Neil Percival Young is 79 years old today.

Upon moving to Los Angeles from Winnipeg,Canada in the 1960s,
Young joined the folk-rock group Buffalo Springfield. He was also
a part-time member of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

On November 12, 1799, Andrew Ellicott, an early American
astronomer, witnessed the Leonids meteor shower from
a ship off the Florida Keys. Ellicott wrote in his journal
that the “whole heaven appeared as if illuminated with
sky rockets, flying in an infinity of directions, and I was
in constant expectation of some of them falling on the
vessel.

They continued until put out by the light of the sun after
day break.” Ellicott’s journal entry is the first known record
of a meteor shower in North America.

Robin Williams starred in this "Happy Days" spinoff as Mork,
an alien who studied human behavior in Boulder, Colorado,
with the help of his friend Mindy, played by Pam Dawber.

 
The sitcom aired on ABC from September 14,
1978, to May 27, 1982.

Veterans Day was originally known as Armistice Day. On 
November 11, 1919, President Woodrow Wilson issued a
message to his countrymen on the first Armistice Day, in
which he expressed what he felt the day meant to all
Americans. Armistice Day was renamed Veterans Day
in 1954.

Veterans Day is distinct from Memorial Day, a U.S. public
holiday in May: Veterans Day commemorates the service
of all U.S. veterans, while Memorial Day specifically honors
those who have died while in military service.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)