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Almanac: Week: 28 \ Day: 191
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 77° \ L 46° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 26mph
Ave.
High: 82° Record High: 94° (2003) Ave. Low: 49° Record Low:
37° (1926)
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Observances Today:
Clerihew
Day- whimsical, four-line biographical poem)
Collector
Car Appreciation Day
Don't
Step On A Bee Day
Piña
Colada Day
Taos
Pueblo Pow Wow
Teddy
Bears' Picnic Day
Admission
Day (Wyoming-1890-44th)
Independence
Day (Bahamas-1973 from Britain)
Ramadan
(Islam)
Wayne
Chicken Days (NE)
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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
1836 - 900 Creek Indians from Eneah
Emathla's Band, are captured. They are shipped west, in chains, to catch up to
the Creeks that have
already left for the Indian Territory (present day Oklahoma)
1850 - Millard
Fillmore sworn in as president of US (replacing Taylor)
1892 - 1st
concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1917 - Two cattle cars
were loaded with Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) members and strikers,
also known as "Wobblies," who were forcibly removed from Jerome
1919 - US
President Woodrow Wilson personally delivers Treaty of Versailles to
Senate
1929 - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1934 - 1st
sitting US president to visit South America, FDR in Colombia
1949 - 1st practical
rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Ohio
1956 - 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1962 - Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications
satellite, launched
1998 - Roman Catholic
sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine
former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused
2012 - The
American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay
marriages
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Today’s World Events through History
988 - The
city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey.
1040 - Lady
Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry
1212 - Most
severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground.
1746 - Bonnie
Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1800 - The
British Indian Government establishes the Fort William College to promote Urdu,
Hindi and other vernaculars of sub-continent.
1923 - 2-pound
hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1940 - Battle
of Britain begins as Nazi forces attacked shipping convoys in English Channel
1958 - 1st
parking meter installed in England (625 installed)
2002 - At a
Sotheby's auction, Peter Paul Rubens' painting The Massacre of the Innocents is
sold for £49.5million (US$76.2 million)
2011 - British
tabloid News of the World publishes its last edition after 168 years in the
wake of a phone hacking scandal.
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♫ Birthdays
Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great b-day lunch for Mary with Cheryl at our favorite European
Bistro. New menu and higher prices, but still nice.
So SC is removing the VA Battle Flag from its state house lawn. ‘bout
time.
So tired of Donald Trump and his outspoken manner.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
Pope has it but he does not use it.
Your father has it but your mother uses it.
Nuns do not need it.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has a big one,
Michael J. Fox's is quite small.
What is it?
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
An Australian study found that homework is of little to no
academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away
in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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…Flagstaff, AZ
History…
50 YEARS
AGO-1965
The city sales tax voted into effect last November has so far
netted $137,652 in funds that will be used to bolster the budget, including
increased salaries for police officers and building inspectors
Art Bleak reported that about $8,000 worth of equipment was stolen
from his construction site Thursday night, including a dump truck, a skip
loader and an air compressor.
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…Harper’s Index…
$57,000 – average
annual income of households in which US doctors grew up
$67,000 – in which
US artists did
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… Relationship Facts…
Wearing red increases attraction.
Raj from the Big Bang Theory is married to Miss India.
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…Unusual Fact of
the Day…
At 6000 degrees Kelvin, the surface of the Sun is actually one of
its coolest spots. Both the Sun's interior and its corona measure in the
millions of degrees Kelvin.
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2 jokes for the day
A couple of terrorist were making letter
bombs. After they had finished, one said: “Do you think I put enough explosive
in this envelope?
“I don’t know,” said the other. “Open it and see.”
“But it will explode.”
“Don’t be stupid! It’s not addressed to you!
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During the initial space flights, NASA discovered
that biro pens didn’t work under zero gravity conditions.
To beat the problem, NASA spent 6 years and $2 million in designing a pen for
use in space.
The pen would work under zero gravity conditions due to the pressurized ink
inside, it would work under subzero conditions, underwater, on glass and
virtually any surface known to man.
The Russians used a pencil.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
Bangor,
Maine -You can almost picture it in your mind: a backyard Fourth of July
party in Maine. The state only legalized fireworks there two years ago, so they
are still kind of novel.
There is some drinking going on and an adventurous (let's call him) young man
decides to play the class clown by tying a mortar tube on top of his head.
Maybe he was going to pretend to be a sparkler. But when he
"pretended" to light the mortar things went very, very bad.
22-year-old Devon Staples died at the scene.
"I was the first one who got there. There was no rushing him to the
hospital. There was no Devon left when I got there," his brother, Cody
Staples, said, adding that his brother accidentally lit the fuse by holding a
lighter near his head.
"It was a freak accident... But Devon was not the kind of person who would
do something stupid. He was the kind of person who would pretend to do
something stupid to make people laugh."
Devon became the first person killed by fireworks in Maine since the state
legalized them.
"He loved making people happy," his brother said. "Anyone who
would want to give a tribute to Devon should go out and do something nice for
someone. Show some love to someone you don't know."
Just don't do it by lighting fireworks on top of your head.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Nations
who were on the Gold Standard during the 19th century until 1914 experienced
little or no inflationary trends.
In 1971 the U.S. decoupled the value of the dollar from gold altogether. Now a
U.S. dollar is only worth 12 cents of what it was worth in 1950.
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Hyperinflation
is a situation where the price increases are so out of control that the concept
of inflation is meaningless.
The post-WWII hyperinflation of Hungary holds the record for the most rapid
monthly inflation increase ever: 41,900,000,000,000,000 percent for July 1946,
which means prices doubled every 13.5 hours.
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Birthdays Today
94 - Jake LaMotta,
Bronx, middleweight boxing champ (1949-51) (Raging Bull)
69 - Ron Glass,
Evansville IN, actor (Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place)
68 - Arlo Guthrie,
Brooklyn, singer (Alice's Restaurant, City of New Orleans)
42 - Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress
35 - Jessica Simpson,
singer and popstar ("I Wanna Love You Forever")
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Eunice
Shriver, founder (Special Olympics)-2009@88
Nikola
Tesla, Serbian-American physicist, electrical engineer and inventor,
developed alternating current and the Tesla Coil-1943@86
David
Brinkley, Wilmington NC, NBC news anchor (Huntley-Brinkley)-2003@82
Terry-Thomas,
England, actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)-1990@71
Fred
Gwynne, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)-1993@66
William
Blackstone, jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries)-1780@57
Marcel
Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)-1922@51
Arthur
Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)-1993@49
Nick
Adams, Nanticoke Pa, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel)-1968@36
King
James III of Scotland-1488@36
Jack "Legs"
Diamond, American bootlegger-1931@34
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Historical Obits Today
Arthur
Fiedler, orchestra leader (Boston Pops)-1979@84
Clement Clarke Moore, ('Twas the Night Before
Xmas)-1863@83
Mel Blanc, cartoon
voice (Warner Bros cartoons)-1989@81
El Cid (Rodrigo
Díaz de Vivar), of Castile, famine-1099@59
Ferdinand "Jelly
Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, asthma-1941@50
Kevin
O'Higgins (Caoimhghín Críostóir Ó hUigín), Irish Free State VP,
assassinated-1927@35
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Brain Teasers Answers
A last name.
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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…§
