Jul 8

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Jul 8, 2018 Week: 28\ Day: 189

86004 Today: H 87° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

Nearest Lightning:  5.7miles away

Wind ave.:   11mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[2002]   Record Low: 32°[1955]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. Susan Sontag

Harper’s Index

4/5

Portion of Cabinet departments whose permanent staff shrank over the first nine months of 45’s administration.

-1737

Net change in permanent staff at Dept. of Justice

+1190

At the Dept. of Homeland Security

Observances This 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
8^th-14^th

National Farriers Week
Sports Cliché Week

Observances for Today

Body Painting Day

Coca Cola Day  Link
Math 2.0 Day (Founding Day)  Link
National Blueberry Day

SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama)

Video Games Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1000’s                                         

1099 First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on

1600’s                                         

1693 NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies

1700’s                                         

1796 US State Department issues 1st US passport

1800’s                                         

1822 Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom

1853 Commodore Matthew C. Perry sails his frigate Susquehanna into Tokyo Bay, opening Japan to Western influence and trade

1870 US Congress authorizes registration of trademarks

1900’s                                         

1907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof

1913 Alfred Carlton Gilbert's patent for the Erector Set is issued, it becomes one of the most popular toys of all time

1923 Warren G. Harding becomes 1st sitting US President to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)

1933 Public Works Administration becomes effective

1941 All Jews living in Baltic States are obligated to wear a Jewish Star

1944 Japanese kamikaze attacks on US lines at Saipan

1975 Quake damages over 2,000 temples in Pagan Burma, 20-foot-high seated Buddha of Thandawgya decapitated

1996 British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut single "Wannabe" in the UK

2000’s                                         

2012 Tens of thousands protest over election corruption in Mexico City after Enrique Peña Nieto's win in the country's presidential election

2017 Unesco declares Asmara, capital of Eritrea, a world heritage site for its Art Deco buildings

My Rambling Thoughts

What a great Saturday. The monsoon finally arrived in our mountain town. It’s been playing with us for the past few days, but this is the real deal…lightning, thunder, rain bouncing off the streets. Three storms so far today, so time for some to soak in. Our monsoon is nothing like the ones in SE Asia.

I sure hope they get those soccer players, coach, and rescuers out before their monsoon hits hard.

MAGA seems to be faltering again. First on the N Korea front with two different opposing news stories coming from each side. The on the home front where it seems Homeland Security didn’t really keep records as they pulled small children from their immigrant parents. Seems some parents were deported while their kids were left here in the care of foster families they are living somewhere in the US and no one in HHS seems to know exactly where. Then there are the news stories from reliable sources that say ICE is deporting law abiding green card holders and someone else is deporting some who joined the US military to stay. How long will Americans allow this to occur? Looking at the treatment of Indigenous people here or the Japanese Americans during WWII, way, way too long.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- John D. Rockefeller, American industrialist and founder of Standard Oil, born in Richford, New York (d. 1937)

80’s

@83- Jerry Vale [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], American singer (Arriverderci Roma), born in NYC (d. 2014)

83- Steve Lawrence, American singer and actor (Go Away Little Girl, Lonely Guy), born in Brooklyn

@81- Craig Stevens [Gail Shikles Jr.], American actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn), born in Liberty, Missouri (d. 2000)

70’s

@78- Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and inventor (rigid dirigibles) who founded the Zeppelin airship company, born in Konstanz, Grand Duchy of Baden, Germany (d. 1917)

74- Jeffrey Tambor, actor (Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders), born in San Francisco

@71- Roone Arledge, American President of ABC Sports (Monday Night Football), born in NYC, (d. 2002) prostate cancer

71- Kim Darby, American actress (True Grit, Enola Gay, Rich Man Poor Man), born in Hollywood

@70- Nelson Rockefeller, American politician (Vice President: 1974-1977; Governor of New York (R), 1959-73), born in Bar Harbor, Maine (d. 1979) heart attack

60’s

69- Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef, born in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria

67- Anjelica Huston, American actress (Prizzi's Honor, The Adams Family), born in Los Angeles

@66- Louis Jordan, American musician, songwriter and bandleader (Caldonia), born in Brinkley, Arkansas (d. 1975) heart attack

60- Kevin Bacon, actor (Diner, Footloose, She's Having a Baby), born in Philadelphia

50’s

@57- John Pemberton, American pharmacist (inventor of Coca-Cola), born in Knoxville, Georgia (d. 1888) stomach cancer

57- Toby Keith, American country singer and actor (Boomtown, Blue Moon), born in Clinton, OK

50- Michael Weatherly, American actor (Cooper Alden-The City/Loving), born in NYC

40’s

@48- Marty Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein), born in London, England (d. 1982) heart attack

48- Beck [Bek David Campbell], American singer (Morning Phase), born in Los Angeles  

20’s

20- Jaden Smith, American actor (The Karate Kid), born in Malibu, California

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-2012 Ernest Borgnine, American actor (Ice station Zebra, Marty)

@93-2011 Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic

80’s

@82-1994 Kim Il-sung, Founder, dictator and Supreme Leader of North-Korea (1948-94)

70’s

@78-1957 Grace Goodhue Coolidge, American First Lady (1923-29)

@76-1990 Howard Duff, American actor (Flamingo Road, Knots Landing), heart attack

@71-2015 James Tate, American poet (Pulitzer Prize 1992)

60’s

@69-2015 Ken "The Snake" Stabler, NFL quarterback (Oak Raiders, Super Bowl XI), colon cancer

@64-1994 Dick Sargent [Richard Stanford Cox ], American actor (Darren in "Bewitched"), cancer

@63-1538 Diego de Almagro, Spanish conquistador of Chile and Peru, executed 

50’s

@57-1991 James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), emphysema

@53-1967 Vivien Leigh, English actress (Gone with the Wind & A Streetcar Named Desire), TB   

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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