Nov 5

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Nov. 5, 2019 Week: 44  Day: 309

86004:   H 66° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  87mi.  Nearest lightning:  891mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1976]   Record Low: 1°[1922]

Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“Live in such a way

that you wouldn’t be ashamed

to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.”

~ Will Rogers

Observances This Week

10/25-11/11

World Origami Days

1-7

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link  

Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link

National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link  

National Fig Week

Polar Bear Week

World Communication Week

2-6

National Patient Accessibility Week

Observances for Today

Firewood Day
Gunpowder Day

Guy Fawkes Day

National Chinese Take-out Day

National Doughnut Day

National Love Your Red Hair Day

National Medical Cannabis Day  Link  Link
National Love Your Red Hair Day Link
National Men Make Dinner Day   Link 
Play Monopoly Day  Link
Read for The Record Day  Link
Saxophone Day

Stout Day  Link 
U.S. General Election Day

World Tsunami Awareness Day

My Rambling Thoughts

One year and counting to the next Presidential election. Voting is an important part of our democratic process. I’m not a fan of the current President, but that’s what elections are for.

Great news: Wizard Rock, the one-ton rock that disappeared in the Prescott National Forest has been returned. Seems that only the thieves know why it was stolen or why it was returned. My story as a science fiction buff: It was always there, but some scientist has found out how to make thing invisible for a few days.

It’s beginning to look like the ruling party in the House has messed up several Presidential bids from their own party. At present, the Senators running for President will have to figure out how to be in the Senate trial and on the campaign trail at the same time. Talk about shooting yourself in your foot. I’m sure many Presidential supporters are laughing.

More on our Wal-Mart fire. The store is open and when I was there today, only the clothing section is still closed off with floor to ceiling plastic tarps. I have to say I am very impressed with their hard work over the last couple of weeks. While there I had a few items to pick up and they had all of them on the shelves…and found a couple of things I didn’t know I needed.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

How can you make four 9’s equal 100?

Historical Events

1530 - St. Felix's Flood, Netherlands

1605 - Gunpowder Plot - an attempt to blow up English Parliament. Plot discovered and leader Guy Fawkes was tortured and later executed. He was caught with 36 barrels of gunpowder at the House of Lords.

1639 - First post office in the colonies was set up in Massachusetts, with permission from King William and Queen Mary. The United States Post Office (USPO) was created on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress.

1740 The third volume of philosopher David Hume's seminal work "A Treatise of Human Nature" is published by Thomas Longman

1781 - John Hanson was elected first "President of US in Congress assembled." The other short-term presidents before George Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, were Elias Boudinot, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, Nathaniel Gorham, Arthur St. Clair and Cyrus Griffin.

1852 - American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects was founded.

1895 - Patent attorney George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first US patent (#549,160) for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1917 - Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) struck down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas. The USSC held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to blacks violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

1917 - Lenin announced the October Revolution.

1935 - Parker Brothers launched the board game of Monopoly. Marvin Gardens is actually a misspelling of 'Marven Gardens', an actual locale in Atlantic City.

1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Willkie

1956 - The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC. It was the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American. The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show aired December 17, 1957.

1959 - American Football League (AFL) was announced, with 8 teams - The New York Titans, Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Chargers, Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, and Dallas Texans.

1966 - #1 Hit: The Monkees - Last Train to Clarksville

1968 Republican candidate Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Hubert Humphrey and Independent candidate George Wallace

1988 - #1 Hit: The Beach Boys - Kokomo

2000 Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie is laid to rest 25 years after his death after a funeral procession through Addis Ababa

2006 Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.

2007 - The Android mobile phone operating system was unveiled by Google.

2009 - US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation. Although it has been officially labeled as work place violence, many people consider it an act of terrorism.

2013 - India launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

2018 NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to reach interstellar space

Birthdays Today

@96 - Will Durant, American author and philosopher

(died in 1981)

@90 – Natalie Schafer, American actress

[Lovey on Gilligan’s Island]  

(died in 1991)

81 – Jim Steranko, American author and illustrator: Marvel

@84 – Joel McCrea, American actor

(died in 1990)

@86 – Roy Rogers, American singer, guitarist and actor

(died in 1998)

@87 – Violet Barclay, American illustrator

(died in 2010)

79 – Elke Sommer, German actress

78 – Art Garfunkel, American Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

@76 – Ike Turner, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist and

producer

(died in 2007; OD)

72-– Peter Noone, English Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

65 – Kris Jenner, talent manager and businesswoman

60 – Bryan Adams, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, guitarist,

producer and actor

59 – Tilda Swinton, English actress

56 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress and author

@53 – Vivien Leigh, Indian-British actress

(died in 1967; TB)

45 – Ryan Adams, American Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

32 – Kevin Jonas, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, actor

26 – Gram Parsons, American Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

(The Byrds)

(died in 1973: OD)

Puzzle answer:

99 9/9 = 100