Jul 9

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Jul 9, 2018 Week: 28\ Day: 190

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 70% 

Nearest Lightning:  8.6 miles away

Wind ave.:   2mph\Gusts:  6mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 94°[2003]   Record Low: 34°[1926]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Sports do not build character.

They reveal it.

  Heywood Broun

Harper’s Index

46

Estimated percentage of Russians who don’t think they have enough information to have an opinion on President 45

$4,574,661

Total amount donated by lobbyists registered as foreign agents during the 2016 election

54

Percentage of this money donated to Democrats

Observances This Week

4^th-10^th

Freedom Week
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

International Town Criers Day
National No Bra Day Link

National Sugar Cookie Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                         

1401 Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000

1700’s                                         

1776 Declaration of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY) 

1800’s                                         

1800 Mt Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US 1815 1st natural gas well in US is discovered

1816 Argentina declares independence from Spain

1842 Notary Stamp Law passes

1846 Captain Montgomery claims Yerba Buena (San Francisco) for US

1877 First ever Wimbledon tennis championship begins - first offical lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only

1893 Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery without anesthesia

1900’s                                         

1933 Frankford Yellowjackets sold, rechristened Philadelphia Eagles

1953 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)

1955 Bill Haley & Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" tops the billboards chart

1956 Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand

1962 Andy Warhol's first West Coast gallery exhibition in the Ferus Gallery of Los Angeles

1968 Wilt Chamberlain becomes the first reigning NBA MVP to be traded the next season when he moves from Philadelphia 76'ers to LA Lakers

1978 Nearly 100,000 demonstrators march on Washington, D.C. for ERA

1982 Michael Fagan breaks into Buckingham Palace and enters the Queen's bedroom in Buckingham Palace, London

1986 The New Zealand parliament passes the Homosexual Law Reform Bill legalising consensual sex between men aged 16 and older

1991 South Africa readmitted to Olympics

2000’s                                         

2002 The African Union is established in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The first chairman is Thabo Mbeki, President of South Africa.

2016 In Dallas Texas, lone gunman shots and kills five police officers, wounding others during a protest march against fatal police shootings of African Americans

2017 CEO Elon Musk is the first owner of Telsa's first mass market electric car - the Model 3

2017 Hundreds of thousands protest against the Turkish government at a rally in Istanbul, Turkey

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice dark clouds, and one small rain sprinkles storm and one nice hard rain…hopefully more to come. Changing bed linens is still a hassle, but I got it done. It was easier than 2 weeks ago for sure.

Our small town daily paper lost its long time managing editor (20+ years) yesterday. Randy was only 65. While I didn’t always agree with his decisions, he was a caring man who worked hard to keep our paper going. He will be missed.

Woke up this morning to news that the first 4 Thai boys had gotten out of the cave. Great news. Hope more good news follows for the others.

45 is setting out for a week of fun and meetings. Hope he enjoys Scotland as much as I did as he’s spending 3 days there. He also meets with PM May, the Queen, NATO, and of course his buddy. I sure hope he is better prepared than he was with N Korea…and that he doesn’t make any more enemies.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

91- Ed Ames [Edmund Dantes Urick], American popular singer and actor (Ames Brothers, My Cup Runneth Over), born in Malden, Mass

80’s

@84- Myles Horton, American educator and Civil Rights Movement teacher, born in Savannah, Tennessee (d. 1990)

@83- Simon Fraser [Shimi], Lord Lovat, Scottish head of clan Fraser and cattle breeder, born in Inverness (d. 1995)

@80- Michael Graves, American postmodernist architect, born in Indianapolis, Indiana (d. 2015)

70’s

@78- Lee Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson) (d. 2007) renal cancer

76- Richard Roundtree, actor (Getting Even, Shaft), born in New Rochelle, New York

@74- Daniel Guggenheim, US (Guggenheim Museum) (d 1930)

71- O.J. Simpson [Orenthal James], NFL Running Back (Buf Bills), born in San Francisco

60’s

@67- Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996) pancreatic cancer

66- John Tesh, New age pianist/TV host (ET), born in Garden City, New York

63- Jimmy Smits, American actor (Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue), born in Brooklyn, New York

62- Tom Hanks, American actor (Saving Private Ryan, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), born in Concord, California

50’s

54- Courtney Love, American muscian (Hole) and actress (People vs Larry Flynt), born in San Francisco

40’s

42- Fred Savage, actor (The Wonder Years)

30’s

@39- Guru Dutt [Vasanth Padukone], Indian Bollywood actor, regarded as one of the greatest film directors of all time (Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool), born in Bangalore, Kingdom of Mysore (d. 1964) suicide or accidental OD

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92-2014 Eileen Ford, American modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency)

@92-1977 Alice Paul, American suffragist (National Woman's Party)

80’s

@83-1974 Earl Warren, governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68)

70’s

@79-1992 Eric Savareid, News correspondent (CBS), stomach cancer

@79-1856 Amedeo Avogadro, Italian scientist who contributed to molecular theory, including what is known as Avogadro's law (6.022 x 10 ^ 23)

@78-1988 Barbara Woodhouse, dog trainer, stroke

@77-2002 Rod Steiger, American actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker), pneumonia 

@77-1932 King C. Gillette, American businessman and inventor of inexpensive and disposable safety razor blades

60’s

@65-1850 Zachary Taylor, 12th US President (1849-50), intestinal infection

@63-1981 Allen Ludden, TV show host (Password), stomach 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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