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Ah November....
Today is the 5th day of the 45th week, the 9th day of the 11th month, the 313th day of 2017, and:
- Carl Sagan Day – he would’ve been 83 today
- Go to an Art Museum Today Day
- Independence Day: Cambodia from France in 1953
- International Tempranillo Day ((a type of grape indigenous to Spain and used in the Rioja and Ribera del Duero wines))
- Kristallnacht [AKA "Night of Broken Glass"] – in 1938 Nazis looted and burned synagogues and Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria
- National Chaos Never Dies Day
- National Microtia Awareness Day
- National Scrapple Day
- World Freedom Day -- started in 2001, a United States federal observance declared by then-President George W. Bush to commemorate the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe
- World Usability Day
On this day in....
1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts after being at sea for about 96 days. There were 102 passengers, and the crew is estimated to have been about 30
1965 - A faulty relay switch fails at 5:16 pm at Ontario Hydro's Queenston generating station, causing a power outage that plunges New York City into darkness at the height of rush hour, and trapping 800,000 people in subways, elevators and skyscrapers. Over 30 million people in Ontario, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire lose power for most of the night
1967 – NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft atop the first Saturn V rocket from Cape Kennedy, Florida.
1970 – The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6–3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
1979 – A nuclear false alarm is raised when a technician in NORAD loaded a test tape, but failed to switch the system status to "test", causing a stream of constant false warnings to spread to two "continuity of government" bunkers as well as command posts worldwide. As a result, the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early-warning radars, the alert is cancelled.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences. To date -- 57 countries retain it in both law and practice; 28 have it in law but haven't executed anyone in ten or more years; 8 have abolished it, but retain it for exceptional or special circumstances (such as crimes committed in wartime); and 103 have abolished it for all crimes
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan; the objective of the mission was the long term observation of the Venusian atmosphere.
2017 -- NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 32 mins 07 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“The last dying days of summer, fall coming on fast. A cold night, the first of the season, a change from the usual bland Maryland climate. Cold, thought the boy; his mind felt numb. The trees he could see through his bedroom window were tall charcoal sticks, shivering, afraid of the wind or only trying to stand against it. Every tree was alone out there. The animals were alone, each in its hole, in its thin fur, and anything that got hit on the road tonight would die alone. Before morning, he thought, its blood would freeze in the cracks of the asphalt.”
― Poppy Z. Brite [AKA Billy Martin], American author.
For the first time this season, I got out my winter coat this morning. It isn’t that it is that cold outside, but it is chilly and damp typical November day – the first and I don’t like being cold – who does? This time of year always makes me think of my father…. Dad worked on the pipeline in Prudhoe Bay and lived for a while in Anchorage, Alaska. Now I lived there too for a bit, and while it is definitely cold, it is a really dry cold and you can bundle up against it. Don’t get me wrong – 70 below zero is COLD, but you could layer up and stay warm. So when my father would fly into town to go to Thanksgiving dinner at Grandmom’s he was pretty casual about it being in the upper 30s and low 40s – after all, he was used to living and working in subzero conditions for crying out loud! So he would stroll off the plane with a light jacket or blazar on…. And thrice he went back to Alaska wearing a heavy winter coat and boots that he had to buy here during his stay, much to my [unexpressed] amusement. You see, living in such a dry climate, he had forgotten how the damp aggravates the feeling of cold, how the moisture seems to seep into your bones, and how once you got chilled you couldn’t get warm again. November does that to you – the bright colors of fall fading, the weather turning dank, the holidays are over the horizon out of sight, and the gloom starts to seep into your very soul – I always wonder around this time of year why I never picked up and moved to Florida to work for the House of the Mouse like I always said that I would because right about now, the summer heat doesn’t seem so bad even with high humdity.
And there are freeze warnings for tonight, the first killing frost of the season is nigh…. Ah November!
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