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July 19, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 200
86004 Today: H 86° \ L 56°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
17mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
92°[1989] Record Low: 34°[1987]
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Quote of the Day
Patience
is the companion of wisdom.
Saint
Augustine
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Observances Today
Flitch
Day Link
National Hot Dog Day Link
Take
Your Poet To Work Week
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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
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
National Baby Food Week: 19-22 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1500’s
★1595 Astronomer Johannes
Kepler has an epiphany and develops his theory of the geometrical basis of
the universe
1800’s
★1843 Brunel's
steamship the SS Great Britain is launched, becomes first ocean-going craft
with an iron hull or screw propeller and the largest vessel afloat in the world
1845 Fire
in NYC destroys 1,000 homes & kills many
1848 1st
US women's rights convention held in Seneca Falls NY, organized by Elizabeth
Cady Stanton & Lucretia Mott
1866 Tennessee
is 1st to ratify 14th Amendment to the US constitution, guaranteeing civil
rights
1900’s
★1903 1st
Tour de France won by Maurice Garin of France
1912 A
meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County,
Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the
town.
★1949 Laos
becomes associated state within French Union
★1952 15th
modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1961 1st
in-flight movie shown (TWA)
★1969 Apollo
11 goes into Moon orbit
★1980 22nd
modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1984 Geraldine
A Ferraro, (Rep-D-NY), wins Democratic VP nomination
1985 Christa
McAuliffe chosen as 1st school teacher to fly aboard the space shuttle
1991 Cal
Ripken plays in his 1,500th consecutive game 1993 President
Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions
★1996 26th
Olympic Games opens in Atlanta, Georgia
2000’s
2007 TV
drama "Mad Men" debuts starring Jon Hamm, Elizabeth Moss
and Vincent Kartheiser on cable network AMC
★2015 World
Health Organization puts world's Ebola death toll at 11,284
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy day, awaiting the monsoon. Wind
is picking up, so it won’t be long.
Got my CPAP machine set for something.
Not real sure what he did or if it will fix the issue, or now, if there is even
an issue. No matter what the little screen shows, the printout says I’m
averaging 7.5, whatever that means. I have never been so confused by something
that seems so simple. Guess I’ll find out next Fri when I see my PCP.
And now the Conservative spin begins. ‘We
can’t pass a better plan than Obamacare, so we will just wait for it to fail
and blame the liberals.’…oh, and some of our own who didn’t get in lock step
with a bad plan. One side: The failure
to pass a bill now puts healthcare solely on the Republican Congress. Other
side: The Democrats got us into this healthcare mess and any failure falls
solely on them. Hello? Can you hear us? Healthcare is an important piece of
America and is important to all Americans.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
How many Wimbledon titles did U.S.
tennis player Pete Sampras win?
5 0
7 3
37.0% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
3→Minimum
number of US
politicians who have distributed AR-15 assault rifles at campaign events this
year
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Yep, It Really Happened
A Texas police officer responded to an
unusual plea for help when a Good Samaritan called 911 to report someone
slipped a note through the receipt slot of an ATM, saying they were trapped
inside.
The incident happened at a Bank of America branch in Corpus Christi.
Officer Richard OIden arrived at the scene after the repairman had pushed out
handwritten notes that read: "Please help. I'm stuck in here, and I don't
have my phone. Please call my boss."
At first, Olden said he thought someone was playing a prank. Then he heard a
faint voice coming from behind the machine and realized someone was actually
inside.
The repairman, who was not identified, had gone inside the room housing the ATM
to fix a broken lock on the door. Unfortunately, the lock got the better of the
worker and he'd left his cellphone in his truck, rendering him helpless.
The man had apparently put several notes through the machine, though previous
customers either didn't notice them or thought they were a joke.
When police realized what had happened, they kicked open the door to the
security room, freeing the man inside.
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Somewhat Useless Information
It is a myth that a duck's quack won't
echo. This has been conclusively disproved through different scientific
acoustic tests, and was even featured as "busted" on an episode of
the Discovery Channel show Mythbusters.
***
Ducks have been domesticated as pets and farm animals for more than 500 years,
and all domestic ducks are descended from either the mallard or the Muscovy
duck.
***
Ducks are omnivorous, opportunistic eaters and will eat grass, aquatic plants,
insects, seeds, fruit, fish, crustaceans and other types of food.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@-93- Robert Aitken,
Zen co-founder (Diamond
Sangha), born in Philadelphia,
(d. 2010)
80’s
@-84- Pat Hingle [Martin Patterson],
American actor
(Splendor in the Grass, Batman Returns), born in Miami
(d. 2009)
70’s
77- Vikki Carr
[Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)],
singer (Let it Be Him),
born in El Paso, Texas
73- Commander Cody
(George Frayne IV),
singer/pianist
(Commander Cody & Lost Planet Airmen)
60’s
@-66- Lizzie Borden,
American woman
acquitted of the murder of her parents (gave her mother forty whacks), born in
Fall River, Mass
(d. 1927)
50’s
55- Anthony
Edwards,
actor (It Takes Two, Dr
Greene-ER), born in Santa Barbara, California
40’s
@-47- Samuel Colt,
American inventor and
industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver), born in Hartford, Connecticut
(d. 1862)
41- Benedict
Cumberbatch,
English actor (12 Years
a Slave, Sherlock), born in London, England
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@93-2016 Betsy
Bloomingdale,
American
socialite and fashion leader
80’s
@86-2014 James
Garner,
American
actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick)
@81-2016 Garry
Marshall,
American TV
and film director (Happy Days, Pretty Woman)
40’s
@49-1974 Joe
Flynn,
actor
(McHale's Navy), drowning/heart attack?
@47-1975 Lefty
Frizzell,
American
country music singer and songwriter, stroke/alcoholism
@43±-1543 Lady
Mary Boleyn,
mistress of
King Henry VIII of England
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Trivia Hive Answers
7
Game, set, match! On the tennis courts,
Pete Sampras is a name familiar to many ears. In addition to five wins at the
U.S. Open, the tennis great would net seven Wimbledon titles in his career.
Sampras started professionally serving up ferocious forehands and spellbinding
backhands at the young age of 16. A child of Greek immigrants, Sampras would go
on to make his parents proud with 14 Grand Slam wins and induction to the
International Tennis Hall of Fame. 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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