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getting ready for tomorrow
Today is the 4th day of the 47th week, the 21st day of the 11th month, the 325th day of 2018, and:
- Alascattalo Day – about Alaska and humor
- Blackout Wednesday
- False Confession Day
- Geographic Information Systems Day
- Mawlid Al Nabi - the observance of the birthday of Islamic prophet Muhammad which is commemorated in Rabi' al-awwal, the third month in the Islamic calendar
- National Family Caregivers Day
- National Gingerbread Day
- National Jukebox Day
- National Red Mitten Day [Canada]
- National Surfing Day
- Pumpkin Pie Day
- Tie One On Day – no you are not being encouraged to binge, they are talking about aprons
- What Do You Love About America Day
- World Hello Day
- World Television Day
ON THIS DAY IN ...
164 BC – Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
1620 – Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)
1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.
1783 – In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
1832 – Wabash College is founded in Crawfordsville, Indiana.
1837 - Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1848 - Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
1849 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin" premieres in Vienna
1852 - Duke Uiversity, founded in 1838 as Union Institute, chartered as Normal College
1871 - Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
1871 - The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is fired
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
1895 - Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
1901 - Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot" premieres in Dresden
1902 – The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeated the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first ever professional American football night game.
1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
1921 - King George V proclaims Canada's Coat of Arms; designates white and red as the official Canadian colours; on the crest, a red maple leaf is added in the right paw of the lion and three maple leaves joined by one stem in the crest.
1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).
1946 - Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1952 - 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1953 – The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
1961 – The "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, first revolving restaurant in the United States.
1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. At the time it is the world's longest bridge span.
1965 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk, USSR
1967 - Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1968 - Supremes & The Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1969 - KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
1974 - Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1976 - "Rocky" directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)
1977 – Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem "God Save the Queen" and "God Defend New Zealand".
1977 - First flight of Concorde (London to New York)
1980 - Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) in the US ((this was the only episode I ever watched thanks to the persistent "who done it" hype
1989 - Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by US President George H. W. Bush
1995 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
Serious cooks are in the kitchen getting ready for the big day tomorrow, neh?
Interesting question – I think I’d be quaking in my boots since I am definitely plump and filled out!
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