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Nov. 7,
2019 Week: 44 Day: 311
86004: H56 ° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%
Nearest
active fire: 15mi. Nearest lightning: 59mi
Wind: 3mph\Gusts:
9mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 71°[1934] Record Low: 8°[1947]
Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3
days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
“Discovery is seeing what everybody
else has seen,
and thinking what nobody else has
thought.”
~ Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Random Tidbits
A
University of Pennsylvania study found that 33 percent of teachers leave within
the first three years of beginning their careers and 46 percent leave within
the first five. The numbers have been increasing since the late 1980s.
The
most common reason a person leaves teaching is the low salary.
Observances This Week
World
Origami Days
1-7
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link
National Fig Week
Polar Bear Week
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link
National Fig Week
Polar Bear Week
World Communication Week
2-6
National Patient Accessibility Week
6-8
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week
Observances for Today
Bison Day
Digital Scrapbooking Day
Employee Brotherhood Day Link (SpongeBob Squarepants)
International Merlot Day Link
International Stout Day
Employee Brotherhood Day Link (SpongeBob Squarepants)
International Merlot Day Link
International Stout Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate with
Almonds Day Link
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
National Play Outside Day Link
Notary Public Day Link
Men Make Dinner Day
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
National Play Outside Day Link
Notary Public Day Link
Men Make Dinner Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Lots
of lightning, thunder and light rain this morning. Cleared up about 11am, but
was nice while it lasted.
While
AZ does not observe Daylight time, most of our national cable channels come
from a west coast feed, so CNN and others are now an hour later than I’m used
to. The local alphabet affiliates are still on local time and don’t change. I’ll
eventually adjust.
My
good friend, Focus traveler Bob Eckhardt is not doing well. He was placed in
hospice last night. I’m sad, but realize that he has not been doing well and
his dementia has been getting worse. I don’t want him to suffer anymore.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page
I love to twist and dance.
Though wingless, I fly high in the sky.
What am I?
Historical Events
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of
impact, struck ground one afternoon in a wheat field outside the village of
Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1665 - First edition of the London Gazette was printed. At the time it was
called "The Oxford Gazette".
1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as
the Stoughton Musical Society.
1811 - The Battle of Tippecanoe took place, with future US President, William
Henry Harrison.
1874 - First cartoon depicting the elephant as Republican Party symbol, by
Thomas Nast. He is also known as being the first to draw our modern version of
Santa Claus.
1876 - The patent (#184,207) for the first US cigarette manufacturing
machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City.
1885 -The Canadian Pacific Railway, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts, was completed.
1908 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San
Vicente, Bolivia.
1908 - Professor Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated
a single atom of matter.
1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus,
Ohio) took place, by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max
Moorehouse.
1913 - Great Lakes Storm of 1913 lasted until November 10th. It killed over
250 people and was concentrated around Lake Huron.
1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine was published.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin (R) became the first woman elected to the United
States Congress.
1917 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is proclaimed; first
Council of People's Commissars is formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and
including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
1929 - The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened to the public.
1932 - First broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th century on CBS-radio. The
Buck Rogers comic strip made its first newspaper appearance on January 7, 1929.
1942 First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) was elected for a record fourth term as
President of the United States of America.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of
1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1967 - Carl B. Stokes (D) was elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming
the first African American mayor of a major American city.
1975 - The New Original Wonder Woman TV movie aired as a 'test' pilot for
the series, Wonder Woman on ABC, starred Lynda Carter. It had very little in
common with the 1974 TV movie entitled Wonder Woman starring Cathy Lee Crosby,
1976 - Gone With the Wind was televised for the first time. Gone with the
Wind was originally a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in
1936. The film was released in 1939.
1981 - #1 Hit: Daryl Hall
and John Oates - Private Eyes
1987 - #1 Hit: Tiffany
- I Think We're Alone Now
1989 - Douglas Wilder (D) won the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the
first elected African-American governor in the United States. Also, David
Dinkins became the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.
1991 - Magic Johnson announced that he was infected with HIV and retired
from the NBA.
2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al
Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush's favor, is eventually resolved by
the Supreme Court
2006 - At O'Hare International Airport, UFO Sighting Near Gate C-17 twelve
employees reported seeing a metallic saucer shaped craft hovering over the airport.
The FAA stance concluded that the sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon
and that the agency would not be investigating the incident, which many think
is odd in the post-2001 security-enhanced world of airport security.
2009 - #1 Hit: Owl
City - Fireflies
2018 US President Donald
Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his
place as acting Attorney General
Birthdays Today
@99 – Billy Graham, American minister and author
(died in 2018)
77 – Johnny Rivers
John Henry Ramistella, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist
and producer
@76 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader
(died in 1999; edema)
76 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian Singer/Songwriter and guitarist
68 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist/talk show host
@66 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist-physicist Nobel Prize
laureate,
(died in 1934; radiation poisoning)
@60 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician;
founded the Red Army,
(died in 1940; assassinated)
@46 – Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and
journalist; Nobel Prize laureate
(died in 1960; auto accident)
39 – Amy Purdy, American actress, model and snowboarder
@34 – Dana Plato, American actress
(died in 1999; OD)
23 – Lorde,
Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor
New Zealand Singer/Songwriter
Puzzle answer:
A kite
