Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 30 Day 198 \ Ave. Sky Cover 15% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 89° \54°
Wind 7mph \ Gusts 10mph Air Quality Moderate
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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17-23
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Daily Observations
Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day
Disneyland Day
Fast of Tammuz
Lake Superior Day
National Hot Dog Day
National Ice Cream Day
National Peach Ice Cream Day
National Tattoo Day
Victims of Baton Rouge, Louisiana Attack Day
World Day for International Criminal Justice
World Emoji Day
Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Yellow Pigs Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Another very
warm day. Monsoon may be here this afternoon. Yesterday’s heavy monsoon rains
caused flooding of several roadways with property damage to fences and yards.
Biden’s fist
bump with Saudi’s was a bit too much.
Reader’s
Digest released a list of each state’s most historic landmark:
AZ: Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff
CO: Mesa Verde
NM: Palace of the Governor, Santa Fe
Sri Lanka
has sworn in its new interim President. This is another hot spot to watch.
It has only taken
the International Olympic Committee 110 years, but now it is official: Jim Thorpe
(Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk, translated as "Bright Path") is the
solo winner of the 1912 Pentathlon and Decathlon.
Favorite Memes
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Trivia
Owls are
some of the most fascinating and mysterious raptors in the world. While many
people know a little bit about these birds of prey, some facts about owls can
surprise even the most experienced birders.
There are
more than 150 species of owls in the world, and some counts indicate more than
220 species depending on how different owls are classified. Owls are found in
all different habitats and there are different owl species found on all
continents except Antarctica.
Historical Events
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1867 –
Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston, Massachusetts
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1899 – NEC
Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign
capital. Today, NEC has structured its organization around three principal
segments: IT solutions, network solutions, and electronic devices.
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1918 – Czar
Nicholas II and his family were executed at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg,
Russia.
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1938 –
Douglas Corrigan took off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and
becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.
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1955 – Disneyland
was dedicated at an “International Press Preview” event and opened to the
public on July 18.
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1975 – The
US Apollo 18 linked with the Soviet Soyez spacecraft
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1981 – The
Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City, MO, had a partial collapse, killing 114
people.
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1984 – The
minimum legal drinking age was raised from 18 to 21 nationally.
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1989 – B-2
Stealth Bombers were successfully tested over Palmdale, CA.
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2014 –
Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, was shot down near the border of
Ukraine and Russia. All 298 people on board were killed.
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