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Creamsicle Day |
Romance Awareness Day Link |
Today’s Quote
Early to bed
and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
Today’s Meme
Today’s Thoughts
A nice summer day. Monsoon later
today.
Today is Navajo Code Talker Day. I was privileged to meet several Code Talkers during my time on the Rez. Many of these kids were pulled out of various boarding schools, including Tuba City, drafted into the Marines and sent across the ocean to protect our troops. They weren’t allowed to talk about their experience until 1968 when the mission was declassified. President Reagan made it a Day of Observance in 1982.
The Trump campaign was hacked,
possibly by Iran. The campaign says no news agency should publish anything
hacked by a foreign entity. That is TRUE and I agree. But…in a previous election,
Trump was bragging that WikiLeaks had hacked Hilary Clinton’s campaign and he
publicly thanks WikiLeaks numerous times for their good job. Hmmm.
1977 was 47 years ago…
Technology
- The first Apple II computers went
on sale
- NAVSTAR Global Positioning
System GPS Inaugurated by US Department of defense
- The first ever Quadraphonic
concert in London by Pink Floyd
- The first commercial flight Concord
London to New York
- The first MRI Scanner is
tested in Brooklyn
- NASA space shuttle makes its
first test flight off the back of a jetliner
- Voyager I and Voyager II are
launched unmanned to explore the outer solar system
Random Thoughts…
§ History
doesn’t repeat itself, humans repeat history.
§ “Adapt
what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.”
– Bruce Lee
§ The
world record for 100-meter three-legged race stands at 13.6 seconds,
since 1906.
American History…
What happened to
those convicted at the Salem witch trials?©Everett Collection/Shutterstock
Incorrect: Burned at the stake Correct: Hanged
at the gallows
Popular knowledge would have it that burning witches at the stake was a
big part of the Salem witch trials. But while those who were persecuted
did suffer horrible fates, they either died by hanging—like the 19 people who
met their sad end on Gallows Hill—or, in the case of Giles Corey, were
pressed to death with large stones.
Interestingly, Corey's case is the only recorded death by pressing in
U.S. history and it was dramatized in The Crucible, Arthur
Miller's seminal 1953 play.
Historic Events
- 1592 – The Falkland Islands were
discovered by John Davis.
- 1935 – Franklin D.
Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act, creating a government
pension system for the retired.
- 1975 – The Gager’s Diner
softball team played the Bend ’n Elbow Tavern team for 365 innings, to
raise money for the Montecillo Community General Hospital (NY) for the
construction of a softball field.
The Gagers won, 491-467. It remains the longest softball game of all time. - 1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture
Show, the longest-running release in film history, opened in London.
- 1989 – Sega Mega
Drive/Genesis was released, Video Game Console
Birthdays
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Magic
Johnson, 64 Basketball Player Miranda
Rae Mayo, 33 TV Actress |
@56 – William Hutchinson, founder of Rhode Island
(died in 1642)
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…The End for today…
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