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Aug 1, 2017 Week: 31 \ Day: 213
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 59°
Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 18mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Aug Averages: 80°\49°
Aug Records: H: 93° (1902) L: 24(1968)
Record High: 92°[1977] Record Low: 42°[1915]
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Quote of the Day
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try
to cheer somebody else up.
Mark Twain
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Observances Today
Girlfriend's
Day
Lughnasa Link
Mead Day Link
National
Minority Donor Awareness Day
National
Night Out Link
Respect
For Parents
Rounds Resounding Day
Spider-Man Day
Tisha B'Av
US Air Force Day Link
World Lung Cancer Day
World Wide Web Day
World Scout Scarf Day
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Observances This Week
1-7
International Clown
Week Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Week
Simplify Your Life Week Link
World Breastfeeding Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s
Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1789 US Customs
begins enforcing Tariff Act
★1793 France
becomes 1st country to use the metric system
1794 Whiskey
Rebellion begins in western Pennsylvania
★1798 Battle of the
Nile: British Royal Navy under Admiral Horatio Nelson attacks
and decimates the French fleet at Aboukir Bay off the Nile Delta, Egypt
1800’s
★1831 London Bridge
opens to traffic
1832 The Black
Hawk War ends.
★1838 Apprenticeship
system abolished in most of the British Empire. Former slaves no longer
indentured to former owners.
1867 Blacks vote
for 1st time in a US state election in the South (Tenn)
1869 1st voyage
down Colorado River
1876 Colorado
becomes 38th state of the Union
1900’s
1917 Frank Little,
IWW organizer, lynched in Butte, MT
★1936 Adolf
Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
1941 The first
Jeep is produced.
1944 Adam Clayton
Powell elected 1st African-American congressman from New York
1946 US
President Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC)
★1950 Guam Organic
Act establishes Guam as an unincorporated US territory
1953 California
introduces sales tax (for education)
★1954 South African
Natives Resettlement Act comes into being, empowers the Government to remove
Africans from any area within and next to the magisterial district of
Johannesburg
1957 1st
commercial building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM)
1960 Chubby
Checker releases "The Twist"
★1968 Canada begins
replacing silver with nickel in coins
1972 1st article
exposing Watergate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward)
★1976 21st Olympic
games close at Montreal Canada
1981 MTV premieres
at 12:01 AM
★1987 In New
Zealand, the Maori Language Act comes into force, making te reo Māori an
official language of New Zealand; it can now be used in some legal proceedings.
★1988 Rush Limbaugh
begins his national radio show.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Monday…still having
monsoon…lots of rain in July, looks like only light showers today. NICE!
Cleaned up after having
a visitor over the weekend. Laundry, changed sheets and towels, vacuumed, ready
for the week now.
My mom always hung a flag on holidays. Today she would have had the CO flag flying on our front porch.
Turned on the news to
find that the Mooch is out. Yeah, there is no chaos in the WH. Very confused. I’ve
heard our president talk about the importance of securing the border and
protecting all Americans. So, he takes the head of Homeland Security, the very
office responsible for security, and moves him to the Chief of Staff at WH and
doesn’t name anyone to replace him. Yeah, national security is very important,
but not, I guess, as important as the WH offices. Sitting here dumbfounded.
More upsetting for me
is that there were a number of reports over the weekend that the president’s
supporters think he is doing a great job. Scary.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates
age at death
90’s
@93- Mother Jones (Mary
Harris "Mother" Jones),
American labor
organizer
(d. 1930)
70’s
@75- Dom DeLuise,
American comedian (End, Cannonball Run, Fatso), born in Brooklyn,
(d. 2009)
@72- Herman
Melville,
author (Moby-Dick,
Billy Budd),born in New York City
(d. 1891)
@71- Yves
Saint-Laurent,
Oran Algeria, fashion
designer (Opium, Obsession)
(d. 2008)
60’s
@68- William Clark,
American explorer,
soldier, Indian agent and territorial governor who lead the Lewis and Clark
Expedition of 1804-06 and claimed the Pacific Northwest for the United States,
born in Ladysmith, Virginia
(d. 1838)
@63- Francis Scott
Key,
American lawyer, poet
and composer of the lyrics to "Star-Spangled Banner", born in Carroll
County, Maryland
(d. 1843)
@61- Ilya Ivanovich
Ivanov,
Russian Biologist who
perfected the artificial insemination of animals and showed that his technology
allowed one stallion to fertilize up to 500 mares
(d. 1932)
60- Bart Conner,
US, parallel bars
gymnist (Olympic-gold-1984)
50’s
58- Joe Elliott,
lead singer (Def Leppard)
54- Coolio [Artis
Leon Ivey Jr.],
American rapper
(Gangsta's Paradise), born in Monessen Pennsylvania
@53- Jerry Garcia,
SF, rocker (Grateful
Dead) (d. 1995)
40’s
44- Tempestt Bledsoe,
actress (Cosby Show)
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Historical Obits Today
70’s
@76-2009 Corazon
Aquino,
11th President of the
Philippines (1986-92),
colon cancer
@75-1866 John Ross
(aka. Koo-wi-s-gu-wi),
Principal Chief of the
Cherokee Nation
60’s
@62-1983 Peter
Arne,
actor (Straw Dogs),
bludgeoned to death
@61-1980 Strother
Martin,
actor (Slapshot),
heart attack
50’s
@58-1981 Paddy
Chayefsky,
screenwriter (Network,
Hospital)
cancer
@53-30 BC Mark
Antony,
Roman Politician and
General,
commits suicide after
he is defeated by Octavian at the Battle of Actium
@51-1903 Calamity
Jane [Martha Jane Canary],
American
frontierswoman,
pneumonia
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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…☼☼☼☼
