Meetings:  Sizzler, 371 East 400 South, SLC 11:45 – 1:00 pm, Meeting Room (Northwest corner of Restaurant.) Round Table Meetings, Same Time & Location except in the Atrium.

** Board meeting is the 1st Tuesday of every month at the Pagoda, 5^th East and 1^st North in Salt Lake City.   5:30 pm with dinner afterwards.
 

Summer Party, July 11^th

Our summer party will be this coming Saturday at Ed Rogers Ranch.  Details will be communicated shortly.   As a result we will not be having a Wednesday meeting.  A map to Ed’s Ranch is below. 

On July 8^th ….

1776 - The first public reading of the Declaration of Independence was given in Philadelphia, Pa.

1777 - Vermont became the first colony to abolish slavery.

1889 - The Wall Street Journal began publication.

1950 - General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief of the United Nations forces in Korea.

1958 - The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) awarded the first official gold album. It was for the Oklahoma soundtrack.

On July 11^th ….

1533 - Pope Clement VII excommunicated England's King Henry VIII.

1804 - Former vice president Aaron Burr fatally wounded former secretary of the treasury Alexander Hamilton in a duel. Hamilton died the following afternoon.

1864 - Confederate general Jubal A. Early and his troops attacked Washington, DC. They retreated the next day, ending the Confederate threat to occupy the capital.

1914 - Babe Ruth made his major league baseball debut as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.

1977 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his work to advance civil rights.

1989 - Actor Laurence Olivier died.