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Dec 18, 2017 Week: 51\ Day: 352
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 18°
Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave.: 11mph\Gusts: 18mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1908] Record Low: -14°[1908]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.
Aeschylus
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Observances Today
Answer The Telephone Like Buddy The Elf Day Link
Arabic Language Day Link
Give A Wine Club Day Link
International Migrants Day
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Observances This Week
14-28: Halcyon Days
16-24: Posadas
17-23: Saturnalia
Gluten-free Baking Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1200’s
1271 Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of China
1600’s
1642 Abel Tasman's expedition sails around Farewell Spit and into Golden Bay, first sighting local Māori in New Zealand
1700’s
1796 1st US newspaper to appear on Sunday (Baltimore Monitor)
1800’s
1839 1st celestial photograph (of Moon) made in US by John Draper in NYC
1865 1st US cattle importation law passed
1888 Richard Wetherill and his brother in-law discover the ancient Anasazi ruins of Mesa Verde, Colorado
1892 Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet "Nutcracker Suite" premieres
1900’s
1917 The 18th Amendment, authorizing prohibition of alcohol, is approved by the US congress and sent to the states for ratification
1956 Japan admitted to UN
1957 World's 1st full-scale nuclear power plant begins to generate electricity, at the Shippingport Atomic Power Station in Pennsylvania
1958 Niger gains autonomy within French Community (National Day)
1960 General Meeting of UN condemns apartheid
1966 Dr. Seuss' "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" airs for 1st time on CBS
1971 Three members of the Irish Republican Army die when the bomb they were transporting explodes prematurely in King Street, Magherafelt, County Derry.
1976 "Wonder Woman" debuts on ABC
1990 NL announces Buffalo, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Tampa-St Petersburg, & Washington, D.C. as 6 finalist for 1993 expansion (Miami & Denver win)
1996 The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
2000’s
2002 Fashion designer Calvin Klein announces he is selling his company to shirt-maker Phillips-Van Heusen for $430 million
2012 6 health workers dispensing polio vaccinations are gunned down in Pakistan
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice quiet Sunday. Finally got a haircut…the lady who cuts my hair wasn’t available until today. Crazy. Guess the holidays keep her busy. Well worth the wait. Cards lost but not a big deal cause no one was watching.
At the mall, where I get my haircut, I told Santa all I wanted for Christmas the return of real national and international news to every news channel in the US. When 45 is impeached, they can report that, but until then, no more speculating on any aspects of his reign. Report the news, his speeches, his edicts, his tweets, bills that have passed both houses of Congress. But no more having any discussion on what it might mean. As a citizen, I am smart enough to figure out most of it. News is still news. Commentary is not now, nor has it ever been news. I am tired of 5 minutes of news, 18 minutes of commercials, and the rest of every hour nothing but blithering commentators who make outrageous statements so they can have more airtime. Santa just smiled and asked if I had a more reasonable request.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
93- Cicely Tyson,
actress
90- Ramsey Clark,
US attorney General (1967-69)
80’s
@87- Ossie Davis,
actor/playwright (Hot Stuff, Man Called Adam)
born in Cogdell GA,
(d. 2005)
@84- Roger Smith,
South Gate California, actor (77 Sunset Strip)
(d. 2017)
@83- J. J. Thomson,
English physicist who discovered the electron (Nobel 1906),
born in Manchester, England
(d. 1940)
70’s
@74- Joseph Stalin,
Dictator and General Secretary of the Soviet Union (1941-53),
born in Gori, Tiflis Governorate, Russian Empire
(d. 1953)
@74- Ty Cobb,
American baseball great (Detroit Tigers) set 90 MLB records during his career,
born in Narrows, Georgia
(d. 1961)
74- Keith Richards,
England, rock guitarist (Rolling Stones-Brown Sugar)
71- Steven Spielberg,
American director (ET, Close Encounters, Jaws),
born in Cincinnati
60’s
67- Leonard Maltin,
American movie critic (Entertainment Tonight),
born in NYC
63- Ray Liotta,
actor (Goodfellas),
born in Newark
50’s
@59- Joseph Grimaldi,
English pantomimist and the "greatest clown in history",
born in London
(d. 1837)
@57- [Bryan] Chas Chandler,
English rock bassist (The Animals-House of the Rising Sun)
and manager of Jimi Hendrix,
born in Newcastle upon Tyne
(d. 1996)
@56- Betty Grable,
great legs/actress (Gay Divorcee),
born in St. Louis,
(d. 1973)
54- Brad Pitt,
American actor (12 Monkeys, Fight Club)
and producer (The Departed, 12 Years a Slave),
born in Shawnee, Oklahoma
53- Stone Cold Steve Austin,
wrestler, actor
@52- Kam Tong,
Chinese American actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song),
born in San Francisco
(d. 1969)
@50- Franz Ferdinand,
Archduke of Austria whose assassination in 1914 led to declarations of war in WWI,
born in Graz, Austria
(d. 1914)
40’s
49- Casper Van Dien,
actor (Starship Troopers)
47- DMX,
American rapper and actor
@45- Saki, [Hector Hugo Munro],
author (Reginald, When William Came)
born in Burma
(d. 1916)
30’s
39- Katie Holmes,
American actress (Dawson's Creek, Batman Begins),
born in Toledo, Ohio
37- Christina Aguilera,
American singer (Genie in a Bottle, What a Girl Wants),
born in Staten Island
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@99-2016 Zsa Zsa Gabor [Sari Gabor],
Hungarian-born actress (Queen of Outer Space)
@95-2006 Joseph Barbera,
American cartoonist (Hanna-Barbera - Tom and Jerry, Flintstones)
80’s
@87-1992 Mother Clare Hale,
cared for NYC AIDS babies (Hale House)
@86-2016 China Machado,
Chinese-born model, 1st non-Caucasian supermodel
70’s
@77-1992 Mark Goodson,
TV game show producer (Goodson-Toddman),
pancreatic cancer
30’s
@35-1931 John T "Legs" Diamond,
US gangster,
murdered
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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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