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Nov 19, 2017 Week: 47 \ Day: 323
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 21°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave.: m10ph\Gusts: 22mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 69°[1949] Record Low: -6°[1985]
Nov Averages: 50°\23°
Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)
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Quote of the Day
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Franz Kafka
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Observances Today
American Made Matters Day Link
Crystal Skull World Day Link
Do Dah Day (Pasadena) Link (Note: Many towns have one. Pasadena originiated it.)
International Men's Day Link
Mother Goose Day Link
Rocky and Bullwinkle Day
Women's Entrepreneurship Day Link
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims Link
World Philosophy Day
World Toilet Day Link
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Observances This Week
11-20
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link
13-19
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link
17-26
American Sand Sculpting Competition Link
19-25
Better Conversation Week
Church/State Separation Week
GERD Awareness Week Link
International Restorative Justice Week Link
National Family Week
19-23
National Farm-City Week
19-26
National Bible Week: 19-26
National Game & Puzzle Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events
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1644
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First protestant ministry society in New England
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1794
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Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
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1816
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Warsaw University is established.
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1850
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Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
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1861
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The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts
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1863
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US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score & seven years ago..."
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1872
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E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first 'calculator', an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals
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1873
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William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed", of Tammany Hall (NYC) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
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1879
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National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
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1893
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1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
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1895
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American inventor Frederick E Blaisdell patents the pencil
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1903
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Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
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1911
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NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
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1916
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Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
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1919
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US Senate rejects (55-39) Treaty of Versailles & League of Nations
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1933
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Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
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1944
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World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
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1953
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US Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
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1955
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National Review publishes its first issue.
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1959
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"Rocky & His Friends" debuts on ABC
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1959
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Ford Motors cancels its poorly received Edsel model
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1962
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Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
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1965
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Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
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1969
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Apollo 12's Charles Conrad & Alan Bean become 3rd & 4th humans on the Moon
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1975
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"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" based on book by Ken Kesey, directed by Milos Forman and starring Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher is released (Academy Awards Best Picture 1976)
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1976
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Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
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1980
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CBS TV bans Calvin Klein jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
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1984
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Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
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1990
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Pop duo Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award after it is learned they did not sing on their award-winning "Girl You Know Its True" album
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1998
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Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sells at auction for $71.5 million
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1998
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Lewinsky scandal: The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee begins impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Small towns do a great job of craft fairs during the holiday season…and a little before. Spent some time at two today. Found some great homemade peanut brittle and some almond bark. A few other things for Christmas gifts. And the admission fee helps charities.
The craft sale got me excited about the holidays. So, the only news I’m watching today and tomorrow is the Sunday morning news shows. Don’t need anything to ruin the mood.
Fall weather is here to stay a while. Cold overnight. Furnace kept coming on several times this morning, and the wind makes it feel much colder than it really is…by about 10°.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@96- Alan Young,
British actor (Wilbur Post in Mr.s Ed), born in North Shields, Tyne and Wear
(d. 2016)
80’s
84- Larry King,
American radio/TV host "143 Arivadechi" (Larry King Show, CNN), born in NYC, New York
81- Dick Cavett,
Kearney Neb, talk show host (Dick Cavett Show)
@80- Hiram Bingham,
American archaeologist who re-discovered the Incan site of Machu Picchu, born in Honolulu, Hawaii
(d. 1956)
70’s
79- Ted Turner,
American founder of CNN, owner of the Atlanta Braves and winner of the America's Cup in 1977, born in Cincinnati
75- Calvin Klein,
American fashion designer (Calvin Klein Jeans, CK), born in The Bronx
@74- Dan Haggerty,
actor (Grizzly Adams), born in Hollywood
(d. 2016)
@70- Gene Tierney,
American actress (Laura, Ghost & Mrs Muir), born in Brooklyn,
(d. 1991)
60’s
@66- Indira Gandhi,
4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), born in Allahabad India
(d. 1984)
50’s
58- Allison Janney,
American actress
56- Meg Ryan,
American actress (When Harry Met Sally, As the World Turns), born in Fairfield, Connecticut
55- Jodie Foster,
American actress (The Accused, The Silence of the Lambs), born in Los Angeles
@51- Tommy Dorsey,
Mahanoy Plane Pa, orchestra leader (Stage Show, Mahogany)
(d. 1956)
40’s
@49- James A. Garfield,
20th US President (Republican: 1881), born in Moreland Hills, Ohio
(d. 1881)
@48- Charles I,
King of England (1625-49) who was executed by Parliament, born in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
(d. 1649)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@83-2014 Mike Nichols [Mikhail Peschkowsky],
German-American film director (Catch 22, The Graduate, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf)
60’s
@60±-1703 Man in the Iron Mask,
prisoner in Bastille prison in Paris
30’s
@38-1887 Emma Lazarus,
US poet ("Give us your tired & poor"),
lymphoma
@36-1915 Joe Hill,
Labor leader/songwriter, executed for murder
@31-1828 Franz Schubert,
Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin),
typhoid fever
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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