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July 27, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 208

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 51°

Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  10mph

Visibility: 10 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

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

Record High: 93°[1947]   Record Low: 36°[1913]

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Quote of the Day

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  Otto von Bismarck

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Observances Today

Barbie-in-a-blender Day Link

National Chili Dog Day  

National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day  Link

Take Your Pants for a Walk Day

National Intern Day Link 

National Refreshment Day  Link  

Walk on Stilts Day

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Observances This Week

22-30

National Moth Week

23-29

RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race)

27-29

World Lumberjack Championships: 27-29 

Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 27-29 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s

★1501 Nicolaus Copernicus formally installed as a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral

★1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan - 1st Christian missionary in Japan

★1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia

1700’s

1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department

1800’s

★1865 Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

★1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)

★1890 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh shoots himself in Auvers-sur-Oise, dies of injuries 2 days later

1900’s

1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)

★1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto

★1924 8th Olympic games closes in Paris

1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops

1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts

1940 Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"

★1987 First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.

1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer

★1992 Nelson Mandela says a general strike will go ahead to protest for the removal of South African President F. W. de Klerk from power and for free elections

1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured

1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a "900"

2000’s

2007 2 News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. Worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.

★2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007)

★2013 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt

2014 Obama reaffirms Israel's "right to defend itself", but condemns civilian casualties in Gaza

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My Rambling Thoughts

Shopping day successful. After a day of rain and high winds yesterday, today is much nicer.

And our leader continues to undo everything our first Black President did. Today it is the Transgender issue in the military. Claims they are just too expensive. Wonder how the other free world countries (UK, Canada, Israel…) handle it?

Never been a fan of good ol’ boy Jeff, and certainly do not like some of his AG changes, but the plethora of negative tweets from the leader make we want to see Jeff stay and fight for his job. His recusal is one of the few decisions I agree with.

Today’s quote certainly is being played out on the Senate floor. Seems like everyone has several amendments and they are all being presented. Sure glad I am not a Senator and trying to figure out each and every amendment and then decide how to vote. My experience as a school leader is that there is a proposal to the board. Then lots of discussion from the board and many times the community members. After hours of discussion, it is tabled until the next meeting. A month later things have calmed down and a vote is taken. Seems that isn’t happening in DC today. Interesting to watch.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@-98- Audley Moore, 

civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]

(d. 1997)

95- Norman Lear, 

TV writer/producer (All in The Family)

80’s

86- Jerry Van Dyke, 

Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)

80- Anna Dawson, 

British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances)

70’s

73- Bobbie Gentry, 

Mississippi, singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)

@-70- Keenan Wynn, 

actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), born in NYC  

(d. 1986)

70- Betty Thomas, 

actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues), born in St Louis 

60’s

69- Peggy Fleming Jenkins, 

figure skater (Olym-gold-1968), born in San Jose, California

68- Maureen McGovern, 

singer (Got To Be a Morning After), born in Youngstown, Ohio

50’s

59- Christopher Dean, 

Olympics skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)

54- Donnie Yen, 

movie actor (Blade II)

50- Sasha Mitchell, 

actor (Spike of Bensonhurst), born in Los Angeles

40’s

44- Cassandra Clare, 

young adult author (The Mortal Instruments)

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@100-2003 Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope], 

English-born American actor, comedian and entertainer

90’s

@90-1876 Walter Channing, 

American physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth

80’s

@83-1929 Raoul Pictet, 

Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics

70’s

@72-2016 James Alan MacPherson, 

American writer, 1st black writer to win Pulitzer Prize, pneumonia

@72-1946 Gertrude Stein, 

US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), stomach cancer

60’s

@60-1980 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 

Shah of Iran (1941-79), cancer

50’s

@58-1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed

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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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