Good morning Yonkers, it is currently clear in Yonkers and 65 to 66 degrees with a south-west winds at 4 mph, the humidity is 70%, the dew point is at 55 degrees, the barometer is 30.0 inches and steady and the visibility is 10 miles. Today will be partly cloudy early followed by scattered thunderstorms this afternoon, a high of 83 degrees with south/south-west winds at 10 to 15 mph. There is a 40% chance of rain. There will be a few passing clouds tonight, a low of 67 degrees with south/south-west winds at 10 to 15 mph. Sun-up occurs at 5:51 AM and descends graciously beyond the Palisades at 8:12 PM. You’ll have 14 hours and 20 minutes of available daylight. Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska. At 4:22 AM CDT Omaha is mostly cloudy and 60 degrees. Today Omaha will be mostly sunny, a high near 85 degrees with variable light winds. Partly cloudy skies this evening with a few showers developing late, a low of 62 degrees with light and variable winds. There is a 30% chance of rain. Cannes, Department of Alpes-Maritimes, France. At 11:28 AM ADT Cannes is partly cloudy and 59 degrees. Cannes will be sunny today, a high of 82 degrees with south/south-east winds at 5 to 10 mph. Clear skies tonight, a low of 67 degrees with variable light winds. Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. At 4:31 AM CDT Dothan is clear and 63 degrees. Dothan will have sun and clouds mixed, a high of 91 degrees with light and variable winds. Partly cloudy tonight, a low around 70 degrees with variable light winds. Today 7/31 In HISTORY: 1 - 1975 - James Riddle Hoffa, one of the most influential American labor leaders of the 20th century, disappears in Detroit, Michigan, never to be heard from again. Though he is popularly believed to have been the victim of a Mafia hit, conclusive evidence was never found, and Hoffas death remains shrouded in mystery to this day. 2 - 1777 -American Revolution - On this day in 1777, a 19-year-old French aristocrat, Marie-Joseph Paul Roch Yves Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, accepts a commission as a major-general in the Continental Army—without pay. 3 - 1816 - Civil War - Union General George H. Thomas, who deserves a share of the credit for the Union success in the west, is born in Southhampton County, Virginia. Thomas exemplified the difficulties that individuals who chose to break with their native states over the issue of secession faced. After graduating from West Point, Thomas served in the Seminole and Mexican-American Wars. During the 1850s, he served in Texas with the 2nd Cavalry alongside many prominent future Confederates such as Robert E. Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, Albert S. Johnston, and John Bell Hood. When Virginia seceded from the Union in April 1861, Thomas chose to remain loyal to his country. For this decision, Thomas paid dearly. His family disowned him, and he found advancement in the Union army difficult. He often served under Northern-born men of lesser ability. 4 - 1953 - Cold War - Senate Majority Leader Robert A. Taft (R-Ohio) dies of cancer at the age of 63. Branded by critics as an isolationist, Taft was a consistent critic of Americas Cold War policies. 5 - 1715 - A hurricane strikes the east coast of Florida, sinking 10 Spanish treasure ships and killing nearly 1,000 people, on this day in 1715. All of the gold and silver onboard at the time would not be recovered until 250 years later. 6 - 1556 - Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order of Roman Catholic missionaries and educators, dies in Rome. The Society of Jesus, as the Jesuit order is formally known, played an important role in the Counter-Reformation and eventually succeeded in converting millions around the world to Catholicism. 7 - 1945 - World War Two - Pierre Laval, the puppet leader of Nazi-occupied Vichy France, surrenders to American authorities in Austria, who extradite him to France to stand trial. By 1942, Laval had won the trust of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, and the elderly Petain became merely a figurehead in the Vichy regime. As the premier of Vichy France, Laval collaborated with the Nazi programs of oppression and genocide and increasingly became a puppet of Hitler. After the Allied liberation of France, he was forced to flee east for German protection. With the defeat of Germany in May 1945, he escaped to Spain but was expelled and went into hiding in Austria, where he finally surrendered to American authorities in late July. Extradited to France, Laval was convicted of treason by the High Court of Justice in a sensational trial. Condemned to death, he attempted suicide by poison but was nursed back to health in time for his execution on October 15, 1945. 8 - 1964 - Ranger 7, an unmanned U.S. lunar probe, takes the first close-up images of the moon—4,308 in total—before it impacts with the lunar surface northwest of the Sea of the Clouds. The images were 1,000 times as clear as anything ever seen through earth-bound telescopes. 9 - 1875 - Former President Andrew Johnson, the man who had become president upon the tragic assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865, dies of a stroke while visiting his daughter in Tennessee. 10 - 1964 - Vietnam War - In a news conference, Secretary of State Dean Rusk admits there are differences between the United States and South Vietnam on the issue of extending the war into North Vietnam, but agreement on the general conduct of the war. He stated that U.S. warnings to communist China and North Vietnam indicated total U.S. commitment. 11 - 1972 -Vietnam War - Hanoi challenges the Nixon administration on the dike controversy, claiming that since April there had been 173 raids against the dikes in North Vietnam with direct hits in 149 locations. On July 28, in response to claims by the Soviet Union that the United States had conducted an intentional two-month bombing campaign designed to destroy the dikes and dams of the Tonkin Delta in North Vietnam, a CIA report was made public by the Nixon administration. It stated that U.S. bombing at 12 locations had caused accidental minor damage to North Vietnams dikes, but the damage was unintentional and the dikes were not the intended targets of the bombings. 12 - 1917 - World War One - the Allies launch a renewed assault on German lines in the Flanders region of Belgium, in the much-contested region near Ypres, during World War I. The attack begins more than three months of brutal fighting, known as the Third Battle of Ypres. While the first and second battles at Ypres were attacks by the Germans against the Allied-controlled salient around Ypres–which crucially blocked any German advance to the English Channel–the third was spearheaded by the British commander in chief, Sir Douglas Haig. After the resounding failure of the Nivelle Offensive–named for its mastermind, the French commander Robert Nivelle–the previous May, followed by widespread mutinies within the French army, Haig insisted that the British should press ahead with another major offensive that summer. The aggressive and meticulously planned offensive, ostensibly aimed at destroying German submarine bases located on the north coast of Belgium, was in fact driven by Haigs (mistaken) belief that the German army was on the verge of collapse, and would be broken completely by a major Allied victory. 13 - 1941 - World War Two - Herman Goering, writing under instructions from Hitler, ordered Reinhard Heydrich, SS general and Heinrich Himmlers number-two man, to submit to me as soon as possible a general plan of the administrative material and financial measures necessary for carrying out the desired final solution of the Jewish question. Goering recounted briefly the outline for that final solution that had been drawn up on January 24, 1939: emigration and evacuation in the best possible way. This program of what would become mass, systematic extermination was to encompass all the territories of Europe under German occupation. Let this be a great Thursday for everyone, let us P U S H and make it a happy day. Yankee fans wont wake up happy as the Yanks lost to Texas again 3-2 while the Orioles were beating the Angels 4-3 and Toronto defeated Boston 6-1. TB lost to Milwaukee 5-0. The New York Mets clobbered the Phillies 11-2. As always keep safe and keep smiling!
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