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July 1, 2017 Week: 26 \
Day: 182
86004 Today: H 87° \ L 48°
Average
Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: -mph\Gusts:
-mph
Visibility:
10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High: 91°[1990]
Record Low: 33°[2004]
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Quote of the Day
Great things are done
when men and mountains meet.
William Blake
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Observances Today
Estee Lauder Day
Hop A Park Day (First Saturday)
International Day of Cooperatives (First Saturday)
International Cherry Pit Spitting Day Link (First
Saturday)
National GSA Employee Day
National Postal Workers Day Link
Second Half of The Year Day (For Leap Years)
U.S. Postage Stamp Day
Zip Code Day
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Observances This Week
Beans and Bacon Days: 1-5? Link (Around first Wed. in
July)
National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
<§>1200’s<§>
★1200 In
China, sunglasses are invented
<§>1500’s<§>
★1517 1st
burning of Protestants at stake in Netherlands
★1535 Sir
Thomas More goes on trial in England charged with treason
<§>1700’s<§>
1776 1st
vote on Declaration of Independence for Britain's North American colonies
★1798 Napoleon's
fleet reaches Alexandria Egypt
<§>1800’s<§>
1836 US
President Andrew Jackson announces to Congress bequest by
James Smithson of 100,000 gold sovereigns to found institution in Washington.
1861 1st
public schoolhouse opens at Washington & Mason St, SF
★1867 The
Dominion of Canada is formed, comprising the provinces of New Brunswick, Nova
Scotia, Ontario & Quebec, with John A. Macdonald serving
as the first Prime Minister
1874 1st
US zoo opens (Philadelphia)
1889 Frederick
Douglass named Minister to Haiti
1893 SF
Bay City Club opens 1st US bicycle race track, made of wood
1897 Bronx
acquires Hutton Square
1898 Theodore
Roosevelt and his Rough Riders charge up San Juan Hill
1899 Gideon
Society established to place bibles in hotels
<§>1900’s<§>
★1903 1st
Tour de France bicycle race begins
★1904 3rd
modern Olympic games opens in St Louis
★1907 World's
1st air force established (US Army)
★1908 "SOS"
(· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal becomes the worldwide standard for help
1916 Coca-Cola
brings current coke formula to the market
★1921 The
Communist Party of China is founded and Chen Duxiu elected its leader
1929 US
cartoonist Elzie Segar creates
"Popeye"
1931 Ice
vending machines introduced in LA 25 lbs, 15 cents
1934 1st
x-ray photo of entire body, Rochester, NY
1941 Bulova
Watch Co pays $9 for 1st ever network TV commercial
1943 "Pay-as-you-go"
- 1st withholding tax from paychecks
★1944 Bretton
Woods Conference starts, establishing IMF & World Bank
★1957 International
Geophysical Year begins (until Dec 31, 1958)
★1959 World
Refugee Year begins
★1960 Fidel
Castro nationalizes Esso, Shell & Texaco in Cuba
1963 ZIP
(Zone Improvement Plan) Codes are introduced for United States mail
1966 Medicare
goes into effect
1968 The
CIA's Phoenix Program is officially established.
1971 State
of Washington becomes 1st state to ban sex discrimination
1971 Twenty-sixth
Amendment, which lowers the voting age from 21 to 18, is ratified and becomes
part of the United States Constitution
1972 "Hair"
closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 1750 performances
1972 Ms.
magazine begins publishing
★1972 The
first Gay Pride march in England takes place.
1974 1st
Laura Ashley store in the US opens (San Francisco)
★1979 Sony
introduces the Walkman.
★1980 'O
Canada' officially becomes the national anthem of Canada.
1987 Bork
nominated to Supreme Court, rejected in Oct by senate
★1996 NHL
Winnipeg Jets officially become the Phoenix Coyotes
1997 Nevada
Athletic Commission suspends Mike Tyson for biting Holyfield
<§>2000’s<§>
2014 The
US Supreme Court rules that family-owned corporations can reject provision of
'Obamacare' on religious grounds
2015 Misty
Copeland becomes the 1st African American principal dancer of the American
Ballet Theatre
★2015 US
and Cuba announce agreement to re-open embassies and establish full diplomatic
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My Rambling Thoughts
Warm summer day…no breeze…warm…no
breeze.
Smiling as the president
cheers about his Muslim ban, but the people on the ground are having a hard
time deciding which relatives are allowed inside. Just another example of the
leader making a generalization that sounds so good to his supporters that has
to be dialed back by the people who have to enforce it. Just another example of
giving an elected office to a novice.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Which organization
commissioned the "Fearless Girl" statue that stood in a stare down
with Wall Street's "Charging Bull" statue ahead of International
Women's Day 2017?
Deloitte State
Street Global Advisors
Sotheby's
International Realty Charles
Schwab
35.0% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
2/5→Minimum
portion of the 50
largest US police depts.. that use ‘predictive policing’ software
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-------- You've Got To
Hand It To Him --------*
A Florida man walked more than 3 miles on his hands in hopes of breaking a
world record and raising funds for charity. Ashwin Kalyandurg, 22, walked 3.17
miles on his hands, surpassing a 2002 Guinness World Record by 100 meters,
during an event to raise funds for four charitable organizations.
"Everything is in pain," Kalyandurg said after completing the
record-breaking feat. Kalyandurg, a senior medical student at Nova Southeastern
University, performed the world record attempt at the Pledge-Per-Step Challenge
in Boca Raton. He took breaks throughout the 3-mile journey, which took about
eight hours, and has submitted his record attempt to Guinness for approval. For
two months leading up to the event, Kalyandurg trained his body by climbing
palm trees, doing push-ups and walking up and down parking garage ramps on his
hands. Kalyandurg had walked on his hands for charity in the past, walking for
about 12 hours to benefit the American Cancer Society at his university.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Giant Sequoias in
California's Sequoia National Park range from 2,000 to 2,100 years old and can
measure 275 feet tall and 30 feet across.
***
30 percent of the degrees
awarded in China and India are engineering degrees. In the US, that number is
only 4 percent.
***
Each unit on the Richter
Scale is equivalent to a power factor of about 32. So a 6 is 32 times more
powerful than a 5.
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Birthdays Today
@ indicates age at death
<§>100’s<§>
101-
Olivia de Havilland,
actress
<§>90’s<§>
@95- Estée
Lauder,
CEO
(Estée Lauder cosmetics) (d. 2004), born in NYC
(d.
2004)
<§>80’s<§>
83- Jamie
Farr,
actor
(Klinger-M*A*S*H, AfterMASH), born in Toledo, Ohio
<§>70’s<§>
@79- Billy
Wyler,
director
(Ben Hur, Mrs Miniver)
(d.
1981)
@77- William
Strunk Jr.,
American
grammarian
(d.
1946)
76- Twyla
Tharp,
Portland
Ind, choreographer (Twyla Tharp Dance Troupe)
@74- Karen
Black,
American
actress (5 Easy Pieces, Pyx),
(d.
2013)
@73- Sydney
Pollack,
American
diretcor, actor and producer (Tootsie, Out of Africa), born in Lafayette,
Indiana
(d.
2008)
72-
Debbie Harry,
singer
<§>60’s<§>
66- Daryl
Anderson,
actor
(Animal-Lou Grant), born in Seattle, Washington
65-
Dan Aykroyd,
actor,
comedian (SNL)
@63- Charles
Laughton,
English
actor (Mutiny on Bounty, Spartacus), born in Scarborough, England (d. 1962)
<§>50’s<§>
56- Carl
Lewis [Frederick],
sprinter
and long jumper (Oly-9 gold-84-96), born in Birmingham, Alabama
55- Andre
Braugher,
American
actor (Homicide: Life on the Street, Brooklyn Nine Nine), born in Chicago,
Illinois
50 Pamela
Anderson Lee,
Ladysmith
BC, playmate (Feb 90),Baywatch
<§>40’s<§>
40- Liv
Tyler,
American
actress and daughter of Aerosmith's frontman, Steven Tyler (Stealing Beauty,
Lord of the Rings), born in New York City
<§>30’s<§>
@36-
Diana Spencer,
Princess
of Wales, born in Sandringham, England (d. 1997)
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Historical Obits Today
<§>80’s<§>
@89-2015 Lawrence
Herkimer,
American
"Grandfather of Cheerleading" (founded National Cheerleading Association,
patented the pom-pom)
@87-1983 R
Buckminster Fuller,
inventor
(geodesic dome)/philosopher
@85-1896 Harriet
Beecher Stowe,
American
author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
@80-2004 Marlon
Brando,
American
actor ("The Godfather", "A Street Cart Named Desire" and
"On the Water Front")
<§>70’s<§>
@78-1974 Juan
Perón,
Argentine
military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), heart attack
<§>60’s<§>
@64-1894 Allan
Pinkerton,
American
private detective, stroke or malaria
<§>50’s<§>
@59-1860 Charles
Goodyear,
American
inventor (vulcanization process for rubber)
@57-1995 Wolfman
Jack,
disc
jockey (Midnight Special), heart attack
@54-2005 Luther
Vandross,
American
singer, complications of stroke
@54-1991 Michael
Landon,
American
actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven), cancer
<§>40’s<§>
@41-1996 Margaux
Hemmingway,
actress
(Lipstick), suicide
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Trivia Hive Answers
State Street Global
Advisors
One day before women's
marches would break out across the U.S. on International Women's Day, New York
City's Wall Street had a small change that made a big impact on social media.
State Street Global Advisors, the investment division of Boston-based State
Street Corp., commissioned the "Fearless Girl" bronze statue, which
stands and faces Wall Street's iconic "Charging Bull." The firm hopes
to bring attention to the shortage of female corporate board members. What
better way to kick off gender equality conversations for the worldwide day to
commemorate achievements by women? Source: The Boston Globe.
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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…☼☼☼☼
