Nov 12

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Nov. 12, 2019 Week: 46  Day: 316

86004:   H 62° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  181mi.  Nearest lightning:  734mi

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  14mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1967]   Record Low: 3°[1898]

Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“When all Americans are treated as equal,

no matter who they are or whom they love,

we are all more free.”

~ Barack Obama

Observances This Week

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week

8-14

Geography Awareness Week Link 
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link
National Radiologic Technology Week Link  
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week Link  
National Book Awards Week

9-13

National Young Readers Week Link

Observances for Today

Chicken Soup for the Soul Day

Happy Hour Day

International Tempranillo Day  Link
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day  Link
National French Dip Day Link
National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day

World Pneumonia Day

Young Readers Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Flag was up just after sunrise for Veteran’s Day. It’s a nice day for a long walk.

Australian fires are so much worse than the California fires. Even Sydney was issued a fire warning, which almost never happens. Sad.

CU won on Saturday against rival Stanford. Way to go. I watched most of the game and good to see a win. Then there are the Cards who lost again on Sunday.

I got a nice remembrance of Bob that is now on the Focus webpage, along with a picture of Bob from his granddaughter. It’s worth a look.

Just staying home and enjoying the holiday.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

My first two letters say my name.

My last letter asks a question.

What I embrace I destroy.

What am I?

Historical Events

1799 - Andrew Ellicott wrote the about first known record of a meteor shower observed in the US. We now know they were the Leonids.

1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, the father of modern anesthetics, used chloroform ("perchloride of formyle") for the first time as an anesthetic in an operation.

1892 - William "Pudge" Walter Heffelfinger was the first professional (paid) US Football player. He got $25 and a $500 bonus for a single game.

1922 (Volcano Eruption & Tsunami) Chile/Argentina - over 1,000 people were killed.

1927 - The Holland Tunnel connecting NY and NY - the world's first underwater vehicular tunnel - officially opened.

1929 - Commander Richard E. Byrd made the first flight over the South Pole.

1933 - First known photo of so-called Loch Ness Monster was taken by Hugh Gray.

1936 - The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic.

1940 - The Armistice Day Blizzard killed nearly 150 people and stretched from Kansas to Michigan.

1946 - The Exchange National Bank of Chicago, Illinois, instituted the first drive in banking service in America.

1954 - Ellis Island in New York closed after providing entrance to the US for 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1924.

1956 - The largest iceberg on record was sighted by the USS Glacier, a U. S. Navy icebreaker, about 150 miles west of Scott Island in the Southern Hemisphere. It had broken from the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic. It was about 208 miles long and 60 miles wide.

1966 - #1 Hit: Johnny Rivers - Poor Side Of Town

1966 - The first photograph was taken from Earth's atmosphere by the satellite Gemini XII.

1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a beached eight-ton sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with half a ton of dynamite. It mainly made a bigger mess.

1981 - Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

1981 - First balloon crossing of Pacific was completed. The Double Eagle V launched from Nagashima, Japan on November 10, 1981.

1983 - #1 Hit: Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)

1988 - #1 Hit: The Escape Club - Wild, Wild West

1993 - The first Ultimate Fighting Championship event, UFC 1, was held in Denver, Colorado.

1997 - Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

2001 - In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashed minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.

2004 - A jury in Redwood City, California, convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay.

2011 - #1 Hit: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris - We Found Love

2017 For the first time Prince Charles lays the wreath to Great Britain's war dead, replacing Queen Elizabeth

2018 Former US First lady Michelle Obama publishes her memoir "Becoming"

Birthdays Today

@91 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher and philanthropist

co-founded Reader's Digest,     

(died in 1981)

@83 – Charles Manson, American cult leader

(died in 2017)

@77 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor and illustrator,

created The Thinker

(died in 1917)

75 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster

74 – Neil Young, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, guitarist

producer

61 – Megan Mullally, American actress and singer

58 - Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Olympic Gymnast

@52 – Grace Kelly, American actress,

later Princess Grace of Monaco

(died in 1982; stroke then auto crash)

51 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player

49 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater

40- Cote de Pablo, TV actress

39 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer and singer

37 – Anne Hathaway, American actress

Puzzle answer:

Ivy. IV is pronounced ivy, y is pronounced why and fast- growing ivy can smother and kill trees, shrubs and grass.