is going on. Good to listen to all sides.

Got the Focus Travel Club site all up to date. Check it out.

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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of post)
Which country has the highest percentage of women respective to its population?

El Salvador    Ukraine
Portugal         Latvia

27.3% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index
$423,371→Minimum amount Donald Trump’s ampaign has disbursed to Mar-a-Lago, his private club  in Palm Beach

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Yep, It Really Happened
*------- Snake Knocks Out Power to 4,790 -------*

A snake that slithered into the wrong section of a South Carolina electrical substation was blamed for knocking out power to nearly 4,800 homes, utility officials said. Duke Energy spokesman Ryan Mosier released a photo showing a snake dangling from equipment at the Brushy Creek substation Wednesday after knocking out power to 4,790 customers in Greenville County. "It's not uncommon, especially this time of year, to see something like this happen," Mosier said. Duke Energy spokeswoman Meghan Musgrave Miles said snakes are blamed for about 100 power outages each year in the six states where the utility operates. She said the company is taking steps to prevent future incidents, including retrofitting 400,000 transformers with specially designed electric fences to keep snakes and other animals away.

           
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Somewhat Useless Information
All types of ducks are part of the bird family Anatidae, and there are species of ducks found worldwide on every continent except Antarctica.
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Ducks are precocial, which means that ducklings are covered with down and able to walk and leave the nest just a few hours after hatching.

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A duck's bill is specialized to help it forage in mud and to strain food from the water. A hard nail at the tip of the bill helps with foraging, and a comb-like structure on the sides of the bill strains small insects and crustaceans from water.


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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death
90’s
@-97- Art Linkletter,
Saskatchewan, TV host (People are Funny)
(d. 2010)

@-95- Phyllis Diller,
American comedienne and actress (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), born in Lima, Ohio
(d. 2012)

80’s
@-86- James Cagney,
American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), born in NYC
(d. 1986)

@-85- Gordon Gould,
American physicist (inventor of the laser) born in New York City
(d. 2005)

@-84- John Jacob Astor,
Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
(d. 1848)

82- Donald Sutherland,
St John New Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)

82- Diahann Carroll,
actress (Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty), born in The Bronx

@-80- Erle Stanley Gardner,
American detective writer (Perry Mason), born in Malden, Massachusetts
(d. 1970)

70’s
75- Spencer Davis,
Wales, vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)

75- Gale Garnett,
singer (We'll Sing in the Sunshine), born in Auckland, New Zealand

70- Camilla Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall),
wife of Prince Charles, born in London, England,

60’s
65- David Hasselhoff, 
American actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch), born in Baltimore, Maryland

63- Angela Merkel,
German politician, Chancellor of Germany (2005-), born in Hamburg

@-60- Phoebe Snow,
singer (Theme from "It's a Different World")
(d. 2011)

40’s
41- Luke Bryan,
country singer

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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2009 Walter Cronkite, 
American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)

80’s
@89-2014 Elaine Stritch,
American actress (30 Rock, Two's Company), singer and member of the American Theater Hall of Fame

@88-2006 Mickey Spillane,
American author

70’s
@77-2016 Gary S. Paxton,
American musician and songwriter (Monster Mash), liver disease

@77-1881 Jim Bridger,
American mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer

@74-1961 Ty Cobb, 
American baseball great (Detroit Tigers) who set 90 MLB records during his career, cancer

60’s
@67-1790 Adam Smith, 
Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher

@64-1974 Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean,
pitcher (St Louis Cards), heart attack

50’s
@57-1996 [Bryan] Chas Chandler,
English rock bassist (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun) and manager of Jimi Hendrix, aneurysm

@50-1918 NIcholas II Alexandrovich, 
last Tsar of Russia, executed with entire family

40’s
@44-1959 Billie Holiday, 
jazz singer, cirrhosis

@40-1967 John Coltrane, 
American jazz saxophonist/composer (Blue Train), cancer

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Trivia Hive  Answers
Latvia
What can we say? The ladies love Latvia. Out of its population of nearly 2 million citizens, women make up an estimated 54.1 percent. Latvia squeaked by Lithuania and Curacao by one-tenth and two-tenths of a percent, respectively. So why does Latvia lack men? Experts speculate high national casualty rates from World War II continue to tip the scales in favor of female residents even today. High male mortality rates from smoking and drinking don't help either. Sources: worldatlas.com, Worldometers

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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