Jul 30

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July 30, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 211

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 55°

Average Sky Cover: 90%

Nearest Lightning: 1.2mi

Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  --mph

Visibility: 8 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

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

Record High: 92°[1943]   Record Low: 40°[1913]

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Quote of the Day

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

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Observances Today

Cheesecake Day

Father-in-Law Day

Friendship Day Link

Health Care Now!  Medicare's Birthday 

International Day of Friendship

National Cheesecake Day

National Chicken and Waffles Day

National Support Public Education Day

Paddle for Perthes Disease Awareness Day 

Paperback Book Day

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

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Observances This Week

22-30

National Moth Week

28-30

Garlic Days: Link  

Lollapalooza: 

30-8/5

Single Working Women's Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s

1619 House of Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body

1700’s

★1792 500 Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time

1800’s

1863 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.

1866 New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.

1900’s

1928 George Eastman shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house including Thomas Edison

★1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback revolution

1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)

★1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)

1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized

1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966

1974 House Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes & misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up

1975 US Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa was legally declared dead in 1982

1990 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.

2000’s

★2003 The last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico

★2013 Wikileaks discloser Bradley [later Chelsea] Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges

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My Rambling Thoughts

This is turning out to be a very wet monsoon. It is another day of clouds and rain and thunder and lightning…kinda puts a damper on any outside activities.

Not sure if it is a coincidence or something of import, but I slept the entire night without waking up until 5:00a. Maybe it was the change in the CPAP, or maybe I was just more relaxed without being concerned about my blood issue. I’ll see how this plays out tonight.

The workings at the WH continue to baffle many. Our president has a way of convincing people that he is a good leader. All those guys leaving the WH employ have only positive things to say about the experience and that they wanted the President to have a clean slate. Maybe it’s because the WH was a ‘dream job’ and they want to have good memories. Maybe they signed a non-disclosure agreement that could cost them big bucks. Maybe they believe he really is the greatest man to ever sit in the WH. With all the chaos going on, I have to wonder why the leave and have only positive things to say.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

95- Henry W. Bloch, 

American co-founder of H&R Block

@-92- Henry Louis Smith, 

American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph, born in Greensboro, NC (d. 1951)

80’s

@-85- Casey Stengel, 

baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY Met's 1st) 

(d. 1975)

84- Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, 

American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper), born in Los Angeles

@-83- Henry Ford, 

American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T), born in Dearborn Township, Michigan 

(d. 1947)

70’s

78- Peter Bogdanovich, 

director/producer (Last Picture Show), born in Kingston, New York

77- Pat Schroeder, 

American politician

76- Paul Anka, 

singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder), born in Ottawa, Ontario

70- Arnold Schwarzenegger, 

American body builder, actor (Terminator) and politician (38th Governor of California), born in Thal, Austria

60’s

63- Ken Olin, 

actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30 Something), born in Chicago, Illinois

61- Anita Hill, 

professor of law, Clarence Thomas' nemesis

61- Delta Burke, 

actress (Suzanne-Designing Women), born in Orlando, Florida

50’s

56- Laurence Fishburne, 

actor (Red Heat, School Daze), born in Augusta, Georgia

54- Lisa Kudrow, 

Encino California, actress (Phoebe-Friends, Romy & Michele)

53- Vivica A. Fox, 

American actress

40’s

48- Simon Baker, 

Australian actor (The Mentalist)

47- Christopher Nolan, 

English film director (Inception, Interstellar), born in London

43- Hilary Swank, 

American actress (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby), born in Lincoln, Nebraska

30’s

@-30- Emily Brontë, 

English novelist (Wuthering Heights), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire 

(d. 1848)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-1983 Lynn Fontanne, 

Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965)

@93-1996 Claudette Colbert, 

French-born American actress (It Happened One Night)

@91-2016 Gloria DeHaven, 

American musical actress (Step Lively)

80’s

@89-2007 Ingmar Bergman, 

Swedish stage and film director (Cries & Whispers)

@85-1997 Bảo Đại, 

last Emperor of Vietnam (1926-45) and Chief of State of South Vietnam (1949-55)

@83-1898 Otto von Bismarck, 

German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83

@80-2008 Anne Armstrong, 

U.S. ambassador to Britain and first female counsel to the President

@80-2003 Sam Phillips, 

American record producer (Sun Records)

@80-1998 Buffalo Bob Smith, 

American television host (Howdy Doody)

70’s

@73-1718 William Penn, 

English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no crown)

60’s

@67-2015 Lynn Anderson, 

American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), 

heart attack

40’s

@44-1683 Maria Theresa of Spain, 

queen of Louis XIV of France, 

illness

30’s

@31-1918 Joyce Kilmer, 

American poet, 

shot in battle

20’s

@25-1989 Lane Frost, 

American bull rider, 

trampled by bull @ Cheyenne Frontier Days

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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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