Nov 29

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Nov 29, 2018 Week: 48 \ Day: 333

86004 Today: H 53° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

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

Record High: 68°[1949]   Record Low: -8°[1905]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

No man is an island, entire of itself;

every man is a piece of the continent.

John Donne

Random Tidbits

The first email was sent over

the Internet in 1972.

The distress signal before SOS was CQD,

which meant "come quick danger."

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 

25-30

Better Conversation Week

27-12/2

National Deal Week

Observances for Today

           

Flossing Day  Link
Fur Free Friday Link 
Internat’l Day of Solidarity With The Palestinian People
Maize Day
National Chocolates Day
National Day of Listening  Link
National Lemon Creme Pie Day
National Rice Cake Day

National Native American Heritage Day Link 

Square Dancing Day Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink

1800’s

1847 Indians kill Washington state pioneers Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, and 12 others in Walla Walla Ore

1864 Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye

1872 Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time

1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1893 Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

1897 1st motorcycle race (Surrey, England)

1900’s

1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.

1935 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment 'Schrödinger's cat', a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

1942 US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year

1952 US President-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war

1963 LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK

1972 Co-founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell releases Pong, first commercially successful video game in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California

1974 Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff] special memorial service held at St. Paul's Cathedral, London, England

1975 US President Gerald Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped

1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding

2000’s

2012 The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state

My Rambling Thoughts

Weatherman sez snow tomorrow with up to 6” by tomorrow night, more snow on Friday. Then another storm brings more snow for the weekend. Not too excited as the last forecast that said 6” left us with little more than a dusting of snow. I live at 7000’ so snow is expected.

Having lunch with a friend tomorrow to catch up on her trip to Dallas and New Orleans with her childhood friend. Then a quick stop at Sam’s, just in case we get a lot of snow.

Focus is in NYC for the Christmas experience. Several people are posting pics of the trip, along with commentary. Nice. One of the Christmas memories I miss is seeing the Denver Dry Goods and May D&F window extravaganzas in Downtown Denver. Nice to see Macy’s is still doing windows in NYC.

One interesting thing about GM and its closures: The only GM commercials I ever see are for trucks and SUV’s. Maybe that’s why their smaller cars and their electric cars aren’t selling. Lots of people saying I’d get a smaller vehicle or an electric vehicle but… If an advertising agency can get lots of people to buy ‘Pet Rocks’, they should be able to sell smaller cars if they were into doing it.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

106- Viola Smith,

American drummer

(one of the first professional female drummers)

90’s

91-Vin Scully,

sportscaster

80’s

@88- Madeleine L'Engle, [Franklin],

American sci-fi author (Ilsa, Love Letters) (d. 2007)

83- Diane Ladd,

American actress (Chinatown, Wild Angels, Wild at Heart), born in Meridian, Mississippi

70’s

78- Chuck Mangione,

jazz hornist (Chasing the Clouds Away), born in Rochester, New York

60’s

@66- Garry Shandling,

comedian (It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2016) blood disease

@64- C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples],

British sci-fi author (Silver Chair), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 1963) renal failure

63- Howie Mandel,

comedian (Dr Wayne Fiscus-St Elsewhere), born in Toronto, Ontario

50’s

@59- Frank Reynolds,

E Chicago Ind, news anchor (ABC Evening News) (d. 1983) multiple myeloma

@55- Louisa May Alcott,

 American author (Little Women), born in Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 1888) stroke

54-Don Cheadle,

movie actor

40’s

@49- Christian Doppler,

Austrian physicist (Doppler effect), born in Salzburg, Austria (d. 1853) pulmonary disease

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87-1991 Ralph Bellamy,

American actor (Rosemary's Baby, His Girl Friday, Trading Places)

@82-1986 Cary Grant [Archibald Alexander Leach],

British-born American actor (Arsenic & Old Lace, North by Northwest)

@81-1999 Gene Rayburn,

American game show host (Match Game)

@81-1987 Howard Pyle,

(Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)

70’s

@79-1997 Coleman Young,

1st African American mayor of Detroit

@78-1992 Emilio Pucci,

Italian fashion designer (Jackie Kennedy)

60’s

@65-1924 Giacomo Puccini,

Italian composer (Mme Butterfly), heart attack after radiation treatment for throat cancer

@61-1872 Horace Greeley,

US founder/publisher (NY Tribune), illness during his presidential run

50’s

@58-2001 George Harrison,

English pop star and Beatle (Traveling Wilburys-My Sweet Lord), lung cancer

40’s

@43-1981 Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin],

American actress (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story), drowns

@43-1976 Godfrey Cambridge,

actor (Watermelon Man), heart attack