Nov 12

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Nov 12, 2018 Week: 46 \ Day: 316

86004 Today: H 48° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   15mph\Gusts:  23mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1967]   Record Low: 3°[1898]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

Research is what I'm doing when

I don't know what I'm doing.

Wernher von Braun

Random Tidbits

The automobile was invented in 1886.

The used car lot (of 17 cars) was invented in 1897.

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

           

Chicken Soup for the Soul Day  Link
Fancy Rat & Mouse Day  Link
National Young Readers Day Link  
World Pneumonia Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s                                         

1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.

1859 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name

1900’s                                         

1900 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors - Art Nouveau style dominates

1927 Notre Dame's Fighting Irish changes blue jerseys for green

1927 Leon Trotsky expelled from Soviet Communist Party, paving way for Joseph Stalin

1933 First known photo of so-called Loch Ness monster is taken by Hugh Gray

1936 Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill

1941 Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania

1945 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)

1954 Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed

1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie', a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program

1968 US Supreme Court: Epperson v. Arkansas, court declares unconstitutional Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public schools

1969 Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union

1974 A salmon is discovered in the River Thames, England, for the first time since 1833

1979 US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports & freezes Iranian assets

1998 Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.

2000’s                                         

2014 European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

2015 Out Magazine names Barack Obama 'Ally of the Year', Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine

My Rambling Thoughts

Cool and windy day. Glad I can stay inside and warm. On the down side, have laundry to do.

Last night’s discussion on extra-terrestrial life was outstanding. We talked about how life could have begun on this planet, how many ‘similar-to-earth’ planets there are in our galaxy, where the US is headed in space exploration, and what to expect. Very mentally stimulating.

Encouraged, a bit, that 45 showed up at today’s memorials in France marking the 100^th anniversary of the end of WWI. Interesting to hear Macron tear up Nationalism in his speech.

Busy week with medical community coming up. Eyes on Monday, teeth on Tuesday, wrist on Wednesday. Thank you Medicare and BC/BS

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@86- Elizabeth Cady Stanton,

American women's rights activist, born in Johnstown, New York (d. 1902)

@83- Charles Manson,

American criminal, murderer and cult leader (Manson Family), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 2017)

70’s

@77- Auguste Rodin,

French sculptor (Kiss, Thinker), born in Paris, France (d. 1917)

75- Brian Hyland,

rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini), born in Queens, NY

74- Booker T. Jones,

US organist (Booker T & MGs-Green Onions), born in Memphis

73- Neil Young,

Canadian singer/songwriter (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young), born in Toronto, Ontario

60’s

@66- Jeanne Mance,

French-Canadian settler who founded the first hospital in North America, born in Langres, France (d. 1673) long illness

60- Megan Mullally,

American actress (Will & Grace), born in Los Angeles, California

50’s

@58- Sun Yat-sen,

Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China, born in Xiangshan [now Zhongshan], Guangdong, Qing Dynasty (d. 1925) liver cancer

57- Nadia Comaneci,

gymnast

@52- Grace Kelly,

American actress (Rear Window) and Princess of Monaco, born in Philadelphia, (d. 1982) stroke/auto accident

40’s

48-Tonya Harding,

ice skater

30’s

39- Cote de Pablo,

Chilean American actress (NCIS),born in Santiago, Chile

38- Ryan Gosling,

Canadian actor (The Notebook, Drive), born in London, Ontario

36- Anne Hathaway,

American actress (Les Misérables, The Dark Knight Rise, The Princess Diaries), born in NYC, New York

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95-2003 Penny Singleton,

American actress (Blondie) and voice actress (Jane-Jetsons)

80’s

@82-1990 Eve Arden,

American actress (Our Miss Brooks)

60’s

@63-1981 William Holden [Beedle],

American actor (The Blue Knight, Sunset Boulevard, Sabrina, The Bridge on the River Kwai), slips on a rug and bleeds to death

@61-1916 Percival Lowell,

American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) and founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, stroke

20’s

@27-2003 Jonathan Brandis,

American actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV), commits suicide