Nov 5

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Nov 5, 2018 Week: 45 \ Day: 309

86004 Today: H 59° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind:   13mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1976]   Record Low: 1°[1922]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

I want to put a ding in the universe.

Steve Jobs

Random Tidbits

Abraham Lincoln was the first president to be depicted on a U.S. coin, a penny issued in 1909. The penny is the only U.S. coin where the person faces right instead of left.

More Observances This Month

Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pet Diabetes Month Link
Picture Book Month Link
PPSI Aids Awareness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month Link
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month Link
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month Link
Sweet Potato Awareness Month Link 
Teff and Millet Month Link
Triple Crown of Surfing (11/12-12/20)
World Vegan Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month

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

Firewood Day
Gunpowder Day

Guy Fawkes Day

National Love Your Red Hair Day Link
Play Monopoly Day  Link
World Tsunami Awareness Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s                                         

1605 Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

1700’s                                         

1781 John Hanson elected first "President of US in Congress assembled"

1800’s                                         

1881 1,600 police and volunteers attack Māori settlement at Parihaka in western Taranaki which had become the symbol of protest against the confiscation of Māori land, New Zealand

1900’s                                         

1912 Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage

1917 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas

1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Willkie

1973 BART starts SF-Daly City train shuttle service

1974 Ella Grasso (Ct) elected first woman US governor not related to previous governor

1987 Supreme Court nominee Douglas H Ginsburg admitted using marijuana

2000’s                                         

2000 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is laid to rest 25 years after his death after a funeral procession through Addis Ababa

2010 Ai Weiwei is reportedly placed under house arrest by Chinese authorities because of a planned party to mark the demolition of his new studio in Shanghai

2015 Collins Dictionary name "binge-watch" the word of the year, followed by "transgender"

2017 Paradise Papers are leaked; 13.4 million documents from offshore investment firm Appleby, mentioning Queen Elizabeth and Wilbur Ross US Secretary of Commerce

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice fall Sunday. Cloudy, a tad windy.

Ready for election day. Hope everyone votes their conscience. I’m tired of the news, tired of the jokes, tired…So whatever happens on Tuesday, the people will have had their chance to speak. And life will go on.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96 Will Durant,

American author and historian (The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization), born in North Adams, Massachusetts (d. 1981)

80’s

@86 Roy Rogers,

cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, (d. 1998)

70’s

78 Elke Sommer, [Elke Schletz],

actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar), born in Berlin, Germany

77 Art Garfunkel,

American singer/actor (Simon and Garfunkel, Carnal Knowledge), born in New York

@76 Izear Luster Ike Turner,

AKA Mr Tina Turner!, guitarist (A Fool in Love) (d. 2007) OD

71 Peter Noone,

rocker (Herman-Herman's Hermits-Silhouttes)

50’s

59 Bryan Adams,

Canadian singer (Heaven), born in Kingston, Ontario

55 Tatum O'Neal,

Los Aangeles California, actress (Paper Moon, Little Darlings) and ex-wife of John McEnroe

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83►1991 Fred MacMurray,

American actor (Double Indemnity, The Apartment, My Three Sons), d pneumonia

70’s

@75►1977 Guy Lombardo,

orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), heart attack

@70►1979 Al Capp,

US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), emphysema

60’s

@66►2010 Jill Clayburgh,

American actress (Unmarried Woman, Semi-Tough), Leukemia

@64►1942 George M Cohan,

father of musical comedy, cancer

@63►2003 Bobby Hatfield,

American singer (Righteous Brothers), cocaine OD/heart attack

50’s

@57►1960 Ward Bond,

American actor (Wagon Train, It's a Wonderful Life), heart attack

30’s

@33►1960 Johnny Horton,

American country and rockabilly singer (The Battle of New Orleans), car accident