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July 7, 2017 Week: 27 \ Day: 188
86004 Today: H 92° \ L 57°
Average Sky Cover: 45% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  17mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1905]   Record Low: 32°[1955]
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Quote of the Day
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin
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Observances Today

Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day
Global Forgiveness Day Link

Taos Pueblo Pow Wow: 7-9  Link
Tell The Truth Day

Victims of The Dallas, Texas Attack Day  Link

Wayne Chicken Day: 7-9 Link 
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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 
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link 
National Tom Sawyer Days: 7-9? (aka Fence Painting Days)

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
 Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1400’s
1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1500’s
1520 Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1534 European colonization of the Americas: first known exchange between Europeans and natives of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in New Brunswick.
1550 Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
1700’s
1753 British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)
1800’s
1802 1st comic book "The Wasp" is published
1862 Land Grant Act endows state colleges with federal land
1863 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)

1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are revoked
1900’s
1905 127°F (53°C), Parker AZ (state record)
1908 The Democratic Party meets in Denver at the start of their convention; William Jennings Bryan is nominated as presidential nominee
1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1928 Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri. Described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.
1946 Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1953 Che Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.
1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood
1967 Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1
1978 Solomon Islands declares independence from UK
1980 Institution of Sharia law in Iran
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme Court
1990 First Three Tenors concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome - recording of is world's best-selling classical record
1996 Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa
2000’s
2005 Influenced by Live 8, the G8 leaders pledge to double 2004 levels of aid to Africa from US$25 to US$50 billion by the year 2010.
2007 Pope Benedict XVI issues the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Tridentine Mass.
2017 Tesla Motors produces its first mass-market car, the Model 3

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My Rambling Thoughts
Very warm day. Clouds are bringing the hope of some cooling rain. Amazing what a few degrees can do. I actually turned on the cooler about 10a as the living room was already 89°. I know some friends are in hotter weather, but our town just ain’t used to this heat. Amazing as the cloud cover is now ‘overcast’ in about 20 minutes. Bring the rain, PLEASE!

No need to go anywhere, so I’m staying home today.

If you are keeping up with the news, you know that the Poland of today is not the democratic Poland of a few years ago. It is now very right wing. The gov’t of Poland promised Donnie a big pro crowd and he got it. Sadly, his speech sounded like Poland today, but was really talking about the old democratic Poland.

Another G-20 so many world leaders have landed in Hamburg. As with all G-20 conferences, there are always lots and lots of demonstrators with various causes. Police are using water cannons on the crowd. Not that unusual. I am far from a Fox fan, but I do enjoy Shepard Smith. The rest can babble on for others. So I turned on Fox about 5 minutes early. These babbling news conversationalists were talking about riots in Hamburg. I had just changed from CNN so was a tad surprised. Then Shep came on and said he had covered riots many times and what was happening in Hamburg was simply ‘skirmishes’. Good for him, but I know the loyal Fox watchers just smile as they see him as an idiot. Sad.

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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of post)
Where did "La La Land" have its world premiere?

Venice                 New York City
Los Angeles       London

21.1% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index
28→Days after becoming the first Somali-American lawmaker that Ilhan Omar was harassed in a cab for being Muslim.

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Yep, It Really Happened
'Honey, why is there an elephant in the backyard?'
Kelly the elephant escaped her enclosure at a circus in Wisconsin and wandered to a nearby neighborhood for an early-morning snack, her handlers said. Residents in Baraboo, Wis., woke up early Friday to find Kelly munching on trees and plants in their backyard. "She was just having some breakfast, I guess," Jaime Peterson said. Kelly probably had help from fellow pachyderm Isla -- who likes bright, shiny things -- with releasing the bolts in their enclosure at Circus World in Baraboo, Wis. Isla stayed put inside the enclosure, but Kelly went on a walkabout, circus director Scott O'Donnell said. "Kelly went for a very short neighborhood stroll this morning after her partner-in-crime, Miss Isla, opened the door on the elephant barn," he said. "They're very curious and intelligent animals. Kelly's probably the more inquisitive one, and definitely the more food-motivated one." The elephant ultimately followed her trainer back home without incident. The circus said it would keep a better eye on Isla to make sure she doesn't open the enclosure again.


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Somewhat Useless Information
Independence Day was formally declared on July 2, 1776, when Congress approved the final text of the Declaration. It was not signed until August 2, 1776.
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Three of the first five presidents died on the Fourth of July. Two of them, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, died on the same day in 1826, which possibly dampened the celebrations somewhat. James Monroe, the fifth president, died five years later in 1831.

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John Hancock, president of the Second Continental Congress, signed the declaration first, and his vast, elaborate signature left little room for the others. The autograph became so famous that the term 'John Hancock' is still used as a synonym for signature in America today.


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Birthdays Today
@  indicates age at death
90’s
90- Doc Severinson, [Carl],
bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show, born in Arlington, Oregon
80’s
@83- George Cukor,
producer/director (Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story)
(d. 1983)
@82- Camillo Golgi,
Italian physician and medical researcher (Nobel Prize in Medicine-1906), born in Corteno, Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia, Austrian Empire
(d. 1926)
@82- Charles Tindley,
American gospel music composer
(d. 1933)
@81- Robert McNeill Alexander,
British zoologist (estimated speed of dinosaurs, born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland
(d. 2016)
70’s
77- Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey],
Beatles drummer (Magic Christian), born in Liverpool, England
@75- [Leroy] Satchel Paige,
baseball pitcher, never look back
(d. 1982)
71- Joe Spano,
actor (Henry Goldblume-Hill St Blues), born in San Francisco, California
60’s
68- Shelley Duvall,
actress (Popeye, Faery Tale Theater), born in Houston
50’s
51- Jim Gaffigan,
comedian
30’s
37- Michele Kwan,
Torrance California, figure skater (Oly-94, Oly-silver-98)

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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-2008 Dorian Leigh,
American supermodel and icon of the fashion industry
70’s
@71-1930 Arthur Conan Doyle,
British writer (Sherlock Holmes), heart attack
@70-1990 Bill Cullen,
game show host (Price is Right), d cancer
60’s
@60-2006 Syd Barrett,
English guitarist and early vocalist of the band Pink Floyd, pancreatic cancer
50’s
@53-1967 Vivian Leigh,
actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), TB
@50-1973 Veronica Lake, [Constance Ockleman],
actress (Ramrod), cirrhosis of the liver

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Trivia Hive  Answers
Venice
Before the musical masterpiece "La La Land" graced screens across the U.S., and went on to have an outstanding showing at the 2017 Academy Awards, it earned high praise at its premiere at the Venice Film Festival. Even early on, reviewers were vocal about the film's engaging music, story and acting. Given that a film's performance at the Venice Film Festival can serve as a good indicator of Academy Award potential, it's no surprise "La La Land" came away with some big Oscar wins. Source: Vanity Fair

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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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