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Nov 7, 2017 Week: 45 \ Day: 311
86004 Today: H 58° \ L 39°
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave.: 13mph\Gusts: 0mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 71°[1934] Record Low: 8°[1947]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus
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Observances Today
Election Day
Employee Brotherhood Day Link (SpongeBob Squarepants)
International Merlot Day Link
National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day Link
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
U.S. General Election 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
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
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1400’s
◘1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes earth in a wheat field near village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact
1500’s
◘1512 Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1600’s
◘1651 King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
◘1665 1st edition of "London Gazette" published as "The Oxford Gazette"
1700’s
◘1775 Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1800’s
1805 Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
◘1824 St Petersburg floods to 4.20m, city's greatest flood
1874 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1876 Edward Bouchet is 1st African American to receive a Ph.D from a US college (Yale)
1893 US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1900’s
1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1918 Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
◘1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
1929 Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building in New York
◘1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong
1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1940 Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
1942 First US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1955 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1962 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California
1967 LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1973 NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
◘1990 Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers ◘1997 "Bean" directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr Bean opens in US
2000’s
2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas
2000 Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming first US First Lady to win public office and while still the First Lady
◘2001 The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
2012 Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
◘2015 Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000)
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My Rambling Thoughts
Finished my last load of laundry this morning. Been busy and only did one load a day for several days. Glad it’s done for a while. Everything is even put away.
Listening to all these Christians in the small town, dealing with their tragedy. Maybe, just maybe, this will be the straw that breaks the NRA’s hold on Congress.
It was a white guy, so of course, 45 says it is mental illness. When it is a non-white, it’s terrorism. As the commercial says: No matter how loud they yell that the apple is a banana, it is still an apple.
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Bizarre News
If you rob a roadside wiener stand at gunpoint, what is the most 'poetic' form of justice you could think of?
A 19-year-old man who allegedly held up a South Side Chicago hot dog stand shot himself in the weenie while running away.
Terrion Pouncy was arrested at the Oak Lawn hospital not long after he was found slumped on the steps of a home across the street from a West Pullman restaurant that Chicago Police say he robbed at gunpoint about 6 a.m. on Halloween.
Pouncy was unable to run further because of the pain of a self-inflicted gunshot wound suffered when tried to adjust the .38-caliber pistol in his waistband as he ran off.
Pouncy had pulled out the gun and demanded cash from two employees, pressing the gun to the head of a 39-year-old worker. Still pointing the gun at the workers, Pouncy stooped over to collect the cash. Shifting the gun in his waistband as he ran out, he apparently pulled the trigger, firing a bullet that struck him in the penis.
Surveillance cameras captured video and audio of the robbery, and showed Pouncy struggling to make it across the street, stop on a bench, and make his way to the steps of a nearby house before collapsing.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
99- Billy Graham,
American Baptist evangelist (Crusades), born in Charlotte, NC
80’s
@87- Dean Jagger,
Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry)
(d. 1991)
@85- Hiroshi Yamauchi,
Japanese businessman (President of Nintendo, 1949-2003, owner of Seattle Mariners), born in Kyoto, Japan
(d. 2013)
70’s
79- Barry Newman,
actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli), born in Boston
@76- Al Hirt,
jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), born in New Orleans,
(d. 1999)
75- Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella],
American singer (Secret Agent Man), born in NYC
74- Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson],
Canadian singer (Clouds), born in Fort Macleod, Alberta
60’s
@66- Marie Curie,
Polish-French scientist who discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911), born in Warsaw, Poland
(d. 1934)
@60- Leon Trotsky,
Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army [OS 26-10-1879], born in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire
(d. 1940)
40’s
@46- Albert Camus, French author (The Just-Nobel 1957), born in Dréan, Algeria (d. 1960)
42- Marcus Luttrell, United States Navy SEAL ("Lone Survivor"), born in Houston
20’s
21- Lorde [Ella Yelich-O'Connor], New Zealand singer (Royals), born in Auckland, New Zealand
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-1913 Alfred Russel Wallace,
British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution through natural selection
80’s
@87-2004 Howard Keel,
American actor, singer and president of the Screen Actors Guild (7 Brides for 7 Brothers, Kiss Me Kate)
@82-2016 Leonard Cohen,
Canadian writer and singer-songwriter (Death of Ladies Man)
70’s
@78-1962 Eleanor Roosevelt,
1st Lady (1933-1945),
cardiac failure
60’s
@67-2011 Joe Frazier,
Olympic Heavyweight Boxer,
liver cancer
@65-1992 Jack Kelly,
US actor (Maverick, Vega$),
stroke
50’s
@50-1980 Steve McQueen,
actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt),
mesothelioma
40’s
@42-1908 Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker],
American train and bank robber,
shot by Bolivian soldiers
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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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