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Dec 1, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 336
86004 Today: H 57° \ L 35°
Average Sky Cover: overcast AGAIN!
Wind ave.: 4mph\Gusts: 9mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 63°[1926] Record Low: -7°[1905]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Observances Today
Antartica Day
Basketball Day
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Civil Air Patrol Day
Clark Kent's Birthday(Superman) Link
Day With(out) Art Day
Faux Fur Friday
Mawlid Al Nabi (Prophet Mohammad B-day)
National Salesperson Day
Rosa Parks Day
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Observances This Week
1-7: Cookie Cutter Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
1641 Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1700’s
1750 First school in America to offer manual training courses opens in Maryland
1800’s
1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
1878 1st White House telephone installed
1884 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"
1887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"
1900’s
1903 "The Great Train Robbery", the 1st Western film, released
1909 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa
1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)
1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
1929 Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe
1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
1941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
1953 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold
1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama
1958 Our Lady of Angels School fire kills 92 students & 3 nuns in Chicago, Illinois
1959 The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
1965 South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white
1968 "Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
1973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year
1975 US President Gerald Ford visits People's Republic of China
1978 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
1982 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
1982 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
1990 British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
2000’s
2016 French President Francois Hollande announces he will not seek a 2nd term - 1st modern French leader not to do so
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My Rambling Thoughts
I keep reusable bags on the back seat of my vehicle so I will always have them when I go shopping. When buying a week’s groceries, I usually take in 4 bags. I always buy 4 containers of Fresh Juice (not from Concentrate) along with other needed items. The baggers seem to have a problem. They will almost always put the four juices in one bag, and everything else in the others. If I buy a bag of chips, they always to in a bag by themselves. I started my ‘grocery career’ as a bagger. This is not how it is done. Bags should be as close as possible to be equal in weight, with things like chips on the top of any bag. I figured I was being smart today by putting the reusable bags first, then one juice. Then some other stuff, then another juice…etc. Didn’t work, the cashier was the bagger so nothing got bagged until it was all charged. She put 3 juice bottles in one bag, and then filled the other bags. Because of her poor packing, I ended up with two plastic bags as she said ‘so they don’t weigh too much’. Really, on what planet. I give up.
After listening to some Navajo leaders and other indigenous leaders I feel a little less angry about 45’s comments while with the Navajo Code Talkers. The leaders basically see it as another of thousands of stupid comments made all the time. Their comments reminded me of my early days with the BIA. Student’s with perfect attendance go a free movie on Friday afternoon. Most of the movies were the popular westerns. After a few months, I couldn’t figure out why the young kids always cheered for the Cowboys and booed the Indians. I finally asked several 3rd-grade students. They all had the same answer, ‘Because the Cowboys always win’. I then asked but ‘why boo the Indians, since you are an Indian? I was informed ‘I’m not an Indian, I’m a Navajo’. Lesson learned.
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Bizarre News
*----- Sounds Like Sexual Harassment To Me -----*
Las Vegas police are searching for a man who punched another man for groping him on the Strip. About 1:40 a.m. a patrol officer heard shouting near Harmon Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South, then saw one man punch another before fleeing. The officer chased the attacker but lost track of him near Planet Hollywood Resort. Witnesses at the scene told police the man who was punched grabbed the puncher's rear end. When the man asked him to stop, he did it again and the man punched him. The man who was punched was briefly unconscious and was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Sounds like he got off lucky. If he were in the entertainment industry or politics he would have lost his job and would be checking into a sex rehab facility in Europe somewhere by now.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@88- Marie Tussaud,
French founder of Madame Tussaud's wax museum,
born in Strasbourg
(d. 1850)
@88- Rex Stout,
American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels),
born in Noblesville, Indiana
(d. 1975)
82- Woody Allen, [Allen Konigsberg],
director and actor (Zelig, Annie Hall),
born in Brooklyn, New York
@81- Billy Paul [Paul Williams],
American singer (Me & Mrs Jones), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(d. 2016)
70’s
@76- Mary Martin,
American actress (Peter Pan) and Larry Hagman's mom,
born in Weatherford, Texas
(d. 1990)
@72- Lou Rawls,
American vocalist (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man),
born in Chicago, Illinois
(d. 2006)
72- Bette Midler,
American actress and singer (Beaches, Wind Beneath my Wings),
born in Honolulu, Hawaii
60’s
@67- David Doyle,
American actor (Charlie's Angels, Rugrats), born in Omaha,
(d. 1997)
66- Treat Williams,
actor (Flashpoint, Hair)
@65- Richard Pryor,
American comedian and actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy),
born in Pecoria, Illinois
(d. 2005)
63- Bob Goen,
TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Entertainment Tonight)
40’s
47- Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian
@44- Pablo Escobar,
Colombian drug lord, born in Rionegro, Colombia
(d. 1993)
30’s
@35- Louis Slotin,
Canadian Physicist and Chemist (Manhattan Project, Los Alamos) who assembled the plutonium core for 'Trinity', the first detonated atomic device
(d.1946)
20’s
@21-1976 Matthew Shepard,
American murder victim
(d. 1998)
Pre-teen’s
@9 Lungtok Gyatso,
9th Dalai Lama, born near Dan Chokhor Monastery
(d. 1815)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@87-1973 David Ben-Gurion,
founding father of Israel
70’s
@76-1866 George Everest,
Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790)
50’s
@57-1987 Donn Fulton Eisele,
Col USAF/astronaut, heart attack
@57-1955 Victor Daniels [Chief Thundercloud],
Character actor (The Lone Ranger, Colt .45), stomach cancer Note: there is no verification that he was Native American and he claimed to have played for UofAZ in football but there is not record he ever attended.
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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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