Good morning Yonkers, THANK GOD ITS FRIDAY. Currently it is partly cloudy and 68 to 72 degrees with a south/south-west wind at 5 mph, the humidity is 86%, the dew point is at 64 degrees, the barometer is 30.2 inches and rising, and the visibility is 8 miles. A mixture of sun and clouds early followed by cloudy skies this afternoon, a high of 84 degrees with south winds at 10 to 15 mph. Cloudy skies tonight with periods of rain late, a low of 67 degrees with south/south-east wind at 10 to 15 mph. The chance of rain is 70%. Sun-up occurs at 5:52 AM and descends gracefully beyond the Palisades at 8:11 PM. You’ll have 14 hours and 18 minutes of available daylight. Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. At 4:34 AM CDT Wichita is partly cloudy and 63 degrees. Wichita will have plenty of sunshine, a high of 89 degrees with south-west winds at 5 to 10 mph. Clear skies tonight, a low of 64 degrees with south winds at 5 to 10 mph. Barcelona, Barcelona Province, Spain. At 11:38 AM CEST Barcelona is partly cloudy and 82 degrees. Barcelona will have a mixture of sun and clouds, a high of 82 degrees with south-east winds at 10 to 15 mph. Partly cloudy skies tonight, a low of 72 degrees with east winds at 5 to 10 mph. Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. At 4:42 AM CDT Dothan is partly cloudy and 69 degrees. Dothan will be partly cloudy today, a high of 92 degrees with variable light winds. Some clouds will be around tonight, a low of 71 degrees with light and variable winds. 8/1 In HISTORY: 1 - 1774 - American Revolution - dissenting British minister Joseph Priestly, author of Observations on Civil Liberty and the Nature and Justice of the War with America, discovers oxygen while serving as a tutor to the sons of American sympathizer William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne, at Bowood House in Wiltshire, England. 2 - 2007 - Citibank opens Chinas first drive-through automated teller machine (ATM) at the Upper East Side Central Plaza in Beijing. 3 - 1864 - Civil War - Union General Ulysses S. Grant appoints General Philip Sheridan commander of the Army of the Shenandoah. Within a few months, Sheridan drove a Confederate force from the Shenandoah Valley and destroyed nearly all possible sources of Rebel supplies, helping to seal the fate of the Confederacy. 4 - 1975 - Cold War - The United States, the Soviet Union, Canada and every European nation (except Albania) sign the Helsinki Final Act on the last day of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE). The act was intended to revive the sagging spirit of detente between the Soviet Union and the United States and its allies. 5 - 1966 - Charles Whitman takes a stockpile of guns and ammunition to the observatory platform atop a 300-foot tower at the University of Texas and proceeds to shoot 46 people, killing 14 people and wounding 31. A fifteenth died in 2001 because of his injuries. Whitman, who had killed both his wife and mother the night before, was eventually shot to death after courageous Austin police officers, including Ramiro Martinez, charged up the stairs of the tower to subdue the attacker. 6 - 1971 - Vietnam War - A severe flood of the Red River in North Vietnam kills an estimated 100,000 people on this day in 1971. This remarkable flood was one of the centurys most serious weather events, but because the Vietnam War was going on at the time, relatively few details about the disaster are available. 7 - 1498 - Italian explorer Christopher Columbus sets foot on the American mainland for the first time, at the Paria Peninsula in present-day Venezuela. Thinking it an island, he christened it Isla Santa and claimed it for Spain. 8 - 1944 -World War Two - During World War II, an advance Soviet armored column under General Konstantin Rokossovski reaches the Vistula River along the eastern suburb of Warsaw, prompting Poles in the city to launch a major uprising against the Today Nazi occupation. The revolt was spearheaded by Polish General Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski, who was the commander of the Home Army, an underground resistance group made up of some 40,000 poorly supplied soldiers. In addition to accelerating the liberation of Warsaw, the Home Army, which had ties with the Polish government-in-exile in London and was anti-communist in its ideology, hoped to gain at least partial control of Warsaw before the Soviets arrived. 9 - 1964 - Vietnam War - The North Vietnamese government accuses South Vietnam and the United States of having authorized attacks on Hon Me and Hon Ngu, two of their islands in the Tonkin Gulf. 10 - 1994 - Newspapers report on this day in 1994 that publishing house Alfred A. Knopf will pay Pope John Paul II a record-breaking $8.75 million advance for his new book, Crossing the Threshold of Hope. The book, a collection of essays addressing moral and theological questions, becomes a bestseller. 11 - 1914 - World War One - four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia, two more great European powers—Russia and Germany—declare war on each other; the same day, France orders a general mobilization. The so-called Great War that ensued would be one of unprecedented destruction and loss of life, resulting in the deaths of some 20 million soldiers and civilians and the physical devastation of much of the European continent. 12 - 1943 - World War Two - On this day in 1943, a Japanese destroyer rams an American PT (patrol torpedo) boat, No. 109, slicing it in two. The destruction is so massive other American PT boats in the area assume the crew is dead. Two crewmen were, in fact, killed, but 11 survived, including Lt. John F. Kennedy. Weve reached the end - of the work week that is and last night not much in way of local teams playing ball. The Mets and Yankees were both off but the Yankees managed to gain 1/2 game on Baltimore who lost to Los Angeles 1-0 while Toronto beat Houston 6-5. Yesterday, with Argentina defaulting on repayment of a loan and the general world crises that are occurring, the DOW dropped 317.06 or 1.88%, The S&P dropped 39.40 o 2%, and NASDAQ fell 93.13 or 2.09% of its value. If you have investments and are in the middle class, this is hard to watch. Any gains made in July are lost and for me gains made in June are gone also. his world needs stability and I fear that will never happen. Sorry to be so negative. Be positive, and as always keep safe and keep smiling!
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 09:55:18 +0000
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