Nov 21

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Nov 21, 2017 Week: 47 \ Day: 325
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 30°  
Average Sky Cover: 10% 
Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  15mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1950]   Record Low: -5°[1979]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day

A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
  Anne Bronte

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Observances Today
Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)

National Entrepreneurship Day  Link  
World Television Day


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Observances This Week
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 

00’s                                    
1787
Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
1789
North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1794
Honolulu Harbor discovered
1852
Duke University, founded in 1838 as Union Institute, chartered as Normal College
1865
Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1871
The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is fired
1877
Thomas Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph), the 1st machine to play and record sound
1902
The Canadian government appoints a commission to consider revising, classifying, and consolidating the many public statutes passed over the years
1905
1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
1906
China prohibits the opium trade
1918
The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth
1922
Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first female US Senator
1942
Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
1946
Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub
1946
"The Best Years of Our Lives", film directed by William Wyler, based on MacKinlay Kantor's novella Glory for Me, starring Myrna Loy and Fredric March, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1947)
1953
Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax
1959
Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1967
Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1973
US President Richard Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
1974
Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1976
"Rocky" directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)
1980
Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1989
TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
1992
Oregon Senator Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances
1999
Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, departs from Cuba with his mother

2013
The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys
2013
"Happy" single is released by Pharrell Williams (Billboard Song of the Year 2014, Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance 2015)
2016
India celebrates 50th anniversary of IR8, rice variety specially bred that saved much of Asia from famine

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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice fall day. Turkey breast thawing in refrigerator. Turkey day is just around the corner.

Only NPR made a much better start to the day than TV. So informative, so calm, some good human interest stories. Liking it a lot. I always listened to NPR as I got ready for the day, then moved to the computer and turned on the squawk box. No TV this morning, just NPR.

Posting the Alaskan Cruise information on Focus became for cumbersome than I anticipated. Awaiting a true word document to finish it. Hopefully tomorrow. It is a great cruise.

About a week ago I got a call from an unknown person and unknown number. They were calling me to tell me to call the government immediately since the government was issuing an arrest warrant from the IRS because I had not paid taxes. Haha. Checked the internet machine and it was a known scam number. Blocked the number. Got two more calls from different numbers with basically the same message. Blocked them too. Still waiting for the arrest. LOL.

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Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

90’s
@92- Stan Musial,
American MLB outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ), born in Donora, PA
(d. 2013)

80’s
@83- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet],
French writer, philosopher and playwright (Candide), born in Paris
(d. 1778)
@81- Henrietta (Hetty) Green,
American financier (Witch of Wall Street), born in New Bedford, Mass
(d. 1916)
80- Marlo Thomas, [Mrs Phil Donahue],
Detroit Mich (That Girl!, Jenny)

70’s
@77- Samuel Cunard,
founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
(d. 1865)
72- Goldie Hawn,
American actress (The First Wives Club, Private Benjamin), born in Washington, DC

60’s
@67- William Beaumont,
American surgeon and father of gastric physiology, born in Lebanon, CT
(d. 1853)

50’s
54- Nicollette Sheridan,
Worthing England, actress (Paige-Knots Landing)
52- Bjork,
Icelandic singer (Like Someone in Love), born in Reykjavik

40’s
46- Michael Strahan,
NFL defensive end (NY Giants)

30’s
32- Carly Rae Jepsen,
Canadian singer ("Call Me Maybe"), born in Mission, British Columbia

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Historical Obits Today

80’s
@85-2011 Anne McCaffrey,
sci-fi author
@81-1941 Henrietta Vinton Davis,
African-American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator and public speaker

70’s
@75-1981 Harry Von Zell,
TV announcer (Burns & Allen),
cancer
@73-1963 Robert Stroud,
American convict "Birdman of Alcatraz",
in prison

60’s
@64-1924 Florence Harding,
American First Lady,
renal failure

50’s
@50-1959 Max Baer,
American heavyweight boxing champion (1934-35),
heart attack

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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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