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Nov 4, 2017 Week: 44 \ Day: 308
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 39°
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave.: 11mph\Gusts: 25mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1975] Record Low: -1°[1922]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
Henry James
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Observances Today
Digital Scrapbooking Day
National Chicken Lady Day
National Candy Day Link
National Easy-Bake Oven Day
Pumpkin Destruction Day
Sausage and Kraut Day
SOS Day: 3Bison Day
Use Your Common Sense Day
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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
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
1646 Massachusetts uses death penalty for denying that Holy Bible is God's word
1800’s
◘1819 Māori Chiefs Hongi Hika and Rewa sell 13,000 acres (5260 hectares) at Kerikeri to the Church Missionary Society for 48 felling axes, New Zealand
1841 First wagon train arrives in California
1845 First nationally observed uniform election day in US
1861 University of Washington founded in Seattle
1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown
1879 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus
1879 James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio
1900’s
1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music opens in NYC
◘1910 Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East
1914 Vogue holds 1st model show ("Fashion Fete", NYC)
◘1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the "Brown Shirts") is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
◘1922 Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt
1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross elected first US female governor (Wyoming)
◘1929 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sled journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
1933 Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
1939 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
◘1946 United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formed
◘1948 American-born British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
1948 American humorist Will Rogers commemorated by US Postage Service on 3-cent stamp
◘1950 US troops vacate Pyongyang North Korea
◘1958 Angelo G Roncalli crowned as Pope John XXIII
◘1960 Mary Leakey and Louis Leakey discover first Homo habilis jaw fragments (OH 7) at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania
◘1963 John Lennon utters his infamous line at a Royal Variety Performance "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…" in London
1968 "Wichita Lineman" 12th album by Glen Campbell is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1969)
1994 United Center in Chicago opens - Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83
◘1996 British girls group the Spice Girls release their debut album "Spice", goes on to sell 23 million copies
2000’s
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States
◘2015 Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women
◘2016 Paris Agreement on climate change becomes effective
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My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday was my Jury Duty Day. Got early and drove downtown to the parking lot next to the court. It is now a Pay To Park place, much like all of downtown. I drove a couple of blocks to a park and parked on the street. When I got inside the courthouse, I had to take off my belt to go through the metal detector. Sadly, no trip was involved. Then I got in the line to check in. When I got to the window I learn, for the first time, that I can get a free parking sign to put in my car. Oh well, the exercise was good for me. The jurors (all 64 of them) and I filled out the jury questionnaire and turned it in. We sat, and sat, and sat some more. We had to be there by 8:00am. At 9:15 we were finally called in to the tiny courtroom. When I got in, there were no empty seats. The jury box was filled, the visitor gallery was filled, and there were about 10 of us still standing. The judge started with ‘I have good news and bad news. The good news is that a plea deal has been reached and your service will not be needed. The bad news is for those who were hoping to serve on a jury, you can’t be called for another 2 years.’ Looked around to see what the case was about, but nothing posted anywhere. I have to wonder what changed the defendant’s mind…my guess is those questionnaires we filled out. We must have sounded very tough. I was out by 9:30 and home by 10a.
Somehow, this messed up my whole day. I am a creature of habit and yesterday I couldn’t get my act together at home. Got a good night’s sleep and all is well today.
I am still shocked. 45 was interviewed on Faux yesterday. Missed it. But the excerpt shows that he has no concept of American democracy. Something about not needing others because he is the only one that counts. SMH.
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Bizarre News
A man who found himself locked overnight inside a Wisconsin store's beer cooler was cited for theft when he helped himself to some beverages.
Police said Jeremy Van Ert, 38, told officers he was shopping at the Kwik Trip store and ended up trapped in the store's cooler when employees locked it for the night at 11:50 p.m.
A Kwik Trip manager said a customer told employees about 5:50 a.m. Wednesday that there appeared to be a man locked in the cooler and he left the store in a hurry when employees opened the door.
The manager said the man had an 18 ounce bottle of Icehouse Beer and three cans of malt beverage Four Loko while locked in the cooler and had knocked over a stack of boxes, destroying three cans of beer.
The man was cited for retail theft for not paying for the beverages when he left the store. Police said Van Ert was arrested on a probation hold from an unrelated case. Police said the conditions of Van Ert's probation banned him from consuming alcohol.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@92- Walter Cronkite,
American broadcast journalist and news anchor (CBS Evening News 1962-81), born in St Joseph, Missouri
(d. 2009)
@90- Doris Roberts,
American actress (Everybody Loves Raymond), born in St Louis, Missouri
(d. 2016)
80’s
@85- Ruth Handler [née Mosko],
American toy manufacturer (invented the Barbie doll), born in Denver
(d. 2002)
@85- Art Carney,
American actor (Ed Norton-Honeymooners), born in Mount Vernon, New York
(d. 2003)
80- Loretta Swit,
American actress (Hotlips Houlihan in M*A*S*H), born in Passaic, NJ
70’s
@79- C. K. [Charles Kenneth] Williams,
American poet and translator (Pulitzer prize 2000),
(d. 2015)
@76- Martin Balsam,
American actor (Murray-Archie Bunker's Place, Catch 22), born in NYC,
(d. 1996)
71- Laura Bush,
U.S. First Lady 2001-09
50’s
57- Markie Post, [Marjorie],
actress (Christine-Night Court), born in Palo Alto, California
57- Charles Frazier,
American author…no relation
57- Kathy Griffin,
American comedienne (Suddenly Susan, Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List), born in Chicago
57- Marc Awodey,
American artist and writer
56- Ralph Macchio,
Huntington NY, actor (Karate Kid, 8 is Enough)
@55- Will Rogers,
American humorist and actor (Judge Priest), born in Oologah, Oklahoma
(d. 1935)
55- Jeff Probst,
American television host (Survivor)
40’s
48- Matthew McConaughey,
American actor (Contact, A Time to Kill), born in Uvalde, TX
48- Puff Daddy [Sean Combs],
American rapper and record producer (Come to Me, I'll be Missing You), born in NYC
44- Steven Ogg,
voice actor (Grand Theft Auto)
42- Curtis Stone,
Australian chef and television personality
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@98-2006 Ernestine Gilbreth Carey,
American author (Cheaper by the Dozen)
@92-2011 Andy Rooney,
American radio and television writer
80’s
@88-1955 Cy Young,
American baseball pitcher and MLB all-time wins leader
@85-2014 Acker Bilk,
English clarinetist who was part of the traditional jazz revival of the 1950s and 1960s
70’s
@74-1869 George Peabody,
American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute
@73-2005 Sheree North,
American actress and singer,
during cancer surgery
@73-1995 Yitzhak Rabin,
Prime Minister of Israel (1974-77 and 1992-95) and 1994 Nobel Peace Prize winner,
assassinated
60’s
@66-2008 Michael Crichton,
American author,
lymphoma
American screenwriter (E.T.),
cancer
20’s
@22-1982 Dominique Dunne,
actress (Poltergeist),
murdered by boyfriend
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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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