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July 2, 2017 Week: 27 \ Day: 183

86004 Today: H 86° \ L 45°

Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

July Averages: 82°\50°

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

Record High: 92°[1969]   Record Low: 34°[1997]

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Quote of the Day

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

George Orwell

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Observances Today

Build A Scarecrow Day

I Forgot Day

Made In The USA Day

Second Half of The Year Day  Link 

World UFO Day Link

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Observances This Week

Beans and Bacon Days: 1-5?  Link 

National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7

Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 2-8 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

★  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

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★1505 After an encounter with a violent thunderstorm, Martin Luther declares that he will become a monk

★1561 Menas, Emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.

★1787 Marquis de Sade shouts from Bastille that prisoners are being slaughtered

1843 An alligator falls from sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, South Carolina

1863 Battle of Gettysburg (2nd day)

★1865 One-time Methodist Reform Church minister William Booth and his wife Catherine found the Salvation Army (Army of the Salvation) as the East London Christian Mission

1867 1st US elevated railroad begins service, NYC

1881 US President James Garfield shot by Charles J. Guiteau a disappointed office-seeker; Garfield died 79 days later

1890 Congress passes Sherman Antitrust Act

★1900 First flight LZ-1, of a dirigible airship designed by Graf Ferdinand von Zeppelin, at Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.

★1916 Lenin says Imperialism is caused by capitalism

★1937 Amelia Earhart & Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean

★1949 The State of Vietnam is internationally recognized, governing the southern half of Vietnam, with Bảo Đại as chief of state

1955 "Lawrence Welk Show" premieres on ABC

1956 Elvis Presley records "Hound Dog" & "Don't Be Cruel"

★1962 Cubans minister of Foreign affairs Raul Castro arrives in Moscow

1964 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs Civil Rights Act & Voting Rights Act into law

★1967 Catherine Lacoste becomes youngest (22), 1st foreigner (France) & 1st amateur to US Women's open golf tournament

★1977 91st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Bjorn Borg beats Connors (36 62 61 57 64)

1979 Susan B. Anthony dollar is issued, 1st US coin to honor a woman

★1985 European Space Agency launches Giotto (Halley's Comet Flyby)

1986 US Supreme Court upholds affirmative action in 2 rulings

★1988 95th Wimbledon Women's Tennis Open: Steffi Graf beats Navratilova (5-7 6-2 6-1)

1991 Donald Trump proposes to Marla Maples and gives her a 7.5 carat diamond ring

2001 Bush Administration announce that it will seek to let oil companies drill on about 1,500,000 acres of the Gulf of Mexico

★2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

★2005 10 Live 8 concerts held around the world organized by Bob Geldof to raise awareness of poverty

★2015 BP agrees to compensate US government & Gulf States $18.7 billion for the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice Saturday. The Annual ‘Art in the Park’ is happening. Spent some time over there and visited with some Native Artist friends. Lots of people. Native Art is hot right now, so they are having good sales. Great time to be outside.

Lots going on here for the 4^th weekend, so I won’t be traveling anywhere. Just enjoying this great weather and nice town.

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Today’s Trivia Hive

(answers at the end of post)

What color is the powder used to dye the Chicago River green for St. Patrick's Day?

White              Orange

Gray                Green

31.0% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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Harper’s Index

+400→Percentage change in downloads of Signal, an encrypted text and calling app, since the presidential election

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Yep, It Really Happened

Fame can be addictive. Even fake, ephemeral fame like you get on YouTube. And in order to get that fame, people will do some really stupid things that they would otherwise never do. 

One such incident occurred recently in Minnesota where a young man talked his girlfriend into helping him with what turned into a fatal 'prank'. 

So what would get a whole lot of views? 22-year-old Pedro Ruiz III decided the most outrageous thing he could do was to get his girlfrind, 19-year-old Monalisa Perez, to shoot him in the chest. 

Oh, he was going to take safety precautions, of course. His plan was to hold a book up against his chest while Perez shot him. 

The couple often made prank videos and posted them on YouTube. In one of the videos, Perez tries to prank Ruiz with a sandwich filled with hot peppers, and in another, the couple detail their stay at a haunted hotel. 

But this time Perez tweeted that the couple had agreed to carry out "one of the most dangerous videos ever." 

Unfortunately, the prank went very wrong, and the bullet went through the book and into Ruiz's chest, killing him before he could be air-lifted for medical treatment. 

The stunt might have even worked if Ruiz hadn't decided to use one of the most powerful handguns in the world; the .50 caliber Desert Eagle. 

It was not reported what book was used. 

Perez was charged with second-degree manslaughter.

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Somewhat Useless Information

As the 20th century began, most Americans wore union suits or "all-in-ones"-undergarments that combined pants and a top.

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"Day of the Week" underpants were a craze in the 1950s. Each pair of underpants in the set of seven was labeled with a different day of the week.

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Colorful Underoos hit stores in 1978. The fun underwear secretly transformed thousands of kids into Batman and Wonder Woman.

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Birthdays Today

@  indicates age at death

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@92- Jean-Rene Lacoste,

France, US Open (1926)/alligator shirt designer

(d. 1996)

<§>80’s<§>

88- Imelda Marcos,

Filipino politician and First Lady of the Philippines (1965-86) who famously collected over 1,000 pairs of shoes, born in Manila, Philippines

86- Robert Ito,

actor (Sam-Quincy ME), born in Vancouver, British Columbia

@85- Hermann Hesse,

German-Swiss novelist and poet (Steppenwolf, Nobel 1946), born in Calw, Württemberg, Germany

(d. 1962)

@84- Thurgood Marshall,

1st African American Supreme Court justice (1967-91), born in Baltimore, Maryland

(d. 1993)

80- Richard Petty,

NASCAR driver

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@74- Ken Curtis, [Curtis Gates],

actor (Ripcord, Festus - Gunsmoke), born in Lamar, Colorado

(d. 1991)

70- Larry David,

actor/comedian/writer (Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm), born in Brooklyn

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44- Jenni Rivera,

Mexican-American singer-songwriter (Jenni, 2008), born in Long Beach, California

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@35- Patrice Emery Lumumba,

Katakokombe region of the Kasai Province of Belgian Congo, first Prime Minister of an independent Congo,

(d. 1961)

31- Lindsay Lohan,

actress

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Historical Obits Today

<§>80’s<§>

@89-1997 Jimmy Stewart,

American actor (It's a Wonderful Life)

@89-1995 Gail Gordon,

actor (Our Miss Brooks, Lucy Show)

@87-2016 Elie Wiesel,

Jewish Auschwitz survivor and author (Night), Nobel Prize winner 1986

<§>70’s<§>

@78-1999 Mario Puzo,

American author, heart failure

<§>60’s<§>

@66-1993 Fred Gwynne,

actor (Herman-Munsters), dies of pancreatic cancer

@62-1850 Robert "Bobbie" Peel,

British PM/founder London Police, fall

@62-1566 Nostradamus, [Michel de Nostre-Dam],

French astrologist, dropsy

@61-1961 Ernest Hemingway,

American author and Nobel laureate, suicide

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@55-1991 Lee Remick,

actress (Days of Wine & Roses), cancer

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Trivia Hive  Answers

Orange

Nothing says Happy St. Patrick’s Day quite like sporting the Irish green! In the Windy City, they even color the Chicago River green. But the powder used to give the water its holiday hue isn’t emerald from the get-go; it’s actually orange! As soon as this formula hits the water, it turns into the familiar shamrock shade. This may seem strange, but environmentalists can rest assured knowing the formula has been proven to be eco-friendly. Source: Mental Floss.

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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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