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Nov 11, 2018
Week: 46 \ Day: 315
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 121mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1973]
Record Low: 7°[1950]
Nov Averages: 51°\23°
Today’s Quote
Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed
words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will
be. Douglas MacArthur
Random Tidbits
The
stereotypical image of the haggard witch with a pointy black hat and warty nose
stems from a pagan goddess known as "the crone," who was honored
during Samhain. The crone was also known as "the old one" and the
"Earth mother," who symbolized wisdom, change, and the turning of the
seasons.
Observances This
Week
Dear Santa Letter Week
9-17
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
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
World Orphans Day
Today’s Significant
Historical Events
1600’s
1647
Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in the American
colonies
1700’s
1745 Bonnie
Prince Charlie's army enters England
1775 Mohawk
military leader Joseph Brant goes to London to solicit more support from the
government and to persuade the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances in
exchange for their participation as allies in the impending war
1778 Iroquois
Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
1800’s
1807
Washington Irving's Salmagundi periodical published - first to associate the
name "Gotham" with New York City
1839 The
Virginia Military Institute is founded in Lexington, Virginia.
1868 1st
American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1889
Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA
1900’s
1909
Construction of US navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1918 Armistice
signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities
end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh
month"
1921 US
President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington
Cemetery
1922 Largest
US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
1925 Robert A.
Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1926 U.S.
Route 66 is established.
1930 Patent
number US1781541 was awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their
invention, the Einstein refrigerator.
1940 Willys
unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
1959 1st
episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
1961
"Catch-22" by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New
York
1981 Fernando
Valenzuela is 1st rookie ever to win a Cy Young Award
1987 van
Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 million at auction
1988 Oldest
known insect fossils (390 million yrs) reported in Science
1994 Bill
Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci's "Codex" for $30,800,000
2000’s
2004 Yasser
Arafat's death through unidentified causes confirmed by Palestine Liberation
Organization, Mahmoud Abbas elected PLO chairman minutes later.
2017 Largest
Singles Day sales ever - Alibaba says its sales alone were $25.3 billion
2017
Nationalist march in Warsaw, Poland, draws 60,000, to coincide with country's
independence day
My Rambling Thoughts
Quite
chilly last night. Warmed up nicely today.
Our
discussion group meets tonight to learn about the studies of extra-terrestrial
life. Should be very informative. We are getting a private showing of a
presentation done at Flagstaff’s Lowell Observatory, where Pluto was
discovered. I’ve always been interested in ‘space’ and this should add a lot of
new information.
The
Presidents of France and Germany unveiled a new WWI monument today. 45 didn’t
go, it was raining. When one has no empathy, one does not understand.
I
saw a great 60 Minutes segment on various rifles and the damage they do to
humans. Hard hitting and was shocked by the damage an assault rifle does. Now a
group of emergency room physicians are warning of an ‘emergency’ caused by
these weapons. Not to be thwarted by their voice, the NRA issued a statement
telling them to ‘stay in their own lane’. Will the violence every stop? Not as
long as the NRA continues to pay elected officials in DC.
Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@92
Alger Hiss,
State
Department official hid papers in a pumpkin (d. 1996)
80’s
@87
Jonathan Winters,
comedian
(J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), born in Dayton, Ohio (d. 2013)
@84
Sam Spiegel,
producer
(On the Waterfront, Bridge over River Kwai)
@84
Kurt Vonnegut Jr,
American
author (Slaughterhouse Five, Sirens of Titan), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
(d. 2007)
70’s
@73
Abrigail Adams,
1st
lady (d, 1818)
60’s
@60
George S. Patton,
American
WWII general (Sicily, Italy and Normandy) known as "Old Blood &
Guts", born in San Gabriel, California (d. 1945) heart failure
50’s
@59
Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
Russian
novelist (Crime and Punishment, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man) who helped shape
literary modernism and existentialism, born in Moscow, Russian Empire (d. 1881)
lung disease
58
Stanley Tucci,
American
actor and director
55
Demi Moore [Guynes],
American
actress (Ghost, Striptease, GI Jane), born in Roswell, New Mexico
54
Calista Flockhart,
actress
40’s
@49
Joseph G. Hamilton,
American
physician who was a pioneer of using radioactive isotopes in disease treatment
and diagnosis, born in Waverley, Massachusetts (d. 1957)
@47
Paracelsus,
Swiss
physician and alchemist (Zinc, Laudanum), born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland (d.
1541)
45
Adam Beach,
First
Nation’s Canadian actor
44
Leonardo DiCaprio,
American
actor (The Departed, Inception, The Wolf of Wall Street), born in Los Angeles,
California
Historical Obits Today
80’s
@83-2016
Robert Vaughn,
American
actor (Napolean Solo in Man from UNCLE, I Spy)
70’s
@75-2004
Yasser Arafat,
Chairman
of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, 1st President of the Palestinian
National Authority (1994-2004) and 1994 Nobel peace prize winner, stroke
60’s
@69-1938
Mary Mallon,
Irish-American
patient best known as 'Typhoid Mary' and the first person in the United States
known to be immune to typhoid, pneumonia
50’s
@53-1886
Paul Bert,
Auxerre,
French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of
the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean
exploration, dysentery
40’s
@42-1855
Søren Kierkegaard,
Danish
philosopher, TB?
30’s
@31-1831
Nat Turner,
slave
rebel who led a violent insurrection in Virginia, hanged
