It Mon. morning 11/11 (Veterans Day) All Federal, state & local governments & courts, banks are closed, no mail delivery, all public schools closed. H.53 L 30 sun followed by r around 5PM turns to snw by late night w 1 to 2 by tomorrow morning. 1st accumulations of snw for this season from Chicago & Midwest moving East; US Marines arrive w aid in stricken Philippines w aid as new storms rolls in; study shows today PG movies are more violent than R rated movies of the 1980s; European Space Agency satellite which studied gravity runs out of fuel falls back towards Earth but burns up in atmosphere; Pres Obama welcomes oldest living Vet, Richard Overton, 107 Yr. old, to the White House(Washington DC);Iran insisted on a formal recognition of its right to enrich uranium in talks w US & European leaders over the lifting of sanctions;c football BCS top 5- Alabama, FLA St, OSU, Stanford (Lisa SC is #10); Steelers W. OTD 1647 1st compulsory school attendance law in Am. (Mass); 1750 1st college frat formed in US (The FHC Society aka Flat Hat Club, founded Raleigh Tavern, Willamsburg, VA); 1865 Mary Edward Walker becomes 1st woman to be awarded the Medal of Honor, she was an Army surgeon; 1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state; 1909 US begins to build a naval base at Peal Harbor (Hawaii); 1918 WWI ends as an armistice between combatants starts at the 11th hr. of the 11th day of the 11th month; 1921 Pres. Harding dedicates The Tomb of the Unknown Solider (Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA;1939 Kate Smith 1st sings God Bless America; 1961 Soviet Party Congress expels Molotov, Malenkov & Kaganovti from the party while the Soviet Parliament renames Stalingrad, Volgograd (Moscow); 1969 Beatles release Get Back; 1972 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to S. Vietnamese Army. BRT in Canada Veterans Day is called Remembrance Day. No matter if you call it Armistice Day, Veterans Day, Remembrance Day, or Sanford Shapiros (my brother in law) 74th Birthday, Enjoy the day.
Posted on: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:27:43 +0000
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