Jul 25

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July 25, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 206
86004 Today: H 75° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Flash Flood Warning 
Wind ave:   2mph\Gusts:  3mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1931]   Record Low: 41°[1913]
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Quote of the Day
Sports do not build character. They reveal it.
   Heywood Broun


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Observances Today
Carousel Day or Merry-Go-Round Day Link

Hire A Veteran Day  Link
Red Shoe Day Link  Link  (Lyme Disease)
Video Games Day Link

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Observances This Week
18-25
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week


22-30
National Moth Week

22-26 
National Scrabble Week Link 


23-29
RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race)

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
 Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1700’s
1722 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and Massachusetts border.
1745 Jacoibite Rising Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

1800’s
1837 The first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1854 Walter Hunt is awarded the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar
1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)
1897 Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.

1900’s
1907 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908 Ajinomoto Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process for manufacturing it.
1913 A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress, now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland
1917 Sir Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a "temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2 whites killed)
1941 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis stage their first show as a comedy team.
1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st use of subway tokens
1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Fillmore East, NY)
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne
1972 US health officials concede African American were used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment

1975 "A Chorus Line", longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres

1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival for using electric guitar
1992 25th Olympic Games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos

2000’s
2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th)
2016 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo

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My Rambling Thoughts
Another monsoon day here, looks like a nice female rain all day, on and off. Moisture is great, but the Flash Flooding Warnings are not.

Yesterday in the early evening I decided it was time to shampoo the landing and the 12 steps I have from downstairs to upstairs. I am the only one living here, I never wear street shoes inside my home but the steps still get dirty. Turns out I usually must step in the same place on each step as there was a definite dirty area on each step right where I step. Hmmm. All better now but it took over an hour to vacuum and then shampoo each step. Today I will vacuum again today.

I was out and about early today to pick up some meds and some more distilled water for my CPAP machine. Only a light rain while I was out so it was a good trip.

Many acquaintances I have on FB are still working in education. Today is the day they have to return to work. It just gets earlier and earlier. Have to say it is nice to walk through stores and be able to pass the ‘school supply’ aisles. No more looking for bargains for the teachers. When I was working I always found some things to stick in their school mailbox for their classroom throughout that week before the students arrived. Nothing big, just something they needed. Had to shop for bargains as I usually had about 25 teachers and 15 assistants.

My goodness, our leader just gave a speech on health care reform. He was flanked by people who have been harmed by the current law. He actually said that the only problem in the Congress is the democrats are doing nothing but obstructing.  Thought that was the Democrat’s cry during the last administration. Guess my mom was right: “Can’t tell the players without a program.” But of course, the Sunday shows had WH people on telling different stories, becoming much too commonplace.

I’m taking a little break from much of the extra stuff in this post.

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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death
80’s
@-84-Estelle Getty, 
American actress ("The Golden Girls", "The Golden Palace"), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2008)
@-80- Walter Brennan,
American actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), born in Lynn, Massachusetts
(d.1974)

60’s
@-64- Tom Dawes,
American rock musician and composer who wrote music for commercial jingles ("Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz” for Alka-Seltzer and “7Up, the Uncola”), born in Albany, New York
(d. 2007)
62- Iman, [Abdulmajid],
Mogadishu Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6)

50’s
@-59- Elizabeth Hamilton,
Scottish author (The cottagers of Glenburnie), born in Belfast, Ireland
(d. 1816)
50- Matt LeBlanc,
American actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends), born in Newton, Massachusetts

40’s
@-49- Davidson Black,
Canadian paleoanthropologist and doctor of anatomy who identified "Peking Man", born in Toronto, Ontario
(d. 1934)
@-45- Walter Payton, 
American NFL running back (Chicago Bears), born in Columbia, Mississippi
(d. 1999)
43- Jay R Ferguson,
American actor (Evening Shade, Mad Men), born in Dallas, Texas

30’s
39- Louise Brown,
English, 1st person born through invitro fertilization (IVF), born in Oldham
@-37- Rosalind Franklin, 
English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, born in London
(d. 1958)

20’s
28- Andrew Caldwell,
actor (Transformers)
@-25- Brad Renfro,
American actor
(d. 2008)

Teen’s
@-14- Emmett Till, 
American lynching victim, born in Chicago,
(d. 1955)

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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@84-1997 Ben Hogan, 
golfer (Masters, British Open, US Open-1953)

70’s
@76-1843 Charles Macintosh,
Scottish chemist and inventor (The Mackintosh raincoat-waterrproof))

60’s
@61-1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 
British poet,
heart failure

50’s
@57-1984 Big Mama Thornton,
American singer,
heart and liver disease

40’s
@47-2008 Randy Pausch,
American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture",
cancer

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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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