Good Morning Drumbo.
Thanks for posting Weird AL tunes.
Going just great EGC. Great weather!! Nights are just fabulous for sleeping. Cool down is holding out for the good. How's the weather your way, still terribly hot??
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on July 30:
1818 Emily Bront‰ England, novelist (Wuthering Heights)
1815 Thomas Jackson Rodman, Bvt Brig General (Union volunteers)
1837 Elon John Farnsworth, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1855 James Edward Kelly US, sculptor "Sculptor of American History"
1857 Thorstein Veblen US, economist (Theory of the Leisure Class-1899)
1863 Henry Ford Dearborn Township, Mich, auto maker (Ford)
1880 Robert Rutherford McCormick US, editor/publisher Chicago Tribune
1887 Timothy Mara NFL owner (NY Giants)
1889 Vladimir Zworykin electronics engineer/inventor, father of TV (invented the iconoscope)
1890 Casey Stengel NY Yankee (1949-60) & 1st NY Met manager
1899 Gerald Moore England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
1909 Cyril Northcote Parkinson England, historian (Pursuit of Progress)
1924 William Gass Fargo, ND, novelist, philosopher (Omensetter's Luck)
1929 Christine McGuire Middletown Oh singer (McGuire Sisters-Sugartime)
1929 Sid Kroft Athens Greece, puppeteer (Barbara Mandrell Show)
1930 Thomas Sowell, author/activist/really smart guy
1933 Edd "Kookie" Byrnes LA, actor/comb owner (77 Sunset Strip, Jack the Ripper)
1934 Bud Selig, owner (Milw Brewers)/acting baseball commissioner
1934 Ben Piazza Ark, actor (Blues Brothers, Ben Casey, Dallas)
1936 Ralph Taeger Richmond Hill NY, actor (Klondike, Acapulco, Hondo)
1936 George "Buddy" Guy, US blues guitarist (Stone Crazy)
1939 Eleanor Smeal heads National Organization for Women
1939 Peter Bogdanovich director/producer (The Last Picture Show)
1940 Patricia Schroeder (Rep-D-Colo)
1941 Count Desmond (Edward Benjamin) Binghamton NY, sword swallower
1941 Paul Anka Ottawa Ontario, singer (Put Your Head on My Shoulder)
1945 David Sanborn saxophonist (David Letterman)
1947 Arnold Schwarzenegger Austria, body builder/actor/politican (Commando, Terminator)
1947 William Atherton Ct, actor (Real Genius, Ghostbusters, Class of 44)
1950 Frank Stallone NYC, actor (Barfly, Outlaw Force)
1956 Delta Burke Orlando Fla, actress (Suzanne-Designing Women)
1958 Daley Thomas London, Decathalete (Olympic-gold-1980, 1984)
1963 Monique Gabrielle LA Cal, actress (Bad Girls 4, Amazon Women on Moon)
1977 Suangsuda Rodprasert, Miss Thailand Universe (1997)
Deaths which occurred on July 30:
0030 BC Mark Antony commits suicide (Following his loss at the battle of Actium)
0579 Benedict I, Italian Pope (575-79), dies
1718 William Penn, English Quaker/colonizer
1771 Thomas Gray, English poet ("Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"), dies at 54
1863 George Crockett Strong, US Union mjr-gen, dies of injuries at 29
1865 George Wright, US Union brig-general, dies at 61
1898 Otto von Bismarck, German "Iron" chancellor, dies at 83
1912 Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
1914 Jean Jaur‚s leading socialist, assassinated in Paris
1918 Chaim Soloveitchik, Rabbi of Brisk, talmudic scholar, dies
1967 Alfried Krupp, German industrialist, dies at 59
1983 Howard Deitz MGM executive, dies at 86 of Parkinson's disease
1983 Lynn Fontanne Broadway's premier actresses, dies at 95
1993 Edward B A M Raczynski, Polish pres-in-exile (1979-86), dies at 97
1996 Claudette Colbert, actress (Happened One Night), dies of stroke at 93
1998 “Buffalo Bob” Smith, the cowboy-suited host of the Howdy Doody Show from 1947-1960, died at age 80
2003 Sam Phillips (b.1923), founder of Sun Records (1952), died in Memphis. Phillips produced Elvis Presley's 1st record, also Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis.
GWOT Casualties
Iraq
30-Jul-2003 1 | US: 1 | UK: 0 | Other: 0
US Captain Leif E. Nott Belaruz Hostile - hostile fire
Afghanistan
A Good Day
http://icasualties.org/oif/ Data research by Pat Kneisler
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On this day...
0579 Benedict I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0657 St Vitalian begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1178 Frederick I (Barbarossa) Holy Roman Emperor crowned King of Burgundy
1419 Anti-Catholic Hussites, followers of executed reformer Jan Hus, storm townhall in Prague and throw Catholic councillors out the windows
1619 House of Burgesses Virginia formed, 1st elective US governing body
1729 City of Baltimore founded
1733 Society of Freemasons opens 1st American lodge in Boston
1792 French national anthem "La Marseillaise" by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, was first sung in Paris
(No French national anthem is NOT "I Surrender Dear")
1799 The French garrison at Mantua, Italy surrenders to the Austrians
1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1836 1st English newspaper published in Hawaii
1839 Slave rebels, take over slaver Amistad
1863 Pres Lincoln issues "eye-for-eye" order to shoot a rebel prisoner for every black prisoner shot
1864 Confederate troops attack Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. The town was burned by Union forces under McCausland
1874 1st baseball teams to play outside US, Boston-Phila in British Isles
1878 German anti-semitism begins during the Reichstag election
1878 Russian assault on Plevna Turkey, 7,300 Russian casualties
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Naval Treaty" (BG)
1902 Anti-Jewish rioters attack funeral procession of Rabbi Joseph (NYC)
1908 Around the World Autombile Race ends in Paris
1909 US Army accepts delivery of 1st military airplane
1911 J Palisa discovers asteroid #716 Berkeley
1913 Conclusion of the 2nd Balkan War
1916 German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ (a commission in 1939 ruled that Germany was guilty of sabotaging Black Tom and another plant in Kingsland, NJ, and awarded $50 million to the claimants. In 1953 the new Federal Republic of Germany began making payments. The last payment was made in 1979.)
1928 George Eastman demonstrates 1st color movie
1932 G Van Biesbroeck discovers asteroid #2253 Espinette
1935 1st Penguin book is published starting the paperback revolution
1942 FDR signs bill creating women's Navy auxiliary agency (WAVES)
1942 German SS kills 25,000 Jews in Minsk, Belorussia
1943 Last Judy Garland-Mickey Rooney movie released (Girl Crazy)
1944 US 30th division reaches suburbs of St-Lo Normandy
1946 1st rocket attains 100 mi altitude, White Sands, NM
1948 Professional wrestling premiers on prime-time network TV (DuMont)
1949 British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff
1951 Ty Cobb testifies before the Emanuel Celler committee, denying that the reserve clause makes peons of baseball players
1951 E L Johnson discovers asteroid #2718
1954 Elvis Presley joins Memphis Federation of Musicians, Local 71
1956 US motto "In God We Trust" authorized
1960 1st AFL preseason game Boston Patriots defeat Bills in Buffalo (28-7)
1963 British spy Kim Philby discovered in Moscow
1964 US naval fire on Hon Ngu/Hon Mo North Vietnam
1965 LBJ signs Medicare bill, which went into effect following year
1966 US airplanes bombs "demilitarized zone" in Vietnam
1966 Beatles' "Yesterday... & Today," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1967 Race riot in Milwaukee (4 killed)
1968 Beatles' Apple Boutique closes, entire inventory is given away
1968 Wash Senator Ron Hansen makes 1st unassisted triple-play in 41 years
1969 Barbra Striesand opens for Liberace at International Hotel, Las Vegas
1971 George Harrison releases "Bangladesh"
1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1971 US Apollo 15 lands on Mare Imbrium on the Moon
1975 Teamsters Pres Jimmy Hoffa disappears in suburban Detroit ("I don't need no bodyguard" J Hoffa)
1976 Kate Smith made her last public appearance, singing her trademark number, God Bless America on a TV program honoring the U.S. Bicentennial.
1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1980 The Israeli Knesset passed a law reaffirming all of Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state
1980 British New Hebrides becomes independent & takes name Vanuatu
1983 Official speed record for a piston-driven aircraft, 832 kph, Calif
1983 Weight lifter Sergei Didyk of USSR jerks a record 261 kg
1988 Jordanian King Hussein renounces sovereignty over West Bank to PLO
1988 Ronald J Dossenbach begins world record ride, pedaling across Canada from Vancouver BC, to Halifax, NS (13 days, 15 hr, 4 min)
1990 5 Bank of Credit & Commerce (BCCI) (hereafter known as The Bank of Criminals & Crooks Incorporated) members found guilty of money
1991 MTV announces it will split into 3 channels in 1993
1995 Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt enter basaeball's Hall of Fame
1996 Tommy Lasoda retires as LA Dodger manager
1997 Terrorist double suicide bombing in Jerusalem, kills 14
1997 Muslim terrorists in Algeria massacred over 80 villagers in recent attacks in apparent retaliation to a government offensive.
1998 13 Ohio machinists step forward to claim the $295.7 million Powerball jackpot. The workers opted to take the cash option: one payment of about $161.5 million.
1999 Linda Tripp charged with illegal wiretapping of Monica Lewinsky. Prosecutors later dropped the charges.
2000 The last nuclear test facility was destroyed with a controlled detonation of 100 tons of explosives in Kazakstan
2001 Intel rolls out its new Pentium III-M processor based on .13 micron chip technology
2002 Pope John Paul II begins a three-day visit to Mexico to canonize Juan Diego, the first Indian saint
2004 Abdurahman Alamoudi pleads guilty in a Virginia court to moving cash from Libya and involvement in a plot to assassinate Saudi Prince Abdullah.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
Cuba : Day of Martyrs of the Revolution
France : Marseillaise Day (1792)
Thailand : Asalha Puja
Virginia : Crater Day (1864)
Vanuata Independence Day (from Britain and France).
International Paperback day
National Cheesecake Day
Father-in-Law Day
National Lamb and Wool Month
Religious Observances
Buddhist-Bhutan : Buddha's 1st preaching
Christ : Commemoration of SS Abdon & Sennen, martyrs
RC : Memorial of Peter Chrysologus, bishop & doctor
Ang : Commemoration of William Wilberforce
Religious History
1629 The Puritans of Salem, Mass. appointed Francis Higginson as their teacher andSamuel Skelton as their pastor. The church covenant, composed afterward by these two men,allowed into communion only those who could prove a sound doctrinal knowledge and anexperience of grace in their lives.
1718 Death of William Penn, 74, English Quaker and founder of American colony ofPennsylvania. Penn permitted in his colony all forms of public worship compatible with monotheism and religious liberty.
1822 Pioneer church founder James Varick, 72, was consecrated the first bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church.
1956 By an act of Congress, signed by President Eisenhower, 'In God We Trust' becamethe official U.S. motto.
1976 Death of Rudolf Bultmann, 92, German Bible scholar and one of the three majorpioneers of modern form 'criticism' (i.e., 'analysis') of the New Testament Gospels.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Squirrel Tale Has No End in Sight
The county has ordered Santa Monica to cut the animal's population at a popular park. A furor halted poisoning; now the city is stumped.
July 29 2005
An explosion in the ground squirrel population is driving Santa Monica officials a little nutty.
The city is under order from the Los Angeles County health department to reduce the number of the chubby rodents in a popular seaside park, to lessen the chance of people contracting plague.
But some local residents, unhappy with the lethal-bait boxes at the 26-acre Palisades Park, fear that pets and wildlife are being put at risk.
This week the animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals weighed in with a letter to Mayor Pam O'Connor accusing the city of illegally misusing the pesticide by placing the poison where other animals could get to it.
Non-targeted animals could eat poisoned carcasses or get into the bait boxes, PETA said.
"Failing to follow the product label on a pesticide is a violation of federal law," wrote PETA representative Mylie Thompson.
City parks chief Joe McGrath, who suspended use of the poison in late June because of citizen concerns, has been searching since then for a practical alternative, which he says seems to be unavailable. "We're willing to try anything," he said.
Many of the bait boxes remain in the park, but they are not being replenished.
Ground squirrel extermination has been undertaken at the park off and on for at least 20 years with little attention, but citizen reaction in recent months has been "off the charts," McGrath said.
Tree squirrels, slimmer and with curlier tails than ground squirrels, do not pose a plague problem and are not targeted, officials said.
The mayor was not available for comment Thursday, but city spokeswoman Judy Rambeau said the poison method used by the city was safe and legal.
Longtime park user Diane Shackelford was horrified Memorial Day to see a flock of crows "picking off sick squirrels" near bait boxes along a well-traveled path.
"I think we've come far enough that we don't have to be putting poison in a public park," she said.
Early this year, county health officials counted 146 active burrows in the park. McGrath estimated that more than 1,000 squirrels were living in the labyrinths.
The county Department of Health Services monitors parks for plague bacteria, which ground squirrels can harbor and transmit to humans through fleas. Disease control supervisor Gail Van Gordon said a July inspection showed acceptable progress in ground squirrel reduction but that the effort must continue.
"I know there are a lot of concerns in the city of Santa Monica," she said. "Our intentions are not to eliminate all ground squirrels in Palisades Park."
She added that the department does not give advice on how to limit the squirrel population.
Thought for the day :
"Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made."
Otto von Bismarck
