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Nov 30, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 335
86004 Today: H 57° \ L 33°
Average Sky Cover: overcast
Wind ave.: 1mph\Gusts: 1mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[1975] Record Low: -4°[2010]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.
For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead
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Observances Today
Cities for Life Day Link
Computer Security Day
National Mason Jar Day Link
National Meth Awareness Day Link
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Observances This Week
None?
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
00’s
1487 The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague
1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die
1753 Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal "on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity"
1886 First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY
1886 The Folies Bergère stages its first revue
1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1908 The US Secretary of State and Japan's ambassador to the US exchange notes in what becomes known as the Root-Takahira Agreement: they affirm support for an independent China with an 'open door' policy and for the status quo in the Pacific
1928 Vladimir K. Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system
1954 1st meteorite known to strike a person - American Ann Hodges in Sylacauga, Alabama (she survives)
1958 1st US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine
1962 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations
1966 Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)
1967 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK
1971 The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights
1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression
1982 "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)
1983 Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record
1986 Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million in his lifetime
1990 US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein
1993 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1993 "Schindler's List", American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, premieres in Washington, D.C. (Academy Awards Best Picture 1994)
1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.
2004 Longtime "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jenningsof Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.
2007 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.
2015 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in Bangui's PK5 district in Central African Republic
2016 UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another cloudy day…still hoping for some snow.
Stayed up late last night with Netflix, so slept in until 7a. Decided I would do my weekly shopping tomorrow.
OMG…Matt is gone and Garrison is gone from the airwaves. Just heard a story on Faux News about how the high and mighty journalists wanted to get rid of Trump for sexual accusations, but in fact, it was the Fake News that is getting a harder hit. Hmmm.
Can’t believe that the US President would retweet several racist videos against Muslims and get away with it. Our country is just getting deeper and deeper into a world of misinformation.
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Bizarre News
*--------------- Kids These Days ---------------*
A young girl was taken from her mother and handed over to the Department of Family and Child Services in California. The Palmdale Sheriff Station said in a press release that the mother, who was on the "wrong track," was arrested for "playing chicken" on the train tracks with her 4-year-old child. Police were called by concerned citizens regarding a woman and a child sitting on the train tracks. Detective Borits and Deputy Hegge arrived at the location and saw the child sitting on the train tracks while her mother, 26-year-old Ashley Hawkins, was 20 yards away looking down on her cell phone. The deputies immediately told the mother and child to get off the train tracks and go to an area that is a safe distance away. The mother told the detectives that she and her daughter sit on the train tracks every day. Detective Bortis cautioned the mother on the dangers of "playing chicken" with the train. He warned her of a recent fatality of a man being hit by a train not far from that location. "The mother expressed no due regard for the safety of her child and continued to state it was okay because they did it every day," police said. Police arrested Hawkins for willfully placing her young daughter in a dangerous situation. The child was taken into protective custody by the Department of Family and Child Services.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@95- Efren Zimbalist Jr,
American actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples),
born in NYC
(d. 2014)
@90- Winston Churchill,
British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1940-45, 1951-55) during World War II and winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature,
born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
(d. 1965)
80’s
@89- Robert Guillaume, [Williams],
actor (Benson, Soap),
born in St Louis,
(d. 2017)
87- G[eorge] Gordon Liddy,
Watergate felon and radio host,
born in Brooklyn
@82 Dick Clark [Richard Wagstaff Clark],
American radio and television personality (American Bandstand),
born in Mount Vernon, NY
(d. 2012)
@80- Shirley Chisholm,
1st African American congresswoman (Rep-D-NY) and presidential candidate,
born in Brooklyn,
(d. 2005)
80- Ridley Scott,
English film director (Alien, Blade Runner),
born in South Shields, England
70’s
@77- Jonathan Swift,
satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), born in Dublin, Ireland
(d. 1745)
@76- Richard Crenna,
actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles),
born in Los Angeles,
(d.2003)
@74- Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens],
American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn),
born in Florida, Missouri
(d. 1910)
60’s
65 Mandy Patinkin,
actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation),
born in Chicago
62- Billy Idol, [William Broad],
rocker (White Wedding)
50’s
55- Bo Jackson,
baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA Raiders)
@52- Abbie Hoffman, aka Free,
Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book)
(d. 1989)
52- Ben Stiller,
American actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy),
born in NYC
40’s
@45- John McCrae,
Canadian physician, soldier/poet (In Flanders Fields), born in Guelph, Ontario
(d. 1918)
30’s
39- Clay Aiken,
American singer
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@84-2004 Pierre Berton,
Canadian author
70’s
@78-1979 Zeppo Marx [Herbert Manfred Marx],
American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers),
lung cancer
@75-1990 Norman Cousins,
editor (Saturday Review),
heart failure
@74-1999 Charlie Byrd,
American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado),
lung cancer
60’s
@69-2007 Evel Knievel,
American motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon),
pulmonary disease
@64-1996 Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury],
entertainer (Tip Toe),
heart attack
@63-1987 James Baldwin,
writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain),
stomach cancer
40’s
@46-1900 Oscar Wilde,
Irish playwright and novelist (Importance of Being Earnest),
meningitis
@40-2013 Paul Walker,
American actor (The Fast and the Furious),
car accident
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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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