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Nov 11, 2017 Week: 45 \ Day: 315
86004 Today: H 63° \ L 32° 43 days without precipitation
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave.: 15mph\Gusts: 0mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1973] Record Low: 7°[1950]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
There are two ways of spreading light:
to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
Edith Wharton
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Observances Today
Death/Duty Day
Domino Day Link
National Homunculus Awareness Day Link
Origami Day
Red Lipstick Day
Veteran's Day (Traditional)
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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
7-13
Dear Santa Letter Week
8-11
International Dyslexia Reading, Literacy Week
10-12
11-20
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
1647 Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in the American colonies
◘ 1675 German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = f(x) function
1700’s
◘ 1775 Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant goes to London to solicit more support from the government and to persuade the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances in exchange for their participation as allies in the impending war
1778 Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
◘ 1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced to England from China
1800’s
1807 Washington Irving's Salmagundi periodical published - first to associate the name "Gotham" with New York City
1865 Mary Edward Walker, the first US Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1868 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA
1900’s
1909 Construction of US navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
◘ 1920 Great Britain's monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled
◘ 1920 The burials of unknown soldiers take place simultaneously in Westminster Abbey, London, and at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.
1921 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery
◘ 1923 Eternal flame lit for tomb of unknown soldier, Arc de Triumph
1925 Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1926 U.S. Route 66 is established.
1930 Patent number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1933 "Great Black Blizzard" 1st great dust storm in Great Plains
1939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
◘ 1954 Publication of "Two Towers", 2nd volume of "Lord of the Rings", by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
1959 1st episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
◘ 1961 Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
1961 "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New York
◘ 1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
◘ 1983 President Reagan became 1st US president to address Japanese legislature
1987 Judge Anthony Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
◘ 1987 van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
◘ 1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
◘ 1992 The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests
1994 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
2000’s
◘ 2004 Yasser Arafat's death through unidentified causes confirmed by Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas elected PLO chairman minutes later.
◘ 2014 The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence
◘ 2015 Flawless 12 karat Blue Moon Diamond sells for $48.4 million at auction in Geneva
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My Rambling Thoughts
Happy Veteran’s Day. Thank you to all those who have served. My dad served in both the Navy and the Army. He was in the Navy years before the war, and then joined the army during the war. The Navy set him straight after he dropped out of HS, the army gave him the GI bill which helped him get his education. I have lots of friends and acquaintances who have served.
Quiet Friday. Learned an old lesson again. Headed out to do some shopping. Grabbed my reusable bags from the back seat and started into the store. Reached in my pocket for my phone and discovered the phone but no wallet. Left it on the table when I put on clean pants. Again. Came home and saved some money today…that I will spend on a day soon.
Getting ready for our discussion group tomorrow. We will be discussing Saudi Arabia, with articles written before the current situation, so it becomes more work to see how things were and how they are now. Should be a good discussion.
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Bizarre News
*----------- Weaponized Prune Juice -----------*
A husband and wife in Texas were surprised to find a mess in one of their bedrooms. Terry Watkins of Corsicana said that his wife and pets were home when she heard a large explosion. She walked into the bedroom, where she noticed that the fridge's door blew off and prune juice was everywhere. Watkins said that he and his wife have been shopping daily at their neighborhood Brookshire's supermarket for several years. Last month, Watkins bought a bottle of Brookshire's prune juice. The bottle of prune juice was placed inside a mini fridge in the bedroom. The bottle had been opened and about one cup of prune juice was consumed when it suddenly exploded. The explosion blew off the fridge door and scattered prune juice in the bedroom. Watkins filed a complaint with Brookshire's and they offered him a free bottle of prune juice. He rejected the offer because he did not want another 'bomb' in his house, Watkins said. But the real mystery in this story is; who keeps a refrigerator in the bedroom?
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@92- Alger Hiss,
State Department official hid papers in a pumpkin
(d. 1996)
80’s
@87- Jonathan Winters,
comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), born in Dayton, Ohio
(d. 2013)
@84- Sam Spiegel,
producer (On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai)
(d. 1985)
@84- Kurt Vonnegut Jr,
American author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan), born in Indianapolis,
(d. 2007)
60’s
@60- George S. Patton,
American WWII general (Sicily, Italy and Normandy) known as "Old Blood & Guts", born in San Gabriel, California
(d. 1945)
50’s
@59- Ephraim McDowell,
surgeon (pioneered abdominal surgery)
(d. 1830)
@59- Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Russian novelist (Crime and Punishment, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) who helped shape literary modernism and existentialism, born in Moscow, Russian Empire
(d. 1881)
57- Stanley Tucci,
American actor and director
55- Demi Moore [Guynes],
American actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane), born in Roswell, New Mexico
40’s
45- Adam Beach,
Canadian First Nations (Saulteaux)actor
44- Jason White,
guitarist Green Day
43- Leonardo DiCaprio,
American actor (The Departed, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street), born in Los Angeles
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@83-2016 Robert Vaughn,
American actor (Napolean Solo in Man from UNCLE, I Spy)
70’s
@75-2004 Yasser Arafat,
Chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004) and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner,
stroke?
60’s
@69-1938 Mary Mallon,
Irish-American patient best known as 'Typhoid Mary' and the first person in the United States known to be immune to typhoid,
pneumonia
@60-1945 Jerome Kern,
US composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane),
stroke
40’s
@42-1855 Søren Kierkegaard,
Danish philosopher
TB
30’s
@31-1831 Nat Turner,
slave rebel who led a violent insurrection in Virginia,
hanged
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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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