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Dec 9, 2017 Week: 49 \ Day: 344
86004 Today: H 50° \ L 20°
Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave.: 9mph\Gusts: 23mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 62°[1977] Record Low: -8°[1951]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe,
deserve your love and affection.
Buddha
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Observances Today
Cremation Day
Gingerbread Decorating Day
International Anti-corruption Day
International Shareware Day
National Wreaths Across America Day
Weary Willie Day Link
Day Of The Horse
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Observances This Week
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
1600’s
1640 Settler Hugh Bewitt banished from Mass colony when he declares himself to be free of original sin
1700’s
1783 First execution at Newgate Jail in London (now the site of the Central Criminal Court aka the Old Bailey), relocated from Tyburn (now the site of Marble Arch)
1793 Noah Webster establishes New York's 1st daily newspaper, the "American Minerva"
1800’s
1851 1st Young Men's Christian Association in North America set up in Montreal
1854 Alfred Tennyson's poem "Charge of the Light Brigade" published
1868 The first traffic lights are installed outside the Palace of Westminster in London. Resembling railway signals, they use semaphore arms and are illuminated at night by red and green gas lamps.
1878 Joseph Pulitzer buys St Louis Dispatch for $2,500
1889 US President Benjamin Harrison dedicates the Chicago Auditorium, designed by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, then largest building in the US
1900’s
1907 First Christmas Seals sold (Wilmington, Delaware, post office)
1926 USGA legalizes steel shaft golf clubs
1935 Walter Liggett American newspaper editor and muckraker killed in gangland murder.
1935 1st Heisman Trophy Award: Jay Berwanger, Chicago (HB)
1941 Hitler orders US ships are to be torpedoed
1953 General Electric announces all Communist employees will be fired
1958 Robert H W Welch Jr & 11 other men meet in Indianapolis to form anti-Communist John Birch Society
1961 Tanganyika gains independence from Britain, takes name Tanzania
1965 "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premieres
1968 NLS (a system for which hypertext and the computer mouse were developed) is publicly demonstrated for the first time in San Francisco.
1970 OPEC meeting in Caracas establishes 55 percent as minimum tax rate and demands that posted prices be changed to reflect changes in foreign exchange rates
1973 Arab oil ministers announce a further production cut of 5 percent for January for non-friendly countries
1975 US President Gerald Ford signs $2.3 Bn loan authorization for NYC
1975 Iraq completes nationalization by taking over the BP, CFP, and Shell shares of the Basrah Petroleum Company
1983 Counselor to Ronald Regan, Edwin Meese says people go to soup kitchens "...because food is free & that's easier than paying for it"
1985 Phoenix, Arizona, gets 3" of snow
1990 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland's 1st direct presidential election in Poland
1994 US Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders resigns after comments about masturbation
2000’s
2004 Mary-Kate Olsen pledges that woman sewing garments for her company in Bangladesh will be afforded legal maternity leave
2008 The Governor of Illinois, Rod Blagojevich, is arrested by federal officials for a number of alleged crimes including attempting to sell the United States Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama's election to the Presidency
2015 German Chancellor Angela Merkel named Time Magazine's Person of the Year, for her handling of debt and refugee crises
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My Rambling Thoughts
Still windy and a little chilly, but not as bad as yesterday. Those cold winds we have here @7000’ work their way to CA to become their devastating Santa Ana winds. Wish there was a way to stop them.
My former financial advisor finally got her day in court. Her business manager had stolen her identity and money. The trial was all set to select a jury when the lady showed up in court without a lawyer and pleaded guilty. She was assigned a public defender, she agreed to the plea deal that her former lawyer had set up. She gave my financial advisor a cashier’s check for $20K and agrees to pay $500/month until her $215K theft is paid back. Not a great deal since my financial advisor is now in her early 70’s. The good side, if there is one, if she misses a payment the guilty plea means 32 years in prison. To save some time with a calculator, she makes 430 payments for 38 years and one month. It is better than nothing but not by much.
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Bizarre News
*------------ Screw Amusement Parks ------------*
A Kentucky teenager realized a long-held dream after he hand-built a roller coaster in his own backyard. Logan Moore, 16, said he has always been fascinated with roller coasters and wanted to build one himself. And after a year in carpentry class, he devised a plan to do so. Moore worked on his project for two months over the summer. "I mean in the summer it would be one, two, three o'clock in the morning and he would still be out here working," Moore's grandmother, Frieda Baker, said.
Moore told LEX 18-TV that finishing the project showed him that hard work can pay off.
"One thing I wanna say is, don't ever think you can't do something because I sure didn't think I could build this. But I did," he said.
And even though he had built a smaller roller coaster before, he has no plans to build another one anytime soon.
"I'm going to keep this for a little while and then I may do another one, may redesign this one, but I will wait on that just a little bit because it's been a lot of work," Moore said.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
100’s
101- Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch],
American actor (Gunfight at OK Corral),
born in Amsterdam, NY
80’s
87- Buck Henry [Henry Zuckerman],
American screenwriter/comedian (SNL, Get Smart),
born in NYC
@86- Dick Van Patten,
actor (Tom Bradford in 8 is Enough),
born in Queens
(d. 2015)
@85- Grace Hopper,
American computer scientist and US Navy admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’,
born in NYC
(d. 1992)
83- Judi Dench,
British actress (Henry V, Wetherby, Skyfall),
born in York, England
@82- Margaret Hamilton,
American actress (The Wizard of Oz),
born in Cleveland, Ohio
(d. 1985)
@81- Tip O'Neill,
American politician and 47th speaker of the house (D-Ma: 1977-86), born in Cambridge, Mass
(d. 1994)
@80- Emmett Kelly,
Sedan KS, circus clown (Weary Willie)
(d. 1979)
70’s
76- Beau Bridges,
actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer),
born in Los Angeles
75- Dick Butkus,
NFL hall of fame linebacker (Bears)/sportscaster,
born in Chicago
@74- Broderick Crawford,
American actor (All the King's Men, Highway Patrol),
born in Philadelphia,
(d. 1986)
60’s
@69- Clarence Birdseye,
frozen vegetable king (Birdseye)
(d. 1956)
@68- Redd Foxx,
comedian (Sandford & Son, Redd Foxx Show),
born in St Louis,
(d. 1991)
@65- John Milton,
poet/puritan (Paradise Lost), born in London, England
(d. 1674)
64- John Malkovich,
actor and director (Killing Fields),
born in Christopher, Illinois
50’s
55- Felicity Huffman,
American actress
30’s
39- Jesse Metcalfe,
American actor
37- Simon Helberg,
actor (Howard Wolowitz: Big Bang Theory)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-2009 Gene Barry,
American actor
80’s
@87-1995 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan
(aviator)
@83-1996 Mary Leakey,
British archaeologist and anthropologist, discovered earliest human footprints (3.6 million years old)
70’s
@77-2014 Mary Ann Mobley,
American model/actress, Miss America 1959,
breast cancer
60’s
@67-1971 Ralph Bunche,
American UN delegate, first person of color to win Nobel Peace Prize winner (1950),
diabetes
@64-1996 Faron Young,
country singer,
suicide
40’s
@49-1935 Walter Liggett,
American crusading newspaper editor and muckraker,
murdered
@43-2012 Jenni Rivera,
Mexican-American singer-songwriter,
plane crash
20’s
@25±-1819 Ann C Coleman,
fiancee of President Buchanan,
commits suicide
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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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