Nov 28

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Nov 28, 2018 Week: 48 \ Day: 332

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 65% 

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 68°[1980]   Record Low: -3°[1905]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

In three words I can sum up everything

I've learned about life: it goes on.

Robert Frost

Random Tidbits

Hippos' sweat is red.

The colored pigment both acts

a sunscreen and kills bacteria.

Observances This Week

           

24-30

Church/State Separation Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
National Family Week
National Game & Puzzle Week 

24-12/1

National Bible Week 

24-28

National Farm-City Week

25-30

Better Conversation Week

27-12/2

National Deal Week

Observances for Today

           

French Toast Day

Make Your Own Head Day

Red Planet Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s

1660 The Royal Society forms in London

1700’s

1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution

1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.

1745 -29] French troops attack indians of Saratoga, NY

1775 Second Continental Congress formally establishes US Navy

1785 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people

1800’s

1814 The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer - makes newspapers available to a mass audience

1853 Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory

1900’s

1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy

1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV

1988 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million

2000’s

2016 "Hamilton" sets new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway - $3.3 million

My Rambling Thoughts

Saw my blood doctor this morning. Had another phlebotomy with another on in Dec and another one in Jan. Haven’t had any for quite a while so no big deal. Almost took longer for the scheduling those than for the actual procedure.

I’m really tired of the daily crises to further 45’s agenda. Tijuana is in the news as tear gas is used…yet nothing from the administration to fix the immigration problems...except to build the wall.  GM closes 3 US plants and nothing from the administration to fix it…except to threaten to stop subsidies to GM. We need plans, not threats. We need action, not threats.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

89- Berry Gordy,

record company owner (Motown), born in Detroit, Michigan

82- Gary Hart,

(Sen-D-Co, 1975-86)

70’s

75- Randy Newman,

vocalist (Short People, Love LA, Raindrops), born in New Orleans

@74- Freidrich Engels,

German social philosopher (Communism), born in Barmen, Germany (d. 1895) throat cancer

60’s

@69- William Blake,

English poet and artist (Songs of Innocence & Experience), born in London, England (d. 1827)

69- Paul Shaffer,

orchestra leader (SNL, David Letterman), born in Thunder Bay, Ontario

68- Ed Harris,

American actor (Right Stuff, Swing Shift, Walker, Coma), born in Englewood, New Jersey

66- S Epatha Merkerson,

Saginaw Michigan, American actress (Jacob's Ladder, Terminator 2)

50’s

@59- John Bunyan,

England, cleric/author (Pilgrim's Progress) (d. 1888) fever

@57- Henry Bacon,

American architect (Lincoln Memorial), born in Watseka, Illinois (d. 1924) cancer

56- Jon Stewart [Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz],

American Comedian (The Daily Show), born in NYC, New York

30’s

@39- Anna Nicole "Vickie" Smith,

playmate (May 1992), born in Houston, (d. 2007) OD

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@97-2015 Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg],

American actress (Make Room for Daddy, Sherlock Holmes in Washington)

@90-2016 Grant Tinker,

American TV executive (Chairman of NBC)

80’s

@84-2010 Leslie Nielsen,

Canadian actor (Spy Hard, Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)

@82-2016 Van Williams,

American actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon)

70’s

@78-1993 Garry Moore,

TV host (I've Got A Secret), emphysema

@78-1939 James Naismith,

Canadian-American physical educator and inventor (basketball, football helmet), stroke

@76-1859 Washington Irving,

American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), heart attack

50’s

@53-1954 Enrico Fermi,

Italian-American nuclear physicist (Nobel 1938), stomach cancer