Nov 4


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Nov 4, 2018 Week: 45 \ Day: 308
86004 Today: H 63° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind:   13mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1955]   Record Low: -1°[1922]
Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

It takes an endless amount of history
to make even a little tradition.
 Henry James



Random Tidbits
The first U.S. cent, which was the size of
today's 50-cent piece, was coined in 1793.

In 1856 the mint produced the first penny of today's size.


More Observances This Month
           
National Adoption Month
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month 
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National Diabetes Month
National Entrepreneurship Month 
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National Family Caregivers Month 
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National Georgia Pecan Month
National Gratitude Month  
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National Healthy Skin Month 
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National Home Care & Hospice Month 
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National Impotency Month 
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National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month 
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National Native American Heritage Month 
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National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month 
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National Peanut Butter Lovers Month 
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National Pet Cancer Awareness Month 
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National Pomegranate Month 
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National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
National Runaway Prevention Month 
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National Scholarship Month 
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NET Cancer Awareness Month 
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NoSHAVEmber
 

Observances This Week
           
1-7
National Fig Week
World Communication Week

3-9
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week 
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National Radiologic Technology Week Link
4-8
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link 
National Patient Accessibility Week
National Young Readers Week Link 

Observances for Today
           
Color The World Orange Day Link  
Fill Our Staplers Day
Job Action Day Link  
King Tut Day
National Chicken Lady Day
National Candy Day  
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National Easy-Bake Oven Day
National Traffic Professionals Day
Traffic Directors Day  Link 
Use Your Common-Sense Day


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s                                         
1646 Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God's word

1800’s                                         
1841 First wagon train arrives in California

1845 First nationally observed uniform election day in US

1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, for seawall

1879 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus

1900’s                                         
1904 First stadium built specifically for football (Harvard Stadium)

1910 Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East

1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt

1929 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.

1946 United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formed

1948 American-born British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature

1960 Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey discover first Homo habilis jaw fragments (OH 7) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

1968 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill meets British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks on Northern Ireland; Wilson states no change of constitutional position of Northern Ireland possible without consent of the its people

1979 500 Iranian students loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini seize the US Embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages for 444 days

2000’s                                         
2002 Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress

2003 The most powerful solar flare as observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded.

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain

2015 Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women


My Rambling Thoughts
Breezy Saturday. Hangin’ out inside with a little cleaning today.

Tuesday can’t come soon enough. By not answering the 8 ‘are you voting’ robocalls a day for 2 weeks, the number as decreased to 4 a day. Still way too many.

Now it’s time to start wondering what will be on the news. My guess is a few months of ‘what this election means’. Then the new Congress is sworn in. Wonder if there will finally be some legislation to fix immigration, infrastructure, and other important stuff?



Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

90’s
@92Walter Cronkite,
American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81), born in St Joseph, Missouri (d. 2009)

@90Doris Roberts,
American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 2016)

80’s
@85Ruth Handler [née Mosko],
American toy manufacturer (invented the Barbie doll), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2002)

@85Art Carney,
American actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners), born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 2003)

81Loretta Swit,
American actress (Hotlips Houlihan in M*A*S*H), born in Passaic, New Jersey

70’s
@75Henry George "Harry" Ferguson,
Irish aviator, engineer and inventor (Modern tractor), born in County Down, Ireland, United Kingdom (d. 1960) barbiturate OD

72Laura Bush,
U.S. First Lady 2001-09

60’s
68Charles Frazier,
American author (no relation)

50’s
58Kathy Griffin,
American comedienne (Suddenly Susan, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List), born in Chicago, Illinois

57Ralph Macchio,
Huntington NY, actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)

56Jeff Probst,
American television host

@55Will Rogers,
American humorist and actor (Judge Priest), born in Oologah, Oklahoma (d. 1935) plane crash

40’s
49Matthew McConaughey,
American actor (Contact, A Time to Kill), born in Uvalde, Texas

49Sean Combs,
rapper

@42Robert Mapplethorpe,
US photographer (d. 1989) AIDS


Historical Obits Today

90’s
@922011 Andy Rooney,
American radio and television writer

80’s
@881955 Cy Young,
American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (most wins in MLB history 511), heart attack

70’s
@732005 Sheree North,
American actress and singer, complications from surgery

@731995 Yitzhak Rabin,
Prime Minister of Israel (1974-77 and 1992-95) and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner, assassinated

60’s
@662008 Michael Crichton,
American author, lymphoma

30’s
@381847 Felix Mendelssohn
                      [Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy],
German composer and pianist (Great Scherzos), strokes



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