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July 16, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 197
86004 Today: H 89° \ L 55°
Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
-mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
92°[1961] Record Low: 37°[2001]
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Quote of the Day
When
you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.
Yogi
Berra
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Observances Today
Anne
Hutchinson Memorial Day
Celebration
of The Horse Day: 15-16
Hot
Dog Night
Lake Superior Day
National Personal Chef's Day Link
World Snake Day Link
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Observances This Week
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
Captive Nations Week: 16-22
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 16-22 Link
National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 16-22Link
National Zoo Keeper Week: 16-22 Link
National Independent Retailers Week:16-22 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
600’s
★622 Muslim
Era begins - Muhammad begins flight from Mecca to Medina (Hijra)
1400’s
★1439 Kissing
is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1500’s
★1548 La
Paz, Bolivia, is founded
1700’s
1769 Father
Junipero Serra founds Mission San Diego the 1st mission in California
1790 Congress
declares the city of Washington in the District of Columbia, the permanent capital
of the United States
1798 US
Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1900’s
★1900 A
report appears in London that all foreigners in Peking, China, have been
massacred. Although soon exposed as false, the report helps mobilize support
for relief of foreigners
★1901 The
Fawcett Commission headed by Millicent Fawcett is established as a result of an
outcry against the treatment of Afrikaners in concentration camps during the
South African War
★1918 A
Bolshevik firing squad at Ekaterinburg, Siberia, executes Tsar Nicholas
II of Russia and his family
★1926 National
Geographic takes 1st natural-color undersea photos
1951 Novel
"Catcher in Rye" by J. D. Salinger published by Little Brown & Co.
1956 Last
Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Circus under a canvas tent
1957 US
Marine Major John Glenn sets transcontinental speed record
(03:28:08)
★1963 Amazon
river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)
1969 Apollo
11 launched, carrying 1st men to land on Moon
1988 Carl
Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 Florence
Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds
1990 NYC's
Empire State Building catches fire-no fatalities
★1990 Ukraine
declares independence
★1994 1st
parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd)
1999 John
F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and sister-in-law Lauren
Bessette are killed in a plane crash off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. The
Piper Saratoga aircraft was piloted by Kennedy
2000’s
2001 "Jurassic
Park III", starring Sam Neill and William H Macy,
premieres in the US
2004 Millennium
Park, considered the first and most ambitious architectural project in the
early 21st century for Chicago, is opened to the public by Mayor Richard M.
Daley.
★2007 An
earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occurs off the Niigata coast,
Japan, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power
plant. See 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake.
★2014 Bashar
al-Assad is sworn in for a third term as President of Syria
2015 Scientists
reveal 1st close-up pictures of Pluto, sent by the New Horizons probe
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My Rambling Thoughts
Late night with Netflix last night
making today a lazy day. Tomorrow will be busy as I update the Focus Travel
website.
Monsoon continues to keep us cool and
has finally lifted the most severe fire restrictions. Daily rain is sure nice…even
if I get a little wet.
About an hour ago I got treated to
another angio-edema episode. This time it’s my lower lip. Pill is helping, but
still bothersome, since no doctor seems to know why it happens.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
Where was Massachusetts Senator
Elizabeth Warren born?
California Indiana
Massachusetts Oklahoma
38.4% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@-92- George Mueller,
NASA
Systems Engineer (managed 1969 Moon landing), born in St Louis
(d. 2015)
@-90- Barnard Hughes,
Bedford
Hills NY, (Tron, Where's Poppa, Best Friends)
(d. 2006)
@-90- Bess Myerson,
1st Jewish
Miss America (1945), born in The Bronx,
(d. 2014)
80’s
@-89- Mary Baker
Eddy,
American
founder of Christian Science (Science & Health), born in Bow, New Hampshire
(d. 1910)
@-88- Orville
Redenbacher,
American
popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn), born in Brazil,
Indiana
(d. 1995)
@-83- Ginger
Rogers [Virginia McMath],
American
actress, dancer and singer (Top Hat, Kitty Foyle) born in Independence,
Missouri
(d. 1995)
@-82- Barbara Stanwyck,
actress
(Dynasty II, Big Valley, Thorn Birds), born in Brooklyn,
(d. 1990)
70’s
74- Jimmy
Johnson,
American
NFL coach (Dallas Cowboys, Miami Dolphins), born in Port Arthur, Texas
60’s
@-64- "Shoeless"
Joe Jackson,
Chicago
White Sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
(d. 1951)
50’s
59- Michael
Flatley,
Irish choreographer
(Lord of Dance), born in Chicago, Illinois
@-55- Roald
Amundsen,
Norwegian
polar explorer who led the 1st expedition to the South Pole, born in Borge,
Østfold, Norway
(d. 1928)
50- Will
Ferrell,
American
comedian
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2012 Kitty
Wells,
American
country singer
80’s
@87-1915 Ellen
White,
American
co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist Church,
70’s
@70-2014 Johnny
Winter,
American
Hall of Fame blues musician, emphysema
60’s
@63-1882 Mary
Todd Lincoln,
American
wife of Abraham Lincoln and US First Lady (1861-65), coma
30’s
@38-1999 John
F. Kennedy Jr.,
American
publisher (George) and lawyer, plane crash
@33-1999 Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy,
wife of
John F. Kennedy, Jr., plane crash
Teens
@18-1871 Tad
Lincoln,
son of U.S.
president Abraham Lincoln, TB
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Trivia Hive Answers
Oklahoma
Liz may be well known in Massachusetts,
but she's originally from the Sooner State, where she was born in 1949.
Although she would go on to be a financial scholar, liberal icon and
"persistent" critic of Senator Mitch McConnell, Senator Warren came
from a working-class background in Oklahoma City, and started attending George
Washington University when she was only 16! These days, she's a famous
spokesperson for the Democratic Party and, some think, a possible 2020 presidential
candidate. Source: Official Senate website, 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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