Nov 19

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Nov 19, 2017 Week: 47 \ Day: 323
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 21°  
Average Sky Cover: 0% 
Wind ave.:   m10ph\Gusts:  22mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 69°[1949]   Record Low: -6°[1985]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
  Franz Kafka

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Observances Today
American Made Matters Day  Link
Crystal Skull World Day Link 

Do Dah Day (Pasadena) Link (Note: Many towns have one. Pasadena originiated it.)
Equal Opportunity Day (aka Gettysburg Address Day)  Link
International Men's Day Link
Mother Goose Day  Link 
Rocky and Bullwinkle Day
Women's Entrepreneurship Day Link
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims Link 
World Philosophy Day
World Toilet Day Link


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Observances This Week
11-20
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link  


13-19
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link  


17-26
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link


19-25
Better Conversation Week
Church/State Separation Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
International Restorative Justice Week Link  
National Family Week


19-23
National Farm-City Week

19-26
National Bible Week: 19-26 
National Game & Puzzle Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
                                           
1644
First protestant ministry society in New England
1794
Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1816
Warsaw University is established.
1850
Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1861
The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts
1863
US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."
1872
E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first 'calculator', an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals
1873
William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed", of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1879
National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1893
1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1895
American inventor Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
1903
Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1911
NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1916
Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
1919
US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
1933
Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1944
World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1953
US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1955
National Review publishes its first issue.
1959
"Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
1959
Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model
1962
Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1965
Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1969
Apollo 12's Charles Conrad & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon
1975
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" based on book by Ken Kesey, directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1976)
1976
Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1980
CBS TV bans Calvin Klein jean ad featuring Brooke Shields

1984
Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1990
Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning "Girl You Know Its True" album
1998
Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sells at auction for $71.5 million
1998
Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.


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My Rambling Thoughts

Small towns do a great job of craft fairs during the holiday season…and a little before. Spent some time at two today. Found some great homemade peanut brittle and some almond bark. A few other things for Christmas gifts. And the admission fee helps charities.

The craft sale got me excited about the holidays. So, the only news I’m watching today and tomorrow is the Sunday morning news shows. Don’t need anything to ruin the mood.

Fall weather is here to stay a while. Cold overnight. Furnace kept coming on several times this morning, and the wind makes it feel much colder than it really is…by about 10°.

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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

90’s
@96- Alan Young,
British actor (Wilbur Post in Mr.s Ed), born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear
(d. 2016)

80’s
84- Larry King,
American radio/TV host "143 Arivadechi" (Larry King Show, CNN), born in NYC, New York
81- Dick Cavett,
Kearney Neb, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
@80- Hiram Bingham,
American archaeologist who re-discovered the Incan site of Machu Picchu, born in Honolulu, Hawaii
(d. 1956)

70’s
79- Ted Turner,
American founder of CNN, owner of the Atlanta Braves and winner of the America's Cup in 1977, born in Cincinnati
75- Calvin Klein,
American fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), born in The Bronx
@74- Dan Haggerty,
actor (Grizzly Adams), born in Hollywood
(d. 2016)
@70- Gene Tierney,
American actress (Laura, Ghost & Mrs Muir), born in Brooklyn,
(d. 1991)

60’s
@66- Indira Gandhi,
4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), born in Allahabad India
(d. 1984)

50’s
58- Allison Janney,
American actress
56- Meg Ryan,
American actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns), born in Fairfield, Connecticut
55- Jodie Foster,
American actress (The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs), born in Los Angeles
@51- Tommy Dorsey,
Mahanoy Plane Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
(d. 1956)

40’s
@49- James A. Garfield,
20th US President (Republican: 1881), born in Moreland Hills, Ohio
(d. 1881)
@48- Charles I,
King of England (1625-49) who was executed by Parliament, born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
(d. 1649)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s
@83-2014 Mike Nichols [Mikhail Peschkowsky],
German-American film director (Catch 22, The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)

60’s
@60±-1703 Man in the Iron Mask,
prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris

30’s
@38-1887 Emma Lazarus,
US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"),
lymphoma
@36-1915 Joe Hill,
Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
@31-1828 Franz Schubert,
Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin),
typhoid fever

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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