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July 8, 2017 Week: 27 \ Day: 189
86004 Today: H 91° \ L 56°
Average Sky Cover: 20% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  22mph
        Nearest lightning: 14mi
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[2002]   Record Low: 32°[1955]
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Quote of the Day
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
  Paul Cezanne


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Observances Today
Bald Is In 
Body Painting Day Link
Carver Day  Link  
Coca Cola Day  Link 
(Note: The actual date when Coca Cola was invented is unknown. So the birth date of the inventor is celebrated.)
Grange Day 
Math 2.0 Day (Founding Day)  Link

SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama)
Taos Pueblo Pow Wow: 7-9  Link

Wayne Chicken Day: 7-9 Link 

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Observances This Week
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 
1000’s
1099 First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1500’s
1579 Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.

1600’s

1693 NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
1700’s
1796 US State Department issues 1st US passport
1800’s
1835 Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade

1892 American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
1900’s
1913 Alfred Carlton Gilbert's patent for the Erector Set is issued, which became one of the most popular toys of all time
1923 Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective
1948 500th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated in Moscow

1949 The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in South Africa
1953 US stops aid to Persia (now Iran) 
1963 US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated
1990 12:34:56 on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
1996 British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut single "Wannabe" in the UK
2000’s
2012 119th Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats A Radwańska (6-1 5-7 6-2)
2016 Italian designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first woman to be appointed artistic director at French fashion house Christian Dior
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My Rambling Thoughts
Very warm Friday. I will survive! More record heat through the weekend. Hoping that the Monsoon will arrive very soon. This is our 9th day over 90°, the average is 4 days.

So Trump fools the media again…talks about Russia influence in voting…with leader of Russia. Too bad he just sees this as a game. Have to wait and see what happens next.

Somebody messed up…in the current Administration. Nobody made hotel reservations and since it wasn’t being held at a Trump property, The German gov’t stepped up and let him stay at a government house in Hamburg. That’s why his wife couldn’t attend a spousal event as the protesters were stopping her from leaving the house. Ooops.

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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the end of post)
Who wrote the novel "Beloved"?

Toni Morrison                       Gwendolyn Brooks
Richard Wright                      James Baldwin

53.5% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index
160→Minimum number of individuals whom Donal Trump has directly insulted on Twitter since he declared his candidacy.

4/21/2010→Date on which Trump tweeted that the musical American Idiot was an ‘amazing theatrical experience.

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Yep, It Really Happened
*-------------- Man Needed a Lift --------------*

Police in Florida said a man caught driving a stolen forklift told officers he was tired of walking -- and it wasn't the first time. Port Orange Police said an officer approached Bradley Barefoot, 43, who was appropriately barefoot at the time, after spotting him with the stolen forklift. "There was a male parked in a handicap spot with a piece of heavy equipment that had a mattress on it. The male was barefoot, talking to himself while swearing and throwing his hands up," the Port Orange Police report said. Barefoot initially told the officer he took the forklift because he thought it was the same one that has been stolen from his boss in Alabama, but he later said he took the $38,000 vehicle because he was tired of walking and he noticed the keys had been left in the ignition. Barefoot was arrested on a charge of grand theft. Police said the incident wasn't Barefoot's first offense -- he was arrested in April 2016 when he took a forklift from behind a Best Buy store in Daytona Beach and used it to move some boxes before driving the piece of equipment to a Bob Evans restaurant. Investigators said Barefoot told them in the 2016 case that he took the forklift because he didn't feel like walking.

           
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Somewhat Useless Information
Fourth of July celebrations became more common as years passed. In 1870, Congress declared July 4 to be an unpaid national holiday for federal employees. In 1938, Congress changed the legislation to be a paid federal holiday.
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Around 900 copies of the Declaration were created by printer John Dunlap. Only 26 copies, referred to as "The Dunlap Broadsides" are left: 21 are owned by American institutions, two by British institutions and three are privately owned.
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Robert Livingston, a member of the Provincial congress of New York, was one of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence - but was recalled by his state before he was able to sign it, and missed out on his place in history.

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Birthdays Today
@  indicates age at death
90’s
@97- John D. Rockefeller, 
American industrialist and founder of Standard Oil, born in Richford, NY
(d. 1937)
80’s
@83- Jerry Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano],
American singer (Arriverderci Roma), born in NYC
(d. 2014)
82- Steve Lawrence,
singer/actor (Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy), born in Brooklyn
@81- Craig Stevens,
Liberty Mo, actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
(d. 2000)
70’s
@78- Ferdinand von Zeppelin, 
German general and inventor (rigid dirigibles) who founded the Zeppelin airship company, born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany
(d. 1917)
73- Jeffrey Tambor,
actor (Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders), born in San Francisco
@71- Roone Arledge, 
American President of ABC Sports (Monday Night Football), born in NYC,
(d. 2002)
@70-- Nelson A Rockefeller,
(Gov-R-NY) 41st VP (1974-77)
(d. 1979)
70- Kim Darby,
American actress (True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man), born in Hollywood
60’s
68- Wolfgang Puck,
chef
66- Anjelica Huston, 
American actress (Prizzi's Honor, The Adams Family), born in Los Angeles
64- Jonathan Segal,
American actor (Jonathan-Paper Chase), born in NYC
50’s
59- Kevin Bacon,
actor (Diner, Footloose, She's Having a Baby), born in Philadelphia
@57- John Pemberton,
American pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola, born in Knoxville, Georgia
(d. 1888)
56- Toby Keith,
American singer
54- Rocky Carroll,
actor (Chicago Hope, NCIS)
40’s
49- Michael Weatherly,
TV actor (NCIS, Bull)
46- Beck [Bek David Campbell],
American singer (Morning Phase), born in Los Angeles
40- Milo Ventimiglia,
actor (Gilmore Girls)
Teen’s
19- Jaden Smith,
American actor

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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2012 Ernest Borgnine,
American actor (Ice station Zebra, Marty)
@93-2011 Betty Ford, 
First Lady of the United States (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic
80’s
@82-1994 Kim Il-sung,
Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94)
70’s
@78-1957 Grace Goodhue Coolidge,
1st lady (1923-29)
@72-1985 Phil Foster,
comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley), heart attack
60’s
@69-2015 Ken "The Snake" Stabler,
NFL quarterback (Oak Raiders, Super Bowl XI), colon cancer
@65-1932 Florenz Ziegfeld,
US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), pleurisy
@64-1994 Dick Sargent [Richard Stanford Cox ],
American actor (Darren in "Bewitched"), cancer
20’s
@29-1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley,
English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns

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Trivia Hive  Answers
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison's "Beloved" is a tale full of magical realism and a compelling story, for which she earned a Pulitzer Prize. The novel is about a former runaway slave, Sethe, who is haunted by a woman who appears to be the ghost of her 2-year-old daughter she killed to save from a life of slavery. In addition to this 1987 classic, Morrison has included aspects of magical realism or allusions to the supernatural in her other works, such as "Sula." Source: Biography.com

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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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