Jul 30, 2021 Week: 31 Day: 211
Ave. Sky Cover: 40% \Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp: 81°\ 58° Wind: 6mph\ Gusts: 10mph
Low risk of fire
Active fire: 38mi. \ Lightning: 4mi.
Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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XXXII Olympic Games (postponed from 2020): |
23-8/8 |
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RAGBRAI: Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa Women in Baseball Week |
25-31 |
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Great Texas
Mosquitos Days Quilt Odyssey Week World Lumberjack
Championships |
29-31 |
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Lollapalooza |
29-8/1 |
Favorite Memes
Daily Oberservations
Father-in-Law Day
International Day of
Friendship
National Cheesecake Day
National Intern Day
Paperback Book Day
Share a Hug Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Did some quick
shopping this morning and now just awaiting the afternoon rain.
The pandemic has kept
people from many things. One new startup is doing great. It’s called ‘swimply’.
It works like Airbnb. You can rent a pool at someone’s home by the hour. They
carry insurance, furnish the pool and towels along with wifi access. This
summer’s heat waves have helped increase reservations in the hottest areas. In
some areas their reservations have increased 300% over last year. Nice!
One addition to yesterday’s
post about Luis Grijalva, the runner from our local University. He will be
running for Guatemala in his 5000m run.
I enjoyed the swimming
and synchronized diving last night. Things have changed a lot since I was
swimming on a team.
When I saw the
headline about the 8.2 earthquake in Alaska, I remembered the great quake in
the mid-60’s. Luckily, the tsunami didn’t happen, and major damage was limited.
The Flagstaff mayor
just announced that beginning tomorrow at 8a there is a mask requirement for
all city facilities, even if fully vaccinated. Here we go again. Sad.
Historical Events
762 – Baghdad was founded by Caliph Al-Mansur.
1619 – In Jamestown,
Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of
Burgesses, convenes for the first time.
1729 – Founding of
Baltimore, Maryland.
1733 – The first
Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States was constituted in
Massachusetts.
1866 – New Orleans,
Louisiana’s Democratic government ordered police to raid an integrated
Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1935 – The first
softcover paperback books were introduced, in Germany.
1956 – A joint
resolution of the US Congress was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower,
authorizing In God we Trust as the US national motto.
1962 – The
Trans-Canada Highway, the largest national highway in the world, officially
opened.
1965 – US President
Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing
Medicare and Medicaid.
1975 – Jimmy Hoffa
disappeared from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield
Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. He was declared dead on July 30, 1982.
2003 – In Mexico, the
last Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the assembly line.
2017 Russian President
Vladimir Putin announces American diplomats in Russia cut by 755 in response to
American sanctions
2020 The US economy
posts the largest quarterly fall on record with GDP down 9.5% for the 3 months
to June 30
Birthdays Today
@96
– Henry W. Bloch, co-founded H&R Block (d. 2019)
@85
– Casey Stengel, American baseball player, manager (d. 1975)
@83
– Henry Ford, founded the Ford Motor Company (d. 1947)
82
– Peter Bogdanovich, American actor and director
80
– Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter
74
– Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician,
38th Governor of California
65
– Delta Burke, American actress
65
– Anita Hill, American lawyer and academic
58
– Lisa Kudrow, American actress
57
– Vivica A. Fox, American actress
53
– Terry Crews, American football player and actor
51
– Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, screenwriter
50
– Tom Green, Canadian comedian and actor
47
– Hilary Swank, American actress
