<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Sandwich Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Sandwich):
'A sandwich is a food item consisting of one or more types of food, such as
vegetables, sliced cheese or meat, placed on or between slices of bread, or
more generally any dish wherein two or more pieces of bread serve as a
container or wrapper for some other food. The sandwich was originally a
portable food item or finger food which began to be popular in the Western
World. Today sandwiches in various versions are found worldwide.
Sandwiches are a popular type of lunch food, taken to work, school, or
picnics to be eaten as part of a packed lunch. The bread can be used plain,
or it can be coated with one or more condiments such as mayonnaise or
mustard to enhance the flavours and texture. As well as being homemade,
sandwiches are also widely sold in restaurants and cafes, and are sometimes
served hot as well as cold. There are both savoury sandwiches, such as deli
meat sandwiches, and sweet sandwiches, such as a peanut butter and jelly
sandwich.
The sandwich is considered to be the namesake of John Montagu, 4th Earl of
Sandwich, because of the claim that he was the eponymous inventor of this
food combination. The Wall Street Journal has described it as Britain's
biggest contribution to gastronomy'.
[The Hankster says] I can only express my feelings by saying that Dagwood Bumstead is my hero.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Housewife’s Day'.
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[The Hankster says] Sandwiches are a nice easy dinner for mom to fix on this day, but wait, there's more. See the next holiday.
* 'National Men Make Dinner Day'.
First Thursday in November. No BBQ allowed.
[The Hankster says] OK guys, get with the program. Just remember no BBQ and the sandwich is a lunch item, not dinner. If you are not use to cooking, you may have the phone number of a good take-out restaurant by the phone. Just remember to remove the cardboard and styrofoam before serving.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'One Health Day'. Addresses planetary health challenges.
o Animal and Pet:
* 'Jellyfish Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Jellyfish):
'Jellyfish, or jellies, are softbodied free-swimming aquatic animals with a
gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. The bell can
pulsate to acquire locomotion, while the stinging tentacles can be utilized
to capture prey by emitting toxins. Jellyfish species are classified in the
subphylum Medusozoa which makes up a major part of the phylum Cnidaria,
although not all Medusozoa species are considered to be jellyfish.
Jellyfish are found in every ocean, from the surface to the deep sea.
Scyphozoans are exclusively marine, but some hydrozoans live in freshwater.
Large, often colorful, jellyfish are common in coastal zones worldwide.
Jellyfish have roamed the seas for at least 500 million years, and possibly
700 million years or more, making them the oldest multi-organ animal'.
<> Historical events on November 3
* 'In 1883, Self-described 'Black Bart the poet' (Charles Earl Bowles) gets
away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually
leads to his capture. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Charles Earl Bowles (b. 1829 d. after 1888), also known
as Black Bart, was an English-born outlaw noted for the poetic messages he
left behind after two of his robberies. Often called Charley by his
friends, he was also known as Charles Bolton, C.E. Bolton and Black Bart
the Poet. Considered a gentleman bandit with a reputation for style and
sophistication, he was one of the most notorious stagecoach robbers to
operate in and around Northern California and southern Oregon during the
1870s and 1880s.
His last holdup took place on November 3, 1883, at the site of his first
robbery on Funk Hill, southeast of the present town of Copperopolis. Driven
by Reason McConnell, the stage had crossed the Reynolds Ferry on the old
road from Sonora to Milton. The driver stopped at the ferry to pick up
Jimmy Rolleri, the 19-year-old son of the ferry owner. Rolleri had his
rifle with him and got off at the bottom of the hill to hunt along the
creek and meet the stage on the other side. When he arrived at the western
end, he found that the stage was not there and began walking up the stage
road. Near the summit, he saw the stage driver and his team of horses.
McConnell told him that as the stage had approached the summit, Bowles had
stepped out from behind a rock with a shotgun in his hands. He forced
McConnell to unhitch the team and take them over the crest of the hill.
Bowles then tried to remove the strongbox from the stage, but it had been
bolted to the floor and took Bowles some time to remove. Rolleri and
McConnell went over the crest and saw Bowles backing out of the stage with
the strong box. McConnell grabbed Rolleri's rifle and fired at Bowles twice
but missed. Rolleri took the rifle and fired as Bowles entered a thicket.
He stumbled as if he had been hit. Running to the thicket, they found a
small, blood-stained bundle of mail he had dropped.
Bowles had been wounded in the hand. After running a quarter of a mile, he
stopped and wrapped a handkerchief around his hand to control the bleeding.
He found a rotten log and stuffed the sack with the gold amalgam into it,
keeping $500 in gold coins. He hid the shotgun in a hollow tree, threw
everything else away, and fled. In a manuscript written by stage driver
McConnell about 20 years after the robbery, he claimed he fired all four
shots at Bowles. The first missed, but he thought the second or third shot
hit Bowles, and was sure the fourth did. Bowles only had the one wound to
his hand'.
When Bowles was wounded and forced to flee, he left behind several personal
items. These included his eyeglasses, some food, and a handkerchief with a
laundry mark F.X.O.7. Wells Fargo Detective James B. Hume found these at
the scene. Hume and detective Harry N. Morse contacted every laundry in San
Francisco about the laundry mark. After visiting nearly 90 laundries, they
finally traced it to Ferguson and Bigg's California Laundry on Bush Street
and were able to learn that the handkerchief belonged to a man who lived in
a modest boarding house.
The detectives learned that Bowles called himself a mining engineer and
made frequent business trips that coincided with the Wells Fargo robberies.
After initially denying he was Black Bart, Bowles eventually admitted he
had robbed several Wells Fargo stages, though he confessed only to crimes
committed before 1879. Bowles apparently believed the statute of
limitations had expired on those robberies. When booked, he gave his name
as T. Z. Spalding, but police found a Bible, a gift from his wife,
inscribed with his real name.
The police report said that Bowles was a person of great endurance.
Exhibited genuine wit under most trying circumstances, and was extremely
proper and polite in behavior. Eschews profanity.
Wells Fargo only pressed charges on the final robbery. Bowles was convicted
and sentenced to six years in San Quentin Prison, but he was released after
four years for good behavior, in January 1888. His health had clearly
deteriorated due to his time in prison he had visibly aged, his eyesight
was failing, and he had gone deaf in one ear. Reporters swarmed around him
when he was released and asked if he was going to rob any more
stagecoaches. No, gentlemen, he replied, smiling, I'm through with crime.
Another reporter asked if he would write more poetry. Bowles laughed and
said, Now, didn't you hear me say that I am through with crime?'
* 'In 1911, The Chevrolet Motor Car Company was founded.
- From Wikipedia: 'Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and
formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American
automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM). Louis
Chevrolet and ousted General Motors founder William C. Durant started the
company on November 3, 1911 as the Chevrolet Motor Car Company. Durant
used the Chevrolet Motor Car Company to acquire a controlling stake in
General Motors with a reverse merger occurring on May 2, 1918 and propelled
himself back to the GM presidency. After Durant's second ousting in 1919,
Alfred Sloan, with his maxim a car for every purse and purpose, would pick
the Chevrolet brand to become the volume leader in the General Motors
family, selling mainstream vehicles to compete with Henry Ford's Model T in
1919 and overtaking Ford as the best-selling car in the United States by
1929.
Chevrolet-branded vehicles are sold in most automotive markets worldwide,
with the notable exception of Oceania, where GM is represented by its
Australian subsidiary, Holden. In 2005, Chevrolet was relaunched in Europe,
primarily selling vehicles built by GM Daewoo of South Korea with the
tagline Daewoo has grown up enough to become Chevrolet, a move rooted in
General Motors' attempt to build a global brand around Chevrolet. With the
reintroduction of Chevrolet to Europe, GM intended Chevrolet to be a
mainstream value brand, while GM's traditional European standard-bearers,
Opel of Germany, and Vauxhall of United Kingdom would be moved upmarket.
However, GM reversed this move in late 2013, announcing that the brand
would be withdrawn from Europe, with the exception of the Camaro and
Corvette in 2016. Chevrolet vehicles will continue to be marketed in the
CIS states, including Russia. After General Motors fully acquired GM Daewoo
in 2011 to create GM Korea, the last usage of the Daewoo automotive brand
was discontinued in its native South Korea and succeeded by Chevrolet.
In North America, Chevrolet produces and sells a wide range of vehicles,
from subcompact automobiles to medium-duty commercial trucks. Due to the
prominence and name recognition of Chevrolet as one of General Motors'
global marques, Chevrolet, Chevy or Chev is used at times as a synonym for
General Motors or its products, one example being the GM LS1 engine,
commonly known by the name or a variant thereof of its progenitor, the
Chevrolet small-block engine'.
* 'In 1913, The U.S. introduces the income tax (Revenue Act of 1913).
- From Wikipedia: 'The United States Revenue Act of 1913 also known as the
Tariff Act, Underwood Tariff, Underwood Act, Underwood Tariff Act, or
Underwood-Simmons Act (ch. 16, 38 Stat. 114 , October 3, 1913), re-imposed
the federal income tax following the ratification of the Sixteenth
Amendment and lowered basic tariff rates from 40% to 25%, well below the
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. It was signed into law by President
Woodrow Wilson on October 3, 1913, and was sponsored by Alabama
Representative Oscar Underwood.
The Act also provided for the reinstitution of a federal income tax as a
means to compensate for anticipated lost revenue because of the reduction
of tariff duties. The most recent effort to tax incomes (Wilson-Gorman
Tariff of 1894) had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
because the tax on dividends, interest, and rents had been deemed to be a
direct tax not apportioned by population. That obstacle, however, was
removed by ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment on February 3, 1913.
The incomes of couples exceeding $4,000, as well as those of single persons
earning $3,000 or more, were subject to a one percent federal tax. Further,
the measure provided a progressive tax structure, meaning that high income
earners were required to pay at higher rates.
It would require only a few years for the federal income tax to become the
chief source of income for the government, far outdistancing tariff
revenues.
Less than 1% of the population paid federal income tax at the time.
The act was applicable to incomes for 1913, 1914, and 1915'.
* 'In 1930, The Bank of Italy (a California bank) becomes Bank of America.
- From Wikipedia: 'The history of Bank of America dates back to October 17,
1904, when Amadeo Pietro Giannini founded the Bank of Italy in San
Francisco. The Bank of Italy served the needs of many immigrants settling
in the United States at that time, a service denied to them by the existing
American banks who were typically discriminatory and often denied service
to all but the wealthiest. Giannini was raised by his mother and stepfather
Lorenzo Scatena, as his father was fatally shot over a pay dispute with an
employee. When the 1906 San Francisco earthquake struck, Giannini was able
to save all deposits out of the bank building and away from the fires.
Because San Francisco's banks were in smoldering ruins and unable to open
their vaults, Giannini was able to use the rescued funds to commence
lending within a few days of the disaster. From a makeshift desk consisting
of a few planks over two barrels, he lent money to those who wished to
rebuild.
In 1922, Giannini established Bank of America and Italy in Italy by buying
Banca dell'Italia Meridionale, the latter established in 1918.
In 1928, Giannini merged his bank with Bank of America, Los Angeles, headed
by Orra E. Monnette and consolidated it with other bank holdings to create
what would become the largest banking institution in the country. Bank of
Italy was renamed on November 3, 1930, calling it Bank of America National
Trust and Savings Association, which was the only such designated bank in
the nation at that time. The resulting company was headed by Giannini and
Monnette serving as co-chairs'.
* 'In 1954, The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first
appearance of the character of the same name. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Godzilla is a 1954 Japanese science fiction kaiju film
featuring Godzilla, produced and distributed by Toho. It is the first film
in the Godzilla franchise and the first film in the Showa series. The film
is directed by Ishiro Honda, with a screenplay by Honda, Takeo Murata, and
Shigeru Kayama and stars Akira Takarada, Momoko Kochi, Akihiko Hirata,
Takashi Shimura, with Haruo Nakajima and Katsumi Tezuka as the performers
for Godzilla. Nakajima would go on to portray the character until his
retirement in 1972.
In 1956, TransWorld Releasing Corporation and Embassy Pictures released
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, a heavily re-edited Americanized version
of the original film with additional footage featuring Raymond Burr. In
2004 Rialto Pictures gave the 1954 film a limited theatrical release in the
United States to coincide with the franchise's 50th anniversary'.
* 'In 1957, The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first
animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Laika 1954 – November 3, 1957 was a Soviet space dog
who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit
the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to
be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 that was launched into
outer space on November 3, 1957.
Little was known about the impact of spaceflight on living creatures at the
time of Laika's mission, and the technology to de-orbit had not yet been
developed, and therefore Laika's survival was not expected. Some scientists
believed humans would be unable to survive the launch or the conditions of
outer space, so engineers viewed flights by animals as a necessary
precursor to human missions. The experiment aimed to prove that a living
passenger could survive being launched into orbit and endure micro-gravity,
paving the way for human spaceflight and providing scientists with some of
the first data on how living organisms react to spaceflight environments.
Laika died within hours from overheating, possibly caused by a failure of
the central R-7 sustainer to separate from the payload. The true cause and
time of her death were not made public until 2002 instead, it was widely
reported that she died when her oxygen ran out on day six or, as the Soviet
government initially claimed, she was euthanised prior to oxygen depletion.
On April 11, 2008, Russian officials unveiled a monument to Laika. A small
monument in her honour was built near the military research facility in
Moscow that prepared Laika's flight to space. It features a dog standing on
top of a rocket. She also appears on the Monument to the Conquerors of
Space in Moscow'.
* 'In 1964, Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential
election for the first time after passage of the 23rd Amendment. Washington
D.C. is not a state but a Federal District. To this day, the seat of
Congress has no congressional representation in the Senate or House of
Representatives.. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and
commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the
capital of the United States. The signing of the Residence Act on July 16,
1790, approved the creation of a capital district located along the Potomac
River on the country's East Coast. The U.S. Constitution provided for a
federal district under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Congress and the
District is therefore not a part of any state.
The states of Maryland and Virginia each donated land to form the federal
district, which included the pre-existing settlements of Georgetown and
Alexandria. Named in honor of President George Washington, the City of
Washington was founded in 1791 to serve as the new national capital. In
1846, Congress returned the land originally ceded by Virginia in 1871, it
created a single municipal government for the remaining portion of the
District.
The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified
in 1961, granting the District three votes in the Electoral College for the
election of president and vice president, but still no voting
representation in Congress'.
* 'In 1973, NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury. On March 29, 1974,
it becomes the first space probe to reach that planet. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched
by NASA on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus.
Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the
last spacecraft in the Mariner program. (Mariner 11 and 12 were allocated
to the Voyager program and redesignated Voyager 1 and Voyager 2.)
The mission objectives were to measure Mercury's environment, atmosphere,
surface, and body characteristics and to make similar investigations of
Venus. Secondary objectives were to perform experiments in the
interplanetary medium and to obtain experience with a dual-planet gravity
assist mission. Mariner 10's science team was led by Bruce C. Murray at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory'.
* 'In 1975, The TV show, Good Morning America, premieres. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Good Morning America (GMA) is an American morning
television show that is broadcast on ABC. It debuted on November 3, 1975,
and first expanded to weekends with the debut of a Sunday edition on
January 3, 1993. The Sunday edition was later canceled in 1999 weekend
editions returned on both Saturdays and Sundays on September 4, 2004. The
weekday program airs from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. in all U.S. time zones (live in
the Eastern Time Zone and on tape delay elsewhere across the country) the
Saturday and Sunday editions are one hour long and is transmitted to ABC's
stations live at 7:00 a.m. Eastern Time, although stations in some markets
air the weekend broadcasts either one hour earlier or later than the 7:00
a.m. slot. Viewers in the Pacific Time Zone receive an updated feed with a
specialized opening and updated live reports. A third hour of the weekday
broadcast aired from 2007 to 2008, exclusively on ABC News Now.
The program features news, interviews, weather forecasts, special-interest
stories, and feature segments such as Pop News (featuring pop culture and
entertainment news, and viral videos), the GMA Heat Index (featuring a mix
of entertainment, lifestyle and human-interest stories) and Play of the Day
(featuring a selected viral video or television program clip). It is
produced by ABC News and broadcasts from the Times Square Studios in New
York City's Times Square district. The primary anchors are Robin Roberts,
George Stephanopoulos, Lara Spencer and Michael Strahan along with
newsreader Amy Robach and weather anchor Ginger Zee.
Good Morning America has been the most watched morning show in total
viewers and key demos each year since Summer 2012. GMA generally placed
second in the ratings, behind NBC's Today from 1995 to 2012. It overtook
its rival for a period from the early to mid-1980s with anchors David
Hartman and Joan Lunden, from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s with Charles
Gibson and Lunden, and in April 2012 with Roberts and Stephanopoulos.
Good Morning America won the first three Daytime Emmy Awards for
Outstanding Morning Program, sharing the inaugural 2007 award with Today
and winning the 2008 and 2009 awards outright'.
* 'In 1978, The TV show, Different Strokes, premieres. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on
NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27,
1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as
Arnold and Willis Jackson, two black boys from Harlem who are taken in by a
rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond
(Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), for whom their
deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half
of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds'
housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett (who ultimately spun off into her own successful
show, The Facts of Life).
The series made stars out of child actors Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, and
Dana Plato and became known for the very special episodes in which serious
issues such as racism, illegal drug use, hitchhiking, kidnapping and child
sexual abuse were dramatically explored. The lives of these stars were
later plagued by legal troubles and drug addiction'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in November
Food
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month
National Pomegranate Month
Health
American and National Diabetes Month
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign
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 PPSI Aids Awareness Month
NET Cancer Awareness Month
Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month
Stomach Cancer Awareness Month
Vegan Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Senior Pet Month
Adopt A Turkey Month
Manatee Awareness Month
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month
Pet Diabetes Month
Other
American Indian Heritage Month
Aviation History Month
Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month
Family Stories Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month
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
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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