Nov 13

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Nov 13, 2018 Week: 46 \ Day: 317

86004 Today: H 41° \ L 15° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

            Feels like: 33° 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  27mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1967]   Record Low: -3°[2000]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

The way to get things done is not to mind

who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

Random Tidbits

The first Rolls-Royce sold for $600, in 1906.

Today they sell for more than $200,000.

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

           

Caregiver Appreciation Day

Feast of St. Diego Alacala

GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) Link
National Indian Pudding Day

Sadie Hawkins Day

World Kindness Day Link  Link

Young Readers Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s                                         

1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"

1800’s                                         

1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY

1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts

1900’s                                         

1902 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume (previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh

1909 Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields

1922 Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY

1940 "Fantasia" animated film by Walt Disney, starring Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, is released

1946 First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, Massachusetts

1952 False fingernails 1st sold

1970 US Vice President Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"

1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War

2000’s                                         

2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2017 World's earliest wine-making uncovered from Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6,000BC

My Rambling Thoughts

A tad chilly with strong winds making it down right cold. Not happy. I had an 8:30a eye appointment. It was 27° when I left…felt like 20°. Got out my winter jacket and gloves for the appointment. All good at eye doc.

Started watching a great series on North Korea on the National Geographic Channel. Certainly worth a watch for those wondering about the Hermit Nation. I guess I should start watching for statues of our Great Leader.

The horrific fires in California are being made political by 45, probably because they didn’t vote for him. Sad.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Robert Sterling,

American actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper), born in New Castle, Pennsylvania (d. 2006)

@84- Louis Brandeis,

American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1941)

@82- Jack Elam,

American actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo), born in Miami, Arizona (d. 2003)

@81- Garry Marshall,

American TV and film director (Happy Days, Pretty Woman), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)

70’s

71- Joe Mantegna,

American actor (House of Games, Weeds), born in Chicago, Illinois

60’s

@67- Richard Mulligan,

actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus), born in The Bronx, cancer

65- Frances Conroy,

American actress (Six Feet Under)

63- Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson],

American actress, comedian and singer (Color Purple, Burglar), born in NYC  

50’s

@52- Dack Rambo,

American actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas), born in Earlimart, California (d. 1994) AIDS

51- Jimmy Kimmel,

American TV host and producer (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), born in Brooklyn, New York

40’s

@44- Robert Louis Stevenson,

Scottish author (Treasure Island), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1894) stroke

49- Gerard Butler,

Scottish actor

30’s

39-Meta-World-Peace (Ronald William Artest Jr),

basketball player (Lakers)

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@77-1973 Elsa Schiaparelli,

Italian fashion designer

@74-2016 Leon Russell,

American musician and singer-songwriter (Carny), in his sleep

@72-2005 Vine Deloria, Jr.,

Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist, aortic aneurism  

20’s

@28-1974 Karen Silkwood,

killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances