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July 9, 2017 Week: 28 \
Day: 190
86004 Today: H 91° \ L 57°
Average
Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts:
-mph
Visibility:
10 mi
Nearest Lightning 6 miles
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 94°[2003]
Record Low: 34°[1926]
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Quote of the Day
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Oscar Wilde
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Observances Today
Martyrdom of The Bab
Taos Pueblo Pow Wow: 7-9 Link
Wayne Chicken Day: 7-9 Link
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Observances This Week
Freedom Week: 4-10
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link
National Tom Sawyer Days: 7-9? (aka Fence Painting Days)
National Farriers Week: 9-15 (First Full Week)
Sports Cliché Week: 9-15 (Always Week of Maj. League Baseball)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★- Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
1300’s
★-1357 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor
assists laying the foundation stone of Charles Bridge in Prague.
1400’s
★-1401 Turko-Mongol ruler Tamerlane (Timur) destroys Baghdad, killing 20,000
1500’s
★-1553 Lady Jane Grey, daughter of the Duke
of Suffolk, proclaimed Queen of England,succeeding Edward VI, who proclaimed
his half-sisters illegitimate. Reigns for nine days.
1700’s
★-1755 Battle at Duquesne (Pittsburgh):
French troops beat British
1776 Declaration
of Independence is read to George Washington's troops (NY)
1795 James
Swan pays off the $2,024,899 US national debt
1800’s
1800 Mt
Vernon Gardens becomes site of 1st summer theater in US
1815 1st natural gas well in US is discovered
★-1816 Argentina
declares independence from Spain
1846 The
territory of the District of Columbia south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or
about 100 km²) is returned to Virginia through an Act of Congress.
★-1877 First ever Wimbledon tennis
championship begins - first offical lawn tennis tournament - men's singles only
1893- Daniel Williams performs 1st successful open heart surgery w/o anesthesia
1900’s
1922 Johnny
Weissmuller swims 1st 100 m free style under 1 minute
1932 Washington Redskins (the Boston Braves) formed
★-1939 A meeting of 6,000 Indians, held at
the Indian Sports Ground in Johannesburg South Africa, launch the Passive
Resistance Campaign against apartheid and racial policy in South Africa
★-1947 Engagement of Britain's Princess
Elizabeth & Lt Philip Mountbatten
1953 1st helicopter passenger service (NYC)
1956 Dick Clark's 1st appearance as host of American Bandstand
1958 Giant
splash caused by fall of 90 million tons of rock & ice into Lituya Bay,
Alaska washes 1,800 feet up the mountain
1962 Andy Warhol's 1st West Coast gallery exhibition: Ferus Gallery of LA
★-1976 Uganda asks UN to condemn Israeli
hostage rescue raid on Entebbe
1978 Nearly
100,000 demonstrators march on Washington, D.C. for ERA
★-1991 South Africa readmitted to Olympics
1997 Mike Tyson is banned from boxing for biting Evander Holyfield's ear
2000’s
★-2011 South Sudan gains independence and
secedes from Sudan.
★-2014 Spokesperson
for Medical Aid for Palestinians claims that at least 7 children have been
killed by Israeli air strikes
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My Rambling Thoughts
A warm Saturday.
Yesterday, about 7p the rain arrived and temps dropped about 15° in ten
minutes. It was a nice gentle rain that lasted about 30 minutes. Much needed
and much appreciated. Hoping for more this afternoon.
Not happy with any network
reporting on the G-20. They all got is wrong about talking to Putin about election hacking, they won’t admit it,
and just babble on and on about what they think might possibly be going on.
Really I want NEWS, not commentary. That said, I do remember Nixon saying ‘I am
not a crook’ when the evidence had not been released to the public and then
when it became public knowledge, he resigned. History does have a way of
repeating itself. I await the outcome.
Took some time to clean up
my back room, and clean off the deck. Nice day to just sit out there and enjoy.
But I do need the fan on. Just not enough breeze.
My blood doc is getting to be a pain. When I did my last blood draw I talked to his nurse about my CPAP machine. She babble about how he was leaving that day and wouldn't be back until Jul 5. I called the office on the 6th and left a voice mail on the nurse's extension. She didn't call back by the afternoon of the 7th, so I called again, stating I needed a call back. She called back about 4:55. She apologized and babbled about how busy she was after the Doc's vaca. She promised to call me back 'next week'. I know this is not life threatening or anything, but my insurance pays just like everyone else and I expect better service. I'll give her till Thursday and then my wrath will appear.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
The President’s daughter sitting at the table of the G-20 with the
President nowhere to be seen.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
As of 2017, who was
Chicago's longest-running mayor?
Richard
M. Daley Rahm Emanuel
Carter
Harrison, Jr William Butler Ogden
88.0%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
19→Number of floors by which the Trump World
Tower’s advertised height exceed its actual height.
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Yep, It Really Happened
A California TV reporter
is gaining national fame from an unfortunate incident: Being sprayed with vomit
by a drunken reveler.
Wendy Burch of KTLA-TV was delivering a live report Tuesday from an
"Ironman" competition in Hermosa Beach when she went to interview
some of the participants during a portion of the event that called on the
competitors to chug beer after a physical challenge.
Burch made note of one drunken competitor vomiting nearby and moved to give her
room and question a man who appeared to be holding his alcohol a bit better.
The video shows Burch and the man both end up struck by projectile vomit from
yet another competitor standing off-camera.
Burch said the man she was interviewing was asking for it -- quite literally.
"What I didn't notice until later, is that he had a bullseye drawn on his
back with the words 'puke here' written in magic marker," she wrote in The
Huffington Post.
She said the video's freeze-frame right at the moment of vomiting was a
coincidental technical glitch.
Burch continued to report from the event after wiping the vomit from her skin
and clothes.
The reporter said she was surprised to see the video quickly go viral,
spreading with multiple YouTube uploads gaining thousands of views each.
"To all of you aspiring journalists out there, I'm here to tell you,
dreams really do come true -- especially in the age of viral videos,"
Burch wrote.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The "invention"
of language is not known except for references in the Bible. It is not known
what language Adam and Eve spoke. The first mention of different languages is
the reference to the tower of Babel when different tongues were bestowed.
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The invention of writing,
however, is credited to the Sumerians of Mesopotamia in the 4th millennium BC.
Their descendants, the Sumero-Babylonians, developed the time system that we
use today: an hour divided into 60 minutes, which are divided into 60 seconds.
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Today, there are more than
2,700 different languages spoken in the world, with more than 7,000 dialects.
In Indonesia alone, 365 different languages are spoken. More than 1,000
different languages are spoken in Africa.
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Birthdays Today
@ indicates age at death
90’s
90- Ed
Ames,
Malden
Mass, actor (Mingo-Daniel Boone)
80’s
@83- Jacob
Perkins,
Newburyport
Massachusetts, American Inventor (Father of Refrigerator)
(d.
1849)
70’s
@78- Lee
Hazelwood, Ok, country singer/songwriter (Summer Wine, Jackson) (d. 2007)
75- Richard
Roundtree,
actor
(Getting Even, Shaft), born in New Rochelle, New York
70- O. J. Simpson (Orenthal James),
70- O. J. Simpson (Orenthal James),
NFL
running back (Buf Bills), in prison, born in San Francisco
60’s
@67- Vince
Edwards,
American
actor (Ben Casey, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), born in Brooklyn,
(d,
1996)
65- John
Tesh,
New
age pianist/TV host (ET), born in Garden City, New York
62- Jimmy
Smits,
actor
(Victor-LA Law, Running Scared, NYPD Blue), born in Brooklyn
61- Tom
Hanks,
American
actor (Bossom Buddies, Forrest Gump, Philadelphia), born in Concord, California
50’s
53- Courtney
Love,
American
muscian (Hole) and actress (People vs Larry Flynt), born in San Francisco,
California
40’s
@48- Elias
Howe,
Spencer
Mass, invented sewing machine
(d.
1867)
41- Fred
Aaron Savage, Ill,
actor
(Kevin-Wonder Years, Vice Versa)
20’s
26- Mitchel
Musso,
American
TV actor
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2014 Eileen Ford,
American
modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency)
@92-1977 Alice Paul,
American
suffragist
80’s
@83-1974 Earl Warren,
governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68)
governor of California/Supreme court justice (1953-68)
70’s
@79-1992 Eric
Savareid,
News
correspondent (CBS), stomach cancer
@77-2002 Rod Steiger,
American
actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker), pneumonia
60’s
@65-1850 Zachary Taylor,
12th
US president (1849-50), in White House of intestinal ailment
50’s
@58-1852 Thompson
McKennan,
American
politician who served as the 2nd US Secretary of the Interior
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Trivia Hive Answers
Richard M. Daley
First elected in 1989,
Richard M. Daley - son of fellow Chicago mayor Richard J. Daley - served a
whopping six terms before finally passing the torch to the city's current
mayor, Rahm Emanuel. Daley's time as mayor was marked by many ups and downs:
He's credited for overhauling public housing and the local school systems, as
well as investing heavily in the city's infrastructure. But his administration
was also investigated for accusations of fraud and contracting irregularities.
Source: Chicago Tribune
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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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