Thursday, November 30, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― NOVEMBER 30

November 30 is the 334th day of the year (335th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 31 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

NATIONAL STAY HOME BECAUSE YOU'RE WELL DAY 


1707 – The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.

1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris — In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

1803 – In New Orleans, Spanish representatives officially transfer the Louisiana Territory to a French representative. Just 20 days later, France transfers the same land to the United States as the Louisiana Purchase.

1804 – The United States Senate begins an impeachment trial of Federalist Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase.

President Thomas Jefferson, alarmed at the seizure of power by the judiciary through the claim of exclusive judicial review, led efforts to remove the Federalists from the bench. His allies in Congress had, shortly after his inauguration, repealed the Judiciary Act of 1801, abolishing the lower courts created by the legislation and terminating their Federalist judges despite lifetime appointments; Chase, two years after the repeal in May 1803, had denounced it in his charge to a Baltimore grand jury, saying that it would "take away all security for property and personal liberty, and our Republican constitution will sink into a mobocracy[.]" Earlier in April 1800, Chase acting as a district judge, had made strong attacks upon Thomas Cooper who had been indicted under the Alien and Sedition Acts; Chase had taken the air of a prosecutor rather than a judge. Also in 1800, when a grand jury in New Castle, Delaware declined to indict a local printer, Chase refused to discharge them, saying he was aware of one specific printer that he wished them to indict for seditious behavior.[9] Jefferson saw the attack as indubitable bad behavior and an opportunity to reduce the Federalist influence on the judiciary by impeaching Chase, launching the process from the White House when he wrote to Congressman Joseph Hopper Nicholson of Maryland asking: "Ought the seditious and official attack [by Chase] on the principles of our Constitution . . .to go unpunished?"

The Senate voted to acquit Chase of all charges on March 1, 1805. He is the only U.S. Supreme Court justice to have been impeached.

1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate Army of Tennessee suffers heavy losses in an attack on the Union Army of the Ohio in the Battle of Franklin.

1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

1939 – Winter War: Soviet forces cross the Finnish border in several places and bomb Helsinki and several other Finnish cities, starting the war. 


1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap; this is the only documented case in the Western Hemisphere of a human being hit by a rock from space.

1981 – Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe. (The meetings end inconclusively on December 17.)

1982 – Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history.


1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm. In its combat phase, was a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.

The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an aerial and naval bombardment on 17 January 1991, continuing for five weeks. This was followed by a ground assault on 24 February. This was a decisive victory for the coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory. The coalition ceased its advance, and declared a ceasefire 100 hours after the ground campaign started. Aerial and ground combat was confined to Iraq, Kuwait, and areas on Saudi Arabia's border. Iraq launched Scud missiles against coalition military targets in Saudi Arabia and against Israel.


1998 – Exxon and Mobil sign a US$73.7 billion agreement to merge, thus creating ExxonMobil, the world's largest company.

ExxonMobil is the largest of the world's supermajors with daily production of 3.921 million BOE. In 2008, this was approximately 3 percent of world production, which is less than several of the largest state-owned petroleum companies. When ranked by oil and gas reserves, it is 14th in the world—with less than 1 percent of the total. ExxonMobil's reserves were 25.2 billion BOE (barrels of oil equivalent) at the end of 2013 and the 2007 rates of production were expected to last more than 14 years. With 37 oil refineries in 21 countries constituting a combined daily refining capacity of 6.3 million barrels (1,000,000 m3), ExxonMobil is the largest refiner in the world, a title that was also associated with Standard Oil since its incorporation in 1870.

2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.



TODAY'S BIRTHS

1849 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (d. 1945)

1898 – C. S. Lewis, Irish-English author, poet, and critic (d. 1963

1924 – Charles E. Mower, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.

EACH BAND'S TOP 10 SONGS ― CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG

CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG  




10. Marrakesh Express (1969)
Crosby, Stills & Nash's first single -- and the first song most fans heard by the new superstar trio -- was originally written by Graham Nash for his previous band the Hollies. They recorded 'Marrakesh Express' but never released it, so Nash dragged it out for CSN's debut album. The bouncy rhythm and playful spirit reflects Nash's trip to the Moroccan city in the mid-'60s.

9. Just a Song Before I Go (1977)
Seven years after Crosby, Stills & Nash's last group album, and first as a trio since 1969's self-titled debut, 1977's 'CSN' was a much-anticipated showcase for the singer-songwriters, collectively and individually. It was also the last time they would write all the songs themselves for almost 20 years. The highlight is the AM pop of Graham Nash's 'Just a Song Before I Go,' the group's highest-charting single (it peaked at No. 7).




8. Teach Your Children (1970)
Like 'Marrakesh Express' (see No. 10 on our list of the Top 10 Crosby, Stills & Nash Songs), 'Teach Your Children' was written by Graham Nash for the Hollies. They never recorded it, so he resurrected the cut for CSN's second album, and first with Neil Young, 'Deja Vu.' Jerry Garcia agreed to play pedal steel on the song if the trio would teach the Grateful Dead how to sing harmony for their upcoming album, 'Workingman's Dead.'


7. Our House (1970)
In 1969, Graham Nash hooked up with Joni Mitchell, and the couple shared a home in California for a brief period. 'Our House,' which reached No. 30 the following year, is about their cozy relationship and pictures a domesticated singer-songwriter coupling that's as hippie idealistic as it is mom-and-dad traditional.




6. Long Time Gone (1969)
David Crosby's standout song from Crosby, Still & Nash's self-titled debut album was written in response to the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy. The group would get even more political (and timely) on 'Ohio' (see No. 2 on our list of the Top 10 Crosby, Stills & Nash Songs) led by Neil Young, but Crosby's impassioned vocal makes 'Long Time Gone' one of his very best tracks. 

5. Carry On (1970)
The opening track on the second album by the group, now a quartet with Neil Young as a full-time member, was written by Stephen Stills, whose guitar and lead vocal guide the song. But it's the glorious group harmonies throughout 'Carry On,' especially before it breaks off into another direction, that make it soar.




4. Woodstock (1970)
Joni Mitchell heard about Woodstock from boyfriend Graham Nash (see No. 7 on our list of the Top 10 Crosby, Stills & Nash Songs), who was there with Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young -- it was only their second performance. She took his recollections and feelings about the three-day hippie fest and wrote 'Woodstock,' which she recorded as a stripped-down track on her 'Ladies of the Canyon' album in 1970. That same year, CSNY electrified it and gave the song its definitive reading.

3. Helpless (1970)
When Neil Young joined Crosby, Stills & Nash on their second album, he contributed two songs (he also had a hand in Stephen Stills' LP-closing 'Everybody I Love You'). 'Helpless' is the keeper and one of his all-time greatest cuts, a mournful ballad featuring heavenly harmonies by his bandmates. Young originally recorded the song with Crazy Horse, but it ended up with CSN. Good move.



2. Ohio (Single, 1970)
Neil Young wrote 'Ohio' not long after the National Guard fired on protesting students at Kent State University on May 4, 1970, killing four of them. The next month, the song was released as a single by Crosby, Still, Nash & Young and eventually reached No. 14. The original studio version (found on various compilations) is one of the angriest and timeliest songs ever recorded. An essential document of early-'70s social turmoil.

1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (1969)
Like Graham Nash, Stephen Stills had a famous folksinger girlfriend (see No. 7 on our list of the Top 10 Crosby, Stills & Nash Songs). And like his bandmate, he wrote a song about her. 'Suite: Judy Blue Eyes' may be about Judy Collins, but the twists and turns the song takes over four distinct sections and seven and a half minutes are as rocky as the relationship's final days. But they serve as a great introduction to the trio's classic debut album.



From ultimateclassicrock, Wikipedia, and Google

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― NOVEMBER 29

November 29 is the 333rd day of the year (334th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 32 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Friday or Saturday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Wednesday (56).

ELECTRONIC GREETINGS DAY
 



561 – King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons — Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I — who divide the Frankish Kingdom.

1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.


1777 – San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.


1864 – American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill – A Confederate advance into Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Union Army. General John Bell Hood is angered, which leads to the Battle of Franklin.


1929 – Medal of Honor winner, U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd, leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.

1952 – Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.

1961 – Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.


1963 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. In November 1964, two months after the publication of its 889-page report, the Commission published twenty-six volumes of supporting documents, including the testimony or depositions of 552 witnesses and more than 3,100 exhibits. All of the commission's records were then transferred on November 23 to the National Archives. The unpublished portion of those records was initially sealed for 75 years (to 2039) under a general National Archives policy that applied to all federal investigations by the executive branch of government,[19] a period "intended to serve as protection for innocent persons who could otherwise be damaged because of their relationship with participants in the case.” The 75-year rule no longer exists, supplanted by the Freedom of Information Act of 1966 and the JFK Records Act of 1992. By 1992, 98 percent of the Warren Commission records had been released to the public. Six years later, at the conclusion of the Assassination Records Review Board's work, all Warren Commission records, except those records that contained tax return information, were available to the public with redactions.

1990 – Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council passes two resolutions to restore international peace and security if Iraq does not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.

2009 – Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington. At the time, Clemmons' murder of four police officers represented the largest number of law enforcement officers killed by a lone perpetrator in a single incident in U.S. history. It was surpassed in July 2016 when a mass shooting occurred in Dallas, Texas, resulting in the deaths of five police officers.

On December 1, 2009, Clemmons was shot and killed by Seattle police officer Benjamin L. Kelly. Around 2:45 a.m., Kelly was on patrol and stopped to investigate a broken-down car on the side of the road, which was idling with its hood up. Kelly recognized the vehicle as having been reported stolen. While sitting in his patrol car and writing a report, Kelly noticed Clemmons approaching him and recognized him as the suspect in the Lakewood shooting. Kelly ordered him to stop and show his hands, but he instead began to flee around the disabled vehicle. Police claim that Clemmons reached into his waist area for a gun. Kelly fired several rounds at Clemmons and hit him at least twice, killing him. Clemmons was carrying a handgun that had belonged to Lakewood Officer Greg Richards.

2012 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to accord non-member observer state to Palestine.




TODAY'S BIRTHS

1849 – John Ambrose Fleming, English physicist and engineer (d. 1945)

1898 – C. S. Lewis, Irish-English author, poet, and critic (d. 1963

1924 – Charles E. Mower, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.

TODAY'S GIFS






From GIPHY

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― NOVEMBER 28

November 28 is the 332nd day of the year (333rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 33 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56). 

NATIONAL FRENCH TOAST DAY 


1520 – An expedition under the command of Ferdinand Magellan passes through the Strait of Magellan.

1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.

1660 – At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.

1666 – At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.

1814 – The Times of London becomes the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press, built by the German team of Koenig & Bauer.

1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Union troops under General James G. Blunt defeat General John Marmaduke's Confederates.

1899 – The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River; although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.

1908 – A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor. —  From GenDisasters.com

1909 – Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire.

1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.

1942 – In Boston, Massachusetts, a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub kills 492 people

1943 – World War II: The Tehran Conference — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy.

1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

1967 – The first pulsar known as PSR B1919+21 in the constellation of Vulpecula was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.

1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid —  The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)

1989 – Cold War: The Velvet Revolution — In the face of protests, the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.

1997 – Kosovo Liberation Army emerged for the first time publicly.

2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.

2014 – Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.



TODAY'S BIRTHS

1757 – William Blake, English poet and painter (d. 1827)

1820 – Friedrich Engels, German-English philosopher, economist, and journalist (d. 1895)

1866 – Henry Bacon, American architect, designed the Lincoln Memorial (d. 1924)

1929 – Berry Gordy, Jr., American songwriter and producer, founded Motown Records

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.

JOKES, PUZZLES, RIDDLES: 3

From bhavinionline 





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Here’s an interesting Riddle that you probably must have seen by now. There are many shorter versions to this, but this is an all new mega collection of all such riddles. You can also check my previously published riddles WhatsApp Riddles: 26 L of the A, 7 D of the W You can see the […]

Monday, November 27, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― NOVEMBER 27

November 27 is the 331st day of the year (332nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 34 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).

NATIONAL BAVARIAN CREAM PIE DAY  

395 – Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.

1095 – Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.


1727 – The foundation stone to the Jerusalem Church in Berlin is laid.

1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run —
 Union forces under General George Meade take up positions against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.

1901 – The U.S. Army War College is established.


1944 – World War II: RAF Fauld explosion — An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.

1954 – Alger Hiss is released from prison after serving 44 months for perjury. With the fall of the Soviet Union and subsequent access to sealed documents there, it was established that Hiss was indeed a Soviet spy.


1965  Vietnam War: The Pentagon tells U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson that if planned operations are to succeed, the number of American troops in Vietnam has to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.


1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

1978 – In San Francisco, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinated by former supervisor Dan White.


1991 – The United Nations Security Council adopts Security Council Resolution 721, leading the way to the establishment of peacekeeping operations in Yugoslavia.


2001 – A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. [Not a photo of Osiris.]


2009 – The Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.

2015 – An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA, shoots at least four members of the Colorado Springs Police Department. One officer later dies. Two civilians were also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.


TODAY'S BIRTHS

1701 – Anders Celsius, Swedish astronomer, physicist, and mathematician (d. 1744)

1903 – Lars Onsager, Norwegian-American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate Chemisty (d. 1976)

1921 – Alexander Dubček, Slovak soldier and politician (d. 1992)

1942 – Jimi Hendrix, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1970)

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.