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Dec 30, 2017 Week: 51\ Day: 364
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 22°
Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave.: 3mph\Gusts: 12mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1917] Record Low: -16°[1911]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
Let us permit nature to have her way.
She understands her business better than we do.
Michel de Montaigne
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Observances Today
Falling Needles Family Fest Day
No Interruptions Day
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Observances This Week
25-31: It's About Time Week
26-1/1: Kwanzaa
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1703 Tokyo hit by Earthquake; about 37,000 die
1731 1st US music concert (Peter Pelham's great room in Boston)
1800’s
1809 Wearing masks at balls forbidden in Boston
1835 Georgia gold rush forces the Cherokees to move across the Mississippi River
1873 American Metrological Society forms (NYC) weights, measures & money
1879 Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates of Penzance" premieres
1900’s
1918 John E Hoover decides to be called J. Edgar Hoover
1922 Creation of the USSR formally proclaimed in Moscow from the Bolshoi Theatre, Soviet Union organized as a federation of RSFSR, Ukrainian SSR, Belorussian SSR & Transcaucasian SSR
1924 Astronomer Edwin Hubble formally announces existence of other galactic systems at meeting of the American Astronomical Society
1948 "Kiss Me, Kate" opens at New Century Theater NYC for 1077 performances
1950 Vietnam, Laos & Cambodia become Independent states within the French Union
1963 "Let's Make A Deal," debuts on NBC-TV
1968 Frank Sinatra first records "My Way" with lyrics were written by Paul Anka and based on the French song "Comme d'habitude"
1971 A member of the Irish Republican Army is killed in a premature bomb explosion in Santry, Dublin.
1972 US President Richard Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam & announces peace talks
1973 1st picture of a comet from space (Comet Kohoutek-Skylab)
1981 "That Girl" single released by Stevie Wonder(Billboard Song of the Year 1982)
1987 Premier Mugabe elected President of Zimbabwe
1993 Vatican recognizes Israel
2000’s
2008 NFL head coach Mike Shanahan is fired by the Denver Broncos
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My Rambling Thoughts
My trip to Chicago was great. Flights both ways were simple, on time, friendly Southwest staff. Shuttle drivers both ways were on time, friendly, and picked me up at home and brought me back home. Very nice.
While in Chicago we stayed at my brother’s wife’s dad’s place. It is the home she grew up in. Had my own bedroom…the Elvis Room…with a great bed. It’s the Elvis room because his wife grew up near Graceland and was a big Elvis fan, so she has shelves and shelves of memorabilia. Even a life-sized cardboard cut-out picture of Elvis in his heyday. They had 30+ relatives for Christmas Eve dinner and package opening. My brother, his wife and I had our annual private package opening on Christmas morning…the way it is supposed to be…haha. Then it was off to her sister’s place for Christmas dinner and more packages and then games. It was great to see 92-year-old Grandma who is still living in her own house, and very active. This year was totally family-drama free…a first for my visits. Laura’s mom breeds Golden Retrievers and had 5 three-week-old puppies. Really cute. It is so fantastic to have such great in-laws.
About the weather in the suburbs of Chicago…We had about 2” of snow on Christmas Eve. Nice. The high that day was 3°. Christmas morning was -15° and warmed up to a blistering -1° in the afternoon. The sun was shining most of my visit, except when we had that one little snow storm. The sun did very little to warm up the temperatures. It was Chicago, so I expected cold.
Looking forward to a quiet New Year’s Eve back home. While the people in Chicago and elsewhere are freezing, we are setting records for high temps. Hard to believe it is late December and it’s 60° at 7000’. Kinda feel guilty as so many across the nation are so cold.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
80- Paul Stookey,
singer and musician (Peter, Paul, & Mary),
born in Baltimore
70’s
@79- Bo Diddley, [Ellas Bates],
Miss, rock `n' roll pioneer (Bo Diddley)
heart failure (d. 2008)
@77- Jack Lord,
American actor (Steve McGarrett in Hawaii FIVE-O, God's Little Acre),
born in NYC
heart failure (d. 1998)
75- Michael Nesmith,
rocker (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville),
born in Houston
@73- Simon Guggenheim,
American businessman and philanthropist,
born in Philadelphia,
(d. 1941)
@72- Skeeter Davis, [Mary Penick],
singer (End of World)
born in Dry Ridge Ky
breast cancer (d. 2004)
@70- Rudyard Kipling,
English author (Jungle Book, Gunga Din-Nobel 1907),
born in Bombay, British India
(d. 1936)
60’s
@66- Davy Jones,
singer (Monkees-Last Train to Clarksville),
born in Manchester, England
heart attack (d. 2012)
@63- Hideki Tojo,
Japanese Prime Minister during WW II (1941-44),
born in Tokyo
hanged (d. 1948)
@62- John Milne,
British geologist (developed the first modern seismograph),
born in Liverpool,
(d. 1913)
60-Matt Lauer,
former TV host
50’s
58- Tracey Ullman,
singer/actress (Tracey Ullman Show)
born in Slough England
@55- Del Shannon,
American rock musician and songwriter (Runaway),
born in Grand Rapids,
suicide (d. 1990)
40’s
42- Tiger Woods,
American golfer (14 Majors and 79 PGA wins),
born in Cypress, CA
40- Laila Ali,
American boxer
30’s
33- LeBron James,
American NBA basketball player (Cleveland Cavaliers, Miami Heat)
born in Akron
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Historical Obits Today
100’s
@104-2014 Luise Rainer,
German and American actress, - 1st actor to win multiple Academy Awards (1936, 1937)
90’s
@94-2004 Artie Shaw,
American jazz clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
70’s
@77-1979 Richard Rodgers,
composer (Rogers & Hammerstein)
60’s
@69-2006 Saddam Hussein,
President of Iraq (1979-2003),
hanged in Baghdad
30’s
@38-1970 Sonny Liston,
World heavyweight boxing champion (1962-64),
heroin OD
20’s
@23-1992 Ling-Ling,
1st panda China gave US
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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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