Dec 4

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Dec 4, 2017 Week: 49 \ Day: 338

86004 Today: H 60° \ L 24°  

Average Sky Cover: 35% 

Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  23mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 67°[1965]   Record Low: -4°[1955]

Dec Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Quote of the Day

When one teaches, two learn

  Robert Half

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Observances Today

National Cookie Day Link

National Dice Day

National Sock Day  Link

Santas' List Day

Wear Brown Shoes Day

World Wildlife Conservation Day Link

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Observances This Week

1-7: Cookie Cutter Week Link

3-9: Clerc-Gallaudet Week 

National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link  

Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week 

Computer Science Education Week Link

( Always week with 12/9. Birthday of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.)

4-8: Cookie Exchange Week 

International Coelenterate Biology Week Link

Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link  

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1100’s                                 

1154 Adrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.

1600’s                                 

1619 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish, England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God. Considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.

1674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago

1800’s                                 

1829 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre)

1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas & rope) patented in Massachusetts

1875 William Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed" (Tammany Hall, NYC) escapes from jail

1881 The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published

1900’s                                 

1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Ga

1915 Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st President to travel outside US while in office

1923 Cecil B. DeMille's first version of "The Ten Commandments" premieres

1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem

1933 FDR creates Federal Alcohol Control Administration

1942 FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration

1961 Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's Le Bateau upside down for 47 days1961 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN

1961 The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain

1965 Gemini 7 launched with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell

1968 Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march

1971 The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.

1977 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7

1978 Dianne Feinstein is named as San Francisco's 1st female & Jewish mayor

1980 Two months after death of drummer John Bonham, Led Zeppelin announces they will disband

1981 Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence

1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages

1991 Muslim Shi'ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)

1993 Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)

2000’s                                 

2005 Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.

2014 US authorities promise a "fair" investigation into the death of African American Eric Garner, after a white New York City police officer held him in a choke-hold faces no charges

2016 Tens of thousands march throughout Brazil against a vote to undermine anti-corruption investigations

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My Rambling Thoughts

Windy, but at least the sun is brightly shining on our little mountain town.

Cards still aren’t  playing football… No Broncos, except on the internet but looking at the score, that is a good thing.

Now that it is December, I am hoping for a little time with no new allegations against anyone regarding their treatment of women in the workplace. I may just be getting old-er but I can’t keep track of who groped, who grabbed, and who undressed in the workplace, while he should have been working. I never liked a hovering boss, but didn’t like one I never saw either. Someone should ask where the bosses were when all this crap was going on? And why did they turn a blind eye?

Not a fan of MMA watcher, but it was nice to see on FB that a Navajo lady from Kayenta is the new Flyweight Champion. Always happy to see a Navajo doing well in their chosen field.

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Bizarre News

*-- Rule 1: Keep Your Finger Off the Trigger --*

A man shot himself while arguing with another man during a road rage incident, according to police in Florida. When officers arrived at the scene the encountered a man who suffered a gunshot wound to the leg. According to the police investigation, the incident unfolded when two drivers got into an argument. One of the men felt threatened by the other and pulled out his weapon. While waving it around, the gun discharged. The gun owner suffered a gunshot wound to his leg. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he was treated for a non-life-threatening injury. No charges have been filed because the weapon was legally owned and the victim felt threatened. 

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@85- Thomas Carlyle,

Scottish essayist and historian (French Revolution),

born in Ecclefechan, Scotland

(d. 1881)

84- Wink Martindale,

TV host (Tic-Tac-Dough, Can You Top This),

born in Jackson, Tennessee

@82- Francisco Franco,

Spanish general and dictator (1936-75),

born in Ferrol, Galicia, Spain

(d. 1975)

80- Max Baer Jr,

actor (Jethro-Beverly Hillbillies),

born in Oakland

70’s

77- Freddy Cannon, [Picariello],

rocker (Palisades Park)

@75- Pappy Boyington,

American pilot

(d. 1988)

68- Jeff Bridges,

actor (Stay Hungry, Against All Odds),

born in Los Angeles

50’s

@54- Victor French,

actor (Highway to Heaven),

born in Santa Barbara,

(d. 1989)

53- Marisa Tomei,

American actress (My Cousin Vinny),

born in Brooklyn

40’s

48- Jay-Z [Shawn Carter],

American rapper and record producer (Reasonable Doubt, The Blueprint),

born in Brooklyn

44- Tyra Banks,

American supermodel and actress (Higher Learning, Fresh Prince of Bel Air),

born in Inglewood, California

30’s

@36±- Crazy Horse [Tashunka Witko],

Oglala Sioux chief (Battle of the Little Bighorn), born in Fort Robinson, Nebraska

(d. 1877)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-1679 Thomas Hobbes,

English philosopher (Leviathan)

@90-1993 Margaret Landon,

US author (Anna & the King of Siam)

80’s

@85-2015 Robert Loggia,

American actor (Officer & a Gentleman, Scarface)

@83-1123 Omar Khayyám,

Persian poet, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher

70’s

@72-1967 Bert Lahr, [Irving Lahrheim],

American comic and actor (The Wizard of Oz),

pneumonia/cancer?

50’s

@52-1993 Frank V Zappa,

US music/composer (Mothers of Invention),

prostate cancer

@51-1902 Charles Dow,

American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones and 1st editor of Wall St Journal),

poor health for years

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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 3

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Dec 3, 2017 Week: 49 \ Day: 338

86004 Today: H 59° \ L 34°  

Average Sky Cover: 3% 

Wind ave.:   10mph\Gusts:  17mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 67°[1977]   Record Low: -2°[1968]

Dec Averages: 50°\23°

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

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Quote of the Day

One must ask children and birds

how cherries and strawberries taste.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Observances Today

Advent

International Day of Persons With Disabilities

National Roof over Your Head Day

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Observances This Week

1-7: Cookie Cutter Week Link

3-9: Clerc-Gallaudet Week 

National Hand Washing Awareness Week Link  

Recipe Greetings For The Holidays Week 

Computer Science Education Week Link

( Always week with 12/9. Birthday of Admiral Grace Murray Hopper.)

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

00’s                                    

1557 1st Covenant of Scottish protestants form

1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia

1678 Edmond Halley receives MA from The Queen's College, Oxford

1775 First official US flag raised (Grand Union Flag) aboard naval vessel USS Alfred

1818 Illinois becomes 21st state USA (Admission day)

1833 Oberlin College in Ohio, the first truly coeducational college, opens

1834 First US dental society organized (NY)

1847 Frederick Douglass publishes first issue of his newspaper "North Star"

1854 Eureka Stockade: In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 goldminers at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences

1868 1st blacks on US trial jury appointed for Jefferson Davis trial 1881 Henry Morton Stanley founds Leopoldville (now Kinshasa)

1910 Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)

1911 Willis Carrier presents his influential "Rational Psychrometric Formulae" on air conditioning to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

1917 After nearly 20 years of planning and construction, the Quebec Bridge opens to traffic.

1922 First successful technicolor movie (Tall of the Sea), shown in NYC

1926 Detective novelist Agatha Christie mysteriously disappears for 11 days

1931 Alka Seltzer goes on sale

1938 AAUs decides to continue linear measuring system over metric

1947 Tennessee Williams' "Streetcar Named Desire" premieres in NYC

1950 Paul Harvey begins his national radio broadcast

1952 1st TV broadcast in Hawaii

1962 Pravda criticizes western art

1967 1st human heart transplant performed by Dr Christian Barnard in South Africa

1967 Assassination attempt made on Bob Marley and others during concert rehearsals in Jamaica

1969 John Lennon is offered role of Jesus Christ in Jesus Christ Superstar

1971 US President Richard Nixon commutes Jimmy Hoffa's jail term

1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet)

1979 Christies auctions a thimble for a record $18,400

1984 Bhopal disaster: Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, kills 2,259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured

1989 Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush, declare the Cold War over

1992 The Greek oil tanker Aegean Sea, carrying 80,000 tonnes of crude oil, runs aground in a storm while approaching La Coruña, Spain, and spills much of its cargo

2014 Protests erupt in cities across the US after a grand jury decides not to charge the New York City police officer who killed Eric Garner with a choke-hold

2016 US army decides it will not allow an oil pipeline to be built in North Dakota, after months of protests by The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

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My Rambling Thoughts

Headed out to two crafts sales this morning. One at a local elementary school, one at the Center for the Arts. Both had some interesting crafts, picked up a few Christmas presents.

I’ve been commenting on how warm & dry it has been. Well, I was right. November was our driest November since records were kept…1899 and November was the 4^th warmest November since 1899.  Waiting to find the record for no snowfall. Nothing yet, not even flurries.

Our little mountain town is trying yet again. They announced that there will be a non-stop flight to LA starting in March. The new flight flies once a week and no pricing as been announced.Hmmm. Back in the day, Frontier had a puddle jumper to Denver, with 3 stops. Not the easiest flight. Then that had a flight from Flag to Phx to Denver that cost $5 more than the flight from Phx to Denver. Those were the good old days. Those days are gone.

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Bizarre News

Why pay for a motel room for your amorous encounters when you have a vehicle? And hiring a baby-sitter is just throwing money if that vehicle has a back seat. All that's missing is plenty of booze to set the mood and you have... 

Witnesses of a single-vehicle crash were shocked to see a naked man and woman emerging from the wreck, according to police in Washington. 

Washington State Troopers said that they have arrested the driver, 23-year-old Michael Tonkin, who was having sex with the naked woman, 23-year-old Daisy Laroque, before slamming into the three. 

According to the police investigation, the man was driving down State Route 7 with a 3-month-old baby in the back seat. 

The man and the woman were both drunk and naked. The couple was having sex when the man missed a curve and drove off the road. Seconds later, the car slammed into a tree. 

Witnesses at the scene saw the naked man and woman emerge from the wreck. Both appeared to be intoxicated. 

The man and the baby were not injured but the woman suffered broken bones and was transported to a hospital. 

Tonkin was charged with driving under the influence, vehicular assault, and child endangerment. 

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@85- Andy Williams,

Wall Lake Iowa, singer (Moon River, Andy Williams Show)

(d. 2012)

@82- John Backus,

inventor (FORTRAN computer language)

(d. 2007)

70’s

75- Valerie Perrine,

actress (Slaughterhouse 5),

born in Galveston, Texas

60’s

69- Ozzy Osbourne,

English heavy metal vocalist and songwriter (Black Sabbath),

born in Birmingham, England

@66- Joseph Conrad,

Polish novelist (Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness),

born in Berdychiv, Poland

(d. 1924)

62- Warren Jeffs,

American convicted polygamist

50’s

57- Daryl Hannah,

American actress (Splash, Blade Runner),

born in Chicago, Illinois

57- Julianne Moore,

American actress (Magnolia, The Kids are Alright),

born in Fayetteville, NC

52- Katarina Witt,

figure skater (Olympic-Gold-1984, 88)

born in Staaken GDR

40’s

49- Brendan Fraser,

American actor (School Ties, 20 Bucks), born in Indianapolis, Indiana

20’s

23- Jake T. Austin,

Nickelodeon actor

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@89-1910 Mary Baker Eddy,

founder (Christian Science (Monitor))

@88-2016 S. Newman Darby,

American inventor of the sailboard

70’s

@78-1919 Pierre A Renoir,

French painter/sculptor

@72-1888 Carl Zeiss,

German scientific instrument and lens maker (Carl Zeiss AG)

50’s

@57-1999 Madeline Kahn,

American actress,

ovarian cancer

40’s

@48-2015 Scott Weiland,

American musician (Stone Temple Pilots, Velvet Revolver),

accidental OD

@45-1894 Robert Louis Stevenson,

Scottish novelist (Treasure Island),

stroke

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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 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.

☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼