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Jul 28, 2018 Week: 30 \ Day: 209
86004 Today: H
89° \ L 58° \ Average
Sky Cover: 40%
Nearest Lightning: 1 mile away
Wind ave.: 2 mph\Gusts: 10 mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 94°[1995] Record Low: 36°[1913]
Jul Averages: 82°\50°
Today’s Quote
The unexamined life is not worth
living.
Socrates
Harper’s Index
72
Percentage of Afghan refugees who have
had to flee
a second time after returning home
2/5
Estimated portion of global migrants
who are traveling
from one developing nation to another
Observances This Week
21st-29th
26th-28th
Observances for Today
Buffalo Soldiers Day Link
National Dance Day Link
National Day of the CowboyLink
National Milk Chocolate Day Link
National Waterpark Day Link
World Hepatitis Day Link
National Dance Day Link
National Day of the CowboyLink
National Milk Chocolate Day Link
National Waterpark Day Link
World Hepatitis Day Link
Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1100’s
1148 Second
Crusade: Crusaders abandon their siege of Damascus
1700’s
1794 French
Revolution figure Robespierre & 22 other leaders
of "the Terror"
guillotined to thunderous cheers in Paris
1800’s
1821 Peru
declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1866 Metric
system becomes a legal measurement system in US
1868 US Secretary
of State William H. Seward announces
14th Amendment ratified by states, grants
citizenship to ex-slaves
1896 City of
Miami incorporated
1900’s
1900 Hamburger
created by Louis Lassing in Connecticut
1915 Because of
virtual anarchy, US Marines go ashore in Haiti
on orders from President Woodrow
Wilson; this will lead to
an occupation that will last until 1934
1917 Silent
Parade organized by James Weldon Johnson of 10,000
African-Americans who march
on 5th Ave in NYC to protest
against lynching
1928 9th Olympic
Games open in Amsterdam
1932 Battle
between unemployed war veterans & federal troops, 4 die
1932 US President
Herbert Hoover evicts bonus marchers from their encampment
1933 1st singing
telegram delivered (to Rudy Vallee), NYC
1951 "Kiss
Me, Kate" closes at New Century Theater NYC
after 1,077 performances
1954 "On the
Waterfront", directed by Elia Kazan starring Marlon Brando and Eva Marie
Saint, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1955)
1959 Hawaii's 1st
US election sends 1st Asian-Americans to Congress
1965 LBJ sends
50,000 more soldiers to Vietnam (total of 125,000)
1978 600,000
attend the "Summer Jam" rock festival at Watkins Glen,
New York, at
the time the largest ever audience at a pop festival
1984 23rd modern
Olympic games opens in Los Angeles
1992 R&B
singer Mary J. Blige releases her debut album
"What's the 411?", with
production by Puff Daddy
2000’s
2014 UN Security
Council hold emergency meeting calling
for an immediate and indefinite
humanitarian ceasefire between
Israel and Hamas
2017 US Senate
vote for "skinny" repeal of Obamacare fails
51-49 when John McCain
casts deciding vote against
My
Rambling Thoughts
Monsoon continues
each afternoon. Helps cool things off. Lately it has just been nice gentle rain
with a little thunder. Up North
yesterday, on the rez, it’s a little more violent with lots of flash floods and
several major power poles were broken and power was out for 15-20 hours from
Tuba to Cameron.
Mary and I had a
great lunch yesterday. She and her hubby are heading for Oregon and their family
beach house on Saturday. They will enjoy that area about 3 weeks, then when she
gets back, she heads to Italy in mid-Sept. with her daughter for a couple of
weeks. Nice! Cheryl is traveling in Indiana and Michigan…her home area…for a
while longer.
Deadline came and
went and 700+ children are still separated. Hmmm. And some of the parents
signed papers to be deported immediately and leave their children here. Lawyers
and humanitarians say they didn’t understand what they were signing.
Our HOA really
went overboard with its new parking areas. Most days and every night there are
now 25-30 empty parking spaces for residents and zero empty spaces for
visitors. It makes our residential area look like very few people live here. I
know that isn’t true cause the trash man comes every day to empty our three
trash bins while we await larger bins.
Birthdays
Today
@-
indicates age at death
80’s
@81-
Marcel Duchamp, French sculptor and painter
(Nude Descending a Staircase),
born
in Blainville-Crevon, France (d. 1968)
70’s
@77-
Beatrix Potter, English children's author and illustrator
(The Tale of Peter
Rabbit), born in London
(d. 1943) heart disease
@76-
Earl Tupper, American-born Costa Rican inventor and businessman (Tupperware),
born in Berlin, New Hampshire (d. 1983)
73-
Jim Davis, American cartoonist and creator of the comic strips
"Garfield" and "U.S. Acres", born in Marion, Indiana
70-
Sally Struthers, actress (Gloria-All in the Family),
born in Portland, Oregon
70-
Georgia Engel, American actress
(Georgette- The Mary Tyler Moore Show), born in
Washington, D.C.
60’s
@64-
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American First Lady (1961-63),
born in Southampton,
New York (d. 1994) lymphoma
50’s
@58-
Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (1998-2013),
born in Sabaneta, Barinas
State, Venezuela (d. 2013) colon cancer
40’s
47-
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Leader of Islamic State of Iraq and
the Levant (ISIL),
born in Samarra, Iraq
Historical
Obits Today
80’s
@80-2013 Eileen
Breenan, American actress
70’s
@78-1939 William
James Mayo, American surgeon and co-founder
(Mayo Clinic in Minnesota), dies at
78
60’s
@65-1750 Johann
Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue, Mattheus-Passion), unsuccessful
treatment for blindness
@63-1741 Antonio
Vivaldi, Italian Baroque composer
(The Four Seasons), infection
@54-1985 Grant
Williams, American actor
(Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man), toxic
poisoning
50’s
@54±-1540 Thomas
Cromwell, English chief minister for
King Henry VIII,
executed for treason and
heresy
30’s
@36-1794 Maximilien
Robespierre, French revolutionary
(President of the National Convention, Member
of Committee of Public
Safety), executed by guillotine
@36-1655 Cyrano
de Bergerac, French dramatist/novelist
unknown cause
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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All
for Now…☼☼☼☼