History for August 2

History for August 2 - On-This-Day.com:

National Mustard Day

Birth anniversary of Pierre Charles L’enfant, who designed the plan for the city of Washington, DC(1754-1825).

 

Birth anniversary of American author James Baldwin (1924-87).

 

Happy Birthday! Wes Craven, Mary-Louise Parker, Sam Worthington

1791 - Samuel Briggs and his son Samuel Briggs, Jr. received a joint patent for their nail-making machine. They were the first father-son pair to receive a patent. 


1824 - In New York City, Fifth Avenue was opened. 


1861 - The United States Congress passed the first income tax. The revenues were intended for the war effort against the South. The tax was never enacted. 


1887 - Rowell Hodge patented barbed wire. 


1892 - Charles A. Wheeler patented the first escalator. 


1939 - Albert Einstein signed a letter to President Roosevelt urging the U.S. to have an atomic weapons research program. 


1939 - U.S. President Roosevelt signed the Hatch Act. The act prohibited civil service employees from taking an active part in political campaigns. 


1943 - The U.S. Navy patrol torpedo boat, PT-109, sank after being attacked by a Japanese destroyer. The boat was under the command of Lt. John F. Kennedy. 


1964 - The Pentagon reported the first of two North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin. 


1983 - U.S. House of Representatives approved a law that designated the third Monday of January would be a federal holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The law was signed by President Reagon on November 2. 


1990 - Iraq invaded the oil-rich country of Kuwait. Iraq claimed that Kuwait had driven down oil prices by exceeding production quotas set by OPEC.

Krauthammer’s Dire Warning About Obama’s Reported Immigration Plan: ‘A Gross Violation of the Constitution’ | Video | TheBlaze.com

Krauthammer’s Dire Warning About Obama’s Reported Immigration Plan: ‘A Gross Violation of the Constitution’ | Video | TheBlaze.com:
"Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer didn’t mince words during an appearance on “The Kelly File” Thursday night, charging that President Barack Obama will be committing a “gross violation of the Constitution” if he chooses to expand amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants."

Internal CIA Investigation Finds Agency Hacked Senate Computers | TheBlaze.com

Internal CIA Investigation Finds Agency Hacked Senate Computers | TheBlaze.com:
"An internal CIA investigation has found that agency officers improperly accessed Senate computers earlier this year in a dispute over interrogation documents, prompting CIA Director John Brennan to abandon his defiant posture in the matter and apologize to Senate intelligence committee leaders."

Culture of corruption-----House Committee Investigating FCC Waiver to Obama Donor

House Committee Investigating FCC Waiver to Obama Donor | Washington Free Beacon:
"A House committee will investigate the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) decision to allow a waiver granting favorable status in wireless auctions to an Obama donor, the committee announced Thursday.
Chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee Fred Upton (R., Mich.) sent a letter to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler asking for information and documents relating to the designation of Grain Management, LLC as a “designated entity” last week.
The status will allow the company to receive discounts designed for small businesses when bidding for wireless licenses. 
David Grain, a major bundler for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, owns the firm."

Dems Want New Tax On Sugar-Sweetened Drinks | TheBlaze.com

Dems Want New Tax On Sugar-Sweetened Drinks | TheBlaze.com:
"Beverages sweetened with sugar or high-fructose corn syrup would be slapped with a new federal tax if three House Democrats have their way.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) proposed the Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Tax Act, or the SWEET Act, on Wednesday. Her bill would impose a one-cent tax for every teaspoon of caloric sweetener used in a drink."

OMG! $1.4 MILLION more in ads!!!--------Proposal 1 backers spend nearly $7M to win votes

Proposal 1 backers spend nearly $7M to win votes | Crain's Detroit Business:
"The groups backing Proposal 1, which just about every business, labor and local government group supports, have spent almost $7 million to make sure voters support it at the polls next week.
Proposal 1 seeks to create the funding stream for local communities after the repeal of the state’s tax on industrial personal property.
While there is no organized opposition to it, the group Michigan Citizens for Strong and Safe Communities has raised more than $8.3 million in support of the initiative, according to a filing made Friday with the Michigan Department of State.
The bulk of the money in support of the proposal has come from the Michigan Manufacturers Association, which has pumped in more than $2.8 million.
Ford Motor Co. kicked in $2 million in February, while General Motors Co. contributed $500,000 this month and Chrysler Group LLC added $250,000 in June.
......The proposal will appear on the Aug. 5 primary ballot; the group still has $1.4 million left to spend."

Study: Hundreds of rules passed by Obama administration are technically illegal - The Washington Post

Study: Hundreds of rules passed by Obama administration are technically illegal - The Washington Post:
"Under a 1996 statute, most federal rules are supposed to be reported to the House and Senate in paper form and to the General Accountability Office electronically. But since the start of 2012, that hasn’t happened for many of the regulations put out by the Obama administration, either because of bureaucratic oversight or because they were considered too minor to be reported.
Failing to report many of the rules is a “technical violation” of the statute, “and the law says they can’t take effect,” according to Robert Cramer, GAO’s managing associate general counsel."

25 Unearthly Places You Won't Believe Actually Exist.

25 Unearthly Places You Won't Believe Actually Exist.:
"25. Zhangye Danxia Landform, China"

What could possibly go wrong?-------1000 Children Fleeing Violent Honduras Heading to Violent Chicago

1000 Children Fleeing Violent Honduras Heading to Violent Chicago | CNS News:
"A thousand children said to be fleeing the violence in Central America will be welcomed to Chicago, where local children are routinely in the cross-fire of gang-related grudges.
 Mayor Rahm Emanuel, at the request of the Obama administration in which he formerly served, says he is working with local organizations to make room for up to one thousand additional unaccompanied children "traveling" from Central America to the U.S.-Mexico border in the coming year."

If What Allen West Just Said Is True, Obama Might Be In Serious Trouble...

If What Allen West Just Said Is True, Obama Might Be In Serious Trouble...:
“We are allowing all of these individuals to include MS-13 [gang] members to come across our border but we can’t bring our own Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi across that border back home,” he lamented.
“This is a powder keg that is building up in the military community,” he noted, explaining that, if the Obama administration rewards accused Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl with back pay after his time in the custody of Afghanistan terrorists, the brewing tension might come to a boil. "

Yikes! The value of a degree from that school just tanked-------Temple University scraps SAT requirement for new students

Temple University scraps SAT requirement for new students - Yahoo News:

 Philadelphia's Temple University said on Tuesday it will no longer require prospective students to submit a standardized test score when they apply, joining a small but growing group of schools that believe there are other ways to gauge talent.

Temple said it is the first public research university in the United States' Northeast to broaden its admissions policy in this way. Most U.S. schools still rely on students' SAT or ACT test scores when choosing whom to admit.

A prospective student's high-school grade point average, class rank or even his or her "grit, self-determination and self-confidence" may all be better predictors of success in higher education, Temple said in its announcement.

Seriously? MSNBC segment claims that climate change could make a real ‘Sharknado’ happen

Seriously? MSNBC segment claims that climate change could make a real ‘Sharknado’ happen | Video | TheBlaze.com:
 "During Wednesday’s edition of “News Nation” with Tamron Hall on MSNBC, a guest actually claimed that that climate change could make a “Sharknado” happen."

Free laptops! What could possibly go wrong...........Why Hoboken is Throwing Away All of its Student Laptops

Why Hoboken is Throwing Away All of its Student Laptops - WNYC:
Inside Hoboken’s combined junior-senior high school is a storage closet. 
Behind the locked door, some mothballed laptop computers are strewn among brown cardboard boxes. 
Others are stacked one atop another. 
Dozens more are stored on mobile computer carts, many of them on their last legs.
That’s all that remains from a failed experiment to assign every student a laptop at Hoboken Junior Senior High School. 
It began five years ago with an unexpected windfall of stimulus money from Washington, D.C.,

California Governor Jerry Brown: Climate Change Will Drive Millions of People North over the Border

On a three-day trade mission to Mexico, California governor Jerry Brown talked most frequently about climate change and immigration, and spoke passionately about the link between the two, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Barack Obama Has Really Pissed Off Maggie Gyllenhaal

Kaitlan Collins

Maggie Gyllenhaal, who stars in the new miniseries “The Honorable Woman” on the Sundance Channel, which centers on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, has become increasingly disillusioned with Barack Obama.

Gyllenhaal, who backed Obama’s presidency in both elections, said in a recent interview with Time magazine released Thursday that she used to really believe in the president, but now she’s “not sure what he believes in anymore.”

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/07/31/barack-obama-has-alienated-maggie-gyllenhaal/#ixzz398wM0X2g

Tonight here at EAA!------EAA AirVenture Daily Highlights Schedule | EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

EAA AirVenture Daily Highlights Schedule | EAA AirVenture Oshkosh:
"6 – 6:30 p.m. 
 Old Glory Honor Flight Return Home Ceremony (Boeing Plaza)"

Sad------Pilot in Thursday morning crash at AirVenture dies

We're told it was following a warbird and got caught in the wake turbulence.
The Breezy is a fun but tiny, two seat plane.
Pilot in Thursday morning crash at AirVenture dies:
"The pilot of a single-engine Breezy airplane that crashed Thursday morning at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh died from his injuries, while a passenger remains in critical condition.

The airplane crashed in a grassy area east of the airport's north-south runway while attempting a landing at about 9 a.m., during the early hours of the fourth day of the Experimental Aircraft Association's AirVenture convention.
According to the Oshkosh Fire Department the plane burst into flames after it crashed into a line of Oshkosh Corp. military trucks that are being stored on the periphery of the airport"

The median American household lost a third of its wealth in the last 10 years | WashingtonExaminer.com

The median American household lost a third of its wealth in the last 10 years | WashingtonExaminer.com:
"The median American household saw its wealth decline by more than one-third in the past decade, according to a new estimate published by the Russell Sage Foundation."

Yes, fluff. But somehow compelling..........What I Instagrammed Vs. What Was Really Happening, Or My Entire Life Is A Lie

What I Instagrammed Vs. What Was Really Happening, Or My Entire Life Is A Lie | Bustle

History for August 1

History for August 1 - On-This-Day.com: 

World Breastfeeding Week begins (Aug 1-7). See www.lalecheleague.org

Lollapalooza, Grant Park, Chicago, IL (Aug 1-3). 23rd anniversary. See www.lollapalooza.com

Twins Day Festival, Twinsburg, OH (Aug 1-3). See www.twinsdays.org

 

Birth anniversary of Herman Melville (1819-91), author of Moby-Dick.

 

Anniversary of the World Wide Web: the creation of what would become the World Wide Web was suggested this month in 1990 by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau at CERN. They had designed a prototype Web browser by October.

1790 - The first U.S. census was completed with a total population of 3,929,214 recorded. The areas included were the present states of Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont and Virginia 


1834 - Slavery was outlawed in the British empire with an emancipation bill. 


1893 - Shredded wheat was patented by Henry Perky and William Ford. 


1894 - The first Sino-Japanese War erupted. The dispute was over control of Korea. 


1914 - Germany declared war on Russia at the beginning of World War I. 


1936 - Adolf Hitler presided over the Olympic games as they opened in Berlin. 


1944 - In Warsaw, Poland, an uprising against Nazi occupation began. The revolt continued until October 2 when Polish forces surrendered. 


1944 - Anne Frank wrote her last diary entry.


1956 - The Social Security Act was amended to provide benefits to disabled workers aged 50-64 and disabled adult children. 


In the Aug 1, 1962, issue #15 of Amazing Fantasy, Stan Lee and Steve Ditko introduced a new superhero for Marvel: Spider-Man.


1973 - The movie "American Graffiti" opened. 


1986 - John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal were married. 


2006 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro turned over absolute power when he gave his brother Raul authority while he underwent an intestinal surgery.