Ridley’s Believe It Or Not November 26, 2022
National Holiday: Small
Business Saturday: Created by American Express in 2010 to promote shoppers
leaving the large chain retailers to shop in independently owned businesses
that may be beaten on price but not on customer service and support of the
local economy.
Word of the Day: The word of
the day is “abear” which means to behave a trait that brings tears of joy to
parents’ eyes.
Number
1 Song of the Day: The number 1 song in 2021 was Adele’s “Easy on Me” on a run
of 7 weeks non continuous to share with 23 other acts recording number 1 hits,
9 of whom achieved their first number 1. Her is a music video of Adele performing “Easy
on Me”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3ASj1L6_sY
Famous
Birthdays: Bill Wilson, born on this day in 1895, co-founded Alcoholics
Anonymous with Dr. Bob on June 10, 1935 to help millions of alcoholics achieve sobriety
but never overcame his smoking habit to
die on January 24, 1971 at the age of 75 from pneumonia.
Famous Events that occurred on November
26th
1. 1789—President
Washington proclaimed a National Day of Thanksgiving.
2. 1941—In a too late moment, the Hull Note demanding Japan
withdraw from China and French Indochina and in return the U.S. would lift its
crippling sanction was delivered to the Japanese Ambassador as the Japanese Pearl
Harbor Attack Force was leaving its naval base in Japan enroute to Hawaii after
the Hull Note was received in Japan.
3. 1977— A speaker claimed to be Vrillon, a representative of the
Ashtar Galactic, took over the audio of England’s Southern Television for some
6 minutes hectoring viewers to disarm their forces before signing off, never to be caught.
4. 1988—Tony Blair became the United Kingdom’s first Prime Minister to address
the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland
5. 2003—In an end of an era, the supersonic Concorde
made its last flight over Bristol, England but do not know it the residents
were treated to a parting sonic boom salute.
Quotes
of the Day: Gordon Roxburgh on a Concorde DVD at Heathrow on the last
day of commercial Concorde flights: “Here we are, October 24th,
2003, we can get from London to New York if we want in 3 hours, 20 minutes. On October
25th 2003, it’ll take nearly 8 hours.” After the last landing of a Concorde,
at Filton, its pilot Capt. Mike
Bannister: “From today, the world is a bigger place.”
Michael P Ridley
aka the Alaskanpoet
www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com
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