Nov 14

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Nov 14, 2018 Week: 46 \ Day: 318

86004 Today: H 39° \ L 18° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   22mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1967]   Record Low: -5°[1985]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able

to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Aristotle

Random Tidbits

The tubeless auto tire was invented by a man named Frank Herzegh. 

He made one dollar for it.

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The first reported car theft in America took place in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1905.

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Whale oil was used in automobile transmission fluids as late as 1973.

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

Observances for Today

           

International Girls Day
International Selfie Day  Link  Link
Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day
National American Teddy Bear Day Link
National Guacamole Day

National Pickle ‘Appreciation’ Day

International Tempranillo Day  Link
Milad un Nabi (Shia)
National Pickle Day
National Spicy Guacamole Day
Operating Room Nurse Day  Link
Spirit of NSA (National Speakers Association) Day
World Diabetes Day Link

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1600’s                                         

1666

Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)

1800’s                                         

1832 First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts

1851 "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville first published by Harper and Brothers in the US

1883 "Treasure Island" by Robert Louis Stevenson is first published as a book by Cassell & Co.

1889 New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in under 80 days. She succeeds, finishing the trip in 72 days, 6 hours

1900’s                                         

1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with Tomáš Masaryk as its 1st president

1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)

1968 Yale University announces it is going co-educational

1993 Puerto Rico votes against becoming the 51st US state

2000’s                                         

2008 Elizabeth Warren is appointed to chair a Congressional Oversight Panel for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act

My Rambling Thoughts

Hand surgeon says “You have graduated”. Good news. X-ray still show that the many, many screw holes are healing as expected. Just need to massage my scar a couple of times a day. No more appointments unless something happens. Then I was reminded not to fall and if I do, hold my arm close to my body and protect my wrist. Still thanking the lady shaman for preventing swelling and helping with the pain. And to Ellie for lending me some western pain killers.

Not as windy as yesterday, but still quite chilly. It was 22° when I headed for the hand doc. The sun hasn’t helped much in warming up our little mountain town.

Glad to finally have a new Senator in AZ. Our first woman in history and the first Dem in 4 decades. The Republican woman ran a very dirty campaign and deserved to lose. Now just waiting for all the other states to declare their winners. Nice to be purple for a change.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94- Sherwood Schwartz,

TV creator (Brady Bunch, Gilligan Is), born in Passaic,

 New Jersey (d. 2011)

@90- Aaron Copland,

American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring),

 born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1990)

80’s

@86- Claude Monet [Oscar-Claude],

French impressionist (Water Lilies, Haystacks, Poplars),

 born in Paris, France (d. 1926)

@82- Mamie Eisenhower,

First Lady of the United States (1953-61),

born in Boone, Iowa (d. 1979)

@80- Leo Baekeland,

Belgian-American chemist and inventor

(bakelite plastics), born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1944)

70’s

@77- Charles Lyell,

Scottish geologist (Principles of Geology),

born in Kinnordy, Angus, Scotland (d. 1875)

@74- Jawaharlal Nehru,

1st Prime Minister of India (1947-64) and

important leader of the Indian independence

 movement, born in Allahabad, North-Western

 Provinces, British India (d. 1964) heart attack

71- P. J. O'Rourke,

American journalist and satirist

(Parliament of Whores, Easy Money),

born in Toledo, Ohio

@70- Henri Dutrochet,

discovered & named process of osmosis (d. 1847)

70- Prince Charles [Charles Philip Arthur George],

Prince of Wales/Duke of Cornwall, born in London

60’s

64- Condoleezza Rice,

1st female African-American U.S. Secretary of State

 (2005-09), born in Birmingham, Alabama

50’s

59- Bryan Stevenson,

American social justice activist and founder of the Equal

Justice Initiative, born in Milton, Delaware

@51- William III, William of Orange,

King of England (1689-1702) and Stadtholder,

born in The Hague (d. 1702) pneumonia

@50- Veronica Lake [Constance Ockleman],

American actress (Sullivan's Travels, I Married a Witch),

born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1973) hepatitis

40’s

@49- Robert Fulton,

American inventor and engineer (first commercial

steamboat), born in Little Britain, Pennsylvania

(d. 1815) TB

@48- Joseph McCarthy,

American Senator, (Rep - Wisconsin) who claimed anti-

communists had infiltrated the US government, born in

Grand Chute, Wisconsin (d. 1957) hepatitis

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-2000 Robert Trout,

American newscaster (ABC)

70’s

@77-2014 Glen Larson,

American television producer & writer,

esophageal cancer

@70-1716 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,

German philosopher and mathematician

(differential and integral calculus)

50’s

@59-2016 Holly Dunn,

American country singer (Daddy's Hands), cancer

@59-1915 Booker T. Washington,

educator/organizer,  congestive heart failure

Nov 13

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Nov 13, 2018 Week: 46 \ Day: 317

86004 Today: H 41° \ L 15° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

            Feels like: 33° 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  27mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1967]   Record Low: -3°[2000]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

The way to get things done is not to mind

who gets the credit for doing them.

Benjamin Jowett

Random Tidbits

The first Rolls-Royce sold for $600, in 1906.

Today they sell for more than $200,000.

Observances This Week

           

7-13

Dear Santa Letter 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

Observances for Today

           

Caregiver Appreciation Day

Feast of St. Diego Alacala

GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) Link
National Indian Pudding Day

Sadie Hawkins Day

World Kindness Day Link  Link

Young Readers Day

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s                                         

1789 Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"

1800’s                                         

1839 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY

1843 Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts

1900’s                                         

1902 "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume (previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh

1909 Collier's magazine accuses U.S. Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in Alaskan coal fields

1922 Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY

1940 "Fantasia" animated film by Walt Disney, starring Leopold Stokowski and Deems Taylor, is released

1946 First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, Massachusetts

1952 False fingernails 1st sold

1970 US Vice President Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"

1982 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War

2000’s                                         

2001 War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

2017 World's earliest wine-making uncovered from Khramis Didi Gora, Georgia, in clay pots from 6,000BC

My Rambling Thoughts

A tad chilly with strong winds making it down right cold. Not happy. I had an 8:30a eye appointment. It was 27° when I left…felt like 20°. Got out my winter jacket and gloves for the appointment. All good at eye doc.

Started watching a great series on North Korea on the National Geographic Channel. Certainly worth a watch for those wondering about the Hermit Nation. I guess I should start watching for statues of our Great Leader.

The horrific fires in California are being made political by 45, probably because they didn’t vote for him. Sad.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Robert Sterling,

American actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper), born in New Castle, Pennsylvania (d. 2006)

@84- Louis Brandeis,

American lawyer and associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1941)

@82- Jack Elam,

American actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo), born in Miami, Arizona (d. 2003)

@81- Garry Marshall,

American TV and film director (Happy Days, Pretty Woman), born in NYC, New York (d. 2016)

70’s

71- Joe Mantegna,

American actor (House of Games, Weeds), born in Chicago, Illinois

60’s

@67- Richard Mulligan,

actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus), born in The Bronx, cancer

65- Frances Conroy,

American actress (Six Feet Under)

63- Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson],

American actress, comedian and singer (Color Purple, Burglar), born in NYC  

50’s

@52- Dack Rambo,

American actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas), born in Earlimart, California (d. 1994) AIDS

51- Jimmy Kimmel,

American TV host and producer (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), born in Brooklyn, New York

40’s

@44- Robert Louis Stevenson,

Scottish author (Treasure Island), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1894) stroke

49- Gerard Butler,

Scottish actor

30’s

39-Meta-World-Peace (Ronald William Artest Jr),

basketball player (Lakers)

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@77-1973 Elsa Schiaparelli,

Italian fashion designer

@74-2016 Leon Russell,

American musician and singer-songwriter (Carny), in his sleep

@72-2005 Vine Deloria, Jr.,

Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist, aortic aneurism  

20’s

@28-1974 Karen Silkwood,

killed in a car crash under suspicious circumstances