Jul 2

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Jul 2, 2018 Week: 27\ Day: 183

86004 Today: H 86° \ L 50° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest Lightning:  692 miles away

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1969]   Record Low: 34°[1997]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

The best way to cheer yourself up

is to try  to cheer somebody else up.

  Mark Twain

Harper’s Index

12/15/2017

Date on which Anheuser-Busch sent barley into space to explore the possibility of brewing on Mars

1 in 10

Chance that an American would be more likely to buy beer if it were brewed there

More Observances This Month

Eye Injury Prevention Month Link 
Family Golf Month Link
Fragile X Awareness Month Link
Get Ready For Kindergarten Month
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month Link
Herbal/Prescription Interaction Awareness Month
Independent Retailer Month Link
International Blondie and Deborah Harry Month
National Deli Sandwich Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month Link
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month

Observances This Week

1^st-7^th

Beans and Bacon Days Link 
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
Be Nice To New Jersey Week 

Observances for Today

I Forgot Day
Made In The USA Day
Second Half of The Year Day  Link 
World UFO Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1776 New Jersey gives the right to vote to all adults who could show a net worth of 50 pounds

1787 Marquis de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1800’s                                         

1862 Lincoln signs act granting land for state agricultural colleges

1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)

1865 One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission

1881 US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield dies 79 days later

1900’s                                         

1915 Erich Muenter, an instructor in German at Cornell University, explodes a bomb in the US Senate reception room

1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism

1921 Warren G. Harding signs a joint congressional resolution declaring the official end of war with Germany

1940 Hitler orders invasion of Britain (Operation Sealion)

1949 The State of Vietnam is internationally recognised, governing the southern half of Vietnam, with Bảo Đại as chief of state

1962 Sam Walton opens his first Walmart store in Rogers, Arkansas

1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act and Voting Rights Act into law

1972 "Fiddler on the Roof" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 3242 performances

1976 US Supreme Court rules death penalty not inherently cruel or unusual

1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman

1986 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings

1991 Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring

2000’s          

2005 Wimbledon Women's Tennis: Venus Williamsbeats fellow American Lindsay Davenport 4-6, 7-6, 9-7 for the 3rd of her 5 Wimbledon singles titles

2017 US President Donald Trump tweets edited wrestling video of himself attacking news network 'CNN'

2017 New Jersey Governor Chris Christie causes uproar by day at beach during his government's shutdown of beaches

2017 World Health Organization declares Ebola outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo over (4 deaths)

My Rambling Thoughts

Quiet Sunday with plenty of time to watch the Sunday news shows…and do some laundry.

Spent some time working on my Amazon pics. Coming along slowly. Still not as fast as before as my wrist heals.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

89- Imelda Marcos, Filipino politician and First Lady of the Philippines (1965-86) who famously collected over 1,000 pairs of shoes, born in Manila, Philippines

@85- Hermann Hesse, German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany (d. 1962)

@84- Thurgood Marshall, 1st African American Supreme Court justice (1967-91), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1993)

70’s

71- Larry David, American actor, comedian and screen-writer (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), born in Brooklyn

30’s

34- Johnny Weir, American figure skater

32- Lindsay Lohan, American actress (Alli Fowler-Another World), born in NYC

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-1997 Jimmy Stewart, American actor (The Philadelphia Story and It's a Wonderful Life)

@89-1995 Gail Gordon, actor (Our Miss Brooks, Lucy Show)

@88-2013 Douglas Engelbart, American computer scientist (computer mouse, Engelbart's Law)
@87-2016 Elie Wiesel, Jewish Auschwitz survivor and author (Night), Nobel Prize winner 1986

70’s

@78-2007 Beverly Sills, American operatic soprano lung cancer

@78-1999 Mario Puzo, American author, heart failure

60’s

@62-1566 Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam], French astrologist, gout

@61-1961 Ernest Hemingway, American author and Nobel laureate (The Old Man and the Sea), suicide

50’s

@56-1973 Elizabeth "Betty" Grable, American singer, dancer, pin-up girl and actress (I Wake Up Screaming, How to Marry a Millionaire, Gay Divorcee), lung cancer

@55-1991 Lee Remick, actress (Days of Wine & Roses), cancer

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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