Today is November 06 2015

National Nachos Day: More
From Wikipedia: 'Nachos originated in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. In 1943, the wives of U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass were in Piedras Negras on a shopping trip, and arrived at the restaurant after it had already closed for the day. The maitre d'hotel, Ignacio 'Nacho' Anaya, invented a new snack for them with what little he had available in the kitchen: tortillas and cheese. Anaya cut the tortillas into triangles, fried them, added shredded cheddar cheese, quickly heated them, added sliced pickled jalape¤o peppers, and served them. When asked what the dish was called, he answered, Nacho's especiales. As word of the dish traveled, the apostrophe was lost, and Nacho's 'specials' became 'special nachos'.

• Saxophone Day: More
  In honor of the birth date of Adophe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
• Marooned Without a Compass Day: More
  No compass. No GPS. Good if your an ex-Scout.
• Love Your Lawyer Day: More
  Since in 2001 by attorney Nader Anise, ALPIA (American Lawyers Public Image Association). This is a no lawyer bashing day. No, jokes arn't allowed either.
• National Farm Toy Show Days: More
  November 6-8, Dyersville, Iowa.
• Sherlock Holmes Weekend: More
  November 6-8, Cape May, NJ.

• Health
  • National Senior Safety Week: More
    November 6-12 in Canada.
• Other
  • World Paper Free Day: More
    Campaign to reduce the amount of paper used in work and home. By the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).
  • International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict: More
    Since 2001 by the U.N.

• In 1528, Spanish conquistador Alvar N£¤ez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in what would later become Texas.
  From Wikipedia: 'Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (Jerez de la Frontera, c. 1488/1490/1492 – Seville, c. 1557/1558/1559/1560) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition. During eight years of traveling across the US Southwest, he became a trader and faith healer to various Native American tribes before reconnecting with Spanish colonial forces in Mexico in 1536. After returning to Spain in 1537, he wrote an account, first published in 1542 as La Relación ("The Relation", or in more modern terms "The Account"), which in later editions was retitled Naufragios ("Shipwrecks"). Cabeza de Vaca has been considered notable as a proto-anthropologist for his detailed accounts of the many tribes of American Indians that he encountered.
  
  In 1527, the explorer named Pánfilo de Narváez was sent by Spain’s King Charles I to explore the unknown territory which the Spanish called La Florida (present-day Florida in the United States). Cabeza de Vaca was attached to this expedition as the expedition’s treasurer. Records indicate that he also had a military role as one of the chief officers on the Narváez expedition, noted as sheriff or marshal. On June 17, 1527, the fleet of five ships set sail towards the province of Pánuco (which was on the western border of Florida). When they stopped in Hispaniola for supplies, Narváez lost approximately 150 of his men, who chose to stay on the island rather than continue with the expedition.
  
  The expedition continued to Cuba, where Cabeza de Vaca took two ships to recruit more men and buy supplies. Their fleet was battered by a hurricane, resulting in the destruction of both ships and loss of most of Cabeza de Vaca’s men. Narváez arrived days later to pick up the survivors. By February 1528, the remaining ships and men resumed their expedition, reaching Florida in April. They anchored near what is now known as the Jungle Prada Site in St. Petersburg claiming this land as a possession of the Spanish empire.
  
  After communicating with the Native Americans, the Spanish heard rumours that a city named Apalachen was full of food and gold. Against the advice of Cabeza de Vaca, Narváez decided to split up his men. Some 300 were to go on foot to Apalachen and the other would sail to Pánuco. Apalachen had no gold but had only corn, but the explorers were told a village known as Aute, about 5 or 9 days away, was rich. They pushed on through the swamps, harassed by the Native Americans. A few Spanish men were killed and more wounded. When they arrived in Aute, they found that the inhabitants had burned down the village and left. But the fields had not been harvested, so at least the Spanish scavenged food there. After several months of fighting native inhabitants through wilderness and swamp, the party decided to abandon the interior and try to reach Pánuco.
  
  Slaughtering and eating their remaining horses, they gathered the stirrups, spurs, horseshoes and other metal items. They fashioned a bellows from deer hide to make a fire hot enough to forge tools and nails. They used these in making five primitive boats to use to get to Mexico. Cabeza de Vaca commanded one of these vessels, each of which held 50 men. Depleted of food and water, the men followed the coast westward. But when they reached the mouth of the Mississippi River, the powerful current swept them out into the Gulf, where the five rafts were separated by a hurricane. Some were lost forever, including that of Narváez.
  
  Two crafts with about 40 survivors each, including Cabeza de Vaca, wrecked on or near Galveston Island (now part of Texas). Out of the 80 or so survivors, only 15 lived past that winter. The explorers called the island Malhado (“Ill fate” in Spanish), or the Island of Doom. They tried to repair the rafts, using what remained of their own clothes as oakum to plug holes, but they lost the rafts to a large wave'.
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• In 1869, The first official intercollegiate American football game took place. Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4.
  From Wikipedia: 'In what some regard as the very first game ever played of intercollegiate football, a contest was held between teams from Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) and the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). The 1869 game between Rutgers and Princeton is important in that it is the first documented "football" game between two American colleges. Rutgers won the game by a score of 6–4
  
  The Princeton/Rutgers game was undoubtedly different from what we today know as American football, as there was no running with the ball, each team included 25 players, and the ball was perfectly spherical. The first game which included running with the ball, 11-man sides, an oval-shaped ball, and tackling to end a play occurred on June 4, 1875, between Harvard University and Tufts University'.
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• In 1928, Colonel Jacob Schick patents the first electric razor.
  From Wikipedia: 'Col. Jacob Schick (September 16, 1877 – July 3, 1937) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. Schick became a Canadian citizen in 1935 to avoid an investigation by the Joint Congressional Committee on Tax Evasion and Avoidance after he moved most of his wealth to a series of holding companies in the Bahamas.
  
  Jacob Schick's first business venture, the Magazine Repeating Razor Co. (Founded 1925) sold a razor with injection cartridge blades designed much like a repeating rifle, where the blades were sold in clips that could be loaded into the razor without touching the blade. This business provided the necessary capital to develop his electric razor concept when he sold it to the American Chain and Cable Company in 1928.
  
  Successfully patented first electric razor in November, 1923. Also patented the General Jacobs Boat for use in shallow water, and an improved pencil sharpener'.
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• In 1935, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper 'A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation' to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
  From Wikipedia: 'Edwin Howard Armstrong (December 18, 1890 – January 31, 1954) was an American electrical engineer and inventor, best known for developing FM (frequency modulation) radio. He held 42 patents and received numerous awards, including the first Medal of Honor awarded by the Institute of Radio Engineers (now IEEE), the French Legion of Honor, the 1941 Franklin Medal and the 1942 Edison Medal. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and included in the International Telecommunication Union's roster of great inventors.
  
  In early 1928 Armstrong began researching the capabilities of frequency modulation. Although there were few others involved in FM research at this time, he did have knowledge of a project being conducted by RCA engineers, who were investigating whether FM shortwave transmissions were less susceptible to fading than AM. In 1931 these engineers conducted a successful FM shortwave link transmitting the Schmeling-Stribling fight broadcast from California to Hawaii, and noted at the time that the signals seemed to be less affected by static, but the project made little further progress.
  
  Working in secret in the basement laboratory of Columbia's Philosophy Hall, Armstrong slowly developed what eventually resulted in wide-band FM, in the process discovering significant advantages over the earlier "narrow-band" FM transmissions. He was granted five U.S. patents covering the basic features of new system on December 26, 1933. Initially, the primary claim was that his FM system was effective at filtering out the noises produced in receivers by vacuum-tubes.
  
  Armstrong had a standing agreement to give RCA the right of first refusal to his patents. In 1934 he made a presentation of his new system to RCA president Sarnoff. Sarnoff was somewhat taken aback by its complexity, as he had hoped it would be possible to eliminate static merely by adding a simple device to existing receivers. From May 1934 until October 1935 Armstrong conducted field tests of his FM technology from an RCA laboratory located on the 85th floor of the Empire State Building in New York City. An antenna attached to the building's spire transmitted signals for distances up to 80 miles (130 km). These tests helped demonstrate FM's static-reduction and high-fidelity capabilities. However RCA, which was heavily invested in perfecting television broadcasting, chose not to invest in FM, and instructed Armstrong to remove his equipment.
  
  Denied the marketing and financial clout that RCA would have brought, Armstrong decided to finance his own development and form ties with smaller members of the radio industry, including Zenith and General Electric, to promote his invention. Armstrong thought that FM had the potential to replace AM stations within 5 years, which he promoted as a boost for the radio manufacturing industry, then suffering from the effects of the Great Depression, since making existing AM radio transmitters and receivers obsolete would necessitate that stations buy replacement transmitters and listeners purchase FM-capable receivers. In 1936 he published a landmark paper in the Proceedings of the IRE that documented the superior capabilities of using wide-band FM. (This paper would be reprinted in the August 1984 issue of Proceedings of the IEEE.) A year later, a paper by Murray G. Crosby (inventor of Crosby system for FM Stereo) in the same journal provided further analysis of the wide-band FM characteristics, and introduced the concept of "threshold", demonstrating that there is a superior signal to noise ratio when the signal is stronger than a certain level'.
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• In 1935, The first flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype. This British fighter brought down more enemy planes during WW II than any other British plane.
  From Wikipedia: 'The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s-1940s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force (RAF). Although overshadowed by the Supermarine Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain, accounting for 60% of the RAF's air victories in the battle, and served in all the major theatres of the Second World War.
  
  The 1930s design evolved through several versions and adaptations, resulting in a series of aircraft which acted as fighters, bomber-interceptors, fighter-bombers (also called "Hurribombers") and ground support aircraft. Further versions known as the Sea Hurricane had modifications which enabled operation from ships. Some were converted as catapult-launched convoy escorts, known as "Hurricats". More than 14,583 Hurricanes were built by the end of 1944 (including at least 800 converted to Sea Hurricanes and some 1,400 built in Canada by Canadian Car and Foundry)'.
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• In 1947, The TV news show 'Meet the Press' premiers. It is still being run. No. of seasons 66 No. of episodes 17,590 (as of May 18, 2015). It is the longest-running program in television history.
  From Wikipedia: 'Meet the Press is a weekly American television news/interview program that is broadcast on NBC. It is the longest-running program in U.S. television history, though its current format bears little resemblance to the one it debuted with on November 6, 1947. Like similar shows that have followed it, Meet the Press specializes in interviews with national leaders on issues of politics, economics, foreign policy and other public affairs, along with panel discussions that provide opinions and analysis. It originates from NBC's Washington, D.C. studios.
  
  The longevity of Meet the Press can be illustrated in consideration of the fact that the program debuted during what was only the second official "network television season" for American television. One historical landmark of the program is that it was the first on which a sitting U.S. President, Gerald Ford, appeared on a live television network news program, which occurred on the November 9, 1975, broadcast.
  
  The program has been hosted by 12 different moderators to date, beginning with creator Martha Rountree. The show's moderator since 2014 is Chuck Todd, who also serves as political director for NBC News.
  
  Currently, the hour-long program airs in most markets on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. live in the Eastern Time Zone and on tape delay elsewhere. Meet the Press is also occasionally pre-empted due to network coverage of sports events held outside of the U.S. The program is also rebroadcast on Sundays at 2:00 p.m., and Mondays at 2:00 a.m. and sometimes 4:00 a.m. Eastern Time on MSNBC, whose audio feed is also simulcast on Sirius/XM Satellite Radio. The program is also syndicated by Westwood One to various radio stations around the United States, as well as on C-SPAN Radio as part of its replays of the Sunday morning talk shows'.
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Tomorrow's food holiday will be: ' National Nachos Day'. From Wikipedia: 'Nachos originated in the city of Piedras Negras, Coahuila, Mexico, just over the border from Eagle Pass, Texas. In 1943, the wives of U.S. soldiers stationed at Fort Duncan in nearby Eagle Pass were in Piedras Negras on a shopping trip, and arrived at the restaurant after it had already closed for the day. The maître d'hôtel,, Ignacio 'Nacho' Anaya, invented a new snack for them with what little he had available in the kitchen: tortillas and cheese. Anaya cut the tortillas into triangles, fried them, added shredded cheddar cheese, quickly heated them, added sliced pickled jalape¤o peppers,and served them. When asked what the dish was called, he answered, Nacho's especiales. As word of the dish traveled, the apostrophe was lost, and Nacho's 'specials' became 'special nachos'.
[The Hankster says]: Tortilla chips, cheese and jalapenos, yes, and plenty of them please.


Strike up the band. Tomorrow is 'Saxophone Day'. In honor of the birth date of Adophe Sax, the inventor of the saxophone.
[The Hankster says] For a long time, I didn't know there were different kinds. When a friend pointed to a long instrument that looked more like a clarinet, I thought they were crazy. I was looking for the curved one with a big bell at the end.

Feeling lost? Join the club tomorrow for 'Marooned Without a Compass Day'.
[The Hankster says ] There are two ideas here. One is where you just don't know what to do next. Well just don't do anything tomorrow. The other deals more with your own global position and where you would like to go. But no compass and no GPS can be used. Oh, and no following bread crumbs. .Look for the sun and the moss. Ex-scouts are required to state their woodman's skills handicap.

Tomorrow is 'Love Your Lawyer Day'. Since in 2001 by attorney Nader Anise, ALPIA (American Lawyers Public Image Association). This is a no lawyer bashing day. No, jokes aren't allowed either.
[The Hankster says] Note the word 'Your'. It's the other guys lawyer you can put down.

A couple of festivals tomorrow:
- 'National Farm Toy Show Days'. November 6-8, Dyersville, Iowa.

- 'Sherlock Holmes Weekend'. November 6-8, Cape May, NJ.


Awareness / Observance Days on: November 06
o Health
- 'National Senior Safety Week'. November 6-12 in Canada.

o Other
- 'World Paper Free Day'. Campaign to reduce the amount of paper used in work and home. By the Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM).

- 'International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict'. Since 2001 by the U.N.


Historical events in the past on: November 06

In 1528, Spanish conquistador de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in what would later become Texas.

In 1869, The first official intercollegiate American football game takes place.Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 6-4.

In 1928, Colonel Jacob Schick patents the first electric razor.

In 1935, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper 'A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation' to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers. From Wikipedia: 'FM broadcasting is a VHF broadcasting technology, pioneered by Edwin Howard Armstrong, which uses frequency modulation (FM) to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio'.

In 1935, The first flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype. This British fighter brought down more enemy planes during WW II than any other British plane.

In 1947, The TV news show 'Meet the Press' premiers.

No. 1 song

• Get Off of My Cloud - The Rolling Stones: More
  'Yesterday' has been displaced by 'Get Off of My Cloud', which will hold the no. 1 spot until November 20 1965, when 'I Hear a Symphony - The Supremes', takes over.

Top movie

• King Rat More
  Having displaced 'The Agony and the Ecstasy', it will be there until the weekend box office of November 7 1965 when, 'The Cincinnati Ki', takes over.

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Monthly holiday / awareness days in November

Food
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pomegranate Month
Sweet Potato Awareness Month
Teff and Millet Month
Vegan Month

Animal / Pet
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
Adopt A Turkey Month
Manatee Awareness Month
National Adoption Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month

Health
American and National Diabetes Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Movember (Mens Health)
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month
National Diabetes Month
National Family Caregivers Month
National Healthy Skin Month
National Home Care and Hospice Month
National Impotency Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness and Appreciation Month
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Prematurity Awareness Month
PTA Healthy Lifestyles Month
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month

Other
American Indian Heritage Month
Aviation History Month
Family Stories Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month
National Entrepreneurship Month
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Native American Heritage Month
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month
National Runaway Prevention Month
National Scholarship Month
Picture Book Month
Worldwide Bereaved Siblings Month
World Sponge Month

November is:

November origin (from Wikipedia): 'November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning 'nine') when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. '

'November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.'

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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago, or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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  Sites for downloading or reading free Public Domain eBooks. Available in various formats. More

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Below, are listed several holiday sites that I reference in addition to other holiday researches.

US Government Holidays

• 2015 Postal Holidays More
• 2015 Official Federal Holidays More

Holidays Worldwide

• List of holidays by country More
• Holidays and Observances around the World More