Jul 25

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Jul 25, 2018 Week: 30 \ Day: 206

86004 Today: H 89° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Nearest Lightning:  9 miles away

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1931]   Record Low: 41°[1913]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

You have succeeded in life when

all you really want is only what you really need.

Vernon Howard

Harper’s Index

200,000

Estimated number of Britons over 65 who have not spoken with friends or family in more than a month

1/17/2018

Date on which the UK appointed a minister of loneliness

Observances This Week

18^th-25^th

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

21^st-29^th

National Moth Week  Link

Observances for Today

Carousel Day or Merry-Go-Round Day Link
Culinarians Day

Hire A Veteran Day  Link
Red Shoe Day Link  Link  (Lyme Disease)
Threading the Needle Day Link
Video Games Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1567 Don Diego de Losada founds the city of Santiago de Leon de Caracas, modern-day Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela

1700’s                                         

1745 Jacoibite Rising Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides

1775 Maryland issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta

1797 Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain)

1800’s                                         

1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)

1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah & Idaho)

1871 Carousel patented by Wilhelm Schneider, Davenport, Iowa

1897 Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories

1900’s                                         

1907 Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan

1933 1st Dutch live radio concert: Duke Ellington

1941 FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan

1944 1st jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)

1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO

1964 Beatles' album "A Hard Day's Night" goes #1, stays #1 for 14 weeks

1965 Bob Dylan is booed by sections of the crowd at the Newport Folk Festival for performing with an electric guitar, beginning of folk-rock

1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo Kopechne

1983 1st non-human primate (baboon) conceived in a lab dish, San Antonio

1984 Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes 1st woman to walk in space

1985 Spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS

1992 25th Olympic Games opens in Barcelona, Spain

2000’s                                         

2012 The 2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th)

2016 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo

2017 167 African migrants rescued by NGO Proactiva Open Arms off the coast of Libya, 13 perish`

My Rambling Thoughts

A good day. Yesterday afternoon I got the book of the Amazon trip photos from Marty, one of our fellow travelers. WOW! It is a hardback book, with tons of great pictures, and interesting information about our trip. Thanks Marty for a job very well done. Hours of great memories in one book!

Went out this morning to get my newspaper. Couldn’t find it anywhere. Headed out later to do some shopping. When I pulled into my parking space I saw the paper, about 12’ up in the tree. Went inside, got a broom, stretched a little, and got the paper to fall to the ground. Still laughing.

It just takes time…so Ivanka is doing so much hard work in DC she is closing down her clothing line. Huh? It had nothing to do with criticism from many that she was profiting from her time in the White House. It has nothing to do with slumping sales. It’s all about the hard work she does every day, making America Great Again. Decent spin, Ivanka. She should have stepped away 17 months ago.

Our monsoon showers have continued, with a lot less veracity than last week. Every day we get a couple of nice showers, sometimes with lightning and thunder, sometimes just a nice rain. Much better.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1966)

@94- Estelle Getty, American actress (The Golden Girls, The Golden Palace), born in NYC, New York (d. 2008)

@90- Andrew Cowper Lawson, Scottish-Canadian Geologist who was the first person to identify and name the San Andreas Fault, born in Anstruther , Scotland (d. 1952)

80’s

@80- Walter Brennan, American actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), born in Lynn, Massachusetts (d. 1974)

70’s

@77- Frank Sprague, Milford Connecticut, American Inventor who installed the first U.S. electric trolley system in Richmond, VA (d. 1934)

@71- Thomas Eakins, American artist, born in Philadelphia, (d. 1916)

60’s

@69- Flora Adams Darling, American writer and historian, founded Daughters of American Revolution, born in Lancaster, New Hampshire (d. 1910)

50’s

@59- James Barry [Margaret Ann Bulkley], female disguised as a man, surgeon general (British army), born in County Cork, Ireland (d. 1865) dysentery

@59- Elizabeth Hamilton, Scottish author (The cottagers of Glenburnie), born in Belfast, Ireland (d. 1816)

51- Matt LeBlanc, American actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends), born in Newton, Massachusetts

40’s

@48- Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist and doctor of anatomy who identified "Peking Man", born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 1934) heart failure

@45- Walter Payton, American NFL Running Back (Chicago Bears), born in Columbia, Mississippi (d. 1999)f rare liver disease

30’s

@37- Rosalind Franklin, English chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, born in London (d. 1958) ovarian cancer

20’s

@25- Brad Renfro, movie actor (d. 2008) OD

Historical Obits Today

100’s

@103-2014 Bel Kaufman, American author (Up the Down Staircase)

800’s

@85-1987 Charles Stark "Doc" Draper, American Scientist and Engineer who headed the team that invented the Apollo Guidance Computer and inertial navigation technology for aircraft, space vehicles, and submarines

@84-1997 Ben Hogan, golfer (Masters, British Open, US Open-1953)

@81-1958 Harry Warner, US movie pioneer (Warner Bros)

60’s

@62-1995 Charlie Rich, country singer (Lonely Weekends), heart attack

@61-1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge, British romantic poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), opium addiction

50’s

@57-1984 Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton, American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter (Hound Dog, Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt), heart and liver disorders

40’s

@47-2008 Randy Pausch, American professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his "Last Lecture" pancreatic cancer

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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