Jul 29

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Jul 29, 2018 Week: 31\ Day: 210

86004 Today: H 86° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Nearest Lightning:  6 miles away

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

Record High: 92°[2002]   Record Low: 37°[1913]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Freedom is never given; it is won.

  A. Philip Randolph

Harper’s Index

28

Number of the world’s top 100 Scrabble players who live in Nigeria

Observances This Week

21^st-29^th

National Moth Week  Link

29^th-8/4th
Single Working Women's Week

Observances for Today

Army Chaplain Corps Anniversary  Link
International Chicken Wing Day Link
Interntional Tiger Day Link
Lasagna Day
National Chicken Wing Day Link
National Lasagna Day

National Lipstick Day  
Rain Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1567 James VI is crowned King of Scots at Stirling

1585 University of Franeker/ University of Friesland opens in the Netherlands

1600’s                                         

1609 Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs at Ticonderoga, New York setting the stage for French-Iroquois conflicts for the next 150 years

1700’s                                         

1715 10 Spanish treasure galleons sunk off Florida coast by a hurricane

1773 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny Mountains completed, Schoenbrunn, Ohio

1800’s                                         

1836 Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

1899 1st motorcycle race, Manhattan Beach, NY

1900’s                                         

1905 US Secretary of State William Howard Taft makes secret agreement with Japanese Prime Minister Katsura agreeing to Japanese free rein in Korea in return for non-interference with the US in the Philippines

1907 Sir Robert Baden-Powell forms Boy Scouts in England

1920 Mexican rebel Pancho Villa surrenders

1938 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears

1948 King George VI opens 14th modern Olympic Games in London

1954 Publication of "Fellowship of the Ring" 1st volume of "Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien published by George Allen and Unwin in London

1958 US President Eisenhower signs into law National Aeronautics and Space Act (NASA) of 1958

1975 Ford became 1st US President to visit Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz

1981 Anti-apartheid protesters against the Springbok rugby tour are confronted by police who use batons to stop them marching to South Africa’s Consul in New Zealand

1984 23rd Summer Olympics opens in Los Angeles

1987 Ben & Jerry's and Jerry Garcia agree on a new flavor Cherry Garcia

2000’s                                         

2015 Part of missing airline MH370 is found on the island of Reunion

My Rambling Thoughts

I spoke too soon yesterday regarding our pleasant gentle monsoon. About 5p we were hit hard with lots of lightning, thunder, hard rain that lasted almost an hour. I spent time this morning cleaning up my back deck from the hard rain. Lots of pine needles and bunches of pine needles. Looks like lots more rain today. Around noon our first storm brought some nice rain, but more is certainly on the horizon later this afternoon as the wind is really picking up. Guess I’m right, my phone just sent an alert to watch out for flash flooding in our area until 6P.

Our little housing area had some real excitement last evening. About 7p, after the rain, a guy in the older block of units was yelling, cussing, screaming about something. A few minutes later 2 police cars with sirens blazing pulled up to the older units, one from each entrance. Sirens stayed on longer than I expected after they parked. Then about 10 minutes later a big red fire truck pulled up, with lights and sirens. They stayed about 30 minutes, then the fire truck left, without pulling out any hose. Then about 10 minutes later the two cop cars left. No idea what happened. I remember the old saying ‘curiosity killed the cat.’

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

@102- "Professor" Irwin Corey, comedian (Car Wash, Doc), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2017)

90’s

@94- Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American inventor (development of television, cathode ray tube), born in Murom, Russian Empire (d. 1982)

@91- Robert Horton [Meade Howard Horton Jr.], American actor and singer (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2016)

80’s

85- Robert Fuller, actor (Laramie, Wagon Train), born in Troy, New York

@84- Dorothy Hodgkin, British chemist who developed protein crystallography, 3rd woman to win a Nobel Prize (1964), born in Cairo, Egypt (d. 1994)

81- Charles Schwab, American investor and entrepreneur (Charles Schwab Corporation), born in Sacramento, California

60’s

@67- Peter Jennings, news anchor (ABC Evening News), born in Toronto, Ontario (d. 2005) lung cancer

65- Tim Gunn, American television and fashion personality (Project Runway), born in Washington D.C.

@62- Walter Hunt, American inventor (safety pin, sewing machine), born in Martinsburg, New York (d. 1859)

@61- Benito Mussolini [Il Duce], Fascist Italian dictator (1922-43), born in Predappio, Forlì, Italy (d. 1945) executed by firing squad

61- Virginia Maria "Ginni" Rometty, American chairwoman, president and CEO of IBM, born in Chigago, Illinois

50’s

@56- Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), born in Jönköping, Sweden (d. 1961) plane crash on peace mission in Zambia

@53- Alexis de Tocqueville, French statesman/writer (Democracy in America) (d. 1859) TB

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-1984 Fred Waring, American musician and conductor (name behind the Waring Blender), dies at 84

70’s

@73-1983 David Niven, British actor (Around the World in 80 Days, Rugues), ALS

@71-2007 Tom Snyder, American television personality (The Tomorrow Show), leukemia

50’s

@51-1986 Gordon Mills, British songwriter (Tom Jones - "Its not Unusual"), cancer

30’s

@37-1890 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter (Sunflowers), dies 2 days after shooting himself

@32-1974 "Mama" Cass Elliot, singer (Mamas & Papas), 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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