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July 8, 2017 Week: 27 \
Day: 189
86004 Today: H 91° \ L 56°
Average
Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
22mph
Nearest lightning: 14mi
Visibility:
10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[2002]
Record Low: 32°[1955]
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Quote of the Day
We live in a rainbow of chaos.
Paul Cezanne
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Observances Today
Bald Is In
Body Painting Day Link
Carver Day Link
Coca Cola Day Link
(Note: The actual date when Coca Cola
was invented is unknown. So the birth date of the inventor is celebrated.)
Grange Day
Math 2.0 Day (Founding Day) Link
SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama)
Taos Pueblo Pow Wow: 7-9 Link
Wayne Chicken Day: 7-9 Link
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Observances This Week
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 2-8
Freedom Week: 4-10
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link
National Tom Sawyer Days: 7-9? (aka Fence Painting Days)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1000’s
★1099 First
Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession
around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1500’s
★1579 Our
Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered
underground in the city of Kazan, Tatarstan.
1600’s
1693 NYC
authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
1700’s
1796 US
State Department issues 1st US passport
1800’s
1835 Liberty
Bell cracks (again)
★1853 Commodore Matthew
C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to
Western influence and trade
1892 American
Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
1900’s
1913 Alfred
Carlton Gilbert's patent for the Erector Set is issued, which became one of the
most popular toys of all time
1923 Harding
becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1933 Public
Works Administration becomes effective
★1948 500th
anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church celebrated in Moscow
★1949 The
Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual
relationship between White people and people of other race groups is passed in
South Africa
★1953 US
stops aid to Persia (now Iran)
★1963 US
bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
★1975 Quake
damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of
Thandawgya decapitated
1990 12:34:56
on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
★1996 British
girls group the Spice Girls release their debut single
"Wannabe" in the UK
2000’s
★2012 119th
Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Serena Williams beats A Radwańska
(6-1 5-7 6-2)
★2016 Italian
designer Maria Grazia Chiuri is the first woman to be appointed artistic
director at French fashion house Christian Dior
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My Rambling Thoughts
Very warm Friday. I will
survive! More record heat through the weekend. Hoping that the Monsoon will
arrive very soon. This is our 9th day over 90°, the average is 4
days.
So Trump fools the media
again…talks about Russia influence in voting…with leader of Russia. Too bad he
just sees this as a game. Have to wait and see what happens next.
Somebody messed up…in the
current Administration. Nobody made hotel reservations and since it wasn’t
being held at a Trump property, The German gov’t stepped up and let him stay at
a government house in Hamburg. That’s why his wife couldn’t attend a spousal event
as the protesters were stopping her from leaving the house. Ooops.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Who wrote the novel
"Beloved"?
Toni
Morrison Gwendolyn
Brooks
Richard
Wright James Baldwin
53.5%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
160→Minimum number of individuals whom Donal Trump
has directly insulted on Twitter since he declared his candidacy.
4/21/2010→Date on which Trump tweeted that the musical
American Idiot was an ‘amazing
theatrical experience.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-------------- Man
Needed a Lift --------------*
Police in Florida said a man caught driving a stolen forklift told officers he
was tired of walking -- and it wasn't the first time. Port Orange Police said
an officer approached Bradley Barefoot, 43, who was appropriately barefoot at
the time, after spotting him with the stolen forklift. "There was a male
parked in a handicap spot with a piece of heavy equipment that had a mattress
on it. The male was barefoot, talking to himself while swearing and throwing
his hands up," the Port Orange Police report said. Barefoot initially told
the officer he took the forklift because he thought it was the same one that
has been stolen from his boss in Alabama, but he later said he took the $38,000
vehicle because he was tired of walking and he noticed the keys had been left
in the ignition. Barefoot was arrested on a charge of grand theft. Police said
the incident wasn't Barefoot's first offense -- he was arrested in April 2016
when he took a forklift from behind a Best Buy store in Daytona Beach and used
it to move some boxes before driving the piece of equipment to a Bob Evans
restaurant. Investigators said Barefoot told them in the 2016 case that he took
the forklift because he didn't feel like walking.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Fourth of July
celebrations became more common as years passed. In 1870, Congress declared
July 4 to be an unpaid national holiday for federal employees. In 1938,
Congress changed the legislation to be a paid federal holiday.
***
Around 900 copies of the Declaration
were created by printer John Dunlap. Only 26 copies, referred to as "The
Dunlap Broadsides" are left: 21 are owned by American institutions, two by
British institutions and three are privately owned.
***
Robert Livingston, a
member of the Provincial congress of New York, was one of the committee to
draft the Declaration of Independence - but was recalled by his state before he
was able to sign it, and missed out on his place in history.
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Birthdays Today
@ indicates age at death
90’s
@97- John D. Rockefeller,
American
industrialist and founder of Standard Oil, born in Richford, NY
(d.
1937)
80’s
@83- Jerry
Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano],
American
singer (Arriverderci Roma), born in NYC
(d.
2014)
82- Steve
Lawrence,
singer/actor
(Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy), born in Brooklyn
@81- Craig
Stevens,
Liberty
Mo, actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
(d.
2000)
70’s
@78- Ferdinand von Zeppelin,
German
general and inventor (rigid dirigibles) who founded the Zeppelin airship
company, born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany
(d.
1917)
73- Jeffrey
Tambor,
actor
(Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders), born in San Francisco
@71- Roone Arledge,
American
President of ABC Sports (Monday Night Football), born in NYC,
(d.
2002)
@70-- Nelson
A Rockefeller,
(Gov-R-NY)
41st VP (1974-77)
(d.
1979)
70- Kim
Darby,
American
actress (True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man), born in Hollywood
60’s
68-
Wolfgang Puck,
chef
66- Anjelica Huston,
American
actress (Prizzi's Honor, The Adams Family), born in Los Angeles
64- Jonathan
Segal,
American
actor (Jonathan-Paper Chase), born in NYC
50’s
59- Kevin
Bacon,
actor
(Diner, Footloose, She's Having a Baby), born in Philadelphia
@57- John
Pemberton,
American
pharmacist and inventor of Coca-Cola, born in Knoxville, Georgia
(d.
1888)
56- Toby
Keith,
American
singer
54-
Rocky Carroll,
actor
(Chicago Hope, NCIS)
40’s
49-
Michael Weatherly,
TV
actor (NCIS, Bull)
46- Beck
[Bek David Campbell],
American
singer (Morning Phase), born in Los Angeles
40-
Milo Ventimiglia,
actor
(Gilmore Girls)
Teen’s
19- Jaden
Smith,
American
actor
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2012 Ernest Borgnine,
American
actor (Ice station Zebra, Marty)
@93-2011 Betty Ford,
First
Lady of the United States (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic
80’s
@82-1994 Kim Il-sung,
Founder,
dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94)
70’s
@78-1957 Grace
Goodhue Coolidge,
1st
lady (1923-29)
@72-1985 Phil
Foster,
comedian
(Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley), heart attack
60’s
@69-2015 Ken
"The Snake" Stabler,
NFL
quarterback (Oak Raiders, Super Bowl XI), colon cancer
@65-1932 Florenz
Ziegfeld,
US
theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), pleurisy
@64-1994 Dick
Sargent [Richard Stanford Cox ],
American
actor (Darren in "Bewitched"), cancer
20’s
@29-1822 Percy
Bysshe Shelley,
English
poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns
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Trivia Hive Answers
Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison's
"Beloved" is a tale full of magical realism and a compelling story,
for which she earned a Pulitzer Prize. The novel is about a former runaway
slave, Sethe, who is haunted by a woman who appears to be the ghost of her
2-year-old daughter she killed to save from a life of slavery. In addition to
this 1987 classic, Morrison has included aspects of magical realism or
allusions to the supernatural in her other works, such as "Sula."
Source: Biography.com
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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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