• Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859.
• 1877 – Black Beauty by Anna Sewell was published.
• 1963 – Jack Ruby shot and killed President Kennedy’s suspected assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.
  It was the first live murder shown on American television.
• 1971 – D.B. Cooper hijacking took place over Oregon/Washington, USA.
• If you were born on November 24th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… March 2nd (same year)

“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.”
– Charles Darwin

“When I’m dead twenty-five years, people are going to begin to recognize me.”
– Scott Joplin

“If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”
– Dale Carnegie

“My hope for humanity – and I think sensible science fiction has a beneficial influence in this direction – is that one day everyone born will be whole in body and brain, will live a long life free from physical and emotional pain, will participate in a fulfilling way in their contribution to the existence, will enjoy true love and friendship, will pity us 20th-century barbarians who lived and died in an atrocious, anachronistic atmosphere of arson, rape, robbery, kidnapping, child abuse, insanity, murder, terrorism, war, smog, pollution, starvation and the other negative ‘norms’ of our current civilization. I have devoted my life to amassing over a quarter-million pieces of SF and fantasy as a present to posterity and I hope to be remembered as an altruist who would have been an accepted citizen of Utopia.”
– Forrest J. Ackerman

“A grief shared is half a grief.
A joy shared is twice a joy.”
– Candy Darling

Before take-off, the mystery man gave a flight attendant a note claiming to have a bomb and demanding $200,000 and parachutes. The FBI says he handed her the note that said the bomb was able to open a briefcase that showed a mass of wires and red sticks before it took off. Several crew members allegedly exchanged each of the 36 passengers for $200,000 in cash and four parachutes when the flight landed in Seattle.

For decades, officials and unofficial investigators have been baffled by D.B. Cooper’s disappearance and the mystery surrounding his disappearance. Although the FBI dropped the case in 2016, theories about Cooper’s identity continue to swirl. Several FBI agents have concluded over the years that he probably did not survive the jump off the plane.

The $5,880 loot was found in the Columbian River in 1980, and Principia Media investigators face the challenge of accepting the story of how he got the ransom and buried it on a sandbank on the Columbia River north of Portland. In the 1980s, a boy digging a bonfire pit in the Tena Bar discovered crumbling $20 bills whose serial numbers were traced to D.B. Cooper.

1859 – Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species. A first printing sells for around $100,000 today.

1874 – The patent (#157,124) for barbed wire was issued to Joseph F. Glidden of DeKalb, Illinois.

1877 – Anna Sewell’s Black Beauty was published.

1896 – The first US absentee voting law (voting via mail) was enacted by Vermont.

1903 – The patent (#745,157) for an automobile electric self-starter was issued to Clyde J. Coleman of New York City. Prior to that, they were hand-cranked.

1932 – The FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opened.

1950 – Broadway Show – Guys and Dolls (Musical) November 24, 1950

1950 – Storm of the Century – A snowstorm, took shape on this date before paralyzing the northeastern United States and the Appalachians the next day, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. 353 people died as a result of the storm.

1954 – Air Force One, the first US Presidential airplane, was christened. It was the third of three C-121 Constellation airplanes, the “Columbine III.” A

1953 – An incident where Eisenhower’s aircraft was “Air Force 8610” and an Eastern Airlines plane was “Eastern 8610” created the need to devise a unique call sign.

1962 – The influential British satirical television program That Was the Week That Was was first broadcast.

1964 – For the first time since 1800, residents of Washington, DC were permitted to vote.

1971 – Dan “DB” Cooper parachuted from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000 in ransom money, somewhere over the Cascade Mountains, possibly over Woodland, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest area. He was never heard from again.

1973 – #1 Hit November 24, 1973 – November 30, 1973: Ringo Starr – Photograph

1979 – #1 Hit November 24, 1979 – December 7, 1979: Barbra Streisand and Donna Summer – No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)

1982 – Orioles’ Cal Ripken was named AL Rookie of Year. In his career, he compiled 3,184 hits, 431 home runs, and 1,695 runs batted in. From May 30, 1982, to September 19, 1998, he played 2632 consecutive games, another MLB record.

1988 – Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered on KYMA, in Minneapolis, Minnesota

November 24, 1999 – All the Way… A Decade of Song starring Celine Dion aired on CBS

2012 – Gangnam Style became the most viewed youtube video surpassing 808 million views. As of late 2016, it was over 2.6 billion views.

2013 – Iran signed an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, led by Barak Obama and the United States, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions.

Gorbachev’s Glasnost reforms uncovered so many cover-ups about events in the Soviet Union that all school history exams in 1988 were canceled.

US President #32 Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945) FDR was elected four terms. After that, they changed the rules so a President can only be President for two terms.

The world would be a much better place if everyone had SpongeBob’s work ethic, Sandy’s thirst for knowledge/intelligence, Larry’s workout regiment, Plankton’s perseverance, and Mr. Krabs’ business abilities.

The Capital of Comoros is Moroni

Point Nemo, an area in the southern Pacific Ocean 2,400 mi southeast of Wellington, is also a Spacecraft Cemetery. A total of more than 263 spacecraft were disposed of in this area between 1971 and 2016.

“E.T. phone home.” – E.T. (Pat Welsh) in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, 1982

Whenever Aladdin lies, you’ll notice the feather on his turban falls in his face in the Disney animated film.

Listening to classical music while you study can improve memory retention and reduce stress, known as the “Mozart effect”.

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• 1963 – President John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.
• November 22, 1940 (fictional) The Justice Society met for the first time, DC Comics
• The Humane Society of the United States was founded on November 22, 1954.
• November 22, 1968 – The first airing of an interracial kiss took place on Star Trek between William Shatner (playing Captain Kirk) and Nichelle Nichols (playing Lieutenant Uhura)in an episode titled Plato’s Stepchildren.
• November 22, 2013 – Xbox One released, Video Game Console
• November 22, 2005 – Xbox 360 released, Video Game Console
• If you were born on November 22nd,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 29th (same year)
• For those born on November 22, 1989, you have a special birthday in the year 2033. Why? On 11/22/33 you’re turning 44.

“It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society.”
– John F. Kennedy

“The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”
– Jamie Lee Curtis

“I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.”
– Rodney Dangerfield

“I did all sorts of jobs after drama school – working in a bar, as a teaching assistant. I probably learned as much from them as I did at drama school.”
– Hoagy Carmichael

1858 – Denver, Colorado was founded.

1859 – The Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin was published.

November 22, 1888 Birthday (fictional) John Clayton, Tarzan, Books/Film

November 22, 1889 Birthday (fictional) Silvanus Kettleburn, Harry Potter

1910 – The patent (#976,267) for a steel-shafted golf club was issued to Arthur F. Knight of Schenectady, NY.

1927 – The patent (#1,650,334) for a snowmobile (motor toboggan) was issued to Carl J.E. Eliason of Saynor, Wisconsin.

1928 – Bolero by Maurice Ravel, was first performed publicly (Paris). The original title for the music was ‘Fandango.’

1932 – The patent (#1,888,533) for a computer pump was issued to the inventors, Robert J. Jauch, Ivan R. Farnham, and Ross H. Arnold for their “Liquid Dispensing Apparatus”. Technology has led us to the modern gas pump.

1935 – First commercial crossing of Pacific Ocean by plane (China Clipper). On November 29, the airplane reached its destination, Manila, after traveling via Honolulu, Midway Island, Wake Island, and Guam, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail.

November 22, 1940 (fictional) The Justice Society met for the first time, DC Comics

1941 – The US Food and Drug Administration specified the first minimum daily requirements for dietary supplements for vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin D, thiamine, riboflavin, calcium, iron, iodine, and phosphorus.

1951 – Pope Pius XII declared, at the opening meeting of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, that the Big Bang theory does not conflict with the Catholic concept of creation.

1952 – #1 Hit November 22, 1952 – November 28, 1952: Johnny Standley – It’s In The Book (parts 1 & 2)

1954 – Humane Society of the United States formed.

1965 – Broadway Show – Man of La Mancha (Musical) November 22, 1965

1965 – Muhammad Ali TKO’ed Floyd Patterson in 12 rounds for the heavyweight boxing title.

1974 – The United Nations General Assembly granted the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) observer status.

1975 – #1 Hit November 22, 1975 – November 28, 1975: KC and the Sunshine Band – That’s The Way (I Like It)

1977 – British Airways inaugurated a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.

1986 – #1 Hit November 22, 1986 – November 28, 1986: Human League – Human

1986 – Mike Tyson became the youngest Heavyweight Champion in history today with a second-round knockout win over Trevor Berbick.

1987 – WGN-TV Channel 9 and PBS affiliate WTTW-TV Channel 11 broadcast signals were hijacked by an unknown person wearing a Max Headroom mask. The hijacker was never caught.

1995 – Pixar’s Toy Story was released. It was the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated animation.

2005 – Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany.

November 22, 2005 – Xbox 360 released, Video Game Console

2012 – 2 people were killed and 120 injured after a 100-vehicle pile-up in dense fog near Beaumont, Texas, on interstate 10.

November 22, 2013 – Xbox One released, Video Game Console

The Capital of Costa Rica is San Jose

TV Quotes… “Stifle!” (Archie Bunker) on All in the Family.

A group of Porcupines is called a Prickle.

When reading comments online and I see “Astronomer here” or “Engineer here” I just assume it’s some college kid who’s taken an intro class on the subject.

It’s called The Breakfast Club, but they don’t actually eat breakfast. It should be called The Lunch Club.

Everyone has their own secret system of how to shake the box of lucky charms to get more marshmallows to fall out into their bowl.

Anna Jarvis, the woman who founded Mother’s Day, tried to get the holiday revoked when companies began to commercialize it for profits.

The term ‘leotard’ was named for the first person to complete the Flying Trapeze Act in 1859, Jules Leotard.

The Scary Statistic: Drowning odds: 1-in-8,942

What to do: Stay away from water, don’t look up open-mouthed when it is raining.

French and German soldiers suffered more causalities fighting each other in a single battle in WW1 (Verdun; 1,250,000) than they did while fighting each other in the whole of WW2.

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• 1800 – The US Congress met in Washington for the first time.
• November 21, 2004 – Nintendo DS released, Video Game Console
• North Carolina ratified the United States Constitution and was admitted as the 12th U.S. state in 1789.
• 1992 – Starting November 21, and lasting several days, the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawned over 100 tornadoes.
• 2002 – NATO invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to become members.
• If you were born on November 21st,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 28th (same year)

“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney and Driving Miss Daisy.”
-Goldie Hawn

“Man is free at the instant he wants to be.”
– Voltaire

“My characters aren’t losers. They’re rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else’s rules.”
– Harold Ramis

“Morality is everywhere the same for all men, therefore it comes from God; sects differ, therefore they are the work of men.”
– Voltaire

“You lose, you smile, and you come back the next day. You win, you smile, you come back the next day.”
Ken Griffey, Jr. –

“All mortals are equal; it is not their birth,
But virtue itself that makes the difference.”
– Voltaire

1783 – Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and the Marquis Francois Laurant d’Arlandes became the first men to make a free flight. Their hot-air balloon lifted off from La Muettte, a royal palace in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris. Ben Franklin was among the witnesses.

1832 – Wabash College was founded in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

1846 – The word ‘anesthesia’ was used by Oliver Wendell Holmes in a letter to William Thomas Green Morton, the surgeon who gave the first public demonstration of the pain-killing effects of ether.

1871 – The patent (#121,049) for a cigar lighter was issued to Moses F. Gale of New York City as an “Improvement in Cigar-Lighters.”

1877 – Thomas Edison announced his “talking machine” invention. His phonograph originally recorded sound onto a tinfoil sheet phonograph cylinder. (Patent #200,521, granted in 1878)

1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, was published in the journal Annalen der Physik.

1920 – In Dublin, Ireland, 31 people are killed in what became known as Bloody Sunday. This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians, and three Irish Republican Army prisoners. U2’s Sunday Bloody Sunday references the event

1942 – Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuted in Tale of Two Kitties. Bob Clampett created the character. Tweety is a boy.

1952 – First US postage stamp (The Red Cross 3 cent) in 2 colors (with the rotary printing process) was introduced.

1953 – #1 Hit November 21, 1953 – January 1, 1954: Tony Bennett – Rags To Riches

1953 – Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced the “Piltdown Man” skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.

1959 – Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet.

1959 – DJ Alan Freed, who had popularized the term rock and roll and music of that style, was fired from New York’s WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.

1960 – #1 Hit November 21, 1960 – November 27, 1960: Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs – Stay

1964 – World’s longest suspension bridge Verrazano Narrows opened (New York City – 4,260 feet). It is still the longest in the western hemisphere.

1969 – The first permanent ARPANET (multi-computer connection) link was established between UCLA and SRI.

1970 – #1 Hit November 21, 1970 – December 11, 1970: The Partridge Family – I Think I Love You

1980 – Everyone asked “Who Shot J.R.?” in last year’s Dallas season finale. The season opener of Dallas answered the question people were asking all summer, and well into the fall. Sue Ellen’s sister Kristin (played by Mary Crosby) shot J.R.

1980 – A deadly fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally’s Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people were killed and more than 650 were injured.

1981 – #1 Hit November 21, 1981 – January 29, 1982: Olivia Newton-John – Physical

November 21, 1984 Birthday (fictional) Dr. Donald Blake, Thor, Marvel Cinematic Universe

1987 – #1 Hit November 21, 1987 – November 27, 1987: Billy Idol – Mony Mony

1989 – The law banning smoking on most US domestic flights was signed by President George H. W. Bush.

1995 – Dow Jones closed above 5,000 for first time.

November 21, 2004 – Nintendo DS released, Video Game Console

Nothing comes after “Thrice”. Once, Twice, and Thrice are the only words of their type. Don’t try to ‘Force’ one.

“Jingle Bells” was originally written to be a Thanksgiving song. The horse mentioned in the song is never named.

Don’t scream at me from the bathroom to get toilet paper!
You’ve got a phone.
Text me.
We aren’t cavemen here you know.

9000 meters of single-strand silk weighs about 1 gram. It is also known as a Denier and used to define how fine a thread is.

Cher’s name is Cherilyn Sarkisian.

10 Billion Kuerig pods were produced in 2015, enough to circle the globe 12 times at the equator.

In the 70’s my parent’s idea of a car seat was two phone books and a qualified babysitter was anyone. I would go to prison for that.

England and Portugal have been allies since 1386, the longest unbroken treaty in effect today.

A group of Alligators is called a Congregation.

Casimir Pulaski is one of eight people to have been granted “Honorary Citizenship” by the United States.

“Remember those posters that said, ‘Today is the first day of the rest of your life’? Well, that’s true with every day except one- the day you die.” – Lester Burnham in American Beauty  #moviequotes

All other measurements considered, a “month” is a pretty inaccurate measurement of time considering it can range from 28 to 31 days.

It’s a complete coincidence that the word “emoji” resembles “emotion”. It simply comes from the Japanese words e (“picture”) and moji (“character”).

Things I Learned At The Movies:
It is always possible to park directly outside the building you are visiting.

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• Birthday boy Chester Gould’s friend, Al Gross invented the walkie-talkie, and that was the inspiration for Dick Tracey’s wrist radio in January 1946.
• In 1789, New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
• In 1820, An 80-ton sperm whale attacked and sank the Essex, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.
• 1962 – In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation, ending The Cuban Missile Crisis.
• November 20, 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.
• 1945 – The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials began, finishing on October 10, 1946.
• If you were born on November 20th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 27th (same year)

“The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There’s a doublecross on every corner. I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there. I decided that if the police couldn’t catch the gangsters, I’d create a fellow who could.”
-Chester Gould, creator of Dick Tracy

“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
-Robert F. Kennedy

“You can’t be a legend in your parent’s basement.”
– Joe Walsh

“Many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. “Give me a place to stand,” said Archimedes, “and I will move the world.” These men moved the world, and so can we all.”
– Robert F. Kennedy

1866 – The US patent (#59,918) on a rotary crank bicycle was issued to Pierre Lallemont of Paris, France.

1888 – Willard LeGrand Bundy was issued the first U.S. patent (#393,205) for a time recording clock. His company went on to help start TCR in 1911, which evolved into IBM.

1906 – Charles Stewart Rolls and Frederick Henry Royce formed Rolls-Royce.

1929 – First broadcast of The Goldbergs on NBC radio. The original title was ‘The Rise of the Goldbergs’, until 1936, when it moved to CBS. It was also on television, in various forms from 1949 to 1956. ABC began it’s own The Goldbergs on September 24, 2013.

1945 – The Nuremberg Trials with an International Military Tribunal made up of four judges one from each country United States, Soviet Union, Britain, and France begin when charges against Germany’s Nazi leaders.

1952 – Broadway Show – The Seven Year Itch (Play) November 20, 1952

1959 – WABC fired Alan Freed over the payola scandal. The early rock and roll DJ died in 1965, and in 2002 his ashes were moved to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio.

1962 – USSR agreed to remove bombers from Cuba, & US lifted the blockade.

1965 – #1 Hit November 20, 1965 – December 3, 1965: The Supremes – I Hear A Symphony

1966 – Broadway Show – Cabaret (Musical) November 20, 1966

1969 – Cleveland, Ohio’s The Plain Dealer published explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

1971 – #1 Hit November 20, 1971 – December 3, 1971: Isaac Hayes – Theme From Shaft

1973 – A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving aired on CBS for the first time.

1982 – Drew Barrymore, at age 7, hosted Saturday Night Live. She was starring in the hit film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial at that time.

1983 – The made-for-television movie The Day After, depicting the start of a nuclear war, was shown on ABC. Over 100 million people saw the broadcast.

1985 – A successful heart transplant to a 4-day-old infant, Eddie Anguiano, known then as Baby Moses, was performed by Dr. Leonard Lee Bailey of the Loma Linda University Medical Center. Eddie is still living and living in Las Vegas as far as we know.

1995- Daytime soap opera One Life To Live aired its 7,000th episode on ABC.

November 20, 1996 (fiction) Sgt. John Spartan was sentenced to 70 years in cryoprison, Demolition Man, Film

1999- John Carpenter became the first world-wide winner of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. The $1 million question was, “Which of these U.S. Presidents appeared on the television series ‘Laugh-In’?”, with the choices being A) Lyndon Johnson, B) Richard Nixon, C) Jimmy Carter, and D) Gerald Ford. He knew the answer and used his lifeline to call his father to tell him that he was winning a million dollars.

2003 – Michael Jackson was booked on suspicion of multiple counts of child molestation, later acquitted on all charges. He was on a $3 million bond.

2010 – #1 Hit November 20, 2010 – December 3, 2010: Rihanna featuring Drake – What’s My Name?

2013 – Two campus police officers who pepper-sprayed peaceful student protesters at a close range at the University of California were suspended. The memes made the incident immortal.

“I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.” #songlyrics

“In Switzerland, they had brotherly love – and 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.” – Harry Lime (Orson Welles) #moviequotes

Krispy Kreme’s Original Glazed Donut is Only 190 Calories.

A NASCAR driver maintains the same heart rate – 120 to 150 beats per minute for 3-plus hours – as a serious marathon runner for about the same length of time.

In 1972, Canada had a contest to complete the saying “As Canadian as…”. The winner was “As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.”

1986’s Top Gun had a production budget of only 15 million dollars.

The world record for most Rubik’s Cubes solved while blindfolded is held by Marcin Kowalczyk, who solved 41 out of 41 cubes in 54 minutes.

“You eeeediot!” – Ren (Ren & Stimpy)

US President #31 Herbert Hoover (1929-1933) His inaction to rebound the economy during the Great Depression led to shanties inhabited by the homeless to be referred to as “Hoovervilles.”

The tool used to cut diamonds, a scaif, was invented in the 1400s and uses olive oil and diamond dust to uniformly polish and cut diamonds. It is still in use today.

The Capital of Cote d’Ivoire is Yamoussoukro (official); Abidjan (de facto)

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• November 19, 2006 – Wii& Wii Virtual Console released, Video Game Console
• The Gettysburg Address was given by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1963
• 1969 – Pele scored his 1,000 goal in soccer.
• The week before Thanksgiving is ‘Better Conversation Week’
• If you were born on November 19th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 26th (same year)

Given November 19, 1963, by Abraham Lincoln

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -we can not consecrate- we can not hallow- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced.

It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us – that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion ? that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

“It is the high privilege and sacred duty of those now living to educate their successors and fit them, by intelligence and virtue, for the inheritance which awaits them. In this beneficent work sections and races should be forgotten and partisanship should be unknown.”
– James A. Garfield

“Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained.”
– James A. Garfield

“Normal is not something to aspire to, it is something to get away from.”
– Jodie Foster

“Arrogance is a killer, and wearing ambition on one’s sleeve can have the same effect. There is a fine line between arrogance and self-confidence. Legitimate self-confidence is a winner. The true test of self-confidence is the courage to be open — to welcome change and new ideas regardless of their source. Self-confident people aren’t afraid to have their views challenged. They relish the intellectual combat that enriches ideas.”
– Jack Welch

1805 – Lewis & Clark reached the Pacific Ocean; they were the first European Americans to cross the American continent.

1850 – A patent (#7,784) for magic lantern slides made of glass plate was issued to Frederick Langenheim of Philadelphia, PA as an “improvement in photographic pictures on glass.”

1863 – US President Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address beginning “Four score & seven years ago…”

1911 – NY received the first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy.

1916 – Samuel Goldfish and Edgar Selwyn established Goldwyn Pictures.

Zion National Park: Established on November 19, 1919, in Utah, this park covers 229 square miles. Known for its red sandstone cliffs, narrow canyons, and diverse plant and animal life.

1953 – US Supreme Court ruled (7-2) baseball was a sport, not a business

1954 – The first automatic toll collection machine was used at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey’s Garden State Parkway. It only accepted quarters (one was needed).

1955 – The National Review published its first issue

1959 – Rocky & Friends premiered on NBC (moved to ABC and changed to The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show in 1964).

1966 – #1 Hit November 19, 1966 – December 2, 1966: The Supremes – You Keep Me Hangin’ On

1978 – The Miracle at the Meadowlands – Philadelphia Eagles’ Herman Edwards returned a fumble for a touchdown with 31 seconds left to give Philadelphia a 19-17 victory over the New York Giants.

1980 – CBS banned a Calvin Klein’s jean ad featuring Brooke Shields.

1988 – #1 Hit November 19, 1988 – December 2, 1988: Bon Jovi – Bad Medicine

1998 – The United States House of Representatives Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against U.S. President Bill Clinton.

November 19, 2006 – Wii& Wii Virtual Console released, Video Game Console

Ecuador’s large monument to the Equator is not really on the equator. They marked the wrong spot 200 years ago and didn’t realize it until GPS was invented.

If you forget to return a library book and the fee gets too expensive, you might as well wait 70 years and then return it. Someone will write an article about it and the library will waive the fee.

The Capital of Croatia is Zagreb

“Hello, gorgeous.” – Fanny Brice (Barbra Streisand) in Funny Girl, 1968

The political phrase “cult of personality” was first used by Karl Marx.

Parks and Recs’ Ron Swanson should get a spinoff show that is an HGTV-like show mocumentary where he works with annoying couples who want to fix their homes.

The first movie to gross over $100 million was “Jaws” in 1975.

Both Chicago the city, and the Chicago River were both named after the native name for a species of wild onion that grew profusely in the area, chicagou.

Dean Martin – Real Name: Dino Crocetti

Roulette Odds: Six number combination: Payoff: 5:1 True Odds: 15.79%

The shortest scientific paper published, “The unsuccessful self-treatment of a case of writer’s block”, was written by Dennis Upper and published in 1974. It contains no text except for the title.

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• November 18 Birthday (fictional) Mickey Mouse, Disney
• 1993 – The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was approved by the US House of Representatives.
• 1963 – The first push-button telephones went into service.
• 1978 – Over 900 members of Jim Jones’ cult suicided, and several US representatives were killed in Jonestown, Guyana.
• 1993 – South Africa adopted its modern constitution.
• 2013 – Wii U released, Video Game Console
• 2001 – GameCube released, Video Game Console
• 2011 – Minecraft (video game) was released
• If you were born on November 18th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 25th (same year)

• 1869 – The Suez Canal opened.
• On November 17, 1968, an NFL game between the Oakland Raiders and the New York Jets ended with a Raiders win, 43 to 32.
  That happened by 7:07 PM. The problem was, NBC has scheduled and RAN the movie Heidi at 7:00.
  There was still over a minute left to play, and the TV audience never got the chance to see two Raider Touchdowns in just 65 seconds. #heidigame #heidibowl
• November 17, 1978, Boba Fett’s 1st appearance, Star Wars Holiday Special, TV. George Lucas hated the Star Wars Holiday Special so much he said, “If I had the time and a sledgehammer, I would track down every copy of that show and smash it.”
• Disney’s The Little Mermaid was released on November 17, 1989.
• November 17, 2006 – Playstation 3 released, Video Game Console
• If you were born on November 17th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 24th (same year)

“It seems to me that any sensible person must see that violence does not change the world and if it does, then only temporarily. “
– Martin Scorsese

“I am not a crook.”
-Richard Nixon

“A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful the way you lean.”
– Danny DeVito

“Acting is contained – you act for three months, then leave it – but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.”
– Sophie Marceau

“You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.”
– Daisy Fuentes

1827 – The Delta Phi & Sigma Phi fraternities were founded at Union College in Schenectady, New York. Along with the Kappa Alpha Society and Sigma Phi Society, the trio was informally called the ‘Union Triad’.

1855 – David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls in what was now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

1869 – Suez Canal (Egypt) opened, linking the Mediterranean & Red seas. It is 102 miles long.

1871 – National Rifle Association was organized (in New York City) by Army and Navy Journal editor William Conant Church and General George Wood Wingate.

1894 – Daily Racing Form was founded in Chicago, Illinois by Frank Brunell.

1894 – H. H. Holmes (Dr. Henry Howard Holmes), one of the first modern serial killers, is arrested in Boston, Massachusetts. He killed between 23 and 200 people.

1911 – Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, it was/is the first black Greek-lettered organization founded at an American historically black college or university on the campus of Howard University in Washington, DC.

1947 – The Screen Actors Guild implemented an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

1952 – Archeologists reported finding a 2,000-year-old mosaic floor at Circum, Cyprus, that depicted a scene from Homer’s Iliad.

1958 – #1 Hit November 17, 1958 – November 30, 1958: The Kingston Trio – Tom Dooley

1962 – #1 Hit November 17, 1962 – December 21, 1962: The Four Seasons – Big Girls Don’t Cry

1968 – Heidi Game Scandal – NBC cut the AFL championship to show the children’s film Heidi and millions missed the Raiders beat the Jets, 43-32. The movie started at 7:00 PM. The game ended at 7:07.

1969 – SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) discussions opened in Helsinki, Finland.

1970 – A patent (#3541541) was issued to Doug Engelbart for the computer mouse – an “X-Y Position Indicator for a Display System”.

1973 – In Orlando, Florida, President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors “I am not a crook.”

November 17, 1978 – Boba Fett’s 1st appearance, Star Wars Holiday Special, on ABC TV. It only aired once and was never officially released on DVD.

1979 – #1 Hit November 17, 1979 – November 23, 1979: Commodores – Still

1984 – #1 Hit November 17, 1984 – December 7, 1984: Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go

1992 – Dateline NBC aired a demonstration show General Motors trucks blowing upon impact, later it was revealed that NBC rigged the test.

2001 – The Justice League premiered on The Cartoon Network. The initial team included Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern (John Stewart), The Flash (Wally West), Martian Manhunter (J’onn J’ones), and Hawkgirl.

2004 – Kmart Corp. announced it was buying Sears, Roebuck, and Company for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.

November 17, 2006 – Playstation 3 released, Video Game Console

#1 Hit November 17, 2018 – December 7, 2018: Ariana Grande – Thank U, Next

Of the 130 Mickey Mouse short films released from 1928-2013, the only one to have been directed by a woman was 2013’s Get a Horse! by Lauren MacMullan.

A group of Plumbers is called a Flush.

“Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple of years back by the wife of our President: ‘Just say no.’” – Kurt Vonnegut

A group of Hummingbirds is called a Charm.

US President #30 Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929) After Harding’s death, Coolidge’s father, a notary public, administered the oath of office to his son by the light of a kerosene lamp. When elected later, the oath of office was administered by Chief Justice William Howard Taft.

Rubies and sapphires are scientifically the same minerals. Rubies are the red variety and sapphires can encompass any other color, with blue being the most popular and common.

The Capital of the Czech Republic is Prague

TV Quotes… “You look mahvelous!” (Billy Crystal as Fernando) on “Saturday Night Live”

“It’s time the fat cats had a heart attack.” #songlyrics

Unused explosives placed on the top of the Pathfinder Dam in Wyoming in 1909 were finally removed by explosive experts in 1949.

Blues Traveler’s Hook is a pop song about the psychology of pop songs.

• Today in History
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• Conception Songs

• Lewis and Clark reached the Pacific Ocean, 1805.
• The National Rifle Association received its charter from New York State, in 1871.
• 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States opened.
• The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945.
• 1990’s Pop Music Scandal: Group Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on their Girl You Know It’s True album.
• If you were born on November 16th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 23rd (same year)

“We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world’s population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem.”
– John F. Kennedy, 1961 speech

KIRBY: A man can’t give up his business.
GRANDPA: Why not? You’ve got all the money you need. You can’t take it with you.
– George S. Kaufman, You Can’t Take it With You

“Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows.”
– Burgess Meredith

“I find more of an authenticity in people who are a little strange – so I really like characters who are just the tiniest bit weird. I find enormous comfort in that – someone who’s kind of normal just doesn’t feel as true.”
– Missi Pyle

1620 – British settlers found the first corn (maize) in North America, including Myles Standish and William Bradford, in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

1676 – First colonial prison was organized in Nantucket, Massachusetts. William Bunker was the first warden.

1801 – The first edition of the New York Evening Post was published. It is the US’ oldest continuously published daily newspaper.

1822 – Missouri trader William Becknell arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1841 – The first patent (#2,359) for a US life preserver of cork was issued to Napoleon E. Guerin of New York City for his “Improvement in Buoyant Dresses or Life-Preservers.”

1855 – David Livingstone became the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now present-day Zambia-Zimbabwe.

1910 – The first American driver to exceed the speed of ‘a mile a minute’ (60 mph) was of A.C. Bostwick on the Ocean Parkway Racetrack in Brooklyn, New York.

1907 – Oklahoma became the United States’ 46th state.

1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opened.

1938 – LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) was first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

1940 – New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky set his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. He planted at least 33 over his career. He had gotten injured while working for Con Ed.

1945 – Two new elements were announced in Chicago: americium (atomic number 95) and curium (atomic number 96).

1945 – United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.

1959 – #1 Hit November 16, 1959 – December 13, 1959: The Fleetwoods – Mr. Blue

1959 – Broadway Show – The Sound of Music (Musical) November 16, 1959, at the Lunt Fontanne Theater New York City, starring Mary Martin and Theodore Bikel.

1963 – #1 Hit November 16, 1963 – November 22, 1963: Nino Tempo and April Stevens – Deep Purple

1965 – Venera 3 launched, and was the first to land on another planet (it crashed into Venus).

1965 – Walt Disney launched Epcot Center: Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.

1973 – President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.

1974 – #1 Hit November 16, 1974 – November 22, 1974: John Lennon – Whatever Gets You Thru the Night

1981 – Luke and Laura’s wedding for ABC soap opera General Hospital was one of the most-watched weddings in American television history.

1985 – #1 Hit November 16, 1985 – November 29, 1985: Starship – We Built This City

1992 – The Hoxne Hoard, the largest hoard of late Roman silver and gold discovered in Britain, was discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

2006 – Great Firewall of China began, giving the Chinese government much control over what its citizens could see online.

2006 – Broadway Show – Mary Poppins (Musical) November 16, 2006

2012 – Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 grossed $500 million in 24 hours to become the biggest entertainment launch of all time (so far).

The Capital of Djibouti is Djibouti

TV Quotes… “Two thumbs up” (Siskel & Ebert) on “Siskel & Ebert”

Tina Fey – Real Name: Elizabeth Stamatina Fey

Everything the human race has learned about the universe heavily depends on the limitations of our ability to perceive our surroundings. We could be 100% wrong about everything but simply not be intelligent enough to realize it. #truedat

Anne Bancroft – Real Name: Anna Maria Italiano

The Diary of Merer is the oldest papyri ever discovered. It details the daily life of workers who built the Great Pyramid of Giza.

Salmon have small particles of iron in their brain, which act as the magnetic needle in a compass to help them navigate to the place where they were spawned. The process is called magnetoception.

“You are the weakest link. goodbye.” #TVCatchphrase

A Movie Called Zyzzyx Road starring Katherine Heigle made a total of $30.00 on its grand opening weekend, $10.00 of which was refunded. Making it the lowest-grossing movie of all time.

The Capital of Denmark is Copenhagen

“My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.” – George M. Cohan (James Cagney) in Yankee Doodle Dandy, 1942

• Today in History
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• Conception Songs

• 1791 – The first US Catholic college, Georgetown University, opened.
• 1926 – The NBC radio network opened (24 stations).
• The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, were discovered, inspiring Truman Capote’s novel, 1959’s In Cold Blood.
• November 15, 2001, Microsoft Xbox released, Video Game Console
• November 15, 2013 – PlayStation 4 released, Video Game Console
• If you were born on November 15th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 22nd (same year)

“Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. “
– Erwin Rommel

“Mantovani was a great influence on me.”
– Brian May (musician)

“I’m afraid that I’m either going to have to write myself something or direct something if I’m going to get somewhere.”
– Yaphet Kotto

“Comedy is the most palliative way to make a point. People are more willing to listen if they can laugh.”
– Judy Gold

“Expect the unexpected in the kingdom of madness!”
– Randy Savage

“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way – things I had no words for.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe

1660 – First kosher butcher (Asser Levy) was licensed in New York City (New Amsterdam).

1791 – The first Catholic college in the US, Georgetown University, opened

1806 – First US college magazine, Yale Literary Government, published its first issue

1894 – First newspaper Sunday color comics section was published (NY World)

1896 – The first long-distance transmission of hydroelectricity from the Niagara Falls Power Company flowed to Buffalo, N.Y., 26 miles away.

1904 – King Camp Gillette was issued a US patent (#775,134) for his invention of a safety razor using disposable blades.

1914 – Canton Bulldog Harry Turner became the first player to die from game-related injuries (spinal) in the “Ohio League”, the direct predecessor to the National Football League.

1920 – The first assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva, Switzerland.

1926 – The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) launched with a radio network of 24 stations across the USA.

1956 – Li’l Abner opened at St James Theater New York City.

1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas occurred, which inspired Truman Capote’s non-fiction book In Cold Blood.

1969 – Wendy’s Hamburgers opened in Columbus, Ohio.

1971 – Intel advertised the 4004-processor, the first microprocessor.

1979 – The Unabomber struck for the first time when a bomb exploded in the cargo cabin of an American Airlines 727 on its way from Chicago to Washington.

1980 – #1 Hit November 15, 1980 – December 26, 1980: Kenny Rogers – Lady

1984 – Baby Fae died, an infant born a month earlier, but lived for 20 days with a transplanted baboon heart.

1990 – The world discovered that Milli Vanilli, the hot, new Grammy-winning pop duo, were lip-synching in their songs, and resulted in losing the Grammy award for Best New Artist.

1993- Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake, and Christina Aguilera joined the cast of The New Mickey Mouse Club.

November 15, 2001, Microsoft Xbox released, Video Game Console

2007 – #1 Hit September 15, 2007 – September 28, 2007: Soulja Boy – Crank That (Soulja Boy)

November 15, 2013 – PlayStation 4 released, Video Game Console

Math was discovered, not invented

Help! I got stuck in a shampoo lather, rinse, repeat loop!

In less than 100 years, humanity has witnessed two global conflicts, the invention and use of the atomic bomb, three flu epidemics, the invention of the computer and smartphones, the first moon landing, and pet rocks.

When with friends, and a bear (or any large, meat-eating animal) charges, you just need to run faster than one of the people in your group. You may have to trip someone up.

The Capital of Dominica is Roseau

“Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape.” – George Taylor (Charlton Heston) in Planet of the Apes, 1968

“Make it work!” #TVCatchphrase

All large copy machines are designed to hold an entire ream of paper. Don’t be the person who only puts half in. – LifeProTips

Del Shannon – Real Name: Charles Westover

My friend asked: We tend to eat animals that are vegetarians: cows, goats, sheep, chickens. So my question to you is if you were starving would you eat a person? I mean, assuming the person was a vegetarian.

Useless Pronunciation: E as in el

One of the 7 Wonders of the Middle Ages: Porcelain Tower of Nanjing in Nanjing, China, constructed in the early 1400s.

• Today in History
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• Female journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in 72 days, in 1889.
• The British Broadcasting Company (BBC) began radio service in the United Kingdom in 1922.
• Ruby Bridges became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana (1960)
• In 1967, Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser system.
• 2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opened in Washington DC.
• If you were born on November 14th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 21st (same year)

The American inventor and engineer best known for developing the first commercially successful steamboat is Robert Fulton, inventor of the Fulton Steamboat, one of the first steamboats in America. After Fulton’s steamship Clermont was built in 1807, American rivers opened up to commercial trade and passenger traffic.

With a length of about 2.5 feet and a width of 4 feet and a 15-foot diameter paddlewheel mounted on each side, the Clermont had a low draft average of about 5 miles per hour, for the 150-mile trip.

Fulton and Livingston used the Clermont for several years and eventually built more steamships and ferries to expand their business. In 1808 Fulton built an improved steamboat, which he called the “Fulton North River Steamboat” (nicknamed “Clermont”), which was 149 feet long, with paddle wheels and passenger seats. On July 1, 1809, the Fulton NorthRiver steamship began its scheduled service, carrying passengers and light cargo between New York, Albany, and the Hudson River.

Robert Fulton (1765 – 1815) deserves credit for making the steamboat a commercial success, but he was the first to make it such a strange, somewhat unfriendly ship. The idea for the steamship came from others, including Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Jacob Astor. A working model of a steamboat was demonstrated in 1787 by William James, one of Fulton’s co-inventors.

“The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work and then get elected and prove it.”
– P. J. O’Rourke

“Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren’t much smarter.”
– Louise Brooks

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand as if it were necessary to understand when it is simply necessary to love.”
– Claude Monet

“I never gave away anything without wishing I had kept it; nor kept it without wishing I had given it away.”
– Louise Brooks

“When you say the name Gilligan, you know who that is. If a show is good, if it’s written well, you should be able to erase the names of the characters saying the lines and still be able to know who said it. If you can’t do that, the show will fail.”
– Sherwood Schwartz, creator of Gilligan’s Island

“If you study both ‘Gilligan’ and ‘Brady,’ you will see they are based on a similar philosophy: that it’s possible for different kinds of people to learn to live together, either in a family or stuck on an island with no escape.”
– Sherwood Schwartz, creator of The Brady Bunch

1851
Moby-Dick by Herman Melville was published.

1889
New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to duplicate the literary journey of Jules Verne’s Phileas Fogg by traveling around the world in less than 80 days. She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours.

1922
The BBC (The British Broadcasting Company ) officially began its daily domestic radio broadcasting with the 6:00 pm news, read by announcer Arthur Burrows.

1942
November 14, 1942 (fiction) Leo Wyatt was killed in World War II; Charmed, TV

1956
Love Me Tender, starring Elvis Presley, was released in US theaters.

1960
#1 Hit November 14, 1960 – November 20, 1960: Ray Charles – Georgia on My Mind

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) was formed by Iraq, Kuwait, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.

1967
The “Ruby Laser Systems” patent was issued to Theodore Maiman (Patent #3,353,115). His first ruby laser was tested in 1960.

1968
National Turn in Your Draft Card Day featured the burning of draft cards on US college campuses.

1969
Apollo 12 (November 14-24, 1969) Crew: Charles “Pete” Conrad, Richard F. Gordon, and Alan L. Bean

1972
The Dow Jones closed at over 1000 for the first time, at 1,003.16.

1979
US President Jimmy Carter issued Executive Order 12170, which froze all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.

1986
FCC issued a Notice Of Apparent Liability to WYSP in Philadelphia for broadcasting The Howard Stern Show, with material that the FCC believed contained “indecent” material.

1988
Murphy Brown debuted on CBS.

1991
Michael Jackson’s Black Or White video was aired on FOX (and MTV, BET, VH1) right after an episode of The Simpsons.

1992
#1 Hit November 14, 1992 – November 27, 1992: The Heights – How Do You Talk To An Angel

1994
First trains for the general public ran in Channel Tunnel (Chunnel) under the English Channel.

1996
Broadway Show – Chicago (Musical) Opened on November 14, 1996

1998
#1 Hit November 14, 1998 – November 27, 1998: Lauryn Hill – Doo Wop (That Thing)

2008
The first G-20 economic summit convened in Washington, DC.

2009
#1 Hit November 14, 2009 – November 27, 2009: Jason Derulo – Whatcha Say

2015
#1 Hit November 14, 2015 – January 22, 2016 : Adele – Hello

2020
#1 Hit November 14, 2020 – December 4, 2020: Mood – 24kGoldn featuring Iann Dior

“My precious.” – Gollum (Andy Serkis) in Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, 2002

Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian minister.

McDonald’s is the only Irish restaurant in America that doesn’t serve beer. #dammit

We can’t find Happiness… But, we can make it.

“No pleasure, no rapture, no exquisite sin greater… than central air. ” – Azrael #moviequotes

There are only three official Presidential Seals: The seal in the Oval Office, the seal in the hall by the Liberty Bell, and the seal in the Hall of Presidents at the Magic Kingdom. It took an act of Congress for Disney to be allowed to use it.

US President #29 Warren Harding (1921-1923) Many historians consider him our worst President ever. There are many stories, including this one: Warren G. Harding once lost all the White House china gambling, on one hand of cards.

My life is an open book, but I just spilled some tea on it and nowiowe wrifsjkvhbflvdhl

The Capital of the Dominican Republic is Santo Domingo

TV Quotes… “Is that your final answer?” (Regis Philbin) on “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”

A group of baby Piglets is called a Litter or Farrow.

When the internet first became popular we were afraid of people from the internet finding us in real life, now we’re afraid of people in real life finding out about our lives on the internet.

• Today in History
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• Award Winners
• Conception Songs

• James Braid saw a demonstration of animal magnetism, which lead to his study of a subject he eventually named hypnotism (1841)
• In 1927, the Holland Tunnel opened to traffic, being the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
• Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia was first shown at New York’s Broadway Theatre.
• The Supreme Court of the United States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, ending the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott.
• On November 13, 1974, Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murdered his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house (112 Ocean Avenue) that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
• The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, DC in 1982.
• A coordinated Paris terror attack killed 30 people and injured 368.
• If you were born on November 13th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 20th (same year)

We can also make an effort to be more patient with the people around us. We all know how frustrating it can be when someone cuts us off in traffic or is rude to us in line at the grocery store. But what if we simply smiled and wished them a good day instead of getting angry? It’s amazing how such a small act of kindness can change someone’s entire mood – and it might just make them want to pass that kindness on to others.

“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. “
– Louis Brandeis

“I don’t want to appear selfish, but stop what you’re doing and focus on me.”
– Neil Flynn, as The Janitor on Scrubs

“Kimble!”
– Neil Flynn, as a transit cop, in 1993’s The Fugitive

“To me, you can wrap all of Judaism up in one sentence, and that is, “Do not do unto others…”. All I tried to do in my stories was to show that there’s some innate goodness in the human condition. And there’s always going to be evil; we should always be fighting evil.”
– Stan Lee (born 1922, died on November 12, 2018)

“On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence; that request came from his wife. Deep down, he knew she was right, but he also knew that someday he would return to her. With nowhere else to go, he appeared at the home of his friend, Oscar Madison.”
-Announcer, The Odd Couple

1789 – Ben Franklin wrote “nothing is certain, but death and taxes” in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy.

1841 – James Braid first saw a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnotism.

1855 – A proposal for a tunnel under the English Channel was announced by French engineer M. Loèpold Favre, to connect Boulogne to Dover.

1927 – The Holland Tunnel opened to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1940 – Walt Disney released Fantasia, an film experience mixing animation and classical music, at New York’s Broadway Theatre.

1942 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lowered the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.

1947 – The Soviet Union completed the development of the AK-47.

1954 – #1 Hit November 13, 1954 – December 3, 1954: Eddie Fisher – I Need You Now

1956 – The US Supreme Court of the United States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1970 (Cyclone) East Pakistan (Bangladesh) killed approximately 500,000 people.

1971 – Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, reaching Mars.

1976 – #1 Hit November 13, 1976 – January 7, 1977: Rod Stewart – Tonight’s the Night (Gonna Be Alright)

1980 – US spacecraft Voyager 1 sent back first close-up pictures of Saturn.

1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a monument consisting of two black granite walls engraved with the names of 58,272 US soldiers that did not return from Vietnam, was dedicated in Washington D.C.

1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim in a boxing match held in Las Vegas. Kim later died on November 17.

1985 (Volcano Eruption) Nevado del Ruiz, Columbia – over 23,000 people were killed.

1994 – Sweden agreed to join the European Union

1997 – Broadway Show – The Lion King (Musical) November 13, 1997, at the New Amsterdam Theater on Broadway.

2008 – Broadway Show – Billy Elliot the Musical (Musical) November 13, 2008

2010 – #1 Hit November 13, 2010 – November 19, 2010: Kesha – We R Who We R

2015 – Terrorist attacks in Paris killed 130 people and injured hundreds.

John M. Chivington, an anti-slavery preacher, one Sunday found a pro-slavery mob outside his church planning to tar and feather him. He pulled out two handguns and declared “By the grace of God and these two revolvers, I will preach here today”

Be careful of who you fall in love with, that is what makes the difference between the people that can hurt you and the people that can’t.

The Capital of Ecuador is Quito

No word in the English language rhymes with month.

TV Quotes… “How YOU doin’?” (Joey Tribbiani) on “Friends”

Casper the Friendly Ghost’s last name is McFadden.

When Peanuts characters hit puberty and their voices start to change, do they start to sound more and more like a trombone?

The use of the electric light bulb as a symbol of a great idea was introduced by the animated character Felix the Cat. #idea

Her: “You’re so childish”
Him: “It’s my day too, Linda”<we sit in silence>
Wedding Planner: “So is that a yes or a no on the bouncy castle?”

2005. It’s weird we automatically assume most four-digit numbers as calendar years.

Googling “the best” products or restaurants really only tells you which ones have the best SEO.

The Capital of East Timor (Timor-Leste) is Dili

• Today in History
• Number One Hits
• Award Winners
• Conception Songs

• William ‘Pudge’ Heffelfinger became the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid ($250) game for the Allegheny Athletic Association, in 1892.
• 1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party.
• 1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I made the closest approach to Saturn and took the first clear images of its rings.
   
• John Lennon and Yoko Ono released the 1968 album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins with a cover photo of the pair, both naked. Most of the albums were sold with a brown paper bag over the cover.
• If you were born on November 12th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 19th (same year)

“People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don’t give a damn.”
– Tonya Harding

“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.”
– George S. Patton

“To the artist, there is never anything ugly in nature.”
– Auguste Rodin

“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
– Auguste Rodin

1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, the father of modern anesthetics, used chloroform (“perchloride of formyle”) for the first time as an anesthetic in an operation.

1892 – William “Pudge” Walter Heffelfinger was the first professional (paid) US Football player. He got $25 and a $500 bonus for a single game.

1922 (Volcano Eruption & Tsunami) Chile/Argentina – over 1,000 people were killed.

1927 – The Holland Tunnel connecting NY and NY – the world’s first underwater vehicular tunnel – officially opened.

1929 – Commander Richard E. Byrd made the first flight over the South Pole.

1933 – First known photo of the so-called Loch Ness Monster was taken by Hugh Gray.

1936 – The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened to traffic.

1940 – The Armistice Day Blizzard killed nearly 150 people and stretched from Kansas to Michigan.

1946 – The Exchange National Bank of Chicago, Illinois, instituted the first drive-in banking service in America.

1952 (Earthquake & Tsunami) Kamchatka.

1954 – Ellis Island in New York closed after providing entrance to the US for 12 million immigrants between 1892 and 1924.

November 12, 1955 (fiction) The Hill Valley Clock Tower was struck by lightning, Back to the Future, Film

1956 – The largest iceberg on record was sighted by the USS Glacier, a U. S. Navy icebreaker, about 150 miles west of Scott Island in the Southern Hemisphere. It had broken from the Ross Ice Shelf in the Antarctic. It was about 208 miles long and 60 miles wide.

1966 – #1 Hit November 12, 1966 – November 18, 1966: Johnny Rivers – Poor Side Of Town

1966 – The first photograph was taken from Earth’s atmosphere by the satellite Gemini XII.

1970 – Broadway Show – Sleuth (Play) November 12, 1970

1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a beached eight-ton sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with half a ton of dynamite. It mainly made a beggir mess.

Arches National Park: Established on November 12, 1971, in Utah, this park spans 120 square miles. Known for its more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, including the iconic Delicate Arch.

1981 – Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marked the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.

1981 – First balloon crossing of the Pacific was completed. The Double Eagle V launched from Nagashima, Japan on November 10, 1981.

1983 – #1 Hit November 12, 1983 – December 9, 1983: Lionel Richie – All Night Long (All Night)

1988 – #1 Hit November 12, 1988 – November 18, 1988: The Escape Club – Wild, Wild West

1989 – Broadway Show – Grand Hotel (Musical) November 12, 1989

1993 – The first Ultimate Fighting Championship event, UFC 1, was held in Denver, Colorado.

1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican Republic, crashed minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 onboard and five people on the ground.

2004 – A jury in Redwood City, California, convicted Scott Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay.

November 12, 2010 – Avalon High aired on The Disney Channel

2011 – #1 Hit November 12, 2011 – January 6, 2012: Rihanna featuring Calvin Harris – We Found Love

“Greed, for lack of a better word, is good.” – Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas) in Wall Street, 1987

That’s a nice ham you’ve got there.
… it’d be a shame if somebody put an ‘s’ at the front and an ‘e’ at the end.

I decided to clean my kitchen today, but I had found that all of the stuff that gets kicked under the fridge had coalesced into a colony of angry fungus people and they made an attempt to escape. They had a wormhole generator and there were noodly arms coming out of it.
I fear for my life.

The smallest US state (Rhode Island) has a larger population than the largest U.S. state (Alaska).

The most lethal sports riot in history happened in Constantinople AD 532, was over chariot racing, and saw tens of thousands dead and half the city destroyed.

4 chutes = 2 parachutes

“It’s… different. When you got girls in bikinis screaming for you, it strokes your ego. But when you got people thanking for saving their lives… it’s humbling. The best thing that came out of that was a chance to put my family back together. I can’t risk screwing that up again.” – Fin Shepard, Sharnado

Five Card Poker Odds, nothing wild: Full House – Three of one number or “face”, two of another same pair, 1 in 700

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• The Mayflower Compact was signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod in 1620.
• The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first college fraternity in 1750.
• The United States Numbered Highway System was established in 1926.
• November 11, 19** Birthday (fictional) Bond, James Bond
• In 1968, Veterans Day was changed to the fourth Monday in October by President LBJ. It was changed back to November 11, 1975, by President Gerald Ford.
• If you were born on November 11th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 18th (same year)

Americans honor their veterans on November 11th (it was originally in honor of Armistice Day celebrating WWI Vets, but post-WWII it was changed to Veterans Day to honor veterans from all wars in 1954)

Veterans Day observance was at one time moved to the fourth Monday of October in order to allow for long weekends. However, after protests by veterans groups, it was moved back to November 11th in an effort to retain the importance of the holiday.

US President Warren G. Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery.

At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the guards take 21 steps. It references the twenty-one gun salute, which is the highest honor given any military or foreign dignitary. The rifle is always carried in the shoulder away from the tomb. The Tomb of the unknown soldier has been guarded every minute since July 2, 1937.

The 21-gun salute is sometimes given by three soldiers, each shooting seven times, or seven soldiers shooting three times.

National Sundae Day

“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains that victory. “
– George S. Patton

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved. “
– Kurt Vonnegut

“I couldn’t wait for success, so I went ahead without it.”
– Jonathan Winters

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
– John McCrae

“A dream that you don’t fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.”
– Stanley Tucci

1750 – The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, was formed at Raleigh Tavern, Williamsburg, Virginia. It is the first American college fraternity.

1790 – Chrysanthemums were introduced to England from China by M. Cels (France).

1839 – The Virginia Military Institute was founded in Lexington, Virginia.

1851 – The first U.S. patent (Patent #8,509) for a telescope design was issued to Alvan Clark of Cambridge, Mass.

1864 – Sherman’s March to the Sea – General William Tecumseh Sherman began burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

1918 – Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into ending WW I.

1921 – President Harding dedicated the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery. It is also known as The Tomb of the Unknowns.

1926 – U.S. Route 66 was established. It has also been called The Will Rogers Highway.

1930 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd got the patent (#1,781,541) for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

1935 -A record 72,395 feet was reached by Lt. Col. Albert William Stevens and Captain Orvil Anderson by helium balloon in a sealed gondola, Explorer II.

1938 – Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) died. Fifty-one original cases of typhoid and three deaths were directly attributed to her, although she was immune to the typhoid bacillus (Salmonella typhi).

1938 – Kate Smith first sang Irving Berlin’s God Bless America on her radio show. Irving Berlin had originally written it in 1918.

November 11, 19** Birthday (fictional) Bond, James Bond

1966 – Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren Church joined together as the United Methodist Church (USA)

1972 – Dow Jones Index moved above 1,000 for the first time. It closed under 1,000, though.

1978 – #1 Hit November 11, 1978 – December 1, 1978: Donna Summer – MacArthur Park

1980 – Too Close for Comfort premiered on ABC. It was modeled after the British series Keep It in the Family.

1982 – Star 80 was released in US theaters.

1987 – Van Gogh’s Irises sold for a (then) record 53.9 million dollars at auction via Sotheby’s, New York.

1989 – #1 Hit November 11, 1989 – November 24, 1989: Bad English – When I See You Smile

November 11, 19** Birthday (fictional) Dick Grayson, Batman, DC Comics

1994 – Bill Gates bought Leonardo da Vinci’s Codex Leicester for $30,800,000. It was an insightful overview of Leonardo’s thoughts on various topics. It was also the most expensive book or manuscript of all time.

2000 – #1 Hit November 11, 2000 – November 17, 2000: Creed – With Arms Wide Open

2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) confirmed the death of Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas was elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

2006 – #1 Hit November 11, 2006 – December 1, 2006: Justin Timberlake featuring T.I. – My Love

November 11, 2011 – Geek Charming aired on The Disney Channel

I tried disproving the saying “you will always find it in the last place you look” by continuing to look for something after I found it the first time and go and find it again.

I now have 42 identical copies of my schedule book.

US President #28 Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921) WW was the first President to make an address to the military via radio. He proposed the “League of Nations,” the precursor to the United Nations, and nearly worked himself to death trying to promote it.

One of the best compliments you can give a friend is to call them family. One of the best compliments you can give to a family member is to call them a friend.

The Capital of El Salvador is San Salvador

Dogs have mastered.
Cats have staff.

“I hate coconut. Not the taste, consistency.” – Tallahassee in Zombieland 

yeah no=no
no yeah=yeah
yeah no for sure=definitely

“There are only three ages for women in Hollywood – Babe, District Attorney, and Driving Miss Daisy.” -Goldie Hawn

Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man could be perceived as instructions on how to make a snow angel.

Pop culture has overlooked how incredibly useful the humble bicycle would be in the event of a zombie apocalypse.

In 1849, a man named William Thompson would walk up to random strangers and spark a conversation. He would gain their trust and then ask, “Have you the confidence to trust me with your watch until tomorrow?” Having said that, he would never return. He was finally caught and was named confidence man, a.k.a Con-Man.

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• In 1775, The United States Marine Corps was founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, PA, by Samuel Nicholas.
• 1951 – Area Codes were introduced in the United States.
• New York diamond merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond to the Smithsonian Institution in 1958.
• Sesame Street was first broadcast in 1969.
• 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
• Bill Gates introduced Windows 1.0 in 1983.
• 1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announced a $37 billion merger, the largest merger in US history up to that time.
• If you were born on November 10th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 17th (same year)

“In a musty old hall in Detroit, they prayed,
In the maritime sailors’ cathedral
The church bell chimed till it rang twenty-nine times
For each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake, they called Gitche Gumee
Superior, they said, never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early…”
– Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald

“We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world.”
– Neil Gaiman

“Before I was six years old, my grandparents and my mother had taught me that if all the green things that grow were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the four-legged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all the winged creatures were taken from the earth, there could be no life. If all our relatives who crawl and swim and live within the earth were taken away, there could be no life. But if all the human beings were taken away, life on earth would flourish. That is how insignificant we are.”
-Russell Means, Oglala Lakota Nation

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say.”
Martin Luther

“I think for me, any great art is art which communicates human emotion.”
– Greg Lake

“It’s astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself into if one works at it. And astonishing how much trouble one can get oneself out of, if one simply assumes that everything will, somehow or other, work out for the best.”
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

1619
René Descartes had dreams that inspired his Meditations on First Philosophy.

1775
The United States Marine Corps Was Born:
“That two battalions of Marines be raised consisting of one Colonel, two lieutenant-colonels, two majors and other officers, as usual in other regiments; that they consist of an equal number of privates as with other battalions, that particular care be taken that no persons be appointed to offices, or enlisted into said battalions, but such as are good seamen, or so acquainted with maritime affairs as to be able to serve for and during the present war with Great Britain and the Colonies; unless dismissed by Congress; that they be distinguished by the names of the First and Second Battalions of Marines.”

1871
Henry Morton Stanley in Ujiji, Central Africa, encountered David Livingstone with the immortal words: ‘Dr. Livingstone, I presume?’

1885
The world’s first motorcycle, designed by Gottlieb Daimler, made its first announced test run.

1908
The first Gideon Bible was put in the Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana hotel rooms.

1919
The American Legion’s first national convention (Minneapolis). The American Legion is an organization of U.S. war veterans formed in Paris on March 15-17, 1919.

1951
The first direct-dial, coast-to-coast telephone service in North America began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, NJ called Mayor Frank Osborn in Alameda, CA.

1958
#1 Hit November 10, 1958 – November 16, 1958: Conway Twitty – It’s Only Make Believe

1973
#1 Hit November 10, 1973 – November 23, 1973: Eddie Kendricks – Keep On Truckin’

1974
The discovery of the “charmed quark” subatomic particle was announced simultaneously by an MIT group at Brookhaven National Laboratory and a SLAC-Berkeley group on the west coast at Stanford Linear accelerator center.

1975
The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

1977
The Incredible Hulk (made for TV movie) was shown on CBS. Bill Bixby starred as David Banner, but the comics (and current films) refer to the character as Bruce Banner.

1978
Badlands National Park: Established on November 10, 1978, in South Dakota, this park covers 381 square miles. Known for its eroded buttes, pinnacles, and spires, as well as its preserved mixed-grass prairie.

1979
#1 Hit November 10, 1979 – November 16, 1979: Eagles – Heartache Tonight

1983
Bill Gates introduced Windows 1.0.

1984
The first Breeders’ Cup took place at Hollywood Park Racetrack.

1989
German citizens began to bring the Berlin Wall down.

1990
#1 Hit November 10, 1990 – November 30, 1990: Mariah Carey – Love Takes Time

1997
WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history to that date). It is now part of Verizon.

1999
Sesame Street celebrated its 30th anniversary. Joan Ganz Cooney and Lloyd Morrisett created the series.

2001
Fox Family Channel became ABC Family on Cable television.

2007
#1 Hit November 10, 2007 – November 30, 2007: Chris Brown featuring T-Pain – Kiss Kiss

2008
NASA declared the Phoenix Mission concluded after communications with the lander were lost.

2010
Disney composer Alan Menken received the 2,442nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Lucille Le Sueur was better known as Joan Crawford.

Mr. Rogers always kept these words from a social worker in his pocket: “Frankly, there isn’t anyone you couldn’t learn to love once you’ve heard their story.”

A group of Photographers is called a Clique.

US President #27 William H. Taft (1909-1913) William Taft started the tradition of the Presidential “first pitch” of baseball season. It took place on April 4, 1910, during an opening day game between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics.

There’s no sense beating a dead horse – but if you’ve reached the point where you even seriously consider that abusing a dead animal might improve your lot in life, I say go ahead and give it a shot.

The Capital of Eritrea is Asmara

“I want to be alone.” – Grusinskaya (Greta Garbo) in Grand Hotel, 1932

Shoeless Joe Jackson was a lefthanded hitter, but Ray Liotta portrayed him as a righty in Field of Dreams.

“The Cream Does NOT Always Rise To The Top! There is a serious misconception, misconnection, and mistake in this idea of thinking.” – Loren Weisman

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• Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower caught sight of land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in 1620.
• Thirteen people died in The Great Boston Fire of 1872.
• The mutilated body of Mary Jane Kelly, believed to be the final victim of Jack the Ripper, was discovered in Spitalfields, London, England (1888).
• 1938 – Crystal Night (Kristallnacht) took place in Germany. 30,000 Jews were arrested and nearly 100 were killed.
• 1965- Roger Allen LaPorte, protesting against the Vietnam War, set himself on fire in front of the United Nations building.
• 1965 – There was a blackout over much of the Northeastern United States, more than 30 million people were affected.
• 1989 – The Berlin Wall opened.
• In 2005, The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
• If you were born on November 9th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 16th (same year)

The true identity of the killer has never been revealed, but as far as the cold cases are concerned, few people are claiming that a serial murder took place in the East End of London by an unknown killer known publicly as Jack the Ripper.

“The time has come”, the Walrus said,
“To talk of many things:
Of shoes -and ships -and sealing wax –
Of cabbages -and Kings –
And why the Sea is boiling hot –
And whether pigs have wings.“
– Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.”
– Carl Sagan

“In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist’s signature.”
– Carl Sagan

“I can’t play a slave.”
– Dorothy Dandridge

“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
-Hedy Lamarr

1799 – Napoleon Bonaparte became dictator (first consul) of France.

1842 – The first U.S. design patent (Design Patent # D1) was issued for typefaces and borders patented by George Bruce of New York City.

1857 – The Atlantic was founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. 13 people died.

1887 – The United States received rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1888 – Jack Ripper’s 5th, and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, was found on her bed. His first four victims were Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, and Catherine Eddowes.

1906 – Theodore Roosevelt became the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirmed the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin. He also helped find the charge in an electron, which is a key part of the constants in physics.

1938 – Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil’l Abner created Sadie Hawkins Day. It was now “celebrated” on the first Saturday after November 9th.

1953 – Supreme Court ruled Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws. It was a mechanism to ensure a player could not just quit one team to work for another.

1955 – The National Child Safety Council (NCSC) was founded.

1957 – Gordon Gould began writing his description of a laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation).

1961 – The X-15 rocket plane achieved a world record speed of 4,093 mph (Mach 6.04) and reached 101,600 feet (over 19 miles) altitude, piloted by US Air Force Major Robert M. White.

1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine was published.

1974 – #1 Hit November 9, 1974 – November 15, 1974: Bachman-Turner Overdrive – You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

November 9, 1984 (fiction) The Ghostbusters defeated Gozer, Ghostbusters, Film

1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union, became the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

1985 – #1 Hit November 9, 1985 – November 15, 1985: Jan Hammer – Miami Vice Theme

1989 – The Berlin Wall fell. It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on August 13, 1961.

1994 – The chemical element Darmstadtium (#110) was discovered/created in Germany. It was named in honor of the city of Darmstadt, where it was discovered.

1996 – #1 Hit November 9, 1996 – December 6, 1996: Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre – No Diggity

1997 – In the Montreal Screwjob, wrestler Bret Hart lost his final match in the WWF via submission to Shawn Michaels.

1997 – Broadway Show – The Lion King (Musical) opened on November 9, 1997

1991 – #1 Hit November 9, 1991 – November 22, 1991: Prince & The New Power Generation – Cream

2002 – #1 Hit November 9, 2002 – January 31, 2003: Eminem – Lose Yourself

2011 – At 2:00 PM EST, all US TV and radio stations in the Emergency Alert System were tested simultaneously, the first nationwide test of the system since the 1997 inception of the EAS.

#1 Hit November 9, 2019 – November 29, 2019: Selena Gomez – Lose You to Love Me

Four years after it was released, an Arizona DJ played UB40’s Red Red Wine as part of a feature on songs that should have been hit songs. Listeners started requesting it and within weeks it was the national #1 single

The Capital of Ethiopia is Addis Ababa

PEZ was originally marketed as a sophisticated adult treat. The early flavors included peppermint, lemon, and chlorophyll mint.

In 1518 there was an unexplained event called the “Dancing Plague” in Strasbourg, in which 400 people danced for days without rest, some until they died.

“That’s what she said!” #TVCatchphrase

Dolphins know each other by name just like humans, except dolphin infants choose their own names while very young.

silent and “listen” are anagrams of each other. #silent #listen

There is enough water in Lake Superior to flood the entire landmasses of North and South America to a depth of 1 foot. It contains over 3 quadrillion gallons of freshwater.

The Capital of Estonia is Tallinn

Ben Franklin’s 13 Virtues #9 – Moderation.

Avoid extremes; forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve.

1 in 5,000 north Atlantic lobsters is born bright blue.

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The first folio, considered one of the most influential books in the world, contained 36 Shakespeare plays, 18 of which had never been published or printed before. Of the 36 pieces in it, 36 have been newly published and 18 have never been printed before.

The first leaf, printed in 1623, was the first published collection of Shakespeare’s plays, written seven years after his death. The title is an abbreviation of the initials of his first name William Shakespeare, and the plays were divided into the categories comedy, history, and tragedy for the first time. There were three editions of this first folio: the second, in 1632, the third, which appeared in 1664 and was later re-published in 1685 as an edition in 1664; the fourth and final folio, both published after 1685, was the most popular of them.

“Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.”
– John F. Kennedy (elected November 8, 1960)

“Nothing is too small. I counsel you, put down in record even your doubts and surmises. Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!”
– Bram Stoker

“Chefs are nutters. They’re all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls, and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.”
– Gordon Ramsay

“We can live in fear or act out of hope.”
– Bonnie Raitt

“Every problem has two handles. You can grab it by the handle of fear or the handle of hope.”
– Margaret Mitchell

“I sat on the bed. I looked at the Rorschach blot. I tried to make it look like a spreading tree, shadows pooled beneath it, but it didn’t. It looked more like a dead cat I once found, the fat, glistening grubs writhing blindly, squirming over each other, frantically tunneling away from the light. But even that isn’t the real horror. The horror is this: in the end, it is simply a picture of empty meaningless blackness.”
– Alan Moore

1519 – First meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico. #bigmistake Little is known about him, except that was the leader of the Aztecs and was killed in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. “Montezuma’s Revenge’ is named after him.

1601 -The Bodleian Library was established in Oxford, England.

1623 – Shakespeare’s First Folio was published.

On November 8, 1731 – In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opened the first US library. It was an idea he had with his Junto Club, which was basically a Philly Businessman’s Association. This was a subscription Library, which means it was only for paying members. Today it has almost a million rare books, pamphlets, and manuscripts and it is open to the public, but it is mainly for Research purposes.

1789 – Bourbon Whiskey was first distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky). That’s what his namesake’s website says.

1837 – Mount Holyoke College was founded.

1895 – Wilhelm Röntgen observed X-rays for the first time during an experiment at Würzburg University, Germany. It earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901, and element 111, roentgenium, was named after him.

1904 – U.S. patent (#774,250) for a separable electric attachment plug was issued to inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It is essentially the plug we use today.

1910 – The first US patent (#974,785) for an “electric insect destroyer” (Bug Zapper) was issued to William H. Frost of Spokane, Washington.

1939 – Broadway Show – Life With Father (Play) November 8, 1939

November 8, 19** (fiction) Billy Batson became Captain Marvel, Fawcett/DC Comics

1960 – John F. Kennedy defeated Richard Nixon to become the 35th president of the United States.

1965 – Days of our Lives premiered on NBC. The original title sequence voiced by MacDonald Carey is still used.

1966 – Ronald Reagan was elected Governor of California. His career path also included lifeguard, actor, cheerleader, and US President.

1969 – #1 Hit November 8, 1969 – November 28, 1969: The 5th Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues

1972 – Home Box Office (HBO) was launched, in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The first broadcast was a 1971 film, Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.

1979 – Nightline premiered on ABC. Frank Reynolds was the original presenter, Ted Koppel too over shortly after the program began.

1980 – Voyager 1 space probe discovered the 15th moon of Saturn. We’ve counted 62 moons and dozens of moonlets around the planet to date.

1986 – #1 Hit November 8, 1986 – November 21, 1986: Boston – Amanda

1995 – General Hospital character Stone Cates died of AIDS on the show, right after he was informed that he had infected his lover Robin Scorpio with HIV.

1999 – Bruce Miller was killed near Flint, Michigan. His wife, Sharee Miller, convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him, was convicted of the crime, in what became the world’s first Internet murder.

2001 – The Tick premiered on FOX. Creator Ben Edlund published his first Tick comic book in 1988.

2010 – Conan debuted on TBS

Cash is a gift certificate to everywhere.

Sailors considered black cats good luck and would use them as “ship’s cats” in hopes of a safe voyage. Wives of fishermen would also keep a black cat at home as it was believed that the cat would allow their husbands to return safely.

Redbad, the last pagan King of Frisia (northern Netherlands), refused to convert to Christianity because he “preferred spending eternity in Hell with his pagan ancestors than in Heaven with his enemies.”

The Capital of Fiji is Suva

“May the Force be with you.” – Han Solo (Harrison Ford) in Star Wars, 1977

Felix Mendelssohn – Real Name: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Greece’s most famous ruin, the Parthenon, survived from Ancient times until the near-modern age completely intact. It was blown to pieces in 1687 after the Ottoman Turks used the Temple to store explosives

“ET phone home.” – Gertie (Drew Barrymore) #moviequotes

Colonel Thomas Blood, known as the ‘Man who stole the Crown Jewels’. He was caught, however, King Charles II was so impressed that he was pardoned and rewarded with a large annuity.

A group of Bass is called a Shoal.

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• 1811 – The Battle of Tippecanoe took place in the Indiana territory.
• Thomas Nast used The Elephant for the first time as the Republican symbol in Harper’s Weekly magazine (1874)
• 1917 – The Bolshevik Revolution began in Petrograd, Russia.
• 1962 – Richard M. Nixon, at a press conference, said “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
• 1989 – Douglas Wilder became the elected African-American governor in the US
• The London Gazette, the oldest ongoing publication (UK), was first published in 1665.
• If you were born on November 7th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 14th (same year)

“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”
– Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
– Albert Camus

“My mother always told me I wouldn’t amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, ‘Just wait.’”
– Judy Tenuta

“Love Goddess in training. It could happen.”
-Judy Tenuta

“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.”
– Marie Curie

“But as I leave you, I want you to know: just think how much you’re going to be missing. You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore. Because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
– Richard Nixon at his ‘last’ press conference, in 1962.

“I can make everything I do come from my laptop.”
-David Guetta

1665 – The first edition of the London Gazette was printed. At the time it was called “The Oxford Gazette”.

1786 – The oldest musical organization in the United States was founded as the Stoughton Musical Society.

1811 – The Battle of Tippecanoe took place, with future US President, William Henry Harrison.

1874 – The first cartoon depicting the elephant as the Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. He is also known as being the first to draw our modern version of Santa Clause.

1876 – The patent (#184,207) for the first US cigarette manufacturing machine was issued to Albert Hook of New York City.

1885 -The Canadian Pacific Railway, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, was completed.

1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.

1908 – Professor Ernest Rutherford announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter.

1910 – The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) took place, by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

1913 – Great Lakes Storm of 1913 lasted until November 10th. It killed over 250 people and was concentrated around Lake Huron.

1914 – The first issue of The New Republic magazine was published.

1916 – Jeannette Rankin (R) became the first woman elected to the United States Congress.

1917 – The Great October Socialist Revolution began in Russia

1929 – The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) opened to the public.

1932 – First broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century on CBS-radio. The Buck Rogers comic strip made its first newspaper appearance on January 7, 1929.

1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt (D) was elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.

1954 – Face The Nation premiered on NBC.

November 7, 1958, Birthday (fictional) Al Bundy, Married With Children, TV

1967 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

1967 – Carl B. Stokes (D) was elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming a major American city’s first African American mayor.

1975 – The New Original Wonder Woman TV movie aired as a ‘test’ pilot for the series, Wonder Woman on ABC, starred Lynda Carter. It had very little in common with the 1974 TV movie entitled Wonder Woman starring Cathy Lee Crosby,

1976 – Gone With the Wind was televised for the first time. Gone with the Wind was originally a novel written by Margaret Mitchell, first published in 1936. The film was released in 1939.

1981 – #1 Hit November 7, 1981 – November 20, 1981: Daryl Hall and John Oates – Private Eyes

1987 – #1 Hit November 7, 1987 – November 20, 1987: Tiffany – I Think We’re Alone Now

1989 – Douglas Wilder (D) won the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African-American governor in the United States. Also, David Dinkins became the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City.

1991 – Magic Johnson announced that he was infected with HIV and retired from the NBA.

2003 – Star Wars: Clone Wars debuted on The Cartoon Network. In addition to the feature films, this series is also generally considered ‘canon’, which officially happened in the Star Wars universe.

2006 – At O’Hare International Airport, UFO Sighting Near Gate C-17 twelve employees reported seeing a metallic saucer-shaped craft hovering over the airport. The FAA stance concluded that a weather phenomenon caused the sighting and that the agency would not be investigating the incident, which many think is odd in the post-2001 security-enhanced world of airport security.

2009 – #1 Hit November 7, 2009 – November 13, 2009: Owl City – Fireflies

#1 Hit November 7, 2020 – November 13, 2020: Positions – Ariana Grande

There are 336 dimples on a standard golf ball.

If we set our clocks to count down the hours left in the day instead of counting how many hours have passed, would we prioritize our time differently?

Burt Reynolds turned down the Jack Nicholson role in the movie Terms of Endearment.

Roulette Odds: Four number combination: Payoff: 8:1 True Odds: 10.53

In the mid 1920s the US Department of Prohibition ordered the poisoning of industrial alcohols, products regularly stolen and resold as drinkable spirits. They did this to scare people out of drinking and to track where speakeasies were located.  This government program killed an estimated 10,000 people.

The Capital of Finland is Helsinki

TV Quotes… “You rang?” (Lurch) on The Addams Family

Pinocchio is loosely based on the Italian children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, published in 1883.

Both ‘Mama’ Cass Elliot (from The Mamas & the Papas) and Keith Moon (from The Who) died in the same place, owned by singer/songwriter Harry Nilsson (Lime in the Coconut Song).

A group of Phantoms is called a Phantasmagoria.

The former dictator of Equatorial Guinea, Francisco Macias Nguema, banned the use of lubricants in the Malabo city power plant, saying he could run it using magic. The plant exploded.

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• November 6, 1983 (fiction) Will Byers disappeared in Hawkins, Indiana, Stranger Things, TV
• Television’s Meet The Press premiered (NBC) in 1947. The show debuted on radio in 1945
• Good Morning America premiered (1975) on ABC
• The Phil Donahue Show premiered in 1967. By 1970, the show was national. It was the first “talk show” as we know them today.
• If you were born on November 6th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 13th (same year)

Marooned Without a Compass Day
National Nachos Day
Saxophone Day
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict, since 2001

“Me, I shall be an autocrat, that is my trade, and The Good God will forgive me, that is His.”
– Catherine the Great (died November 6, 1796)

“Never blame anyone in your life. Good people give you happiness. Bad people give you experience. The worst people give you a lesson. And the best people give you memories.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you’ve never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
John Philip Sousa

“Ain’t no chance if you don’t take it.”
– Guy Clark

“People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing, that’s why we recommend it daily.”
– Zig Ziglar

“Your attitude, not your aptitude, determines your altitude.”
– Zig Ziglar (more)

John Philip Sousa performed, and wrote, the first number-one song, on any American Music Chart, Semper Fidelis, the Marine Corps Anthem in 1890. He was the leader of the U.S. Marine Band, who performed it.

The second #1 hit (also by Sousa) was The Washington Post March. He made the third number-one hit on the charts with The Thunderer. It’s a Fourth of July must-play, typically at the start of a fireworks display. He left to start his own band in 1892. After he left, The US Marine Band recorded was to become his 4th number one record, The Liberty Bell.

In 1969, 6 guys in England used The Liberty Bell to be their TV theme. Those Guys Were Monty Python; its The Monty Python’s Flying Circus Theme. Sousa made 4 Songs, all number-one hits, over 120 years ago, that most Americans still know today. His idea of writer vs performer for payment also influenced the way we credit and pay copyright owners today, for both recordings and radio. Before that, writers just got paid for each copy of sheet music they sold, not recordings.

He also wrote a novel called The Fifth String, about a young violinist makes a deal with the Devil for a magic violin with five strings. He truly understood the music business…

1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States. He is also known as the founder of Georgetown University.

1860 – Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill) was elected 16th American President. His election prompted seven southern slave states to form the Confederacy before he took the office.

1861 – Jefferson Davis was elected to a 6-year term as Confederate president. After the war was over, Davis was captured and he was accused of treason but was not tried and was released after two years.

1862 – The direct telegraphic link between New York and San Francisco was established.

1869 – First intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4). There were two games that season, and each team won one game. At that time, American Football was closer to the game of rugby.

1947 – Meet the Press was first televised as a local program in Washington DC. Meet the Press began on radio in 1945 as American Mercury Presents: Meet the Press.

1954 – #1 Hit November 6, 1954 – November 12, 1954: Rosemary Clooney – This Ole House

1961 – #1 Hit November 6, 1961 – December 10, 1961: Jimmy Dean – Big Bad John

1962 – The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa’s apartheid policies and called for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

1965 – #1 Hit November 6, 1965 – November 19, 1965: The Rolling Stones – Get Off of My Cloud

1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agreed to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States.

1971 – #1 Hit November 6, 1971 – November 19, 1971: Cher – Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves

1975 – First appearance of the Sex Pistols in the UK.

1975 – Good Morning America premiered on ABC

1976 – #1 Hit November 6, 1976 – November 12, 1976: Steve Miller Band – Rock’n Me

1982 – #1 Hit November 6, 1982 – November 26, 1982: Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong

1990 – Arsenio Hall earned his star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame. Joanne Woodward, Olive Borden, Ronald Colman, Louise Fazenda, Preston Foster, Burt Lancaster, Edward Sedgwick, and Ernest Torrence were the first to get stars, in 1956.

1993 – #1 Hit November 6, 1993 – December 10, 1993: Meat Loaf – I’d Do Anything for Love (But I Won’t Do That)

2001 – 24 premiered on FOX – Starring Kiefer Sutherland as Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) agent Jack Bauer.

2005 – Broadway Show – Jersey Boys (Musical) November 6, 2005

2012 – US territory Puerto Rico voted to become a US State.

2012 – Tammy Baldwin (D) became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

[This fact was deleted because Vyvyan threw the toilet out the window to lower the rent.]

Politics: Poly (many) + ticks (bloodsucking parasites

US President #26 Theodore Roosevelt (1901-1909) Teddy, who had the famous Teddy Bears named after him, was the youngest man to hold the office. He was the Vice President when US President #24, McKinley, was assassinated. He was also the first President to ride in a car, in 1902.

270 scientists re-ran 100 studies published in the top psychology journals in 2008. Only half of the studies could be replicated successfully.

The Capital of Gabon is Libreville

“Go ahead, make my day.” – Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Sudden Impact, 1983

“Knowledge is half the battle. The application of knowledge is the other half.” – Gary Borthwick

The world’s oldest known creature, 507-year-old Ming the Mollusk, was mistakenly killed by scientists in 2013. #science

Tammy Wynette – Real Name: Wynette Pugh

The third leading cause of death in America – behind heart disease and cancer – is a medical error, claiming 251,000 lives each year, higher than respiratory disease, accidents, stroke, and Alzheimer’s.

The Capital of France is Paris

Anyone can be the Disputed World Heavyweight Champion of the World.

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• Basketball (also MLB player and TV Star) Chuck Connors became the first NBA player to shatter a backboard at Boston Garden in 1946.
• The Nat King Cole Show premiered in 1956 on NBC.
• In 2007, the Android mobile operating system was unveiled by Google.
• Susan B. Anthony voted (illegally) for the first time, and was fined $100 in 1872.
• November 5, 1955 (fictional) Doc Brown fell and bumped his head, which gave him the idea for the Flux Capacitor, Back to the Future, Film
• November 5, 1997 (fictional) V rescued Evey from the fingermen, killing them, V for Vendetta, Comics/Film
• If you were born on November 5th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 12th (same year)

Remember, remember, the 5th of November
The Gunpowder Treason and plot;
I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason
Should ever be forgotten.
– regarding Guy Fawkes

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.
– Will Durant

“Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be changed regularly and for the same reason…”

In 1605, five men conspired to blow up the English government. One of them – Guy Fawkes- was an explosives expert who had fought for decades against Protestants in the Netherlands and whose revenge on Edward VI’s succession brought him into conflict with Catesby (the leader). Their scheme became known as the “Gunpowder Plot.”

The plotters were Catholics who hoped to kill King James I, the House of Lords, and all of the Members of Parliament in a single attack. They would then install a Catholic monarch on the throne. Fawkes was tasked with planting explosives beneath the House of Lords.

The plot was foiled when one of the conspirators, Thomas Wintour, revealed the details to an English friend living in Spain. The authorities were tipped off and Fawkes was arrested before he could carry out his plan. He was executed in 1606, along with several of his co-conspirators.

The Gunpowder Plot failed, but it did spark a wave of anti-Catholic sentiment in England. James, I issued a proclamation outlawing Catholic worship, and several prominent Catholics were persecuted. The plot also served as a rallying point for Protestant groups, who used it to warn of the dangers of Catholicism.

In recent years, some historians have argued that the Gunpowder Plot was not really about religion at all. They say that it was a political plot, motivated by anger at James I’s policies toward Catholics. Whatever the true motivations of the conspirators, the Gunpowder Plot has come to be seen as one of the most important events in British history.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For this brave old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.

Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,
But they do not need your woe.
Be glad, and your friends are many;
Be sad, and you lose them all.
There are none to decline your nectared wine,
But alone you must drink life’s gall.

Feast, and your halls are crowded.
Fast, and the world goes by.
Succeed and give, and it helps you live,
But no man can help you die.
There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a long and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.
– Ella Wheeler Wilcox

1605 – Gunpowder Plot – an attempt to blow up the English Parliament. The plot discovered and leader Guy Fawkes was tortured and later executed. He was caught with 36 barrels of gunpowder at the House of Lords.

1639 – First post office in the colonies was set up in Massachusetts, with permission from King William and Queen Mary. The United States Post Office (USPO) was created on July 26, 1775, by decree of the Second Continental Congress.

1781 – John Hanson was elected first “President of US in Congress assembled.” The other short-term presidents before George Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, were Elias Boudinot, Thomas Mifflin, Richard Henry Lee, John Hancock, Nathaniel Gorham, Arthur St. Clair, and Cyrus Griffin.

1852 – American Society of Civil Engineers and Architects was founded.

1895 – Patent attorney George B. Selden of Rochester, New York, received the first US patent (#549,160) for a gasoline-driven automobile.

1917 – Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) struck down Lousiville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring blacks & whites to live in separate areas. The USSC held that a Louisville, Kentucky, city ordinance prohibiting the sale of real property to blacks violated the Fourteenth Amendment.

1917 – Lenin announced the October Revolution.

1935 – Parker Brothers launched the board game of Monopoly. Marvin Gardens is actually a misspelling of ‘Marven Gardens’, an actual locale in Atlantic City.

1955 – (fictional) There were four Delorean time machine automobiles in Hill Valley, California on Saturday, November 5, 1955.

1956 – The Nat King Cole Show debuted on NBC. It was the first variety program to be hosted by an African-American. The last episode of The Nat King Cole Show aired on December 17, 1957.

1959 – American Football League (AFL) was announced, with 8 teams – The New York Titans, Boston Patriots, Buffalo Bills, Houston Oilers, Los Angeles Chargers, Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, and Dallas Texans.

1966 – #1 Hit November 5, 1966 – November 11, 1966: The Monkees – Last Train to Clarksville

1966 – Patrick Troughton appeared as The Doctor in The Power of the Daleks as the Second Doctor. He had a fleeting appearance in the prior week’s episode – which, as of today, no known copies exist, although there is a full-length animated reconstruction of its missing episode.

1988 – #1 Hit November 5, 1988 – November 11, 1988: The Beach Boys – Kokomo

2007 – The Android mobile phone operating system was unveiled by Google.

2009 – US Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan (US Army Medical Corps) killed 13 and wounded 43 at Fort Hood, Texas in the largest mass shooting ever at a US military installation. Although it has been officially labeled as workplace violence, many people consider it an act of terrorism.

2013 – India launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

#1 Hit  November 5, 2022 – December 16, 2022 – Anti-Hero – Taylor Swift

Do mammals have to breathe? Like if NASA found a hairy, lactating monster in outer space, where there is no oxygen, would it be classified as a mammal?

Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, David Niven, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan, and Daniel Craig all played James Bond.

In the near future, most grandparents will be way better at video games than their grandchildren due to sheer experience.

The Capital of The Gambia is Banjul

TV Quotes… “Tastes great! Less filling!” (Miller Lite beer ad)

A group of Horses is called a Team or Harras or Stable or Troop or Stud.

The concept of drinking 8 glasses of water daily comes from a 1945 NRC Food & Nutrition Board recommendation, but it also explains we get that much water just from eating food.

Franki Valli – Real Name: Frank Castellucio

When Joseph Heller was asked why he hadn’t ever written anything as good as Catch-22 since his reply was that “neither has anyone else.”

“An old man’s advice is not an opinion” – Nathanael Kanyinga

It’s pretty dumb that I get a new driver’s license every four years and it’s made out of hard plastic and I’m supposed to have my social security card for life and it’s made out of paper.

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• 1922 – King Tut’s Tomb was discovered.
• 1924 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming became the first female elected as governor in the United States.
• 1979 – The American Embassy in Tehran, Iran was seized. #iranianhostagecrisis
• If you were born on November 4th,
  You were likely conceived the week of… February 11th (same year)

“I never met a man I didn’t like.”
-Will Rogers

“It’s okay to look back, just don’t stare.”
– Doris Roberts

“The battle for the airwaves cannot be limited to only those who have the bank accounts to pay for the battle and win it. Democracy is in danger. Seats in Congress, seats in the state legislature, that big seat in the White House itself, can be purchased by those who have the greatest campaign resources, who have the largest bank accounts or own riches. That, I submit to you, is no democracy. It is an oligarchy of the already powerful.”
– Walter Cronkite

“I came in to win, you know. This is why I stay up late while other people are sleeping.”
– Puff Daddy

1879 – Will Rogers, American actor, and screenwriter (died in 1935)
1916 – Walter Cronkite, American journalist, voice actor, and producer (died in 2009)
1918 – Art Carney, American actor (died in 2003)
1925 – Doris Roberts, American actress (died in 2016)
1937 – Loretta Swit, American actress, and singer
1940 – Delbert McClinton, American Singer/Songwriter
1946 – Laura Bush, American educator, and librarian, 45th First Lady of the United States
1946 – Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (died in 1989)
1950 – Markie Post, American actress
1954 – Chris Difford, English Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1960 – Kathy Griffin, American comedian, and actress
1961 – Ralph Macchio, American actor
1961 – Jeff Probst, American TV host, and producer
1969 – Sean Combs, American rapper, producer, and actor

1841 – First wagon train arrived in California. They left Independence, Missouri on May 1, 1841.

1846 – The first U.S. patent (#4,834) for an artificial leg was granted to Benjamin F. Palmer of Meredith, New Hampshire.

1873 – A patent (#144,182) for a gold crown was issued to Dr. John B. Beers of San Francisco, California on “artificial crowns for teeth”.

1879 – James Jacob Ritty and his brother John invented the first cash register, to stop the stealing by his bartenders in the Pony House Restaurant saloon in Dayton, Ohio.

1904 – First stadium built specifically for football opened (Harvard Stadium). Officially, when referring to more than one stadium, they should be called ‘stadia.’ But ‘stadiums’ works too.

1914 – Vogue held the first model show (“Fashion Fete” in New York City), although individual American stores had shown models wearing the latest fashions since the early 1900s.

1922 – The entrance to King Tutankhamen’s tomb was discovered in Egypt, in the Valley of the Kings, by English archaeologist Howard Carter.

1939 – First air-conditioned automobile (Packard) was exhibited, Chicago, Ill. The A/C option was available for $274 until 1941. WW II stopped the production of many luxury items. It wasn’t until 1953 that air conditioning was commercially available in cars again.

1946 – UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) was founded.

1948 – TS Eliot won the Nobel Prize for literature “for his outstanding, pioneer contribution to present-day poetry.”

1952 – The United States government established the National Security Agency, or NSA.

1964 – The (toy) Easy Bake over was released.

1972 – #1 Hit November 4, 1972 – December 1, 1972: Johnny Nash – I Can See Clearly Now

1979 – 500 Iranian “students” seized the US embassy, took 90 hostages (444 days) in the “Iran hostage crisis”.

1978 – #1 Hit November 4, 1978 – November 10, 1978: Anne Murray – You Needed Me

1979 – The US Embassy in Tehran, Iran was seized by 500 Iranians.

1979 – Blockbuster film Jaws was shown on TV for the first time, on ABC. Originally released in 1975, it was the first modern-day “blockbuster.” When released, critic Roger Ebert called it “a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because it’s populated with characters that have been developed into human beings”.

1981 – The Fall Guy premiered on ABC. It starred Lee Majors, Douglas Barr, and Heather Thomas.

1989 – #1 Hit November 4, 1989 – November 10, 1989: Roxette – Listen To Your Heart

2008 – Barack Obama was elected President of the United States.

The Rolling Stones would never have been formed if Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hadn’t accidentally met at a train station in 1961.

All US presidents except for Andrew Johnson had a pet.

A Large Pizza weighs approx. 2 Lbs. I am realizing that on multiple occasions, as a human… I have been well over 1% Pizza.

One of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World: Statue of Zeus at Olympia, built ~435 BC in Olympia, Greece.

It’s possible for a large group of people all mis-remember the same detail or event, it’s called Confabulation, or to give its internet name the Mandela Effect.

The Capital of Georgia is Tbilisi

“You’ve got to ask yourself one question: ‘Do I feel lucky?’ Well, do ya, punk?” – Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) in Dirty Harry, 1971

“doo doot, doot doot do doo doot, doo doot do doo do doot do, doo doot do doo. do doot doot!”

I walked past a field of cows at 3 AM and saw that they were all wide awake… I said, “Surely it’s pasture bedtime?”

A group of People gathered together are called a Crowd.

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