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Nov 28, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 332
86004 Today: H 64° \ L 26°
Average Sky Cover: overcast
Wind ave.: 8mph\Gusts: 30mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[1980] Record Low: -3°[1905]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
In three words I can sum up everything
I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
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Observances Today
Giving Tuesday
Rockerfeller Christmas Tree Lighting
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Observances This Week
22-28
National Deal Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean
1700’s
1717 Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called "La Concorde", which he would capture and rename as the "Queen Anne's Revenge"
1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution
1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1775 Second Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy
1800’s
1814 The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer - makes newspapers available to a mass audience
1843 Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1853 Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
1895 America's 1st auto race organized by the "Chicago Times-Herald" Chicago to Evanston and back; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner avg 7 MPH
1900’s
1907 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1919 US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British House of Commons
1932 Groucho Marx performs on radio for the first time
1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
1955 1956 NFL Draft: Gary Glick from University of Colorado A&M first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers
1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within French community
1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
1986 US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1988 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1994 Norway votes against joining European Union
1997 Final episode of "Beavis & Butt-head" on MTV
2000’s
2012 "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" 1st of the Hobbit film series, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Wellington, New Zealand
2016 Plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense football team crashes near Medellin, Colombia killing 71 players and journalists
2016 "Hamilton" sets new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway - $3.3 million
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My Rambling Thoughts
Woke up to the usual blue sky, but by 10a it was overcast and windy. Hoping for some moisture out of this cloudy day. Weather guy says to expect big wind…like gust up to 65mph. Not looking forward to the pine needles or the drying wind.
Excited to see a few Navajo Code Talkers in the White House for a much-deserved honoring. Too bad 45 must ruin it with a joke about Sen. Warren’s heritage. Also, the speaker, Former President of Navajo Nation Peter MacDonald, was removed from office decades ago for corruption. Still, what he and the other Code Talkers did during WWII was very commendable.
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Bizarre News
*-------- Improvise, Adapt and Overcome --------*
A woman who was dubbed the "Hamburglar" was arrested for breaking into a McDonald's in Maryland. The Howard County Police Department posted a video on social media, showing the woman breaking into the McDonald's through the drive-thru window. Howard County police said that they responded to the scene when an employee who arrived for work found that the restaurant had been burglarized. Officers reviewed video surveillance and saw a white Hyundai Sonata pull into the McDonald's drive-thru around 1:00 a.m. The driver, now identified as Jessica Marie Cross, attempted to place an order in the drive-thru lane but the business was closed. She was then seen crawling through the drive-thru window and entering the restaurant, where she remained for approximately 35 minutes. Cross did not immediately cover her face. It was only during the robbery that she pulled her shirt over her head to block her face. Police said that Cross was seen on video attempting to disable the surveillance system, wipe her fingerprints from the area, and wash the cash drawers to remove her fingerprints. She managed to steal about $1,400 cash, a purse, food items, and Happy Meal toys while at the business, according to police.
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Shakes the Clown has been charged with groping two women at a holiday haunted house in Wisconsin, records show.
According to a criminal complaint, the victims had their breasts pawed last month while waiting to enter a "haunted barn" at a campground in Janesville. Police had been summoned to the scene following reports that women were "touched inappropriately by a clown."
Two women told cops that a "clown with green hair" first approached them and asked, "Do you want me to Donald Trump?" While making this inquiry, the clown "made a hand gesture towards their vaginas and made a squeezing motion," the complaint alleges.
Both women said that they "were not touched at that time," but had been "caught off guard by what the clown had said and found it inappropriate."
Following the "Trump" comment, the clown allegedly grabbed and squeezed the breast of one woman, and then did the same thing to her companion. The clown's actions, the women told police, left them feeling "violated and uncomfortable." Neither victim, investigators noted, gave the clown consent to grab her breast.
A sheriff's deputy subsequently identified the alleged assailant as Brandon Goral, a 43-year-old Janesville resident. Goral said that he "goes by the clown name of Shakes."
During questioning, Goral said that he "does not touch women's breasts" unless requested to do so. Goral claimed that he was asked multiple times by different females to grab their breasts for photos, adding that he had received that request several times that evening.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
88- Berry Gordy,
record company owner (Motown),
born in Detroit, Michigan
81- Gary Hart,
(Sen-D-Co, 1975-86)
70’s
@74- Friedrich Engels,
German social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
(d. 1895)
74- Randy Newman,
vocalist (Short People, Love LA, Raindrops),
born in New Orleans, Louisiana
@70- Hope Lange,
actress (Ghost & Mrs Muir), born in Redding, Connecticut,
(d. 2003)
60’s
@69- William Blake,
English poet and artist (Songs of Innocence & Experience),
born in London, England
(d. 1827)
67- Ed Harris,
American actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma),
born in Englewood, NJ
65- S Epatha Merkerson, American actress (Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2)
born in Saginaw Michigan
50’s
58- Judd Nelson,
actor (Breakfast Club, Jack-Suddenly Susan),
born in Portland, Maine
@57- Henry Bacon,
American architect (Lincoln Memorial),
born in Watseka, Illinois
(d. 1924)
@57- Gloria Grahame,
American actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man),
born in Los Angeles, California
(d. 1981)
55- Jon Stewart [Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz],
American Comedian (The Daily Show),
born in NYC, New York
40’s
43- apl.de.ap (Allan Pineda Lindo),
American rapper (Black Eyed Peas)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-2016 Grant Tinker,
American TV executive (Chairman of NBC)
80’s
@84-2010 Leslie Nielsen,
Canadian actor
@82-2016 Van Williams,
American actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)
@81-1680 Giovanni Bernini,
Italian sculptor/painter
70’s
@78-1993 Garry Moore,
TV host (I've Got A Secret),
emphysema
@78-1939 James Naismith,
Canadian-American physical educator and inventor (basketball, football helmet)
@76-1859 Washington Irving,
American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow),
heart attack
@74-1987 Choh Hao Li,
Chinese-American bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones)
60’s
@68-1976 Rosalind Russell,
actress (Mame),
cancer
@64-1794 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben,
Prussian-American military officer (major general of the Continental Army)
50’s
@56-1994 Jerry Rubin,
US anti-war activist (Youth Party),
heart attack
@53-1954 Enrico Fermi,
Italian-American nuclear physicist (Nobel 1938),
stomach cancer
30’s
@34-1994 Jeffrey Dahmer,
American serial killer (Milwaukee Cannibal),
by prison inmates
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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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