Jul 4

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Jul 4, 2018 Week: 27\ Day: 185
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 
Nearest Lightning:  291miles away
Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 96°[2007]   Record Low: 32°[1912]
Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Give me liberty or give me death.
   Patrick Henry


Harper’s Index

60
Estimated number of accidental gun deaths attributable to a surge in firearm purchases after Sandy Hook.


More Observances This Month

Sandwich Generation Month
Self Care Month  
Link  
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month


Observances This Week
1st-7th
Beans and Bacon Days Link 
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
Be Nice To New Jersey Week
4th-10th
Freedom Week
Observances for Today
Boom Box Parade Day
Fourth of July or
Independence Day (U.S.)
Independence From Meat Day
Indivisible Day
 Link
Sandwich Generation Month
Self Care Month  
Link 
Sidewalk Egg Frying Day
Smart Irrigation Month
Social Wellness Month

Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1600’s                                         
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form

1700’s                                         
1754 George Washington gives Fort Necessity to France
1776 According to popular legend the Liberty Bell rings for the Second Continental Congress
1776 US Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain1789 1st US tariff act signed by President Washington
1796 1st Independence Day celebration is held

1800’s                                         
1802 The 1st US Military Academy at West Point opens
1803 The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people
1817 Chief Engineer James Geddes begins construction on the Erie Canal, (Rome, New York), one of the first great engineering works in North America

1831 "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
1836 Wisconsin Territory forms
1838 Iowa Territory is organised from Wisconsin Territory, lasting until 1846
1838 Huskar Colliery Mining Disaster in Silkstone England: mining pit floods drown 26 children, leads to 1842 'Mines and Collieries Act' bans women and children working underground
1845 Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1855 In Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's book of poems, "Leaves of Grass" is published
1862 Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 General Lee's army withdraws from Gettysburg
1865 First edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Maine, US
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in San Francisco
1881 Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st wild west show, North Platte, Nebraska
1884 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1888 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Arizona
1892 Western Samoa changes the International Date Line, so that year there were 367 days in this country, with two occurrences of Monday, July 4

1900’s                                         
1901 William Howard Taft, former Federal judge, is installed as first governor-general of the Philippines and declares amnesty for all insurgents who take an oath of allegiance
1910 The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation
1914 1st US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1917 Troops of the Russian Provisional Government open fire on protesters in Petrograd during the 'July Days' of unrest 1933 Work begins on Oakland Bay Bridge
1939 Lou Gehrig is first MLB player to have his number (4) retired on his "Appreciation Day" at Yankee Stadium, makes iconic "luckiest man" speech
1950 Harry Truman signs public law 600 (Puerto Ricans write own constitution)
1950 The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1970 Casey Kasem's "American Top 40" debuts on LA radio
1993 Pizza Hut blimp deflates and lands safely on W 56th street in NYC

2000’s                                         
2006 North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.
2009 The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security reasons following the World Trade Center attacks
2017 North Korea tests first successful intercontinental ballistic missile into Sea of Japan


My Rambling Thoughts
Still patiently awaiting the arrival of the Monsoon. Lots of clouds yesterday…no rain. Lots of wind today…no rain. Hurry up Monsoon. Hopefully, rain will come on the 4th as a birthday present for the country.

Good things still happen. About 2 months ago the lady who has been cutting my hair for decades called. Her son had just had a liver transplant and was coming to back from Phoenix to stay with her. She needed to borrow $100 to get to and from Phoenix. I lent her the money. She promised to pay it back in 2 weeks. Then he needed to stay in Phoenix a few more weeks because Flag had no facility to monitor his progress. She has kept me updated. He finally got home last week. He is doing well and his now at his own place with his wife and kid. She just dropped off the $100 with an extra $10 for making me wait so long. Nice!

On this nation’s 242nd birthday I was saddened to learn that when ICE separates parents and children things get complicated. Usually the parent is held locally, but the child is sent out of the area. Then when the mother is released, she must pay upward of $2000 to have her child and an adult flown from whatever city they are in back to where the child was taken and have the adult who was traveling with the child returned to their home city. And flying is the only transportation allowed, no bus, no train.

Back in the early 90’s I bought an inexpensive electric leaf blower that I used several times a year to remove leaves in Tuba and loaned out quite a few times to neighbors. Since moving to Flagstaff (12 years ago), I use it at least twice a week, year-round to remove pine needles from my deck. This morning I decided it was time…as I haven’t used it since I returned from the Amazon in early May. Plugged it in, nada, zilch, nothing. Checked all the plugs, still nothing. So, after almost 30 years the cheap thing died.

I headed out to Home Depot to find another one. The shelf tag said $49.95 so I bought it. I wasn’t into those that were electric and cost over $100. So, I pick up some flowers for the pots on the deck and head to the check-out. My blower rings up at $55.99. I told the young clerk that it was $49.95 on the shelf. He said, “All I can do is take off $10, is that OK?” Hmmm. I now have a new blower that was only $45.99. Interesting business tactic to say the least. The old one was about $30 back in the 1990’s.


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

100’s
@100- Gloria Stuart, American actress (Titanic) and founder of the Screen Actors Guild, born in Santa Monica, California (d. 2010)

90’s
@99- Mitch Miller, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2010)
@94- Abigail Van Buren [Pauline Phillips], American columnist and radio show host known for "Dear Abby" advice column, twin sister of fellow advice columnist Ann Landers (Eppie Lederer), born in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 2013)
94- Eva Marie Saint, American actress and producer (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest, People Like Us), born in Newark, New Jersey
91- Neil Simon, playwright (Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues), born in The Bronx, New York
91- Ruth Westheimer, German psychosexual therapist (Dr Ruth), born in Frankfurt, Germany

80’s
@87- Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult) Pulitzer Prize 1948, born in San Francisco, (d. 1970)
@86- Virginia Graham, TV personality (Girl Talk, Where Was I), born in Chicago, (d. 1998)
@83- Ann Landers [Eppie Lederer], American advice columnist "Ask Ann Landers," twin sister of fellow advice columnist "Dear Abby" (Abigail Van Buren), born in Sioux City, Iowa (d. 2002)
@82- Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller (d. 1899)
@80- George Steinbrenner, American businessman and owner of the NY Yankees, born in Rocky River, Ohio (d. 2010)
80- Bill Withers, soul singer

70’s
@74- Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian general and nationalist (Risorgimento) who helped unify Italy, born in Nice, First French Empire (d. 1882) arthritis that confined him to bed

60’s
@62- Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service (d.1929) stroke
@60- Calvin Coolidge [Silent Cal], 30th US President(R) (1923-29), born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont (d. 1933) heart attack

50’s
@59- Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author (House of 7 Gables, The Scarlet Letter), born in Salem, Massachusetts (d. 1864), Stomach disorder

40’s
@46- Koko, sign-language gorilla (d. 2018)

30’s
@37- Stephen Foster, American composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River), born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania (d. 1864) accidental fall and fever

Historical Obits Today

90’s
@90-1826 John Adams, 2nd US President (1797-1801)

80’s
@83-1826 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President (1801-09)

70’s
@73-1831 James Monroe, 5th US President (1817-25), heart failure / tuberculosis 

60’s
@67-1995 Richard "Pancho" Gonzalez, tennis great, stomach cancer
@66-1934 Marie Skłodowska-Curie, French-Polish Physicist/Chemist, 1st woman to win Nobel Prize (1903, 1911) radiation poisoning

50’s
@58-2003 Barry White, American singer, stroke
@53- Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery

30’s
@39-1902 Swami Vivekananda, Indian Hindu spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Yoga to the Western world, stroke while meditating

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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