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July 25, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 206
86004 Today: H 75° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Flash Flood Warning
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 3mph
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 92°[1931] Record Low: 41°[1913]
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Quote of the Day
Sports do
not build character. They reveal it.
Heywood Broun
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Observances Today
Hire A Veteran Day Link
Video Games Day Link
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Observances This Week
18-25
Restless
Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week
22-30
National
Moth Week
22-26
National Scrabble Week Link
23-29
RAGBRAI
(Iowa Bike Race)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1722 The Three Years War begins along the Maine and
Massachusetts border.
★1745 Jacoibite
Rising Bonnie Prince Charlie lands on Eriskay, Hebrides
★1775 Maryland
issues currency depicting George III trampling Magna Carta
1800’s
★1837 The
first commercial use of an electric telegraph was successfully demonstrated by
William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden
Town in London.
1850 Gold discovered in Oregon (Rogue River)
1854 Walter
Hunt is
awarded the first U.S. patent for a paper shirt collar
1868 US Congress forms Wyoming Territory (Dakota, Utah
& Idaho)
★1897 Writer
Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first
successful stories.
1900’s
★1907 Korea
becomes a protectorate of Japan.
★1908 Ajinomoto
Co. is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers a key
ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), patents a process
for manufacturing it.
★1913 A
meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native National Congress,
now African National Congress, is attended by a large number of people from
South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland
★1917 Sir
Thomas Whyte introduces the first income tax in Canada as a
"temporary" measure (lowest bracket is 4% and highest is 25%).
1918 Race riot in Chester Pennsylvania (3 blacks & 2
whites killed)
1941 FDR bans selling
benzine/gasoline to Japan
★1944 1st
jet fighter used in combat (Messerschmitt 262)
1946 At Club 500 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Dean Martin
and Jerry Lewis stage their first
show as a comedy team.
1953 NYC transit fare rises from 10 cents to 15 cents, 1st
use of subway tokens
1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is
an attack on NATO.
1969 1st performance of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
(Fillmore East, NY)
1969 Edward Kennedy pleads guilty to leaving scene of an
accident a week after the Chappaquiddick car accident that killed Mary Jo
Kopechne
1972 US health officials concede African American were
used as guinea pigs in 40 year syphilis experiment
1975 "A Chorus
Line", longest-running Broadway show (6,137), premieres
1978 Bob Dylan booed off Newport Folk Festival
for using electric guitar
★1992 25th
Olympic Games opens in Barcelona, Spain
1997 Scientists announce the first human stem cells to be
cultured in a laboratory using tissue taken from aborted human embryos
2000’s
★2012 The
2012 Summer Olympics begin (Opening ceremony 27th)
2016 Verizon announces $4.83 billion purchase of Yahoo
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another monsoon day here, looks like a
nice female rain all day, on and off. Moisture is great, but the Flash Flooding
Warnings are not.
Yesterday in the early evening I decided
it was time to shampoo the landing and the 12 steps I have from downstairs to
upstairs. I am the only one living here, I never wear street shoes inside my
home but the steps still get dirty. Turns out I usually must step in the same
place on each step as there was a definite dirty area on each step right where
I step. Hmmm. All better now but it took over an hour to vacuum and then
shampoo each step. Today I will vacuum again today.
I was out and about early today to pick
up some meds and some more distilled water for my CPAP machine. Only a light
rain while I was out so it was a good trip.
Many acquaintances I have on FB are
still working in education. Today is the day they have to return to work. It
just gets earlier and earlier. Have to say it is nice to walk through stores
and be able to pass the ‘school supply’ aisles. No more looking for bargains
for the teachers. When I was working I always found some things to stick in
their school mailbox for their classroom throughout that week before the
students arrived. Nothing big, just something they needed. Had to shop for
bargains as I usually had about 25 teachers and 15 assistants.
My goodness, our leader just gave a
speech on health care reform. He was flanked by people who have been harmed by
the current law. He actually said that the only problem in the Congress is the
democrats are doing nothing but obstructing.
Thought that was the Democrat’s cry during the last administration.
Guess my mom was right: “Can’t tell the players without a program.” But of
course, the Sunday shows had WH people on telling different stories, becoming
much too commonplace.
I’m taking a little break from much of the
extra stuff in this post.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@-84-Estelle Getty,
American
actress ("The Golden Girls", "The Golden Palace"), born in
NYC, New York
(d. 2008)
@-80- Walter
Brennan,
American
actor (Real McCoys, At Gun Point), born in Lynn, Massachusetts
(d.1974)
60’s
@-64- Tom
Dawes,
American
rock musician and composer who wrote music for commercial jingles ("Plop,
Plop, Fizz, Fizz” for Alka-Seltzer and “7Up, the Uncola”), born in Albany, New
York
(d. 2007)
62- Iman,
[Abdulmajid],
Mogadishu
Somalia, model/actress (Star Trek 6)
50’s
@-59- Elizabeth
Hamilton,
Scottish
author (The cottagers of Glenburnie), born in Belfast, Ireland
(d. 1816)
50- Matt LeBlanc,
American
actor (Joey Tribbiani-Friends), born in Newton, Massachusetts
40’s
@-49- Davidson Black,
Canadian
paleoanthropologist and doctor of anatomy who identified "Peking
Man", born in Toronto, Ontario
(d. 1934)
@-45- Walter Payton,
American
NFL running back (Chicago Bears), born in Columbia, Mississippi
(d. 1999)
43- Jay
R Ferguson,
American
actor (Evening Shade, Mad Men), born in Dallas, Texas
30’s
39- Louise
Brown,
English,
1st person born through invitro fertilization (IVF), born in Oldham
@-37- Rosalind Franklin,
English
chemist and co-discoverer of the structure of DNA, born in London
(d. 1958)
20’s
28- Andrew
Caldwell,
actor
(Transformers)
@-25- Brad
Renfro,
American
actor
(d. 2008)
Teen’s
@-14- Emmett Till,
American
lynching victim, born in Chicago,
(d. 1955)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@84-1997 Ben Hogan,
golfer
(Masters, British Open, US Open-1953)
70’s
@76-1843 Charles
Macintosh,
Scottish
chemist and inventor (The Mackintosh raincoat-waterrproof))
60’s
@61-1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
British
poet,
heart
failure
50’s
@57-1984 Big Mama
Thornton,
American
singer,
heart and liver disease
40’s
@47-2008 Randy Pausch,
American
professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for his
"Last Lecture",
cancer
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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.
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