Jul 24

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July , 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 205

86004 Today: H 83° \ L 54°

Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  15mph

Visibility: 10 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)

Record High: 91°[1937]   Record Low: 39°[1995]

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Quote of the Day

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

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Observances Today

Amelia Earhart Day

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Pioneer Day Link

Cousins Day

National Drive-Thru Day

National Tequila Day 

National Thermal Engineers Day  Link  

Tell An Old Joke Day

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Observances This Week

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25

National Moth Week: 22-30 

National Scrabble Week: 22-26  Link 

RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race): 23-29

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s

★1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France

1600’s

★1673 Edmond Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate

1700’s

1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit

1800’s

★1823 Slavery is abolished in Chile.

1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson

1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT

★1851 Window tax abolished in Britain

1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union

1900’s

★1905 Tsar Nicholas II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other's defense if attacked by European powers

1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas

★1921 15th Tour de France won by Leon Scieur of Belgium

1938 Instant coffee invented

1959 US VP Richard Nixon argues with Nikita Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"

★1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba

1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth

1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes

★1985 French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

2000’s

★2002 On 200th anniversary of his birth French author Alexandre Dumas' ('The Three Musketeers') ashes are interred in the Panthéon in Paris in a televised ceremony.

★2015 US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya

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My Rambling Thoughts

Lots of lightning and thunder close by. This will be short post today.

Watched my Sunday morning news shows. Interesting take by several of ‘new’ Press office of the President. The new guy says that what he used to believe is not what he believes today. That’s why he deleted so many tweets regarding the current leader. Hmmm.

I get that times change and views change, but human core values should not. Someone who said all nasty things about the candidate, will someday say nasty things about the leader. Nasty is Nasty.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

@-101- Frances Oldham Kelsey,

Canadian-American FDA Director (stopped thalidomide use in the US), born in Cobble Hill, British Columbia

(d.2015)

80’s

81- Mark Goddard,

actor (Don West-Lost in Space), born in Lowell, Massachusetts

81- Ruth Buzzi,

Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)

70’s

@-77- Bella Abzug,

(Rep-D-NY, 1970-74)

(d. 1998)

71- Gallagher,

comedian

70- Robert Hays,

Bethesda Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)

60’s

@-68- Alexandre Dumas,

French author (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), born in Aisne, France

(d. 1870)

66- Lynda Carter,

Miss USA (1973) actress (Wonder Woman), born in Phoenix, Arizona

60- Pam Tillis,

Plant City Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)

50’s

53- Barry Bonds, 

American football left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 7X MVP), born in Riverside, California

40’s

49- Kristin Chenoweth,

American singer and actress

48- Jennifer Lopez,

actress and pop singer (Selena), born in The Bronx, New York

@-47- Simon Bolivar,

Venezuelan political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), born in Caracas

(d. 1830)

@-41± Amelia Earhart, 

American aviator and 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, born in Atchison, Kansas

(d. 1939)

30’s

35- Anna Paquin,

Canadian-born New Zealand Oscar-winning actress (The Piano, True Blood), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba

Teen’s

19- Bindi Irwin,

Australian entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-1997 William J. Brennan, Jr.

American Supreme Court judge (1956-90)

70’s

@79-1862 Martin Van Buren,

8th US president (1837-41), heart failure

@75-2012 Chad Everett,

American actor, lung cancer

@74-2012 Sherman Hemsley,

American Actor, natural causes

50’s

@54-1980 Peter Sellers, 

English actor and comedian (The Goon Show, Pink Panther), heart attack

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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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