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Post by BillG on Jul 30, 2024 4:40:16 GMT -5
Who Knew??? July 30TH is "National Climb A Mountain Day"!
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Post by soutxed on Jul 30, 2024 7:32:36 GMT -5
July 30 1975, Labor leader Jimmy Hoffa vanishes without a trace.
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Post by johnmori on Jul 30, 2024 14:34:52 GMT -5
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July 30, 1965 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.
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Post by sandipaws on Jul 30, 2024 21:45:23 GMT -5
Who Knew???
National Mutt Day encourages us to embrace, save and celebrate mixed breed dogs twice a year on July 31 and December 2.
Desperately longing for a new home, millions of loving and healthy mixed breed dogs in shelters wait for someone to come and adopt them. National Mutt Day provides an excellent opportunity to find the perfect canine companion. Despite the name, a mutt learns, obeys and trains much like purebred animals. While their lineage cannot be traced and their features a bit murky, their companionship will be faithful.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 30, 2024 23:37:13 GMT -5
A Hummingbird Weighs Less Than a Penny. A certain species of hummingbird: The Cuban Bee Hummingbird, a colorful creature that is given that name because it is often mistaken for a honey bee (it is also often called a Penny Bird due to its light weight). Who knew?
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Post by BillG on Jul 31, 2024 5:47:32 GMT -5
Who Knew??? July 31ST is "National Avocado Day"!
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Post by soutxed on Jul 31, 2024 7:44:32 GMT -5
July 31, 1966, Two Alabama radio hosts, Tommy Charles and Doug Layton of WAQY in Birmingham, ask listeners to send in Beatles albums and merchandise to burn in response to John Lennon's anti-Jesus remark that "Christianity will go"
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Post by johnmori on Jul 31, 2024 8:35:48 GMT -5
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July 31, 1964 Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon, with images 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes.
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Post by MidnightSun on Jul 31, 2024 23:33:58 GMT -5
It Once Snowed in Downtown Los Angeles. Famous for its hot winters, Los Angeles is not totally unfamiliar with snow. In fact, in January 1949, it got a three-day snow storm; the San Fernando Valley reaped nearly a foot of the stuff — the greatest snow storm in the city's history. Who knew?
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Post by johnmori on Aug 1, 2024 6:27:04 GMT -5
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August 1, 1950 Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act
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Post by soutxed on Aug 1, 2024 7:53:25 GMT -5
August 1, 1966, The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder where Charles Whitman killed 15 people and injured many more.
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Post by sandipaws on Aug 1, 2024 23:05:14 GMT -5
Who Knew??? On August 2, National Ice Cream Sandwich Day encourages us to cool off with one of our favorite frozen treats. Whether it's vanilla, strawberry or Neopolitan between two chocolate wafers, the dessert sure will hit the spot on a hot summer day.The original ice cream sandwich sold for a penny in 1900 from a pushcart in the Bowery neighborhood of New York. never identified the name of the vendor in articles that appeared across the country.
However, the ice cream sandwiched between milk biscuits became a hit. Soon, pushcarts popped up around the city and country during the summer months selling the portable treats. Early pictures show beachgoers at Atlantic City getting their ice cream sandwiches for 1¢ each.
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Post by MidnightSun on Aug 1, 2024 23:50:43 GMT -5
Phoenix Has Seen Snow, Too. Twice, in fact, and both in the same decade: January 20, 1933, and January 21, 1937. Though snow is virtually unheard of in this famously toasty, arid city, on both those occasions it saw an inch of snow, making it the greatest amount of snow the region had ever seen. Who knew?
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Post by BillG on Aug 2, 2024 4:54:58 GMT -5
Who Knew??? August 2ND is "National Coloring Book Day"!
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Post by soutxed on Aug 2, 2024 6:27:21 GMT -5
August 2, 1964, Confrontation in waters off Vietnam escalates a war. The Pentagon reports that North Vietnamese torpedo boats have fired on the USS Maddox as it patroled off the north coast of Vietnam in the Gulf of Tonkin. The incident will result in a rapid escalation of the Vietnam War but questions about the Pentagon's report will linger.
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