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July 23, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 204
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 55°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
0mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
92°[1996] Record Low: 37°[1987]
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Quote of the Day
He is
happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
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Observances Today
Aunties
Day
Hot
Enough For Ya Day
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Observances This Week
Restless
Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Comic Con International: 20-23
Hemingway Look-alike Days: 20-23
National
Moth Week: 22-30
National Scrabble Week: 22-26 Link
RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race): 23-29
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1700’s
★1798 Napoleon captures Alexandria, Egypt
1800’s
1827 1st US swimming school opens (Boston Mass)
1829 American William Austin Burt patents
"typographer" (typewriter)
1877 1st US municipal railroad, Cincinnati Southern,
begins operations
1877 1st telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii
completed
1880 1st commercial hydroelectric power planet begins,
Grand Rapids, Michigan
1900’s
1904 Ice cream cone created during St Louis World Fair -
the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches
★1929 The Fascist
government in Italy bans the use of foreign words.
★1946 Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King
David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine
1967 First successful liver transplant, on 19 month old
Julie Rodriguez by Dr Starzl at the University of Colorado
1973 US President Richard
Nixon refuses
to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the
Watergate investigation
★1982 International
Whaling Commission votes for total ban on commercial whaling (starting 1985)
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America,
resigns due to posing nude
★1992 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's funeral
★1994 Goodwill Games
open in St Petersburg
2000’s
2015 Supreme Court rejects Bill Cosby's petition against a civil case of his alleged
sexual of 15-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1974
★2016 Suicide bomb in
Kabul kills 80 during a protest march, Islamic State claim responsibility
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My Rambling Thoughts
Our wonderful monsoon continues and we
are enjoying it.
Not a lot happening today, so I just sat
on the deck and spent time with the Sat. paper. Lots of birds feeding, so it
was a great morning.
Today would have been my father’s 103 birthday. He lived
to be 80, was a great father, and is still missed.
Probably should be watching the news,
but decided today is not the day to listen to more crazy stuff.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
What police role does
"Zootopia" character Judy Hopps have assigned to her once she
graduates from the academy?
Bike
Cop Booking
Parking
Enforcement SWAT
60.3% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
2017→Year in which the Defense Department will
stop using floppy disks as part of its nuclear weapons program
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--- When God Really Wants You To Have a
BBQ ---*
A South Florida family is perplexed after recently waking up to a loud thud,
only to find that the mysterious sound was several packages of frozen Italian
sausage. "It was like thunder, and it awakened me out of a sleep,"
Travis Adair said. "We got up, found two packages of sausage on our side
yard, and then we were like, 'OK, well, we got to go on the roof and check and
see if we find more of this stuff,'" Austin Adair said. Sure enough, there
were three more packages of Italian pork sausage. A total of 15 pounds of
Italian sausage was found in bags marked William Land Service, a land-clearing
company in Alabama. The homeowners were baffled about how the sausage ended up
on their roof, so their son, Austin Adair, called the company. "I called
them and the guy had no idea what I was talking about and probably thought I
was crazy," Austin Adair said. He even sent them pictures of the sausage
but has yet to hear back. "I would love to know what really happened,
because it's just so, so odd," Jennie Adair said. Hopefully the family
decides to have a barbecue. It should be cheap because the sausage is on the
house.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Originally, producers had the idea to
make Grease an animated movie - they settled on a live-action film with
animated opening credits instead.
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Henry Winkler was considered for the
part of Danny but he turned it down because he didn't want to be typecast after
starring on Happy Days.
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Dinah Manoff, who played Marty, couldn't
dance, so she was conveniently missing from most of the dance scenes.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@-84- Jonathan
Hutchinson,
surgeon/scientist
(d. 1913)
@-83- Haile
Selassie [Ras Tafari Makonnen],
Emperor of
Ethiopia (1930-74), born in Ejersa Goro, Ethiopian Empire
(d. 1975)
@-81- Arthur Treacher,
Brighton
England, announcer (Merv Griffin Show)
(d. 1975)
@-81- Pee Wee [Harold]
Reese,
American
baseball player (Dodgers), born in Ekron, Kentucky
(d. 1999)
81- Anthony
Kennedy,
106th US
Supreme Court justice (1988- ), born in Sacramento, California
@-80- Charles Frazier, my
father (d. 1994)
50’s
@-56- Don Drysdale
[Donald Scott],
Van Nuys,
California, American MLB player (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962)
(d. 1993)
56- Woody
Harrelson,
American
actor (Woody Boyd in Cheers), born in Midland, Texas
52- Slash,
[Saul Hudson],
rock
guitarist & songwriter (Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child o' Mine), born in London
40’s
@-46- Philip
Seymour Hoffman,
American
actor (Capote, Moneyball), born in Fairport, New York
(d. 2014)
45- Marlon
Wayans,
comedian
(Wayans Bros, In Living Color)
44- Monica
Lewinsky,
American
White House intern, born in San Francisco, California
20’s
28- Daniel
Radcliffe,
English
actor (Harry Potter in the Harry Potter series of movies), born in London
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2001 Eudora
Welty,
American
author
80’s
@82-1973 Eddie
Rickenbacker,
WW I
fighter pilot
70’s
@75-2013 Emile
Griffith,
US Virgin
Islands professional boxer, complication from dementia
@73-1948 D.W.
Griffith,
American
director/producer, cerebral hemorrhage
60’s
@63-1885 Ulysses S. Grant,
18th US
President (1869-77) and Union general, esophageal cancer
@63-1875 Isaac
Singer,
American
inventor (1st practical home sewing machine)
@61-2012 Sally Ride,
American
astronaut and 1st American woman in space, pancreatic cancer
50’s
@53-1982 Vic
Morrow,
American
actor (Cimmaron), helicopter crash during the filming of "Twilight Zone:
The Movie"
40’s
@45-1966 [Edward]
Montgomery Clift,
actor (From
Here to Eternity), heart attack
20’s
@27-2011 Amy
Winehouse,
British
singer songwriter, alcohol intoxication
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Trivia Hive Answers
Parking Enforcement
Joining the ranks of other awe-inspiring
Disney characters like Elsa from "Frozen" and Dory of "Finding
Nemo" (and its sequel "Finding Dory"), Judy Hopps leapt onto the
screen to win the hearts of children and parents everywhere. But before she
could join forces with Nick Wilde the fox to become the film's hero, she was just
a parking enforcement officer. However, this rabbit didn't let a humble start
keep her from following her dreams and saving the day. Source: The Atlantic
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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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