- 311th Day of 2013 / 54 Remaining
- 44 Days Until The First Day of Winter
- Sunrise:6:42
- Sunset:5:04
- 10 Hours 22 Minutes of Daylight
- Moon Rise:10:54am
- Moon Set:9:24pm
- Moon’s Phase: 24 %
- The Next Full Moon
- November 17 @ 7:16am
- Full Beaver Moon
- Full Frosty Moon
This was the time to set beaver traps before the swamps froze, to ensure a supply of warm winter furs. Another interpretation suggests that the name Full Beaver Moon comes from the fact that the beavers are now actively preparing for winter. It is sometimes also referred to as the Frosty Moon.
- Tides
- High:2:02am/12:51pm
- Low:6:56AM/7:48PM
- Rainfall (measured July 1 – June 30)
- Normal To Date:2.03
- This Year:0.44
- Last Year:1.60
- Annual Seasonal Average:23.80
- Holidays
- National Frappe’ Day
- Job Action Day
- Republican Elephant Day
- Solidarity Day-Bangladesh
- Accord & Reconciliation Day-Russia
- Commemoration Day-Tunisia
- October Revolution Day-Belarus
- Thaksgiving Day-Liberia
- Revolution Day-Bangaldesh
- On This Day In …
- 1637 --- Anne Hutchinson, the first female religious leader in the American colonies, was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for heresy.
- 1665 --- "The London Gazette" was first published.
- 1805 --- “Great joy in camp we are in view of the ocean, this great Pacific Ocean which we been so long anxious to see. And the roreing or noise made by the waves brakeing on the rockey shores
(as I suppose) may be heard distinctly.” These words were written by William Clark after the Lewis & Clark Expedition sighted the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
- 1806 --- Ralph Wedgwood of England received the first patent for carbon paper.
- 1874 --- The Republican party of the U.S. was first symbolized as an elephant in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly. Nast, a political cartoonist for Harper’s Weekly, created a satirical drawing of an elephant about to fall into a giant hole. The elephant represented the Republican party and was used in reference to Ulysses S. Grant’s possible bid for a third term. Grant was a Republican. The symbol stuck and has been used ever since to represent the G.O.P. both in political cartoons and by the party itself.
- 1885 --- At a remote spot called Craigellachie in the mountains of British Columbia, the last spike is driven into Canada's first transcontinental railway. In 1880, the Canadian government contracted the Canadian Pacific Railroad to construct the first all-Canadian line to the West Coast. During the next five years, the company laid 4,600 kilometers of single track, uniting various
smaller lines across Canada. Despite the logistical difficulties posed by areas such as the muskeg (bogs) region of northwestern Ontario and the high rugged mountains of British Columbia, the railway was completed six years ahead of schedule. The transcontinental railway was instrumental in populating the vast western lands of Canada, providing supplies and commerce to new settlers. Many of western Canada's great cities and towns grew up around Canadian Pacific Railway stations.
- 1893 --- Passage of a referendum made Colorado the first state to grant women the right to vote.
- 1911 --- Marie Curie became the first multiple Nobel Prize winner when she was given the award for chemisty eight years after
garnering the physics prize with her late husband, Pierre. (She remains the only woman with multiple Nobels and the only person to receive the award in two science categories.)
- 1916 --- Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to Congress.
- 1929 --- The Museum of Modern Art in New York City opened to the public.
- 1932 --- CBS radio presented the first broadcast of Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. Matt Crowley, Curtis Arnall, Carl Frank and John Larkin played Buck in the serial over the years (1932-1947).
- 1933 --- Pennsylvania’s Blue Laws meant that lots of things couldn’t be done on Sunday. Shopping was one. Drinking was another. Sports was yet another. The votes that were counted this day in the Keystone State eliminated sports from the forbidden activities.
- 1940 --- The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge was built in 1940 to connect the city of Tacoma and the surrounding Puget Sound with the Peninsula area. The bridge soon became a popular tourist attraction as people came from all around the area to pay their toll
to ride the roller-coaster that was called Galloping Gertie. The design flaws that allowed that coaster effect were to become the bridge’s undoing, and it collapsed a mere four months and seven days after dedication. At approximately 11:00 a.m. this day, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed due to wind-induced vibrations.
- 1944 --- U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt won a fourth term, defeating Republican Thomas E. Dewey. F.D.R. was the only President to be elected for more than two terms; he was elected four times with three different Vice Presidents. He died in office on April 12, 1945, after serving 53 days of his fourth term. Vice President Harry Truman filled the remainder of the term and was elected President in 1948.
- 1962 --- Richard M. Nixon, who failed in a bid to become governor of California, held what he called his last press conference, telling reporters, "You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore."
- 1965 --- The "Pillsbury Dough Boy" debuted in television commercials.
- 1966 --- Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara faces a storm of student protest when he visits Harvard University to address a small group of students. As he left a dormitory, about 100 demonstrators shouted at him and demanded a debate. When McNamara tried to speak, supporters of the Students for a Democratic Society shouted him down. McNamara then attempted to leave, but 25 demonstrators crowded around his automobile so that it could not move. Police intervened and escorted McNamara from the campus.
- 1967 --- U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- 1967 --- The U.S. Selective Service Commission announced that college students arrested in anti-war demonstrations would lose their draft deferments.
- 1988 --- John Fogerty won his self-plagiarism court battle with Fantasy Records. The label claimed Fogerty copied his own song,
"Run Through The Jungle" when he wrote "The Old Man Down The Road".
- 1989 --- In New York, former Manhattan borough president David Dinkins, a Democrat, is elected New York City's first African American mayor, while in Virginia, Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, also a Democrat, becomes the first elected African American state governor in American history.
- 1991 --- Earvin "Magic" Johnson stuns the world by announcing his sudden retirement from the Los Angeles Lakers, after testing positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. At the time, many Americans viewed AIDS as a gay white man's disease. Johnson who is African American and heterosexual, was one of the first sports stars to go public about his HIV-positive status.
- 1991 --- Actor Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee Wee Herman, pled no contest to charges of indecent exposure. Reubens had been arrested in Sarasota, FL, for exposing himself in a theater.
- 1994 --- The Electrical Engineering Times ran a cover story about flaws in Intel’s Pentium computer chip. The bug, an obscure flaw that caused extremely rare computation errors when performing certain types of mathematical calculations, eventually caused Intel to replace any Pentium processor affected by the flaw, regardless of whether the user was a mathmetician or not. Intel took a $475 million charge against earnings for the quarter to cover the expense of replacing all of those chips.
- 2000 --- Republican George W. Bush was elected president over incumbent Democratic Vice President Al Gore, though Gore won the popular vote by a narrow margin. The winner was not known for more than a month because of a dispute over the results in Florida.
- 2000 --- Hillary Rodham Clinton was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York, becoming the first First Lady to win public office.
- Birthdays
- Marie Curie
- Billy Graham
- Johnny Rivers
- Joni Mitchell
- Leon Trotsky
- Albert Camus(100)
- Al Hirt
- Dana Plato