<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Ice Cream Day'. . Third Sunday in July by Presidential
proclamation. in 1984.
- From Wikipedia (National Ice Cream Month):
'National Ice Cream Month is celebrated each year in July and National Ice
Cream Day is celebrated on the third Sunday in July, in the United States.
The celebrations were originated by Joint resolution 298, which was
sponsored by Senator Walter Dee Huddleston of Kentucky on May 17, 1984. The
resolution proclaimed the month of July 1984 as National Ice Cream Month
and July 15, 1984, as National Ice Cream Day It was signed into public law
by President Ronald Reagan on July 9, 1984 with Presidential Proclamation
5219.
Even though the resolution only mentioned a specific month and day in 1984,
the celebrations have held up in the years ever since, publicized by ice
cream manufacturers'.
[The Hankster says] July in Texas and ice cream, cool to say the least. Don't feel guilty. The president said it is OK> .
* 'National Peach Ice Cream Day'.
It's that time of year.
[The Hankster says] Good choice.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Wrong Way Corrigan Day'.
In 1938 Douglas Corrigan piloted his plane from Long Beach, Ca. to New
York. He filled his return flight plan to Long Beach, but ended up in
Ireland. He placed the blame on a navigation error. Others wonder.
- From Wikipedia (Douglas Corrigan):
'Douglas Corrigan (January 22, 1907 – December 9, 1995) was an American
aviator born in Galveston, Texas. He was nicknamed Wrong Way in 1938. After
a transcontinental flight from Long Beach, California, to New York, he flew
from Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, New York, to Ireland, though his
flight plan was filed to return to Long Beach. He claimed his unauthorized
flight was due to a navigational error, caused by heavy cloud cover that
obscured landmarks and low-light conditions, causing him to misread his
compass. However, he was a skilled aircraft mechanic (he was one of the
builders of Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis) and had made several
modifications to his own plane, preparing it for his transatlantic flight.
He had been denied permission to make a nonstop flight from New York to
Ireland, and his navigational error was seen as deliberate. Nevertheless,
he never publicly admitted to having flown to Ireland intentionally'.
[The Hankster says] Since I am always getting lost, I think it was this guy that programed my GPS unit.
* 'National Yellow Pig Day'.
Celebrates two mathematicians, Michael Spivak and David C. Kelly were
given a college assignment to explore the number 17. They did and carried
the study a little farther.
- From Wikipedia (David Kelly (mathematician)):
'David C. Kelly is an associate professor of mathematics at Hampshire
College in Amherst, Massachusetts. He holds an AB from Princeton, an SM
from MIT, and an AM from Dartmouth and has taught at New College, Oberlin,
and Talladega College. In 1971 he founded the Hampshire College Summer
Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM), a six-week program for mathematically
talented high school students, and has been directing the program ever
since.
During his time at Princeton in the early 1960s, Kelly and fellow student
Michael Spivak created Yellow Pig's Day, an annual celebration of
mathematics and the number 17. He continues to be involved in the
organization of the holiday each year, commemorating the day with food,
songs, a reunion, and mathematics. He is quite familiar with many of the
properties of the number 17, and gives a special lecture on the subject
each summer'.
[The Hankster says] Another one of those math days that are lost on me.
* 'World Emoji Day'.
Jeremy Burg created the holiday in 2014.
- From Wikipedia (Emoji):
'Emoji are ideograms and smileys used in electronic messages and Web pages.
The characters, which are used much like ASCII emoticons or kaomoji, exist
in various genres, including facial expressions, common objects, places and
types of weather, and animals.
Originating on Japanese mobile phones in the late 1990s, emoji have become
increasingly popular worldwide since their international inclusion in
Apple's iPhone, which was followed by similar adoption by Android and other
mobile operating systems. Apple's OS X operating system supports emoji as
of version 10.7 (Lion). Microsoft added monochrome Unicode emoji coverage
to the Segoe UI Symbol system font in Windows 8 and added color emoji in
Windows 8.1 via the Segoe UI Emoji font.
Originally meaning pictograph, the word emoji comes from Japanese e
(picture) + moji (character). The apparent resemblance to the English words
emotion and emoticon is just a coincidence.
Emoji were initially used by Japanese mobile operators, NTT DoCoMo, au, and
SoftBank Mobile (formerly Vodafone). These companies each defined their own
variants of emoji using proprietary standards. The first emoji was created
in 1998 or 1999 in Japan by Shigetaka Kurita, who was part of the team
working on NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet platform. Kurita took
inspiration from weather forecasts that used symbols to show weather,
Chinese characters and street signs, and from manga that used stock symbols
to express emotions, such as lightbulbs signifying inspiration. The first
set of 172 12×12 pixel emoji was created as part of i-mode's messaging
features to help facilitate electronic communication, and to serve as a
distinguishing feature from other services. Kurita created the first 180
emoji based on the expressions that he observed people making and other
things in the city.
In 1997, Nicolas Loufrani recognized the growth in use of ASCII emoticons
within mobile technology and he started experimenting with animated smiley
faces, with the intention of creating colourful icons that corresponded to
the pre-existing ascii emoticons made of plain punctuation marks, to
enhance them for a more interactive use in digital. From this Loufrani
created the first graphical emoticons and compiled an online emoticon
dictionary that was sorted into separate categories: Classics, Moods,
Expressions, Flags, Celebrations, Fun, Sports, Weather, Animals, Food,
Nations, Occupations, Planets, Zodiac, and Babies these designs were first
registered in 1997 at The United States Copyright Office and then these
icons were posted as .gif files on the Web in 1998, becoming the first
graphical emoticons used in technology.
In 2000, the Emoticon Directory created by Loufrani was made available for
users to download for cellular phones on the internet through
smileydictionary.com which compiled over 1000 smiley graphic emoticons and
their ASCII versions. This same directory was then published in 2002 in a
book by Marabout called Dico Smileys. In 2001 the Smiley Company started
licensing the rights for Loufrani's graphic emoticons to be used for
cellular phone emoticon downloads by a variety of different
telecommunication companies including Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, SFR
(Vodafone) and Sky Telemedia.
[The Hankster says] Yes, I am displaying one. It is just that it displays a bottle of milk in a snow storm.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Other:
* 'World Day of International Justice'. 1959 adoption of the Rome Statute,
which established the International Criminal Court (ICC).
- From Wikipedia (World Day for International Justice):
'World Day for International Justice, also referred to as Day of
International Criminal Justice or International Justice Day is celebrated
throughout the world on July 17 as part of an effort to recognize the
emerging system of international criminal justice. July 17 was chosen
because it is the anniversary of the adoption of the Rome Statute, the
treaty that created the International Criminal Court. On 1 June 2010, at
the Review Conference of the Rome Statute held in Kampala (Uganda), the
Assembly of State Parties decided to celebrate 17 July as the Day of
International Criminal Justice.
Each year, people around the world use this day to host events to promote
international criminal justice, especially support for the International
Criminal Court. The day has been successful enough to attract international
news attention, and for groups to use the day to focus attention on
particular issues such as genocide in Darfur, Falun Dafa, and serious
crimes of violence against women'.
<> Historical events on July 17
* 'In 1862, National cemeteries were authorized by the U.S. government. .
- From Wikipedia: 'United States national cemetery is a designation for 147
nationally important cemeteries in the United States. A national cemetery
is generally a military cemetery containing the graves of U.S. military
personnel, veterans and their spouses, but not exclusively so. There are
also state veteran cemeteries.
The best known national cemetery is Arlington National Cemetery in
Arlington County, Virginia, outside Washington, D.C.
Some national cemeteries, especially Arlington, contain the graves of
important civilian leaders and other important national figures. Some
national cemeteries also contain sections for Confederate soldiers.
The National Cemetery Administration of the United States Department of
Veterans Affairs maintains 131 of the 147 national cemeteries. The
Department of the Army maintains two national cemeteries, Arlington
National Cemetery and United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home National
Cemetery. The National Park Service (NPS) maintains 14 cemeteries
associated with historic sites and battlefields.
The American Battle Monuments Commission, an independent agency, maintains
24 American military cemeteries and other memorials outside of the United
States'.
* 'In 1867, The first dental school in US was Harvard School of Dental
Medicine, in Boston. .
- From Wikipedia: The Harvard School of Dental Medicine (HSDM) is the
dental school of Harvard University. It is located in the Longwood Medical
Area in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. In addition to the DMD
degree, HSDM offers specialty training programs, advanced training
programs, a Ph.D. program through the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and
Sciences, and Master of Medical Sciences and Doctor of Medical Sciences
degrees through Harvard Medical School. Being highly selective, admission
into the pre-doctoral DMD program, as well as into the post-doctoral
residency programs, is fiercely competitive. At its heart, the program
considers dentistry a specialty of medicine. Therefore, all students at
HSDM experience dual citizenship in both Harvard School of Dental Medicine
and Harvard Medical School.
'The move towards university-based dental education institutions (as they
exist today) began with the formation of Harvard Dental School in 1867.
Harvard was the first dental school to award the DMD degree. The
establishment of the degree is detailed at Dental degree § DDS vs DMD
degree. There is no difference between the DMD and DDS degree all dentists
must meet the same national and regional certification standards.
The school was established as Harvard Dental School in 1867, but renamed
the Harvard School of Dental Medicine in 1940. This symbolic change was
made to emphasize the biological basis of oral medicine and the
increasingly multidisciplinary focus of dental research'.
* 'In 1918, The RMS Carpathia, the ship that rescued the 705 survivors from
the RMS Titanic, is sunk off Ireland by the German SM U-55 five lives are
lost. .
- From Wikipedia: 'RMS Carpathia was a Cunard Line transatlantic passenger
steamship built by Swan Hunter and Wigham Richardson.
Carpathia made her maiden voyage in 1903 and became famous for rescuing the
survivors of rival White Star Line's RMS Titanic after it struck an iceberg
and sank with a loss of 1,512 lives on 15 April 1912 Carpathia braved
dangerous ice fields and diverted all steam power to her engines in her
attempt to aid the ship, but arrived two hours after Titanic had sunk
nevertheless, she was able to rescue 705 survivors from the ship's
lifeboats. Carpathia herself met her fate in the Atlantic on 17 July 1918
during the First World War after being torpedoed by the German submarine
U-55 off the Irish coast. Five of her crew lost their lives in the sinking.
On 15 July 1918, Carpathia departed Liverpool in a convoy bound for Boston.
On the summer morning of 17 July she was torpedoed, at 9:15, in the Celtic
Sea by the German submarine U-55. Of the two torpedoes initially fired at
the ship, one impacted the port side while the other penetrated the engine
room, killing two firemen and three trimmers. As Carpathia began to settle
by the head and list to port, Captain William Prothero gave the order to
abandon ship. All 57 passengers (36 saloon class and 21 steerage) and 218
surviving crew members boarded the lifeboats as the vessel sank. U-55
surfaced and fired a third torpedo into the ship and was approaching the
lifeboats when the Azalea-class sloop HMS Snowdrop arrived on the scene and
drove away the submarine with gunfire before picking up the survivors from
Carpathia.
Carpathia sank at 11:00 AM at a position recorded by Snowdrop as 49.25 N
10.25 W, approximately 120 mi (190 km) west of Fastnet'.
* 'In 1941, Brigadier General Soervell directed Architect G. Edwin
Bergstrom to have basic plans and architectural perspectives for an office
building that could house 40,000 War Department employees. The building
became known as the Pentagon. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Pentagon is the headquarters of the United States
Department of Defense, located in Arlington County, Virginia, across the
Potomac River from Washington, D.C. As a symbol of the U.S. military, The
Pentagon is often used metonymically to refer to the U.S. Department of
Defense.
The Pentagon was designed by American architect George Bergstrom
(1876–1955), and built by general contractor John McShain of Philadelphia.
Ground was broken for construction on September 11, 1941, and the building
was dedicated on January 15, 1943. General Brehon Somervell provided the
major motive power behind the project Colonel Leslie Groves was responsible
for overseeing the project for the U.S. Army.
The Pentagon is one of the world's largest office buildings, with about
6,500,000 sq ft (600,000 m2), of which 3,700,000 sq ft (340,000 m2) are
used as offices. Approximately 23,000 military and civilian employees and
about 3,000 non-defense support personnel work in the Pentagon. It has five
sides, five floors above ground, two basement levels, and five ring
corridors per floor with a total of 17.5 mi (28.2 km) of corridors. The
Pentagon includes a five-acre (20,000 m2) central plaza, which is shaped
like a pentagon and informally known as ground zero, a nickname originating
during the Cold War on the presumption that it would be targeted by the
Soviet Union at the outbreak of nuclear war.
On September 11, 2001, exactly 60 years after the building's construction
began, American Airlines Flight 77 was hijacked and flown into the western
side of the building, killing 189 people (59 victims and the five
perpetrators on board the airliner, as well as 125 victims in the
building). It was the first significant foreign attack on Washington's
governmental facilities since the city was burned by the British during the
War of 1812.
On July 17, 1941, a congressional hearing took place, organized by Virginia
congressman Clifton Woodrum, regarding proposals for new War Department
buildings. Woodrum pressed Brigadier General Eugene Reybold, who was
representing the War Department at the hearing, for an overall solution to
the department's space problem rather than building yet more temporary
buildings. Reybold agreed to report back to the congressman within five
days. The War Department called upon its construction chief, General Brehon
Somervell, to come up with a plan.
Government officials agreed that the War Department building should be
constructed across the Potomac River, in Arlington County, Virginia.
Requirements for the new building were that it be no more than four stories
tall, and that it use a minimal amount of steel. The requirements meant
that, instead of rising vertically, the building would be sprawling over a
large area. Possible sites for the building included the Department of
Agriculture's Arlington Experimental Farm, adjacent to Arlington National
Cemetery, and the obsolete Hoover Field site.
The site originally chosen was Arlington Farms which had a roughly
pentagonal shape, so the building was planned accordingly as an irregular
pentagon. Concerned that the new building could obstruct the view of
Washington, D.C., from Arlington Cemetery, President Roosevelt ended up
selecting the Hoover Airport site instead. The building retained its
pentagonal layout because a major redesign at that stage would have been
costly, and Roosevelt liked the design. Freed of the constraints of the
asymmetric Arlington Farms site, it was modified into a regular pentagon
which resembled the star forts of the gunpowder age'.
* 'In 1955, World famous theme park Disneyland is opened in California. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Disneyland Park, originally Disneyland, is the first of
two theme parks built at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California,
opened on July 17, 1955. It is the only theme park designed and built under
the direct supervision of Walt Disney. It was originally the only
attraction on the property its name was changed to Disneyland Park to
distinguish it from the expanding complex in the 1990s.
Walt Disney came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various
amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s. He initially
envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank
to entertain fans who wished to visit however, he soon realized that the
proposed site was too small. After hiring a consultant to help him
determine an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a 160-acre (65
ha) site near Anaheim in 1953. Construction began in 1954 and the park was
unveiled during a special televised press event on the ABC Television
Network on July 17, 1955.
Since its opening, Disneyland has undergone a number of expansions and
major renovations, including the addition of New Orleans Square in 1966,
Bear Country (now Critter Country) in 1972, Mickey's Toontown in 1993, and
a forthcoming Star Wars-themed land. Opened in 2001, Disney California
Adventure Park was built on the site of Disneyland's original parking lot.
Disneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in
the world, with over 650 million guests since it opened. In 2013, the park
hosted approximately 16.2 million guests, making it the third most visited
park in the world that calendar year. According to a March 2005 Disney
report, 65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about
20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees (independent
contractors or their employees)'.
* 'In 1961, Motown Records released The Supremes' first single, 'Buttered
Popcorn'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Buttered Popcorn is a 1961 song written by Motown
president Berry Gordy and songwriter Barney Ales, and produced by Gordy,
and released as a Tamla label single by Motown singing group The Supremes.
It was the group's second single since signing with Motown Records (and
their third overall) as well as their second, and last, single for the
Tamla label, before moving to the Motown label.
This is not only one of the rare singles to feature Florence Ballard on
lead, but the only one with her as the sole lead. The song talks of a woman
who’s worried that her man is more concerned with eating “buttered popcorn”
than anything else, as he eats it For breakfast, lunch and a dinner too as
well his health Well it worries me so I don't know what to do . In the
group’s early days all of its members got a chance to sing lead on stage
and in the recording studio, with Ballard having the role of main lead
singer on stage. However Berry Gordy felt that the vocals of Diane Ross had
a better chance at the targeted cross-over audience, as Ross had the most
pop-sounding voice of the group'.
* 'In 1967, I Heard it Through the Grapevine was recorded by Gladys Knight
and the Pips. .
- From Wikipedia: 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine is a song written by
Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966. The first
recording of the song to be released was produced by Whitfield for Gladys
Knight and the Pips and released as a single in September 1967 it went to
number two in the Billboard chart.
Smokey Robinson and the Miracles included their version on their 1968
album, Special Occasion. The Marvin Gaye version was placed on his 1968
album In the Groove, where it gained the attention of radio disc jockeys,
and Gordy finally agreed to its release as a single in October 1968, when
it went to the top of the Billboard Pop Singles chart for seven weeks from
December 1968 to January 1969 and became for a time the biggest hit single
on the Motown label (Tamla)'.
* 'In 1989, First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Northrop (later Northrop Grumman) B-2 Spirit, also
known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy penetration strategic
bomber, featuring low observable stealth technology designed for
penetrating dense anti-aircraft defenses it is a flying wing design with a
crew of two. The bomber can deploy both conventional and thermonuclear
weapons, such as eighty 500 lb (230 kg)-class (Mk 82) JDAM Global
Positioning System-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400 lb (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear
bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged aircraft that can carry large
air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
Development originally started under the Advanced Technology Bomber (ATB)
project during the Carter administration its expected performance was one
of his reasons for the cancellation of the supersonic B-1A bomber. The ATB
project continued during the Reagan administration, but worries about
delays in its introduction led to the reinstatement of the B-1 program as
well. Program costs rose throughout development. Designed and manufactured
by Northrop, later Northrop Grumman, the cost of each aircraft averaged
US$737 million (in 1997 dollars). Total procurement costs averaged $929
million per aircraft, which includes spare parts, equipment, retrofitting,
and software support. The total program cost including development,
engineering and testing, averaged $2.1 billion per aircraft in 1997.
Because of its considerable capital and operating costs, the project was
controversial in the U.S. Congress and among the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The
winding-down of the Cold War in the latter portion of the 1980s
dramatically reduced the need for the aircraft, which was designed with the
intention of penetrating Soviet airspace and attacking high-value targets.
During the late 1980s and 1990s, Congress slashed plans to purchase 132
bombers to 21. In 2008, a B-2 was destroyed in a crash shortly after
takeoff, though the crew ejected safely. A total of 20 B-2s remain in
service with the United States Air Force, which plans to operate the B-2
until 2058.
The B-2 is capable of all-altitude attack missions up to 50,000 feet
(15,000 m), with a range of more than 6,000 nautical miles (6,900 mi 11,000
km) on internal fuel and over 10,000 nautical miles (12,000 mi 19,000 km)
with one midair refueling. It entered service in 1997 as the second
aircraft designed to have advanced stealth technology after the Lockheed
F-117 Nighthawk attack aircraft. Though designed originally as primarily a
nuclear bomber, the B-2 was first used in combat, dropping conventional,
non-nuclear ordnance in the Kosovo War in 1999. It later served in Iraq and
Afghanistan'.
* 'In 1997, After 117 years, the Woolworth Corp. closed its last 400 stores
in the US. .
- From Wikipedia: The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as
Woolworth's, or Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the original
pioneers of the five-and-dime store. It was arguably the most successful
American and international five-and-dime, setting trends and creating the
modern retail model which stores follow worldwide today.
The two Woolworth brothers pioneered and developed merchandising, direct
purchasing, sales, and customer service practices commonly used today.
Despite it growing to be one of the largest retail chains in the world
through most of the 20th century, increased competition led to its decline
beginning in the 1980s. The chain went out of business in July 1997, when
the company decided to focus on the Foot Locker division and renamed itself
Venator Group. By 2001, the company focused exclusively on the sporting
goods market, changing its name to the present Foot Locker, Inc. (NYSE: FL
)
The first Woolworth store was opened by Frank Winfield Woolworth on
February 22, 1878, as Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store in Utica, New York.
Though it initially appeared to be successful, the store soon failed. When
Woolworth searched for a new location, a friend suggested Lancaster,
Pennsylvania. Using the sign from the Utica store, Woolworth opened his
first successful Woolworth's Great Five Cent Store on July 18, 1879, in
Lancaster. He brought his brother, Charles Sumner Woolworth, into the
business.
'Amid the decline of the signature stores, Woolworth marched on with a new
focus toward athletic goods on January 30, 1997, acquiring the mail order
catalog athletic retailer Eastbay.
On March 17, 1997, Wal-Mart replaced Woolworth's as a component of the Dow
Jones Industrial Average. Analysts at the time cited the lower prices of
the large discount stores and the expansion of supermarket grocery stores –
which had begun to stock merchandise also sold by five-and-dime stores – as
contributors to Woolworth's decline in the late 20th century. On July 17,
1997, Woolworth's closed its remaining department stores in the U.S. and
changed its corporate name to Venator.
In 1999, Venator moved out of the Woolworth building in New York City to
offices on 34th Street. On October 20, 2001, the company changed names
again this time, it took the name of its top retail performer and became
Foot Locker, Inc. Foot Locker stores chiefly sell athletic clothing and
footwear'.
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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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