Nov 25

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Nov 25, 2018 Week: 48 \ Day: 328

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 21° \ Average Sky Cover: % 

Wind:   16mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 79°[1949]   Record Low: -8°[1906]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it

is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

William Arthur Ward

Random Tidbits

In an effort to sell more licensed apparel, minor-league baseball teams were changing their names so often that the sport's governing body now limits franchises to team name changes every three years.

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The first perfect nine innings baseball game was achieved by John Lee Richmond on June 12, 1880.

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Baseball ended one of its oldest traditions in 1997 when inter league play begin for the first time. This means that teams from the American league can play National league teams during the regular season. The first inter league game was played on June 12, 1997.

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The inventor of baseball is also credited with firing the first Union shot of Civil war.

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The baseball tradition of spring training came about because in 1885 the Chicago White Stockings went to Hot Springs in Arkansas to prepare for the new season.

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

Observances for Today

           

Blase'Day
International Day For the Elimination of

Violence Against Women Day
International Hat Day
National Parfait Day

Shopping Reminder Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1715 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn

1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States

1792 Benjamin Banneker first publishes his Farmer's Almanac

1800’s

1817 First sword swallower in US performs (NYC)

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

1876 Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

1900’s

1905 Telimco makes the 1st ever advertisment for a radio set, by advertising a $7.50 set in the "Scientific American" which claimed to receive signals for up to one mile

1920 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia)

1940 Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"

1957 US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech

1963 JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery

1971 American "Dan Cooper" hijacks plane, extorts $200,000 ransom before jumping out of plane over Washington State, never seen again

1973 US cuts maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure

1983 World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England

1990 Lech Wałęsa wins Poland's first popular election

2000’s

2005 Polish Minister of National Defense Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, including nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities by Soviet-controlled forces revealed

2014 Protest erupt across US after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager

My Rambling Thoughts

Sure hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I had turkey and all the extras with friends. Nice to see old friends and meet some new people over a great meal. My homemade cranberry sauce made with orange juice and some cinnamon and my pumpkin pie were both hits.  Wondering about the NFL PR department…the Thanksgiving game was the Cowboys v Redskins. Really?!? On Thanksgiving?!?

On Friday I headed out to Home Depot for their poinsettia sale. Arrived there a little past 8a. No less than 8 workers were standing by the front entrance, I guess, waiting for hordes of shoppers who hadn’t arrived. Easily found 3 large poinsettias for a mere $12. Each one was the $15 size at most stores. Headed home as no sale was worth the crowds I saw at other stores. I came home and started cleaning. Made it through the den and master bedroom before I decided that was enough for one day.  Even shampooed the rugs in both rooms.

This morning I headed out for some groceries.  It is a nice fall day. Tomorrow I take down the fall wreath on my door and replace it with a Christmas wreath. Haven’t yet decided about decorating a lot for Christmas. I have lots of family decorations that have been around since the 1950’s, but I never spend Christmas at home, so while I like the decorations, I leave a week before Christmas and come back right after Christmas and then have to put everything away. I’ll see.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@91- Augusto Pinochet,

Chilean general and dictator of Chile (1973-90), born in Valparaíso, Chile (d. 2006)

80’s

@88- Ricardo Montalbán,

Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun), born in Mexico City, Mexico (d. 2009)

@84- Karl Benz,

German inventor, engine designer and automobile manufacturer (Mercedes-Benz), born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg (d. 1929)

@84- Joe DiMaggio,

baseball player

@83- Andrew Carnegie,

Scottish-American industrialist, steel tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest Americans ever, born in Dunfermline, Scotland (d. 1919)

@81- Pope John XXIII [Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli],

261st Pope (1958-63), born in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy (d. 1963)

70’s

71- John Larroquette,

actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

40’s

47- Christina Applegate,

actress (Married With Children), born in Hollywood, California

30’s

@38- John F. Kennedy Jr,

American lawyer, magazine publisher (George) and son of JFK, born in NYC, plane crash

Under 10

@9- Amber Hagerman,

American kidnapping and murder victim, basis of the Amber Alert system (d. 1996) unsolved

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90-2016 Fidel Castro,

Cuban revolutionary, Prime Minister (1959-76) and President (1976-2008)

@90-1968 Upton Beall Sinclair,

American author (Jungle)

70’s

@74-1981 Jack Albertson,

American actor (Chico and the Man, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory), colon cancer

@72-1949 Bill Robinson "Bojangles",

American famed tap dancer (The Little Colonel, Stormy Weather), heart failure

@71-2016 Ron Glass,

American actor (Barney Miller, Frank's Place), respiratory failure

60’s

@65-1974 U Thant,

Burmese politician and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-72), cancer

20’s

@28-1920 Gaston Chevrolet,

French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer, race car accident