<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Junk Food Day'.
- From Wikipedia 9Junk food):
'Junk food is a pejorative term for cheap food containing high levels of
calories from sugar or fat with little fiber, protein, vitamins or
minerals. Use of the term implies that a particular food has little
nutritional value and contains excessive fat, sugar, salt, and calories.
Junk food can also refer to high protein food like meat prepared with
saturated fat -which some believe may be unhealthy, although some studies
have shown no correlation between saturated fat and cardiovascular diseases
many hamburger outlets, fried chicken outlets and the like supply food
considered as junk food.
Despite being labeled as junk, such foods usually do not pose any immediate
health concerns and are generally safe when integrated into a well balanced
diet. However, it concerns about the negative health effects resulting from
the consumption of a junk food-heavy diet, especially obesity, have
resulted in public health awareness campaigns, and restrictions on
advertising and sale in several countries'.
[The Hankster says] Let's all shamefully admit that this is our favorite food holiday. No restrictions, no guilt and a lot of taste. Use moderation , please.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Invite an Alien to Live with You Day'.
Birthday of Robin Williams born on July 21, 1952.
[The Hankster says] Before you invite a Mork home, you had better check with the presidential candidates, first.
* 'Get to Know Your Customers Day.'.
Third Thursday of Each Quarter'
[The Hankster says] What's to know. We want a lot for very little, with a lifetime free warranty on parts and labor.
* 'The Papa (Hemingway) Look-Alike Contest'.
At Sloppy Joe’s Bar in Key West, July 21-23 2016.
- From Wikipedia:
'Sloppy Joe's Bar is a historic American bar in Key West, Florida. It is
now located on the north side of Duval Street at the corner of Greene
Street, (201 Duval Street).
Sloppy Joe's also has a location in Treasure Island, Florida and a third
location in Daytona Beach, Florida opened in February 2010.
Founded on December 5, 1933, the bar's most famous patrons were Ernest
Hemingway and the infamous rum runner Habana Joe. The original location at
the time Hemingway frequented Sloppy Joe's is a few doors down to the west,
just off Duval Street, at 428 Greene Street, and is now called Captain
Tony's Saloon
The bar went through two name changes before settling on Sloppy Joe's with
the encouragement of Hemingway. The name was coined from the original
Sloppy Joe's bar in Old Havana, that sold both liquor and iced seafood. In
the Cuban heat, the ice melted and patrons taunted the owner José (Joe)
García Río that he ran a sloppy place.
The bar is the site of the Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest, started in
1981. It is well known as a tourist attraction, with live bands and slushy
drinks. On November 1, 2006, it was added to the National Register of
Historic Places'.
[The Hankster says] I once held a Hankster look alike contest. The last lawsuit will be paid off next year.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Animal and Pet:
* 'No Pet Store Puppies Day'. ASPCA anti puppy mill day.
* 'National Craft for your local Shelters Day'. Make toys, beds, adopt-me
items, leashes, etc.
<> Historical events on July 21
* 'In 356 BC, The Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of
the World, is destroyed by arson. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Temple of Artemis or Artemision, also known less
precisely as the Temple of Diana, was a Greek temple dedicated to the
goddess Artemis. It was located in Ephesus (near the modern town of Selçuk
in present-day Turkey). One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, it
was completely rebuilt three times before its eventual destruction in 401
AD. Only foundations and sculptural fragments of the latest of the temples
at the site remain.
The first sanctuary (temenos) antedated the Ionic immigration by many
years, and dates to the Bronze Age. Callimachus, in his Hymn to Artemis,
attributed it to the Amazons. In the 7th century BC, the old temple was
destroyed by a flood. Its reconstruction began around 550 BC, under the
Cretan architect Chersiphron and his son Metagenes, at the expense of
Croesus of Lydia: the project took 10 years to complete. The temple was
destroyed in 356 BC by an act of arson and was again rebuilt, this time as
the Wonder
In 356 BC, the temple was destroyed in a vainglorious
act of arson by a man, Herostratus, who set fire to the wooden roof-beams,
seeking fame at any cost thus the term herostratic fame. For this outrage,
the Ephesians sentenced the perpetrator to death and forbade anyone from
mentioning his name but Theopompus later noted it. In Greek and Roman
historical tradition, the temple's destruction coincided with the birth of
Alexander the Great (around 20/21 July 356 BC). Plutarch remarked that
Artemis was too preoccupied with Alexander's delivery to save her burning
temple'.
* 'In 1588, The British fleet begins battle with the Spanish 'Invincible
Armada'. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Spanish Armada (Spanish: Grande y Felicísima Armada,
literally Great and Most Fortunate Navy) was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships
that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of
Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to
invade England. The strategic aim was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth I of
England and the Tudor establishment of Protestantism in England, with the
expectation that this would put a stop to English interference in the
Spanish Netherlands and to the harm caused to Spanish interests by English
and Dutch privateering.
The Armada chose not to attack the English fleet at Plymouth, then failed
to establish a temporary anchorage in the Solent, after one Spanish ship
had been captured by Francis Drake in the English Channel. The Armada
finally dropped anchor off Calais. While awaiting communications from the
Duke of Parma's army the Armada was scattered by an English fireship
attack. In the ensuing Battle of Gravelines the Spanish fleet was damaged
and forced to abandon its rendezvous with Parma's army, who were blockaded
in harbour by Dutch flyboats. The Armada managed to regroup and, driven by
southwest winds, withdrew north, with the English fleet harrying it up the
east coast of England. The commander ordered a return to Spain, but the
Armada was disrupted during severe storms in the North Atlantic and a large
number of the vessels were wrecked on the coasts of Scotland and Ireland.
Of the initial 130 ships over a third failed to return. As Martin and
Parker explain, Philip II attempted to invade England, but his plans
miscarried, partly because of his own mismanagement, and partly because the
defensive efforts of the English and their Dutch allies prevailed. The
expedition was the largest engagement of the undeclared Anglo-Spanish War
(1585–1604). The following year, England organised a similar large-scale
campaign against Spain, the Drake–Norris Expedition or counter-Armada of
1589, which was also unsuccessful, had serious economic consequences and
saw the loss of many English lives and ships'.
* 'In 1902, Willis Carrier creates the first air conditioner in Buffalo,
New York. .
- From Wikipedia: 'In Buffalo, New York, on July 17, 1902, in response to a
quality problem experienced at the Sackett-Wilhelms Lithographing and
Publishing Company of Brooklyn, Willis Carrier submitted drawings for what
became recognized as the world's first modern air conditioning system. The
1902 installation marked the birth of air conditioning because of the
addition of humidity control, which led to the recognition by authorities
in the field that air conditioning must perform four basic functions: 1.
control temperature 2. control humidity 3. control air circulation and
ventilation 4. cleanse the air
After several more years of refinement and field testing, on January 2,
1906, Carrier was granted U.S. Patent 808,897 for an Apparatus for Treating
Air, the world's first spray-type air conditioning equipment. It was
designed to humidify or dehumidify air, heating water for the first and
cooling it for the second. In 1906 Carrier discovered that constant
dew-point depression provided practically constant relative humidity, which
later became known among air conditioning engineers as the law of constant
dew-point depression. On this discovery he based the design of an automatic
control system, for which he filed a patent claim on May 17, 1907. U.S.
Patent 1,085,971 was issued on February 3, 1914.
On December 3, 1911, Carrier presented the perhaps most significant
document ever prepared on air conditioning – Rational Psychrometric
Formulae – at the annual meeting of the American Society of Mechanical
Engineers. It became known as the Magna Carta of Psychrometrics. This
document tied together the concepts of relative humidity, absolute
humidity, and dew-point temperature, thus making it possible to design
air-conditioning systems to precisely fit the requirements at hand.
With the onset of World War I in late-1914, the Buffalo Forge Company, for
which Carrier had been employed 12 years, decided to confine its activities
entirely to manufacturing. The result was that seven young engineers pooled
together their life savings of $32,600 to form the Carrier Engineering
Corporation in New York on June 26, 1915. The seven were Carrier, J. Irvine
Lyle, Edward T. Murphy, L. Logan Lewis, Ernest T. Lyle, Frank Sanna, Alfred
E. Stacey, Jr., and Edmund P. Heckel. The company eventually settled on
Frelinghuysen Avenue in Newark, New Jersey.
Despite the development of the centrifugal refrigeration machine and the
commercial growth of air conditioning to cool buildings in the 1920s, the
company ran into financial difficulties, as did many others, as a result of
the Wall Street Crash in October 1929. In 1930, Carrier Engineering Corp.
merged with Brunswick-Kroeschell Company and York Heating and Ventilating
Corporation to form the Carrier Corporation, with Willis Carrier named
Chairman of the Board.
Spread out over four cities in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, Carrier
consolidated and moved his company to Syracuse, New York, in 1937, and the
company became one of the largest employers in central New York'.
* 'In 1904, Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, becomes the first man to break the
100 mph (161 km/h) barrier on land. He drove a 15-liter Gobron-Brille in
Ostend, Belgium. The record only stood for three months. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Louis Rigolly, a Frenchman, was the first man to drive a
car at over 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
He set a record of 103.561 mph (166.665 km/h) on a beach at Ostend in
Belgium on 21 July 1904, driving a 13.5 litre Gobron-Brillié racing car. He
covered a 1 kilometre course in 21.6 seconds, beating Belgian Pierre de
Caters mark of 97.25 mph (156.51 km/h), set the previous May over the same
1 kilometre course in Ostend. The record stood for just three months.
Rigolly also participated in early Grand Prix motor racing'.
* 'In 1918, The German U-156 shells Nauset Beach, in Orleans,
Massachusetts. 'The Attack on Orleans was a naval and air action during
World War I which took place on 21 July 1918. A German U-boat opened fire
on the American town of Orleans, Massachusetts and several merchant vessels
nearby. A tugboat was sunk, but shells fired in the direction of the town
landed harmlessly in a marsh and on a beach.' .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Attack on Orleans was a naval and air action during
World War I which took place on 21 July 1918. A German U-boat opened fire
on the American town of Orleans, Massachusetts, and several merchant
vessels nearby. A tugboat was sunk, but shells fired in the direction of
the town landed harmlessly in a marsh and on a beach.
On the morning of 21 July 1918 – during the last year of the First World
War – the German submarine U-156, Captained by Richard Feldt, surfaced
three miles off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and began to shell
the tugboat Perth Amboy and the four barges in her tow. A handful of the
shells fired by the U-boat’s two deck guns struck Nauset Beach, giving the
town of Orleans the distinction of being the first, and only, spot in the
United States to receive fire from the enemy during the First World War.
Coming to Cape Cod’s defense was the United States Life-Saving Service and
the fledgling air arm of the United States Navy. The lifesavers, who were
based at Station No. 40, launched a surfboat under heavy enemy shellfire
and rowed in the direction of the thirty-two sailors trapped aboard the tug
and barges. Meanwhile, HS-1L flying boats and R-9 seaplanes were dispatched
from the Chatham Naval Air Station and dive-bombed the enemy raider with
payloads of TNT. It was the first time in history that American aviators
engaged an enemy vessel in the western Atlantic.
Today, a sign celebrates the historic engagement above the beach. It reads:
Three miles offshore, in the direction of the arrow, was the scene of
attack of a German submarine on a tug and barges July 21, 1918. Several
shells struck the beach. This is the only section of the United States’
coast shelled by the enemy during World War I'.
* 'In 1919, The dirigible Wingfoot Air Express crashes into the Illinois
Trust and Savings Building in Chicago, killing 12 people. 'The Type FD
dirigible, owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, was transporting
people from Grant Park to the White City amusement park. One crew member,
two passengers, and ten bank employees were killed in what was, up to that
point, the worst dirigible disaster in United States history.' .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Wingfoot Air Express was a dirigible that crashed
into the Illinois Trust and Savings Building in Chicago on Monday July 21,
1919. The Type FD dirigible, owned by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company,
was transporting people from Grant Park to the White City amusement park.
One crew member, two passengers, and ten bank employees were killed in what
was, up to that point, the worst dirigible disaster in United States
history.
The craft caught fire at about 4:55pm while cruising at an altitude of
1,200 ft (370 m) over the Chicago Loop. When it became clear the dirigible
was lost, the pilot, Jack Boettner, and chief mechanic, Harry Wacker, used
parachutes to jump to safety. A second mechanic, Henry Weaver, died when
his parachute caught fire. Another passenger, Earl H. Davenport, a
publicity agent for the White City Amusement Park, jumped from the
dirigible, but his parachute got tangled in the rigging and he hung fifty
feet below the burning craft he was killed when the airship crashed. A
fifth person who parachuted from the dirigible, Chicago Daily News
photographer Milton Norton, broke both legs and later died at a hospital.
At the Illinois Trust and Savings Bank building at the northeast corner of
LaSalle Street and Jackson Boulevard, 150 employees were closing up after
the day's business in and around the main banking hall, which was
illuminated by a large skylight. The remains of the Wingfoot struck the
bank's skylight directly and flaming debris fell through to the banking
hall below. The result was ten employees killed, and 27 banking staff
reported injured.
In addition to causing the city of Chicago to adopt a new set of rules for
aviation over the city, the crash led to the closing of the Grant Park
Airstrip and the creation of Chicago Air Park'.
* 'In 1921,- To prove his contention that air power is superior to sea
power, US Colonel William Mitchell demonstrates how bombs from planes can
sink a captured German battleship .
- From Wikipedia: 'On July 20, 1921, the Navy brought out the ex-German
World War I battleship, Ostfriesland. One day of scheduled 230, 550, and
600 lb (270 kg) bomb attacks by Navy, Marine Corps, and Army aircraft
settled the Ostfriesland three feet by the stern with a five-degree list to
port. She was taking on water. Further bombing was delayed a day, the Navy
claiming due to rough seas that prevented their Board of Observers from
going aboard, the Air Service countering that as the Army bombers
approached, they were ordered not to attack. Mitchell's bombers were forced
to circle for 47 minutes, as a result of which they dropped only half their
bombs, and none of their large bombs.
On the morning of July 21, in accordance with a strictly orchestrated
schedule of attacks, five NBS-1 bombers led by 1st Lt. Clayton Bissell
dropped a single 1,100 lb bomb each, scoring three direct hits. The Navy
stopped further drops, although the Army bombers had nine bombs remaining,
to assess damage. By noon, Ostfriesland had settled two more feet by the
stern and one foot by the bow.
At this point, Capt. Walter R. Lawson's flight of bombers, consisting of
two Handley-Page O/400 and six NBS-1 bombers loaded with 2,000 lb (910 kg)
bombs, was dispatched. One Handley Page dropped out for mechanical reasons,
but the NBS-1s dropped six bombs in quick succession between 12:18 pm and
12:31 pm. Bomb aiming points were for the water near the ship. Mitchell
described Lawson's attack, Four bombs hit in rapid succession, close along
side the Ostfriesland. We could see her rise eight to ten feet between the
terrific blows from under water. On the fourth shot, Capt Streett, sitting
in the back seat of my plane stood up and waving both arms shouted, She is
gone! There were no direct hits but at least three of the bombs landed
close enough to rip hull plates as well as cause the ship to roll over. The
ship sank at 12:40 pm, 22 minutes after the first bomb, with a seventh bomb
dropped by the Handley Page on the foam rising up from the sinking ship.
Nearby the site, observing, were various foreign and domestic officials
aboard the USS Henderson'.
* 'In 1949, The United States ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty. This
paved the way for N.A.T.O. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The North Atlantic Treaty, signed in Washington, D.C. on
4 April 1949, is the treaty establishing the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NA
The treaty was signed in Washington on 4 April 1949 by a committee which
was chaired by US diplomat Theodore Achilles. Earlier secret talks had been
held at the Pentagon between 22 March and 1 April 1948, ...
The treaty was created with an armed attack by the Soviet Union against
Western Europe in mind, but the mutual self-defense clause was never
invoked during the Cold War. Rather, it was invoked for the first time in
2001 in response to the 11 September 2001 attacks against the World Trade
Center and The Pentagon in Operation Eagle Assist'.
* 'In 1958, The last of 'Arthur Godfrey’s Talent Scouts' programs aired on
CBS-TV. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts (also known as Talent
Scouts) was an American radio and television variety show which ran on CBS
from 1946 until 1958. Sponsored by Lipton Tea, it starred Arthur Godfrey,
who was also hosting Arthur Godfrey and His Friends at the same time.
The concept for the show was that Godfrey had several talent scouts who
brought their discoveries onto the program to showcase their talents. The
winner of each show was determined by a meter that judged the audience's
applause. The radio series began July 2, 1946, and was heard on CBS Tuesday
evenings at 9pm. The winner on October 1, 1946, was pianist José Melis, who
later became a familiar late night television personality as the orchestra
leader on Jack Paar's Tonight show.
In the summer of 1947, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts moved to Fridays at
9:30 p.m. After August 1947 it aired on Mondays at 8:30 p.m. The radio show
continued until October 1, 1956. With Archie Bleyer leading the orchestra,
the show's announcer was George Bryan. The show's opening (to the tune of
Four and Twenty Blackbirds) featured Peggy Marshall and the Holidays ...
Contestants on the show included Pat Boone, The Chordettes, The McGuire
Sisters and Carmel Quinn, all of whom went on to perform on Arthur Godfrey
and His Friends. Other contestants included Tony Bennett, The Blackwood
Brothers, Lenny Bruce, Roy Clark, Rosemary Clooney, Ken Berry, Florian
ZaBach, Wally Cox, Vic Damone, The Diamonds, Eddie Fisher, Connie Francis,
Don Knotts, Steve Lawrence, Al Martino, Barbara McNair, Marian McPartland,
Johnny Nash, Leslie Uggams, Lorraine Donahue (who later appeared on The
Voice of Firestone) and Jonathan Winters. Swedish singer Kjerstin Dellert
won a contest in 1948 with Someone to Watch Over Me, beginning her career
as a vocalist there. Patsy Cline first gained national attention with a
winning performance of Walkin' After Midnight on the January 21, 1957
broadcast. Among those who auditioned but were not chosen to appear on the
broadcast were Buddy Holly, The Four Freshmen, and Elvis Presley'.
* 'In 1983, The world's lowest temperature in an inhabited location is
recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica at -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F). .
- From Wikipedia: 'The lowest natural temperature ever directly recorded at
ground level on Earth is -89.2 °C (-128.6 °F 184.0 K), which was at the
Soviet Vostok Station in Antarctica, on July 21, 1983. Analysis of
satellite data indicated a probable temperature of around -93.2 °C (-135.8
°F 180.0 K), in East Antarctica, on August 10, 2010 however, this reading
was not confirmed by ground measurements.
A 2009 study estimated that under exceptional climate conditions similar to
those recorded at Vostok in 1983, temperatures higher on the plateau around
Dome Argus could potentially drop as low as -95 °C (-139 °F 178 K). On
August 10, 2010, satellite observations measured a surface temperature of
-93.2 °C (-135.8 °F 180.0 K) at 81.8°S 59.3°E, along a ridge between Dome
Argus and Dome Fuji, at 3,900 m elevation. The result was reported at the
46th annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, in
December 2013 it is a provisional figure, and may be subject to revision.
The value may not be listed as the record coldest temperature as it was
measured by remote sensing satellites and not by ground-based thermometers,
unlike the 1983 record. The temperature announced reflects that of the ice
surface, while the Vostok readings measured the air above the ice, and so
the two are not directly comparable. However, it is most likely that the
real temperature on the site was lower than that recorded at Vostok'.
* 'In 2011, NASA's Space Shuttle program ends with the landing of Space
Shuttle Atlantis on mission STS-135. .
- From Wikipedia: 'STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7) was the 135th and
final mission of the American Space Shuttle program. It used the orbiter
Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency
mission, which was not flown. STS-135 launched on 8 July 2011, and landed
on 21 July 2011, following a one-day mission extension. The four-person
crew was the smallest of any shuttle mission since STS-6 in April 1983. The
mission's primary cargo was the Multi-Purpose Logistics Module (MPLM)
Raffaello and a Lightweight Multi-Purpose Carrier (LMC), which were
delivered to the International Space Station (ISS). The flight of Raffaello
marked the only time that Atlantis carried an MPLM'.
* 'In 2012, Erden Eruç completes the first solo human-powered
circumnavigation of the world. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Erden Eruç (About this sound pronunciation (help·info)
Air-den Air-rooch, born 14 July 1961 (age 55)) is a Turkish adventurer who
became the first person in history to complete an entirely solo and
entirely human-powered circumnavigation of the Earth on 21 July 2012 in
Bodega Bay, California, United States. The journey had started from Bodega
Bay a little more than five years earlier on 10 July 2007. The modes of
transport included a rowboat to cross the oceans, a sea kayak for
shorelines, a bicycle on the roads and hiking on trails, along with canoes
for a few river crossings. The route he followed was 66,299 km (41,196 mi)
long, crossed the equator twice and all lines of longitude, and passed over
twelve pairs of antipodal points, meeting all the requirements for a true
circumnavigation of the globe. Guinness World Records has officially
recognized Eruç for the First solo circumnavigation of the globe using
human power on a journey that lasted 5 years 11 days 12 hours and 22
minutes, the current world record time for a solo human-powered
circumnavigation'.
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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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