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July , 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 205
86004 Today: H 83° \ L 54°
Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
15mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
91°[1937] Record Low: 39°[1995]
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Quote of the Day
People
only see what they are prepared to see.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Observances Today
Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Pioneer Day Link
National
Drive-Thru Day
National Tequila Day
National Thermal Engineers Day Link
Tell An Old Joke Day
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Observances This Week
Restless
Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
National Moth Week: 22-30
National Scrabble Week: 22-26 Link
RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race): 23-29
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1500’s
★1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France
1600’s
★1673 Edmond Halley enters The Queen's College, Oxford, as an
undergraduate
1700’s
1701 Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac found trading post at Ft
Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit
1800’s
★1823 Slavery is
abolished in Chile.
1824 Harrisburg
Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a
clear lead for Andrew Jackson
1847 Brigham
Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
★1851 Window
tax abolished in Britain
1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to
Union
1900’s
★1905 Tsar Nicholas
II (Russia) and Emperor Wilhelm II (Germany) sign the
Björkö Treaty, whereby each country agrees to come to the other's defense if
attacked by European powers
1911 American
explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City
of the Incas
★1921 15th Tour de
France won by Leon Scieur of Belgium
1938 Instant coffee invented
1959 US VP Richard Nixon argues with Nikita
Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
★1961 Beginning of a
trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over
Watergate tapes
★1985 French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain
Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow
Warrior
2000’s
★2002 On 200th
anniversary of his birth French author Alexandre Dumas' ('The Three
Musketeers') ashes are interred in the Panthéon in Paris in a televised
ceremony.
★2015 US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya
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My Rambling Thoughts
Lots of lightning and thunder close by.
This will be short post today.
Watched my Sunday morning news shows.
Interesting take by several of ‘new’ Press office of the President. The new guy
says that what he used to believe is not what he believes today. That’s why he
deleted so many tweets regarding the current leader. Hmmm.
I get that times change and views
change, but human core values should not. Someone who said all nasty things
about the candidate, will someday say nasty things about the leader. Nasty is
Nasty.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
100’s
@-101- Frances Oldham
Kelsey,
Canadian-American
FDA Director (stopped thalidomide use in the US), born in Cobble Hill, British
Columbia
(d.2015)
80’s
81- Mark
Goddard,
actor (Don
West-Lost in Space), born in Lowell, Massachusetts
81- Ruth
Buzzi,
Westerly
RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)
70’s
@-77- Bella Abzug,
(Rep-D-NY,
1970-74)
(d. 1998)
71- Gallagher,
comedian
70- Robert
Hays,
Bethesda
Md, actor (Airplane!, Starman, Scandalous)
60’s
@-68- Alexandre
Dumas,
French
author (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), born in Aisne, France
(d. 1870)
66- Lynda
Carter,
Miss USA
(1973) actress (Wonder Woman), born in Phoenix, Arizona
60- Pam
Tillis,
Plant City
Fla, country singer (Melancholy Child)
50’s
53- Barry Bonds,
American
football left fielder (Pirates, SF Giants, 7X MVP), born in Riverside,
California
40’s
49- Kristin
Chenoweth,
American
singer and actress
48- Jennifer Lopez,
actress and
pop singer (Selena), born in The Bronx, New York
@-47- Simon Bolivar,
Venezuelan
political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish
rule), born in Caracas
(d. 1830)
@-41± Amelia Earhart,
American
aviator and 1st woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, born in Atchison, Kansas
(d. 1939)
30’s
35- Anna
Paquin,
Canadian-born
New Zealand Oscar-winning actress (The Piano, True Blood), born in Winnipeg,
Manitoba
Teen’s
19- Bindi
Irwin,
Australian
entertainer; daughter of Steve Irwin
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-1997 William
J. Brennan, Jr.
American
Supreme Court judge (1956-90)
70’s
@79-1862 Martin Van Buren,
8th US
president (1837-41), heart failure
@75-2012 Chad
Everett,
American
actor, lung cancer
@74-2012 Sherman
Hemsley,
American
Actor, natural causes
50’s
@54-1980 Peter Sellers,
English
actor and comedian (The Goon Show, Pink Panther), heart attack
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
