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Nov 12, 2017 Week: 46 \ Day: 316
86004 Today: H 62° \ L 29° 44 days without precip.
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave.: 7mph\Gusts: 18mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1967] Record Low: 3°[1898]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
David Icke
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Observances Today
Baha'u'llah Day
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day Link
World Pneumonia Day
International Day of Prayer for The Persecuted Church Link
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Observances This Week
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week
10-12
11-20
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link
12-18
Geography Awareness Week Link
International Fraud Awareness Week Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
World Kindness Week: 12-18 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1400’s
◘1439 Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament.
1500’s
◘1555 The English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism.
1700’s
1775 General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1799 Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys
1800’s
1833 The great Leonid Meteor shower was recorded
◘1894 Lawrence Hargrave, Australian aeronautical pioneer and inventor of the box kite, linked four huge box kites together and flew - but remained attached to the ground by piano wire
1900’s
◘1900 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors - Art Nouveau style dominates
1910 1st possible movie stunt: man jumps into the Hudson river from a burning balloon
◘1912 British explorer Robert Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica
1926 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
◘1933 First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken
◘1935 Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill
◘1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
◘1942 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands (WWII)
◘1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)
1946 Walt Disney's "Song Of South" released
◘1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1953 US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed
◘1956 Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted
1968 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools
◘1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
◘1970 Cyclone Bhola makes landfall in East Pakistan (Bangladesh)killing up to 500,000 - deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded
◘1974 South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies
1979 US President Carter announces a halt to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets
1980 NYC Mayor Ed Koch admits to trying marijuana
1984 Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1990 Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web
1998 Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
2000’s
◘2014 European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
2015 Out Magazine names Barack Obama 'Ally of the Year', Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine
2016 Jackie Chan awarded honorary Oscar for his film achievements at 8th Annual Governors Awards ceremony
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My Rambling Thoughts
Family US Flag in the window to honor Vets.
Finished my readings and caught up on the Saudi Arabia news. Turns out, they too have sect problems with several Muslim groups. To add to that, when the West divided up tribes to make ‘countries’ they goofed, as always. Few tribal leaders will give up power or beliefs. It is a bigger mess than I realized.
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Bizarre News
*----------- The Dangers of Alcohol -----------*
Casey Lynn Willey, 27, was being removed from the Gainesville, Florida, nightclub by a bouncer when she allegedly struck him with the case of beer. Willey was being removed from the club because she refused to leave after the country music nightclub had closed after 3 a.m. Authorities handcuffed her, but she tried to escape while police conducted an investigation. She also refused to give her name or date of birth, and was violent toward officers. Willey eventually gave authorities the information they needed before aggressively stepping toward an officer. The bouncer did not wish to press charges. Willey was arrested, charged with disorderly conduct (and abuse of alcohol). Fortunately there were no injuries because she hit the bouncer with...wait for it...Lite beer!
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@86- Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
American women's rights activist, born in Johnstown, New York (d. 1902)
@85- Joseph Coors,
CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery)
(d. 2003)
83- Charles Manson,
American criminal (Tate-Labianco), born in Cincinnati
70’s
@77- Auguste Rodin,
French sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), born in Paris, France
(d. 1917)
74- Brian Hyland,
rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini), born in Queens, NY
73- Al Michaels,
American sportscaster (Miracle on Ice, American Football), born in Brooklyn
72- Neil Young,
Canadian singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), born in Toronto
60’s
@66- Jeanne Mance,
French-Canadian settler who founded the first hospital in North America, born in Langres, France
(d. 1673)
50’s
@58- Sun Yat-sen,
Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China, born in Xiangshan [now Zhongshan], Guangdong, Qing Dynasty
(d. 1925)
56- Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe],
Romania, gymnist (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976)
@52- Grace Kelly,
American actress (Rear Window) and Princess of Monaco, born in Philadelphia,
(d. 1982)
52- David Schwimmer,
actor (Ross-Friends), born in Queens, New York
40’s
49- Sammy Sosa,
Dominican baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs), born in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic
47- Tonya Harding,
figure skater (Oly-8th-1994/US Champ 1994), born in Portland, Oregon
30’s
37- Ryan Gosling,
Canadian actor (The Notebook, Drive), born in London, Ontario
35- Anne Hathaway,
American actress (Les Misérables, The Dark Knight Rise, The Princess Diaries), born in NYC
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2003 Penny Singleton,
American actress (Blondie) and voice actress (Jane-Jetsons)
80’s
@82-1990 Eve Arden,
American actress (Our Miss Brooks)
60’s
@63-1981 William Holden,
American actor (Network, The Wild Bunch, Breezy),
slips on a rug and bleeds to death
@61-1916 Percival Lowell,
American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) and founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona,
stroke
20’s
@27-2003 Jonathan Brandis,
American actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV),
commits suicide
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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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