Nov 7

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Nov 7, 2018 Week: 45 \ Day: 311

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

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

Record High: 71°[1934]   Record Low: 8°[1947]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Albert Camus

Random Tidbits

When the Citizens Bank of Tenino, Washington, closed on December 5, 1931, the town was without ready cash to do business, so denominations of 25 cents, 50 cents and $1 were printed on three-ply Sitka spruce wood, the first wooden money issued as legal tender in the United States.

Observances This Week

           

1-7

National Fig Week
World Communication Week

3-9

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link   
National Radiologic Technology Week Link

4-8

Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link 
National Patient Accessibility Week
National Young Readers Week Link 

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week

Observances for Today

           

Employee Brotherhood Day Link 
International Merlot Day  Link
Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds DayLink
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
National Men Make Dinner Day: Link 
Notary Public Day Link
Stout Day  Link  

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s                                         

1651 King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age

1800’s                                         

1800 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013)

1805 Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean

1876 President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden claim presidential victory as Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)

1893 US State Colorado accepts female suffrage

1900’s                                         

1907 Delta Sigma Pi, a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities is founded at New York University.

1916 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) is elected to Congress as its first woman Representative

1917 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.

1942 First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French

1962 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California

1967 LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting

1990 Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland

2000’s                                         

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush's favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court

2000 Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for her novel "The Blind Assassin"

2017 Danica Roem becomes the first US transgender person to be elected to a state legislature in the US in North Virginia

My Rambling Thoughts

Got up and headed to the polls early this morning. No problem, in and out within 10 minutes and there were 13 propositions along with a lot of state candidates. I have to say I was surprised when the County opened an office at the mall and then made the storefront my polling place. I’ve now voted there twice (primary and today) and must admit, it is strange to vote in a shopping mall store, instead of the usual church or school. But it works, it’s efficient, and since it is the only indoor mall in town, lots of people go there. I asked the poll worker since we were in a retail mall if they were having any deals, like two votes for one. She smiled and said the 2 for 1 sale starts on Wednesday.

So glad I don’t live in Phoenix as they don’t seem to ever get voting places right. The last two elections were long lines, up to 2 hours. This time it turned out one of the polling places was in foreclosure and the workers couldn’t set up and had to find another polling place. At another place the church lady gave them the wrong key, so they couldn’t set up until 8a, and several other places have 1-hour lines. The good news seems to be that lots of people are voting in this midterm.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@99 Billy Graham,

American Baptist evangelist (Crusades) described as 1 of the 20th century's most influential Christian leaders, born in Charlotte, North Carolina (d. 2018)

80’s

@83 Joan Sutherland,

Australian operatic soprano (Met Opera), born in Sydney, New South Wales (d. 2010)

80 Barry Newman,

actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli), born in Boston

70’s

@76 Al Hirt,

 jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1999) liver failure

76 Johnny Rivers, [John Henry Ramistella],

American singer (Secret Agent Man), born in NYC

75 Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson],

Canadian singer (Clouds), born in Fort Macleod, Alberta

60’s

@66 Marie Curie,

Polish-French scientist who discovered radium and the 1st woman to win a Nobel Prize (1903, 1911), born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1934) aplastic anemia (from radiation)

@60 Leon Trotsky,

Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army [OS 26-10-1879], born in Yelizavetgrad, Russian Empire (d. 1940) assassinated

40’s

@46 Albert Camus,

French author (The Just-Nobel 1957), born in Dréan, Algeria (d. 1960) auto accident

43 Marcus Luttrell,

American former Navy SEAL ("Lone Survivor"), born in Houston, Texas

30’s

@34 Dana Plato,

Maywood California, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes) suicide

20’s

22 Lorde [Ella Yelich-O'Connor],

New Zealand singer (Royals), born in Auckland, New Zealand

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-1981 Will Durant,

American author and historian (The Story of Philosophy, The Story of Civilization)

@90-1995 John Patrick,

American screenwriter and playwright (Pulitzer Prize 1954), commits suicide

@90-1913 Alfred Russel Wallace,

British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution through natural selection

80’s

@82-2016 Leonard Cohen,

Canadian writer and singer-songwriter (Death of Ladies Man)

@80-1978 Gene Tunney,

American boxer, heavyweight boxing champion (1926-28)

70’s

@78-2016 Janet Reno,

first female US Attorney General (1993-2001), Parkinson’s

@78-1962 Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), heart failure

60’s

@67-2011 Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer, liver cancer

@65-1992 Jack Kelly,

American actor (Bart-Maverick, Get Christie Love), stroke

50’s

@50-1980 Steve McQueen,

American actor called "The King of Cool" during the 1960s (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape), cancer

40’s

@42-1908 Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker],

American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian soldiers

30’s

@34-1837 Elijah Parish Lovejoy,

American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, murdered