FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!
Almanac: Week: 30 \ Day: 201
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 75° \ L 53° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 12mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 91° (1939) Ave. Low: 51° Record
Low: 42° (1940)
§ § § §
§
Observances Today:
Global
Hug Your Kid Day
Moon
Day
National
Get Out of the Doghouse Day
National
Lollipop Day
Space
Exploration Day
Ugly
Truck Day
Independence
Day (Colombia-1810 from Spain)
¤ ¤
Observances This Week:
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
National Moth Week: 18-26
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25
Captive Nations Week: 19-25
¤ ¤
Quote of the Day
¤ ¤
US Historical Highlights for Today
1876 - 1st US intercollegiate track meet held,
Saratoga, NY; Princeton wins
1878 - 1st telephone introduced in Hawaii
1881 - Sioux Indian Chief Sitting Bull,
surrenders to US federal troops
1917 - Lightning struck a
tent occupied by I Company of the First Arizona National Guard at Naco,
Arizona, splintering the stock of a rifle and causing several cartridges in a
cartridge belt to melt and become soldered together
1921 - Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson became
the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives.
1926 - A convention of the Methodist Church votes
to allow women to become priests.
1932 - In Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on
World War I veterans part of the Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march
to the White House.
1964 - 1st surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's
"Surf City"
1968 - Iron Butterfly's
"In-a-gadda-da-vida": 1st heavy metal song to hit charts
1969 - 1st men on the Moon, Neil
Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from Apollo 11
1973 - The US Senate passes the War Powers Act.
1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency releases
documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind
control experiments.
1984 - Vanessa Williams is asked to resign as Miss
America
¤ ¤
Today’s World Events through History
1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of
Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold of
the war.
1738 - North America: French explorer Pierre
Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye reaches the western shore of Lake
Michigan.
1749 - Earl of Chesterfield says "Idleness is
only refuge of weak minds"
1773 - Scottish settlers arrive at Pictou, Nova
Scotia (Canada)
1914 - Armed resistance against British rule begins
in Ulster
1924 - Teheran, Persia comes under martial law
after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie, is killed by a religious mob
enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and killed several people.
1928 - The government of Hungary issues a decree
ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic ways, settle permanently in one place,
and subject themselves to the same laws and taxes as other Hungarians.
1951 - King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by
a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1953 - The United Nations Economic and Social
Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency.
1960 - USSR recovered 2 dogs; 1st living organisms
to return from space
1982 - Hyde Park and Regent's Park bombings: 11
British soldiers and 7 military horses killed in Provisional Irish Republican
Army bomb attacks during military ceremonies in London
1989 - Burma government puts author Aung San
Suu Kyi under house arrest
1998 - Two hundred aid workers from CARE
International, Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and other aid
groups leave Afghanistan on orders of the Taliban.
§ § § §
§
♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
§ § § §
§
My Rambling Thoughts
Best laid plans…the annual Celtic Festival is happening in Flag
this weekend. I used to go every year, but missed the last 2. Planned to head
out this morning but some friends from the rez showed up and didn’t want to go
there. We went out for breakfast instead. Then when they left about 2p, the monsoon
rain was falling here so I decided not to head out.
Last night it rained most of the night. Woke up this morning to
discover almost an inch fell during the night. Quite a bit for the high desert.
§ § § §
§
Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Name
the automobile makes:
1. river wading place
2. ringed planet
3. famous emancipator
4. weep convulsively
5. Star Wars action figure
6. earth wanderer
7. spotted cat
8. heavy metal
9. evade
10. diminutive
11. endlessness
12. bawl + disparaging remark
§ § § §
§
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
§ § § §
§
…Cool Facts…
Lentil As Anything, a successful Australian restaurant, allows its
customers to pay whatever price they feel like paying for the food.
Hockey player Jarome Iginla donates $2,000 to the children’s
charity Kidsport for every goal he scores. Since 2000 it has added up to more
than $700,000.
¤ ¤
…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
25 YEARS
AGO-1990
Rescuing a truck that got stuck under the underpass on June 25
also revealed a crack in one of the beams. Bill’s Welding employees Dickie
Furcap and Jack Keating are busy repair-welding the beam.
The Santa Fe has offered to sell Billboard Alley spanning the
south side of Santa Fe Avenue to the
city. No price has been discussed in this option for an opportunity to “beautify"
Santa Fe Avenue.
Fire danger has been deemed Moderate and the Forest Service has
opened all areas closed since June 20.
¤ ¤
…Harper’s Index…
+193 –
percentage change from 1998-2010 in the number of Americans receiving hospice
care
27 – in the
number reporting depression in the last year of life
¤ ¤
… USA Facts…
In 2008, a 13-year-old boy in Florida was arrested for excessive
farting in school.
350 slices of pizza are consumed each second in USA.
¤ ¤
…Unusual Fact of the
Day…
Napoleon wasn't short. At 5 feet, 7 inches, he was taller than the
average French man of the era. The popular myth about his height is the result
of his nickname, Le Petit Caporal (The Little Corporal). Early in Napoleon’s
military career, French soldiers used the moniker to mock his low position on
the Army’s Officer totem pole. Unfortunately for Napoleon, the nickname stuck.
§ § § §
§
2 jokes for the day
A software expert claims:
“My software never has bugs -- it just develops random features.”
¤ ¤
At an international medical conference, and
American, a German and a Russian were discussing the shortcomings of their
diagnoses.
The American said; “I can’t stand it sometimes, “We treat patients for cancer,
and they die of AIDS.”
“I know what you mean,” said the German “We treat them for yellow fever; ant it
turns out they had malaria.”
“We don’t have that problem in our country,” said the Russian doctor. “When we
treat patients for a disease, they die of that disease.”
¤ ¤
Yep, It Really
Happened
ADOR,
Spain (UPI) - A Spanish mayor has become the first in the country to issue a
proclamation creating an official afternoon nap time for the entire city. Mayor
Joan Faus Vitoria of Ador in Valencia declared 2 to 5 p.m. as the official time
for the city's residents to take their afternoon siestas. The edict asks residents
to keep quiet during the siesta hours and the mayor recommended children be
kept inside to prevent noise from traveling into open windows. The mayor said
the nap time was chosen due to the high afternoon heat making 2 to 5 p.m. the
ideal time to take a break from working in fields. Vitoria said there will be
no penalties for violations, and the edict should be treated as "merely a
suggestion" rather than an "obligation." A study published in
the Endocrine Society's Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism in
February espoused the health benefits of an afternoon siesta. "Our data
suggests a 30-minute nap can reverse the hormonal impact of a night of poor
sleep," said study author Brice Faraut of the Universite Paris
Descartes-Sorbonne Paris Cite in France. "This is the first study that
found napping could restore biomarkers of neuroendocrine and immune health to
normal levels."
¤ ¤
Somewhat Useless
Information
Amazon
owns IMDb, according to phx.corporate-ir.net.
Double
stuffed oreos don’t have double cream as they promise. They only have
1.86x the cream that regular oreos have, not double, according to huffingtonpost.com.
During
WWII, Norwegian resistance members tricked German soldiers into going to the
hospital thinking that they have a disease. They would put itching powder
inside condoms and deliver them to German soldiers. Many of them went to the
hospital, thinking they had contracted an STD, according to thedailybeagle.net.
Steve
Jobs had a 2.65 GPA in High school, according to theatlantic.com.
§ § § §
§
Birthdays Today
70 - Kim Carnes, Pasadena Ca, rock vocalist
(Bette Davis Eyes)
68 - Carlos Santana, Mexico, rock guitarist
(Santana-Black Magic Woman)
43 - Sandra Oh, Korean Canadian actress-Grey’s
Anatomy
42 - Omar Epps, TV
actor, Rapper
27 - Julianne Hough, American ballroom dancer-DWTS
¤ ¤
Born this day…Died in __@__
Thomas
Berger, American novelist (Vital Parts, Little Big Man)-2014@89
Edmund
Hillary, Explorer and Mountaineer (1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing
Norgay)-2008@88
Gregor
Mendel, monk/geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity)-1884@61
Natalie
Wood, [Natasha Gurdin], actress-1981@43
Alexander
the Great, Pella Macedon, Macedonian king\military leader- 323 BC@32
[Uinseann Ó Colla] Mad
Dog Coll, Irish-American mob hitman-1932@23
§ § § §
§
Historical Obits Today
Peregrine
White, 1st English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony-1704@84
Tammy
Faye Messner (Bakker),
American televangelist, cancer-2007@65
Guglielmo
Marconi, Italian engineer (radio, Nobel 1909), heart attack-1937@63
Frank
Reynolds, news anchor (ABC Evening News), hepatitis-1983@59
Pancho
Villa, [Doroteo Arango], Mexican rebel, murdered-1923@55
Jim [James] Fixx, jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on
Running), heart attack-1984@52
Bruce Lee, [Lee
Yuen Kam], actor (Enter the Dragon), brain issue?-1973@32
§ § § §
§
Brain Teasers Answers
1. Ford
2. Saturn
3. Lincoln
4. Saab (sob)
5. Toyota (toy Yoda, HA-HA)
6. Land Rover
7. Jaguar
8. Mercury
9. Dodge
10. MINI
11. Infiniti (infinity)
12. Chrysler (cry+slur...a stretch, I know)
§ § § §
§
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…§
