Jul 24

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Jul 24, 2018 Week: 30 \ Day: 205

86004 Today: H 89° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest Lightning:  119miles away

Wind ave.:   3mph\Gusts:  14mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 91°[1937]   Record Low: 39°[1995]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.

  George Eliot

Harper’s Index

1500

Minimum number of outdoor kindergartens in Germany

Observances This Week

18^th-25^th

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

21^st-29^th

National Moth Week  Link

Observances for Today

Amelia Earhart Day

Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Pioneer Day Link
Cousins Day
International Self Care Day  Link
National Drive-Thru Day
National Tequila Day

National Thermal Engineers Day  Link 
Tell an Old Joke Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                         

1411 Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place

1500’s                                         

1534 Jacques Cartier lands in Canada, claims it for France

1600’s                                         

1651 Anthony Johnson, a free African American, receives grant of 250 acres in Virginia

1800’s                                         

1823 Slavery is abolished in Chile

1824 Harrisburg Pennsylvanian newspaper publishes results of 1st public opinion poll, with a clear lead for Andrew Jackson

1847 Brigham Young and his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, Utah

1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union

1900’s                                         

1911 American explorer Hiram Bingham discovers Machu Picchu, the Lost City of the Incas

1917 Trial of Dutch exotic dancer Mata Hari begins in Paris for allegedly spying for Germany and thus causing the deaths of 50,000 soldiers

1952 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record 5K (14:06.6)

1952 "High Noon", American Western film directed by Fred Zinnemann, starring Gary Cooper and Thomas Mitchell, is released

1959 US Vice President Richard Nixon argues with Nikita Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"

1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Quebec libre! Long live free Quebec!'

1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth

1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes

1985 French DGSE officers Dominique Prieur and Alain Mafart are arrested and charged with murder over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior

1998 "Saving Private Ryan", directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks, Edward Burns and Matt Damon, is released (Academy Awards Best Director 1999)

2000’s                                         

2002 On 200th anniversary of his birth French author Alexandre Dumas' ('The Three Musketeers') ashes are interred in the Panthéon in Paris in a televised ceremony

2013 22 are left dead after a conflict between the Knights Templar Cartel and Mexican police in Michoacan

2015 US President Barack Obama begins an historic 2 day visit to Kenya

My Rambling Thoughts

Lazy Monday. Cleaned up the laundry room cabinets. Did all the cleaning with no pain or wrapping. Guess I’m getting better.

What a perk…if you have a security clearance with the government and leave under good circumstances, you keep your security clearance. (I guess I still have my low-level one. Hmmm.)  I would like to know exactly what information these high security people who no longer work for the government have access too. I would also like to know why they keep them. When I retired, my official email account was closed, I gave up all my keys, I had to leave all my files. It seems that all these former whatever people on all the cable channels can still use their security clearance to get information for their interviews. Now as 45 has threatened to pull clearances for many of his opponents, people are up in arms that it is just ‘political’. I’m sorry to say this but it seems to me that when you leave the government service, you automatically lose your security clearance, no matter who you are, including everyone from the President on down, elected or hired.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@82- Chief Dan George [Tes-wah-no], chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation author, poet and actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man, Smith!), born in Vancouver, British Columbia (d. 1981)

82- Ruth Buzzi, Westerly RI, comedienne (Laugh-In, Margie-That Girl)

70’s

@77- Bella Abzug, (Rep-D-NY, 1970-74) (d. 1998) surgery complicatons

72- Gallagher (Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr.), comedian (watermelons)

60’s

@68- Alexandre Dumas, French author (The Three Musketeers, The Count of Monte Cristo), born in Aisne, France (d. 1870)

67- Lynda Carter, actress (Wonder Woman), Miss World USA

66- Gus Van Sant, American film director (Good Will Hunting), born in Louisville, Kentucky

50’s

53- Barry Bonds, American baseball left fielder (MLB home-run record [762], 7 x NL MVP), born in Riverside, CA

50- Kristin Chenoweth, American singer and actress

40’s

49- Jennifer Lopez, actress and pop singer (Selena), born in @47- Simón Bolívar, Venezuelan political and military leader (freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule), born in Caracas (d. 1830)TB

@41- Amelia, American aviator (1st woman to fly solo across the Earhart Atlantic), born in Atchison, Kansas (d. 1939) lost flight

The Bronx

30’s

36- Anna Paquin, Canadian-born New Zealand Oscar-winning actress (The Piano, True Blood), born in Winnipeg, Manitoba

36- Elizabeth Moss, American actress (Mad Men), born in Los Angeles

20’s

20- Bindi Irwin, Australian TV personality, conservationist; daughter of Steve Irwin, born in Buderim, Australia

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-2016 Marni Nixon, American singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr)

@82-1974 James Chadwick, English physicist (Nobel 1935, discovered neutron), dies at 82

70’s

@79-1862 Martin Van Buren, 8th US President (1837-41), heart failure

@75-2012 S[Raymon Lee Cramton], American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II), lung cancer

@74-2012 Sherman Hemsley, American Actor, lung disease

50’s

@54-1980 Peter Sellers, English actor and comedian (The Goon Show, Pink Panther), heart attack

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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