<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Macaroni Day'. .
- From Wikipedia (Macaroni):
'Macaroni is a variety of dry pasta in the shape of narrow tubes
originating from Italy and made with durum wheat, usually without egg. It
is normally cut in short lengths if cut in lengths with a curve it is
usually called elbow macaroni. Some home machines can make macaroni shapes
but, like most pasta, macaroni is usually made commercially by large-scale
extrusion. The curved shape is caused by different speeds on opposite sides
of the pasta tube as it comes out of the machine.
In North America, macaroni most often comes in elbow shape, while in Italy
the noun maccheroni refers to straight tubular square-ended pasta corta
(short-length pasta). Maccheroni may also refer to long pasta dishes such
as 'Maccheroni alla chitarra' and 'Frittata di maccheroni', which are
prepared with long pasta like spaghetti'.
[The Hankster says] A simple treat. Well, after you heave a lot of stuff like cheese and tomato or butter sauce on it. Worth the effort.
* 'World Chocolate Day'.
- From Wikipedia (World Chocolate Day):
/n .'World Chocolate Day, sometimes referred to as International Chocolate
Day, is an observance that occurs globally every year on July 7.
Celebration of the day includes the consumption of chocolate. It has been
stated that 7 July 2015 marks 465 years since chocolate was introduced to
Europe'.
[The Hankster says] And you thought this day would never get here. And it is not just a day, but a world day. So go for it. The diet starts tomorrow.
* 'National Strawberry Sundae Day'. .
- From Wikipedia (Sundae):
'The sundae is a sweet ice cream dessert. It typically consists of one or
more scoops of ice cream topped with sauce or syrup, and in some cases
other toppings including sprinkles, whipped cream, peanuts, maraschino
cherries, or other fruits (e.g., bananas and pineapple in a banana split.).
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the origin of the term sundae
is obscure however, it is generally accepted that the spelling sundae
derives from the English word Sunday
Among the many stories about the invention of the sundae, a frequent theme
is that the ice cream sundae was a variation of the popular ice cream soda.
According to documentation published by the Evanston Public Library
(Illinois), the drinking of soda was outlawed on Sundays in Illinois.
Other origin stories for the sundae focus on the novelty or inventiveness
of the treat or the name of the originator, and make no mention of legal
pressures.
Ice cream sundae soon became the weekend semi-official soda fountain
confection in the beginning of 1900s and quickly gained popularity. The Ice
Cream Trade Journal for 1909 along with plain, or French sundae, listed
such exotic varieties as Robin Hood sundae, Cocoa Caramel sundae, Black
Hawk sundae, Angel Cake sundae, Cherry Dip sundae, Cinnamon Peak sundae,
Opera sundae, Fleur D'Orange sundae, Knickerbocker sundae, Tally-Ho Sundae,
Bismarck and George Washington sundaes, to name a few. > Various localities
have claimed to be the birthplace of the ice cream sundae, including Two
Rivers, Wisconsin Plainfield, Illinois Evanston, Illinois New York City New
Orleans, Louisiana Ithaca, New York Cleveland, Ohio and Buffalo, New York'.
[The Hankster says] Hey you can still have some hot fudge on it, even if it is strawberry.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Father Daughter Take a Walk Day'.
Promote the benefits of family bonding.
[The Hankster says] Never found a better place to talk things over than on a long walk.
* 'Bonza Bottler Day'.
Created in 2005 by Elaine Fremont to celebrate days when the month and day
are the same number, as in July 7, 7/7.
[The Hankster says] Come on, why does a holiday need to make sense. Just have fun.
* 'Tell The Truth Day'.
[The Hankster says] However will the politicians get through this day?
<> Awareness / Observances:None.
<> Historical events on July 7
* 'In 1898, The Newlands Resolution is signed by President McKinley,
annexing Hawaii to US. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Newlands Resolution, was a joint resolution written
by and named after United States Congressman Francis G. Newlands. It was an
Act of Congress to annex the Republic of Hawaii and create the Territory of
Hawaii.
In 1898 President of the United States William McKinley signed the treaty
of annexation for Hawaii, but it failed in the Senate after the 21,000
signatures of the Ku’e Petitions were submitted. After the failure, Hawaii
was annexed by means of joint resolution, called the Newlands Resolution'.
* 'In 1907, Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Follies on the roof of
the New York Theater in New York City. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Florenz Edward Ziegfeld, Jr. (March 21, 1867 – July 22,
1932), popularly known as Flo Ziegfeld, was an American Broadway
impresario, notable for his series of theatrical revues, the Ziegfeld
Follies (1907–1931), inspired by the Folies Bergère of Paris. He also
produced the musical Show Boat. He was known as the glorifier of the
American girl Ziegfeld is a member of the American Theater Hall of Fame.
Ziegfeld's stage spectaculars, known as the Ziegfeld Follies, began with
Follies of 1907, which opened on July 7, 1907, and were produced annually
until 1931. These extravaganzas, with elaborate costumes and sets, featured
beauties chosen personally by Ziegfeld in production numbers choreographed
to the works of prominent composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin
and Jerome Kern. The Ziegfeld Follies featured the famous Ziegfeld Girls,
female chorus dancers who wore elaborate costumes and performed in
synchronization.
The Follies featured many performers who, though
well known from previous work in other theatrical genres, achieved unique
financial success and publicity with Ziegfeld. Included among these are
Nora Bayes, Fanny Brice, Ruth Etting, W. C. Fields, Eddie Cantor, Marilyn
Miller, Will Rogers, Bert Williams and Ann Pennington.
The Ziegfeld Theatre opened in February 1927 with Ziegfeld's production of
Rio Rita, which ran for nearly 500 performances. This was followed by Show
Boat, a great hit with a run of 572 performances. This impactful musical
about racial segregation was a collaboration between Ziegfeld, composer
Jerome Kern, and designer Joseph Urban. The musical has been revived four
times on Broadway, winning multiple Tony awards. The score features several
classics such as Ol' Man River and Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man
Ziegfeld lost much of his money in the stock market crash. In May 1932 he
staged a revival of Show Boat that ran for six months—a hit, by Depression
standards. That same year, he brought his Follies stars to CBS Radio with
The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air.
Ziegfeld died in Hollywood, California on July 22, 1932'.
* 'In 1928, Sliced bread sold for the first time. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Sliced bread is a loaf of bread that has been sliced
with a machine and packaged for convenience. It was first sold in 1928,
advertised as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread
was wrapped This led to the popular phrase, greatest thing since sliced
bread
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States invented the
first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912
was destroyed in a fire and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a
fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by
the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, which produced
their first slices on July 7, 1928. Their product, Kleen Maid Sliced Bread,
proved a success. Battle Creek, Michigan has a competing claim as the first
city to sell bread sliced by Rohwedder's machine however, historians have
produced no documentation backing up Battle Creek's claim. The bread was
advertised as the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread
was wrapped.
St. Louis baker Gustav Papendick bought Rohwedder's second bread slicer and
set out to improve it by devising a way to keep the slices together at
least long enough to allow the loaves to be wrapped. After failures trying
rubber bands and metal pins, he settled on placing the slices into a
cardboard tray. The tray aligned the slices, allowing mechanized wrapping
machines to function.
W.E. Long, who promoted the Holsum Bread brand, used by various independent
bakers around the country, pioneered and promoted the packaging of sliced
bread beginning in 1928. In 1930 Wonder Bread, first sold in 1925, started
marketing sliced bread nationwide'.
* 'In 1930, Construction of Boulder Dam begins. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete
arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border
between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. It was constructed between
1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September
30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the
result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over
one hundred lives. The dam was controversially named after President
Herbert Hoover.
Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been
investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control
floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928,
Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was
submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began
construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had
never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The
torrid summer weather and lack of facilities near the site also presented
difficulties. Nevertheless, Six Companies turned over the dam to the
federal government on March 1, 1936, more than two years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam impounds Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States
by volume. The dam is located near Boulder City, Nevada, a municipality
originally constructed for workers on the construction project, about 30 mi
(48 km) southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada. The dam's generators provide power
for public and private utilities in Nevada, Arizona, and California. Hoover
Dam is a major tourist attraction nearly a million people tour the dam each
year. The heavily travelled U.S. 93 ran along the dam's crest until October
2010, when the Hoover Dam Bypass opened'.
* 'In 1947, The Roswell incident, the (supposed) crash of an alien
spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Roswell UFO incident refers to an event in mid 1947,
when a United States Air Force surveillance balloon crashed at a ranch near
Roswell, New Mexico, prompting claims alleging the crash was of an
extraterrestrial spaceship.
After an initial spike of interest, the military reported that the crash
was merely of a conventional weather balloon. Interest subsequently waned
until the late 1970s when ufologists began promulgating a variety of
increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien
spacecraft had crash-landed, and that the extraterrestrial occupants had
been recovered by the military who then engaged in a cover-up.
In the 1990s, the US military published reports disclosing the true nature
of the crashed Project Mogul balloon. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident
continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories
surrounding the event persist. Roswell has been called the world's most
famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO
claim
On June 14, 1947, William Brazel, a foreman working on the Foster
homestead, noticed clusters of debris approximately 30 miles (50 km) north
of Roswell, New Mexico. This date—or about three weeks before July
8—appeared in later stories featuring Brazel, but the initial press release
from the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) said the find was sometime last
week, suggesting Brazel found the debris in early July. Brazel told the
Roswell Daily Record that he and his son saw a large area of bright
wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and
sticks. He paid little attention to it but returned on July 4 with his son,
wife and daughter to gather up the material. Some accounts have described
Brazel as having gathered some of the material earlier, rolling it together
and stashing it under some brush. The next day, Brazel heard reports about
flying discs and wondered if that was what he had picked up. On July 7,
Brazel saw Sheriff Wilcox and whispered kinda confidential like that he may
have found a flying disc. Another account quotes Wilcox as saying Brazel
reported the object on July 6.
Wilcox called RAAF Major Jesse Marcel and a man in plainclothes accompanied
Brazel back to the ranch where more pieces were picked up. spent a couple
of hours Monday afternoon looking for any more parts of the weather
device, said Marcel. We found a few more patches of tinfoil and rubber.
A telex sent to a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office from the
Fort Worth, Texas office quoted a Major from the Eighth Air Force (also
based in Fort Worth at Carswell Air Force Base) on July 8, 1947 as saying
that The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a ballon by
cable, which ballon was approximately twenty feet in diameter. Major
Curtan further advices advises that the object found resembles a high
altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector, but that telephonic
conversation between their office and Wright field had not borne out this
belief.
Early on Tuesday, July 8, the RAAF issued a press release, which was
immediately picked up by numerous news outlets:
Colonel William H. Blanchard, commanding officer of the 509th, contacted
General Roger M. Ramey of the Eighth Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, and
Ramey ordered the object be flown to Fort Worth Army Air Field. At the
base, Warrant Officer Irving Newton confirmed Ramey’s preliminary opinion,
identifying the object as being a weather balloon and its kite, a nickname
for a radar reflector used to track the balloons from the ground. Another
news release was issued, this time from the Fort Worth base, describing the
object as being a weather balloon'.
* 'In 1967, The Doors', 'Light My Fire' hits #1.
- From Wikipedia: 'Light My Fire is a song by the Doors, which was recorded
in August 1966 and released in January 1967 on their self-titled debut
album. Released as an edited single in May 1967, it spent three weeks at
number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late July, and one week on the
Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after its recording.
A year later, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 following the
success of José Feliciano's version of the song (which peaked at number 3
on the Billboard chart), peaking at number 87. The song was largely written
by the band's guitarist Robby Krieger, and credited to the entire band. The
single was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America
in September 1967 for one million units shipped. As of December 1971 it was
the band's best-selling single, with over 927,000 copies sold'.
* 'In 1981, The first solar-powered aircraft, the Solar Challenger, crosses
the English Channel. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Solar Challenger was a solar-powered electric
aircraft designed by Paul MacCready's AeroVironment. The aircraft was
designed as an improvement on the Gossamer Penguin, which in turn was a
solar-powered variant of the human-powered Gossamer Albatross. It was
powered entirely by the photovoltaic cells on its wing and stabilizer,
without even reserve batteries, and was the first such craft capable of
long-distance flight. In 1981, it successfully completed a 163 mile (262
km) demonstration flight from France to England.
The Solar Challenger was designed by a team led by Paul McCready as a more
airworthy improvement on the Gossamer Penguin, directly incorporating
lessons learned from flight testing the earlier aircraft. As with the
Gossamer Penguin, construction was sponsored by DuPont in exchange for
publicity for the company's patented materials incorporated in the design.
AstroFlight, Inc. supplied the motors and solar panels, designed by Robert
Boucher. The plane's wings carried 16,128 solar cells yielding a maximum
solar power of 3,800 watts. It was flight tested in Western USA in winter
1980-1981.
On July 7, 1981, the aircraft flew 163 miles from Pontoise – Cormeilles
Aerodrome, north of Paris, France to Manston Royal Air Force Base in
Manston, United Kingdom, staying aloft 5 hours and 23 minutes, with pilot
Stephen Ptacek at the controls. Currently the plane is owned by the
Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum'.
* 'In 1990, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher at CERN, develops the HyperText
Markup Language which would later be called HTML. .
- From Wikipedia: 'HyperText Markup Language, commonly abbreviated as HTML,
is the standard markup language used to create web pages. Along with CSS,
and JavaScript, HTML is a cornerstone technology used to create web pages,
as well as to create user interfaces for mobile and web applications. Web
browsers can read HTML files and render them into visible or audible web
pages. HTML describes the structure of a website semantically and, before
the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), included cues for the
presentation or appearance of the document (web page), making it a markup
language, rather than a programming language.
In 1980, physicist Tim Berners-Lee, then a contractor at CERN, proposed and
prototyped ENQUIRE, a system for CERN researchers to use and share
documents. In 1989, Berners-Lee wrote a memo proposing an Internet-based
hypertext system. Berners-Lee specified HTML and wrote the browser and
server software in late 1990. That year, Berners-Lee and CERN data systems
engineer Robert Cailliau collaborated on a joint request for funding, but
the project was not formally adopted by CERN. In his personal notes from
1990 he listed some of the many areas in which hypertext is used and put an
encyclopedia first.
The first publicly available description of HTML was a document called HTML
Tags, first mentioned on the Internet by Tim Berners-Lee in late 1991. It
describes 18 elements comprising the initial, relatively simple design of
HTML. Except for the hyperlink tag, these were strongly influenced by
SGMLguid, an in-house Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)-based
documentation format at CERN. Eleven of these elements still exist in HTML
4.
After the HTML and HTML+ drafts expired in early 1994, the IETF created an
HTML Working Group, which in 1995 completed HTML 2.0, the first HTML
specification intended to be treated as a standard against which future
implementations should be based.
Further development under the auspices of the IETF was stalled by competing
interests. Since 1996, the HTML specifications have been maintained, with
input from commercial software vendors, by the World Wide Web Consortium
(W3C). However, in 2000, HTML also became an international standard
(ISO/IEC 15445:2000). HTML 4.01 was published in late 1999, with further
errata published through 2001. In 2004, development began on HTML5 in the
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG), which became a
joint deliverable with the W3C in 2008, and completed and standardized on
28 October 2014'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in July
Food
National Blueberries Month
National Grilling Month
National Honey Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
Wheat Month
Health
Alopecia Month for Women
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Juvenille Arthritis Awareness Month
National Black Family Month
National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month
National Cord Blood Awareness Month
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
Social Wellness Month
Animal / Pets
National 'Doghouse Repairs' Month
Other
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Family Golf Month
Independent Retailer Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Parks and Recreation Month
National Vacation Rental Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Tour de France Month
Women's Motorcycle Month
July is:
July origin (from Wikipedia): Named by the Roman Senate in honor of Julius Caesar.
"is the seventh month of the year (between June
and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months
with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of
the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior
to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in
most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer)
and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it
is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in
July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of
January in the Northern hemisphere."
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