Dec 2

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Dec. 2, 2019 Week: 49  Day:336

86004:   H 38° \ L 23° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%

Nearest active fire:  297mi.  Nearest lightning:  923mi

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  3mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 62°[1946]   Record Low: -5°[1991]

Dec. Averages: 44°\17° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“I am thankful to all those who said No.

Because of them, I did it myself.”

~ Albert Einstein

Observances This Month

Operation Santa Paws (1-17)

Safe Toys and Gifts Month

Spiritual Literacy Month

Universal Human Rights Month

Worldwide Food Service Safety Month

Youngsters on The Air Month

Observances This Week

Thru 12/4

American Sand Sculpting Competition Link

1-7

Cookie Cutter Week Link
National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link  
Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week
Older Driver Safety Awareness Week  Link

Observances for Today

Cider Monday
Cyber Monday
Feast of St. Bibiana

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery Day
National Fritters Day

National Mutt Day Link 
Safety Razor Day
Special Education Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Chilly Sunday with mostly overcast sky. No precip is expected and very little snow melting. Thankfully the main roads are clear and most of the side roads are also clear. I assume that parking lots are clear…the business need to make it easy for shoppers.

Broncos are playing, but not on my TV, so it will be followed on the internet machine. Cardinals play this afternoon and I may watch that game.

Sunday morning news shows caught me up on the news. It’s always interesting to hear of a snowstorm anywhere near the East Coast or Midwest, like the storm in an anomaly that will paralyze the area, and never a mention of Flags snow on the National shows. Life in a small town, I guess. While Flag got almost 2 feet, the nearby San Francisco Peaks ski area got four + feet. Great for skiers, except that it was a very wet snow so it packed down quickly and I’m sure it is now rather icy on the slopes.

The week ahead gives me time to shop for Christmas while I await the arrival of my new bed. I’m ready for it to arrive.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

John is taller than Kim and Carl.

Sam is shorter than Kim.

Nancy is shorter than Kim and Sam; however,

Sam is shorter than Carl.

Who is the shortest?

Historical Events

1697 - St Paul's Cathedral was consecrated in London.

1763 - Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island.

1804 - At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French.

1816 - The first US savings bank, the Philadelphia Savings Fund Society (PSFS), opened for business.

1823 - US President James Monroe introduced the Monroe Doctrine.

1859 - Abolitionist leader John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States

1877 - Louis-Paul Cailletet (1832-1913) became the first to liquify oxygen. He went on to liquify nitrogen, hydrogen, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, and acetylene.

1901 - King Camp Gillette patented (US #775134A) his safety razor.

1927  - Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black announces to the Geological Society of China that the ancient human fossils from Zhoukoudian, China are a new species which he has named 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')

1927 - The Ford Motor Company unveiled its second mass production model, the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

1939 - The New York Municipal Airport opened. It was renamed LaGuardia Airport, after the mayor who pushed it for construction, in 1953.

1942 - Enrico Fermi produced the first nuclear chain reaction, below Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.

1950 - "I Robot" collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov published by Genome Press in the US

1950 - #1 Hit: Phil Harris - The Thing

1954 - The US Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute." He was looking for communists within the government.

1960 - Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovers 1.4-million-year-old Homo erectus (Olduvai Hominid 9) in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania

1967 - #1 Hit: The Monkees - Daydream Believer

1969 - On I Dream of Jeannie, Jeannie (Barbara Eden) became Mrs. Anthony Nelson.

1970 - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), proposed by President Richard Nixon, began operating. William Ruckelshaus was the first director.

1971 - The United Arab Emirates (UAE) formed as a federation from the seven emirates of Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, and Umm al-Quwain.

1972 - #1 Hit: The Temptations - Papa Was a Rollin' Stone

1978 - #1 Hit: Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond - You Don't Bring Me Flowers

1982 - University of Utah Medical Center performed the first implant of a permanent artificial heart in Barney Clark, designed by Robert Jarvik The Jarvik-7. It expended Barney's life by 16 weeks.

1988 - The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! was released in theaters.

1993 - Drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot to death by police forces in Medellin, Colombia.

1995 - #1 Hit: Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day

1997 - Good Will Hunting, starring and written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck debuted in theaters.

2001 - Enron filed for bankruptcy.

2006 - #1 Hit: Akon featuring Snoop Dogg - I Wanna Love You

2009 - Nidal Hasan with thirty-two counts of attempted premeditated murder at the Fort Hood shooting spree on November 5th. There has been a lot of debate on whether it was an act of terrorism or 'work place violence.'

2014 - Stephen Hawking claims that Artificial Intelligence could be a "threat to mankind" and spell the end of the human race

2016 - Donald Trump takes a call with Taiwanese leader Tsai Ing-wen, in a break from America's long standing "One China" policy

2018 - Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina

2018 - Israeli police recommend Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife be charged with fraud and bribery

Birthdays Today

@85 - Alexander Haig, American politician,

59th United States Secretary of State

(died in 2010)

@55 - William Cooper, politician, founded Cooperstown, NYH;

 father of James Fenimore Cooper

(died in 1809)

@53 - Maria Callas, American singer

(died in 1977; heart attack)

51 - Lucy Liu, American actress

@50 - Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer,

founder of Versace

(died in 1997; gunshot)

49 - Sarah Silverman, American comedian

46 - Monica Seles, Serbian/ American tennis player

41- Nelly Furtado, Canadian singer-songwriter

38 - Britney Spears, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress

@31 - Georges Seurat, French painter

(died in 1891; meningitis)

Puzzle answer:

Nancy. In order from tallest to shortest: John, Carl, Kim, Sam, Nancy.