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July 6, 2017 Week: 27 \ Day: 187
86004 Today: H 90° \ L 52°
Average Sky Cover: 40% 
Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  -mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 96°[1989]   Record Low: 35°[1978]
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Quote of the Day
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini

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Observances Today
International Kissing Day or World Kiss Day 
Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day

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Observances This Week
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7

Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 2-8

Freedom Week: 4-10 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
 Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1100’s
1189 Richard the Lionheart is crowned King of England.
1500’s
1573 Córdoba, Argentina, is founded by Jerónimo Luis de Cabrera.

1600’s

1669 LaSalle leaves Montreal to explore Ohio River
1699 Pirate Captain William Kidd is captured in Boston
1700’s
1785 Congress unanimously resolves US currency named "dollar" & adopts decimal coinage
1800’s
1848 Mexican-American War ended with the Treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo
1854 1st Republican state convention (Jackson, Mich)

1885 Louis Pasteur successfully tests an anti-rabies vaccine
1894 Cleveland sends 2,000 troops to Chicago to suppress Pullman strike
1898 US Senate agrees to annex Hawaii
1900’s
1928 World’s largest record hailstone 1.5 lbs (7 in. in diameter) at the time falls in Potter, Nebraska
1944 World's largest circus tent catches fire at Ringling Brother's - Barnum & Bailey 2nd performance, 168 die (Hartford Conn)
1945 Nicaragua becomes 1st nation to ratify the UN Charter

1945 Abbott and Costello's film "The Naughty Nineties" released featuring longest version of their "Who's on First" routine
1957 John Lennon (16) & Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1964 Malawi (formerly Nyasaland) declares independence from UK
1965 Rock group "Jefferson Airplane" forms
1970 California passes 1st "no fault" divorce law
1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks
1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less
1989 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WHOT in Brooklyn
1994 "Forrest Gump", directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise, is released (Best Picture 1995)
1998 Hong Kong's Kai Tak Airport is closed and the new Hong Kong International Airport at Chek Lap Kok becomes operational.
1999 U.S. Army private Barry Winchell dies from baseball-bat injuries inflicted in his sleep the previous day by fellow soldiers for his relationship with transgendered showgirl and former Navy combat medic, Calpernia Addams.
2000’s
2016 South African athlete Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to 6 years in jail for the murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013
2016 Pokémon Go, the real-world mobile game by Niantic, is first released

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My Rambling Thoughts
I had a nice 4th yesterday. Went to a cookout for Mary’s b-day. Nice to see her kids and grandkids. They are really growing fast. Came home and watched PBS Capitol 4th. Great music and good show.

Another very warm day here. A few clouds look like rain, but probably not. No real breeze since yesterday afternoon. Missed the cool breeze last evening.

A tad nervous over the latest N. Korean missile test. Sure wish we had a more experienced leader at the helm. Awaiting to see what countries he will piss off at the G-20.

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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of post)
About how many refugees entered the U.S. in the 2016 fiscal year?

55,000             165,000
125,000           85,000

25.3% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index
2→Rank of 2015 among years with the most reported hate crimes against US Muslims

1→ Of 2001
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Yep, It Really Happened
A man was rushed to a hospital with a serious injury to his manhood after shooting himself while getting into his car, according to police in Florida.

Jacksonville police said that they have launched an investigation against 38-year-old Cedrick Jelks, for being a convicted felon in possession of a gun.

According to the police investigation, the incident unfolded early on Friday morning. Jelks got into his Nissan Altima, which was parked on Freedom Crossing Trail.

Jelks did not realize that there was a gun on the driver's seat, and he sat down on it. The gun went off, and the bullet hit his genitals.

Jelks ran into the home he shares with 25-year-old Shanekia Roberts, and asked for help. Roberts took Jelks to the hospital, where he underwent surgery.

Doctors called police to report the injury. Jelks was convicted of drug possession and could not legally own a gun.
           
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Somewhat Useless Information
The only father-daughter collaboration to hit the top spot on the Billboard pop music chart was the 1967 hit single "Something Stupid" by Frank & Nancy Sinatra.
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In Thailand, the King's Birthday also serves as National Father's Day. The celebration includes fireworks and acts of charity and honor - the most distinct being the donation of blood and the liberation of captive animals.
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Halsey Taylor invented the drinking fountain as a tribute to his father, who succumbed to typhoid fever after drinking from a contaminated public water supply in 1896.

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Birthdays Today
@  indicates age at death
90’s
@94- Nancy Reagan [Anne Francis Robbins],
US First Lady (1981-89), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2016)
80’s
86- Della Reese,
singer/actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family), born in Detroit, Michigan
@82- Merv Griffin,
TV host (Merv Griffin Show), born in San Mateo, CA
(d.2007)
82- 14th Dalai Lama,
Tibetan spiritual leader of Tibet's Lamaistic Buddhists, born in Taktser, Qinghai, China
@80- Harry Ford Sinclair,
founder of Sinclair Oil (Teapot Dome Scandal), born in Benwood, WV
(d. 1956)
70’s
@77- Janet Leigh [Jeanetta Morrison],
American actress (Psycho), born in Merced, California
(d. 2004)
72- Burt Ward, [Gervis],
actor (Robin-Batman), born in Los Angeles, California
71- Fred Dryer,
Hawthone California, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
71- George W. Bush Jr,

43rd President of the United States (2001-09) and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX), born in New Haven, Connecticut
70’s
@77- Janet Leigh [Jeanetta Morrison],
American actress (Psycho), born in Merced, California
(d. 2004)
72- Burt Ward, [Gervis],
actor (Robin-Batman), born in Los Angeles, California
71- Fred Dryer,
Hawthone California, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
71- George W. Bush Jr,

43rd President of the United States (2001-09) and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX), born in New Haven, Connecticut
70’s
@77- Janet Leigh [Jeanetta Morrison],
American actress (Psycho), born in Merced, California
(d. 2004)
72- Burt Ward, [Gervis],
actor (Robin-Batman), born in Los Angeles, California
71- Fred Dryer,
Hawthone California, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
71- George W. Bush Jr,

43rd President of the United States (2001-09) and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX), born in New Haven, Connecticut
72- Burt Ward, [Gervis],
actor (Robin-Batman), born in Los Angeles, California
71- Fred Dryer,
Hawthone California, NFLer (NY Giants, LA Rams)/actor (Hunter)
71- George W. Bush Jr,

43rd President of the United States (2001-09) and 46th Governor of Texas (1995-2000) (R-TX), born in New Haven, Connecticut
71- Sylvester Stallone,
American actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra), born in NYC, New York
71- Sylvester Stallone,
American actor/director (Rocky, Rambo, Cobra), born in NYC, New York
60’s
@69- Pat Paulsen,
Wash, comedian/presidential candidate (Smothers Bros Show)
(d. 1997)
63- Allyce Beasley,
actress (Agnes Dipesto-Moonlighting), born in Brooklyn
50’s
@55- Bill Haley,
rock vocalist (Rock Around the Clock), born in Highland Park, (d. 1981)
40’s
@47- Frida Kahlo,
Mexican painter who explored questions of identity, post colonialism, gender and race in Mexican society, born in Coyoacán, Mexico City
(d. 1954)
@45- John Paul Jones,
naval hero ("I have not yet begun to fight") (d. 1792)
@44- Stamford Raffles,
British statesman and founder of Singapore, born in off the coast of Port Morant, Jamaica
(d. 1826)
42- 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson),
rapper
30’s
39- Tamera & Tia Mowry,
twin actress (Sisters)
38- Kevin Hart,
American comedian ("Laugh at My Pain"), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
@34- Maximilian I 
of Mexico and Archduke of Austria, first and only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire, born in Vienna,
(d. 1867)

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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@86-1998 Roy Rogers,
American actor, singer
@80-1973 Joe E Brown, comedian
70’s
@79-1835 John Marshall,
4th Chief Justice of the United States (1801-35)
60’s
@69-1971 Louis Armstrong,
American jazz trumpeter and singer (Hello Dolly), heart attack
@64-1962 William Faulkner,
US author (Nobel 1949), fall from horse/heart attack
50’s
@57-1535 Sir Thomas More,
philosopher, author (Utopia) and statesman, executed (beheaded) for treason
40’s
@42-1893 Guy de Maupassant,
French author, in asylum  

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Trivia Hive  Answers
85,000
Only about 10 percent of the immigrants who are legally granted permanent residency each year in the U.S. are refugees. Of the approximately 85,000 refugees who entered the U.S. in the fiscal year 2016, nearly half were Muslim. Almost the same number of Christian refugees came to the country in that 12-month period. More than 12,000 of the Muslim refugees came from Syria, while the rest primarily emigrated from Somalia, Iraq, Burma (Myanmar) and Afghanistan. Source: Pew Research Center

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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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