Nov 10

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Nov 10, 2018 Week: 45 \ Day: 314

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   16mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1967]   Record Low: -5°[1975]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

Trust yourself,

you know more than you think you do.

Benjamin Spock

Random Tidbits

During World War II, the United States minted pennies made of steel, to conserve copper for making artillery shells.

Observances This Week

           

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week

9-17

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link  

10-16

Geography Awareness Week Link 
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
International Fraud Awareness Week Link   
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week 16  Link  
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link

Observances for Today

           

Area Code Day
Forget-Me-Not Day

International Accounting Day  Link

National Vanilla Cupcake Day

NET Cancer Awareness Day  Link
USMC Day-Marine Corps Birthday
Sesame Street Day
Windows Day (Microsoft)
World Science Day for Peace and Development Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s                                         

1619 René Descartes has the dream that inspires his "Meditations on First Philosophy"

1700’s                                         

1775 The Second Continental Congress forms Continental Marines, precursor to the United States Marine Corps

1800’s                                         

1871 Henry Morton Stanley encounters David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, with the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'

1900’s                                         

1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room

1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air

1919 1st observance of National Book Week

1938 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)

1938 Second day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after assassination of a German diplomat in Paris

1950 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner

1954 "Marine Corps War Memorial" unveiled in Arlington County, Virginia, dedicated to US Marine Corps who died in defense of US since 1775 (inspired by 1945 Iwo Jima photo of servicemen raising US flag)

1971 US table tennis team arrived in China

1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism

1983 US Federal government shut down

2000’s                                         

2017 Louis C.K. admits the stories of sexual misconduct about him are true

My Rambling Thoughts

Chilly night last night. Guess I have to accept that fall is here.

Arizona…my adopted state…does not get how to do elections. This time there are several state races and one national race that is still not decided. One might incorrectly assume that all votes cast are counted. Turns out each county decides how to deal with mail-in ballots that have signature issues. Most counties try to notify the voter of the discrepancy, so they can come in and correct it. However, Maricopa county (Phoenix area) stops that practice on election day. And they have thousands of mail-in ballots that are in question. So, as of right now, if you voted in Maricopa with a mail-in and for some reason a human has decided that the signatures don’t match, you vote will not be counted, and you will not be told. So, you didn’t really vote. Hmmm. Who knows how this election will turn out and there really is no timeline for the races to be declared. If there is a recount, now I’m concerned about my on-election-day vote, as we sign on a computer tablet with a fat pen that doesn’t really look like my signature. I’m retired, so I have the time to wait…at least until the January swearing in.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94- Mikhail Kalashnikov,

Russian general and inventor of the AK-47, born in Kurya, Kuryinsky District, Altai Krai, Russia (d. 2013)

70’s

@75- Roy Scheider,

actor (Jaws, The French Connection, Marathon Man, Paper Lion) (d. 2008) cancer

@72- Russell Means,

Native American activist, actor, writer, and musician, born in Porcupine, Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, South Dakota (d. 2012) cancer

60’s

@62- Martin Luther,

German theologian and key figure in the Protestant Reformation, born in Eisleben, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1546) stroke

62- Sinbad (David Adkins),

comedian and actor (Different World, At the Apollo)

50’s

59- MacKenzie Phillips,

American actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time), born in Alexandria, Virginia

51- Michael Jai White,

American actor and martial artist (Spawn), born in Brooklyn, New York

40’s

40- Eve [Jeffers-Cooper],

American rapper and actress, born in Philadelphia

30’s

35- Miranda Lambert,

American singer

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-2010 Dino De Laurentiis,

Italian film producer

80’s

@87-2006 Jack Palance [Vladimir Palahniuk],

American actor (City Slickers, Contempt, Batman)

@84-2007 Norman Mailer,

American novelist, dies at 84

@80-1956 Harry Ford Sinclair,

founder of Sinclair Oil, dies at 80

70’s

@79-1970 Charles DeGaulle,

general/president France (Free French) ruptured blood vessel

@76-2008 Miriam Makeba,

South African singer (Pata Pata, Click song ) and anti-apartheid activist, heart attack

@71-1992 Chuck Connors,

American author, actor (The Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa), professional basketball and baseball player, lung cancer

60’s

@66-2001 Ken Kesey,

American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest), liver tumor