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Good afternoon. It’s August 1, 2025, and if you can believe it, it’s a Friday once again! I’m busy being an idiot in Las Vegas, so no actual news today.
- Rabbit rabbit rabbit.
- We’re having fun. Not really winning money, but not losing it at a rate that’s irresponsibly bad.
- About to go grab some lunch and then… whatever. We have no plans whatsoever.
- And now, The Weather: “Headlights” by Alex G
- Today in history… Octavian enters Alexandria and Marc Antony kills himself (30 BC). Justinian I become sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire (527). Christopher Columbus “discovers” Venezuela (1498). British scientist Joseph Priestley discovers oxygen gas (1774). Slavery is abolished in the British Empire (1834). Colorado is admitted as the 38th state (1876). Henry Perky patents shredded wheat (1893). Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman with an aviator certificate (1911). Four antifascist activists are executed by the Nazis (1933). The Olympics opened in Berlin with a ceremony presided over by Adolf Hitler (1936). The Warsaw Uprising against the Nazi German occupation breaks out in Warsaw, Poland (1944). Guam is organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States as the President Harry S. Truman signs the Guam Organic Act (1950). The United States and Canada form the North American Aerospace Defense Command, aka NORAD (1957). Islamabad is declared the capital of Pakistan (1960). Frank Herbert’s book ‘Dune’ is published for the first time (1965). George Harrison’s ‘Concert for Bangladesh’ is held at Madison Square Garden (1971). Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland becomes the world’s first democratically-elected female head of state (1980). MTV begins broadcasting in the USA (1981). Former US President Donald Trump is indicted for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, his third indictment in 2023 (2023).
- August 1 in the birthday of Roman emperor Claudius (10 BC), painter Sebastiano Ricci (1659), explorer/politician William Clark (1770), lawyer/poet Francis Scott Key (1779), novelist Herman Melville (1819), astronomer Helen Sawyer Hogg (1905), singer-songwriter/guitarist Ramblin' Jack Elliott (1931), actor Dom DeLuise (1933), fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (1936), singer-songwriter/guitarist Jerry Garcia (1942), singer-songwriter/guitarist Tommy Bolin (1951), singer-songwriter/guitarist Robert Cray (1953), actor Taylor Negron (1957), singer-songwriter Joe Elliott (1959), songwriter/rapper Chuck D (1960), rapper Coolio (1963), director Sam Mendes (1965), singer-songwriter/guitarist Dhani Harrison (1978), actor Jason Momoa (1979), MLB player Madison Bumgarner (1989), and NBA player Austin Rivers (1992).
Okay then. Once again into the breach. Enjoy your day.
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