Daily Calendar for Monday, November 25, 2024
Question of the Day
What is the best way to deodorize my car?
Clean all the upholstery and carpeting with a mixture of vinegar and water. Sponge it in and blot with a towel. You can clean the remaining interior surfaces the same way.
Advice of the Day
To clean a steam iron, fill it with vinegar, let sit overnight, and flush with water.
Home Hint of the Day
To hammer in a small brad without hammering the fingers that hold it, poke the brad through the edge of a piece of cardboard, holding it while you tap the brad in most of the way. Then pull the cardboard free and pound the nail flush.
Word of the Day
Civvies
Civilian garb as opposed to a military uniform.
Puzzle of the Day
What is the difference between a locomotive and a hound?
One runs on the track, and the other tracks on the run.
Born
- Franz Gruber (composer) β
- Andrew Carnegie (industrialist) β
- Georg Kaiser (dramatist) β
- Virgil Thomson (composer) β
- Helen Gahagan Douglas (politician) β
- Joe DiMaggio (baseball player) β
- John Larroquette (actor) β
- Amy Grant (singer) β
- John F. Kennedy, Jr. (son of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy) β
- Christina Applegate (actress) β
- Barbara Pierce Bush and Jenna Welch Bush (fraternal twin daughters of President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush) β
Died
- Upton Sinclair (writer) β
- Flip Wilson (actor & comedian) β
- Rance Howard (actor) β
Events
- First sword-swallower performance in the U.S.β
- First YMCA in North America opened, in Montreal, Quebecβ
- Last log entry for Mary Celeste before crew disappeared β
- Greenback Party (originally, National Independent Party) organizedβ
- American College of Surgeons incorporatedβ
- Albert Einstein formulated his general theory of relativityβ
- The first door to King Tut’s tomb was openedβ
- President John F. Kennedy was buried at 3:34 pm EST in Arlington National Cemeteryβ
- Robert S. Ledley granted a patent for CAT scanβ
- Rene Levesque became premier of Quebecβ
- U.S. chess champion John Donaldson wed Soviet champion Elena Akhmilovskayaβ
- Ireland voted to legalize divorceβ
Weather
- A tornado ripped through Portland, Arkansasβ
- Steubenville, Ohio, received 36.3 inches of snowβ
- West Virginia received 57 inches of snowβ
- A blizzard hit the Appalachian states and nearby areas. Hartford, Connecticut, recorded gusts of 100 miles (160km) per hour.β
- Winds atop Mount Washington in New Hampshire were recorded at 160 miles per hourβ