The K-12 TLC Daily Almanac

for

		NOVEMBER 30

Teaching - there can be no finer calling requiring the clearest demonstration of moral and ethical behavior. Ira Shull, For the Love of Teaching

Why do you teach? Let Us Know.		Tell Us about your most memorable teacher.

Today's 5-Minute Quest

Answers to all questions can be found on this page or by using links provided on this page.
Good Luck!

BEGINNERS

1. For what invention did John Landis Mason receive a patent on this day in 1858? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. Who recorded his first observations of the face of the Moon on this date in 1609? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

3. According to USA Today, who scored four touchdowns in Southern California's 55-24 victory over Notre Dame on this date in 1974? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the name of a children's author/illustrator born on this date:
CAM GRAZE MOTH

INTERMEDIATE

1. Who was elected Secretary General of the United Nations on this date in 1962? (hint: the answer is found on this page)

2. According to PBS, how many brothers and sisters did Mark Twain have? (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

3. According to the Gale Group, what is the title of the ballet written by Gordon Parks. (hint: you will need to use a link found on this page)

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a production written by David Mamet (according to the Internet Broadway Database):
COLUMBIA FANFARE

EXPERT
(hint: all three questions will require you to use a link found on this page)

1. According to the Nobel Foundation, for what achievement was Winston Churchill awarded the 1953 Nobel Prize for Literature?

2. According to the Nobel Foundation, for what achievement was Henry Taube awarded the 1983 Nobel Prize for Chemistry?

3. According to the National Women's Hall of Fame, what district did Shirley Chisholm serve when elected to Congress in 1968?

Use all of these letters to spell the title of a work written by Jonathan Swift (according to Authors' Calendar):
TABULATE OAF

Mark Twain Born on This Date 1835	Winston Churchill Born on This Date 1874 [Churchill Center Inc.]	Gordon Parks Born on This Date 1912	Henry Taube Born on This Date 1915 [Nobel Foundation]	Shirley Chisholm Born on This Date 1924


Computer Security Day (Observed on November 30 since 1988)
Barbados: Independence Day (Commemorates independence from Great Britain: 11/30/1966)
Republic of the Philippines: Bonifacio Day (Commemorates the birth of Philippine revolutionary leader, Andres Bonifacio: 11/30/1863)
Scotland: St. Andrew's Day (Commemorates the feast day of St. Andrew, the patron saint of Scotland)
Turkmenistan: Harvest Holiday/Bread Day



1874	Lucy Maud Montgomery (Canadian Children's Author)
1900	Geoffrey Household (English Children's Author)
1924	Louise Moeri (Oregon-born Children's Author)
1931	Margot Zemach (Los Angeles-born Children's Author, Illustrator: 1974 Caldecott Medal Winner for Duffy and the Devil)

1628	John Bunyan (English Clergy, Author of The Pilgrim's Progress)
1667	Jonathan Swift (Irish Novelist, Satirist, Poet, Pamphleteer, Author of Gulliver's Travels
1835	Mark Twain (Missouri-born Humorist, Author of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn)
1850	Cayetano Coll y Toste (Puerto Rican Historian)
1856	James A. Woodburn (Indiana-born Historian)
1893	I.J. Singer (Polish-born Yiddish Novelist)
1906	J.D. Carr (Pennsylvania Writer of Detective Fiction)
1915	Robert Lax (New York-born Poet)
1947	David Alan Mamet (Chicago-born Playwright)

1508	Andrea Palladio (Italian Renaissance Architect)
1912	Gordon Parks (Kansas-born African-American Writer, Photographer, Filmmaker)

1711	Ebenezer Kinnersley (English Pioneer in the Study of Electricity)
1761	Smithson Tennant (English Chemist Who Discovered Iridium and Osmium)
1843	Martha G. Ripley (Vermont-born Public Health Measure Crusader Who Established Minneapolis Minnesota's Maternity Hospital)
1869	Nils Dalén (Swedish Physicist: 1912 Nobel Laureate in Physics)
1889	Edgar Douglas Adrian (English Neurophysiologist: 19312 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)
1915	Henry Taube (Canadian Chemist: 1983 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry)
1926	Andrew V. Schally (Polish Chemist: 1977 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine)

1466	Andrea Doria (Italian Admiral)

1670	John Toland (Irish Religious Philosopher)

1863	Andres Bonifacio (Philippine Revolutionary Who Laid the Groundwork for the First Philippine Republic)
1874	Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of England; 1953 Nobel Laureate for Literature)
1918	Mabel Evans Cason (Indiana-born African-American Educator and Activist)
1924	Shirley Chisholm (New York-born Politician: First African-American Woman Elected to the U.S. Congress)

1915	Brownie McGhee (Tennessee-born African-American Blues Singer, Guitarist, Pianist, Songwriter)
1929	Joan Ganz Cooney (Arizona-born Producer of Sesame Street
1929	Dick Clark (New York-born Disc Jockey, Television Producer)
1937	Ridley Scott (English Actor)
1952	Mandy Patinkin (Chicago-born Actor)
1955	Billy Idol (English Popular Musician)
1965	Ben Stiller (New York-born Actor)
1978	Clay Aiken (North Carolina-born Popular Musician)

1935	Sandy Koufax (Ohio-born Member of the Baseball Hall of Fame)
1962	Bo Jackson (Alabama-born African-American 1985 Heisman Trophy Winner)

1864	Hiram B. Granbury (Mississippi-born Confederate General from Texas; Killed at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee)
1864	Pat Cleburne (Irish-American Confederate General Killed at the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee
1900	Oscar Wilde (Irish Playwright)
1977	Terence Rattigan (English Playwright)
1999	Robert A. Swanson (New York City-born co-Founder of Genentech Corporation)
2001	Robert Tools (Alabama-born African-American: Lived 151 Days as the First Recipient of a Fully Self-Contained Artificial Heart)


1170	Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas a Becket Returns From a Six-year Political Exile in France

1609	Galileo Records His Firsts Observations of the Face of the Moon

1782	U.S. and Britain Sign Preliminary Articles in Paris, Ending Revolutionary War
1783	5.3 Magnitude Earthquake Is Largest in New Jersey's Recorded History
1784	Meeting in Trenton, New Jersey, the Continental Congress Elects Virginia's Richard Henry Lee As President

1803	The Louisiana Territory is Transferred from Spain to France
1804	U.S. Senate Begins Impeachment Trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase
1804	Clark: This morning at 8 oClock an Indian Calld from the other Side and informed that he had Something of Consequence to Communicate. we Sent a perogue for him & he informed us as follows. Viz: "five men of the Mandan Nation out hunting in a S. W. derection about Eight Leagues was Suprised by a large party of Sceoux & Panies [Arikara Indians] , one man was Killed and two wounded with arrows & 9 Horses taken, 4 of the We ter Soon nation was missing, & they expected to be attacked by the Soiux we thought it well to Show a Disposition to ade and assist them against their enimies, perticularly those who Came in oppersition to our Councils, and I Deturmined to go to the town with Some men, and if the Sceoux were comeing to attact the nation to Collect the worriers from each Village and meet them, thos Ideas were also those of Capt Lewis, I crossed the river in about an hour after the arrival of the Indian express with 23 men including the interpeters and flankd the Town & came up on the back part—The Indians not expecting to receive Such Strong aide in So Short a time was much Supprised, and a littled allarmed at the formadable appearance of my party— The principal Chiefs met me Some Distance from the town (Say 200 yards) and invited me in to town, I ord my pty into dft. lodges & I explained to the nation the cause of my comeing in this formadable manner to their Town, was to asst and Chastise the enimies of our Dutifull Children,— I requested the Grand Cheif to repeat the Circumstancies as they hapined which he did as was mentioned by the Express in the morning— I then informed them that if they would assemble their warrers and those of the different Towns I would to meet the Army of Souix & Chastise thim for takeing the blood of our dutifull Children &c. after a conversation of a fiew minits anongst themselves, one Chief the Big Man Cien Said they now Saw that what we hade told them was the trooth, whin we expected the enimies of their Nation was Comeing to attact them, or had spilt their blood were ready to protect them, and Kill those who would not listen to our Good talk— his people had listened to what we had told them and Carelessly went out to hunt in Small parties believing themselves to be Safe from the other Nations— and have been killed by the Panie [Arikara Indians] s & Seauex. "I knew Said he that the Panies [Arikara Indians] were liers, and told the old Chief who Came with you (to Confirm a piece with us) that his people were liers and bad men and that we killed them like the Buffalow, when we pleased, we had made peace Several times and your Nation have always Condemmed the war, we do not want to Kill you, and will not Suffer you to Kill us or Steal our horses, we will make peace with you as our two fathers have derected, and they Shall See that we will not be the Ogressors, but we fear the Ricares [Recorees - Arikara Indians] will not be at peace "My father those are the words I Spoke to the Ricare [Recorees - Arikara Indians] in Your presents— you See they have not opened their ears to your good Councils but have Spuilt our blood." two Ricarees [Recorees - Arikara Indians] whome we Sent home this day for fear of our peoples Killing them in their greaf—informed us when they Came here Several days ago, that two Towns of the Ricares [Recorees - Arikara Indians] were makeing their Mockersons, and that we had best take care of Our horses &."— a number of Sieuex were in their Towns, and they believed not well disposed towards us— four of the Wetersoons are now absent they were to have been back in 16 days they have been Out 24 we fear they have fallen. my father the Snow is deep and it is cold our horses Cannot travel thro the the plains,— those people who have Spilt our blood have gorn back? if you will go with us in the Spring after the Snow goes off we will raise the Warriers of all the Towns & nations around about us, and go with you." I told this nation that we Should be always willing and ready to defend them from the insults of any nation who would dare to Come to doe them injurey dureing the time we would remain in their neighbourhood, and requstd. that they would inform us of any party who may at any time be discovered by their Patroles or Scouts; I was Sorry that the Snow in the Plains had fallen So Deep Sence the Murder of the young Chief by the Scioux as prevented, their horses from traveling I wished to meet those Scioux & all others who will not open their ears, but make war on our dutiful! Children, and let you See that the Wariers of your great father will Chastize the enimies of his dutifull Children the Mandans, wetersoons & Winitarees, who have opend. their ears to his advice— you Say that the Panies or Ricares [Recorees - Arikara Indians] were with the Sciaux, Some bad men may have been with the Sciaux you know there is bad men in all nations, do not get mad with the racarees [Recorees - Arikara Indians] untill we know if those bad men are Countenced by their nation, and we are Convinced those people do not intend to follow our Councils— you know that the Sceaux have great influence over the ricarees [Recorees - Arikara Indians] and perhaps have led Some of them astray— you know that the Ricarees [Recorees - Arikara Indians] , are Dependant on the Sceaux for their guns, powder, & Ball, and it was policy in them to keep on as good terms as possible with the Sciaux untill they had Some other means of getting those articles &c. &. you know your Selves that you are Compelled to put up with little insults from the Christinoes & Ossinboins because if you go to war with those people, they will provent the traders in the north from bringing you Guns Powder & Ball and by that means distress you verry much, but whin you will have Certain Suppliers from your Great American father of all those articls you will not Suffer any nation to insult you &c. after about two hours conversation on various Subjects all of which tended towards their Situation &c. I informed them I Should return to the fort, the Chief Said they all thanked me verry much for the fatherly protection which I Showed towards them, that the Village had been Crying all the night and day for the death of the brave young man, who fell but now they would wipe away their tears, and rejoice in their fathers protection—and Cry no more— I then Paraded & Crossed the river on the ice and Came down on the N. Side the Snow So deep, it was verry fatigueing arrved at the fort after night, a Cold night the river rise to its former hite— The Chief frequently thanked me for Comeing to protect them— and the whole Village appeared thankfull for that measure
1805	Clark: Some rain and hail with intervales of fair weather for the Space of one or two hours at a time dureing the night untill 9 oClock this morning, at which time it Cleared away and the Sun Shewn for ____ hours, Several men out hunting I Send 5 men in the bend above to hunt fowl &c. in a Canoe, employ all the others in drying our wet articles by the fire Several men Complain of a looseness and gripeing which I contribute to the diet, pounded fish mixed with Salt water, I derect that in future that the party mix the pounded fish with fresh water— The Squar gave me a piece of bread made of flour which She had reserved for her child and carefully Kept untill this time, which has unfortunately got wet, and a little Sour— this bread I eate with great Satisfaction, it being the only mouthfull I had tasted for Several months past my hunters killed three Hawks, which we found fat and delicious, they Saw 3 Elk but Could not get a Shot at them. The fowlers killed 3 black Ducks with Sharp White beeks keep in large flocks & feed on Grass, they have no Craw and their toes are Seperate, Common in the U. States The Chinnooks in this neighbourhood bury their dead in their Canoes. for this purpose 4 pieces of Split timber are Set erect on end, and sunk a fiew feet in the ground, each brace having their flat Sides opposit to each other and Sufficiently far assunder to admit the width of the Canoe in which the dead are to be deposited; through each of those perpindicular posts, at the hight of 6 feet a mortice is Cut, through which two bars of wood are incerted; on those Cross bars a Small Canoe is placed, in which the body is laid after beaing Carefully roled in a robe of Some dressed Skins; a paddle is also deposited with them; a larger Canoe is now reversed, overlaying and imbracing the Small one, and resting with its gunnals on the Cross bars; one or more large mats of flags or rushes are then rold. around the Canoe and the whole Securely lashed with a long Cord usially made of the bark of the arbar vita or white Cedar. on the Cross bars which Support the Canoes is frequently hung or laid various articles of Clothing Culinary utensils &c. we cannot understand them Sufficiently to make any enquiries relitive to their religious opinions, from their depositing Various articles with their dead, beleve in a State of future ixistance. I walked on the point and observed rose bushes different Species of pine, a Spcies of ash, alder, a Species of wild Crab Loral and Several Species of under Broth Common to this lower part of the Columbia river- The hills on this Coast rise high and are thickly covered with lofty pine maney of which are 10 & 12 feet through and more than 200 feet high. hills have a Steep assent.
1817	59 Soldiers & Settlers Killed & Wounded in Indian Attack on Florida's Apalachicola River
1819	Savannah Returns to Savannah, Georgia As First Steamship to Cross the Atlantic
1834	A Total Eclipse of the Sun Is Visible Over Arkansas: 11:30 a.m. - 2:20 p.m.
1836	The Wisconsin Territorial Legislature Approves the Incorporation of the Bank of Milwaukee
1838	Mexico Declares War on France in Response to French Occupation of Vera Cruz
1846	Iowa's First General Assembly Meets in Iowa City
1848	Ashley County, Arkansas Is Created
1853	Russian Fleet Destroys the Turkish Fleet at the Battle of Sinope
1858	John Landis Mason Receives U.S. Patent #22186 for the Mason Jar
1858	Governor Signs Legislation Creating Clayton County, Georgia
1863	Florida Legislature Designates December 24 As a Day of "Fasting, Humiliation and Prayer"
1864	Confederate Forces Suffer Devastating Defeat at Franklin, Tennessee
1875	African-American Inventor, A.P. Ashbourne, Patents a Biscuit Cutter
1877	Tchaikovsky's "Variations on a Rococo Theme" for Cello and Orchestra Are First Performed in Moscow
1882	The Cornerstone Is Laid for the University of Little Rock
1886	Folies Bergýre Stages First Revue
1889	African-American Inventor, S.R. Scratton, Patents a Curtain Rod
1893	The Ohio Hospital for Epileptics Opens in Gallipolis
1895	Peter Trimble Rowe Is Consecrated as the Episcopal Bishop of Alaska
1897	African-American Inventor, J.A. Sweeting, Patents Cigarette Rolling Device
1899	Hartford Electric Makes First Commercial Use of Aluminum Electrical Conductors

1901	Monsanto Incorporates
1901	Henry Ford Incorporates a Company That Becomes the Cadillac Division of GM
1902	U. Chicago Ends U. Michigan 56-game Win Streak with 2-0 Victory.
1902	Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan Sentenced to 20 years Hard Labor in Tennessee
1903	The Brooklyn Academy of Music Facility Burns to the Ground
1904	The City of Dania, Florida Is Incorporated
1912	A Proclamation by the Governor Gives Oregon Women the Right to Vote
1913	Rachmaninov Conducts the First Performance of His Choral Symphonic Poem, "The Bells," in St. Petersburg, Russia
1917	Louise Olivereau Is Convicted for Encouraging Men to Avoid WWI Military Service
1921	The Joy of Cooking Is First Published
1921	In Delaware, the Wilmington Fire Department Is First Organized with Fifty Paid Fire Fighters
1925	Miami, Florida Receives a Record 14.1 Inches of Rain During a 12-Hour Period
1936	London Landmark, the Crystal Palace, Burns to the Ground
1937	Tennessee William's Play Fugitive Kind Premieres in St. Louis
1939	Almost 500,000 Soviet Troops Invade Finland
1940	Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Are Married
1947	Alaska Airlines Charter Flight Crash Lands At Seattle-Tacoma Airport Killing 9
1949	Chinese Communists Capture Chungking

1950	In a Press Conference President Truman Threatens Chinese with the Atomic Bomb
1952	First Full-Length 3-D Movie, Bwana Devil, Opens in New York
1954	Alabama Woman Is First Person in Recorded History to be Struck by a Meteorite
1955	John Steinbeck's Play Pipe Dream Opens in New York
1956	Floyd Patterson Defeats Archie Moore for World Heavyweight Championship
1959	Production Begins on Alfred Hitchcock's Classic Thriller Psycho
1960	Novelist Ernest Hemingway Undergoes Shock Treatment for Depression at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minnesota
1962	U Thant of Burma Elected Secretary-General of the United Nations
1963	Israeli Teenage Pianist/Composer, Shulamit Ran, Performs Her "Capriccio" for Piano and Orchestra with the New York Philharmonic
1966	Barbados Gains Independence from Great Britain
1967	6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 18 Along the Albania-Yugoslavia Border
1968	West Virginia's Consolidated Coal Company's #9 Mine Is Sealed, Ten Days After Deadly Explosion
1970	NASA Launches the OAO-B Automated Orbiting Astronomical Observatory B
1974	Leakeys Uncover Landmark Female Fossilized Remains "Lucy" in Ethiopia
1974	USC Defeats Notre Dame 55-24 After Trailing 24-0 at Half
1976	7.3 Magnitude Earthquake Kills 1 Person in Chile
1977	Lenny Wilkens Is Hired As Coach of the Seattle Supersonics
1979	Sugar Ray Leonard Defeats Wifred Benitez: World Welterweight Championship
1981	U.S. and USSR Open Talks to Reduce Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces
1982	Animal Rights Activists Bomb British Prime Minister's Residence, #10 Downing Street
1982	Florida's African-American Legislators Organize the State's First "Black Caucus"
1987	7.9 Magnitude Earthquake Is Centered in the Gulf of Alaska
1987	Bo Jackson Rushes for 221 Yards, 3 TDs for Oakland Raiders on 25th Birthday
1993	Clinton Signs Brady Bill Requiring Waiting Period for Handgun Purchase
1993	Tacoma, Washington's City Council Approves Chinese Reconciliation Resolution
1994	Almost 1,000 Abandon Achille Lauro Cruise Ship Fire on the Indian Ocean
1995	President Bill Clinton Is First U.S. President to Visit Northern Ireland
1999	40,000 Demonstrators Disrupt 135-nation Trade Gathering in Seattle

2000	NASA Launches Space Shuttle Endeavor (STS-97) for the International Space Station
2000	John Corigliano's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Symphony No. 2 Is Firsts Performed by the Boston Symphony
2004	Kweisi Mfume Announces Resignation As President of the NAACP

NOVEMBER 30