Dec 2

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Dec 2, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 337

86004 Today: H 56° \ L 28°  

Average Sky Cover: 94%

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  11mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[1946]   Record Low: -5°[1991]

Dec Averages: 50°\23°

Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)

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Quote of the Day

Courage is found in unlikely places.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

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Observances Today

Bartender Appreciation Day Link  Link     

Earmuff Day or Chester Greenwood Day Link  

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery Day

National Fritters Day

National Mutt Day Link  

National Rhubarb Vodka Day Link 

Safety Razor Day

Skywarn Recognition Day Link  

Special Education Day

World Pear Day Link 

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Observances This Week

1-7: Cookie Cutter Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                 

1409 The University of Leipzig opens

1600’s                                 

1697 St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London)

1800’s                                 

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris

1823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regarding Latin America

1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West

1867 In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States

1882 Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium

1900’s                                 

1901 King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades

1927 1st Model A Ford sold, for $385

1927 Paleoanthropologist Davidson Blackannounces to the Geological Society of China that the ancient human fossils from Zhoukoudian, China are a new species which he has named 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')

1929 First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien

1939 British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC

1942 World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicagi Pile-1 (world's 1st nuclear reactor) at the University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico Fermi

1950 "I Robot" collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov published by Genome Press in the US

1952 First human birth televised to public on KOA-TV Denver, Colorado

1960 Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million year old Homo erectus (Olduvai Hominid 9) in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

1961 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist & will lead Cuba to Communism

1961 Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing

1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus

1971 United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates

1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs

1975 Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)

1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart

1985 NFL QB legends Dan Marino and John Elwayface each other for the first time, a 30-26 victory for the Dolphins (Marino 390 yards and 3 touchdowns)

1990 First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany

1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive

2000’s                                 

2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York

2014 Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the human race

2014 Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault allegations

2014 The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds

2016 Donald Trump takes a call with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, in a break from America's long standing "One China" policy

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My Rambling Thoughts

Sure wish all these days of clouds would bring some moisture. Still dry. Our predicted snow has moved somewhere else.

Flynn pleads guilty to telling lies to the FBI. From a military man who swore to uphold the constitution and its laws. Hmmm. I’m sure there are a few who are chanting ‘lock him up.’

Not sure if anything exciting is happening this weekend. Time will tell.

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Bizarre News

*------------------- O.M.G. -------------------*

You don't have to be a celebrity to give your baby a stupid name. Take it from this Arkansas couple who plan to name their firstborn child after their favorite eatery: Olivia Garton. Justin and Jordan Garton of Fort Smith said they have decided to name the baby, due in December, after the restaurant where they once ate every day for seven weeks after buying a "never-ending pasta pass" in 2015. The couple said they quickly ruled out Olive Garton for the baby's name, but soon settled on Olivia. "We were able to make the joke, but a little more subtle, and it's still a pretty name," said Jordan Garton, 26. "It was definitely an easy decision." The Gartons said they hid one other Easter egg in baby Olivia's name: Her middle name will be Michelle, making her initials O.M.G. "I guess we just have to be those hashtag millennial parents," Jordan Garton said. 

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Julie Harris,

actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden),

(d. 2013)

86- Edwin Meese III,

US attorney General (1985-88),

born in Oakland, California

70’s

73- Cathy Lee Crosby,

actress (Coach, That's Incredible)

60’s

63- Dan Butler,

actor (Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe-Frasier)

63- Stone Phillips,

news host (NBC Dateline)

50’s

@50- Gianni Versace,

Italian fashion designer (Versace),

born in Reggio Calabria, Italy

(d. 1997)

40’s

49- Lucy Liu, American actress

44- Monica Seles,

Yugoslavian-American tennis star (US Open 1992),

born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

30’s

39- Nelly Furtado,

Canadian singer and songwriter

36- Britney Spears,

American popstar ("Baby One More Time," "Oops! ...I did it again" and "I'm A Slave 4 U"),

born in McComb, Mississippi

34- Aaron Rodgers,

American NFL player (Green Bay Packers),

born in Chico, California

@31- Georges Seurat,

French post-impressionist painter (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte),

born in Paris, France

(d. 1891)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2016 Sammy Lee,

American doctor and platform diver, 1st Asian American to win Olympic Gold (1948, 1952)

@90-1990 Aaron Copland,

American composer (Billy the Kid, Fanfare for Common Man)

80’s

@82-1990 Robert Cummings,

actor (Love that Bob)

70’s

@78-1967 Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman,

archbishop of NY

@78-1935 Martha Carey Thomas,

American educator, suffragist, linguist and second President of Bryn Mawr College,

coronary occlusion

@74-1814 Marquis de Sade,

French philosopher and writer (Justine), The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name.

@70-1936 John Ringling,

American circus owner

60’s

@69-1986 Desi Arnaz,

actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy),

lung cancer

@66-1995 Roxie Roker,

actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons),

breast cancer

@61±1547 Hernán Cortés,

Spanish conquistador (defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico),

pleurisy

50’s

@59-1859 John Brown,

American abolitionist and revolutionary (Harpers Ferry),

hanged

@56-1892 Jay Gould,

American entrepreneur/robber baron,

TB

40’s

@48-1982 Marty Feldman,

comedian (Young Frankenstein),

heart attack

@46-1552 Francis Xavier,

Spanish Catholic missionary,

fever

30’s

@39-1963 Sabu Sabu,

actor (Jungle Book, Drums), heart attack

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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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