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Dec 7, 2017 Week: 49 \ Day: 341
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 16°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 7mph\Gusts: 18mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[1958] Record Low: -19°[1978]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne
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Observances Today
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
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Observances This Week
3-9: Clerc-Gallaudet Week
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week Link
( Always week with 12/9. Birthday of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.)
4-8: Cookie Exchange Week
International Coelenterate Biology Week Link
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
00’s
1696 Connecticut Route 108, one of the oldest highways in the U.S. is completed to Trumbull.
1732 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.
1783 Theatre Royal opens in Covent Garden, London
1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify the US constitution
1842 New York Philharmonic's 1st concert
1877 Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph (gramophone) to the editors of "Scientific American"
1900 Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body radiation.
1909 Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry
1912 Bust of Queen Nefertiti found in El-Amarna, Egypt
1934 Wiley Post discovers jet stream
1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people
1949 Chiang Kai-shek flees to Taiwan
1972 Apollo 17 (US), final manned lunar landing mission, launched, crew takes famous "blue marble" photo of the entire Earth
1981 Spain becomes a member of the NATO
1988 Mikhail Gorbachev cheered by Wall St crowds upon arrival in NYC
1995 Irish poet Seamus Heaney receives the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm
2015 Time Magazine readers name Bernie Sanders their 'person of the year'
2015 Beijing issues its 1st ever red alert for pollution
2015 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US
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My Rambling Thoughts
First Wednesday of the month…10% off grocery purchases! Yeah. Stocked up for the next month.
Chilly weather has arrived…especially in the morning. While we haven’t had any snow yet, sadly, this is far from the record. The record for the latest first snow is Dec. 31, 1950 with 4.4”. I wasn’t in Flag back then, but it sure is dry here right now.
I met one of my new neighbors in the unit next to me. Turns out there are 3 graduate student females sharing the place. She promised they will be quiet.
It is so difficult for me to understand what 45 is doing when he moves the American Embassy to Jerusalem. That area is Holy to Christians, Jews, and Muslims. Why stir the pot? So far, no other countries in the world are praising this move. Time will tell.
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Bizarre News
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California man who suspected his neighbor's dog of pooping in his driveway checked his home security camera and discovered the real culprit: an Amazon driver. Nemy Bautista of Sacramento said he found a large piece of fecal matter at the end of his driveway when he arrived home, so he checked his home security camera to see if it came from a neighbor's dog. Bautista said he was shocked when he reviewed the video and discovered a delivery service driver contracted by Amazon had squatted behind the door of their U-Haul van and dropped the deuce. Bautista said a delivery service supervisor visited his home to apologize. "He was in shock when we saw the size of 'it'" Bautista said. "He ended up scooping it up with a plastic bag, but didn't want to take it with him." An Amazon representative said the company contacted Bautista and the driver has been removed from their position as a delivery driver. Bautista was given an Amazon gift card for his troubles.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@98- Eli Wallach,
American actor (Magnificent 7, The Misfits, People Next Door),
born in Brooklyn
(d. 2014)
80’s
89- Noam Chomsky,
American linguist (founded transformational grammar), philosopher and political activist,
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
85- Ellen Burstyn,
American actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here),
born in Detroit
@81- Giovanni Bernini,
Italian baroque sculptor (St Teresa in Ecstasy), born in Naples, Italy
(d. 1680)
70’s
@73- Rod Cameron,
actor (City Detective, State Trooper),
born in Calgary, Alberta
(d. 1983)
60’s
@67- Louis Prima,
American musician (That Old Black Magic)
born in New Orleans
(d. 1978)
@62- Ted Knight,
American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort),
born in Terryville, Conn.
(d. 1986)
50’s
51- C Thomas Howell,
actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man),
born in Los Angeles, California
30’s
@36- Harry Chapin,
American rock vocalist (Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle), born in NYC, (d. 1981)
30- Aaron Carter,
American singer and actor
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@96-2011 Harry Morgan,
American actor (M*A*S*H)
80’s
@87-1970 Rube Goldberg,
US cartoonist (Mike & Ike, Pulitzer 1948)
@85-1947 Nicholas Murray Butler,
American philosopher, diplomat (Nobel Peace Prize 1931), educator (Columbia University President)
@80-2006 Jeane Kirkpatrick,
American ambassador
60’s
@69-2016 Greg Lake,
English rock vocalist and bassist (King Crimson, Emerson, Lake & Palmer),
cancer
@63-43 BC Cicero,
Roman statesman and philosopher,
killed as part of the proscriptions@63-1817 William Bligh,
British naval officer of "Bounty" fame
@62-1902 Thomas Nast,
US political cartoonist
@61-2010 Elizabeth Edwards,
American lawyer and wife of John Edwards,
breast cancer
50’s
@52-1990 Delecta "Dee" Clark,
US singer (Raindrops),
stroke
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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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