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Nov 8, 2017 Week: 45 \ Day: 312
86004 Today: H 55° \ L 29°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave.: 5mph\Gusts: 20mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 74°[1973] Record Low: 8°[1918]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will
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Observances Today
Abet and Aid Punsters Day
Intersex Day of Remembrance Link
National Parents As Teachers Day
National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day Link
X-ray Day
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Observances This Week
5-11
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link
National Radiologic Technology Week Link
6-10
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link
National Young Reader's Week Link
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week
8-11
International Dyslexia Reading, Literacy Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
300’s
◘ 392 Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion
1500’s
◘1519 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortésin Tenochtitlan, Mexico
1600’s
◘1602 The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened
1700’s
1731 In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st library in the north American colonies
1789 Bourbon Whiskey 1st distilled from corn by Elijah Craig in Bourbon, Kentucky
1800’s
◘1861 USS San Jacinto commanded by Charles Wilkes captures two Confederate diplomats from the British mail steamer Trent, almost causing a war between the US and the UK
◘1880 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater
1889 Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union
◘1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
1900’s
◘1917 People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin during October Revolution
1933 FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1935 "Mutiny on the Bounty" directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gablepremieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
◘1942 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1949 "All The King's Men" based on Robert Penn Warren's Pulitzer winning novel, directed by Robert Rossen and starring Broderick Crawford premieres in New York (Best Picture 1950)
◘1950 A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history
1960 JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
◘1990 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian Gulf
1991 Carol Burnett Show premieres on CBS-TV
◘1992 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin
2000’s
◘2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences"
◘2014 Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
◘2014 Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War
◘2016 Indian government scraps 500 and 1000 rupee notes, the largest two denominations in battle against corruption
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy, windy fall day. Did my shopping early before wind got too strong.
For the decades I worked, I had to send home the Daylight time begins/ends every year. While AZ doesn’t change, the Rez did. Now that I’ve been retired for over a decade, the time change meant nothing to me. And to be honest, I like it. It’s nice not to deal with the changes…except for cable TV. While our local affiliates stay the same year-round, the cable stations are usually out of CA; the changes in CA don’t affect CA people, but they do affect AZ watchers. Not a big deal, but have to change my not-so-busy schedule to watch certain shows. Life is just tough.
OK, so we don’t seem to able to make tougher gun laws…thanks NRA…for nothing. Now it is coming out that many current laws are not being followed. Here’s an idea: let’s enforce every gun law. And if an entity doesn’t enforce the law, they get a $5K fine for every day they don’t follow the law. The USAF would certainly have a hefty fine for their inaction, but so would thousands of others. The law against domestic violence perps from buying guns is a good one. If someone sells them a gun, the seller pays the fine. Any state not using the National Database for gun purchases pays the fine. Stop making guns so easily available for those with bad intent.
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Bizarre News
*--- Florida Woman Charged with DUI On Horse ---*
A 53-year-old woman riding a horse down a busy Florida highway has been arrested and charged with driving drunk. Sheriff's officials said in a news release that someone called 911 about a woman, who appeared confused and possibly in danger. When deputies arrived, they found Donna Byrne riding her horse in the road. Officers did a sobriety test and said she gave breath samples that registered blood alcohol level of .161. Byrne is charged with DUI and animal neglect for endangering and failing to provide proper protection for the horse.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
100’s
@101- Peter Mondavi,
Napa Valley winemaker (Charles Krug), born in Virginia, Minnesota
(d. 2016)
80’s
@85- Edmond Halley,
English mathematician and astronomer (Halley's comet), born in Haggerston, Middlesex
(d. 1742) [OS 29 Oct]
@85- Patti Page [Clara Ann Fowler],
American singer (Tennessee Waltz), born in Claremore, Oklahoma
(d. 2013)
@84- Morley Safer,
Canadian American TV newscaster (60 Minutes), born in Toronto, Canada
(d. 2016)
@83- Dorothy Day,
American journalist, social activist and devout Catholic convert, born in Brooklyn,
(d. 1980)
@81- Jack Kilby,
American electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator, integrated circuit), born in Jefferson City, Missouri
(d. 2005)
70’s
@78- Esther Rolle,
American actress (Good Times, Maude), born in Pompano Beach Florida
(d. 1998)
@78- Christiaan Barnard,
South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant)
(d. 2001)
60’s
68- Bonnie Raitt,
country singer (Green Light, The Glow), born in Burbank, CA
67- Mary Hart,
Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
@64- Bram Stoker,
Irish theater manager and author (Dracula), born in Dublin, Ireland
(d. 1912)
50’s
56- Leif Garrett,
singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road), born in Hollywood
51- Gordon Ramsay,
British chef and reality television personality
40’s
@49- Joe Flynn,
actor (McHale's Navy),
born in Youngstown, Ohio
(d. 1974)
@48- Margaret Mitchell,
author (Gone With the Wind), born in Atlanta,
(d. 1949)
44- David Muir, News Anchor
@mid-40’s- Vlad III the Impaler,
Wallachian prince, born in Sighișoara, Transylvania, Romania
(d. 1476)
Teen’s
19-Peter van Pels,
associated with Anne Frank
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@96-1986 Vyacheslav Molotov [Skryabin],
Russian politician (Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1939-49, 1953-6)
80’s
@84-2011 Bil Keane,
American cartoonist (Family Circus)
@84-1978 Norman Rockwell,
artist (Saturday Evening Post covers)
@80-1960 Otto Frederick Rohwedder,
American engineer (invented the bread-slicing machine)
60’s
@69-1959 Frank Sherman Land,
founder of DeMolay International
@65-1674 John Milton,
English poet (Paradise Lost),
kidney failure
@61-1860 Charles Fellows,
English Archaeologist who discovered ruins of the cities of ancient Lycia and brought to Lycian marbles to England
30’s
@36-1887 John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday,
American gambler and gunfighter,
TB
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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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