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Nov 16, 2018
Week: 46 \ Day: 320
86004 Today: H 55° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind: 12mph\Gusts:
19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High:
70°[1981] Record Low: -1°[1964]
Nov Averages: 51°\23°
Today’s Quote
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
Random Tidbits
The criteria vary from state to state, but as
a rule, each area works closely with the Department of Natural Resources to
review reported automobile/deer accidents. A "Deer Crossing" sign is
generally erected whenever a deer has been hit within the previous 12 months
In 2004,
the Federal Highway Administration approved the use of a new font, Clearview,
on federal road signs after tests showed that drivers found Clearview easier to
read than the current Highway Gothic font.
In 2004,
the Federal Highway Administration approved the use of a new font, Clearview,
on federal road signs after tests showed that drivers found Clearview easier to
read than the current Highway Gothic font.
Observances This
Week
10-16
Geography Awareness Week Link
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
International Fraud Awareness Week Link
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week 16 Link
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
International Fraud Awareness Week Link
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week 16 Link
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
15-17
National Donor Sabbath
16-23
International Games Week
Observances for
Today
Today’s Significant
Historical Events
1500’s
1532 Francisco
Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca
1581 Tsar Ivan
the Terrible attacks his son and heir, Ivan Ivanovich, with a scepter after an
argument leading to the latter's death three days later
1700’s
1764 Native
Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1800’s
1824 New York
City's Fifth Avenue opens for business
1841 Life
preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)
1871 National
Rifle Association is first chartered in the State of New York
1900’s
1901 Booker T.
Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and
Edith Roosevelt, prompting condemnation from the South
1907 Oklahoma
becomes the United States 46th state
1914 Federal
Reserve System formally opens
1925 American
Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1938 LSD
(Lysergic acid diethylamide) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert
Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland
1945 Founding
of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
1961 US
President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without
committing US combat troops
1969 1968 Mỹ
Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US
soldiers is first reported
1973 US
President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline
1973 Skylab 4
launched into Earth orbit
1982 Agreement
reached ending 57 day football strike
2000’s
2002 Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because
the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and
declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people
2015 Largest
diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the
Karowe mine, Botswana
2017 Leonardo
da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for $450.3 million at
auction in New York, world record price for any artwork
2017 US
senator Al Franken accused of groping and forcibly kissing a woman
My Rambling Thoughts
Didn’t
have to get up at the crack of dawn, but still got up early. Made it to Sam’s
for my weekly shopping there. Still a little chilly but Sam’s doesn’t open
until 10 so by then, it was decent.
Nice
to see the new Congress arriving in DC, seeing their new offices. Some there
haven’t been declared winners, but what the heck, can’t miss out, just in case.
Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@92-
Gene Amdahl,
American
computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, born in Flandreau, South
Dakota (d. 2015)
90-
William "Clu" Gulager,
American
actor (Virginian, Survivors, The Tall Man), born in Holdenville, Oklahoma
80’s
@89-
Burgess Meredith,
American
actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d.
1997)
@87-
José Saramago,
Portuguese
writer and Nobel laureate, born in Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal (d. 2010)
70’s
@71-
Daws Butler,
animation
voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1988) heart
attack
60’s
@65-
Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert,
French
Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician (Encyclopédie), born in Paris (d.
1783) kidney disease
50’s
51-
Lisa Bonet,
actress
(Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart), born in San Francisco
40’s
41-
Maggie Gyllenhaal,
American
actress and producer (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight), born in NYC
20’s
25-Pete Davidson,
comedian,
SNL
Historical Obits Today
90’s
@98-2016
Jay Forrester,
American engineer, invented
random-access magnetic core memory
@94-2006
Milton Friedman,
American economist, Nobel Prize
Economics 1976
@92-2005
Ralph Edwards,
American TV host (This is Your Life)
80’s
@87-1966
Cluny MacPherson,
Canadian inventor of the gas mask
70’s
@79-1961
Sam Rayburn,
Speaker of the House for 17 years
@71-1950
"Dr. Bob" Smith,
American physician and co-founder of
Alcoholics Anonymous, colon cancer
50’s
@59-1960
Clark Gable,
actor (Gone With the Wind), blood clot
40’s
@41-1885
Louis Riel,
Canadian rebel leader and "Father
of Manitoba", hanged for treason
