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Knee Deep in the Hoopla
Start budgeting now. Households will pay an average of $2,400 more for goods this year, thanks to Trump’s policies.
Gut microbes may flush ‘forever chemicals’ from the body. If you’re a “humanized mouse.”
Security vulnerability on U.S. trains that let anyone activate the brakes on the rear car was known for 13 years — operators refused to fix the issue until now.
Texas NWS office had no warning coordination meteorologist during the flood. Did it make a difference? TLDR: Probably not. But staffing shortages threaten routine forecasting capability and raise concerns about hurricane season.
Trump says he’s considering revoking Rosie O’Donnell’s citizenship, despite a decades-old Supreme Court ruling that expressly prohibits such an action by the government.
Hungary’s oldest library is fighting to save 100,000 books from a beetle infestation.
Bernie Sanders reveals the AI ‘doomsday scenario’ that worries top experts.
AI shows how it can destroy the US in a day. (Video)
Quote of the Day:
Anyone who uses more than two chords is just showing off.
--Woody Guthrie (Wikipedia link)
(More Woody Guthrie quotes from the KGB Quotations Database)
Today’s holidays:
Bastille Day, International Non-Binary People's Day, International Town Criers Day, National Grand Marnier Day, National Mac and Cheese Day, National Nude Day, National Tape Measure Day, Pandemonium Day, and Shark Awareness Day.
Astronomy Picture of the Day from NASA.
On This Day:
2015 – NASA's New Horizons probe performed the first flyby of Pluto, and thus completed the initial survey of the Solar System.
2008 – The film “The Dark Knight” premiered in New York. (Video)
1989 – The film “When Harry Met Sally” premiered. (Video)
1983 – Mario Bros. was released in Japan, beginning the popular Super Mario Bros franchise.
1969 – The motion picture "Easy Rider" was released in New York. (Video)
1968 – Hank Aaron hit his 500th home run. (Video)
1965 – Mariner 4 flyby of Mars took the first close-up photos of another planet.
1960 – Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Reserve in present-day Tanzania to begin her study of chimpanzees in the wild.
1951 – First color telecast of a sporting event (CBS - horse race)
1946 – Dr. Benjamin Spock published “The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care”.
1943 – In Diamond, Missouri, the George Washington Carver National Monument became the first United States National Monument in honor of an African American.
1911 – Harry Atwood, an exhibition pilot for the Wright brothers, was greeted by President Taft after he landed his aeroplane on the South Lawn of the White House, having flown from Boston.
1902 – Peruvian explorer and farmer Agustín Lizárraga discovered Machu Picchu, the "Lost City of the Incas".
1881 – American outlaw Billy the Kid was shot and killed by Sheriff Pat Garrett in the Maxwell House at Fort Sumner, New Mexico.
1874 – The Chicago Fire of 1874 burns down 47 acres of the city, destroying 812 buildings, killing 20, and resulting in the fire insurance industry demanding municipal reforms from Chicago's city council.
1853 – Opening of the first major US world's fair, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations in New York City.
1798 – The Sedition Act of 1798 became law in the United States making it a federal crime to write, publish, or utter false or malicious statements about the United States government.
1795 – The French National Convention decreed "La Marseillaise" by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle as France's national anthem. (Video)
1789 – Storming of the Bastille in Paris. This event escalated the widespread discontent into the French Revolution. Bastille Day is still celebrated annually in France.
(For comprehensive lists of the day’s historical events, check here, here, and here.)
Some Birthdays:
1985 – Phoebe Waller-Bridge, English actress and screenwriter
1960 – Jane Lynch, American actress (Glee), comedian, author, and game show host[
1949 – Tommy Mottola, American businessman and music publisher
1938 – Jerry Rubin, American activist, author, and businessman (died 1994)
1932 – Rosey Grier, American football player and actor
1930 – Polly Bergen, American actress and singer (died 2014)
1927 – John Chancellor, American journalist (died 1996)
1926 – Harry Dean Stanton, American actor, musician, and singer (died 2017)
1923 – Dale Robertson, American actor (died 2013)
1918 – Ingmar Bergman, Swedish director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2007)
1918 – Arthur Laurents, American director, screenwriter, and playwright (died 2011)
1918 – Jay Wright Forrester, co-inventor of magnetic core memory.
1913 – Gerald Ford, American commander, lawyer, and politician, 38th President of the United States (died 2006)
1912 – Woody Guthrie, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1967)
1910 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (died 2001)
1903 – Irving Stone, American author and educator (died 1989)
1894 – Dave Fleischer, American animator, director, and producer (died 1979)
(A more complete list of today’s birthdays.)
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