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July 17, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 198
86004 Today: H 84° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
--mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
91°[1980] Record Low: 40°[1904]
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Quote of the Day
Golf
is a good walk spoiled.
Mark Twain
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Observances Today
Disneyland
Day
National Get Out of the Doghouse Day
Victims
of Baton Rouge, Louisianna Attack Day Link
World Emoji Day Link
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
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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
1700’s
1775 1st
military hospital approved
1800’s
1850 Harvard
Observatory takes 1st photograph of a star (Vega)
1861 US
Congress authorizes paper money
★1863 Māori
forces are defeated by British troops at Koheroa, Waikato, in the New Zealand
Wars between Maori tribes and British colonials
1867 1st
US dental school, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, established
1879 1st
railroad opens in Hawaii
1897 1st
ship arrives in Seattle carrying gold from Yukon
1900’s
★1917 Royal
Proclamation by King George V changes name of British Royal
family from German Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor
★1945 Potsdam
Conference (Truman, Stalin, Churchill) holds 1st meeting
1951 Western
New England College in Springfield, Massachusetts, is chartered.
1954 Construction
begins on Disneyland. . .
1955 Disneyland
televises its grand opening in Anaheim, California.
★1959 Paleoanthropologist Mary
Leakey discovers partial skull of a new species of early human ancestor,
Zinjanthropus boisei or 'Zinj' (now called Paranthropus boisei) lived in Africa
almost 2 million years ago
1959 "North
by Northwest" directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring
Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint premieres in Los Angeles
1962 Senate
rejects Medicare for aged
★1964 ANC
leader Nelson Mandela, recently sentenced to life imprisonment, is
awarded the Joliot Curie Gold Medal for Peace
1966 Jim
Ryun sets mile record (3m51s3)
★1976 21st
modern Olympic games opens in Montreal: 25 African teams (later rising to 33
nations) boycott the games due to New Zealand playing rugby in apartheid South
Africa
★1979 Sebastian
Coe runs world record 3:49 mile in Oslo
1984 US
passes National Minimum Drinking Age Act, prohibiting under 21's from buying or
possessing alcohol as a condition of receiving State highway funds
★1998 Russia
buries Tsar Nicholas II & family, 80 years after they died2004
Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison plus five months in home
confinement for lying to federal investigators
2000’s
★2004 Former
South African President Nelson Mandela calls for commitment by
the world to take action against Aids
★2007 TAM
Airlines (TAM Linhas Aéreas) Flight 3054 crashes upon landing during rain in
São Paulo. This is Brazil's deadliest aviation accident to date with an
estimated 199 deaths.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Still waiting for today’s monsoon, but I
am confident that it will arrive sometime this afternoon. Right now warm and
33% humidity makes it warmer.
Lots of good stuff on Sunday morning
news programs. Glad to hear that John McCain is recovering well from his eye
surgery. He certainly caused a stir by having it as the vote on the crazy
Senate plan is delayed until he returns. More of a lame excuse than anything
else as he has been telling his constituents that he is not in favor of the bill
as presented.
Only once a day I have started watching
about 30-60 minutes of Fox news. Turns out many of their people are not strong
Trump supporters as some would have us believe. Certainly I don’t watch the
shows that are only pro-Trump, but I watch some that simply keep wondering what
the heck is going on. Good to listen to all sides.
Got the Focus Travel Club site all up
to date. Check it out.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
Which country has the highest percentage
of women respective to its population?
El
Salvador Ukraine
Portugal Latvia
27.3% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
$423,371→Minimum amount Donald Trump’s ampaign has
disbursed to Mar-a-Lago, his private club
in Palm Beach
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------- Snake Knocks Out Power to 4,790
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A snake that slithered into the wrong section of a South Carolina electrical
substation was blamed for knocking out power to nearly 4,800 homes, utility
officials said. Duke Energy spokesman Ryan Mosier released a photo showing a
snake dangling from equipment at the Brushy Creek substation Wednesday after
knocking out power to 4,790 customers in Greenville County. "It's not
uncommon, especially this time of year, to see something like this happen,"
Mosier said. Duke Energy spokeswoman Meghan Musgrave Miles said snakes are
blamed for about 100 power outages each year in the six states where the
utility operates. She said the company is taking steps to prevent future
incidents, including retrofitting 400,000 transformers with specially designed
electric fences to keep snakes and other animals away.
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Somewhat Useless Information
All types of ducks are part of the bird
family Anatidae, and there are species of ducks found worldwide on every
continent except Antarctica.
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Ducks are precocial, which means that ducklings are covered with down and able
to walk and leave the nest just a few hours after hatching.
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A duck's bill is specialized to help it forage in mud and to strain food from
the water. A hard nail at the tip of the bill helps with foraging, and a
comb-like structure on the sides of the bill strains small insects and
crustaceans from water.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@-97- Art Linkletter,
Saskatchewan,
TV host (People are Funny)
(d. 2010)
@-95- Phyllis
Diller,
American
comedienne and actress (Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number), born in Lima, Ohio
(d. 2012)
80’s
@-86- James Cagney,
American
actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy), born in NYC
(d. 1986)
@-85- Gordon Gould,
American
physicist (inventor of the laser) born in New York City
(d. 2005)
@-84- John Jacob Astor,
Germany,
richest man in US, banker/fur trader
(d. 1848)
82- Donald
Sutherland,
St John New
Brunswick, Canadian actor (M*A*S*H, Body Snatchers)
82- Diahann
Carroll,
actress
(Julia, Claudine, Dominique-Dynasty), born in The Bronx
@-80- Erle Stanley
Gardner,
American
detective writer (Perry Mason), born in Malden, Massachusetts
(d. 1970)
70’s
75- Spencer
Davis,
Wales,
vocalist (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
75- Gale
Garnett,
singer
(We'll Sing in the Sunshine), born in Auckland, New Zealand
70- Camilla
Parker Bowles (Duchess of Cornwall),
wife of Prince
Charles, born in London, England,
60’s
65- David Hasselhoff,
American
actor (Night Rider, Mitch-Baywatch), born in Baltimore, Maryland
63- Angela
Merkel,
German
politician, Chancellor of Germany (2005-), born in Hamburg
@-60- Phoebe Snow,
singer
(Theme from "It's a Different World")
(d. 2011)
40’s
41- Luke
Bryan,
country
singer
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2009 Walter Cronkite,
American
broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81)
80’s
@89-2014 Elaine
Stritch,
American
actress (30 Rock, Two's Company), singer and member of the American Theater
Hall of Fame
@88-2006 Mickey
Spillane,
American
author
70’s
@77-2016 Gary
S. Paxton,
American
musician and songwriter (Monster Mash), liver disease
@77-1881 Jim
Bridger,
American
mountain man, Indian fighter, and explorer
@74-1961 Ty Cobb,
American
baseball great (Detroit Tigers) who set 90 MLB records during his career, cancer
60’s
@67-1790 Adam Smith,
Scottish
economist (Wealth of Nations) and moral philosopher
@64-1974 Jay
Hanna "Dizzy" Dean,
pitcher (St
Louis Cards), heart attack
50’s
@57-1996 [Bryan]
Chas Chandler,
English
rock bassist (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun) and manager of Jimi Hendrix,
aneurysm
@50-1918 NIcholas II Alexandrovich,
last Tsar
of Russia, executed with entire family
40’s
@44-1959 Billie Holiday,
jazz
singer, cirrhosis
@40-1967 John Coltrane,
American
jazz saxophonist/composer (Blue Train), cancer
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Trivia Hive Answers
Latvia
What can we say? The ladies love Latvia.
Out of its population of nearly 2 million citizens, women make up an estimated
54.1 percent. Latvia squeaked by Lithuania and Curacao by one-tenth and
two-tenths of a percent, respectively. So why does Latvia lack men? Experts
speculate high national casualty rates from World War II continue to tip the
scales in favor of female residents even today. High male mortality rates from
smoking and drinking don't help either. Sources: worldatlas.com, Worldometers
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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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