Jul 28

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Jul 28, 2018 Week: 30 \ Day: 209

86004 Today: H 89° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest Lightning:  1 mile away

Wind ave.:  2 mph\Gusts: 10 mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 94°[1995]   Record Low: 36°[1913]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

Harper’s Index

72

Percentage of Afghan refugees who have had to flee 

  a second time after returning home

2/5

Estimated portion of global migrants who are traveling 

  from one developing nation to another

Observances This Week

21^st-29^th

National Moth Week  Link

26^th-28^th

World Lumberjack Championships
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days
Garlic Days Link 

Observances for Today

Buffalo Soldiers Day  Link
National Dance Day  Link
National Day of the CowboyLink
National Milk Chocolate Day  Link
National Waterpark Day  Link
World Hepatitis Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s                                         

1148 Second Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus

1700’s                                         

1794 French Revolution figure Robespierre & 22 other leaders 

  of "the Terror" guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris

1800’s                                         

1821 Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)

1866 Metric system becomes a legal measurement system in US

1868 US Secretary of State William H. Seward announces 

  14th Amendment ratified by states, grants citizenship to ex-slaves

1896 City of Miami incorporated

1900’s                                         

1900 Hamburger created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut

1915 Because of virtual anarchy, US Marines go ashore in Haiti 

  on orders from President Woodrow Wilson; this will lead to 

  an occupation that will last until 1934

1917 Silent Parade organized by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000

  African-Americans who march on 5th Ave in NYC to protest 

  against lynching

1928 9th Olympic Games open in Amsterdam

1932 Battle between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die

1932 US President Herbert Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment

1933 1st singing telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC

1951 "Kiss Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC 

  after 1,077 performances

1954 "On the Waterfront", directed by Elia Kazan starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie Saint, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1955)

1959 Hawaii's 1st US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress

1965 LBJ sends 50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)

1978 600,000 attend the "Summer Jam" rock festival at Watkins Glen,

   New York, at the time the largest ever audience at a pop festival

1984 23rd modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1992 R&B singer Mary J. Blige releases her debut album 

  "What's the 411?", with production by Puff Daddy

2000’s                                         

2014 UN Security Council hold emergency meeting calling 

  for an immediate and indefinite humanitarian ceasefire between 

  Israel and Hamas

2017 US Senate vote for "skinny" repeal of Obamacare fails 

  51-49 when John McCain casts deciding vote against

My Rambling Thoughts

Monsoon continues each afternoon. Helps cool things off. Lately it has just been nice gentle rain with a little thunder.  Up North yesterday, on the rez, it’s a little more violent with lots of flash floods and several major power poles were broken and power was out for 15-20 hours from Tuba to Cameron.

Mary and I had a great lunch yesterday. She and her hubby are heading for Oregon and their family beach house on Saturday. They will enjoy that area about 3 weeks, then when she gets back, she heads to Italy in mid-Sept. with her daughter for a couple of weeks. Nice! Cheryl is traveling in Indiana and Michigan…her home area…for a while longer.

Deadline came and went and 700+ children are still separated. Hmmm. And some of the parents signed papers to be deported immediately and leave their children here. Lawyers and humanitarians say they didn’t understand what they were signing.

Our HOA really went overboard with its new parking areas. Most days and every night there are now 25-30 empty parking spaces for residents and zero empty spaces for visitors. It makes our residential area look like very few people live here. I know that isn’t true cause the trash man comes every day to empty our three trash bins while we await larger bins.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@81- Marcel Duchamp, French sculptor and painter 

  (Nude Descending a Staircase), 

  born in Blainville-Crevon, France (d. 1968)

70’s

@77- Beatrix Potter, English children's author and illustrator 

  (The Tale of Peter Rabbit), born in London 

  (d. 1943) heart disease

@76- Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware), born in Berlin, New Hampshire (d. 1983)

73- Jim Davis, American cartoonist and creator of the comic strips

   "Garfield" and "U.S. Acres", born in Marion, Indiana

70- Sally Struthers, actress (Gloria-All in the Family), 

  born in Portland, Oregon

70- Georgia Engel, American actress 

  (Georgette- The Mary Tyler Moore Show), born in Washington, D.C.

60’s

@64- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American First Lady (1961-63), 

  born in Southampton, New York (d. 1994) lymphoma

50’s

@58- Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (1998-2013), 

  born in Sabaneta, Barinas State, Venezuela (d. 2013) colon cancer

40’s

47- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Leader of Islamic State of Iraq and 

  the Levant (ISIL), born in Samarra, Iraq

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@80-2013 Eileen Breenan, American actress

70’s

@78-1939 William James Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder 

  (Mayo Clinic in Minnesota), dies at 78

60’s

@65-1750 Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue, Mattheus-Passion), unsuccessful treatment for blindness

@63-1741 Antonio Vivaldi, Italian Baroque composer 

  (The Four Seasons), infection

@54-1985 Grant Williams, American actor 

  (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man), toxic poisoning

50’s

@54±-1540 Thomas Cromwell, English chief minister for 

  King Henry VIII, 

  executed for treason and heresy

30’s

@36-1794 Maximilien Robespierre, French revolutionary 

  (President of the National Convention, Member of Committee of Public 

  Safety), executed by guillotine

@36-1655 Cyrano de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist 

  unknown cause

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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