Nov 7

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Nov. 7, 2019 Week: 44  Day: 311

86004:   H56 ° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%

Nearest active fire:  15mi.  Nearest lightning:  59mi

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  9mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 71°[1934]   Record Low: 8°[1947]

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

Today’s Quote

“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen,

and thinking what nobody else has thought.”

~ Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Random Tidbits

A University of Pennsylvania study found that 33 percent of teachers leave within the first three years of beginning their careers and 46 percent leave within the first five. The numbers have been increasing since the late 1980s.

The most common reason a person leaves teaching is the low salary.

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 

6-8

National Farm Toy Show Days
Sherlock Holmes Weekend LINK

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week

Observances for Today

Bison Day

Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

Digital Scrapbooking Day
Employee Brotherhood Day Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants)
International Merlot Day  Link
International Stout Day

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day Link
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
National Play Outside Day Link 
Notary Public Day Link
Men Make Dinner Day

Pumpkin Destruction Day
Sausage and Kraut Day
World Numbat Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Lots of lightning, thunder and light rain this morning. Cleared up about 11am, but was nice while it lasted.

While AZ does not observe Daylight time, most of our national cable channels come from a west coast feed, so CNN and others are now an hour later than I’m used to. The local alphabet affiliates are still on local time and don’t change. I’ll eventually adjust.

My good friend, Focus traveler Bob Eckhardt is not doing well. He was placed in hospice last night. I’m sad, but realize that he has not been doing well and his dementia has been getting worse. I don’t want him to suffer anymore.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

I love to twist and dance.

Though wingless, I fly high in the sky.

What am I?

Historical Events

1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck ground one afternoon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

1665 - First edition of the London Gazette was printed. At the time it was called "The Oxford Gazette".

1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

1811 - The Battle of Tippecanoe took place, with future US President, William Henry Harrison.

1874 - First cartoon depicting the elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. He is also known as being the first to draw our modern version of Santa Claus.

1876 - The patent (#184,207) for the first US cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City.

1885 -The Canadian Pacific Railway, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, was completed.

1908 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.

1908 - Professor Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter.

1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) took place, by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1913 - Great Lakes Storm of 1913 lasted until November 10th. It killed over 250 people and was concentrated around Lake Huron.

1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine was published.

1916 - Jeannette Rankin (R) became the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

1917 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is proclaimed; first Council of People's Commissars is formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin

1929 - The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened to the public.

1932 - First broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th century on CBS-radio. The Buck Rogers comic strip made its first newspaper appearance on January 7, 1929.

1942 First US President to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French

1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) was elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1967 - Carl B. Stokes (D) was elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city.

1975 - The New Original Wonder Woman TV movie aired as a 'test' pilot for the series, Wonder Woman on ABC, starred Lynda Carter. It had very little in common with the 1974 TV movie entitled Wonder Woman starring Cathy Lee Crosby,

1976 - Gone With the Wind was televised for the first time. Gone with the Wind was originally a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The film was released in 1939.

1981 - #1 Hit: Daryl Hall and John Oates - Private Eyes

1987 - #1 Hit: Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now

1989 - Douglas Wilder (D) won the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American governor in the United States. Also, David Dinkins became the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.

1991 - Magic Johnson announced that he was infected with HIV and retired from the NBA.

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush's favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court

2006 - At O'Hare International Airport, UFO Sighting Near Gate C-17 twelve employees reported seeing a metallic saucer shaped craft hovering over the airport. The FAA stance concluded that the sighting was caused by a weather phenomenon and that the agency would not be investigating the incident, which many think is odd in the post-2001 security-enhanced world of airport security.

2009 - #1 Hit: Owl City - Fireflies

2018 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General

Birthdays Today

@99 – Billy Graham, American minister and author

(died in 2018)

77 – Johnny Rivers

John Henry Ramistella, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist

 and producer

@76 – Al Hirt, American trumpet player and bandleader  

(died in 1999; edema)

76 – Joni Mitchell, Canadian Singer/Songwriter and guitarist

68 – Lawrence O'Donnell, American journalist/talk show host

@66 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist-physicist Nobel Prize

laureate,

(died in 1934; radiation poisoning)

@60 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist and politician;

founded the Red Army,

(died in 1940; assassinated)

@46 – Albert Camus, French novelist, philosopher, and

 journalist; Nobel Prize laureate

(died in 1960; auto accident)

39 – Amy Purdy, American actress, model and snowboarder

@34 – Dana Plato, American actress

(died in 1999; OD)

23 – Lorde,

Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor

New Zealand Singer/Songwriter

Puzzle answer:

A kite