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Nov 327, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 331

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 36°  

Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  14mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 68°[1949]   Record Low: -5°[1984]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Quote of the Day

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

  Thomas Fuller

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Observances Today

Cider Monday 

Cyber Monday 

National Craft Jerky Day  Link

Pins and Needles Day

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Observances This Week

22-28

National Deal Week  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                 

1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1826 John Walker invents friction match in England

1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston

1868 Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General George A. Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack

1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize

1896 "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt

1900’s                                 

1901 U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.

1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US

1920 "The Mask of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film

1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. 1943 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)

1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"

1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38

1965 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.

1967 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour"

1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

1973 US Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President

1973 US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls

1999 Left-wing Labor Party takes control of the New Zealand government, leader Helen Clark becomes first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history

2000’s                                 

2006 The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.

2012 The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece

2013 "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released

2015 Robert Lewis Dear (57) shots 3 dead and wounds 9 at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado

2015 "Holy grail" of shipwrecks the San Jose, sunk 1708, is confirmed found by an international team off the coast of Colombia

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My Rambling Thoughts

I cannot believe our fall weather. It’s almost the end of November and no snow or measurable precipitation. Only a couple of nights have hovered around freezing. Hard to believe at 7000 feet.

Broncos v Raiders not on my TV in AZ. Cards starting off well.

Hmmm…

Amount that Carrier promised to invest in an Indiana plant in a deal with 45 to save domestic jobs: $16 million

100% of that money will be used for automation.

In politics today, one must always search beyond the headlines for the true story. Sad.

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Bizarre News

*----------------- Avant Garde -----------------*

An Indian man is headed for the Guinness Book of World Records after stuffing a staggering 459 drinking straws into his mouth at once. Guinness confirmed Manoj Kumar Maharana, 23, of Odisha, broke the world record for most straws stuffed in the mouth without using hands by cramming 459 straws into his pie hole. Maharana, who was allowed to use elastic bands to keep the straws together but not his hands, has to have all of the straws in his mouth and keep them there for 10 seconds without falling to obtain the title. Maharana was allowed to use his hands to get the straws into his mouth, but not to hold them in place. The previous record holder, British man Simon Elmore, stuffed 400 straws into his mouth at an event in Germany.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

@88- David Merrick, [Margulois],

Broadway producer (Hello Dolly),

born in Hong Kong

(d. 2000)

@80- "Buffalo" Bob Smith,

TV host (Howdy Doody),

born in Buffalo, NY

(d. 1998)

70’s

@72- William Cornelius Van Horne,

American railway executive (Canadian Pacific Railway),

born in Frankfort, Illinois

(d. 1915)

60’s

@68- James Avery,

TV actor (Fresh Prince)

(d. 2013)

66- Kathryn Bigelow,

American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty),

born in San Carlos, California

62- Bill Nye,

the Science Guy, TV Host

60- Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg,

attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter

50’s

@56- Eddie Rabbitt,

country singer (I Love a Rainy Night),

born in Brooklyn,

(d. 1998)

53- Robin Simone Givens, [Mrs Mike Tyson]

Actress (Darlene-Head of the Class),

born in NYC

40’s

47- Eric Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)

@42- Anders Celsius,

Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale),

born in Uppsala, Sweden

(d. 1744)

41- Jaleel White,

actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters),

born in Los Angeles

30’s

@32- Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam],

Chinese-American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon),

born in San Francisco, California

(d. 1973)

20’s

@27- Jimi Hendrix,

rock guitarist (Purple Haze),

born in Seattle, Washington

(d. 1970)

Teens

@17- Shrek the sheep,

New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece,

born at Bendigo Station, Otago

(d. 2011)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@82-1988 John Carradine,

actor (Ten Commandments)

70’s

@74-1990 David White,

actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched),

heart attack

@70-1901 Clement Studebaker,

American automobile manufacturer

60’s

@65-1953 Eugene O'Neill,

playwright (Nobel 1936),

Parkinson’s

50’s

@56-8 BC Horace,

Roman Republican poet (Odes)

40’s

@49-1978 George Moscone,

Mayor of San Francisco (1976-78)

assassinated

@48-1978 Harvey Milk,

first openly gay person to be elected to public office,

assassinated

30’s

@36-1852 Ada Lovelace,

English mathematician considered the first computer programmer,

uterine cancer

20’s

@26-1934 "Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis],

gangster,

shot by FBI

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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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