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Nov 21, 2017 Week: 47 \ Day: 325
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 30°
Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave.: 8mph\Gusts: 15mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1950] Record Low: -5°[1979]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.
Anne Bronte
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Observances Today
Alascattalo Day (About Alaska & humor)
National Entrepreneurship Day Link
World Television Day
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Observances This Week
17-26
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link
19-25
Better Conversation Week
Church/State Separation Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
International Restorative Justice Week Link
National Family Week
19-23
National Farm-City Week
19-26
National Bible Week: 19-26
National Game & Puzzle Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
00’s
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1787
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Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar
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1789
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North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
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1794
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Honolulu Harbor discovered
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1852
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Duke University, founded in 1838 as Union Institute, chartered as Normal College
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1865
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Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
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1871
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The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is fired
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1877
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Thomas Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph), the 1st machine to play and record sound
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1902
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The Canadian government appoints a commission to consider revising, classifying, and consolidating the many public statutes passed over the years
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1905
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1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
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1906
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China prohibits the opium trade
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1918
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The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth
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1922
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Rebecca L Felton (Ga) sworn in as first female US Senator
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1942
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Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
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1946
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Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub
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1946
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"The Best Years of Our Lives", film directed by William Wyler, based on MacKinlay Kantor's novella Glory for Me, starring Myrna Loy and Fredric March, is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1947)
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1953
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Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax
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1959
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Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
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1967
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Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
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1973
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US President Richard Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
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1974
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Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
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1976
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"Rocky" directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)
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1980
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Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
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1989
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TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
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1992
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Oregon Senator Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances
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1999
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Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, departs from Cuba with his mother
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2013
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The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys
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2013
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"Happy" single is released by Pharrell Williams (Billboard Song of the Year 2014, Grammy Award for Best Pop Solo Performance 2015)
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2016
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India celebrates 50th anniversary of IR8, rice variety specially bred that saved much of Asia from famine
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice fall day. Turkey breast thawing in refrigerator. Turkey day is just around the corner.
Only NPR made a much better start to the day than TV. So informative, so calm, some good human interest stories. Liking it a lot. I always listened to NPR as I got ready for the day, then moved to the computer and turned on the squawk box. No TV this morning, just NPR.
Posting the Alaskan Cruise information on Focus became for cumbersome than I anticipated. Awaiting a true word document to finish it. Hopefully tomorrow. It is a great cruise.
About a week ago I got a call from an unknown person and unknown number. They were calling me to tell me to call the government immediately since the government was issuing an arrest warrant from the IRS because I had not paid taxes. Haha. Checked the internet machine and it was a known scam number. Blocked the number. Got two more calls from different numbers with basically the same message. Blocked them too. Still waiting for the arrest. LOL.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@92- Stan Musial,
American MLB outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ), born in Donora, PA
(d. 2013)
80’s
@83- Voltaire [Francois-Marie Arouet],
French writer, philosopher and playwright (Candide), born in Paris
(d. 1778)
@81- Henrietta (Hetty) Green,
American financier (Witch of Wall Street), born in New Bedford, Mass
(d. 1916)
80- Marlo Thomas, [Mrs Phil Donahue],
Detroit Mich (That Girl!, Jenny)
70’s
@77- Samuel Cunard,
founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line)
(d. 1865)
72- Goldie Hawn,
American actress (The First Wives Club, Private Benjamin), born in Washington, DC
60’s
@67- William Beaumont,
American surgeon and father of gastric physiology, born in Lebanon, CT
(d. 1853)
50’s
54- Nicollette Sheridan,
Worthing England, actress (Paige-Knots Landing)
52- Bjork,
Icelandic singer (Like Someone in Love), born in Reykjavik
40’s
46- Michael Strahan,
NFL defensive end (NY Giants)
30’s
32- Carly Rae Jepsen,
Canadian singer ("Call Me Maybe"), born in Mission, British Columbia
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@85-2011 Anne McCaffrey,
sci-fi author
@81-1941 Henrietta Vinton Davis,
African-American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator and public speaker
70’s
@75-1981 Harry Von Zell,
TV announcer (Burns & Allen),
cancer
@73-1963 Robert Stroud,
American convict "Birdman of Alcatraz",
in prison
60’s
@64-1924 Florence Harding,
American First Lady,
renal failure
50’s
@50-1959 Max Baer,
American heavyweight boxing champion (1934-35),
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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