Nov 19

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Nov 19, 2018 Week: 47 \ Day: 323

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 19° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

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

Record High: 69°[1949]   Record Low: -6°[1985]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

Start with what is right

rather than what is acceptable.

Franz Kafka

Random Tidbits

The French term souvenir replaced keepsake as the primary word for a memento, following exchanges with the locals, while officers being sacked were said to have "come ungummed" from the French "degommer", to dismiss. This quickly developed into "come unstuck".

Observances This Week

16-23

International Games Week

17-24

American Sand Sculpting Competition Link

18-22

American Education Week Link   

Observances for Today

           

American Made Matters Day  Link
Equal Opportunity Day (aka Gettysburg Address Day)  Link
International Men's Day Link
National Entrepreneurship Day  Link
Rocky and Bullwinkle Day
Women's Entrepreneurship Day Link
World Philosophy Day
World Toilet Day Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s                                         

1620 The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod & explores the coast

1800’s                                         

1805 Lewis & Clark expedition reaches the Pacific Ocean, first European Americans to cross the west

1816 Warsaw University is established.

1850 Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth

1861 Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper

1863 US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."

1872 E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first 'calculator', an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals

1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter

1893 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)

1895 American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil

1900’s                                         

1911 NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy

1923 The Oklahoma State Senate ousts Governor Walton for anti-Ku Klux Klan measures

1944 World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.

1947 200" mirror arrives at Mt Palomar

1955 National Review publishes its first issue.

1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons

1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a Californian state historical landmark

1985 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time

1998 Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sells at auction for $71.5 million

1998 Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

2000’s                                         

2017 Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe refuses to resign in a TV speech after being ousted as leader of ruling ZANU-PF party

My Rambling Thoughts

Chilly last night, but a nice day now.

Sunday news shows were rather upbeat this morning. Much better than the doom and gloom before the midterms. Maybe even some movement on Saudi Arabia’s killing of a journalist.

Getting ready for Thanksgiving. Nothing like a very good home cooked meal with friends.

Don’t get the Broncos/Chargers game here but do get to watch the Cards/Raiders. Never been a Raider’s fan, and it should be about time for the Cards to finally win a game.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96- Angus "Alan" Young,

British actor and voice actor (Mister Ed, Scrooge McDuck), born in North Shields, England (d. 2016)

80’s

85- Larry King,

American radio/TV host "143 Arivadechi" (Larry King Show, CNN), born in Brooklyn

82- Dick Cavett,

Kearney Neb, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)

@80- Jeane J Kirkpatrick,

US ambassador to UN (R), born in Duncan, Oklahoma (d. 2006)

@80- Hiram Bingham III,

American archaeologist who re-discovered the Incan site of Machu Picchu, born in Honolulu, Hawaii (d. 1956)

80- Ted Turner,

American founder of CNN, owner of the Atlanta Braves and winner of the America's Cup in 1977, born in Cincinnati

70’s

76- Calvin Klein,

American fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), born in The Bronx

@73±- Dan Haggerty,

actor (Grizzly Adams), born in Hollywood, (d. 2016) spinal cancer

60’s

@66- Indira Gandhi,

4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), born in Allahabad India (d. 1984) assassinated

50’s

59-Allison Janney,

actress

57- Meg Ryan,

American actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns), born in Fairfield, Connecticut

56- Jodie Foster,

American actress (The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs), born in Los Angeles

40’s

@49- James A. Garfield,

20th US President (Republican: 1881), born in Moreland Hills, Ohio (d. 1881) assassinated

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-2017 Della Reese [Delloreese Patricia Early],

American singer and actress (Della Reese Show, Royal Family)

@85-2017 Mel Tillis [Lonnie Melvin Tillis],

American country singer (Who's Julie, M-M-Mel)

@83-2017 Charles Manson,

American criminal, murderer and cult leader (Manson Family), in prison

@83-2014 Mike Nichols [Mikhail Peschkowsky],

German-American film director (Catch 22, The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)

60’s

@67-1998 Glenn Reeves,

American rockabilly singer-songwriter and radio deejay (Heartbreak Hotel), cancer

30’s

@38-1887 Emma Lazarus,

US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"), lymphoma

@38- Joe Hill,

Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder

@31-1828 Franz Schubert,

Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), typhoid fever