Ohio River Report #401- Today is Thursday, November 13, 2014, there are 48 days left in the year. 🌟 On this day in 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, is born in Scotland. Stevenson studied civil engineering and law, but decided to pursue a career as a writer and began publishing essays and travel pieces. His decision alienated his parents, who expected him to follow the family trade of lighthouse keeping. The family wasnt reconciled for years. In 1876, Stevenson fell in love with an American woman named Fanny Vandegrift Osbourne, who was separated from her husband. When she returned to San Francisco in 1879, Stevenson followed her. The couple married and returned to Scotland in 1880. Stevenson published a collection of essays in 1881, and Treasure Island, one of his most popular books, in 1883. In 1885, he published the first version of the popular nursery-rhyme book A Childs Garden of Verse. In 1846, he published Kidnapped, and in 1886 he published Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. In 1888, the family set off for the South Seas, seeking a healthier climate for Stevensons tuberculosis. The family finally settled in Samoa, where Stevenson died in 1894. 🌟 On November 13, 1979, in the middle of a game at the Municipal Auditorium in Kansas City, Philadelphia 76ers center Darryl Dawkins leaps over Kansas City Kings forward Bill Robinzine and slam-dunks the basketball, shattering the fiberglass backboard. The result, according to people who were at the game, was a sound like a bomb going off in the middle of the court. Shards of glass were everywhere: They nicked Robinzine all over his legs and arms and gotten stuck in Dr. J’s Afro. It wasn’t really a safe thing to do, Dawkins chuckled later, but it was a Darryl Dawkins thing to do. 🌟 In 1982, Near the end of a weeklong national salute to Americans who served in the Vietnam War, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington after a march to its site by thousands of veterans of the conflict. The long-awaited memorial was a simple V-shaped black-granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans who died in the conflict, arranged in order of death, not rank, as was common in other memorials. The time is 6:24 AM our temperature right now is 30° on our way to a high of 38°. Winds are registering in at 4-5 mph from the WNW. Humidity is 82% with visibility of 10 miles and a barometer reading of 30.20. The flu report for Ohio and West Virginia remains sporadic or no activity. Have a great day! -with Roy Clouston
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:32:10 +0000
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