Daily Calendar for Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Question of the Day
Where can I obtain daily pollen and other environmental allergen counts?
Many weather-related Web sites have pollen maps. Try searching for one from a local radio or television station. One other to try is this pollen Web site.http://www.weather.com/activities/health/allergies/?from=b_homeverticallinker
Advice of the Day
After bloom, divide lilies, irises, and poppies. Replant using compost and bonemeal.
Home Hint of the Day
To season a cast-iron pot, boil potato peelings in it for 1 hour.
Word of the Day
Figurehead
The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship. A person who allows his name to be used to give standing to enterprises in which he has no responsible interest or duties; a nominal, but not real, head or chief.
Puzzle of the Day
Old Dominion.(Name the U.S. state!)
Virginia
Born
- Giorgio Vasari (artist) –
- Emily Brontë (novelist) –
- Henry Ford (industrialist) –
- Robert Rutherford McCormick (newspaper editor) –
- Casey Stengel (baseball player) –
- Henry Moore (sculptor) –
- Paul Anka (singer) –
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (actor & politician) –
- Delta Burke (actress) –
- Kate Bush (singer) –
- Laurence Fishburne (actor) –
- Alton Brown (television host) –
- Lisa Kudrow (actress) –
- Vivica A. Fox (actress) –
- Tom Green (actor & comedian) –
- Christine Taylor (actress) –
- Hilary Swank (actress) –
Died
- Lynn Fontanne (actress) –
- Lane Frost (bull rider) –
- Buffalo Bob Smith (actor and puppeteer, best known for Howdy Doody) –
- Sam Phillips (rock’n’roll pioneer, Sun Records founder, and the man who discovered Elvis and also launched the careers of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, and B.B. King) –
- Ingmar Bergman (filmmaker) –
- Michelangelo Antonioni (director) –
- Nichelle Nichols (American actress ) –
- Paul Reubens (actor, best known for Pee-Wee Herman) –
Events
- Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei was first to observe what we now know are Saturn’s rings–
- First legislative assembly in America, the House of Burgesses, convened at Jamestown, VA–
- Caspar Wistar began operation of the first successful glass factory in America, in Allowaystown, New Jersey–
- Malden Island was discovered–
- Hawaii’s first English-language newspaper published–
- New York Yacht Club founded–
- The Olympic Games of Los Angeles, celebrating the tenth Olympiad of the modern era, opened–
- Japanese warships sank the USS Indianapolis, killing over 800 seamen (WW II)–
- Elvis Presley made his debut performance at the Overton Park Shell in Memphis, TN–
- Mister Roberts premiered–
- President Lyndon B. Johnson signed legislation establishing the Medicare and Medicaid health insurance programs–
- Apollo 15 landed on the Moon–
- Jake, a 65-pound golden retriever, was the only non-human in the 10th annual 1.25-mile swim from Alcatraz island to the San Francisco shore. The 4-year-old dog swam across the water in just under 42 minutes, finishing 72nd out of the more than 500 swimmers. Organizers say it was the first known crossing by a dog–
- In Bethel, Maine, the largest snowwoman (122 feet, 1 inch tall) melted completely–
Weather
- During Tropical Storm Brenda, 4.5 inches of rain fell in 11 hours on New York City–
- 107 degrees F in Portland, Oregon–