Nov 6

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Nov 6, 2017 Week: 45 \ Day: 310

86004 Today: H 59° \ L 37°

Average Sky Cover: 20% 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  25mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1934]   Record Low: 7°[1935]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Quote of the Day

You always admire what you really don't understand.

  Blaise Pascal

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Observances Today

Color The World Orange Day  Link  

Fill Our Staplers Day 

International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment

     in War and Armed Conflict

Job Action Day Link   

Marooned without a Compass Day

National Nachos Day Link

Saxophone Day

Traffic Directors Day  Link  

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Observances This Week

1-7

National Fig Week

National Patient Accessibility Week

World Communication Week 

3-5

National Farm Toy Show Days

Sherlock Holmes Weekend

5-11

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link   

National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link   

National Radiologic Technology Week Link

6-10

Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link 

National Young Reader's Week Link   

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

00’s                                    

◘1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas

◘1850 1st Hawaiian fire engine

1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President

1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6-year term as US Confederate President

◘1879 Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day

◘1903 USA recognizes independence of Panama

◘1913 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners' march in South Africa

◘1917 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution

1917 New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections

◘1939 World War II: 'Sonderaktion Krakau' - a Nazi operation against academics, with 184 professors arrested in Krakow and deported

1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down

1947 NBC's "Meet the Press" debuts - US's longest running TV show

1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball - actually Canadian)

◘1962 UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa

◘1979 Ayatollah Khomeini takes over in Iran

1981 Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award

1986 President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studios' stages

1996 "The English Patient" based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott Thomas premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1997)

◘2005 The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.

2012 Barack Obama re-elected as US President

2012 US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State

2012 Elizabeth Warren becomes the first female Senator from Massachusetts

◘2016 Indian government declares levels of air pollution in Delhi an emergency situation, closing schools and construction sites

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My Rambling Thoughts

Cool and breezy fall day.

Broncos not doing well during the first half, maybe better in the second half. (Thanks CBS, the game was switched during the 3^rd Q…not right!) Maybe the Cards will do better today. Maybe Peace will break out around the world.

Another church shooting, this time in Texas. 20+ dead, more injured. Come on…when is the right time to talk about this country’s gun violence problem.

45 needs to learn how the average American lives. When I flew to that area it was an overnight flight lasting between 13 and 16 hours. 45 got an overnight stop in Hawaii, then the flight. As big and luxurious as Air Force One, an overnight flight would have been easy. After all, he isn’t flying the plane.

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Bizarre News

*---- Sex Education ----*

An elementary school teacher committed "career suicide" after streaming a porn movie on his classroom's whiteboard, according to police in Michigan. Saginaw police said that they were called after the substitute teacher showed kids a video of a naked woman twerking and another clip of a naked man and woman performing sex acts on each other. The incident unfolded during the 6th-grade class. According to the police investigation, the teacher brought his personal computer to class. At some point, the teacher accidentally connected his laptop to the classroom whiteboard. Superintendent Nathaniel McClain said that the teacher was immediately removed from class and will no longer be allowed into the school district. He is currently looking for work as a movie producer in Hollywood.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Jonathan Harris,

actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space)

(d. 2002)

70’s

@78- James Naismith,

Canadian-American physical educator and inventor (basketball, football helmet), born in Almonte, Ontario

(d. 1939)

@77- John Philip Sousa,

march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), born in Washington, D.C.  

(d. 1932)

@73- Peter Matz,

orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnett Show), born in Pittsburgh,

(d. 2002)

@71- Suleiman the Magnificent,

Ottoman Sultan and the longest-reigning sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1530-1566), born in Trabzon, Ottoman Empire

(d. 1566)

71- Sally Field,

American actress (Forrest Gump, Gidget, Flying Nun), born in Pasadena, CA

60’s

@67- Glenn Frey,

rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy), born in Detroit, Michigan

(d. 2016)

62- Maria Shriver,

American newscaster (Sunday Today) and [ex]-wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, born in Chicago

50’s

@55- James Jones,

novelist (From Here to Eternity), born in Robinson Illinois

(d. 1977)

@51- Charles Dow, A

merican journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal)

(d. 1902)

51- Peter DeLuise,

actor (21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV), born in Hollywood

40’s

47- Ethan Hawke,

actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers), born in Austin, Texas

30’s

38- Lamar Odom,

American basketball player

20’s

29- Emma Stone,

American actress (Superbad, The Amazing Spider-Man), born in Scottsdale, AZ

@27- Pat Tillman,

American football player

 (d. 2004)

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Historical Obits Today

70’s

@70-1991 Gene Tierney,

American actress (Laura, Whirlpool),

emphysema

50’s

@53-1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,

Russian composer of the late-Romantic period (1812 Overture, Swan Lake),

suspected cholera

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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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