KGB Report will return on Tuesday, July 6. Have a safe Independence Day holiday!
(Salt Lake Tribune)
Town that recorded highest temperature in Canada's history destroyed by wildfire. More than 1,000 people living in and around Lytton, B.C., northeast of Vancouver, were forced to leave with little notice Wednesday. They raced out of town in every direction as smoke and flames swallowed the community in minutes.
The IRS is swamped with 35 million unprocessed tax returns, meaning people will have to wait longer for refunds. Former IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told The Washington Post's Jeff Stein that "the problem is not with IRS employees who work very hard. It's with Republicans in Congress who have refused to provide adequate funding for 10 years."
China building more than 100 'nuclear' missile silos in desert. Satellite footage shows 'alarming development' that signals possible expansion of nuclear capabilities.
The biggest threat to America is America itself. We Americans repeat the mantra that "we're No. 1" even though the latest Social Progress Index, a measure of health, safety and well-being around the world, ranked the United States No. 28. Even worse, the United States was one of only three countries, out of 163, that went backward in well-being over the last decade.
Flesh eating parasites skyrocket in the US.
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From Crazytown:
Trump calls U.S. military generals 'woke,' 'weak and ineffective leaders'.
Trump Organization and CFO Allen Weisselberg plead not guilty to tax crimes. Prosecutors described a yearslong scheme to compensate executives "off the books" to avoid paying taxes.
Govs Gone Wild: Unhinged, Uncensored, Uninformed (Video)
Seditionists' roundup... "not the tightest zip ties in the bag..." And a vertical penile fracture. (Video)
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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:
Among other things, today is
- Comic Sans Day
- Drive Your Corvette to Work Day
- Freedom From Fear of Speaking Day
- I Forgot Day
- Made in the USA Day
- National Anisette Day
- Special Recreation for the Disabled Day
- World Sports Journalists Day
- World UFO Day
On this date:
- 1698 - Thomas Savery patented the first steam engine.
- 1776 - The Continental Congress adopted a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence was not published until July 4.
- 1839 - Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 kidnapped Africans led by Joseph Cinqué mutiny and took over the slave ship Amistad.
- 1881 - Charles J. Guiteau shot and fatally wounded U.S. President James A. Garfield (who died of complications from his wounds on September 19).
- 1890 - The U.S. Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
- 1897 - British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtained a patent for radio in London.
- 1900 - The first Zeppelin flight took place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- 1900 - Jean Sibelius' Finlandia received its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus. (Video)
- 1921 - U.S. President Warren G. Harding signed the Knox-Porter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Germany.
- 1928 - The Jenkins Television Corporation goes on air with W3XK, the first television broadcasting station in the USA
- 1937 - Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan were last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
- 1955 - "Lawrence Welk Show" premiered on ABC (Video)
- 1956 - Elvis Presley recorded "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" (Video)
- 1962 - The first Walmart store, then known as Wal-Mart, opened for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 1980 - The movie "Airplane!" premiered (Video: Airplane! is actually a remake of Zero Hour!)
- 2002 - Steve Fossett became the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon. Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007 while flying a light aircraft over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California. Extensive searches proved unsuccessful, and he was declared legally dead in February of the following year.
Birthdays
- 1877 - Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962)
- 1906 - Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
- 1908 - Thurgood Marshall, American lawyer and jurist, 32nd Solicitor General of the United States (d. 1993)
- 1916 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
- 1922 - Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer (d. 2020)
- 1925 - Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist (d. 1963)
- 1927 - Brock Peters, American actor (d. 2005)
- 1929 - Imelda Marcos, Filipino politician; 10th First Lady of the Philippines
- 1931 - Robert Ito, Canadian-born actor (Sam-Quincy ME)
- 1932 - Dave Thomas, American businessman and philanthropist, founded Wendy's (d. 2002)
- 1937 - Polly Holliday, American actress
- 1946 - Ron Silver, American actor, director, and political activist (d. 2009)
- 1947 - Larry David, American actor, comedian, producer, and screenwriter
- 1948 - Saul Rubinek, German-born Canadian character actor, director, playwright, and producer of television, theatre, and film
- 1986 - Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
- 1990 - Margot Robbie, Australian actress and producer
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Miscellany
Senate passes bill wishing younger generations best of luck stopping climate change. (The Onion)
Yes, a Florida man is actually accused of hiding meth inside this body part. Crystal rocks found in private area, deputies say.
Picasso kept in Maine house closet for 50 years is sold for $150K.
No, you can't recycle a bowling ball (but people sure keep trying). Why do 1,200 balls end up at New York City’s main recycling plant each year? People seem to think that because they are plastic, they are the same as, say, takeout containers. They are not.
Excruciating slip-up sees BBC News report confuse Bill Clinton with Bill Cosby. Oops.
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