Five Things You Should Know Today: July 18

Hot enough for you? It's going to get hotter.

Posted Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 1:35 am CT|Updated Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 6:42 pm CT

More of the same: The National Weather Service is predicting a high today near 93, with partly sunny skies, and a heat index approaching 112. Light winds from the south won’t cool things off much. Want some ideas on how to beat the heat? Check out .
Looking for something cool to do? Head for the for and watch “Deep Sea 3D.” The show starts at 6:30 p.m. If you buy an adult ticket, a child’s ticket is free – and Subway and Sam’s Club will be serving free sub sandwiches and Pepsi beginning at 5:30 p.m.
On this day in 1962, in a game against Cleveland at Metropolitan Stadium, Harmon Killebrew and Bob Allison each hit a grand-slam home run in the same inning, leading the Minnesota Twins to a 14-3 win.
On this day in 1984, Minnesotan Walter Mondale won the Democratic presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco. Mondale would go on to lose in a landslide to Republican Ronald Reagan, but his homies were loyal: The only electoral votes that Mondale got were from Minnesota and the District of Columbia.
This is only too appropriate: Today is . It’s also National Caviar Day. Pick one or both, but don’t eat them together, probably.

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