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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
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
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
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
