Nov 27

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Nov 327, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 331

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 36°  

Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  14mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 68°[1949]   Record Low: -5°[1984]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)

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Quote of the Day

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

  Thomas Fuller

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Observances Today

Cider Monday 

Cyber Monday 

National Craft Jerky Day  Link

Pins and Needles Day

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Observances This Week

22-28

National Deal Week  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                 

1817 US soldiers attack Florida Indian village, beginning Seminole War

1826 John Walker invents friction match in England

1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston

1868 Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General George A. Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack

1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize

1896 "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) by Richard Strauss, inspired by Friedrich Nietzsche's philosophical novel, debuts in Frankfurt

1900’s                                 

1901 U.S. Army War College is established in Washington, D.C.

1911 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US

1920 "The Mask of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film

1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held. 1943 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)

1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"

1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38

1965 15-25,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington, D.C.

1967 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour"

1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

1973 US Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President

1973 US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls

1999 Left-wing Labor Party takes control of the New Zealand government, leader Helen Clark becomes first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history

2000’s                                 

2006 The Canadian House of Commons endorses Prime Minister Stephen Harper's motion to declare Québécois a nation within a unified Canada.

2012 The Eurozone announces that it will make loans of 43.7 billion euros to Greece

2013 "Frozen", the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released

2015 Robert Lewis Dear (57) shots 3 dead and wounds 9 at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado

2015 "Holy grail" of shipwrecks the San Jose, sunk 1708, is confirmed found by an international team off the coast of Colombia

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My Rambling Thoughts

I cannot believe our fall weather. It’s almost the end of November and no snow or measurable precipitation. Only a couple of nights have hovered around freezing. Hard to believe at 7000 feet.

Broncos v Raiders not on my TV in AZ. Cards starting off well.

Hmmm…

Amount that Carrier promised to invest in an Indiana plant in a deal with 45 to save domestic jobs: $16 million

100% of that money will be used for automation.

In politics today, one must always search beyond the headlines for the true story. Sad.

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Bizarre News

*----------------- Avant Garde -----------------*

An Indian man is headed for the Guinness Book of World Records after stuffing a staggering 459 drinking straws into his mouth at once. Guinness confirmed Manoj Kumar Maharana, 23, of Odisha, broke the world record for most straws stuffed in the mouth without using hands by cramming 459 straws into his pie hole. Maharana, who was allowed to use elastic bands to keep the straws together but not his hands, has to have all of the straws in his mouth and keep them there for 10 seconds without falling to obtain the title. Maharana was allowed to use his hands to get the straws into his mouth, but not to hold them in place. The previous record holder, British man Simon Elmore, stuffed 400 straws into his mouth at an event in Germany.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

70’s

@88- David Merrick, [Margulois],

Broadway producer (Hello Dolly),

born in Hong Kong

(d. 2000)

@80- "Buffalo" Bob Smith,

TV host (Howdy Doody),

born in Buffalo, NY

(d. 1998)

70’s

@72- William Cornelius Van Horne,

American railway executive (Canadian Pacific Railway),

born in Frankfort, Illinois

(d. 1915)

60’s

@68- James Avery,

TV actor (Fresh Prince)

(d. 2013)

66- Kathryn Bigelow,

American director, producer and writer (The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty),

born in San Carlos, California

62- Bill Nye,

the Science Guy, TV Host

60- Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg,

attorney, JFK & Jackie's daughter

50’s

@56- Eddie Rabbitt,

country singer (I Love a Rainy Night),

born in Brooklyn,

(d. 1998)

53- Robin Simone Givens, [Mrs Mike Tyson]

Actress (Darlene-Head of the Class),

born in NYC

40’s

47- Eric Menendez, NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)

@42- Anders Celsius,

Swedish astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale),

born in Uppsala, Sweden

(d. 1744)

41- Jaleel White,

actor (Steve Urkel-Family Matters),

born in Los Angeles

30’s

@32- Bruce Lee [Lee Yuen Kam],

Chinese-American martial artist and actor (Enter the Dragon),

born in San Francisco, California

(d. 1973)

20’s

@27- Jimi Hendrix,

rock guitarist (Purple Haze),

born in Seattle, Washington

(d. 1970)

Teens

@17- Shrek the sheep,

New Zealand sheep that held world record for biggest shorn fleece,

born at Bendigo Station, Otago

(d. 2011)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@82-1988 John Carradine,

actor (Ten Commandments)

70’s

@74-1990 David White,

actor (Larry Tate-Bewitched),

heart attack

@70-1901 Clement Studebaker,

American automobile manufacturer

60’s

@65-1953 Eugene O'Neill,

playwright (Nobel 1936),

Parkinson’s

50’s

@56-8 BC Horace,

Roman Republican poet (Odes)

40’s

@49-1978 George Moscone,

Mayor of San Francisco (1976-78)

assassinated

@48-1978 Harvey Milk,

first openly gay person to be elected to public office,

assassinated

30’s

@36-1852 Ada Lovelace,

English mathematician considered the first computer programmer,

uterine cancer

20’s

@26-1934 "Baby Face" Nelson, [Lester Gillis],

gangster,

shot by FBI

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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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Nov 26

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Nov 26, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 331

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 32°  

Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   2mph\Gusts:  7mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1949]   Record Low: -8°[1906]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)

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Quote of the Day

Indecision may or may not be my problem.

  Jimmy Buffett

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Observances Today

Shopping Reminder Day

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Observances This Week

17-26

American Sand Sculpting Competition Link

19-26

National Bible Week 

National Game & Puzzle Week

22-28

National Deal Week  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                 

1716 1st lion exhibited in America in Boston

1778 British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)   

1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America 

1800’s                                 

1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with 12 cent fare 

1842 The University of Notre Dame is founded

1859 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical "All the Year Round"

1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America

1867 Refrigerated railroad car patented by JB Sutherland of Detroit 

1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms 

1896 A A Stagg of University of Chicago creates American football huddle

1900’s                                 

1916 Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Woodrow Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'

1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands

1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt 

1924 Mongolian People's Republic proclaimed

1942 "Casablanca" directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943)   

1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood 

1956 "The Price Is Right" debuts on NBC

1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Astérix), named after the popular French comic character

1969 Cream's final concert (Royal Albert Hall)   

1973 Nixon's personal secretary Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18½ minute gap in a key Watergate tape

1985 Random House buys Richard Nixon’s memoires for $3,000,000

1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament. 

2000’s                                 

2012 The cost of Hurricane Sandy to New York is announced to be $32 Billion

2013 Due to a street tirade captured on video, Alec Baldwin's show "Up Late with Alec Baldwin" is cancelled after only five episodes

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My Rambling Thoughts

Enjoyable Saturday in our small town. Typical fall day.

Getting a little concerned about the Net Neutrality issue at the FCC. Changes could easily mean major changes in the internet. Email could easily begin to have a monthly charge for service. People and groups could pay big bucks to get their ideas/products on the top of searches. Corporate America would make more money. The average citizen would lose. The internet has been fun, open to most, and made information easy to get. Yes, we had to check information to be sure it wasn’t just some idiot’s idea, but everything was there to do just that. With the end of net neutrality, all that information will not be available.

When I was growing up, a tad before the internet, my parents subscribed to both daily papers in Denver. Why, because each paper did have a bias as to what they wrote about. By getting both papers, one in the morning, one in the early evening, more information was available for us to decide. Now the citizens of Denver just have one paper. When I was working on the Rez, there were no daily papers. Then, in Tuba City, we could get the Flagstaff paper daily and soon we could also get the Gallup daily paper. I subscribed to both. The Gallup paper had more Rez news, and the Flag paper kept me up on local news there. Since I went to school in Flag during the summer and spent many a weekend there, it was a good fit.  Now, like most of America, I am limited to one paper. I miss having two papers.

Our democracy cannot survive unless the information about the government is easily available to all the voting population.

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Bizarre News

The moral of this story is: never open your door for anybody, ever, for any reason. 

Audrey and Edward Cramer, ages 66 and 69, of Pennsylvania, filed a lawsuit naming Buffalo Township police and the Nationwide Insurance Co. after the police raided their home. 

The Cramers' lawsuit says the incident began when a Nationwide insurance agent, visiting their home for a property damage claim, photographed the hibiscus plants in their backyard and sent them to police. 

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in Butler County Court, alleges Nationwide agent "intentionally photographed the flowering hibiscus plants in such a manner as not to reveal that they had flowers on them so that they would appear to resemble marijuana plants." 

Audrey Cramer said three Buffalo Township police officers pulled her out of her home while she was dressed in only her underwear. 

"I was not treated as though I was a human being. I was just something they were going to push aside," she reported. "I asked them again if I could put pants on and he told me no and I had to stand out on the porch." 

The Cramers said they were handcuffed and forced to sit in a police car for four hours while the officers ransacked their home. 

"Sometimes I think they look for a crime where it doesn't exist in order to justify their existence," Edward Cramer said. 

The Cramers said they tried telling police the plants were hibiscus, but officers insisted they were marijuana. 

The couple said they never received an apology. 

"I cannot understand the frame of reference that was on these police officers' minds, what were they thinking," Lindsay said. 

The lawsuit, which names the police department, three officers, Nationwide and the agent, is seeking "monetary and compensatory damages" as well as attorneys' fees and court costs.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Ellen G. White,

American religious leader (Seventh-day Adventist Church),

born in Gorham, Maine

(d. 1915)

70’s

@79- Eric Sevareid,

newscaster (CBS Weekend News)

born in Velva ND

(d. 1992)

79- Rich Little,

impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop),

born in Ottawa, Canada

78- Tina Turner, [Anna Mae Bullock],

American singer (Proud Mary),

born in Nutbush, Tennessee

@77- Charles M. Schulz,

cartoonist (Peanuts), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

(d. 2000)   

@75- William Wilson (Bill), co-founder (alcoholics anonymous),

born in East Dorset, Vermont

(d. 1971)

@74- Karl Ziegler,

German chemist and Nobel Laureate (polymers), born in Helsa, German Empire

(d. 1973)   

@73- Willis Carrier,

American engineer (developed modern air conditioning), born in Angola, NY

(d. 1950)   

@73- Robert Goulet,

American singer and actor, born in Lawrence, Massachusetts

(d. 2007)   

40’s

45- James Dashner,

children’s author

30’s

@36- Bruno Hauptmann,

German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III

(d. 1936)   

34- Chris Hughes,

American businessman and co-founder of Facebook, born in Hickory, North Carolina

20’s

28- Robert Raco,

TV actor

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Historical Obits Today

100’s

@115-2008 Edna Parker,

American supercentenarian

70’s

@76-1986 Scatman Crothers,

singer/actor (Shining, Chico & The Man),

lung cancer

@74-1990 David White,

actor (Bewitched),

heart attack

@73-1982 Robert Coote,

actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe),

in sleep

@72-1940 Harold Sidney Harmsworth,

1st Viscount Rothermere, English newspaper (Daily Mail and Daily Mirror)

@71-1885 Thomas Andrews,

Irish chemist and physicist (ozone)

50’s

@55-1689 Marquard Gude,

German archaeologist and classical scholar famous for his collection of Greek and Latin inscriptions

20’s

@29-1943 Edward H "Butch" O'hare,

US pilot/lt-comdr, airport named after him

in battle

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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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼

Nov 25

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Nov 25, 2017 Week: 47 \ Day: 330

86004 Today: H 69° \ L 34°  

Average Sky Cover: 2% 

Wind ave.:   9mph\Gusts:  20mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 69°[1970]   Record Low: -8°[1906]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)

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Quote of the Day

It is only the farmer who faithfully plants seeds in the Spring,

who reaps a harvest in the Autumn.

  B. C. Forbes

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Observances Today

Buy Nothing Day  

Blase'Day

International Day For the Elimination of Violence Against Women Day

International Hat Day Link

International Aura Awareness Day  

National Parfait Day

Shopping Reminder Day

World Day of Giving Link 

Small Business Saturday 

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Observances This Week

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

19-26

National Bible Week 

National Game & Puzzle Week

22-28

National Deal Week  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

00’s                                    

1491	The siege of Granada, last Moorish stronghold in Spain, begins
1667	A deadly earthquake rocks Shemakha, in the Caucasus, killing 80,000 people.
1715	First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1783	Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States
1792	Benjamin Banneker first publishes his Farmer's Almanac
1817	First sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1834	Delmonico's, one of NY's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee & half a pie for 12 cents
1839	Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people
1864	Confederate plot to burn New York city fails
1867	Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1876	Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.
1912	American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois
1920	1st Thanksgiving Parade (Philadelphia)
1940	Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1949	"Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts
1957	US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1963	JFK laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1967	Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1971	American "Dan Cooper" hijacks plane, extorts $200,000 ransom before jumping out of plane over Washington State, never seen again
1973	US cuts maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
1975	Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day)
1979	Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time, a pairing that would last 22 years and become one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history
1983	World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England
1986	Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arms deal
1988	Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1990	Lech Wałęsa wins in Poland's first popular election
1996	After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
2009	Flooding in Jeddah, Saudia Arabia; powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours, killing over 150 people and sweeping thousands of cars away during Hajj
2013	Disney release “Frozen: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack” (Grammy Award for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media 2015, 2014 Billboard Album of the Year)
2014	Protest erupt across US after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager
2015	Pope Francis begins his trip to Africa, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic

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My Rambling Thoughts

Turkey breast turned out moist and tasty. Several people dropped by and one friend even brought ham. Nice meal, enjoyable conversation. Good day. And had a cold turkey sandwich with mayo for lunch today.

Headed to Home Depot this morn for their poinsettia sale. The strip mall was packed at 10a, even though they had been open since 6a. Got the poinsettia and headed home. Looking at the parking lot and knowing what was happening inside the other stores, I decided I really didn’t need anything else. Crowds, even in a small town, are just not for me.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Noel Neill,

American actress (Adventures of Superman),

born in Minneapolis, Minnesota

(d. 2016)   

80’s

@88- Ricardo Montalban,

Mexican actor (Fantasy Island, Star Trek II, Naked Gun)

(d. 2009)

@84- Karl Benz,

German inventor, engine designer and automobile manufacturer (Mercedes-Benz),

born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg

(d. 1929)   

@84- "Joltin" Joe DiMaggio [Yankee Clipper],

MLB center fielder who had a 56 game hitting streak,

born in Martinez, California

(d. 1999)   

@83- Andrew Carnegie,

Scottish-American industrialist, steel tycoon, philanthropist and one of the richest Americans ever,

born in Dunfermline, Scotland

(d. 1919)

@81- Pope John XXIII [Angelo Roncalli],

261st Pope (1958-63), born in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy

(d. 1963)

70’s

@74- Percy Sledge,

soul singer (When A Man Loves A Woman)

(d. 2017) 

70- John Larroquette,

actor (Dan Fielding-Night Court), born in New Orleans

60’s

@64- Carrie Nation,

American temperance advocate

(d. 1911)

50’s

@56- Rene Enriquez,

actor (Ray Calletano-Hill Street Blues), born in San Francisco,

(d. 1990)   

@51- Piet Heyn,

Dutch privateer and admiral (captured Spanish silver fleet), born in Delft

(d. 1629)

40’s

46- Christina Applegate,

actress (Married With Children), born in Hollywood, California

30’s

@38- John F. Kennedy Jr,

American lawyer, magazine publisher (George) and son of JFK, born in NYC,

(d. 1999)

36- Barbara and Jenna Bush,

twin daughters of U.S. President George W. Bush, born in Dallas, Texas

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-2016 Fidel Castro,

Cuban revolutionary, Prime Minister (1959-76) and President (1976-2008)

@90-1968 Upton Beall Sinclair,

US author (Jungle) 

80’s

@82-1958 Charles F. Kettering,

American inventor (auto self-starter)

70’s

@76-1993 Anthony Burgess,

British novelist and essayist (A Clockwork Orange),

cancer

@74-1981 Jack Albertson,

actor (Chico & the Man),

cancer 

@73-1982 Robert Coote,

actor (MacBeth),

heart attack

@71-2016 Ron Glass,

American actor (Barney Miller, Frank's Place),

respiratory failure

@71-1949 Luther "Bill" Robinson,

"Bojangles" famed tap dancer,

heart failure   

60’s

@65-1987 Harold Washington,

1st African American mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87),

heart attack

@65-1974 U Thant,

Burmese politician and 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1961-72),

cancer

@64-1998 Flip Wilson,

American actor and comedian,

liver cancer

20’s

@28-1920 Gaston Chevrolet,

French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneers,

racecar crash

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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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼