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Today in History: November 12

1276
Suspicious of the intentions of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, the Prince of Wales, English King Edward I resolves to invade Wales.

1867
Mount Vesuvius erupts.

1923
Adolf Hitler is arrested for his attempted German coup.

1938
Mexico agrees to compensate the United States for land seizures.

1944
The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk in a Norwegian fjord.

1968
The U.S. Supreme Court voids an Arkansas law banning the teaching of evolution in public schools.

1977
New Orleans elects 1st black mayor, Ernest "Dutch" Morial

1987
Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow's Communist Party for criticizing the slow pace of reform.

1990
Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, publishes a formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web.

1997
Ramzi Yousef convicted of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

2003
The first Italians to die in the Iraq War are among 23 fatalities from a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base in Nasiriya, iraq.

2019
Israeli forces kill senior commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad militant group in the Gaza Strip with Palestinian militants setting off retaliatory rockets at Israel

2021
LA judge rules to end Britney Spears' conservatorship, which had controlled almost all aspects of her life for 14 years

2022
US Mid-term elections: Democrats retain control of the Senate with Catherine Cortez Masto's victory in Nevada 50-49, with run-off in Georgia still to be decided

Today in History: Born on November 12

1929
Grace Kelly, American actress and Princess of Monaco.

1945
Neil Young, singer, songwriter, musician, producer; member of several well-known bands including Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

1957
Tim Samaras, engineer and storm chaser who contributed to scientific knowledge of tornadoes; killed along with his son Paul and meteorologist Carl Young by a tornado with winds of nearly 300 mph near El Reno, Okla,, in 2013.

1961
Nadia Comaneci, Olympic gold medal-winning Romanian gymnast; named one of the athletes of the century by Laureus World Sports Academy (2000).

1968
Sammy Sosa, pro baseball player from Dominican Republic; only MLB player to hit 60 or more home runs in a single season three times, he was denied entry into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2013 after as-yet unproven allegations he used performance-enhancing drugs.

JOTD

The Bible tells us to love each other.


The Kama Sutra is a little more specific.

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Sometimes nothing is more therapeutic than just sitting still and watching the critters

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Today in History: November 13

833
Louis the Pious, King of the Franks, performs public act of penance at the Church of Saint Medard in Soissons

1474
In the Swiss-Burgundian Wars, Swiss infantry shatters the army of Charles the Bold at Hericourt near Belfort, countering his march to Lorraine.

1789
In a letter to Jean-Baptiste Le Roy, Benjamin Franklin writes "in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes"

1835
Texans officially proclaim independence from Mexico, and calls itself the Lone Star Republic, after its flag, until its admission to the Union in 1845.

1878
New Mexico Governor Lew Wallace offers amnesty to many participants of the Lincoln County War, but not to gunfighter Billy the Kid.

1897
The first metal dirigible is flown from Tempelhof Field in Berlin.

1914
The brassiere, invented by Caresse Crosby, is patented.

1927
New York's Holland Tunnel officially opens for traffic.

1940
U.S. Supreme Court rules in Hansberry v. Lee that African Americans cannot be barred from white neighborhoods.

1952
Harvard's Paul Zoll becomes the first man to use electric shock to treat cardiac arrest.

1970
A powerful tropical cyclone strikes the Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), causing an estimated half-million deaths in a single night; the Bhola cyclone is regarded as the worst natural disaster of the 20th century.

1982
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated in Washington, DC.

2021
Germany records its highest number of daily COVID-19 cases amid warnings its fourth wave could kill 100,000

2022
The Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Florida, built in 1957 and host to JFK, The Beatles, and Frank Sinatra is imploded; closed in 2017 after an electrical fire

Today in History: Born on November 13

0354
Saint Augustine, Christian theologian and philosopher.

1969
Gerard Butler(54th Birthday) Scottish actor (Dracula 2000), born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland

1993
Julia Michaels(30th Birthday) American pop singer and songwriter, born in Davenport, Iowa


Joke of the day
A teenage girl was being intimate with her boyfriend

At her parents house. Her father after being woken by the noises goes upstairs to check it out, and walks in on them.

"Dad!" she exclaimed in a panic "...I'm sorry"

The dad being a dad replies "hi sorry, I'm Dad!"

He then turns to the boyfriend and asks "Are you fricking sorry?"

Evening All

Calving barn update things are moving fast. I have to set the pipe I want for my pens before they run the concrete floor. Barn is 40' W and 30" D.

Today in History: November 14

1501
Arthur Tudor of England marries Katherine of Aragon.

1680
Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)

1812
As Napoleon Bonaparte's army retreats form Moscow, temperatures drop to 20 degrees below zero.

1908
Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.

1921
The Cherokee Indians ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review their claim to 1 million acres of land in Texas.

1960
New Orleans integrates two all-white schools.

1961
President Kennedy increases the number of American advisors in Vietnam from 1,000 to 16,000.

1963
Iceland gets a new island when a volcano pushes its way up out of the sea five miles off the southern coast.

1965
The U.S. First Cavalry Division battles with the North Vietnamese Army in the Ia Drang Valley, the first ground combat for American troops.

1968
Yale University announces its plan to go co-ed.

1969
The United States launches Apollo 12, the second mission to the Moon, from Cape Kennedy.

1979
US President Jimmy Carter freezes all Iranian assets in the United States in response to Iranian militants holding more than 50 Americans hostage.

1982
Lech Walesa, leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released by communist authorities after 11 months confinement; he would win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983 and be elected Poland's president in 1990.

1995
Budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress forces temporary closure of national parks and museums; federal agencies forced to operate with skeleton staff.

2012
Israel launches Operation Pillar of Defense against the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip.

2020
Record global daily total of 660,905 COVID-19 cases declared to the WHO, with total known infections over 54 million

2022
Earliest evidence of fire being used to cook by humans found in study of fish remains 780,000 years ago at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in northern Israel

Today in History: Born on November 14

1908
Joseph McCarthy, anti-Communist senator from Wisconsin.

1927
McLean Stevenson, actor; best known for his role as Lt. Col. Henry Blake on the TV series M*A*S*H*.

1947
Buckwheat Zydeco (Stanley Dural Jr.), accordion player, zydeco artist.

1948
Charles, Prince of Wales, heir to the throne of England.

Joke of the Day

It's a 5 minute walk from my house to the pub. It's a 30 minute walk from the pub to my house.


The difference is staggering.

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How strong is that one guy holding the beam up