Nov 18

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Nov 18, 2018 Week: 47 \ Day: 322

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 15% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 48°[1898]   Record Low: -13°[1958]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods

and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.

William Allingham

Random Tidbits

The large blue signs on freeways indicating that there's a Shell station or a McDonald's at the next exit are called "interstate logo boards." A business must meet strict criteria, such as restrooms, telephones, no cover charge, and so on, in order to get its name posted

Observances This Week

           

16-23

International Games Week

17-24

American Sand Sculpting Competition Link

18-22

American Education Week Link 

Observances for Today

European Antibiotic Awareness Day Link
Married To A Scorpio Support Day
Mickey Mouse Day
National Apple Cider Day Link 
National Princess Day  Link
National Vichyssoise Day

Push-button Phone Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1300’s                                         

1307 William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son's head

1800’s                                         

1805 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America

1865 Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"

1872 Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting

1883 Standard time zones forms by railroads in US & Canada

1900’s                                         

1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt

1920 Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC

1936 Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined

1961 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam

1963 Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania

1964 J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar"

1970 Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds

1978 In Jonestown, Guyana 918 members of the Peoples Temple are murdered or commit suicide under the leadership of cult leader Jim Jones

1984 The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday was a busy day and then had lunch with some friends from the Rez.

Had a small panic attack this morning. Went to check my phone and it was dead, dead. Wouldn’t turn on, wouldn’t light up, wouldn’t do anything. It is iPhone 5 and has been great. When the Verizon store finally opened, I had a couple of hours to convince myself that buying a new phone wouldn’t be THAT bad. I got to the store soon after they opened and told the young lady my problem. I’m sure she must have finished middle school recently. She does all the stuff I did, and I am starting to accept that I need a new phone. Then she pushed 3 buttons simultaneously and hold them for about 20 seconds. Suddenly the little apple appears on the screen. She lets it turn on, I put in my password, and everything is right there. AMAZED and very relieved. And thankfully no need for a new phone quite yet.  She said it is a ‘soft reset’.

Got home to find out the I actually get to watch a Univ. of Colorado game live. Nice. It is tied at halftime, but with the cold, either team could win. Folsom Field looks very cold with all that snow on the field. Been there, done that while attending school there. Now it’s nice to be in a comfy recliner and a warm house. It wasn’t nice to watch the Buffs blow the entire 2^nd half. Still nice to watch a game live.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Imogene Coca,

comedienne (Your Show of Shows, Grindl), born in Philadelphia, (d. 2001)

80’s

@86- Sojourner Truth [Isabella Baumfree],

African-American abolitionist and feminist, born in Swartekill, New York (d. 1883)

@83- George Gallup,

American survey sampling pioneer and inventor of the Gallup poll, born in Jefferson, Iowa (d. 1984)

70’s

76- Linda Evans,

actress (Dynasty, Big Valley, Beach Blanket Bingo), born in Hartford, Connecticut

@74- William Schwenck Gilbert,

English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator (Gilbert & Sullivan), born in London, England, heart attack while trying to save his drowning girl friend

60’s

@66- Johnny Mercer,

American lyricist (Moon River, Old Black Magic), born in Savannah, Georgia (d. 1976) brain tumor

@63- Louis-Jacques Daguerre,

French inventor and photographer (daguerreotype), born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, France (d. 1851)

63- Sinbad, [David Adkins],

Benton Harbor MI, actor (1st Kid, Vibe)

50’s

50- Owen Wilson,

American actor (Meet the Parents, Zoolander), born in Dallas, Texas

40’s

48- Mike Epps,

American actor

48-Megyn Kelly,

news anchor, former talk show

30’s

36-Damon Wayans, Jr.,

comedian, actor

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@74-2002 James Coburn,

American actor (Our Man Flint, Magnificent Seven), heart attack

60’s

@65- William Allingham,

Irish poet (Day & Night Songs)

50’s

@56-1886 Chester A. Arthur,

21st President of the United States (1881-85), stroke

40’s

@47-1978 Jim Jones,

US pastor, leader of Jonestown Cult, commits suicide with his cult

Nov 16

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Nov 16, 2018 Week: 46 \ Day: 320

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 0% 

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  19mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High:

70°[1981]   Record Low: -1°[1964]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

Walt Disney

Random Tidbits

The criteria vary from state to state, but as a rule, each area works closely with the Department of Natural Resources to review reported automobile/deer accidents. A "Deer Crossing" sign is generally erected whenever a deer has been hit within the previous 12 months

In 2004, the Federal Highway Administration approved the use of a new font, Clearview, on federal road signs after tests showed that drivers found Clearview easier to read than the current Highway Gothic font.

In 2004, the Federal Highway Administration approved the use of a new font, Clearview, on federal road signs after tests showed that drivers found Clearview easier to read than the current Highway Gothic font.

Observances This Week

           

9-17

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week Link  

10-16

Geography Awareness Week Link 
National Nurse Practioner's Week Link  Link
Perioperative Nurse Week Link
International Fraud Awareness Week Link   
National Split Pea Soup Week Link
Snowcare For Troops Awareness Week
World Kindness Week 16  Link  
National Book Awards Week
National Global Entrepreneurship Week Link

15-17

National Donor Sabbath

16-23

International Games Week

Observances for Today

           

Button Day

Guinness World Record Day Link 
Have a Party With Your Bear Day

International Tolerance Day  Link
International Games Day (Libraries) Link 

National Button Day Link
National Fast Food Day

Playmobil's National Day of Play Link 
Teddy Bear Day (Historic)  Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s                                         

1532 Francisco Pizarro captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa after a surprise ambush at Cajamarca

1581 Tsar Ivan the Terrible attacks his son and heir, Ivan Ivanovich, with a scepter after an argument leading to the latter's death three days later

1700’s                                         

1764 Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

1800’s                                         

1824 New York City's Fifth Avenue opens for business

1841 Life preservers made of cork are patented by Napoleon Guerin (NYC)

1871 National Rifle Association is first chartered in the State of New York

1900’s                                         

1901 Booker T. Washington and his family are invited to dine at the White House with Teddy and Edith Roosevelt, prompting condemnation from the South

1907 Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state

1914 Federal Reserve System formally opens

1925 American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)

1938 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland

1945 Founding of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)

1961 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops

1969 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported

1973 US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline

1973 Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit

1982 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike

2000’s                                         

2002 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein says that he had to accept UN Resolution 1441 because the United States and Israel had shown their "claws and teeth" and declared unitlateral war on the Iraqi people

2015 Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana

2017 Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, world record price for any artwork

2017 US senator Al Franken accused of groping and forcibly kissing a woman

My Rambling Thoughts

Didn’t have to get up at the crack of dawn, but still got up early. Made it to Sam’s for my weekly shopping there. Still a little chilly but Sam’s doesn’t open until 10 so by then, it was decent.

Nice to see the new Congress arriving in DC, seeing their new offices. Some there haven’t been declared winners, but what the heck, can’t miss out, just in case.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Gene Amdahl,

American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, born in Flandreau, South Dakota (d. 2015)

90- William "Clu" Gulager,

American actor (Virginian, Survivors, The Tall Man), born in Holdenville, Oklahoma

80’s

@89- Burgess Meredith,

American actor (Mr Novak, The Penguin in Batman, Rocky), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1997)

@87- José Saramago,

Portuguese writer and Nobel laureate, born in Azinhaga, Santarém, Portugal (d. 2010)

70’s

@71- Daws Butler,

animation voice (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1988) heart attack

60’s

@65- Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert,

French Enlightenment philosopher and mathematician (Encyclopédie), born in Paris (d. 1783) kidney disease

50’s

51- Lisa Bonet,

actress (Cosby Show, Different World, Angel Heart), born in San Francisco

40’s

41- Maggie Gyllenhaal,

American actress and producer (Donnie Darko, The Dark Knight), born in NYC

20’s

25-Pete Davidson,

comedian, SNL

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@98-2016 Jay Forrester,

American engineer, invented random-access magnetic core memory

@94-2006 Milton Friedman,

American economist, Nobel Prize Economics 1976

@92-2005 Ralph Edwards,

American TV host (This is Your Life)

80’s

@87-1966 Cluny MacPherson,

Canadian inventor of the gas mask

70’s

@79-1961 Sam Rayburn,

Speaker of the House for 17 years

@71-1950 "Dr. Bob" Smith,

American physician and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, colon cancer

50’s

@59-1960 Clark Gable,

actor (Gone With the Wind), blood clot

40’s

@41-1885 Louis Riel,

Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", hanged for treason