HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
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July 4, 2017 Week: 27 \
Day: 185
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 50°
Average
Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
23mph
Visibility:
10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 96°[2007]
Record Low: 32°[1912]
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Quote of the Day
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a
Democrat.
Will Rogers
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Observances Today
Boom Box Parade Day
Fourth of July or Independence
Day (U.S.)
Independence From Meat Day
Indivisible Day Link
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Observances This Week
Beans and Bacon Days: 1-5? Link
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 2-8
Freedom Week: 4-10
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
00’s
★1634 The
city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later to become the Canadian
province of Quebec.
1636 City
of Providence, Rhode Island form
1754 George
Washington gives Ft Necessity to France
1776 US
Congress proclaims the Declaration of Independence and independence from Britain
★1785
1796 1st
Independence Day celebration is held
1802 US
Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1803 The
Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people
★1817 Chief
Engineer James Geddes begins construction on the Erie Canal, (Rome, New York),
one of the first great engineering works in North America
1831 "America
(My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
1836 Wisconsin
Territory forms
1845
1855 In
Brooklyn, New York, the first edition of Walt Whitman's
book of poems, titled Leaves of Grass, is published.
★1862 Charles
Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice Liddell on
a family boat trip on the river Isis (Thames) in Oxford
1863 Boise,
Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
★1865 First
edition of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" is published
1866 Firecracker
thrown in wood starts fire destroying half of Portland, Maine, US
1881 Booker
T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute (Alabama)
1883 Buffalo
Bill Cody presents 1st Wild West show, North Platte, Nebraska
1884 Statue
of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1888 1st
organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, AZ
1910 The
US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform
legislation
1914 1st
US motorcycle race (300 miles, Dodge City Ks)
1941 Howard
Florey and Norman Heatley meet for 1st time, 11 days later they
successfully recreate penicillin
★1944 1st
Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
★1950 The
first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1960 America's
new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1966 LBJ signs
Freedom of Information Act
★1976 Operation
Entebbe - Israel rescues 229 Air France hostage passengers In Uganda (3
hostages die along with Ugandan soldiers and Israeli soldier)
★1987 Nazi
Klaus Barbie, "Butcher of Lyon" sentenced to life in France
1996 Hot
Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
2004 The
cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center
in New York City. (This was largely a symbolic event; actual construction would
not start for several weeks)
2009 The
Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after 8 years, due to security
reasons following the World Trade Center attacks.
2016 NASA's
Juno spacecraft successfully enters Jupiter's orbit
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another warm Monday. Ready
for the holiday. Got a haircut today and was pleasantly surprised to see that
my favorite hair cutter has finally returned. She’s been cutting my hair, on
and off, for some 15 years. Over a year ago she quit cutting hair. Now she has
returned and said she really enjoys doing it and has no plans on quitting again…yeah,
heard that before. Anyway, got a great haircut. She wanted to know about my
trips and I caught up on her family. Nice lady…a little crazy, but very nice.
All I’m going to say is ‘Don’t
be distracted by insane tweets. Keep your eye on the prize.’
Made a quick trip to the
local casino yesterday. Didn’t win, but saw some friends. It is a 15 minute
interstate drive. One the way over (east bound) I passed 3 cops who had pulled
over people. On the way back (west bound) 2 had people pulled over. Be safe and
in AZ, you have to move over when a cop has someone pulled over.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How many days does it take
Kepler-186f, an Earth-sized exoplanet in the Cygnus constellation, to orbit its
star?
365 days 130 days
247 days 165 days
27.2%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
0→Number of Supreme Court decisions repudiating Korematsu
v US, in which legalized Japanese-American internment
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Yep, It Really Happened
The Case of the
Mysterious Exploding Playground Slide?
A young boy suffered serious injuries while playing at a park with his parents
and siblings, according to police in Wisconsin. West Allis police said that
investigators are trying to figure out what caused the slide to explode while
the boy was playing on it. Police ruled out foul play despite the fact that the
manufacturer had installed this type of slide all over the world and they never
exploded. The incident unfolded while 9-year-old Giuseppe Storniolo was playing
at the Reservoir Park. The boy's mother Diana, said that she heard an explosion
while her son was playing by the slide. At first, she thought that something
fell, but when she checked on her son, she realized that he suffered
second-degree burns on his leg. While the boy was sliding down, the slide
exploded and melted. The slide was immediately taken apart by city workers.
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Somewhat Useless Information
George Washington, the
celebrated Father of Our Country, had no children of his own. Researchers
believe that childhood illnesses may have rendered him sterile. He did adopt
the two children from Martha Custis' first marriage.
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A.A. Milne created Winnie
the Pooh for his son, Christopher Robin. Pooh was based on Robin's teddy bear,
Edward, a gift Christopher had received for his first birthday, and on their
father/son visits to the London Zoo, where the bear named Winnie was Christopher's
favorite.
***
In 2001, Yuri Usachev,
cosmonaut and commander of the International Space Station, received a talking
picture frame from his 12-year-old daughter while in orbit. The gift was made
possible by RadioShack, which filmed the presentation of the gift for a TV
commercial.
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Birthdays Today
@ indicates age at death
100’s
@100- Gloria
Stuart,
actress
(Rose-Titanic)/founder (Screen Actors Guild), born in Santa Monica, California
(d.
2010)
90’s
@94- Pauline
Phillips,
Sioux
City, Iowa, advice columnist (Dear Abby),
(d.
2013)
93- Eva
Marie Saint,
actress
(On the Waterfront, North by Northwest), born in Newark, NJ
90- Gina
Lollobrigida,
Subiaco
Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest)
90- Neil
Simon,
playwright
(Odd Couple, Plaza Suite, Biloxi Blues), born in The Bronx
80’s
@87- Rube
Goldberg,
cartoonist
(who made the easy outrageously difficult) Pulitzer Prize 1948, born in San
Francisco,
(d.
1970)
@87- Leona
Helmsley,
(wife
of Harry), real estate billionaire/tax cheat
(d.
2007)
@83- Ann
Landers,
Sioux
City Iowa, twin sister/advice columnist
(d.
2003)
@82- Hiram
Walker,
American
grocer and distiller
(d.
1899)
@80- George
Steinbrenner,
American
businessman and owner of the NY Yankees, born in Rocky River, Ohio
(d.
2010)
70’s
74-
Geraldo Rivera,
TV
host
60’s
@60- Calvin
Coolidge [Silent Cal],
30th
US President (R) (1923-29), born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont
(d.
1933)
50’s
@59- Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
author
(House of 7 Gables, The Scarlet Letter), born in Salem Massachusetts
(d.
1864)
30’s
@37- Stephen
Foster,
American
composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River), born in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania
(d.
1864)
Teen’s
19-
Malia Obama,
first
daughter
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-1826 John
Adams,
2nd
US President (1797-1801)
80’s
@86-2008 Jesse
Helms,
American
politician
@83-1826 Thomas
Jefferson,
3rd
US President (1801-09)
@81-1891 Hannibal
Hamlin,
U.S.
Vice President
70’s
@76-1995 Eva
Gabor,
Hungarian-born
American actress (Green Acres), pneumonia
@73-1831 James
Monroe,
5th
US president (1817-25), heart failure/TB
60’s
@67-1995 Richard
"Pancho" Gonzalez,
tennis
great, stomach cancer
@66-1934 Marie
Skłodowska-Curie,
French-Polish
Physicist/Chemist, 1st woman to win Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), radiation
poisoning
50’s
@58-2003 Barry
White,
American
singer, stroke
30’s
@39-1902 Swami
Vivekananda,
Indian
Hindu spiritual leader and a key figure in the introduction of Yoga to the
Western world, while meditating (stroke?)
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Trivia Hive Answers
130 days
Kepler-186f was the first
Earth-sized planet to be verified in its star's "Habitable Zone"
identified by NASA. Previous planets found in the habitable zone were much
larger than Earth, but Kepler-186f is less than 10 percent larger, making it a
comparable size. The planet is located in the Kepler-186 system about 500
light-years away from Earth - alongside four other inner planets - and it
orbits its star once every 130 days. Source: NASA
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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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