Daily Calendar for Sunday, July 16, 2023
Question of the Day
What’s the best way to clean my aluminum siding?
Aluminum with a faded, weathered look needs to be cleaned with a strong detergent solution, but you might want to test this solution in an inconspicuous spot on your house first. Washing may result in a color that is not uniform after it dries. If the color in your test area is consistent, it’s safe to clean the rest of the siding this way. To make a detergent solution, combine 1/3 cup laundry detergent, 2/3 cup trisodium phosphate (TSP), 1 quart household bleach (5 percent), and 3 quarts water. Avoid any abrasive cleaners; these will damage the finish. Clean your siding once a year with a strong spray of water from a hose. Use the detergent solution when the siding begins to look old and weathered.
Advice of the Day
Bees will not swarm before a near storm.
Home Hint of the Day
For relief from sunburn, take a vinegar sponge bath.
Word of the Day
Nipper
A fore tooth of a horse. The nippers are four in number.
Puzzle of the Day
Better (Blank) than (Blank).(What’s the saying? Fill in the blanks!)
1) late 2) never
Born
- Andrea del Sarto (painter) –
- Pierre Le Moyne (French-Canadian explorer) –
- Giuseppe Piazzi (Italian astronomer) –
- Mary Baker Eddy (religious leader) –
- Shoeless Joe Jackson (baseball player) –
- Barbara Stanwyck (actress) –
- Ginger Rogers (actress) –
- Michael Flatley (dancer & choreographer) –
- Phoebe Cates (actress) –
- Will Ferrell (actor) –
- Barry Sanders (football player) –
- Corey Feldman (actor) –
Died
- Anne of Cleves (fourth wife of King Henry VIII) –
- Mary Todd Lincoln (U.S. First Lady) –
- Harry Chapin (singer & songwriter) –
- John F. Kennedy, Jr. (died in a plane crash on his way to a cousin’s wedding on Martha’s Vineyard. His wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren, were also aboard) –
- Charles W. Sweeney (pilot of the U.S. bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan, in the last days of World War II) –
Events
- Congress established the District of Columbia on the Potomac River, voting to set up the permanent seat of the government of the U.S. there–
- Dr. Emily Howard Stowe, the first woman to practice medicine in Canada, received her medical license.–
- First parking meters installed, Oklahoma City, OK–
- Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, to become the first manned space mission to land on the moon–
- 135 pilot whales beached at Point au Gaul, Newfoundland and Labrador–
- In the Philippines, an earthquake measuring 7.7 on the Richter Scale killed over 1,600 people–
- The 6th book in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series sold 6.9 million copies in its first 24 hours — averaging better than 250,000 sales per hour–
- A 3.6-magnitude earthquake struck about 20 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., in Maryland–
- 3.4 earthquake occurred near Germantown, Maryland–
- Bryan Cranston received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame–
- To mark the 50th anniversary of Apollo 11’s launch, U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, launched 5,000 model rockets simultaneously, breaking a Guinness world record–
Weather
- F2 tornado in Grafton County, New Hampshire–
- 15th to 16th: 22.22 inches of rain in 24 hours, Altapass, North Carolina–
- In Churdan, Iowa, a tornado touched down and moved northwest, opposite the normal pattern–