Lookin' for patterns. Might be cherry-picking. Maybe not.
Officer Miosotis Familia, Jul 5 2017
Deputy Chief Steve Silks, Jun 5 2019
Detective Joe Calabrese, Jun 6 2019
Officer Mike Caddy, Jun 14 2019
Officer (?) Kevin Preiss, Jun 26 2019 (yesterday)
TWA 800 departs JFK in Queens, 17 July 1996
SR 111 departs JFK in Queens, 2 September 1998
linux command line:date --date='Jul 5 2017' +%wdate --date='Jun 5 2019' +%wdate --date='Jun 6 2019' +%wdate --date='Jun 14 2019' +%wdate --date='Jun 26 2019' +%wdate --date='17 July 1996' +%wdate --date='2 September 1998' +%w
3
3
4
5
3
3
3
(dow 3 is Wednesday) 5/ 7 hit rate. Could be coincidence.
Oh and there's this: echo $(( ($(date --date="19980902" +%s) - $(date --date="19960717" +%s) )/(606024) ))
777