Dec 7

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Dec. 7, 2019 Week: 49  Day: 341

86004:   H 50° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%

Nearest lightning:  925mi

Nearest active fire:  468mi.  

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

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

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

Today’s Quote

“You already possess everything

necessary to become great.”

~ Native American Proverb

Random Tidbits

An ear grasp means "I'm sorry" in parts of India.

Cupping the ear means "I can't hear you" in all societies.

Pulling the ear means "you are in my heart" for Navajo.

Observances This Week

1-7

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

3-10

Clerc-Gallaudet Week Link

3-24

Andisop (Meterological Fiddling  Link

Observances for Today

Bartender Appreciation Day Link  Link    .
Earmuff Day or Chester Greenwood Day Link 
Ferry Floss Day(Great Britain)

International Civil Aviation Day

Letter Writing Day

National Cotton Candy Day Link
National Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
National Play Outside Day Link
National Rhubarb Vodka Day Link
Pearl Harbor Day

Skywarn Recognition Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Dental appointment #1 went well. I’m having to replace a crown I got 15 years ago. He thought the tooth might need to be pulled, but was able to save it. Happy camper ‘cause I’m too young to get a bridge. I have to review my CC bills for the past 2 years to prove that I paid for the last crown. The front office says I still owe on it, but I always pay when I have work done. I usually pay ½ on the first trip for the crown and the remainder when I get the crown. This dentist is great, but his front office staff needs training.

Looks like a weekend of chilly temps and lots of clouds but no moisture. I can handle that, but would not be upset with some moisture, either rain or light snow.

Doing laundry today so I’ll be ready for my new bed tomorrow. Like many companies, the delivery window is 9-5 on Saturday. It doesn’t really matter, except that I can’t go anywhere until it arrives. Then I have to set up both the old bed downstairs and the new bed upstairs. Got a new mattress pad and clean linens so I’m set.

Note: in the Historical Events today are some great songs to hear. One of my long-time favorites in Dominique, and I posted the original in French and then found the English version. Great music!

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

A woman has six daughters and they each have a brother. How many children does she have?

Historical Events

1732 - The Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) was opened on London.

1787 - Delaware became 'The First State' to ratify the US Constitution.

1842 – First concert of the New York Philharmonic, founded by Ureli Corelli Hill.

1869 - American outlaw Jesse James committed his first bank robbery in Gallatin, Missouri.

1909 - Leo Baekeland of Yonkers, New York, received the patent for a thermosetting artificial plastic which he called 'Bakelite' (patent #942,699)

1932 - The first gyro-stabilized ship to cross the Atlantic, the Conte di Savoia, arrived in New York City.

1941 - Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, USA attacked by Japan. Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people

1957 - #1 Hit: Sam Cooke - You Send Me

1963 - #1 Hit: The Singing Nun - Dominique; In English

1960 - Coronation Street, the longest running TV soap opera in the world, began, on Granada Television.

1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, was launched. The crew took the photograph known as The Blue Marble as they left the Earth, the first complete photograph of our planet.

1974 - #1 Hit: Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting

1979 - The National Fire Safety Council was founded.

1980 - #1 Hit: John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over

1985 - #1 Hit: Mr. Mister - Broken Wings

1988 (Earthquake) Armenia, killed more than 60,000 people, with over 500,000 homeless.

1990 - Edward Scissorhands was released in theaters.

1991 - #1 Hit: Michael Jackson - Black Or White

1995 - The Galileo spacecraft arrived at the planet Jupiter on its mission to study the planet and its moons.

1996 - #1 Hit: Toni Braxton - Un-Break My Heart

2002 - In Amsterdam, Netherlands, two Van Gogh paintings were stolen from the Van Gogh Museum. The two works were "View of the Sea st Scheveningen" and "Congregation Leaving the Reformed Church in Nuenen." They were found, along with the thieves shortly after the heist.

2008 - Leverage premiered on TNT.

2014 Mayor of Paris calls for diesel cars to be banned from the French Capital by 2020, in order to reduce pollution

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

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

2018 Court filings by US federal prosecutors and Special Counsel Robert Mueller against Michael Cohen appear to implicate President Donald Trump on campaign fraud and Russian dealings

Birthdays Today

@98 - Eli Wallach, American actor (died in 2014)

91 - Noam Chomsky, American linguist/philosopher

87 - Ellen Burstyn

[Edna Rae Gillooly] American actress

@80 - Clarence Nash, American voice actor,

Donald Duck

(died in 1985)

70 - Tom Waits, American singer-songwriter

@67 - Louis Prima, American singer-songwriter,

 trumpet player, and performer

(died in 1978; stroke)

63 - Larry Bird, American basketball player

@62 - Ted Knight, American actor and comedian

(died in 1986; multiple cancers)

53 - C. Thomas Howell, American actor

@50 - Richard Warren Sears, American businessman,

co-founder of Sears

(died in 1914; failing health)

46 - Terrell Owens, American football player and actor

@38 - Harry Chapin, American singer-songwriter

and guitarist

(died in 1981; auto accident)

32 - Aaron Carter, American singer-songwriter

Puzzle answer:

Seven. The woman has six daughters and only one son.