Dec 1

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Dec 1, 2018 Week: 48 \ Day: 335

86004 Today: H 36° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5-95% 

Feels like: 24°

Wind:   15mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[2008]   Record Low: -7°[1905]

Nov Averages: 43°\17°

Today’s Quote

Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

Grace Hopper coined the term computer bug

when a moth shorted out her computer.

In 1995, personal computers outsold televisions in the United States, and the number of e-mail

messages exceeded stamped letters

In 1997 about one third of American homes had computers. In 2005 the number was two thirds.

More Observances This Month

           

Aids Awareness Month Link
Bingo's Birthday Month
Buckwheat Month Link
National Drunk & Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
National Pear Month  Link
National Tie Month
National Write A Business Plan Month

Observances This Week

           

Nov 27-12/2

National Deal Week

1-7

Cookie Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week  Link

Observances for 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
Eat a Red Apple Day

National Fried Pie Day

Rosa Parks Day
World Aids Day  Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

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

1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)

1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford

1918 Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown

1922 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF

1929 Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe

1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use

1942 Gasoline rationed in US

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

1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began

1982 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart

1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)

2000’s

2017 President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.

My Rambling Thoughts

Woke up this morning to about 6” of snow covering everything. As the day as progressed it has snowed, the sun has been out, the sky has been grey, the sky has been blue. And then a repeat of the whole thing. Right now is sunny, but those pesky winds will change that very soon. I was outside shoveling and cleaning off my vehicle during one of the sunny periods. This is to be our weather through the weekend.

Sure hope everyone in Anchorage remain safe. Lots of pictures of the quake. With all the power failures the journalists became creative and started using Facebook Live to keep everyone up-to-date. Thanks Mark Z as this is why FB was developed…connecting communities.

45 made a big deal at a signing ceremony with Mexico, US, and Canada at the G20 in Argentina. Lots of smiles, says it is the greatest trade deal in world history. Neglected to mention that none of the three legislatures have even had a discussion about the proposed trade deal. Many are saying it is just minor changes from NAFTA.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Rex Stout,

American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels), born in Noblesville, Indiana (d. 1975)

@88- Marie Tussaud,

French founder of Madame Tussaud's wax museum, born in Strasbourg (d. 1850)

83- Woody Allen [Allen Konigsberg],

American film director and actor (Zelig, Annie Hall), born in Brooklyn, New York

70’s

@76- Mary Martin,

American actress (Peter Pan) and Larry Hagman's mom, born in Weatherford, Texas (d. 1990) cancer

73- Bette Midler,

American actress and singer (Beaches, Wind Beneath my Wings), born in Honolulu, Hawaii

@72- Lou Rawls,

American vocalist (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006) lung cancer

60’s

@67- David Doyle,

American actor (Charlie's Angels, Rugrats), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1997) heart attack

66-Rick Scott,

Gov of Florida

@65- Richard Pryor,

American comedian and actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy), born in Pecoria, Illinois (d. 2005) heart attack

@63- Dick Shawn [Richard Schulefand],

American character actor and comedian (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1987) heart attack

40’s

48- Sara Silverman,

comedian

@44- Pablo Escobar,

Colombian drug lord, born in Rionegro, Colombia (d. 1993) shot by authorities

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87-1973 David Ben-Gurion,

founding father of Israel

70’s

@78-2007 Sally L. Smith,

American educator and founder (Lab School of Washington), “All children have talent”

@70-2008 Paul Benedict,

American actor (The Jeffersons)

50’s

@57-1955 Chief Thundercloud [Victor Daniels],

Non-Native actor (The Lone Ranger, Colt .45), stomach cancer

Nov 29

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Nov 29, 2018 Week: 48 \ Day: 333

86004 Today: H 53° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   20mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 68°[1949]   Record Low: -8°[1905]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

No man is an island, entire of itself;

every man is a piece of the continent.

John Donne

Random Tidbits

The first email was sent over

the Internet in 1972.

The distress signal before SOS was CQD,

which meant "come quick danger."

Observances This Week

           

24-30

Church/State Separation Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle Week 

24-12/1

National Bible Week 

25-30

Better Conversation Week

27-12/2

National Deal Week

Observances for Today

           

Flossing Day  Link
Fur Free Friday Link 
Internat’l Day of Solidarity With The Palestinian People
Maize Day
National Chocolates Day
National Day of Listening  Link
National Lemon Creme Pie Day
National Rice Cake Day

National Native American Heritage Day Link 

Square Dancing Day Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink

1800’s

1847 Indians kill Washington state pioneers Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, and 12 others in Walla Walla Ore

1864 Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye

1872 Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time

1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1893 Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

1897 1st motorcycle race (Surrey, England)

1900’s

1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.

1935 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment 'Schrödinger's cat', a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

1942 US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year

1952 US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war

1963 LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK

1972 Co-founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell releases Pong, first commercially successful video game in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California

1974 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] special memorial service held at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England

1975 US President Gerald Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped

1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding

2000’s

2012 The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state

My Rambling Thoughts

Weatherman sez snow tomorrow with up to 6” by tomorrow night, more snow on Friday. Then another storm brings more snow for the weekend. Not too excited as the last forecast that said 6” left us with little more than a dusting of snow. I live at 7000’ so snow is expected.

Having lunch with a friend tomorrow to catch up on her trip to Dallas and New Orleans with her childhood friend. Then a quick stop at Sam’s, just in case we get a lot of snow.

Focus is in NYC for the Christmas experience. Several people are posting pics of the trip, along with commentary. Nice. One of the Christmas memories I miss is seeing the Denver Dry Goods and May D&F window extravaganzas in Downtown Denver. Nice to see Macy’s is still doing windows in NYC.

One interesting thing about GM and its closures: The only GM commercials I ever see are for trucks and SUV’s. Maybe that’s why their smaller cars and their electric cars aren’t selling. Lots of people saying I’d get a smaller vehicle or an electric vehicle but… If an advertising agency can get lots of people to buy ‘Pet Rocks’, they should be able to sell smaller cars if they were into doing it.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

106- Viola Smith,

American drummer

(one of the first professional female drummers)

90’s

91-Vin Scully,

sportscaster

80’s

@88- Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin],

American sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters) (d. 2007)

83- Diane Ladd,

American actress (Chinatown, Wild Angels, Wild at Heart), born in Meridian, Mississippi

70’s

78- Chuck Mangione,

jazz hornist (Chasing the Clouds Away), born in Rochester, New York

60’s

@66- Garry Shandling,

comedian (It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2016) blood disease

@64- C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples],

British sci-fi author (Silver Chair), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 1963) renal failure

63- Howie Mandel,

comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere), born in Toronto, Ontario

50’s

@59- Frank Reynolds,

E Chicago Ind, news anchor (ABC Evening News) (d. 1983) multiple myeloma

@55- Louisa May Alcott,

 American author (Little Women), born in Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 1888) stroke

54-Don Cheadle,

movie actor

40’s

@49- Christian Doppler,

Austrian physicist (Doppler effect), born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1853) pulmonary disease

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87-1991 Ralph Bellamy,

American actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday, Trading Places)

@82-1986 Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach],

British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)

@81-1999 Gene Rayburn,

American game show host (Match Game)

@81-1987 Howard Pyle,

(Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)

70’s

@79-1997 Coleman Young,

1st African American mayor of Detroit

@78-1992 Emilio Pucci,

Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)

60’s

@65-1924 Giacomo Puccini,

Italian composer (Mme Butterfly), heart attack after radiation treatment for throat cancer

@61-1872 Horace Greeley,

US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), illness during his presidential run

50’s

@58-2001 George Harrison,

English pop star and Beatle (Traveling Wilburys-My Sweet Lord), lung cancer

40’s

@43-1981 Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin],

American actress (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story), drowns

@43-1976 Godfrey Cambridge,

actor (Watermelon Man), heart attack