Jul 14

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Jul 14, 2018 Week: 28\ Day: 195

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Nearest Lightning:  1.8 miles away

Wind ave.:   3mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1902]   Record Low: 38°[1962]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

  John Dryden

Harper’s Index

19

Number of the 20 highest-grossing films worlkwide that are part of a franchise

Observances This Week

7^th-14^th

Creative Maladjustment Week Link

8^th-14^th

National Farriers Week
Sports Cliché Week

Observances for Today

Bald Is In
Bastille Day

Body Painting Day Link
Bastille Day
Carver Day  Link 
Grange Day 
International Nude Day Link
National Macaroni and Cheese Day Link
National Nude Day

Pandemonium Day

Ratha Vatra
Shark Awareness Day Link
Victims of The Nice, France Attack Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1789 Bastille Day - the French Revolution begins with the fall of the Bastille Prison 1798 1st direct US federal tax on states-on dwellings, land and slaves

1798 US Sedition Act prohibits "false, scandalous & malicious" writing against government

1800’s                                         

1853 Commodore Perry requests trade relations with Japan

1853 US President Franklin Pierce opens World Fair - Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York

1870 The United States Congress grants Mary Todd Lincoln a life pension in the amount of $3,000 a year

1891 John T Smith patents corkboard

1900’s                                         

1914 Robert Goddard is granted the first patent for liquid-fueled rocket design

1921 Sacco & Vanzetti Trial: Sacco and Vanzetti are convicted murder and sentenced to death

1927 1st commercial airplane flight in Hawaii

1946 Dr Benjamin Spock's "Common Sense Book of Baby & Child Care" published

1951 1st color telecast of a sporting event (CBS-horse race)

1951 In his last race, 1948 Triple Crown champion Citation wins the Hollywood Gold Cup by 4 lengths, to become American racing's first millionaire horse.

1953 1st US National monument dedicated to a Negro-George Washington Carver

1969 "Easy Rider", directed by Dennis Hopper, starring himself, Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson, is released

1969 The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are officially withdrawn from circulation.

1969 A 67-year-old Catholic civilian dies after being attacked by RUC officers in Dungiven; many consider this the first death of 'the Troubles'

1978 Allen Ginsburg completes "Plutonian Ode" - blocks trainload of fissile material headed for Rockwell's nuclear bomb trigger factory, Colorado

1983 Mario Bros. is first released by Nintendo in Japan as an arcade game about an Italian-American plumber

2000’s                                         

2014 The Church of England votes in favor of allowing women to become bishops

2015 Harper Lee's 2nd novel "Go Set A Watchman", an early 1957 version of "To Kill A Mocking Bird" goes on sale in 70 countries

2015 Scientists from the Large Hadron Collider announce the discovery of a new particle called the pentaquark

2015 Arms deal agreed between 6 world powers and Iran limiting Iranian nuclear arms but ending sanctions

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s been a few busy days. Each day has brought us nice Monsoon rains with the required nearby thunder and lightning. Unfortunately, it has also brought a few lightning caused fires in our forest. Luckily, they have been quickly controlled.

On Wed. I went to my SS office appointment. The appointment was for 11:30. I wasn’t seen until 12:05. Not a happy camper. Seems several government employees saw what I needed and dumped me to another person. Really! The final outcome was that I got a copy of how much SS I will get in 2018, and that Medicare or SS will bill me in October, December, or January for the $178 I will owe. Really!?

Yesterday, after a teeth cleaning, I had lunch with our retirement group at a new place…HuHot Mongolian Grill. Good food, friendly waiter, and good atmosphere. For $11 you get unlimited bowls that you fill with meats, veggies, noodles, and about 10 different sauces from mild to very hot. Then they put it on a hot grill, heat it up, cook the meat, and finally plate it. We each had two bowls. I did not try the hottest, but did use the next to hottest sauce. It was very good. This is a chain, so if you see one near you, try it…it’s worth the lunch experience.

I also watched some of the hearings yesterday. It was great entertainment as I always like a good circus.

How any world leader can deal with 45 is beyond my comprehension. He blasts PM May in the local London paper, owned by the same corporation that owns FoxNews here, then meets with her and talks about how great she is. It was entertaining to watch 45 and his wife meet the Queen. The Queen is certainly spry and a good walker for someone 92.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93- Gerald Ford [Leslie King], 38th US President (R: 1974-77) and 41st US Vice President (R: 1973-74), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 2006)

@90- William Hanna, American animator (Hanna-Barbera, Tom and Jerry, Scooby Doo), born in Melrose, New Mexico (d. 2001)

80’s

@89- Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director (Cries & Whispers), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 2007)

@89- Dale Robertson, American actor (Death Valley Days, Tales of Wells Fargo, The Iron Horse), born in Harrah, Oklahoma (d. 2013)

@84- Tom Carvel (Athanasios Karvelas), ice cream mogul (Carvels)

@82- Florence Bascom, American geologist and 1st woman hired by the US Geological Survey, born in Williamstown, Massachusetts (d. 1945)

70’s

@79- Fredrick Maytag, inventor (washing machine), heart failure

50’s

@55- Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie, folk singer (This Land Is Your Land) (d. 1967) Huntington Disease

52- Matthew Fox, American actor (Party of 5, Lost), born in Abington, Pennsylvania

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-1998 Richard McDonald, American fast food pioneer

@87-2005 Cicely Saunders, English Nurse, physician and writer who founded the first modern hospice

60’s

@65-1965 Adlai Stevenson, US ambassador to UN (1961-65), Governor of Illinois (1949-53) and Democratic presidential candidate (1952, 56), heart attack

50’s

@58-2000 Meredith MacRae, American actress brain cancer

20’s

@21-1881 Billy the Kid [William H Bonney], American frontier outlaw, shot by sheriff Pat Garrett 

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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