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July 26, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 208
86004 Today: H 76° \ L 56°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 20mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1935] Record Low: 40°[1913]
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Quote of the Day
This is
the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and
take what comes.
Hannah
Arendt
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Observances Today
Americans With Disabilities Day Link
Bagelfest Day Link
One Voice
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Observances This Week
22-30
National Moth Week
22-26
National Scrabble Week Link
23-29
RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
★1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast
of South America
★1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1600’s
★1656 Dutch
painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is
insolvent
1700’s
★1755 Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to
religion and common decency and imprisioned in the Doge's Palace
1775 US Continental Congress creates United States Post
Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1800’s
★1847 The Liberian Declaration of
Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the
American Colonization Society
★1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild
becomes the 1st Jewish person elected to the British Parliament
1878 In California,
poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his
last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The
empty box found later with a taunting poem inside.
★1887 1st Esperanto book published
1900’s
1908 United States
Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff
the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of
Investigation).
1917 J.
Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice
1946 President
Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1947 President
Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of
Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff
1952 Mickey
Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer
★1953 Fidel Castro begins
rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's
regime in Cuba
1953 Arizona
Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on
residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1963 US Syncom 2,
1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1981 New York
Mayor Ed Koch is given the Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant
1990 US President George
H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act
2000’s
★2014 The Chinese government suspends
the operations of a Shanghai meat dealer and has makes arrests after the
company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including McDonalds and
Kentucky Fried Chicken
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My Rambling Thoughts
There was a nice rain much of the night.
Gotta love the monsoon. Sky still looks like more rain will be in our near
future.
Sometimes it is hard to be proud of AZ
politics…like when 2 state senators suggested that one of them be appointed to
replace McCain when his diagnosis of cancer was revealed. Then today, Senator
John McCain made a very compelling speech to his fellow Senators and to the
American people about the change that is needed in Congress. Makes for good AZ
press. Hope all the Senators were listening.
Then the President and the leader of
Lebanon speak in the Rose Garden to America and to the press. So amazing that
two of the press asked questions to the Lebanese leader, in their native
language and the leader of Lebanon answered in their native language. Not
unusual but this was a WH feed given to all networks and there was NO
translation given. Just astounding. And quite frankly, is an insult to Lebanon
as their leader had a chance to be heard by the American public and the
interpreter feed was not transmitted to us. Wonder if our leader got a
translation in his earpiece? One final rant: Over the years there are many of
these WH Rose Garden things that are broadcast. Because the President of the US
usually holds press conferences, seldom does the press ask about internal
American stuff and ask about things going on in the world. This is the second
Rose Garden thing in the last two weeks where the press feels obligated to ask
internal American stuff in the presence of another country’s leader. Just
strange.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
I was
shocked and disappointed when I listened to the leader’s speech to the Boy
Scouts at the National Jamboree. The idea that he talks politics to the young
shows me that he has one agenda: “I’m great and you should know it.” Every
other President who has spoken over the last 80 years spoke to the Scout oath
and/or law and how it prepares them for life. Not this guy. Just sad. I was a Boy
Scout and was astonished he would do this.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@-97- Marjorie
Lord [Wollenberg],
American
actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington), born in San
Francisco,
(d. 2010)
@-94- George Bernard Shaw,
dramatist
(Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland
(d. 1950)
80’s
89- Joe
Jackson,
father of
Jackson family
@-88- Blake
Edwards,
OK,
writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)
(d. 2010)
@-85- Carl Jung,
Swiss
Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland
(d. 1961)
70’s
74- Mick Jagger,
English
rock vocalist (Rolling Stones), born in Dartford, Kent
@-72- George
Clinton,
NY, (D-R)
4th VP (1805-12)
(d. 1812)
72- Helen
Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff],
English
actress (The Queen, The Madness of King George), born in London
@-70- Stanley
Kubrick,
American
director (2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita), born in The Bronx NY
(d. 1999)
@-70- Vivian
Vance,
actress (I
Love Lucy)
60’s
@-69- Aldous Huxley,
English
author (Brave New World, Island), born in Godalming, Surrey
(d. 1963)
@-69- Gracie
Allen,
American
comedian and actress (Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California
(d. 1964)
50’s
58- Kevin Spacey,
American
actor (American Beauty, House of Cards), born in South Orange, NJ
53- Sandra Bullock,
actress
(Speed, Net, Love & War), born in Washington, D.C.
52- Jeremy
Piven,
American
actor and producer (Entourage, Serendipity), born in NYC
40’s
44-Kate
Beckinsale,
British movie
actress
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@94-1986 Averell
Harriman,
statesman,
dies in Yorktown Heights, NY
80’s
@84-2016 Forrest
E. Mars Jr.,
American
Candy Manufacturer (Mars)
70’s
@78-1984 Ed
"Psycho" Gein,
mass
murderer ("Psycho" & "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre"
based on him),
lung cancer
@70-1863 Sam Houston,
1st
President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into
the United States as a constituent state,
pneumonia
60’s
@65-1925 William
Jennings Bryan,
American
orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner",
in sleep, 5
days after Scope’s trial
30’s
@33-1952 Eva
Perón [Evita],
Argentine
First Lady and actress,
cancer
20’s
@22-2015 Bobbi
Kristina Brown,
daughter of
Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown,
in a coma
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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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