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Nov 2, 2017 Week: 44 \ Day: 306
86004 Today: H 61° \ L 35°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 8mph\Gusts: 22mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1977] Record Low: 10°[1956]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Ansel Adams
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Observances Today
Cookie Monster Birthday Link Link
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists Link
National Men Make Dinner Day (Must Cook. No BBQ Allowed! ) :) Link
National Traffic Professionals Day
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Observances This Week
1-7
National Fig Week
National Patient Accessibility Week
World Communication Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
00’s
◘1698 Scottish settlers make landfall in Panama, establishing the ill-fated 'Darien Venture' colony
1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
1889 North Dakota becomes 39th & South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States
1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
◘1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
◘1924 Sunday Express publishes first British crossword puzzle
◘1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethiopian Solomonic Dynasty
◘1936 First high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London
◘1936 The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
◘1944 Auschwitz begins gassing inmates
1947 Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose", a huge wooden airplane for the first and last time
1948 US President Harry Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas E. Dewey
1950 The Clover Dairy Company test-market the first concentrated milk (Sealtest) in the U.S. in Wilmington, Delaware
◘1953 Pakistan becomes Islamic republic
1957 1st titanium mill opened, Toronto, Ohio
1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history
1959 Charles Van Doren confesses that TV quiz show "21" was fixed
1960 Penguin Books cleared of obscenity for publishing DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover"
◘1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US
◘1968 A banned march in Derry, North Ireland, by members of the Derry Citizen's Action Committee (DCAC) is joined by thousands; due to the number of people taking part, the Royal Ulster Constabulary is unable to prevent it
1976 Jimmy Carter (D) defeats Gerald Ford (R) for US President1983 US President Ronald Reagan signs bill establishing Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday
1988 Computers virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab & 6 universities
1988 The Morris worm, first internet-distributed computer worm to gain mainstream media attention launched from MIT
1993 Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey
1993 Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965
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My Rambling Thoughts
Got my shopping done and saved my 10% for being old…1st Wed. of each month. Nice.
Dentist visit was a success…sort of. The dentist and his assistant were great. Simple Laser filling, no shot, no pain. Then the front office staff…new lady doesn’t know anything. Other lady has been there about 9 months. She knows tad more. Two days ago the bill was to be about $125 as it was a difficult to get to cavity. When I was ready to pay it was $45. I let her know how much I hated their billing. She checked, as the magic computer didn’t like anything they put in. Turns out, the lady there years ago ‘coded’ me wrong…and neither of them knows how to undo it. Totally incompetent. I paid the $45 and left. Still expecting a bill next month to continue the process.
Can’t understand this: After the gun violence in Las Vegas the WH and many others said it was too soon to talk about it the day after the massacre. Today 45 is talking long and loud about the massacre in NYC. Is it because of guns v vehicles? White American v Person of Color? Or something else?
And about more ‘extreme vetting’, the guy in NYC has been hear over a decade and was ‘radicalized’ during his time here. How will extrem-er vetting help that?
Happy to see that the Navajo Nation Council has stopped, again, the building of a gondola to the bottom of the Grand Canyon. It would have been disastrous to the eco-system.
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Bizarre News
Woman Celebrates 94th Birthday Skydiving --*
A great-grandmother in Pennsylvania celebrated her 94th birthday by crossing skydiving off of her bucket list. Eila Campbell of Williamsport decided to take the 10,000-foot plunge because she might not "make it for another year." Campbell was joined by her granddaughter, Sara Schuelke, and great-granddaughter Jess Fox for the dive over Hazleton. "This was her bucket list and there was no way I was missing the most incredible matriarch jumping for one of the greatest families," Schuelke said. "I wasn't going to miss it." Campbell was thrilled by the experience and said said it won't be her last time skydiving. "The free fall is kind of a 'wow.' The wind is so terrific. It was great and I loved it. I'll do it again," she said.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@86- Ray Walston,
actor (My Favorite Martian, Damn Yankees), born in New Orleans,
(d. 2001)
@85- Daniel Boone,
American frontiersman and explorer (US Hall of Fame 1915), born in Reading, Pennsylvania
(d. 1820)
@80- Burt Lancaster,
American actor (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry), born in NYC,
(d. 1994)
70’s
79- Aga Khan III,
Shia Imam who was one of the founders of the All-India Muslim League and later President of the League of Nations (1937-38), born in Karachi, British India
(d. 1957)
75- Stefanie Powers,
actress (Girl From UNCLE, Hart to Hart), born in Hollywood
60’s
65- Larry Fink [Laurence Douglas Fink],
American chairman and CEO of BlackRock, born in Los Angeles
50’s
@57- Warren G. Harding,
29th US President (1921-23), born in Blooming Grove, Ohio
(d. 1923)
56- K.D. Lang [Kathy Dawn],
Canadian country singer, born in Consort, Alberta
53- James Knox Polk,
11th US President (Democrat: 1845-49), born in Pineville, North Carolina
(d. 1849)
50- Scott Walker,
US politician (Governor of Wisconsin 2011-), born in Colorado Springs, Colorado
40’s
43- Nelly [Cornell Haynes Jr.],
American rapper, born in Austin, Texas
30’s
@37- Marie Antoinette,
Queen of France (1774-92) who allegedly uttered the phrase "let them eat cake", born in Vienna, Austria
(d. 1793)
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Historical Obits Today
0’s
@73-1941 Simon Guggenheim,
American businessman and philanthropist
@94-1950 George Bernard Shaw,
Irish author (Pygmalion)
@66-1961 James Thurber,
humorist (The Male Animal),
complications of blood clot
@62-1963 Ngô Đình Diệm,
President and authoritarian leader of South Vietnam (1954-63),
assassinated in a coup
@66-1986 Paul Frees [Solomon Hersh Frees],
American voice actor (voice of Boris Badenov in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show),
heart failure
@81-1994 Noah Beery Jr,
American actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot, Gung Ho!, Heaven With a Gun)
@75-1996 Toni Stone,
first woman to play professional baseball in a men's league
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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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