History for July 7

History for July 7 - On-This-Day.com
Marc Chagall 1887, Satchel Paige 1906, William Kunstler 1919



David McCullough 1933 - Author, Ringo Starr 1940 - Musician (Beatles), Shelley Duvall 1949 - Actress ("The Shining"), 


1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.


1917 - Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia.


1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.


1937 - Japanese forces invaded China.


1969 - Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government.


1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.


1994 - Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the name "Cadabra."


1998 - A jury in Santa Monica, CA, convicted Mikail Markhasev of murdering Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby's only son, during a roadside robbery.

WATCH: Trump Praises Populist Poland, Says West Must ‘Defend Civilization’ and 'Faith'

WATCH: Trump Praises Populist Poland, Says West Must ‘Defend Civilization’ and 'Faith':

"The President sang the praises of the “faithful nation” of Poland, their “culture” and people, and their historic fight against Fascism and Communism, and the continued battle against “radical Islamic terrorism”.

“It is a profound honour to stand in this city by this monument to the Warsaw uprising and to address the Polish nation… A Poland that is safe, strong, and free,” he told the cheering crowd at the beginning of his speech."

DNC email server most wanted evidence for Russia investigations - Washington Times

DNC email server most wanted evidence for Russia investigations - Washington Times:

"It is perhaps the key piece of forensic evidence in Russia’s suspected efforts to sway the November presidential election, but federal investigators have yet to get their hands on the hacked computer server that handled email from the Democratic National Committee.
Indeed, the only cybersecurity specialists who have taken a look at the server are from CrowdStrike, the Irvine, California-based private cybersecurity company that the DNC hired to investigate the hack — but which has come under fire itself for its work."

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Volvo making all cars electric, hybrid from 2019 - Business Insider

Volvo making all cars electric, hybrid from 2019 - Business Insider:
"Volvo has announced that starting from 2019, all of its new cars will be fully electric or hybrid — a significant step in efforts to develop green options for vehicles and move beyond the internal combustion engine that has featured in automobiles for more than a century.
"This announcement marks the end of the solely combustion engine-powered car," said CEO Håkan Samuelsson in a statement..."

ESPN's Kellerman: NFL Is 'Injecting Politics' by Playing the National Anthem at Games - Breitbart

ESPN's Kellerman: NFL Is 'Injecting Politics' by Playing the National Anthem at Games - Breitbart
"Thursday, ESPN “First Take” co-host Max Kellerman shared his reaction to Seattle Seahawks defensive lineman Michael Bennett comparing free agent quarterback Colin Kaepernick to boxing legend Muhammad Ali.

...The ESPN personality then argued that Kaepernick did not inject politics into the NFL, but rather the NFL injects politics by playing the national anthem and “putting pressure” on people to stand.
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Happy Fourth: Obama In Indonesia Says Too Much Patriotism Is Bad | Daily Wire

Happy Fourth: Obama In Indonesia Says Too Much Patriotism Is Bad | Daily Wire:

"Obama pushed globalism throughout his two terms as president. He entered bad trade deals, signed off on dangerous treaties, eased sanctions on dangerous dictatorships. And his Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, sought to pick up that mantle and carry it even further.

But Americans said no. They rejected the notion that the world comes first, and America second. They embraced Donald Trump's call to "make America great again" — and, frankly, they realized that America is always good, but could be better."

Flashback: U.N. Says Global Warming Will Destroy 'Entire Nations' ... by 2000

Flashback: U.N. Says Global Warming Will Destroy 'Entire Nations' ... by 2000
Flashback: U.N. Says Global Warming Will Destroy ‘Entire Nations’ … by 2000

"Climate change alarmists often talk about the dire need to solve the world’s global warming “crisis.”
If we don’t act soon, they claim, the world will face disasters unlike anything we’ve ever seen before. 
“Trust us,” they say. 
“This is science. 
Don’t be a ‘science denier.'”
Admittedly, I once “trusted” the “consensus” that global warming is being caused by humans and will soon be catastrophic. 
Over time, however, as many of the predictions made by the alarmists failed to come true, I became increasingly skeptical of their claims.
...Below is one example I recently came across that’s particularly laughable. 
Enjoy."

“A senior environmental official at the United Nations, Noel Brown, says entire nations could be wiped off the face of the earth by rising sea levels if global warming is not reversed by the year 2000. Coastal flooding and crop failures would create an exodus of ‘eco-refugees,’ threatening political chaos, said Brown, director of the New York office of the U.N. Environment Program. He said governments have a 10-year window of opportunity to solve the greenhouse effect before it goes beyond human [control.]”

Published on June 30, 1989, San Jose Mercury News (CA)"

Paradise Lost: San Francisco Leftists At Their Finest | Daily Wire

Paradise Lost: San Francisco Leftists At Their Finest | Daily Wire:
"Growing up in San Francisco, I thought I was the luckiest kid in the world.
A beautiful city built right on the bay.
...The constant tax increases, in property tax, sales tax, property tax levies, and continually burdensome regulation has made it almost impossible to live and raise a family.
So, I started to look at where all the money really goes…
The City of San Francisco, a city of 870,877 people and only 49 square miles, is slated to spend $10.1 billion dollars next fiscal year, which started July 1.
You read that right: a city of less than 1 million people plans to spend over $10 billion dollars.
Let’s compare that to other California cities of even greater size:

• San Diego has a population of 1.2 million people, an area of 372 square miles, and spends $3.1 billion. 
• San Jose has a little over 1 million people, an area of 180 square miles, and also spends $3.1 billion.

San Francisco has less than half the size in land area and a few hundred thousand less people, yet spends over three times the amount of money per year.
...Let’s take a look into the numbers.
For years, San Francisco has created and maintained a Homeless Industrial Complex.
One of the most expensive cities in the country literally pays for more homeless people to pour in. Non-profit organizations, many of which are paid to serve the homeless or very low income individuals, will be dividing $600 million dollars under the 2017-18 budget.
By comparison, the city will spend less on the

• San Francisco Police Department ($590 million), the 
• San Francisco Fire Department ($382.3 million), the 
• San Francisco Sheriff’s Department ($231.7 million), the 
• Recreation and Parks Department ($220.4 million) and the 
• Public Library ($138 million), among many other offices which don’t even eclipse the $100 million mark..."

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Lunch video-----How Iran went from being an American ally to the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism – Israel Video Network

How Iran went from being an American ally to the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism – Israel Video Network:
"Iran’s nuclear ambitions are a real danger to the entire world.
Iran was a modern country that looked up to the West.
But after 1979, when radical Islamists came into power, the country became anti-Western and began to threaten global security.
Today, after the Obama administration managed to negotiate a bad deal with Iran over its nuclear development capabilities, Iran is closer than ever to building a nuclear bomb with which it will threaten the West.
Iran is responsible for the spread of Islamic terror and is directly involved in terrorist attacks around the world.
Western nations can and should stop Iran before it is too late."

Noon-toon

Somali Immigrant Trained with Terrorist Group, Plotted Domestic Attack

Somali Immigrant Trained with Terrorist Group, Plotted Domestic Attack:

"Though training with a terrorist organization, Mohamud was able to return to the U.S. after his brother died fighting in Syria with al-Nusrah.

Once home, Mohamud plotted to get weapons that could murder American military officers and other government employees in uniform. Mohamud was even scoping out locations for the attack, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation into the plot."

Dangerous lunatics!-----Pro-Sharia feminist’s views defy reality – Israel Video Network

Pro-Sharia feminist’s views defy reality – Israel Video Network

"Australian academic and feminist Dr. Susan Carland recently spoke about sharia law, but not to denounce it as a sexist system of law that treats women as property but rather, to support it as an effective mechanism for promoting women’s rights.
Yes, Dr. Carland believes that sharia law can be used to persuade Muslim men that it’s wrong, for example, to stone and/or whip women who are victims of rape or for adultery.
Of course, this idea will remain theoretical since I’m not aware of any Islamic Republic in which sharia is used to champion female empowerment..."

Trump Launched An Energy Revolution While Everyone Was Obsessing On His Tweets | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD

Trump Launched An Energy Revolution While Everyone Was Obsessing On His Tweets | Stock News & Stock Market Analysis - IBD:

"...On Thursday, Trump said he was ushering in a new energy policy that marked an end to decades of fretting about an alleged "energy crisis" brought on by supposed limited domestic supplies and an insatiable demand for fossil fuels.
"We now know that was all a big, beautiful myth," Trump said in remarks at the Department of Energy. 
"The truth is that we have near-limitless supplies of energy in our country."
Trump had already taken several steps toward unleashing domestic energy supplies, but he announced six more that he plans to take, including 

• reviving nuclear energy, lifting barriers to building coal plants overseas, 
• building more energy pipelines — including one into Mexico — 
• increased natural gas exports, and creating a new offshore-leasing program.

"The golden era of American energy is now underway," he said.
If that sounds overly dramatic, it isn't. 
Recent developments in drilling technology have made vast domestic supplies of oil and natural gas available for production. 
That, combined with the country's abundance of coal, means the U.S. could be a net energy exporter in nine years..."

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