Jul 26

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Jul 26, 2018 Week: 30 \ Day: 207

86004 Today: H 88° \ L 60° \ Average Sky Cover: 45% 

Nearest Lightning:  37 miles away

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  17mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1935]   Record Low: 40°[1913]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

  Erma Bombeck

Harper’s Index

15,423

Number of Japanese with dementia who went missing in 2016

3,000

Number of residents of Matsudo, Japan trained to find lost seniors suffering from dementia.

Observances This Week

21^st-29^th

National Moth Week  Link

26^th-28^th

World Lumberjack Championships
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days
Garlic Days Link 

Observances for Today

All or Nothing Day

Americans With Disabilities Day  Link
Armed Forces Unification Day
Aunt and Uncle Day  Link
Bagelfest Day  Link   Link 
National Chili Dog Day  
National Intern Day  Link  
National Refreshment Day  Link 
One Voice

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                         

1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

1600’s                                         

1656 Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent

1700’s                                         

1755 Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to religion and common decency and imprisoned in the Doge's Palace

1775 US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin

1800’s                                         

1835 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii

1900’s                                         

1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation)

1926 National Bar Association incorporates

1947 President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff

1948 President Harry Truman issues Executive Order No. 9981 to desegregate the US armed forces, directing "equality of treatment and opportunity" in the military

1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid

1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io

1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act

2000’s                                         

2005 Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days

2017 US President Donald Trump announces policy to ban transgendered people from the military, overturning Obama era changes

2017 Great Britain announces it will ban gasoline and diesel cars by 2040

2017 3 live king cobras reported found inside potato chip cans by customs officials in Los Angeles

My Rambling Thoughts

Newspaper was right at my front door…much better than in the tree like yesterday. We are having a heat wave at 7,000 feet…that means temps in the high 80’s for several days. Nothing like the heat wave down in Phx. Thankfully, not all of AZ has Phx weather.

Monsoon continues, clouding up quite nicely.

Had a quick eye appointment, cancelled last month due to my wrist. Everything good with the eyes…nice!

Who to believe…the 45^th President or his staff? So nice to hear Pompeo giving us hope. Just hope he is right.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97- Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg], American actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2015)

@94- George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1950)

80’s

@85- Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland (d. 1961)

70’s

@78- George Catlin, American author and painter (American Indian scenes), born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania (d. 1872)

75- Mick Jagger, English rock vocalist (Rolling Stones), born in Dartford, Kent

73- Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff], English actress (The Queen, The Madness of King George), born in London, England

@70- Vivian Vance, American actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), born in Cherryvale, Kansas (d. 1979) bone cancer

@70- Stanley Kubrick, American director (2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita), born in The Bronx NY (d. 1999) heart attack while sleeping

60’s

@69- Gracie Allen, American comedian and actress (Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1964) heart attack

@69- Aldous Huxley, English author (Brave New World, Island), born in Godalming, Surrey (d. 1963) cancer

@65- Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through an open election, born in Valparaíso, Chile (d. 1973) suicide? following coup

50’s

54- Sandra Bullock, American actress (Speed, Net, Love & War), born in Washington, D.C.

51- Jason Statham, British actor (The Transporter, Crank), born in Shirebrook, Derbyshire

40’s

45- Kate Beckinsale, British actress (Underworld series), born in London

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@82-1984 George Gallup, American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll

70’s

@78-1984 Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer ("Psycho" & "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" based on him), lung cancer

@70-1863 Sam Houston, 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state, pneumonia

60’s

@65-1925 William Jennings Bryan, American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", heart attack?

40’s

@49-1992 Mary Wells, US soul singer (My Guy), pneumonia

30’s

@38-1684 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician and the 1st woman to receive an academic degree from a university, TB

@33-1952 Eva Perón [Evita], Argentine First Lady (1946-52) actress, suffragette, unionist and humanitarian who was inspiration for A.L. Webber's musical "Evita", cancer

20’s

@22-2015 Bobbi Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown, coma

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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