Dec 1

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Dec 1, 2018 Week: 48 \ Day: 335

86004 Today: H 36° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5-95% 

Feels like: 24°

Wind:   15mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[2008]   Record Low: -7°[1905]

Nov Averages: 43°\17°

Today’s Quote

Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are.

Theodore Roosevelt

Random Tidbits

Grace Hopper coined the term computer bug

when a moth shorted out her computer.

In 1995, personal computers outsold televisions in the United States, and the number of e-mail

messages exceeded stamped letters

In 1997 about one third of American homes had computers. In 2005 the number was two thirds.

More Observances This Month

           

Aids Awareness Month Link
Bingo's Birthday Month
Buckwheat Month Link
National Drunk & Drugged Driving (3D) Prevention Month
National Impaired Driving Prevention Month
National Pear Month  Link
National Tie Month
National Write A Business Plan Month

Observances This Week

           

Nov 27-12/2

National Deal Week

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Cookie Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week  Link

Observances for Today

           

Antartica Day
Basketball Day
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Civil Air Patrol Day
Clark Kent's Birthday (Superman)  Link 

Day With(out) Art Day
Eat a Red Apple Day

National Fried Pie Day

Rosa Parks Day
World Aids Day  Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

1700’s

1750 First school in America to offer manual training courses opens in Maryland

1800’s

1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain

1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather

1878 1st White House telephone installed

1884 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"

1887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"

1900’s

1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)

1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford

1918 Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown

1922 1st skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF

1929 Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe

1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use

1942 Gasoline rationed in US

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama

1958 Our Lady of Angels School fire kills 92 students & 3 nuns in Chicago, Illinois

1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began

1982 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart

1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)

2000’s

2017 President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.

My Rambling Thoughts

Woke up this morning to about 6” of snow covering everything. As the day as progressed it has snowed, the sun has been out, the sky has been grey, the sky has been blue. And then a repeat of the whole thing. Right now is sunny, but those pesky winds will change that very soon. I was outside shoveling and cleaning off my vehicle during one of the sunny periods. This is to be our weather through the weekend.

Sure hope everyone in Anchorage remain safe. Lots of pictures of the quake. With all the power failures the journalists became creative and started using Facebook Live to keep everyone up-to-date. Thanks Mark Z as this is why FB was developed…connecting communities.

45 made a big deal at a signing ceremony with Mexico, US, and Canada at the G20 in Argentina. Lots of smiles, says it is the greatest trade deal in world history. Neglected to mention that none of the three legislatures have even had a discussion about the proposed trade deal. Many are saying it is just minor changes from NAFTA.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Rex Stout,

American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels), born in Noblesville, Indiana (d. 1975)

@88- Marie Tussaud,

French founder of Madame Tussaud's wax museum, born in Strasbourg (d. 1850)

83- Woody Allen [Allen Konigsberg],

American film director and actor (Zelig, Annie Hall), born in Brooklyn, New York

70’s

@76- Mary Martin,

American actress (Peter Pan) and Larry Hagman's mom, born in Weatherford, Texas (d. 1990) cancer

73- Bette Midler,

American actress and singer (Beaches, Wind Beneath my Wings), born in Honolulu, Hawaii

@72- Lou Rawls,

American vocalist (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006) lung cancer

60’s

@67- David Doyle,

American actor (Charlie's Angels, Rugrats), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1997) heart attack

66-Rick Scott,

Gov of Florida

@65- Richard Pryor,

American comedian and actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy), born in Pecoria, Illinois (d. 2005) heart attack

@63- Dick Shawn [Richard Schulefand],

American character actor and comedian (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1987) heart attack

40’s

48- Sara Silverman,

comedian

@44- Pablo Escobar,

Colombian drug lord, born in Rionegro, Colombia (d. 1993) shot by authorities

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87-1973 David Ben-Gurion,

founding father of Israel

70’s

@78-2007 Sally L. Smith,

American educator and founder (Lab School of Washington), “All children have talent”

@70-2008 Paul Benedict,

American actor (The Jeffersons)

50’s

@57-1955 Chief Thundercloud [Victor Daniels],

Non-Native actor (The Lone Ranger, Colt .45), stomach cancer