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July 29, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 210
86004 Today: H 81° \ L 55°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Nearest lightning: 2.8mi
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 12mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[2002] Record Low: 43°[1997]
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Quote of the Day
It was
the best of times, it was the worst of times.
Charles Dickens
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Observances Today
Army Chaplain Corps Anniversary Link
International Chicken Wing Day Link
Lasagna Day
National Dance Day Link
National Lipstick Day Link
Rain Day Link
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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
28-30
Garlic Days: Link
Lollapalooza:
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1200’s
★1221 Emperor
Go-Horikawa aged only 10 years old ascends to the Chrysanthemum Throne of Japan
1600’s
1609 Samuel
de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York
setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years
1700’s
1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mtns completed,
Schoenbrunn, OH
1786 1st newspaper published west of Alleghanies, Pitts
Gazette
1800’s
1835 1st sugar plantation in Hawaii begins
★1836 Inauguration
of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
★1848 Irish
Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt - an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against
British rule put down by police
1900’s
★1905 US
Secretary of State William
Howard Taftmakes
secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free
rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines
1927 1st iron lung installed (Bellevue hospital, NY)
1928 Test footage first created for Walt Disney's "Steamboat Willie" with Mickey
Mouse
1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st
appears
1938 Olympic National Park forms
★1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic games in London
★1954 Publication
of "Fellowship of the Ring" 1st volume of "Lord of the
Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien
published
by George Allen and Unwin in London
★1956 Jacques Cousteau's
Calypso anchors in 7,500 m of water (record)
1958 US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and
Space Act of 1958
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
★1984 23rd
Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles
★1994 200,000
Muslims demand the death of feminist writer Taslima Nasrin in Bangladesh
★1996 The
controversial child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act (1996)
is struck down as too broad by a U.S. federal court.
2000’s
2015 Part of missing airline MH370 is found on the island
of Reunion
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My Rambling Thoughts
Monsoon continues…lots of lightning and
thunder and now the rain. Enjoying a great day.
Went to see my PCP about my CPAP
machine. Turns out, sometime in the last few months I had moved the Oxygen
level down to low…didn’t even know it had a control. Fixed that and all should
be good for my blood count. Feeling a little stupid, since I didn’t even know
it had an adjustment. It is a tiny knob that simply spins around. Only shows
the Oxygen level when the stupid machine is turned on. Let’s hope this fixes
it.
News media is saying that Healthcare
reform is over, since AZ John McCain followed through with his promise of a few
days ago. Good for him. But I feel this is like a B Horror movie where everyone
thinks the monster is dead, only to learn that it rises again. And the
conservatives still believe that the over 50 votes in Congress to end Obamacare
that failed is just water under the bridge and a new bill will be available
soon.
Still amazed that WH head of
Communications has such a limited vocabulary. The Mooch certainly took over the
news cycle for a day. We all know the words and his images; we just don’t say
them for all America to read. Oh well, just has us all wondering the answer to
that old song about ‘how low can you go?’.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
100’s
★00’s
@-102- "Professor"
Irwin Corey,
comedian
(Car Wash, Doc), born in Brooklyn, New York
(d. 2017)
90’s
@-94- Vladimir
K. Zworykin,
Russian-American
inventor (development of television, cathode ray tube), born in Murom, Russian
Empire
(d. 1982)
@-91- Robert
Horton,
actor
(Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena), born in Los Angeles, California
(d. 2016)
80’s
84- Robert
Fuller,
actor
(Laramie, Wagon Train), born in Troy, NY
81- Elizabeth
Hanford Dole,
US
Secretary of Transportation (1983-87)
70’s
72-Sharon
Creech,
Children’s
author Newberry winner
60’s
68- Marilyn
Tucker Quayle,
novelist/wife
of Vice President Dan Quayle (1989-93)
@-67- Peter Jennings,
news anchor
(ABC Evening News), born in Toronto,
(d. 2005)
64- Tim
Gunn,
American
television personality
@-62- Walter Hunt,
American
inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), born in Martinsburg, NY
(d. 1859)
@-61- Benito Nussolini (Il Duce),
Fascist
Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy
(d. 1945)
50’s
@-56- Dag
Hammarskjöld,
Swedish
public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and
posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden
(d. 1961)
@-53- Alexis
de Tocqueville,
France,
statesman/writer (Democracy in America)
(d. 1859)
51- Martina
McBride,
country
singer
40’s
45- Wil
Wheaton,
CA, actor
(Star Trek Next Generation-Wesley, Stand By Me)
43-Josh
Radnor,
Actor (How
I Met Your Mother)
20’s
@-22- Elizabeth
Short,
American victim
in the Black Dahlia case, born in Boston, Massachusetts
(d. 1947)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@86-1983 Raymond
Massey,
actor (Dr
Kildare)
70’s
@73-1983 David NIven,
British
actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Rugues), ALS
@71-2007 Tom
Snyder,
American
television personality (The Tomorrow Show), leukemia
60’s
@62-1979 Bill
Todman,
American
television producer, heart disease
30’s
@37-1890 Vinent van Gogh,
Dutch
painter (Sunflowers), 2 days after shooting himself
@32-1974 "Mama"
Cass Elliot,
singer
(Mamas & Papas), 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.
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