Jul 7

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Jul 7, 2018 Week: 27\ Day: 188

86004 Today: H 85° \ L 58° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Nearest Lightning:  23.8 miles away

Wind ave.:   11mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: °92[1905]   Record Low: 32°[1955]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Laws are like sausages, it is better

not to see them being made.

  Otto von Bismarck

Harper’s Index

120

Number of hand grenades seized by Ukrainian police from civilians in 2013

2200

In 2017

More Observances This Month

Tour de France Month (1-23)
Wheat Month Link
Women's Motorcycle Month
World Watercolor Month Link
Worldwide Bereaved Parents Month

Observances This Week

1^st-7^th

Beans and Bacon Days Link 
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
Be Nice To New Jersey Week
4^th-10^th

Freedom Week
6^th-8^th

Rosewell UFO Days Link
7^th-14^th

Creative Maladjustment Week Link
7^th-9^th

National Tom Sawyer Days 

Observances for Today

Chocolate Day Link
Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day
Global Forgiveness Day Link
International Day of Cooperatives 
International Cherry Pit Spitting Day  Link 
National Strawberry Sundae Day

Tell The Truth Day
Victims of The Dallas, Texas Attack Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                         

1456 A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death

1500’s                                         

1520 Battle of Otumba Mexico: Hernán Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force

1550 Traditional date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe

1600’s                                         

1668 Isaac Newton receives MA from Trinity College, Cambridge

1700’s                                         

1753 British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament (opens in 1759)

1754 Kings College in NYC opens (renamed Columbia College)

1800’s                                         

1802 1st comic book "The Wasp" is published in Hudson, New York criticizing Republican politicians

1863 Orders barring Jews from serving under US General Ulysses S. Grant are revoked

1900’s                                         

1905 127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)

1908 The Democratic Party meets in Denver at the start of their convention; William Jennings Bryan is nominated as presidential nominee

1923 University of Delaware invents "junior year abroad" (at Sorbonne)

1928 Sliced bread sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company, Missouri, using a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder. Described as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped.

1942 John Maynard Keynes takes his seat in the British House Of Lords as Baron Keynes of Tilton after being knighted

1958 President Eisenhower signed a bill approving Alaskan statehood

1977 12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City

1990 First Three Tenors concert featuring Plácido Domingo, José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti at Baths of Caracalla in Rome - recording of is world's best-selling classical record

1996 Nelson Mandela steps down as President of South Africa

2000’s

2017 United Nations nuclear weapon ban treaty adopted in New York, without participation of nuclear countries

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s been a few busy days with visitors, visiting others, enjoying the 4^th, and on and on.

The 4^th was nice. Several people dropped by for a visit. I didn’t head out to the casino for the fireworks…it’s too dry here for fireworks. Glad I didn’t. The people who did had to deal with huge crowds and an only a 15 minutes show.

Yesterday I headed to another friend’s house who was having a get together for my former Financial Advisor. Nice to see Mary Ellen. Her husband, Charles, is suffering from dementia and while he is still mobile, he didn’t join in any of the conversations beyond ‘hello’ and had trouble figuring out how the buffet line worked. Sad. We had a nice cold buffet and I met several people who have very interesting lives, as is mine.

I’m back to wearing my wrist brace. Maybe I’ve been too active without it. I don’t have pain, just a constant aching that the brace seems to help. I can’t wait for this whole adventure to end.

Surprisingly I received a call from Medicare today. Turns out none of the employees I’ve talked to are government employees, they are all contracted out. The lady I talked to today said I must go back to SS and tell them I’m an S-9 and demand to talk to a supervisor to figure out how much I owe.  Of course, it was SS that told me to call Medicare. A typical case of the left hand not knowing or caring what the right hand is doing.

I’ve been following the Thai kids in the cave. Finally looked up where the cave is and discovered it is in the very north of Thailand, nowhere near the places we visited.  

As a child I always enjoyed summer. Now, not so much. It’s hot everywhere…very hot most places around here. There are fires everywhere, especially Colorado. Our little mountain town made it through the 4^th celebrations with no wildfires. Still a long way to go before the fire danger diminishes.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

91- Carl Hilding ‘Doc’ Severinson, [Carl], bandleader/trumpeter on the Tonight Show, born in Arlington, Oregon

80’s

@81- Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (estimated speed of dinosaurs, born in Lisburn, Northern Ireland (d. 2016)

@80- Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer (invented the bread-slicing machine), born in Davenport, Iowa (d. 1960)

70’s

78- Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey], Beatles drummer (Magic Christian), born in Liverpool, England

60’s

69- Shelley Duvall, actress (Popeye, Faery Tale Theater), born in Houston, Texas

30’s

38- Michele Kwan, figure skater (Olympics 1994, Olympic silver 1998), born in Torrance, California

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83-2016 Rokusuke Ei, Japanese author and lyricist (Sukiyaki)

70’s

@75-1890 Henri Nestlé, German-Swiss industrialist (founder of Nestlé), heart attack

@71-1930 Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock Holmes), heart attack

@70-1990 Bill Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), cancer

60’s

@65-2001 Frederick Neil, American folk singer-songwriter and dolphin conservationist (Everybody's Talkin'), skin cancer

@61-1647 Thomas Hooker, American colonial clergyman (known as "the father of Connecticut") epidemical sickness

@60-2006 Syd Barrett, English guitarist and early vocalist of the band Pink Floyd, pancreatic cancer 

50’s

@53-1967 Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley), actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), TB

@50-1973 Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman], American actress (Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch), hepatitis and acute kidney injury 

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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