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Dec 11, 2017 Week: 50 \ Day: 345
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 19°
Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave.: 5mph\Gusts: 13mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[1950] Record Low: -5°[2009]
Dec Averages: 50°\23°
Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)
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Quote of the Day
We are most alive when we're in love.
John Updike
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Observances Today
Green Monday Link
International Mountain Day
Kaleidoscope Day
UNICEF Birthday
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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
1600’s
1620 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1620 Myles Standish and a group of 18 settlers are attacked by 30 Native Americans, which became known as the "First Encounter"
1700’s
1719 1st recorded display of Aurora Borealis in North American colonies (New England)
1800’s
1816 Indiana becomes 19th state of the Union
1844 1st dental use of nitrous oxide, Hartford, Connecticut
1882 Boston's Bijou Theatre, 1st American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity, 1st performance, Gilbert & Sullivan's "Iolanthe"
1888 French Panama Canal Company fails
1900’s
1902 The US signs a treaty with Cuba allowing for a 20 percent reduction of tariff rates on imported Cuban products
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt attacks abuses in the Congo
1909 Colored moving pictures demonstrated at Madison Square Garden, NYC
1913 "Mona Lisa" recovered 2 years after it was stolen from the Louvre Museum
1928 Buenos Aires police thwart an attempt on President-elect Herbert Hoover
1931 Statute of Westminster gives complete legislative independence to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Ireland (Free State), and Newfoundland (not then part of Canada)
1941 Germany & Italy declare war on USA
1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1946 UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) established (Nobel 1965)
1951 "The Wild Side of Life" single recorded by Hank Thompson and His Brazos Valley Boys (Billboard Song of the Year 1952)
1959 Emilio G. Segrè publishes his discovery of the antiproton, a sub-atomic antiparticle for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959
1961 JFK provides US military helicopters & crews to South Vietnam
1964 Che Guevara speaks at the United Nations General Assembly in New York City. An unknown terrorist fires a mortar shell at the building during the speech.
1967 People's Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) established
1967 "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner", directed by Stanley Kramer, starring Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier and Katharine Hepburn, premieres in NYC (Hepburn - Academy Award for Best Actress 1968)
1978 6 masked men bound 10 employees at Lufthansa cargo area at NYC Kennedy Airport & made off with $5.8 M in cash & jewelry
1980 The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (known as either CERCLA or Superfund) is enacted by the U.S. Congress.
1981 UN Security Council chooses Javier Pérez de Cuélla of Peru as the 5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1985 General Electric acquires RCA Corp & its subsidiary, NBC
1997 Delegates from 150 industrial nations attending a UN climate conference in Kyoto, Japan, reach agreement to control heat-trapping greenhouse gases
2000’s
2001 The People's Republic of China joins the World Trade Organization.
2010 Two explosions occur in a busy shopping district of Stockholm, Sweden, killing one and injuring two others. Officials say the incident is being treated as a terrorist attack.
2012 British physicist, Stephen Hawking, wins the $3 million Fundamental Physics Prize, the most lucrative academic prize in the world
2014 CIA Director John Brennan defends interrogation methods used after 9/11 but admits some methods were "abhorrent"
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice lazy Sunday. Enjoying just kicking back.
Sunday morning News shows did not have much of interest. Just the same old, same old. And matter what they say, the world just continues on its merry way.
Happy I have a DVR. Found old 77 Sunset Strip series. It comes on at 3:30a, not a time I usually watch TV, but with a couple of clicks, I get every episode to watch when I want. Nice and so easy.
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Bizarre News
*------ Should Have Stayed In His Sleigh ------*
A skydiving Santa looking to make a grand entrance while taking an Elf on the Shelf to a 9-year-old girl crashed into a tree and light pole before hitting a Florida beach and breaking his leg. George Krokus was dressed as Santa Claus during a skydive to deliver toys to the Tampa Bay Beach Bums Operation Santa Charity Volleyball Tournament. Madison Spiers saw the crash and later found a note from the "elf" named Kristoff who visits her house during the holidays.
It said, "As we were about to land, this big tree jumped right out in front of us!" The elf sported a bandaged leg while staying with the recovering Krokus.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@94- Carlo Ponti,
Italian producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago)
(d. 2009)
80’s
@89- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,
Russian writer (Cancer Ward, Nobel 1970),
born in Kislovodsk, Russia
(d. 2008)
@87- Max Born,
German physicist (quantum mechanics, Nobel 1954),
born in Breslau, Germany
(d. 1970)
86- Rita Moreno [Rosita Dolores Alverío],
Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress (West Side Story),
born in Humacao, Puerto Rico
@84- Grace Paley,
American poet, political activist and teacher (1970 Arts & Letters Award),
born in NYC
(d. 2007)
70’s
@78- Jim Harrison,
American poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall),
born in Grayling, Michigan
(d. 2016)
@77- Annie Jump Cannon,
American stellar spectroscopist (Harvard-classification),
born in Dover, Delaware
(d. 1941)
74- John Kerry,
US Secretary of State (2013-17) and 2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic Party,
born in Aurora, Colorado
74- Booker T Jones,
US organist (Booker T & MGs-Green Onions)
73- Brenda Lee,
country singer
73- Lynda Day George,
American actress (Casey-Mission Impossible),
born in San Marcos, Texas
@71- Ron Carey,
American actor (Barney Miller),
born in Newark, New Jersey
(d. 2007)
70- Teri Garr,
American actress (Mr. Mom, Young Frankenstein),
born in Lakewood, Ohio
60’s
@66- Robert Koch,
German pioneering bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel Prize 1905),
born in Clausthal, Hanover
(d. 1910)
@64- Fiorello La Guardia,
(Mayor-R- 1933-45), born in NYC,
(d. 1947)
50’s
59- Nikki Sixx,
American musician (Mötley Crüe)
58- Rachel Renee Russell,
children’s author
@57- Big Mama Thornton,
blues singer (Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt)
(d. 1984)
50- Mo'Nique (Monique Angela Hicks),
comedian
40’s
@44- Carlos Gardel,
Argentine singer and the most prominent figure in the history of tango,
born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
plane crash
(d. 1935)
44- Mos Def (Dante Terrell Smith),
Rapper, actor
30’s
38- Rider Strong,
American actor, writer and director (Boy Meets World),
born in San Francisco
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-2012 Ravi Shankar,
Indian musician
80’s
@85-2008 Bettie Page,
American Playboy pin-up model
70’s
@71-1991 Robert Q Lewis,
US comic/TV panel member (RQL Show),
emphysema
50’s
@53-2015 John "Hot Rod" Williams,
American NBA center/forward (Phoenix Suns),
cancer
40’s
@42-1872 Kamehameha V (Lota Kapuāiwa Kalanimakua Aliʻiōlani Kalanikupuapaʻīkalaninui),
Last Hawaiian king
30’s
@33-1964 Sam Cooke,
US soul musician ('A Change is Gonna Come')
shot
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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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