Jul 30

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Jul 30, 2018 Week: 31\ Day: 211

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest Lightning:  6 miles away

Wind ave.:   2mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1943]   Record Low: 40°[1913]

Jul Averages: 82°\50°

Today’s Quote

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

  Albert Einstein
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Harper’s Index

39,23

Percentage of Republican and Democratic men respectively who believe thy are ‘very masculine’

33,29

Of Republican and Democratic women who believe they are ‘very feminine’

Observances This Week

29^th-8/4th
Single Working Women's Week

Observances for Today

Cheesecake Day Link
Father-in-Law Day
Friendship Day Link
Health Care Now!  Medicare's Birthday  Link
International Day of Friendship  Link    
National Cheesecake Day

National Chicken and Waffles Day
National Support Public Education Day Link
National Whistleblowers Appreciation Day  Link
Paperback Book Day
World Day Against Trafficking in Persons

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                         

1419 First defenestration of Prague: anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm Prague town hall and throw the judge, mayor and several city council members out the windows. They die in the fall or killed by crowd outside.

1700’s                                         

1729 City of Baltimore founded

1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge

in Boston

1739 Caspar Wistar begins glass manufacturing

in Allowaystown, New Jersey

1800’s                                         

1811 Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican

 insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua,

Mexico

1836 First English language newspaper published in Hawaii

1863 President Abraham Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to

            shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot

1863 Indian Wars: Chief Pocatello of the Shoshone tribe signs

            the Treaty of Box Elder, promising to stop harassing the

 emigrant trails in southern Idaho and northern Utah

1866 New Orleans's Democratic government orders police to

            raid an integrated Republican Party meeting, killing 40

people and injuring 150

1900’s                                         

1928 George Eastman shows first amateur color motion

            pictures to guests at his New York house including

            Thomas Edison

1932 10th modern Olympic games opens in Los Angeles

1935 1st Penguin book is published, starting the paperback

            revolution

1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency

 (WAVES)

1948 Emile Zatopek runs Olympic record (10K - 29:59.6)

1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized

1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which goes into effect in 1966

1966 US airplanes bombs demilitarized zone in Vietnam

1990 The first Saturn automobile rolls off the assembly line.

2000’s                                         

2013 Wikileaks discloser Bradley [later Chelsea] Manning

            convicted of 17 espionage charges

2017 China's President Xi Jinping heads 12,000 troop parade at

            Zhurihe training base, Inner Mongolia marking 90 years

            since founding of the People's Liberation Army

2017 Hackers reveal they have stolen data from HBO,

including episodes and scripts of Games of Thrones

My Rambling Thoughts

Another day of monsoons is happening. So far just light rain.

Sunday news programs were informative, as all the networks seem to be some kind of ‘fact check’ segment to their broadcast. Each network commentator lists ‘the facts’ in reality and ‘the facts’ in 45’s world. Very interesting. Microsoft News app on Windows 10 also now has a fact check section. Not sure how this will attract voters, but it certainly a start.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

96- Henry W. Bloch, American co-founder of H&R Block

@91- Henry Louis Smith, American physicist who made the

first X-ray photograph, born in Greensboro, NC

80’s

@85- Casey Stengel, American Baseball Hall of Fame manager

            (Yankees (1949-60), NY Met's 1st), born in Kansas City,

            Missouri (d. 1975)

85- Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, American actor (77 Sunset Strip, Jack

            the Ripper), born in Los Angeles, California

@83- Henry Ford, American industrialist and auto maker (Ford

            Model T), born in Dearborn Township, Michigan

(d. 1947)

@82- Tony Lip [Frank Anthony Vallelonga], American author

            and actor (Sopranos, Donnie Brasco, Good Fellas),

born in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania (d. 2013)

70’s

79- Peter Bogdanovich, director and producer

(Last Picture Show), born in Kingston, New York

78- Pat Schroeder, American politician

(Rep-D-Colorado, 1973-97), born in Portland, Oregon

77- Paul Anka, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder),

born in Ottawa, Ontario

71- Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American body builder,

            actor (Terminator) and politician (38th Governor of

            California), born in Thal, Austria

60’s

62- Delta Burke, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women),

born in Orlando, Florida

50’s

57- Laurence Fishburne, American actor

(The Matrix, CSI, Apocalypse Now),

born in Augusta, Georgia

55- Lisa Kudrow, American actress (Phoebe Buffay on Friends),

            born in Los Angeles, California

54- Vivica A. Fox, American actress

40’s

48- Christopher Nolan, English film director (Inception,

            Interstellar), born in London, England

44- Hilary Swank, American actress (Boys Don't Cry,

Million Dollar Baby), born in Lincoln, Nebraska

30’s

37- Hope Solo, American soccer player

(US women's national team goalkeeper),

born in Richland, Washington

@30- Emily Brontë, English novelist (Wuthering Heights),

born in Thornton, West Yorkshire (d. 1848) TB

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-1996 Claudette Colbert, French-born American actress

(It Happened One Night)

@91-2016 Gloria DeHaven, American musical actress

(Step Lively)

80’s

@89-2007 Ingmar Bergman, Swedish stage and film director

            (Cries & Whispers)

@83-1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor

@80-1998 Buffalo Bob Smith [Robert Emil Schmidt],

American TV host (Howdy Doody)

70’s

@75-2007 Bill Walsh, American football coach

(San Francisco 49ers), leukemia

@73-1718 William Penn, English Philosopher,

Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania

(No cross, no crown)

60’s

@67-2015 Lynn Anderson, American country singer

(I Never Promised you a Rose Garden), heart attack

30’s

@31-1918 Joyce Kilmer, American poet, killed in battle

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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