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Dec 8, 2017 Week: 49 \ Day: 343
86004 Today: H 34° \ L 13°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave.: 16mph\Gusts: 36mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1976] Record Low: -23°[1978]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
The most worth-while thing is to try
to put happiness into the lives of others.
Robert Baden-Powell
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Observances Today
Bodhi Day Link
Official Lost & Found Day
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler 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
1600’s
1609 Biblioteca Ambrosiana opens its reading room, the second public library of Europe.
1659 Mexican border town Ciudad Juárez is founded by Fray García de San Francisco.
1800’s
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
1863 Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South
1876 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1900’s
1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on US Supreme Court
1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in SF
1915 John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously in "Punch" magazine
1936 NAACP files suit to equalize salaries of black & white teachers
1941 President Roosevelt delivers "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
1952 1st TV acknowledgment of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations in New York
1956 16th Olympic games close at Melbourne, Australia
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in NYC
1963 Frank Sinatra Jr is kidnapped
1978 "The Deer Hunter", directed by Michael Cimino and starring Robert De Niro, Christopher Walkenand Meryl Streep, premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1979)
1980 "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1982 Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquezreceives the Nobel Prize for Literature
1982 "Sophie's Choice", directed by Alan J. Pakula and based on William Styton's 1979 novel of the same name, starring Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline, is released (Academy Awards Best Actress 1983)
1987 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
2000’s
2002 The Caribbean Community Heads of Government meet with the Government of Cuba and declare the date to be "CARICOM-Cuba Day" - To celebrate diplomatic ties between the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and Cuba.
2010 With the second launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first privately held company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.
2012 UN climate conference agrees to extend the Kyoto Protocol to 2020
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My Rambling Thoughts
OK, 34° ain’t that cold…but with the wind, our wind chill is 21°. Last night was the first night this season that I pulled the downstairs drapes and the upstairs curtains to keep the heat in as much as possible. Glad I did, because it got down to 13°. Took the trash out this morning about 10a and decided I didn’t need to go anywhere this day. Weatherman says this won’t last too long.
My office TV ‘zoomed in’ a couple of weeks ago. The only real problem was that the CNN banners were much too big and all the pop up logos in the bottom right corner were only partially visible. Played with the TV settings several times and couldn’t fix it. Today I called the Vizio people and he said I had done everything possible and that problem was the cable company feed. Called the cable company and got their automated service. First, they sent a weak signal to fix it. Nada. Then they sent a strong signal and when the TV came back on…about 3 minutes, the picture was back to normal. Took another 30 minutes to get the guide back but it is fixed and I never had to talk to a human. I’m really confused because I have another TV downstairs and that picture has always been just fine. Technology continues to impress and baffle me at the same time.
Disappointed that Franken did such crazy stuff. Glad he resigned. Disappointed he didn’t apologize. So tired of these ‘leaders’ who think they can do whatever they want. It is time to drain the swamp of these crazy people. I realize that ain’t the ‘swamp’ 45 talks about.
Another school shooting. In New Mexico. Just a mention on CNN. Sad.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
70’s
@79- James E "Jimmy" Smith,
US jazz/organist (Walk on the Wild Side)
(d. 2005)
@72- James MacArthur,
actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0),
born in Los Angeles, California
(d. 2010)
@70- Diego Rivera,
Mexican painter (En el Arsenal) and husband of Frida Kahlo,
born in Guanajuato, México
(d. 1957)
70- Jimmy Lai [Lai Chee-Ying],
Chinese businessman (founder of Giordano),
born in Guangzhou, China
60’s
@69- Gregg Allman,
guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band),
born in Nashville, Tennessee
(d. 2017)
@66- Richard Llewellyn,
Wales, novelist (How Green Was My Valley)
(d. 1983)
@66- James (Grover) Thurber,
humorist (Men, Women & Dogs),
born in Columbus, Ohio
(d. 1961)
@64- Lee J Cobb,
actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront),
born in NYC,
(d. 1976)
@64- Samuel "Sammy" Davis Jr.,
American singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man),
born in NYC, New York
(d. 1990)
@64- [Clerow] Flip Wilson, Jr.,
comedian (Flip Wilson Show),
born in Jersey City, NJ
(d.1998)
50’s
@59- Eli Whitney,
American inventor (Cotton Gin),
born in Westborough, Massachusetts
(d. 1825)
@58- Horace,
Roman Republican poet (Odes),
born in Venosa, Italy
(d. 8 BC)
56- Ann Coulter,
American author, political commentator, and attorney
53- Teri Hatcher,
actress (Lois & Clark, Desperate Housewives),
born in Sunnyvale, California
51- Sinéad O'Connor,
Irish singer-songwriter (Nothing Compares 2 U),
born in Glenageary, Ireland
40’s
@44- Mary Stuart,
Queen of Scotland (1560-87),
born in Linlithgow Palace, Scotland
(d. 1587)
@43- Elzie C. Segar,
American cartoonist (Popeye)
(d. 1938)
30’s
35- Nicki Minaj,
Trinidadian-American rapper and singer (Super Bass, Starships),
born in Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago
20’s
@27- Jim Morrison,
American poet and singer (The Doors), born in Melbourne, Florida
(d. 1971)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2016 John Glenn,
American astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio)
80’s
@80-1978 Golda Meir,
Israel's PM (1969-74)
70’s
@79-1995 Mikki Doyle (Miriam Leventhal),
journalist, Women in Media founder
@73-1942 Albert Kahn,
architect of Detroit
60’s
@64-1983 Slim Pickins,
actor (Blazing Saddles),
after brain surgery
50’s
@57-1982 Marty Robbins,
American country singer (Devil Woman, I Walk Alone),
complications following cardiac surgery
40’s
@40-1980 John Lennon,
British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine),
shot a
nd killed
30’s
@32-1967 Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr.,
USAF/astronaut,
crash of an F-104 Starfighter while training
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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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