Jul 27

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July 27, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 208

86004 Today: H 82° \ L 51°

Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  10mph

Visibility: 10 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)

Record High: 93°[1947]   Record Low: 36°[1913]

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Quote of the Day

Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.

  Otto von Bismarck

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Observances Today

Barbie-in-a-blender Day Link

National Chili Dog Day  

National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day  Link

Take Your Pants for a Walk Day

National Intern Day Link 

National Refreshment Day  Link  

Walk on Stilts Day

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Observances This Week

22-30

National Moth Week

23-29

RAGBRAI (Iowa Bike Race)

27-29

World Lumberjack Championships: 27-29 

Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days: 27-29 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s

★1501 Nicolaus Copernicus formally installed as a canon of Frauenberg Cathedral

★1549 Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan - 1st Christian missionary in Japan

★1586 Sir Walter Raleigh brings first tobacco to England from Virginia

1700’s

1789 US Congress establishes Department of Foreign Affairs now referred to as the State Department

1800’s

★1865 Welsh settlers arrive at Chubut in Argentina.

★1866 Atlantic telegraph cable successfully laid (1,686 miles long)

★1890 Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh shoots himself in Auvers-sur-Oise, dies of injuries 2 days later

1900’s

1919 Chicago race riot (15 whites & 23 blacks killed, 500 injured)

★1921 Frederick Banting and Charles Best isolate insulin at the University of Toronto

★1924 8th Olympic games closes in Paris

1931 Grasshoppers in Iowa, Nebr & SD destroyed thousands of acres of crops

1940 Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts

1940 Bugs Bunny debuts in "Wild Hare"

★1987 First expedited salvaging of Titanic wreck begins by RMS Titanic, Inc.

1988 Radio Shack announces Tandy 1000 SL computer

★1992 Nelson Mandela says a general strike will go ahead to protest for the removal of South African President F. W. de Klerk from power and for free elections

1996 Bomb explodes at Atlanta Olympic Park, 1 killed, 110 injured

1999 Tony Hawk is the first skateboarder to land a "900"

2000’s

2007 2 News helicopters from Phoenix, Arizona television stations KNXV and KTVK collide over Steele Indian School Park in central Phoenix while covering a police chase; there were no survivors. Worst civil aviation incident in Phoenix history.

★2012 Queen Elizabeth II opens the 30th Olympics in London, United Kingdom (with some help from 007)

★2013 100 people are killed and 1,500 injured in a crackdown against protesters in Cairo, Egypt

2014 Obama reaffirms Israel's "right to defend itself", but condemns civilian casualties in Gaza

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My Rambling Thoughts

Shopping day successful. After a day of rain and high winds yesterday, today is much nicer.

And our leader continues to undo everything our first Black President did. Today it is the Transgender issue in the military. Claims they are just too expensive. Wonder how the other free world countries (UK, Canada, Israel…) handle it?

Never been a fan of good ol’ boy Jeff, and certainly do not like some of his AG changes, but the plethora of negative tweets from the leader make we want to see Jeff stay and fight for his job. His recusal is one of the few decisions I agree with.

Today’s quote certainly is being played out on the Senate floor. Seems like everyone has several amendments and they are all being presented. Sure glad I am not a Senator and trying to figure out each and every amendment and then decide how to vote. My experience as a school leader is that there is a proposal to the board. Then lots of discussion from the board and many times the community members. After hours of discussion, it is tabled until the next meeting. A month later things have calmed down and a vote is taken. Seems that isn’t happening in DC today. Interesting to watch.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@-98- Audley Moore, 

civil rights activist, humanitarian [Queen Mother]

(d. 1997)

95- Norman Lear, 

TV writer/producer (All in The Family)

80’s

86- Jerry Van Dyke, 

Danville Ill, actor (My Mother the Car, Coach)

80- Anna Dawson, 

British comedienne (Violet-Keeping Up Appearances)

70’s

73- Bobbie Gentry, 

Mississippi, singer/songwriter (Ode to Billy Joe)

@-70- Keenan Wynn, 

actor (Dr Strangelove, Absent Minded Professor), born in NYC  

(d. 1986)

70- Betty Thomas, 

actress (Lucy Baines-Hill Street Blues), born in St Louis 

60’s

69- Peggy Fleming Jenkins, 

figure skater (Olym-gold-1968), born in San Jose, California

68- Maureen McGovern, 

singer (Got To Be a Morning After), born in Youngstown, Ohio

50’s

59- Christopher Dean, 

Olympics skater (Torvill & Dean/Olympic-gold-1984)

54- Donnie Yen, 

movie actor (Blade II)

50- Sasha Mitchell, 

actor (Spike of Bensonhurst), born in Los Angeles

40’s

44- Cassandra Clare, 

young adult author (The Mortal Instruments)

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@100-2003 Bob Hope [Leslie Townes Hope], 

English-born American actor, comedian and entertainer

90’s

@90-1876 Walter Channing, 

American physician who was the first to use anesthesia during childbirth

80’s

@83-1929 Raoul Pictet, 

Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen and was a pioneer of cryogenics

70’s

@72-2016 James Alan MacPherson, 

American writer, 1st black writer to win Pulitzer Prize, pneumonia

@72-1946 Gertrude Stein, 

US/Fren author/poet (Ida, Tender Buttons), stomach cancer

60’s

@60-1980 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 

Shah of Iran (1941-79), cancer

50’s

@58-1811 Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, Mexican priest/freedom fighter, executed

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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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Jul 26

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July 26, 2017 Week: 30 \ Day: 208

86004 Today: H 76° \ L 56°

Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  20mph

Visibility: 10 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)

Record High: 92°[1935]   Record Low: 40°[1913]

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Quote of the Day

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.

  Hannah Arendt

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Observances Today

All or Nothing Day

Americans With Disabilities Day  Link

Aunt and Uncle Day  Link

Bagelfest Day  Link  

One Voice

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Observances This 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 

1500’s

★1519 Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America

★1529 Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru

1600’s

★1656 Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent

1700’s

★1755 Giacomo Casanova is arrested in Venice for affront to religion and common decency and imprisioned in the Doge's Palace

1775 US Continental Congress creates United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin

1800’s

★1847 The Liberian Declaration of Independence is signed making Liberia a sovereign nation, independent from the American Colonization Society

★1858 Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes the 1st Jewish person elected to the British Parliament

1878 In California, poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box found later with a taunting poem inside.

★1887 1st Esperanto book published

1900’s

1908 United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).

1917 J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice

1946 President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces

1947 President Truman signs National Security Act (1947), establishing Department of Defense, CIA, National Security Council and Joint Chiefs of Staff

1952 Mickey Mantle hits his 1st grand-slammer

★1953 Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime in Cuba

1953 Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.

1963 US Syncom 2, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched

1981 New York Mayor Ed Koch is given the Heimlich maneuver in a Chinese restaurant

1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Americans With Disabilities Act

2000’s

★2014 The Chinese government suspends the operations of a Shanghai meat dealer and has makes arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken

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My Rambling Thoughts

There was a nice rain much of the night. Gotta love the monsoon. Sky still looks like more rain will be in our near future.

Sometimes it is hard to be proud of AZ politics…like when 2 state senators suggested that one of them be appointed to replace McCain when his diagnosis of cancer was revealed. Then today, Senator John McCain made a very compelling speech to his fellow Senators and to the American people about the change that is needed in Congress. Makes for good AZ press. Hope all the Senators were listening.

Then the President and the leader of Lebanon speak in the Rose Garden to America and to the press. So amazing that two of the press asked questions to the Lebanese leader, in their native language and the leader of Lebanon answered in their native language. Not unusual but this was a WH feed given to all networks and there was NO translation given. Just astounding. And quite frankly, is an insult to Lebanon as their leader had a chance to be heard by the American public and the interpreter feed was not transmitted to us. Wonder if our leader got a translation in his earpiece? One final rant: Over the years there are many of these WH Rose Garden things that are broadcast. Because the President of the US usually holds press conferences, seldom does the press ask about internal American stuff and ask about things going on in the world. This is the second Rose Garden thing in the last two weeks where the press feels obligated to ask internal American stuff in the presence of another country’s leader. Just strange.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL:

I was shocked and disappointed when I listened to the leader’s speech to the Boy Scouts at the National Jamboree. The idea that he talks politics to the young shows me that he has one agenda: “I’m great and you should know it.” Every other President who has spoken over the last 80 years spoke to the Scout oath and/or law and how it prepares them for life. Not this guy. Just sad. I was a Boy Scout and was astonished he would do this.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@-97- Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg],

American actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington), born in San Francisco,

(d. 2010)

@-94- George Bernard Shaw, 

dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925), born in Dublin, Ireland

(d. 1950)

80’s

89- Joe Jackson,

father of Jackson family

@-88- Blake Edwards,

OK, writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)

(d. 2010)

@-85- Carl Jung,

Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology), born in Kesswil, Switzerland

(d. 1961)

70’s

74- Mick Jagger, 

English rock vocalist (Rolling Stones), born in Dartford, Kent

@-72- George Clinton,

NY, (D-R) 4th VP (1805-12)

(d. 1812)

72- Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff],

English actress (The Queen, The Madness of King George), born in London

@-70- Stanley Kubrick,

American director (2001 A Space Odyssey, Dr Strangelove, Lolita), born in The Bronx NY

(d. 1999)

@-70- Vivian Vance,

actress (I Love Lucy)

60’s

@-69- Aldous Huxley,

English author (Brave New World, Island), born in Godalming, Surrey

(d. 1963)

@-69- Gracie Allen,

American comedian and actress (Burns & Allen), born in San Francisco, California

(d. 1964)

50’s

58- Kevin Spacey,

American actor (American Beauty, House of Cards), born in South Orange, NJ

53- Sandra Bullock, 

actress (Speed, Net, Love & War), born in Washington, D.C.

52- Jeremy Piven,

American actor and producer (Entourage, Serendipity), born in NYC

40’s

44-Kate Beckinsale,

British movie actress

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@94-1986 Averell Harriman,

statesman, dies in Yorktown Heights, NY

80’s

@84-2016 Forrest E. Mars Jr.,

American Candy Manufacturer (Mars)

70’s

@78-1984 Ed "Psycho" Gein,

mass murderer ("Psycho" & "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" based on him),

lung cancer

@70-1863 Sam Houston,

1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent state,

pneumonia

60’s

@65-1925 William Jennings Bryan,

American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner",

in sleep, 5 days after Scope’s trial

30’s

@33-1952 Eva Perón [Evita],

Argentine First Lady and actress,

cancer

20’s

@22-2015 Bobbi Kristina Brown,

daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown,

in a coma

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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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