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July 30, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 211
86004 Today: H 73° \ L 55°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Nearest Lightning: 1.2mi
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 8 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1943] Record Low: 40°[1913]
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Quote of the Day
The
unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
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Observances Today
Cheesecake Day
Friendship Day Link
Health Care Now! Medicare's
Birthday
National Chicken and Waffles Day
National Support Public Education Day
Paddle for Perthes Disease Awareness Day
Paperback Book Day
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons
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Observances This Week
22-30
National Moth Week
28-30
Garlic Days: Link
Lollapalooza:
30-8/5
Single Working Women's Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
1619 House of
Burgesses Virginia forms, 1st elective American governing body
1700’s
★1792 500
Marseillaisian men sing France's national anthem for 1st time
1800’s
1863 Indian Wars:
Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs the Treaty of Box Elder, promising
to stop harassing the emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah.
1866 New Orleans's
Democratic government orders police to raid an integrated Republican Party
meeting, killing 40 people and injuring 150.
1900’s
1928 George Eastman
shows first amateur color motion pictures to guests at his New York house
including Thomas Edison
★1932 10th modern
Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1935 1st Penguin
book is published, starting the paperback revolution
1942 FDR signs
bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
★1948 Emile Zatopek
runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)
1956 US motto
"In God We Trust" authorized
1965 LBJ signs
Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966
1974 House
Judiciary Committee votes on 3rd & last charge of "high crimes &
misdemeanors" to impeach President Nixon in the Watergate cover-up
1975 US Teamsters
President Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit; Hoffa was legally
declared dead in 1982
1990 The first
Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.
2000’s
★2003 The last 'old
style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line in Mexico
★2013 Wikileaks
discloser Bradley [later Chelsea] Manning convicted of 17 espionage charges
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My Rambling Thoughts
This is turning out to
be a very wet monsoon. It is another day of clouds and rain and thunder and
lightning…kinda puts a damper on any outside activities.
Not sure if it is a
coincidence or something of import, but I slept the entire night without waking
up until 5:00a. Maybe it was the change in the CPAP, or maybe I was just more
relaxed without being concerned about my blood issue. I’ll see how this plays
out tonight.
The workings at the WH
continue to baffle many. Our president has a way of convincing people that he
is a good leader. All those guys leaving the WH employ have only positive
things to say about the experience and that they wanted the President to have a
clean slate. Maybe it’s because the WH was a ‘dream job’ and they want to have
good memories. Maybe they signed a non-disclosure agreement that could cost
them big bucks. Maybe they believe he really is the greatest man to ever sit in
the WH. With all the chaos going on, I have to wonder why the leave and have
only positive things to say.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
95- Henry W. Bloch,
American co-founder of H&R Block
@-92- Henry Louis
Smith,
American physicist who made the first X-ray photograph, born in
Greensboro, NC (d. 1951)
80’s
@-85- Casey Stengel,
baseball manager (Yankees (1949-60)/NY
Met's 1st)
(d. 1975)
84- Edd "Kookie" Byrnes,
American actor (77
Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper), born in Los Angeles
@-83- Henry
Ford,
American industrialist and auto maker (Ford Model T), born in Dearborn
Township, Michigan
(d. 1947)
70’s
78- Peter Bogdanovich,
director/producer (Last Picture
Show), born in Kingston, New York
77- Pat Schroeder,
American politician
76- Paul Anka,
singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder),
born in Ottawa, Ontario
70- Arnold
Schwarzenegger,
American body builder, actor (Terminator) and politician (38th Governor of
California), born in Thal, Austria
60’s
63- Ken Olin,
actor (Hill St Blues, Michael-30
Something), born in Chicago, Illinois
61- Anita Hill,
professor of law, Clarence Thomas'
nemesis
61- Delta Burke,
actress (Suzanne-Designing Women), born
in Orlando, Florida
50’s
56- Laurence Fishburne,
actor (Red Heat, School Daze),
born in Augusta, Georgia
54- Lisa Kudrow,
Encino California, actress
(Phoebe-Friends, Romy & Michele)
53- Vivica A. Fox,
American actress
40’s
48- Simon Baker,
Australian actor (The Mentalist)
47- Christopher
Nolan,
English film director (Inception, Interstellar), born in London
43- Hilary
Swank,
American actress (Boys Don't Cry, Million Dollar Baby), born in Lincoln,
Nebraska
30’s
@-30- Emily Brontë,
English novelist (Wuthering Heights), born in
Thornton, West Yorkshire
(d. 1848)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-1983 Lynn
Fontanne,
Broadway's premier actress (Emmy 1965)
@93-1996 Claudette
Colbert,
French-born American actress (It Happened One Night)
@91-2016 Gloria
DeHaven,
American musical actress (Step Lively)
80’s
@89-2007 Ingmar
Bergman,
Swedish stage and film director (Cries & Whispers)
@85-1997 Bảo
Đại,
last Emperor of Vietnam (1926-45) and Chief of State of South Vietnam
(1949-55)
@83-1898 Otto
von Bismarck,
German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
@80-2008 Anne
Armstrong,
U.S. ambassador to Britain and first female counsel to the President
@80-2003 Sam
Phillips,
American record producer (Sun Records)
@80-1998 Buffalo
Bob Smith,
American television host (Howdy Doody)
70’s
@73-1718 William
Penn,
English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania (No cross, no
crown)
60’s
@67-2015 Lynn
Anderson,
American country singer (I Never Promised you a Rose Garden),
heart attack
40’s
@44-1683 Maria
Theresa of Spain,
queen of Louis XIV of France,
illness
30’s
@31-1918 Joyce
Kilmer,
American poet,
shot in battle
20’s
@25-1989 Lane
Frost,
American bull rider,
trampled by bull @ Cheyenne Frontier Days
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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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