Nov 27

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Nov 27, 2018 Week: 48 \ Day: 331

86004 Today: H 43° \ L 21° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 68°[1949]   Record Low: -5°[1984]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Thomas Fuller

Random Tidbits

You have between 2 and 4 million sweat glands in your body. Your feet alone have about 250,000 sweat glands between them.

Sweating from stress and sweating to cool down are chemically different. When you sweat because you're hot, it comes from your eccrine glands, but when you sweat because you're stressed, it comes from your apocrine glands.

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

27-12/2

National Deal Week

Observances for Today

           

National Bavarian Cream Pie Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1826 John Walker invents friction match in England

1868 Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General George A. Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack

1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize

1896 "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt

1900’s

1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.

1948 Honda 1st opens in America

1965 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.

1973 US Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President

1999 New Zealand's Labour Party defeats the National-led government after 9 years in power, Helen Clark becomes the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history

2000’s

2006 The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.

2017 Pope Francis begins a three-day trip to Myanmar, amid the Rohingya refugee crisis

2017 8 Donkeys freed from jail after 4 days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh, India for eating plants

My Rambling Thoughts

Monday started with a blood draw for my quarterly blood check. Easy-peasy with results tomorrow.

Decided that all I needed to put up were some of the family Christmas stuff. Looks nice.

NPR has run a couple of stories recently on things I knew nothing about. The first was ‘The Green Book’, published for Blacks that showed safe routes, safe hotels, and safe restaurants throughout the South. (Movie is coming soon). Then today, while reporting on the near demise of Sears, it turns out that the Sears Catalog offered Credit for those ordering. And in the Jim Crow South, this was the first time many Blacks were able to get credit of any kind, and for the first time, buy clothes, appliances, tools, etc. that wouldn’t be sold to them in the South. Very interesting! My dad, grandfather, and others would never have finished our entire basement without Craftsman tools…always paid for in cash!

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- David Merrick, [Margulois],

Broadway producer (Hello Dolly), born in Hong Kong (d. 2000)

@80- Buffalo Bob Smith [Robert Emil Schmidt],

American TV host (Howdy Doody), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1998)

60’s

@68-James Avery,

actor (Fresh Prince) (d. 2013) heart complications after surgery

67- Kathryn Bigelow,

American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty), born in San Carlos, California

65- Stephen "Steve" Bannon,

American advisor to Trump, chair of Breitbart News, born in Norfolk, Virginia

63- Bill Nye,

the Science Guy, TV Host

61- Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg,

attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter

50’s

@56- Eddie Rabbitt,

country singer (I Love a Rainy Night), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1998) lung cancer

40’s

@42- Anders Celsius,

Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale), born in Uppsala, Sweden (d. 1744)

42- Jaleel White,

actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters), born in Los Angeles

30’s

@32- Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam],

Chinese-American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1973) allergic reaction to meds to control brain swelling

20’s

@27- Jimi Hendrix,

 rock guitarist (Purple Haze), born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1970) aspirated on vomit

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94-2014 P D [Phyllis Dorothy] James,

Baroness James of Holland Park, English crime writer (Death in Holy Orders)

70’s

@74-1990 David White,

American actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched), heart attack

60’s

@65-1953 Eugene O'Neill,

playwright (Nobel 1936), Parkinson’s

50’s

@56-8 BC Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus),

Roman Republican poet (Odes)

40’s

@48-1978 Harvey Milk,

first openly gay person to be elected to public office, assassinated

30’s

@36-1852 Ada Lovelace,

English mathematician considered the first computer programmer, uterine cancer