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Dec 3, 2017 Week: 49 \ Day: 338
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 34°
Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave.: 10mph\Gusts: 17mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 67°[1977] Record Low: -2°[1968]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
One must ask children and birds
how cherries and strawberries taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Observances Today
International Day of Persons With Disabilities
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Observances This Week
1-7: Cookie Cutter Week Link
3-9: Clerc-Gallaudet Week
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week Link
( Always week with 12/9. Birthday of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
00’s
1557 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form
1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia
1678 Edmond Halley receives MA from The Queen's College, Oxford
1775 First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred
1818 Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)
1833 Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens
1834 First US dental society organized (NY)
1847 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"
1854 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences
1868 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial 1881 Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville (now Kinshasa)
1910 Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)
1911 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers
1917 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.
1922 First successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC
1926 Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days
1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale
1938 AAUs decides to continue linear measuring system over metric
1947 Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in NYC
1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast
1952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii
1962 Pravda criticizes western art
1967 1st human heart transplant performed by Dr Christian Barnard in South Africa
1967 Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica
1969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar
1971 US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term
1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)
1979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400
1984 Bhopal disaster: Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, kills 2,259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured
1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over
1992 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo
2014 Protests erupt in cities across the US after a grand jury decides not to charge the New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner with a choke-hold
2016 US army decides it will not allow an oil pipeline to be built in North Dakota, after months of protests by The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe
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My Rambling Thoughts
Headed out to two crafts sales this morning. One at a local elementary school, one at the Center for the Arts. Both had some interesting crafts, picked up a few Christmas presents.
I’ve been commenting on how warm & dry it has been. Well, I was right. November was our driest November since records were kept…1899 and November was the 4th warmest November since 1899. Waiting to find the record for no snowfall. Nothing yet, not even flurries.
Our little mountain town is trying yet again. They announced that there will be a non-stop flight to LA starting in March. The new flight flies once a week and no pricing as been announced.Hmmm. Back in the day, Frontier had a puddle jumper to Denver, with 3 stops. Not the easiest flight. Then that had a flight from Flag to Phx to Denver that cost $5 more than the flight from Phx to Denver. Those were the good old days. Those days are gone.
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Bizarre News
Why pay for a motel room for your amorous encounters when you have a vehicle? And hiring a baby-sitter is just throwing money if that vehicle has a back seat. All that's missing is plenty of booze to set the mood and you have...
Witnesses of a single-vehicle crash were shocked to see a naked man and woman emerging from the wreck, according to police in Washington.
Washington State Troopers said that they have arrested the driver, 23-year-old Michael Tonkin, who was having sex with the naked woman, 23-year-old Daisy Laroque, before slamming into the three.
According to the police investigation, the man was driving down State Route 7 with a 3-month-old baby in the back seat.
The man and the woman were both drunk and naked. The couple was having sex when the man missed a curve and drove off the road. Seconds later, the car slammed into a tree.
Witnesses at the scene saw the naked man and woman emerge from the wreck. Both appeared to be intoxicated.
The man and the baby were not injured but the woman suffered broken bones and was transported to a hospital.
Tonkin was charged with driving under the influence, vehicular assault, and child endangerment.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@85- Andy Williams,
Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)
(d. 2012)
@82- John Backus,
inventor (FORTRAN computer language)
(d. 2007)
70’s
75- Valerie Perrine,
actress (Slaughterhouse 5),
born in Galveston, Texas
60’s
69- Ozzy Osbourne,
English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter (Black Sabbath),
born in Birmingham, England
@66- Joseph Conrad,
Polish novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness),
born in Berdychiv, Poland
(d. 1924)
62- Warren Jeffs,
American convicted polygamist
50’s
57- Daryl Hannah,
American actress (Splash, Blade Runner),
born in Chicago, Illinois
57- Julianne Moore,
American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright),
born in Fayetteville, NC
52- Katarina Witt,
figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)
born in Staaken GDR
40’s
49- Brendan Fraser,
American actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
20’s
23- Jake T. Austin,
Nickelodeon actor
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@89-1910 Mary Baker Eddy,
founder (Christian Science (Monitor))
@88-2016 S. Newman Darby,
American inventor of the sailboard
70’s
@78-1919 Pierre A Renoir,
French painter/sculptor
@72-1888 Carl Zeiss,
German scientific instrument and lens maker (Carl Zeiss AG)
50’s
@57-1999 Madeline Kahn,
American actress,
ovarian cancer
40’s
@48-2015 Scott Weiland,
American musician (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver),
accidental OD
@45-1894 Robert Louis Stevenson,
Scottish novelist (Treasure Island),
stroke
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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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