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Jul 23, 2018 Week: 30 \ Day: 204
86004 Today: H
83° \ L 57° \ Average
Sky Cover: 20%
Nearest Lightning: 258 miles away
Wind ave.: 4mph\Gusts:
11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 92°[1996] Record Low: 37°[1987]
Jul Averages: 82°\50°
Today’s Quote
Maybe this world is another planet's
hell.
Aldous Huxley
Harper’s Index
66
Estimated percentage by which human
activity has decreased the distance mammals roam
Observances This Week
18th-25th
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education &
Awareness Week
21st-29th
Observances for Today
Gorgeous
Grandma Day
Hot Enough For Ya Day
Hot Enough For Ya Day
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1800’s
1827 1st US swimming school opens (Boston, Massachusetts)
1829 American William Austin Burt patents "typographer" (typewriter)
1851 Treaty of Traverse des Sioux signed by Sioux Indians and US
1872 African American inventor Elijah McCoy is granted a patent for lubricators for steam-engines
1900’s
1904 Ice cream cone created during St Louis World Fair - the 1st cone reputedly by Charles E. Menches
1937 Isolation of pituitary hormone announced (Yale University)
1946 Menachem Begin's Zionist militant group Irgun bombs the King David Hotel, the then British administrative headquarters for Palestine
1962 The International Agreement on the Neutrality of Laos is signed
1972 1st Earth Resources Technology Satellite (ERTS) is launched
1973 US President Richard Nixon refuses to release Watergate tapes of conversations in the White House relevant to the Watergate investigation
1980 River of No Return Wilderness Area designated by Jimmy Carter
1984 Vanessa Williams, 1st African American Miss America, resigns due to posing nude
2000’s
2000 87th Tour de France: no winner (Lance Armstrong disqualified)
2015 NASA's Kepler mission announces discovery of the most Earth-like planet yet - Kepler-452b, 1,400 light years from Earth
My Rambling Thoughts
Today would have been my father’s 104th birthday. He made it to 80 years old. As a father, he took very good care of my mom, my brother and I. His father had died of a heart attack on Christmas Eve while doing last minute shopping when my dad was 5. So he grew up with his mom and older sister. He worked hard his whole life. When he retired at 65 he got another job and continued to work until he was 75. When they bought the house we grew up in, it had an unfinished basement. My grandfather, my dad, and my mom finished the basement with a sewing room, game room (man cave), storage room for all the food my mom canned, a second bathroom, a second kitchen (for the canning), and a shop. He also built a full covered patio, a half-court basketball court, and a small cement pond. He also dug several wells over the years to water our huge lawn and garden. All the time working a full-time job, and sometimes an evening job. He was always there for our family. He is still missed.
The monsoon has let up here. Only light rain a couple of time yesterday, and probably the same today. After our last big storm, we all needed a break.
Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@89- Cy Young, American athlete and only US male to win gold in javelin throwing (1952 Olympics), not the baseball guy (d. 2017)
@83- Haile Selassie [Ras Tafari Makonnen], Emperor of Ethiopia (1930-74), born in Ejersa Goro, Ethiopian Empire (d. 1975)
@83- Albert Warner, US producer (Warner Bros) (d. 1967)
82- Anthony Kennedy, 106th US Supreme Court justice (1988-2018 ), born in Sacramento, California
@81- Pee Wee [Harold] Reese, American baseball player (Dodgers), born in Ekron, Kentucky (d. 1999)
@81- Arthur Treacher, announcer (Merv Griffin Show), born in Brighton, England (d. 1975)
50’s
57- Woody Harrelson, American actor (Woody Boyd in Cheers), born in Midland, Texas
@56- Don Drysdale [Donald Scott], Van Nuys, California, American MLB player (LA Dodgers-Cy Young 1962) (d. 1993) heart attack
53- Slash, [Saul Hudson], rock guitarist & songwriter (Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child o' Mine), born in London, England
40’s
@46- Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (Capote, Moneyball), born in Fairport, New York (d. 2014) OD
46- Omar Epps, American actor, rapper, songwriter, and record producer
45- Monica Lewinsky, American White House intern (improper relationship with Bill Clinton), born in San Francisco
20’s
29- Daniel Radcliffe, English actor (Harry Potter in the Harry Potter series of movies), born in London, England
Historical Obits Today
90’s
@93-2010 Daniel Schorr, American broadcast journalist (CBS)
@92-2001 Eudora Welty, American author
80’s
@82-1982 Betty Parsons, American artist and art dealer
@82-1973 Eddie Rickenbacker, American aviator "Ace of Aces" (WWI)
70’s
@75-2013 Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer, complication from dementia
@73-1948 D.W. Griffith, American director and 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"
20’s
@27-2011 Amy Winehouse, British singer songwriter, alcohol poisoning
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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
