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Almanac: Week: 28 \ Day: 189
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 84° \ L 48° Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 92° (2002) Ave. Low: 49° Record Low:
32° (1955)
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Observances Today:
Math
2.0 Day (Founding Day)
SCUD
Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama)
Video
Games Day
Ramadan
(Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Freedom Week: 4-10
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 5-11
National Farriers Week: 5-11
Nude Recreation Weekend: 6-12
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1663 - King Charles
II of England grants a charter to Rhode Island
1680 - The
first confirmed tornado in America kills a servant at Cambridge, MA
1693 - NYC authorizes
1st police uniforms in American colonies
1776 - Col John
Nixon gave 1st public reading of Declaration of Independence (Philadelphia)
1796 - US State
Dept issues 1st American passport
1800 - Dr
Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination in the US to his son to
prevent smallpox
1835 - Liberty
Bell cracks (again)
1849 - St
Paul's Place in the Bronx named
1870 - US
Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1876 - White
terrorists attack Black Republicans in Hamburg SC, killing 5
1892 - American
Psychological Association organized, Worcester, MA
1896 - William
Jennings Bryan's "cross of gold" speech at Democrat convention
1905 - Part of
Angel Island allocated for Immigration Detention Center
1907 - Florenz
Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1923 - Harding
becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska (Metlakahtla)
1930 - Arizona Supreme
court upheld the right of Cochise County to move the county seat from Tombstone
to Bisbee.
1933 - Public Works Administration becomes effective
1947 - Demolition begins for UN HQ in NYC
1950
- Gen Douglas MacArthur named commander-in-chief, UN forces in
Korea
1963 - US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1966 - US
airline strike (until Aug 19th)
1969 - US troop
withdrawal begins in Vietnam
1981 - Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to
Supreme Court (99-0)
1990 - 12:34:56
on 7/8/90 (1234567890)
1990 - Greg LeMond wins his 3rd Tour de France
(90:43:20 avg 23.3 mph)
2000 - "Harry
Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the 4th book in the series by J. K.
Rowling is published in the UK (Bloomsbury) and the US (Scholastic)
2011 - Space
Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle
program.
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Today’s World Events through History
951 - Paris
is founded
1099 - First
Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession
around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.
1497 - Portuguese
navigator Vasco da Gama departs for on his first voyage - becomes
first European to reach India by sea
1520 - Hernán Cortés
and his army have managed to escape from Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City).
1822 - Chippewas
turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.
1949 - The Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act
No 55 prohibiting marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and
people of other race groups is passed in South Africa
1971 - During street disturbances, British soldiers
shoot dead two Catholic civilians in Free Derry; as a result, riots erupted in
the city and the Social Democratic and Labour Party withdraws from Stormont in
protest
1999 - "Harry
Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban" the 3rd book of the series byJ. K.
Rowling is published by Bloomsbury in the UK
2013 - 42
people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a
sit in protest in Cairo
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Technology…got my first CodeRED alert this afternoon…to tell me to
expect heavy rain, damaging wind, and large hail. It was already raining pretty
hard with tiny hail. Hope that is all we get.
NPR had an interesting discussion about the so-called Confederate
Flag and why the US has so many army installations, roads, and highways named
after Confederate Generals. Turns out after the Civil War-or War of Northern Aggression-ended,
the President called for ‘reconciliation’. Part of that reconciliation was to
recognize the Confederate Generals who had fought so hard to win. Many were
brilliant strategists. Ok, not a bad way to re-unite the US. The controversial
flag was never the Confederate Flag…it was the VA Battle flag. It wasn’t around
much after the Civil War, but reappeared during the Civil Rights movement. Many
know that part of the Civil War was fought over State’s Rights…the right of the
state to decide the issue of slavery. So it made sense that a Civil War flag
would reappear when the many in the South saw the issue of who votes in
elections and who rides where on the bus and who is served at restaurants and
who can marry is a State Right, not a Federal power. So it appears that, to me
at least, that the reconciliation sought after the Civil War is still a work in
progress.
A totally different story of reconciliation is seen in South
Africa after apartheid. When Nelson Mandela was release from prison and told
the South African people that he carried no ill will for the horrors of
apartheid and that he wanted the people to look forward, they listened. From
what I saw in South Africa, that is exactly what happened. Growing up in the US
I had a really hard time understanding how those oppressed during the apartheid
years to not hold anger, but they did. I now understand my confusion was because
in the US, many have not looked forward after the Civil War and they had their
fears reappear when the Civil Rights movement hit the US. So many on the
conservative side are so concerned that the Federal Government is going to take
away their guns, the Confederate Battle flag, and of course their state’s rights.
I am much better educated over recent events, but to be honest, I still don’t
understand the fear.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Without
changing the order of the letters, place the four letter words on the dashes to
form eight letter words. All the words will not be used.
Veto, Lent, Rake, Hilt, Clam, Abut, Tile
1. __ um__ __ i __ y
2. Pro __ __ __ i __
3. __ err __ b __ __
4. __ __ xa __ i __ n
5. Ove __ t __ __ __
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Jaguars frequently get high by eating hallucinogenic roots, which
also increases their senses for hunting.
The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist
who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
75 YEARS
AGO-1940
City firemen were called out at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday to a fire
in the garage of Mrs. Betty Irish’s home at 210 N. Agassiz St. The building is
an almost complete loss. For a time the fire also threatened the home of Fred
W. Moore. It was saved by the effective work of our firemen.
Professor A. M. McCreary, head of the Physical Education
Department at Flagstaff State College, says the college swimming pool is now
open for public use. 10 cents for children. 20 cents for adults.
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…Harper’s Index…
70 –
percentage of countries worldwide in which girls outperform boys in academic
achievement
65 –
percentage of think-tank events about the Middle East held in Washington, DC,
last year that included no female speakers
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… Relationship Facts…
Anuptaphobia is the fear of staying single.
Women rate men more attractive if other women are looking and
smiling at him.
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
Nearly 30% of Dalmatian dogs are born with complete or partial
hearing loss.
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2 jokes for the day
Q. How many psychiatrists does it take to
change a light bulb?
A. Just one, but that light bulb really has to
want to change!
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Things learned from TV:
All crimes are solved in 1 hour.
The Good guy always wins.
When you’re trapped, you always find a way out.
A trip from Los Angeles to China takes 5 seconds.
All women still have makeup on when they wake up in the morning.
When you’re a hero, you will never get burnt in a fire.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
Sure, fireworks are dangerous as we saw in last week's issue of
Bizarre News where a man killed himself in a pre-Independence Day stunt with an
explosive, but firearms are even more dangerous, especially if your job is
training mentally disturbed people to handle them.
31-year-old Veronica Lewis of Vermont, is accused of shooting her firearms
instructor in the face during their second lesson, police said.
Lewis allegedly fired three shots at 48-year-old Darryl Montague earlier this
week, hitting him twice in the jaw and once in the abdomen.
The attack occurred at the Montague's place of business. Montague runs a
licensed firearms company called Vermont Target Sports.
Lewis is said to have mental issues and she lives at a mental health facility.
She previously lived in New York City, where she had a lengthy criminal record.
How a woman with such extensive mental health issues made it as far as 2
classes in firearms training was not made clear.
After the shooting, police said they found a .22 caliber pistol and a hammer in
her backpack. The attack is considered premeditated because of the presence of
the hammer. Lewis was charged with first degree attempted murder.
Of course, the victim of the shooting lived, while the guy who performed the
stunt with the explosive died, so maybe fireworks are more dangerous than
firearms after all. Maybe in the future Mr. Montague will do a more detailed
background check before he lets just anybody into his classes.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Returns
tomorrow
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Birthdays Today
66 - Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity
chef
64 - Anjelica
Huston, actress (Prizzi's Honor, Alien)
57 - Kevin Bacon, Phila Pa, actor (Footloose)
54 - Toby Keith, American singer
47 - Michael Weatherly, actor (NCIS)
45 – Beck (Bek David Campbell), American singer
17 - Jaden Smith,
American actor
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Born this day…Died in __@__
John D.
Rockefeller, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil)-1937@97
George W
Romney, (Gov-R-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD (1969-73)-1995@88
Jerry
Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], singer (Arriverderci Roma)-2014@83
Craig
Stevens, Liberty Mo, actor (Peter Gunn)-2000@81
Ferdinand
von Zeppelin, German inventor (rigid dirigibles)-1917@78
Roone
Arledge, President of ABC Sports (Monday Night Football)-2002@71
Nelson A
Rockefeller, (Gov-R-NY) 41st VP (1974-77)-1979@70
Marty
Feldman, comedian (Young Frankenstein)-1982@48
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Historical Obits Today
Ernest
Borgnine, American actor (Marty)-2012@95
Betty
Ford, First Lady of the United States-2011@93
June
Allyson, American actress-2006@88
Grace Goodhue Coolidge, 1st lady (1923-29)-1957@78
Phil
Foster, comedian (Frank De Fazio-Laverne & Shirley), heart
attack-1985@72
Howard
Duff, actor (Heist, Knots Landing), heart attack-1990@72
Pete
Conrad, American astronaut, auto accident-1999@69
Dick
Sargent, actor (Darren #2-Bewitched), cancer-1994@64
James
Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), emphysema-1991@57
Percy
Bysshe Shelley, English poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns-1822@29
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Humility - hilt
2. Proclaim - clam
3. Terrible - tile
4. Vexation - veto
5. Overtake - rake
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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…§
