Dec 2

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Dec 2, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 337

86004 Today: H 56° \ L 28°  

Average Sky Cover: 94%

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  11mph

Visibility: 10 mi

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

Dec Averages: 50°\23°

Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)

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Quote of the Day

Courage is found in unlikely places.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

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Observances Today

Bartender Appreciation Day Link  Link     

Earmuff Day or Chester Greenwood Day Link  

International Day for the Abolition of Slavery Day

National Fritters Day

National Mutt Day Link  

National Rhubarb Vodka Day Link 

Safety Razor Day

Skywarn Recognition Day Link  

Special Education Day

World Pear Day Link 

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Observances This Week

1-7: Cookie Cutter Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                 

1409 The University of Leipzig opens

1600’s                                 

1697 St Paul's Cathedral, designed by Sir Christopher Wren is consecrated for use (previous building destroyed in the Great Fire of London)

1800’s                                 

1804 Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris

1823 President James Monroe declares his "Monroe Doctrine", a US foreign policy regarding Latin America

1845 Manifest Destiny: US President James K. Polk announces to Congress that the United States should aggressively expand into the West

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

1882 Amsterdam Artis Zoo opens aquarium

1900’s                                 

1901 King C. Gillette begins selling safety razor blades

1927 1st Model A Ford sold, for $385

1927 Paleoanthropologist Davidson Blackannounces 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')

1929 First skull of Peking man found, 50 km out of Peking at Tsjoe Koe Tien

1939 British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC

1942 World’s 1st self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction occurs in Chicagi Pile-1 (world's 1st nuclear reactor) at the University of Chicago, overseen by Enrico Fermi

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

1952 First human birth televised to public on KOA-TV Denver, Colorado

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

1961 Fidel Castro declares he's a Marxist & will lead Cuba to Communism

1961 Wind Bell, journal of San Francisco Zen Center, begins publishing

1970 Environmental Protection Agency begins in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus

1971 United Arab Emirates (Trucial States) declares independence from UK: Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Dubai, Fujeira, Sharjah & Umm ak Qiwain form United Arab Emirates

1974 Cowhide, rather than just horsehide, can be used to make baseballs

1975 Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People's Democratic Republic founded (National Day)

1982 1st permanent artificial heart successfully implanted (U of Utah) in retired dentist Barney Clark; lived 112 days with Jarvic-7 heart

1985 NFL QB legends Dan Marino and John Elwayface each other for the first time, a 30-26 victory for the Dolphins (Marino 390 yards and 3 touchdowns)

1990 First parliamentary election in newly reunified Germany

1999 The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive

2000’s                                 

2001 Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the Southern District of New York

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

2014 Comedian Bill Cosby resigns from the board of trustees of an American university following renewed sexual assault allegations

2014 The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds

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

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My Rambling Thoughts

Sure wish all these days of clouds would bring some moisture. Still dry. Our predicted snow has moved somewhere else.

Flynn pleads guilty to telling lies to the FBI. From a military man who swore to uphold the constitution and its laws. Hmmm. I’m sure there are a few who are chanting ‘lock him up.’

Not sure if anything exciting is happening this weekend. Time will tell.

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Bizarre News

*------------------- O.M.G. -------------------*

You don't have to be a celebrity to give your baby a stupid name. Take it from this Arkansas couple who plan to name their firstborn child after their favorite eatery: Olivia Garton. Justin and Jordan Garton of Fort Smith said they have decided to name the baby, due in December, after the restaurant where they once ate every day for seven weeks after buying a "never-ending pasta pass" in 2015. The couple said they quickly ruled out Olive Garton for the baby's name, but soon settled on Olivia. "We were able to make the joke, but a little more subtle, and it's still a pretty name," said Jordan Garton, 26. "It was definitely an easy decision." The Gartons said they hid one other Easter egg in baby Olivia's name: Her middle name will be Michelle, making her initials O.M.G. "I guess we just have to be those hashtag millennial parents," Jordan Garton said. 

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Julie Harris,

actress (Bell Jar, East of Eden),

(d. 2013)

86- Edwin Meese III,

US attorney General (1985-88),

born in Oakland, California

70’s

73- Cathy Lee Crosby,

actress (Coach, That's Incredible)

60’s

63- Dan Butler,

actor (Bob "Bulldog" Briscoe-Frasier)

63- Stone Phillips,

news host (NBC Dateline)

50’s

@50- Gianni Versace,

Italian fashion designer (Versace),

born in Reggio Calabria, Italy

(d. 1997)

40’s

49- Lucy Liu, American actress

44- Monica Seles,

Yugoslavian-American tennis star (US Open 1992),

born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia

30’s

39- Nelly Furtado,

Canadian singer and songwriter

36- Britney Spears,

American popstar ("Baby One More Time," "Oops! ...I did it again" and "I'm A Slave 4 U"),

born in McComb, Mississippi

34- Aaron Rodgers,

American NFL player (Green Bay Packers),

born in Chico, California

@31- Georges Seurat,

French post-impressionist painter (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte),

born in Paris, France

(d. 1891)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2016 Sammy Lee,

American doctor and platform diver, 1st Asian American to win Olympic Gold (1948, 1952)

@90-1990 Aaron Copland,

American composer (Billy the Kid, Fanfare for Common Man)

80’s

@82-1990 Robert Cummings,

actor (Love that Bob)

70’s

@78-1967 Francis J "Cardinal" Spellman,

archbishop of NY

@78-1935 Martha Carey Thomas,

American educator, suffragist, linguist and second President of Bryn Mawr College,

coronary occlusion

@74-1814 Marquis de Sade,

French philosopher and writer (Justine), The words sadism and sadist are derived from his name.

@70-1936 John Ringling,

American circus owner

60’s

@69-1986 Desi Arnaz,

actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy),

lung cancer

@66-1995 Roxie Roker,

actress (Helen Willis-Jeffersons),

breast cancer

@61±1547 Hernán Cortés,

Spanish conquistador (defeated the Aztec Empire and colonized large parts of Mexico),

pleurisy

50’s

@59-1859 John Brown,

American abolitionist and revolutionary (Harpers Ferry),

hanged

@56-1892 Jay Gould,

American entrepreneur/robber baron,

TB

40’s

@48-1982 Marty Feldman,

comedian (Young Frankenstein),

heart attack

@46-1552 Francis Xavier,

Spanish Catholic missionary,

fever

30’s

@39-1963 Sabu Sabu,

actor (Jungle Book, Drums), heart attack

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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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Dec. 1

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Dec 1, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 336

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 35°  

Average Sky Cover: overcast AGAIN! 

Wind ave.:   4mph\Gusts:  9mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 63°[1926]   Record Low: -7°[1905]

Dec Averages: 50°\23°

Dec Records: H: 68° (1950) L: -23° (1990)

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Quote of the Day

Do what you can,

with what you have,

where you are.

  Theodore Roosevelt

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Observances Today

Antartica Day

Basketball Day

Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day

Civil Air Patrol Day

Clark Kent's Birthday(Superman)  Link 

Day With(out) Art Day

Eat a Red Apple Day

Faux Fur Friday 

Mawlid Al Nabi (Prophet Mohammad B-day)

National Salesperson Day 

Rosa Parks Day

World Aids Awareness Day  Link

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Observances This Week

1-7: Cookie Cutter Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                 

1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule

1641 Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery

1700’s                                 

1750 First school in America to offer manual training courses opens in Maryland

1800’s                                 

1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain

1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather

1878 1st White House telephone installed

1884 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"

1887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "Study in Scarlet"

1900’s                                 

1903 "The Great Train Robbery", the 1st Western film, released

1909 1st Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pa

1913 1st drive-up gasoline station opens (Pitts)

1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford

1929 Game of Bingo invented by Edwin S Lowe

1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use

1941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes

1953 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold

1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama

1958 Our Lady of Angels School fire kills 92 students & 3 nuns in Chicago, Illinois

1959 The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space

1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began

1965 South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white

1968 "Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances

1973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2M in a year

1975 US President Gerald Ford visits People's Republic of China

1978 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size

1982 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart

1982 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)

1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)

1990 British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)

2000’s                                 

2016 French President Francois Hollande announces he will not seek a 2nd term - 1st modern French leader not to do so

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My Rambling Thoughts

I keep reusable bags on the back seat of my vehicle so I will always have them when I go shopping. When buying a week’s groceries, I usually take in 4 bags. I always buy 4 containers of Fresh Juice (not from Concentrate) along with other needed items. The baggers seem to have a problem. They will almost always put the four juices in one bag, and everything else in the others. If I buy a bag of chips, they always to in a bag by themselves. I started my ‘grocery career’ as a bagger. This is not how it is done. Bags should be as close as possible to be equal in weight, with things like chips on the top of any bag. I figured I was being smart today by putting the reusable bags first, then one juice. Then some other stuff, then another juice…etc. Didn’t work, the cashier was the bagger so nothing got bagged until it was all charged. She put 3 juice bottles in one bag, and then filled the other bags. Because of her poor packing, I ended up with two plastic bags as she said ‘so they don’t weigh too much’. Really, on what planet. I give up.

After listening to some Navajo leaders and other indigenous leaders I feel a little less angry about 45’s comments while with the Navajo Code Talkers. The leaders basically see it as another of thousands of stupid comments made all the time. Their comments reminded me of my early days with the BIA. Student’s with perfect attendance go a free movie on Friday afternoon. Most of the movies were the popular westerns. After a few months, I couldn’t figure out why the young kids always cheered for the Cowboys and booed the Indians. I finally asked several 3rd-grade students. They all had the same answer, ‘Because the Cowboys always win’. I then asked but ‘why boo the Indians, since you are an Indian? I was informed ‘I’m not an Indian, I’m a Navajo’. Lesson learned.

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Bizarre News

*----- Sounds Like Sexual Harassment To Me -----*

Las Vegas police are searching for a man who punched another man for groping him on the Strip. About 1:40 a.m. a patrol officer heard shouting near Harmon Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South, then saw one man punch another before fleeing. The officer chased the attacker but lost track of him near Planet Hollywood Resort. Witnesses at the scene told police the man who was punched grabbed the puncher's rear end. When the man asked him to stop, he did it again and the man punched him. The man who was punched was briefly unconscious and was transported to the hospital with minor injuries. Sounds like he got off lucky. If he were in the entertainment industry or politics he would have lost his job and would be checking into a sex rehab facility in Europe somewhere by now.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s                                    

@88- Marie Tussaud,

French founder of Madame Tussaud's wax museum,

born in Strasbourg

(d. 1850)

@88- Rex Stout,

American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels),

born in Noblesville, Indiana

(d. 1975)

82- Woody Allen, [Allen Konigsberg],

director and actor (Zelig, Annie Hall),

 born in Brooklyn, New York

@81- Billy Paul [Paul Williams],

American singer (Me & Mrs Jones), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

(d. 2016)

70’s                                    

@76- Mary Martin,

American actress (Peter Pan) and Larry Hagman's mom,

born in Weatherford, Texas

(d. 1990)

@72- Lou Rawls,

American vocalist (Dean Martin's Golddigers, Natural Man),

born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 2006)

72- Bette Midler,

American actress and singer (Beaches, Wind Beneath my Wings),

born in Honolulu, Hawaii

60’s                                    

@67- David Doyle,

American actor (Charlie's Angels, Rugrats), born in Omaha,

(d. 1997)

66- Treat Williams,

actor (Flashpoint, Hair)

@65- Richard Pryor,

American comedian and actor (Lady Sings the Blues, Stir Crazy),

born in Pecoria, Illinois

(d. 2005)

63- Bob Goen,

TV host (Wheel of Fortune, Entertainment Tonight)

40’s                                    

47- Sarah Silverman, American actress and comedian

@44- Pablo Escobar,

Colombian drug lord, born in Rionegro, Colombia

(d. 1993)

30’s                                    

@35- Louis Slotin,

Canadian Physicist and Chemist (Manhattan Project, Los Alamos) who assembled the plutonium core for 'Trinity', the first detonated atomic device

(d.1946)

20’s                                    

@21-1976 Matthew Shepard,

American murder victim

(d. 1998)

Pre-teen’s                             

@9 Lungtok Gyatso,

9th Dalai Lama, born near Dan Chokhor Monastery

(d. 1815)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-1973 David Ben-Gurion,

founding father of Israel

70’s

@76-1866 George Everest,

Welsh surveyor and namesake of Mt. Everest (d. 1790)

50’s

@57-1987 Donn Fulton Eisele,

Col USAF/astronaut, heart attack

@57-1955 Victor Daniels [Chief Thundercloud],

Character actor (The Lone Ranger, Colt .45), stomach cancer Note: there is no verification that he was Native American and he claimed to have played for UofAZ in football but there is not record he ever attended.

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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 30

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Nov 30, 2017 Week: 48 \ Day: 335

86004 Today: H 57° \ L 33°  

Average Sky Cover: overcast 

Wind ave.:   1mph\Gusts:  1mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 66°[1975]   Record Low: -4°[2010]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Quote of the Day

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world.

For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

  Margaret Mead

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Observances Today

Cities for Life Day  Link

Computer Security Day

National Mason Jar Day  Link

National Meth Awareness Day Link

Stay At Home Because You Are Well Day

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Observances This Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

00’s                                    

1487 The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops 

1630 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague

1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die

1753 Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal "on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity"

1886 First commercially successful AC electric power plant opens, Buffalo, NY

1886 The Folies Bergère stages its first revue

1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle

1908 The US Secretary of State and Japan's ambassador to the US exchange notes in what becomes known as the Root-Takahira Agreement: they affirm support for an independent China with an 'open door' policy and for the status quo in the Pacific

1928 Vladimir K. Zworykin receives patent on Iconoscope TV system

1954 1st meteorite known to strike a person - American Ann Hodges in Sylacauga, Alabama (she survives)

1958 1st US guided missile destroyer launched - the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine

1962 U Thant of Burma becomes the 3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations

1966 Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)

1967 People's Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK

1971 The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights

1974 Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression

1982 "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)

1983 Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record

1986 Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million in his lifetime

1990 US President George H. W. Bush offers to send Secretary of State James Baker to Baghdad to meet with Saddam Hussein

1993 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill

1993 "Schindler's List", American historical drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, and Ralph Fiennes, premieres in Washington, D.C. (Academy Awards Best Picture 1994)

1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm.

2004 Longtime "Jeopardy!" champion Ken Jenningsof Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700 USD, television's all-time biggest game show haul.

2007 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.

2015 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in Bangui's PK5 district in Central African Republic

2016 UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another cloudy day…still hoping for some snow.

Stayed up late last night with Netflix, so slept in until 7a. Decided I would do my weekly shopping tomorrow.

OMG…Matt is gone and Garrison is gone from the airwaves. Just heard a story on Faux News about how the high and mighty journalists wanted to get rid of Trump for sexual accusations, but in fact, it was the Fake News that is getting a harder hit. Hmmm.

Can’t believe that the US President would retweet several racist videos against Muslims and get away with it. Our country is just getting deeper and deeper into a world of misinformation.

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Bizarre News

*--------------- Kids These Days ---------------*

A young girl was taken from her mother and handed over to the Department of Family and Child Services in California. The Palmdale Sheriff Station said in a press release that the mother, who was on the "wrong track," was arrested for "playing chicken" on the train tracks with her 4-year-old child. Police were called by concerned citizens regarding a woman and a child sitting on the train tracks. Detective Borits and Deputy Hegge arrived at the location and saw the child sitting on the train tracks while her mother, 26-year-old Ashley Hawkins, was 20 yards away looking down on her cell phone. The deputies immediately told the mother and child to get off the train tracks and go to an area that is a safe distance away. The mother told the detectives that she and her daughter sit on the train tracks every day. Detective Bortis cautioned the mother on the dangers of "playing chicken" with the train. He warned her of a recent fatality of a man being hit by a train not far from that location. "The mother expressed no due regard for the safety of her child and continued to state it was okay because they did it every day," police said. Police arrested Hawkins for willfully placing her young daughter in a dangerous situation. The child was taken into protective custody by the Department of Family and Child Services.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Efren Zimbalist Jr,

American actor (77 Sunset Strip, FBI, Scruples),

born in NYC

(d. 2014)

@90- Winston Churchill,

British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1940-45, 1951-55) during World War II and winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Literature,

born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England

(d. 1965)

80’s

@89- Robert Guillaume, [Williams],

actor (Benson, Soap),

born in St Louis,

(d. 2017)

87- G[eorge] Gordon Liddy,

Watergate felon and radio host,

born in Brooklyn

@82 Dick Clark [Richard Wagstaff Clark],

American radio and television personality (American Bandstand),

born in Mount Vernon, NY

(d. 2012)

@80- Shirley Chisholm,

1st African American congresswoman (Rep-D-NY) and presidential candidate,

born in Brooklyn,

(d. 2005)

80- Ridley Scott,

English film director (Alien, Blade Runner),

born in South Shields, England

70’s

@77- Jonathan Swift,

satirist (Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal), born in Dublin, Ireland

(d. 1745)

@76- Richard Crenna,

actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles),

born in Los Angeles,

(d.2003)

@74- Mark Twain [Samuel Clemens],

American author (Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn),

born in Florida, Missouri

(d. 1910)

60’s

65 Mandy Patinkin,

actor/singer (Yentl, Alien Nation),

born in Chicago

62- Billy Idol, [William Broad],

rocker (White Wedding)

50’s

55- Bo Jackson,

baseball/football player (KC Royals, LA Raiders)

@52- Abbie Hoffman, aka Free,

Yippie/activist/author (Steal this Book)

(d. 1989)

52- Ben Stiller,

American actor (Ben Stiller Show, Next of Kin, Cable Guy),

born in NYC

40’s

@45- John McCrae,

Canadian physician, soldier/poet (In Flanders Fields), born in Guelph, Ontario

(d. 1918)

30’s

39- Clay Aiken,

American singer

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84-2004 Pierre Berton,

Canadian author

70’s

@78-1979 Zeppo Marx [Herbert Manfred Marx],

American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers),

lung cancer

@75-1990 Norman Cousins,

editor (Saturday Review),

heart failure

@74-1999 Charlie Byrd,

American jazz and bossa nova guitarist (Desfinado),

lung cancer

60’s

@69-2007 Evel Knievel,

American motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon),

pulmonary disease

@64-1996 Tiny Tim, [Herbert Khaury],

entertainer (Tip Toe),

heart attack

@63-1987 James Baldwin,

writer (Go Tell it on the Mountain),

stomach cancer

40’s

@46-1900 Oscar Wilde,

Irish playwright and novelist (Importance of Being Earnest),

meningitis

@40-2013 Paul Walker,

American actor (The Fast and the Furious),

car accident

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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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