By Michelle Dumas
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Brandi Denise Chastain (born July 21, 1968) is an American retired soccer player, two-time FIFA Women’s World Cup champion, two-time Olympic gold-medalist, coach, and sports broadcaster. She played for the United States national team from 1988 to 2004. In her 192 caps on the team, she scored 30 goals playing primarily in the defender and midfielder positions. She scored a World Cup-winning penalty shootout goal against China in the 1999 FIFA Women’s World Cup final.
Chastain played professionally for Shiroki FC in the Japan Women’s Football League, the San Jose CyberRays of the Women’s United Soccer Association, FC Gold Pride of Women’s Professional Soccer, and California Storm of Women’s Premier Soccer League.
Chastain was named to the USWNT All-Time Best XI in 2013. In March 2017, she was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame. In 2018 she was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame.
In March 2016, Chastain announced that she would donate her brain after death for concussion research. On December 10, 2019, Chastain was inducted into the California Hall of Fame.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
“Traditionally, we have called July’s full Moon the “Full Buck Moon.” This name comes from our Native American and Colonial past when the Moon was used to track the seasons. Bucks are growing new antlers at this time.
July’s Full Moon was also known as the Thunder Moon, because thunderstorms are so frequent during this month.”
Question of the Day
Have you heard of anyone suing someone else because lightning struck his barn?
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Cockup
Puzzle of the Day
(Blank) before you (Blank). (What’s the saying? Fill in the blanks!)
1) Look 2) leap
Died
- Robert Burns (poet) –
- Alan Shepard, Jr. (astronaut) –
- Robert Young (actor, television’s iconic dad of Father Knows Best) –
- Jerry Goldsmith (composer who created the memorable music for scores of classic movies and television shows ranging from Star Trek and Planet of the Apes to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and Dr. Kildare) –
- Tony Bennett (singer) –
Born
- George Frederick Dick (American pathologist) –
- Hart Crane (poet) –
- Ernest Hemingway (author) –
- Isaac Stern (violinist) –
- Don Knotts (actor) –
- Robin Williams (actor) –
- Brandi Chastain (soccer player) –
- Josh Hartnett (actor) –
- David Carr (football player) –
Events
- Battle of Falkirk: England’s Edward Longshank defeated William Wallace’s Scottish rebels–
- Canada’s first public railway (Champlain and St. Lawrence) opened–
- The first major military engagement in the Civil War took place at Bull Run Creek, Virginia–
- Jesse James held up the Rock Island Express and escaped with $3,000. It was his first train robbery–
- John T. Scopes found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100–
- The world’s first nuclear-powered merchant vessel, the Savannah, launched–
- Captain Gus Grissom, piloting the Mercury 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, became the second American to go into space (sub-orbital flight)–
- In Jackson, Michigan, a factory robot crushed a worker against a safety bar in the first known robot-related death in the U.S.–
- Discovery of the subatomic particle tau-neutrino announced–
Weather
- The worst flooding in 20 years hit Mercer County, New Jersey, in 1975, when six inches of rain fell in ten hours. Railway service between New York City and Washington, D.C., was cut off for two days, and about 1,000 people were left homeless from the floods.–
- World-record cold temperature, -128.6 degrees F, recorded at Vostok Station, Antarctica (a new world record of -136 degrees F was set in 2010)–
- Macon, Georgia, had its 10th day above 100 degrees F–
- Columbia, South Carolina, had its 15th day above 100 degrees F–
- 301-foot-tall, 103-year-old Kinzua Viaduct (steel railroad bridge), McKean Co., Pennsylvania, destroyed by F1 tornado. When the structure was built in 1882, it was the highest railroad bridge in the world. It spanned 2,053 feet and weighed 3,105,000 pounds.–
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