Nov 16

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Nov 16, 2017 Week: 46 \ Day: 320

86004 Today: H 60° \ L 34°  

Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Wind ave.:   6mph\Gusts:  17mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1981]   Record Low: -1°[1964]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)

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Quote of the Day

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  Walt Disney

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Observances Today

Beaujolais Nouveau Day  Link

Great American Smokeout Link  

Have a Party With Your Bear Day

International Tolerance Day  Link

National Button Day Link

National Fast Food Day

Teddy Bear Day (Historic) :  16  Link  

Use Less Stuff Day Link 

World Pancreatic Cancer Day Link  

World Philosophy Day  

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Observances This Week

11-20

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link  

12-18

Geography Awareness Week Link  

International Fraud Awareness Week Link   

National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link

Perioperative Nurse Week Link

National Split Pea Soup Week Link

World Kindness Week: 12-18  Link    

13-17

American Education Week Link 

13-19

National Book Awards Week

National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                 

1532 Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca  

1600’s                                 

1676 1st colonial prison organized in Nantucket, Massachusetts  

1700’s                                 

1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac  

1798 Kentucky becomes first state to nullify an act of Congress  

1800’s                                 

1801 First edition of New York Evening Post  

1824 New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business 

1841 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)  

1849 Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor 

1875 William Bonwill, patents dental mallet to impact gold into cavities  

1900’s                                 

1907 Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state 

1908 Arturo Toscanini begins conducting NY's Metropolitan Opera  

1925 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)  

1933 Roosevelt establishes diplomatic relations with USSR  

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) 

1945 "The Lost Weekend", based on Charles R. Jackson's novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman is released (Best Picture 1946)  

1950 US president Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat 

1957 Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89  

1959 "Sound of Music" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 1443 performances 

1961 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops  

1963 Touch-tone telephone introduced  

1965 Walt Disney launches Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow  

1968 The Derry Citizens Action Committee defies a ban on marches in Derry, Northern Ireland, by marching with an estimated 15,000 people 

1973 US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of Alaskan pipeline

1981 President Reagan decides on a covert plan to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador  

1989 6 Jesuit priests are killed by El Salvadorian troops 

2000’s                                 

2000 Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War

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 

2010 Engagement announced between Prince William and Catherine [Kate] Middleton at Clarence House, London

2015 Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana

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My Rambling Thoughts

Weekly shopping complete with high clouds…too bad they don’t give us any moisture. This year I bought a bone-in turkey breast, as opposed to just a turkey breast without bones that I can cook. The bone-in one has more meat and is cheaper than the boneless one. I’ll see how it works out next week.

Hopefully, Zimbabwe will get better now that their 93-year-old dictator has been deposed. When we visited Victoria Falls we could have gotten a better view of the falls from Zimbabwe but decided that government didn’t need any of our money. The helicopter ride made the experience very worthwhile.

Thank you to CNN for its great story of human trafficking in Libya. Now that everyone knows, maybe something will happen over there too.  

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

@101- Joel H. Hildebrand,

American Chemist and Educator whose work on the chemistry of solutions helped treat divers with the 'bends' through the introduction of helium and oxygen breathing mixtures, born in Camden, New Jersey

(d. 1983)

80’s

@89- Burgess Meredith,

actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), born in Cleveland, Ohio

(d. 1997)

89- Clu Gulager,

Holdenville Oklahoma, actor (Virginian, Survivors, Tall Man)

87- Alice Adams,

American sculptor, born in New York City

@84- W. C. (William Christopher) Handy,

American composer and musician known as the "Father of the Blues" (Memphis Blues, St Louis Blues), born in Florence, Alabama

(d. 1958)

@82- Chinua Achebe,

Nigerian author (Christmas in Biafra), born in Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria

(d. 2013)

60’s

@68- Guy Stockwell,

American actor (Chris-Adventures in Paradise), born in NYC,

(died 2002)

67- David Leisure,

actor (Joe Isuzu, Airplane, Charley-Empty Nest)

@65- Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert,

French Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician (Encyclopédie), born in Paris

(d. 1783)

50’s

59- Marg Helgenberger,

North Bend Nebraska, actress (China Beach)

53- Dwight Gooden,

pitcher (NY Yankees, NY Mets), born in Tampa, Florida

50- Lisa Bonet, SF,

actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart)

40’s

40- Maggie Gyllenhaal,

American actress (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight), born in NYC, New York

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@98-2016 Jay Forrester,

American engineer, invented (RAM) 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,

cancer

@77-2015 David Canary,

American actor (Bonanza, One Life to Live)

@71-1950 Bob Smith,

American doctor, co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous,

colon cancer

50’s

@59-1960 Clark Gable,

 actor (Gone With the Wind),

heart attack

@52-1806 Moses Cleaveland,

founder of Cleveland, Ohio

40’s

@41-1885 Louis Riel,

Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba",

hanged for treason

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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