Jul 29

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July 29, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 210
86004 Today: H 81° \ L 55°
Average Sky Cover: 85% 
Nearest lightning: 2.8mi
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  12mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[2002]   Record Low: 43°[1997]
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Quote of the Day
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.
  Charles Dickens

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Observances Today
Army Chaplain Corps Anniversary  Link
International Chicken Wing Day Link 
Lasagna Day 
National Dance Day  Link  

National Lipstick Day  Link
Rain Day Link
System Administrator Appreciation Day Link  Link 

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Observances This Week
22-30
National Moth Week

23-29
RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race)


27-29
World Lumberjack Championships: 27-29 
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 27-29 


28-30
Garlic Days: Link  
Lollapalooza: 
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
 Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1200’s
1221 Emperor Go-Horikawa aged only 10 years old ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan

1600’s
1609 Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years

1700’s
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed, Schoenbrunn, OH
1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts Gazette

1800’s
1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
1848 Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule put down by police

1900’s
1905 US Secretary of State William Howard Taftmakes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
1927 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1928 Test footage first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" with Mickey Mouse
1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears
1938 Olympic National Park forms
1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
1954 Publication of "Fellowship of the Ring" 1st volume of "Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien published by George Allen and Unwin in London
1956 Jacques Cousteau's Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1958 US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
1994 200,000 Muslims demand the death of feminist writer Taslima Nasrin in Bangladesh
1996 The controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996) is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.


2000’s
2015 Part of missing airline MH370 is found on the island of Reunion

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My Rambling Thoughts
Monsoon continues…lots of lightning and thunder and now the rain. Enjoying a great day.

Went to see my PCP about my CPAP machine. Turns out, sometime in the last few months I had moved the Oxygen level down to low…didn’t even know it had a control. Fixed that and all should be good for my blood count. Feeling a little stupid, since I didn’t even know it had an adjustment. It is a tiny knob that simply spins around. Only shows the Oxygen level when the stupid machine is turned on. Let’s hope this fixes it.

News media is saying that Healthcare reform is over, since AZ John McCain followed through with his promise of a few days ago. Good for him. But I feel this is like a B Horror movie where everyone thinks the monster is dead, only to learn that it rises again. And the conservatives still believe that the over 50 votes in Congress to end Obamacare that failed is just water under the bridge and a new bill will be available soon.

Still amazed that WH head of Communications has such a limited vocabulary. The Mooch certainly took over the news cycle for a day. We all know the words and his images; we just don’t say them for all America to read. Oh well, just has us all wondering the answer to that old song about ‘how low can you go?’.

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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death
100’s
00’s
@-102- "Professor" Irwin Corey,
comedian (Car Wash, Doc), born in Brooklyn, New York
(d. 2017)

90’s
@-94- Vladimir K. Zworykin,
Russian-American inventor (development of television, cathode ray tube), born in Murom, Russian Empire
(d. 1982)
@-91- Robert Horton,
actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena), born in Los Angeles, California
(d. 2016)

80’s
84- Robert Fuller,
actor (Laramie, Wagon Train), born in Troy, NY
81- Elizabeth Hanford Dole,
US Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)

70’s
72-Sharon Creech,
Children’s author Newberry winner

60’s
68- Marilyn Tucker Quayle,
novelist/wife of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93)
@-67- Peter Jennings, 
news anchor (ABC Evening News), born in Toronto,
(d. 2005)
64- Tim Gunn,
American television personality
@-62- Walter Hunt, 
American inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), born in Martinsburg, NY
(d. 1859)
@-61- Benito Nussolini (Il Duce), 
Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy
(d. 1945)

50’s
@-56- Dag Hammarskjöld,
Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden
(d. 1961)
@-53- Alexis de Tocqueville,
France, statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
(d. 1859)
51- Martina McBride,
country singer

40’s
45- Wil Wheaton,
CA, actor (Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)
43-Josh Radnor,
Actor (How I Met Your Mother)

20’s
@-22- Elizabeth Short,
American victim in the Black Dahlia case, born in Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1947)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@86-1983 Raymond Massey,
actor (Dr Kildare)

70’s
@73-1983 David NIven, 
British actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Rugues), ALS
@71-2007 Tom Snyder,
American television personality (The Tomorrow Show), leukemia

60’s
@62-1979 Bill Todman,
American television producer, heart disease

30’s
@37-1890 Vinent van Gogh,
Dutch painter (Sunflowers), 2 days after shooting himself
@32-1974 "Mama" Cass Elliot,
singer (Mamas & Papas), heart attack
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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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