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Dec 10, 2017 Week: 50 \ Day: 345
86004 Today: H 50° \ L 18°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 10mph\Gusts: 21mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 65°[1939] Record Low: -2°[1956]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
There is nothing new in the world
except the history you do not know.
Harry S Truman
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Observances Today
Dewey Decimal System Day
International Animal Rights Day Link
Jane Addams Day
Nobel Prize Day
Worldwide Candle Lighting Day b
World Choral Day Link
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Observances This Week
10-17: Human Rights Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
Nobel Prizes Awarded:
1901 First Nobel Peace Prizes awarded to Red Cross founder Jean Henri Dunant and peace activist Frederic Passy
1901 First Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Wilhelm Röntgen for his discovery of X-rays
1903 Nobel Prize for physics awarded to Pierre and Marie Curie1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt is the 1st American awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
1907 Rudyard Kipling receives the Nobel prize for literature, the first English-language writer to do so
1919 Nobel peace prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
1922 Danish physicist Niels Bohr awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, for work on the structure of atoms, at a ceremony in Copehagen
1929 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine jointly awarded to Christiaan Eijkman and Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins for the discovery of vitamins
1930 Indian Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman is presented with the Nobel Prize for Physics for work on light scattering - first Asian and non-white to win a Science Nobel
1931 Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient of Nobel Peace Prize
1935 Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to Irene Joliot-Curie (daughter of Marie Curie) and her husband Frédéric Joliot for the discovery of artificial radioactivity
1936 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Carlos Saavedra Lamas for mediating end to Chaco War between Paraguay and Bolivia, 1st Latin American to win
1946 German/Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his inspired writings which, while growing in boldness and penetration, exemplify the classical humanitarian ideals and high qualities of style"
1950 Ralph Bunche (1st black American) presented the Nobel Peace Prize for mediation in Israel
1954 Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize
1960 Willard Libby wins the Nobel prize in Chemistry for his work developing carbon-14 dating (radiocarbon dating).
1964 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Dr Martin Luther King Jr. in Oslo
1978 Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat accept the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
1983 Danuta Walesa, wife of Lech Wałęsa, accepts his Nobel Peace Prize1984 South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu is presented with his Nobel Peace Prize
1986 Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel accepts 1986 Nobel Peace Prize
1994 Nobel Peace Prize presented to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat
2009 US President Barack Obama accepts the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
2010 Chinese human rights activist Liu Xiaobo is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize at a ceremony in Stockholm, while imprisoned in China
2016 Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony he does not attend in Stockholm
1500’s
1520 Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he recant
1600’s
1672 New York Governor Lovelace announces monthly mail service between New York & Boston
1684 Isaac Newton's derivation of Kepler's laws from his theory of gravity, contained in the paper De motu corporum in gyrum, is read to the Royal Society by Edmond Halley
1690 Massachusetts Bay becomes first American colonial government to issue paper money
1700’s
1799 Metric system adopted in France, first country to do so
1800’s
1817 Mississippi admitted as 20th state of the Union
1869 Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st)
1884 "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" by Mark Twain is first published in the UK and Canada (US Feb 1885, due to printing error)
1898 Guam becomes a territory of US
1900’s
1902 Women are given the right to vote in Tasmania.
1936 Edward VIII signs Instrument of Abdication, giving up the British throne to marry American divoree Wallis Simpson
1948 UN General Assembly adopts Universal Declaration of Human Rights
1962 David Lean's film "Lawrence of Arabia", based on life of T. E. Lawrence and starring Peter O'Toole, premieres at Odeon Leicester Square (Academy Awards Best Picture 1963)
1974 European Economic Community calls for a European Parliament
1984 1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered
1985 "Out of Africa", based on the book by Isak Dinesen, directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1986)
2000’s
2006 One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut, calling for the government to resign.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Still windy and still a little chilly. Guess that is to be expected for December.
All set for my trip to Chicago. Made the shuttle reservations today. They pick me up at 6a on the 22nd. Makes life so much easier for me to have door to door service at this early hour. I get back home about 11p on the 27th. Again, good no one has to pick me up.
Still have some gifts to pick up next week, but pretty much ready for the holidays.
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Bizarre News is disgusting
After murdering a beloved family pet because it barked at them, police in Georgia order a man to saw the head off of his own dead dog in order to test for rabies.
Joe Nate Goodwin says he decapitated his 2-year-old dog at the behest of the sheriff's deputies, who had been called out to the house earlier in the day after a neighbor was bitten on the leg.
Goodwin said he wasn't home when a deputy came by the house. The dog lunged toward the deputy, who shot it dead. Goodwin's girlfriend called to tell him "Big Boy has been shot," he said. He documented much of his encounter with the police on video with his phone.
One video opens with sheriff's investigator James Hollis threatening to take Goodwin to jail. Goodwin asked what he would be charged with and the other officer responded, "you can be charged with disorderly conduct."
"I'm reacting to having to cut my dog's head off," Goodwin shouted on video.
"We asked you to remove the dog's head," Hollis said. "And you're refusing, right?"
"I ain't got a knife to cut the head off," Goodwin replied.
"If you would just listen," the other officer cut in. "We don't know this process either."
In a video taken after the decapitation, Hollis and the other officer can be heard giving instructions to Goodwin’s girlfriend, "She gonna place that into the bag and they got to freeze it," Hollis said in the video. "That can be tested for rabies, OK?"
Some of the videos were removed from Facebook due to their graphic nature.
Hollis was back at work Monday. Office staff confirmed an internal investigation into the incident was ongoing.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@86- Harold Gould,
actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus),
born in Schenectady,
(d. 2010)
@85- Eugene O'Keefe,
Canadian businessman and brewer
(d. 1913)
@81- Dorothy Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer],
actress and singer (Road to Bali),
born in New Orleans,
(d. 1996)
@80- Melvil[le Louis K] Dewey,
created Dewey Decimal System for libraries
(d. 1931)
70’s
@78- Leonie "Nelly" Sachs,
German Swedish poet (O the Chimneys - Nobel 1966),
born in Berlin, Germany
(d. 1970)
76- Tommy Kirk,
actor (Old Yeller)
60’s
@62- Chet Huntley,
newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report)
born in Cardwell, MT
(d. 1974)
50’s
56- Nia Peeples, [Vernia],
dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine),
born in Hollywood, California
@55- Emily Dickinson,
American poet (Collected Poems),
born in Amherst, Massachusetts
(d. 1886)
53- Bobby Flay,
American celebrity chef and restaurateur
40’s
@43- Dan Blocker,
American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
Born in De Kalb Texas
(d. 1972)
40’s
@36- Ada Lovelace,
English mathematician considered the first computer programmer, born in London
(d. 1852)
32- Raven-Symoné,
American actress and singer
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@89-2005 Eugene McCarthy,
politician (Sen-D-Minn) and presidential candidate
@87-1909 Red Cloud (Makhpiya Luta),
Lakota Sioux chief
@84-1979 Fulton J Sheen,
Roman Catholic bishop (Life is Worth Living)
@83-1982 Freeman "Amos" Gosden,
US radio actor (Amos 'n' Andy)
60’s
@66-1946 Damon Runyon,
US journalist/writer,
throat cancer
@65-2005 Richard Pryor,
American comedian and actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy),
heart attack
@63-1896 Alfred Nobel,
Swedish Chemist (dynamite) and founder of the Nobel Prize,
stroke
@62-2016 A. A. [Adrian Anthony] Gill,
British critic (The Sunday Times),
cancer
50’s
@53-1968 Thomas Merton,
French/American Catholic writer and Trappist monk (7 Story Mountain),
accidentally electrocuted by an electric fan
@52-1920 Horace Elgin Dodge,
American automobile manufacturing pioneer,
pneumonia/cirrhosis
20’s
@26-1967 Otis Redding,
singer (Dock of Bay),
plane crash
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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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