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 Link
National Diabetes Month
National Entrepreneurship Month Link
National Family Caregivers Month Link
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Gratitude Month  Link
National Healthy Skin Month Link
National Home Care & Hospice Month Link
National Impotency Month Link
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 Link
National Native American Heritage Month Link
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month Link
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month Link
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month Link  Link
National Pomegranate Month Link
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
National Runaway Prevention Month Link
National Scholarship Month Link
NET Cancer Awareness Month  Link
NoSHAVEmber 

Observances This Week

           

1-7

National Fig Week
World Communication Week

3-9

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link   
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  Link
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

@92►Walter Cronkite,

American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81), born in St Joseph, Missouri (d. 2009)

@90►Doris Roberts,

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

80’s

@85►Ruth Handler [née Mosko],

American toy manufacturer (invented the Barbie doll), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 2002)

@85►Art Carney,

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

81►Loretta Swit,

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

70’s

@75►Henry George "Harry" Ferguson,

Irish aviator, engineer and inventor (Modern tractor), born in County Down, Ireland, United Kingdom (d. 1960) barbiturate OD

72►Laura Bush,

U.S. First Lady 2001-09

60’s

68►Charles Frazier,

American author (no relation)

50’s

58►Kathy Griffin,

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

57►Ralph Macchio,

Huntington NY, actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)

56►Jeff Probst,

American television host

@55►Will Rogers,

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

40’s

49►Matthew McConaughey,

American actor (Contact, A Time to Kill), born in Uvalde, Texas

49►Sean Combs,

rapper

@42►Robert Mapplethorpe,

US photographer (d. 1989) AIDS

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@92►2011 Andy Rooney,

American radio and television writer

80’s

@88►1955 Cy Young,

American Baseball Hall of Fame pitcher (most wins in MLB history 511), heart attack

70’s

@73►2005 Sheree North,

American actress and singer, complications from surgery

@73►1995 Yitzhak Rabin,

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

60’s

@66►2008 Michael Crichton,

American author, lymphoma

30’s

@38►1847 Felix Mendelssohn

                      [Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy],

German composer and pianist (Great Scherzos), strokes