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July 9, 2017 Week: 28 \ Day: 190

86004 Today: H 91° \ L 57°

Average Sky Cover: 50% 

Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning 6 miles

July Averages: 82°\50°

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

Record High: 94°[2003]   Record Low: 34°[1926]

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Quote of the Day

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

   Oscar Wilde

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Observances Today

National Sugar Cookie Day

Martyrdom of The Bab

Taos Pueblo Pow Wow: 7-9  Link

Wayne Chicken Day: 7-9 Link 

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Observances This Week

Freedom Week: 4-10 

Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link 

National Tom Sawyer Days: 7-9? (aka Fence Painting Days)

National Farriers Week: 9-15 (First Full Week)

Sports Cliché Week: 9-15 (Always Week of Maj. League Baseball)

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★-  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s

★-1357 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.

1400’s

★-1401 Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000 

1500’s

★-1553 Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England,succeeding Edward VI, who proclaimed his half-sisters illegitimate. Reigns for nine days.

1700’s

★-1755 Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh): French troops beat British

1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)

1795 James Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt

1800’s

1800 Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US

1815 1st natural gas well in US is discovered

★-1816 Argentina declares independence from Spain

1846 The territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress.

★-1877 First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first offical lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only

1893- Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery w/o anesthesia

1900’s

1922 Johnny Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute

1932 Washington Redskins (the Boston Braves) formed

★-1939 A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa

★-1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten

1953 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)

1956 Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand 

1958 Giant splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay, Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain

1962 Andy Warhol's 1st West Coast gallery exhibition: Ferus Gallery of LA

★-1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli hostage rescue raid on Entebbe

1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington, D.C. for ERA

★-1991 South Africa readmitted to Olympics

1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing for biting Evander Holyfield's ear

2000’s

★-2011 South Sudan gains independence and secedes from Sudan.

★-2014 Spokesperson for Medical Aid for Palestinians claims that at least 7 children have been killed by Israeli air strikes

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My Rambling Thoughts

A warm Saturday. Yesterday, about 7p the rain arrived and temps dropped about 15° in ten minutes. It was a nice gentle rain that lasted about 30 minutes. Much needed and much appreciated. Hoping for more this afternoon.

Not happy with any network reporting on the G-20. They all got is wrong about talking to Putin  about election hacking, they won’t admit it, and just babble on and on about what they think might possibly be going on. Really I want NEWS, not commentary. That said, I do remember Nixon saying ‘I am not a crook’ when the evidence had not been released to the public and then when it became public knowledge, he resigned. History does have a way of repeating itself. I await the outcome.

Took some time to clean up my back room, and clean off the deck. Nice day to just sit out there and enjoy. But I do need the fan on. Just not enough breeze.

My blood doc is getting to be a pain. When I did my last blood draw I talked to his nurse about my CPAP machine. She babble about how he was leaving that day and wouldn't be back until Jul 5. I called the office on the 6th and left a voice mail on the nurse's extension. She didn't call back by the afternoon of the 7th, so I called again, stating I needed a call back. She called back about 4:55. She apologized and babbled about how busy she was after the Doc's vaca.  She promised to call me back 'next week'. I know this is not life threatening or anything, but my insurance pays just like everyone else and I expect better service. I'll give her till Thursday and then my wrath will appear.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL:

The President’s daughter sitting at the table of the G-20 with the President nowhere to be seen.

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

As of 2017, who was Chicago's longest-running mayor?

Richard M. Daley      Rahm Emanuel

Carter Harrison, Jr   William Butler Ogden

88.0% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index

19→Number of floors by which the Trump World Tower’s advertised height exceed its actual height.

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Yep, It Really Happened

A California TV reporter is gaining national fame from an unfortunate incident: Being sprayed with vomit by a drunken reveler.

Wendy Burch of KTLA-TV was delivering a live report Tuesday from an "Ironman" competition in Hermosa Beach when she went to interview some of the participants during a portion of the event that called on the competitors to chug beer after a physical challenge.

Burch made note of one drunken competitor vomiting nearby and moved to give her room and question a man who appeared to be holding his alcohol a bit better.

The video shows Burch and the man both end up struck by projectile vomit from yet another competitor standing off-camera.

Burch said the man she was interviewing was asking for it -- quite literally.

"What I didn't notice until later, is that he had a bullseye drawn on his back with the words 'puke here' written in magic marker," she wrote in The Huffington Post.

She said the video's freeze-frame right at the moment of vomiting was a coincidental technical glitch.

Burch continued to report from the event after wiping the vomit from her skin and clothes.

The reporter said she was surprised to see the video quickly go viral, spreading with multiple YouTube uploads gaining thousands of views each.

"To all of you aspiring journalists out there, I'm here to tell you, dreams really do come true -- especially in the age of viral videos," Burch wrote.

           

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Somewhat Useless Information

The "invention" of language is not known except for references in the Bible. It is not known what language Adam and Eve spoke. The first mention of different languages is the reference to the tower of Babel when different tongues were bestowed.

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The invention of writing, however, is credited to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC. Their descendants, the Sumero-Babylonians, developed the time system that we use today: an hour divided into 60 minutes, which are divided into 60 seconds.

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Today, there are more than 2,700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7,000 dialects. In Indonesia alone, 365 different languages are spoken. More than 1,000 different languages are spoken in Africa.

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Birthdays Today

@  indicates age at death

90’s

90- Ed Ames,

Malden Mass, actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone)

80’s

@83- Jacob Perkins,

Newburyport Massachusetts, American Inventor (Father of Refrigerator)

(d. 1849)

70’s

@78- Lee Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson) (d. 2007)

75- Richard Roundtree,

actor (Getting Even, Shaft), born in New Rochelle, New York
70- O. J. Simpson (Orenthal James),

NFL running back (Buf Bills), in prison, born in San Francisco 

60’s

@67- Vince Edwards,

American actor (Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), born in Brooklyn,

(d, 1996)

65- John Tesh,

New age pianist/TV host (ET), born in Garden City, New York

62- Jimmy Smits,

actor (Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue), born in Brooklyn

61- Tom Hanks,

American actor (Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), born in Concord, California

50’s

53- Courtney Love,

American muscian (Hole) and actress (People vs Larry Flynt), born in San Francisco, California

40’s

@48- Elias Howe,

Spencer Mass, invented sewing machine

(d. 1867)

41- Fred Aaron Savage, Ill,

actor (Kevin-Wonder Years, Vice Versa)

20’s

26- Mitchel Musso,

American TV actor

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-2014 Eileen Ford,

American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency)

@92-1977 Alice Paul, 

American suffragist

80’s

@83-1974 Earl Warren, 
governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68)

70’s

@79-1992 Eric Savareid,

News correspondent (CBS), stomach cancer

@77-2002 Rod Steiger, 

American actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker), pneumonia

60’s

@65-1850 Zachary Taylor, 

12th US president (1849-50), in White House of intestinal ailment

50’s

@58-1852 Thompson McKennan,

American politician who served as the 2nd US Secretary of the Interior

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Trivia Hive  Answers

Richard M. Daley

First elected in 1989, Richard M. Daley - son of fellow Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley - served a whopping six terms before finally passing the torch to the city's current mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Daley's time as mayor was marked by many ups and downs: He's credited for overhauling public housing and the local school systems, as well as investing heavily in the city's infrastructure. But his administration was also investigated for accusations of fraud and contracting irregularities. Source: Chicago Tribune

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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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