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Published Tuesday, July 06, 2021 @ 12:00 AM EDT

Jul 06 2021

Sun erupted with biggest solar flare in four years in early Fourth of July fireworks (video). Also, Independence Day fireball: Amazing videos show bright meteor changing night sky into day in Idaho.

Over 40 percent of the global workforce is considering leaving their jobs this year. Also, Since the pandemic, employees are leaving the workforce or switching jobs in droves. For many, employers have played a big part in why they're walking away.

Not real news: A look at what didn't happen last week.

Amazing New York times documentary of January 6 insurrection. (Video) Funny, they don't look like tourists.

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From Crazytown:

Marjorie Taylor Greene reports sightings of Jewish space lasers across U.S. (on July 4) (satire, Andy Borowitz in The New Yorker).

Pence got ten minutes to talk about 'how hard he was working' during weekly lunches before Trump turned on the TV and began complaining, book says.

Rioters accused of erasing content from social media, phones.

Epic-est of Epic Trolls Fly 'Loser-Palooza' Planes Over Donald Trump Event in Florida. Every Time Trump claims a non-stolen election was stolen from him, a troll gets its wings. In this case, literally.

Trump seemingly acknowledges facts of prosecutors' case against Trump Organization while criticizing charges over 'fringe benefits'. (Video)

Trump: 'One Law for Hungry Pizza Thieves, Another for Me'. Trump endorsed a textbook for his scam Trump University. This is from Trump University Asset Protection 101: Tax and Legal Strategies of the Rich: "When you own your own business, you determine how much income tax you pay." That's not true, but it sure tells you how Trump thinks.

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KGB's daily agglomeration of stuff I find interesting:

Among other things, today is

On this date:

1785 - US Congress unanimously resolved the name of US currency to the "dollar" and adopted decimal coinage
1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the United States Republican Party was held.
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1892 - Three thousand eight hundred striking steelworkers engaged in a day-long battle with Pinkerton agents during the Homestead Strike, leaving ten dead and dozens wounded.
1898 - U.S. Senate adopts the House-passed Newlands Resolution, annexing Hawaii
1919 - The British dirigible R34 landed in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.
1928 - "Lights of New York" the first all-talking full-length feature film, was released by Warner Bros.
1933 - The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played in Chicago's Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4-2.
1942 - Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the "Secret Annexe" above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1947 - The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
1947 - Alleged and disputed Roswell UFO incident (Video)
1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney meet for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.
1964 - The Beatles' film "A Hard Day's Night" released in U.K. (Video)
1990 - The Electronic Frontier Foundation was founded.
1994 - "Forrest Gump" released (Video)

Birthdays

1747 - John Paul Jones, Scottish-American captain (d. 1792)
1887 - Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet (d. 1985)
1918 - Sebastian Cabot, English-Canadian actor (d. 1977) (Video)
1921 - Nancy Reagan, American actress and activist, 42nd First Lady of the United States (d. 2016)
1922 - William Schallert, American actor; president (1979-81) of the Screen Actors Guild (d. 2016) (Video)
1925 - Merv Griffin, American actor, singer, and producer, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007) (Video)
1925 - Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981) (Video)
1927 - Janet Leigh, (b. Jeanette Helen Morrison) American actress and author (d. 2004) (Video)
1931 - Della Reese, (b. Delloreese Patricia Early) American actress and singer (d. 2017) (Video)
1935 - Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
1937 - Ned Beatty, American actor (d. 2021) (Video)
1937 - Gene Chandler, American singer-songwriter and producer ("Duke of Earl") (Video)
1946 - George W. Bush, American businessman and politician, 43rd President of the United States
1946 - Sylvester Stallone, American actor, director, and screenwriter (Video)
1951 - Geoffrey Rush, Australian actor and producer(Video)
1979 - Kevin Hart, American comedian, actor, producer, and screenwriter