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Nov 15319, 2017 Week: 46 \ Day: 319
86004 Today: H 64° \ L 29°
Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind ave.: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1999] Record Low: 2°[1985]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure
the true value of any work of art.
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Observances Today
George Spelvin Day or More Than One Role Day
GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) Link
I Love to Write Day
National Bundt (Pan) Day
National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day
National Educational Support Professionals Day
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Observances This Week
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
13-17
American Education Week Link
13-19
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
00’s
1660 First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New Amsterdam (now New York City)
1720 Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and John Rackham are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to Spanish Town, Jamaica, for trial
1727 NY General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
1791 1st Catholic college in US, Georgetown, opens
1806 1st US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak in Colorado
1849 1st US poultry show opens in Boston
1854 In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1864 1st US mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, NY
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1884 European Colonization and trade in Africa is officially regulated at the international Berlin Conference, formalizing European powers "Scramble for Africa"
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1939 FDR lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C.
1939 US Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1959 Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capotebook In Cold Blood)
1961 UN bans nuclear arms
1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States
1969 Wendy's Hamburgers opens
1977 US President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 In Parliament Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, exposed as 4th man in Soviet spy ring. He was then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge
1979 A package from the Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing
1984 "Emergency" 16th studio album by American band Kool & the Gang is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1985)
1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
1990 US President George H. W. Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilli didn't sing on their album
2007 A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.
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My Rambling Thoughts
I have been posting the number of days we have gone without precipitation in our mountain town. The weatherman has been talking about it for 2 weeks. Then last night he gave us the records: 68 days with more than a dozen with more than 60 days. Suddenly, our 48 days seemed less significant. I just want some precipitation for the mountain forest.
Watching democracy in action is frustrating and boring. ‘I don’t recall.’ A yes/no question is always answered with a paragraph or two of caveats and seldom the words ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in the answer. As a student of linguistics, it can be fascinating to watch the questioner try to sound important and the answerer trying to sound even more important.
I was a low-level government employee in charge of 150-1200 students during my career. Whenever I met with anyone not working for me, I had a log book that had the date, who, and what they wanted. It became much easier with the computer. I just don’t buy the idea of a campaign chair meeting with a Russian and ‘not recalling’ the meeting. That’s what the log is for.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@98- Georgia O'Keeffe,
American sculptor/painter (Cow's Skull), born in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin
(d. 1986)
80’s
@88- Howard Baker,
(Sen-R-Tenn), presidential chief of staff
(d. 2014)
88- C. W. McCall [William Dale Fries, Jr.],
American country singer, born in Audubon, Iowa
88- Edward Asner,
American actor (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Lou Grant), born in Kansas City, Kansas
85- Petula Clark, Surrey England, rock vocalist (Downtown, My Love)
@83- William Herschel,
German-British astronomer (discovered Uranus), born in Hanover, Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire
(d. 1822)
@83- Gerhart Hauptmann,
German author (Before Dawn - Nobel 1912), born in Prussia
(d. 1946)
@82- Felix Frankfurter,
80th Supreme Court Justice (1939-62), born in Vienna, Austria
(d. 1965)
60’s
65- Jimmy Choo,
Malaysian fashion designer
50’s
@52- Erwin Rommel,
German Field Marshal (WWII - African campaign), born in Heidenheim, Württemberg, Germany
(d. 1944)
40’s
45- Jonny Lee Miller,
English actor (Trainspotting, Elementary), born in London
30’s
@37- Squanto,
helped Mayflower visitors; member of Wampanoag Confederation
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2016 Milt Okun,
American music producer and arranger (John Denver, Peter, Paul and Mary)
@92-1996 Alger Hiss,
former alleged spy/lawyer
70’s
@76-1978 Margaret Mead,
American anthropologist (Thoughts & Female),
pancreatic cancer
@76-1954 Lionel Barrymore, [Blythe],
American actor (Dr Kildare, Key Largo),
heart attack
50’s
@58-1630 Johannes Kepler,
German astronomer (planetary Motion),
short illness
@57-1998 Stokely Carmichael,
American civil rights activist,
prostate cancer
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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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