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Nov 10, 2017 Week: 45 \ Day: 314
86004 Today: H 62° \ L 33°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 7mph\Gusts: 16mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 71°[1973] Record Low: 5°[1946]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock
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Observances Today
Area Code Day
Kristallnacht
NET Cancer Awareness Day Link
Sesame Street Day
Windows Day (Microsoft)
World Science Day for Peace and Development Link
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Observances This Week
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
8-11
International Dyslexia Reading, Literacy Week
10-12
National Donor Sabath
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
◘1619 René Descartes has the dream that inspires his "Meditations on First Philosophy"
◘1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (New York) to the English
1700’s
1766 The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
1775 The Second Continental Congress forms Continental Marines, precursor to the United States Marine Corps
1800’s
◘1847 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
◘1871 Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
1891 1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1900’s
1911 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
◘1917 New Bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution
◘1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
1919 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
◘1938 Second day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after assassination of a German diplomat in Paris
1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
◘1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened
1983 US Federal government shut down
1990 John Hughes' film "Home Alone" directed by Chris Columbus and starring Macaulay Culkin premieres in Chicago
◘1991 Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert with 157 pro tennis tournament wins
◘1995 In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces
1997 Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served
2000’s
◘2007 ¿Por qué no te callas? ("Why don't you shut up?" ) incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.
2014 Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl is spending time from Sunday till after Thanksgiving in CA. Her grandson has to have a battery replaced in his heart monitor. Mary is spending time in Phx for the Vets Holiday.
Gov’t career employees are used to seeing a new boss show up with little knowledge of the system. It’s why there are so many career employees to help the newbie through the process. No one is used to the number of ‘new’ people who are attempting to run the government and who seem to not want to listen to the career employees there to help. Tired of the daily headlines of another major goof by someone unfamiliar with government procedure.
New TSA results, missed 70% of contraband. Promise to get better. We heard that last year. And all that hassle at the airport to miss 70%. Hmmm…as a teacher if I had a student getting only 30% correct, I would get busy to find help for that student…but I went to Public School as a student, and not like the Sec. of Education.
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Bizarre News
Ying Shi of San Diego found herself in just such a situation. Her husband, Hongwei Zhang lost control of his vehicle and slammed into several concrete barriers.
He immediately called 911 but he was having difficulty explaining where they were, so he ran into traffic and frantically flagged down a passing car, waving his arms and standing in front of it to get the driver to stop.
Lucky for the couple, the driver was a registered nurse who had just finished her shift and was heading home.
"He was saying, 'My wife, my wife!' The next thing he said was, 'The baby came!'" recalled Dayna Dumont, who works in the emergency department at Scripps Memorial Hospital.
Dumont said the couple's car looked like it was totaled, with both airbags deployed. Inside, in the front seat, Dumont found Ying Shi, a no-longer-pregnant woman. Her baby girl was already out.
After paramedics arrived, Dumont held the baby in place as a medic cut the umbilical cord.
Zhang and Shi didn't want to be interviewed, but issued a statement through the hospital, thanking all those who helped them.
And the name of the baby? Did they name it Crash? Asphalt? Impact?
Nope. They named her Anna.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@89- Russell Johnson,
actor (the professor in Gilligan's Island), born in Ashley, Pennsylvania
(d. 2014)
@81- Lilly Pulitzer,
fashion designer
(d. 2013)
70’s
@77- Claude Rains,
British actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca), born in London, England
(d. 1967)
@77- George Fenneman,
American radio and TV announcer (You Bet Your Life), born in Peking China
(d. 1997)
@75- Roy Scheider,
actor (Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion)
(d. 2008)
@72- Russell Means,
Native American activist,
(d. 2012)
70- Dave Loggins,
singer (Please come to Boston)
60’s
@62- Martin Luther,
German theologian and key figure in the Protestant Reformation, born in Eisleben, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire
(d. 1546)
61- Sinbad [David Adkins],
comedian and actor (Different World, At the Apollo)
50’s
@58- Richard Burton,
Welsh stage and screen actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf), born in Pontrhydyfen, South Wales
(d. 1984)
50- Michael Jai White,
American actor
40’s
49- Tracy Morgan,
comedian/actor
48- Ellen Pompeo,
American actress (Grey's Anatomy), born in Everett, Massachusetts
30’s
39- Eve [Jeffers-Cooper],
American rapper and actress, born in Philadelphia
@36- Patrick Pearse,
Irish political activist
(d. 1916)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-2010 Dino De Laurentiis,
Italian film producer
80’s
@87-2006 Jack Palance,
American actor
@84-2007 Norman Mailer,
American novelist
@80-1956 Harry Ford Sinclair,
founder of Sinclair Oil
70’s
@75-1982 Leonid Brezhnev,
Soviet Leader, General Secretary (1964-82),
heart attack
@71-1992 Kevin Joseph Aloysius “Chuck” Connors,
US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics),
lung cancer
50’s
@58-1973 Stringbean (David Akeman),
country singer/comedian/banjoist (Hee Haw),
murdered
@57-1938 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk,
1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey,
cirrhosis of the liver
@57±-1777 Cornstalk,
Shawnee chief,
murdered by angry soldier
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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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