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Today is 7 November and this happened today in the past:

3️⃣ Canadian musician Leonard Cohen who was a hugely influential singer and songwriter 🎤🎼, known for spare songs that carried an existential bite, died at age 82 on this day in 2016. 🙏🌹 @Miss_Penpal I copied this from the site where I always look for the news of the day in the past. Do people in Canada know that singer well?

I don't know about other Canadians, but I've never heard of him. And I also searched up some of his songs (because I always forget the names of people I don't know personally), I'm pretty sure I've never heard them before.

Hi Yue and Miss_Penpal,

I just watched a series about Leonard Cohen on TV some weeks ago.
https://www.ardmediathek.de/serie/so-long-marianne/staffel-1/Y3JpZDovL25kci5kZS81MDI0/1
I knew/know some songs of him...

...and he also had a love affair with Joni Mitchel. You mentioned that she has birthday today.
Wonderful song writerin!

There is the lyrics of a song of Joni Mitchel,
It`s called "Both Sides Now" or "Clouds"

Rows and floes of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I've looked at clouds that way

But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

I've looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It's cloud illusions I recall
I really don't know clouds at all

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As every fairy tale comes real
I've looked at love that way

But now it's just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don't let them know
Don't give yourself away

I've looked at love from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's love's illusions I recall
I really don't know love at all

Tears and fears and feeling proud
To say "I love you" right out loud
Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
I've looked at life that way

But now old friends are acting strange
They shake their heads, they say I've changed
Well something's lost, but something's gained
In living every day

I've looked at life from both sides now
From win and lose and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

I've looked at life from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It's life's illusions I recall
I really don't know life at all

Greetings to @Fleurke, who loves clouds

Wowww that is very nice @H_E_A_R_T!!!! I had no idea who that was. This is the song right? I found it on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXr2EFomFkU 😊😊

She is also Canadian i saw in the news message above. I copied it from the website with the news of the day and i select the things that i think that maybe others like. 😃

Yes that`s the song and here is a version
of her years later. I think you can hear that
she is more experienced
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cBf0olE9Yc

and this is her version with almost 80 years
after suffering a stroke in 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxiluPSmAF8

That is super nice @H_E_A_R_T!! Thank you very much!! I have to help with babysitting after dinner but i will listen to them when im back!! 🙂 I like that she sings also softly that is nice!! 🥰🥰

5️⃣ Eleanor Roosevelt - who was first lady of the United States and one of the world's most widely admired and powerful women, known as a diplomat and a humanitarian - died in New York City on 7 November 1962 at age 78. 🌼🌼⭐🙏

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8️⃣ These people were born on 7 November: French physicist Marie Curie (1967),

I think that, talking about widely admired women and source of inspiration, Marie Curie should be one of the very first. What she accomplished with her husband, not as a woman, but as a human being, is exceptional and put her among the major contributors of human history.

I think that, talking about widely admired women and source of inspiration, Marie Curie should be one of the very first. What she accomplished with her husband, not as a woman, but as a human being, is exceptional and put her among the major contributors of human history.

Thank you very much @Lianshen! I copied that from Eleanor Roosevelt from the website with the news from the past! 😛 But I agree about Marie Curie but i dont know a lot about her. I got a book some time ago about 20 women who changed the world and you can read nice things about them and Marie Curie was also in that book!!!! 😃 📖 📖 If you want i can look in the book who else was mentioned because I can only remember now some immediately. 🙂

Today is 9 November and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ Long a symbol of the Cold War, the Berlin Wall, erected in 1961 and eventually extending 28 miles (45 km) to divide the western and eastern sectors of Berlin, was opened by the East German government on this day in 1989. 🚧🚧🚧🛂🛂🚧🚧🚧

2️⃣ Cambodia became independent from France on 9 November 1953. Maybe you already knew that @Sabri_KC because you are the country expert of PPG! 😛

3️⃣ Wes Craven's movie A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in American theatres on 9 November 1984, introducing moviegoers to the villain Freddy Krueger; considered a horror classic, it spun off a number of sequels. Who likes horror movies? I know that @Simone724 likes them! 😛 Do you like this movie Simone or not? 🙂

4️⃣ On 9 November 1985, Garry Kasparov, who was 22 years old, defeated Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest male world chess champion. 🏆🥇♟️ Who of the readers in this forum likes to play chess? 😇😇

5️⃣ On this day in 2004, Swedish writer and activist Stieg Larsson died from a heart attack in Stockholm, a year before The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the first installment in his internationally acclaimed Millennium series, was published. Did anybody read this book? 🙄📙🐉

6️⃣ Beginning on this night in 1938, called Kristallnacht (“Crystal Night” or “Night of Broken Glass”), some 48 hours of Nazi-orchestrated anti-Jewish violence erupted throughout Germany and Austria, resulting in the destruction and vandalizing of synagogues and Jewish businesses and the deaths of at least 91 Jews. 😢😢🥀✨ This week there was also violence in Amsterdam in the Netherlands because there were Jewish football supporters and Dutch people who were not football fans attacked them because of the conflict now in the Middle East. And almost everybody else in the Netherlands thinks it is STUPID and DUMB to just attack football fans because they are Jewish. 😞😞😞

7️⃣ On this day Albert Einstein was named the winner of the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect; the Nobel committee had delayed awarding the 1921 physics prize until 1922. 🏆🥇👨‍🔬🎓

8️⃣ The Coup of 18–19 Brumaire began in Paris on 9 November 1799, marking Napoleon's rise to power and the end of the French Revolution. @Etienne, @Lianshen and @Sabri_KC maybe you like this news about France because it happened today in the past. 🙂 I looked up on google for a website if you want to read more about the Coup and you can read here if you like it: https://www.napoleon.org/en/history-of-the-two-empires/articles/18-brumaire-the-context-and-course-of-a-coup-detat/

9️⃣ These people were born on this day: Pakistan poet and philosopher Muhammad Iqbal (1877), Austrian-born American actress Hedy Lamarr (1913), American singer and actress Dorothy Dandridge (1922), American astronomer Carl Sagan (1934), actor Eric Dane (1972), Italian football player Alessandro Del Piero (1974), actress and producer Alex Owens-Sarno (1988). 🎊🎉🎁🎈🍰🎂🥳🥳 Who do you know of these persons? 😃

A Nightmare on Elm Street i liked alot im akso a lover of horrormovies @Yue hhh

@Fleurke and @Simone724 are the brave movie watchers of PPG!! 😛

🏆🥇🏆 🎥🎞️

I know the actor Eric Dane. He played in "Grey's Anatomy".
A serie I "had to" watch with my daughter 🙂

I know the actor Eric Dane. He played in "Grey's Anatomy".
A serie I "had to" watch with my daughter 🙂

Did you like watching it Christine? 🙂 I also watch series with my mom but the most are Korean dramas on Netflix and we both like it a lot!! 😛 😛

I liked it a lot to be with my daughter.
Actually Greys Anatomy was quite interesting because of the medical topics.
But almost every series becomes addictive even when you can`t stand it in the beginning.
Well, it might be due to my addictive personality. 🙂

I liked it a lot to be with my daughter.
Actually Greys Anatomy was quite interesting because of the medical topics.
But almost every series becomes addictive even when you can`t stand it in the beginning.
Well, it might be due to my addictive personality. 🙂

But that is nice addiction!! 😛 We just stopped watching netflix because my mom fell asleep two times so we have to stop and it is super late!! 🥱🥱😝😝 Are you watching a nice series now too on tv or an app? 🙂

Actually my daughter and I just snuggeled on the couch
and talked about a lot. She was waiting for her father to come home
to watch "The Last Of Us". I´ve already watched it with her I guess
a year ago.

Actually my daughter and I just snuggeled on the couch
and talked about a lot. She was waiting for her father to come home
to watch "The Last Of Us". I´ve already watched it with her I guess
a year ago.

It is nice she watches also with her dad series!! My dad likes other things more like car racing but i think that is a bit boring and i dont want to get deaf from the tv and him because he is SUPER loud. But he does not like Korean dramas or other series on Netflix or Viki! 😛

Tomorrow i will write a new update for the day from what happened in the past. But now i have to sleep first! Goodnight Christine and everybody!!! 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️🙋‍♀️

Today is 10 November and this happened today in the past:

1️⃣ On 10 November 1918, Józef Piłsudski, Polish revolutionary and first chief of state of the newly reconstituted Poland, arrived in Warsaw to declare Poland an independent state.

2️⃣ Turkish reformer Kemal Atatürk, the founder and first president (1923–38) of the Republic of Turkey, died in Istanbul on 10 November 1938.

3️⃣ On this day in 1958, the Hope diamond, one of the largest blue diamonds known, was donated to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., becoming one of its most-popular attractions.

4️⃣ The American children's TV series Sesame Street - which featured a cast of puppet characters that included Elmo, Big Bird, and the Cookie Monster - debuted on the National Educational Television network (later PBS) on 10 November 1969. Also on this day but in 1990, the American comedy film Home Alone, written by John Hughes and starring Macaulay Culkin, had its world premiere; a huge hit, it spawned a number of sequels and became a TV staple during the Christmas holidays.

5️⃣ After 15 years of negotiations, China's membership in the World Trade Organization was approved on 10 November 2001, and the following day Taiwan's membership was approved.

6️⃣ On this day in 1871, according to his journal, explorer Henry Stanley greeted David Livingstone, the fellow explorer in search of the source of the Nile River, with the famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

7️⃣ These people were born on this day: king of Great Britain George II (1683), German writer Friedrich Schiller (1759), Irish poet and statesman Patrick Pearse (1879), Welsh actor Richard Burton (1925) and British writer Neil Gaiman (1960).