Dec 7

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Dec 7, 2018 Week: 49 \ Day: 341

86004 Today: H 35° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

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

Record High: 66°[1958]   Record Low: -19°[1978]

Nov Averages: 43°\17°

Today’s Quote

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.

Paul Cezanne

Random Tidbits

Henri Rousseau, famous for his exotic jungle scenes, never left Paris. He would go to the park, lie down among the grass and weeds, and sketch the plants hundreds of times their size.Matisse coined the term cubism in 1908 as an insult to another painter's work.

It took Leonardo da Vinci about five years to paint the Mona Lisa. X-rays of the famous painting show that there are three different versions underneath.

Observances This Week

           

1-7

Cookie Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Computer Science Education Week  Link

3-24
Andisop (Meterological Fiddling)   Link

3-10
Clerc-Gallaudet Week

Observances for Today

           

Bartender Appreciation Day Link  Link      
Earmuff Day or Chester Greenwood Day Link 
International Civil Aviation Day
National Cotton Candy Day Link
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
National Rhubarb Vodka Day Link
Pearl Harbor Day

Skywarn Recognition Day Link 
World Pear Day Link 

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1787 Delaware becomes 1st state to ratify the US constitution

1800’s

1804 Naturalist Alexander von Humboldt reports his discovery of the decrease in intensity of Earth's magnetic field from the poles to the equator in a memoir to the Paris Institute

1842 New York Philharmonic's 1st concert

1900’s

1909 Inventor Leo Baekeland patents the first thermo-setting plastic, Bakelite, sparking the birth of the plastics industry

1926 Gas refrigerator patented

1941 Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people

1963 Instant replay is used for the first time in a Army-Navy game.

1967 Otis Redding records "Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay"

1986 Pres Jean-Claude Duvalier flees Haiti

1988 PLO delegation lead by Yasser Arafat proclaims the State of Palestine, recognizing the existence of the State of Israel for the first time

1995 Irish poet Seamus Heaney receives the Novel Prize for Literature at a ceremony in Stockholm

2000’s

2014 Human Rights Watch Asia Division call for investigation into Indonesian security forces shooting of peaceful protesters

2015 Time Magazine readers name Bernie Sanders their 'person of the year'

2015 Beijing issues its 1st ever red alert for pollution

2015 US Presidential candidate Donald Trump proposes banning all Muslims from entering the US

2017 Australia's parliament votes to legalize gay marriage

My Rambling Thoughts

With all this cold weather, I picked up a little cold. Hopefully better in a couple of days. Got a runny nose, headache, and cough.

I was raised Episcopalian. Though I don’t call myself a practicing member, I am a bit perturbed. At the Bush private funeral, there was lots of music. Back in my day, hymns were played and/or sung at church. Secular songs about America are not. Some of the songs should have been played/sung outside the church. I was also surprised to see the clergy with their hands over their hearts when ‘Hail to the Chief’ was played at they loaded the casket into the hearse. I get that the clergy honors our country but when they are wearing  church regalia, they are part of the Church, not the country. We still have a separation of church and state.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@98- Eli Wallach,

American actor (Magnificent 7, The Misfits, People Next Door), born in Brooklyn New York, (d. 2014)

@94- Pramukh Swami Maharaj,

Indian Hindu spiritual leader (BAPS), born in Chansad, Gujarat (d. 2016)

90- Noam Chomsky,

American linguist (founded transformational grammar), philospher and political activist, born in Philadelphia

80’s

86- Ellen Burstyn,

American actress (Exorcist, Alice Doesn't Live Here), born in Detroit, Michigan

70’s

@73- Rod Cameron [Nathan Roderick Cox],

Canadian actor (City Detective, State Trooper, Trigger Trail), born in Calgary, Alberta (d. 1983) cancer

60’s

@67- Louis Prima,

New Orleans Louisiana, American musician (That Old Black Magic) (d. 1978) stroke

@62- Ted Knight [Tadeusz Wladyslaw Konopka],

American actor (Mary Tyler Moore, Too Close for Comfort), born in Terryville, Connecticut (d. 1986) colon cancer

50’s

51- C Thomas Howell,

actor (Red Dawn, Tank, Soul Man), born in Los Angeles, California

30’s

@38- Harry Chapin,

American rock vocalist (Taxi, Cat's in the Cradle), born in NYC, (d. 1981) controversial auto accident

Historical Obits Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@96-2011 Harry Morgan,

American actor (M*A*S*H)

80’s

@87-1970 Rube Goldberg,

American cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult) Pulitzer Prize 1948

70’s

@73-1906 Élie Ducommun,

Swiss journalist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize)

@70-1985 Potter Stewart,

94th Supreme Court Justice (1958-81), stroke

60’s

@63-1817 William Bligh,

British naval officer of "HMS Bounty" fame

@62-1902 Thomas Nast,

US political cartoonist, yellow fever