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July 30th, 2023 
Awake Goy Here are her notes on Sunday, July 30…
7/30 (Sunday)
Julian 7/17 [the Calendar Emoji 
shows 17 July]
Southern δ-Aquariid meteor shower (In-The-Sky) [It peaks on Sunday]
α-Capricornid meteor shower (In-The-Sky.org) [It peaks on Sunday too, so watch for Artemis Rodfall]
Navy Day (Russia) (Wikipedia), is national holiday in the Russian Federation and a senior holiday in the Russian Armed Forces, in connection with the Battle of Gangut (Wikipedia) between the Swedish Navy and Imperial Russian Navy. It was the first important victory of the Russian fleet in its history. Celebrated: on the last Sunday of July
• Death of Bismarck (Wikipedia, History Today), Otto von Bismarck was the first chancellor of Germany with the creation of the North German Confederation and later the German Empire. Date: 30 July 1898, 125 years ago (5x5x5)
• Black Tom explosion (Wikipedia) was an act of sabotage by agents of the German Empire (state-sponsored terrorism), to destroy U.S.-made munitions that were to be supplied to the Allies in World War I. This incident, which happened prior to U.S. entry into World War I, also damaged the Statue of Liberty. It was one of the largest artificial non-nuclear explosions in history. Date: 30 July 1916, 107 years ago
• Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri (Wikipedia, Defens
• Jerusalem Law (Wikipedia), is a common name of Basic Law: Jerusalem, Capital of Israel passed by the Knesset on 30 July 1980. Although the law did not use the term, the Israeli Supreme Court interpreted the law as an effective annexation of East Jerusalem. The United Nations Security Council condemned the attempted change in status to Jerusalem and ruled the law “null and void” in United Nations Security Council Resolution 478.
• Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism (CNN). Date: 22 May 2017, 6 years, 69 days or 6 years, 9 weeks, 6 days ago
• Pope Francis prayed at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, visited the Dome of the Rock (CBS News, vatican.va). Date: 26 May 2014, 9 years, 66 days ago (inclusive) or on 7/31.
Julian calendar:
• The Battle of Nahrawan (Wikipedia) was fought between the army of Caliph Ali and the rebel group Kharijites on 17 July 658 CE (Julian). Ali was assassinated by a Kharijite in January 661, [about the Assassination of Ali your blog: 9 April 2023].
Ismail I (Wikipedia), also known as Shah Ismail, was the founder of the Safavid dynasty of Iran, ruling as its King of Kings… His reign is often considered the beginning of modern Iranian history, as well as one of the gunpowder empires… During Ismail’s reign, the first steps for the Habsburg–Persian alliance were set as well, with Charles V and Ludwig II of Hungary being in contact with a view to combining against the common Ottoman Turkish enemy. He was born on 17 July 1487 (Julian).
After sunset 
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Islamic calendar: 13 Muharram [converter]
Jewish calendar: 13 Av
• 1963 demonstrations in Iran (Wikipedia), the 15 Khordad uprising, were protests in Iran against the arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after his denouncement of Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Israel. Protests were crushed -> religious opposition-> Fifteen years later, Khomeini was to lead the Iranian Revolution which overthrew the Shah and the Pahlavi dynasty and established the Islamic Republic of Iran. Date: 5 and 6 June 1963 = Muharram 12 or 13 1383 AH [62 Islamic years ago] -> on its 17th Islamic anniversary Ruhollah Khomeini (Wikipedia) became the 1st Supreme Leader of Iran on 3 December 1979 = Muharram 13 1400 AH, 45 Islamic years ago.
• The Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca (Wikipedia) was a peace treaty between the Russian Empire and the Ottoman Empire, ending the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–74 with many concessions to Russia. Signed: 21 July 1774, in Küçük Kaynarca (today Kaynardzha, Bulgaria) = 13 Av, 249 Jewish years ago
Here are her notes on Monday, July 31…
Ezekiel 1-1 (NLT)
On July 31 of my thirtieth year, while I was with the Judean exiles beside the Kebar River in Babylon, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
• The Feast of St. Ignatius Loyola (Jesuits), he died on this day [the Julian calendar] in the year 1556, it’s the 467th anniversary of his death. [467 is the 91st prime, this is the “McCarthy 91 function” I started watching.]
• The Great North American Solar Eclipse of 2024 countdown [They are counting down: Countdown is on, Fox Weather]. Date: 8 April 2024, 8 months 8 days away on this day.
• US Vice President Mike Pence visited the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City, he also made a historic speech at the Knesset (abc NEWS). It was his first trip to the Middle East.
Date: 23 January 2018, 2016 days or 66 months 9 days ago (inclusive) or on 8/1.
• Killing of Ayman al-Zawahiri (Wikipedia, Defens
After sunset ~ 1 August
Jewish calendar: 14 Av
• 2020 Beirut explosion (Wikipedia), a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. Date: Tuesday, 4 August 2020 = 14 Av = Chinese 6th Month 15 (*)
This event occurred on Obama’s birthday but also on this day on the Jewish calendar ->
2014 Turkish presidential election (Wikipedia) Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was elected outright with an absolute majority of the vote in the first round on 10 August 2014 = 14 Av, 9 Jewish years ago.
*[Just my observation: On the Chinese calendar it was 6th Month 15 -> Xi Jinping was born 6/15 Gregorian. On the Islamic calendar Dhuʻl-Hijjah 14 (12/14) -> Ebrahim Raisi was born 12/14 Gregorian. I feel it works like this but I need more observations.]
technical note: Chinese calendar (Wikipedia) “Day (日; rì), from one midnight to the next” -> in 2023 Chinese 6th Month 15 = 1 August.
more 7/31 (Monday)
Julian calendar: 18 July
• Nero’s Rome burns (HISTORY, Great Fire of Rome – Wikipedia). The great fire of Rome breaks out and destroys much of the city beginning on July 18 in the year 64 [= 15 Av (Convert a date)]. Despite the well-known stories, there is no evidence that the Roman emperor, Nero, either started the fire or played the fiddle while it burned. Still, he did use the disaster to further his political agenda.
Hitler’s Decree Concerning Demolitions in the Reich Territory has subsequently become known as the Nero Decree (Wikipedia), after the Roman Emperor Nero, who, according to an apocryphal story, engineered the Great Fire of Rome.
Roman festivals (Wikipedia) -> list of festivals by month, Quintilis 18: a dies ater (“black day,” meaning a day of ill omen) marking the defeat of the Romans by the Gauls at the Battle of the Allia in 390 BC, leading to the sack of Rome by the Gauls.
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