Oct 1

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Oct 1, 2017 Week: 40 \ Day: 274

86004 Today: H 70° \ L 40°

Average Sky Cover: 2% 

Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  27mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 85°[1980]   Record Low: 23°[1982]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)

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Quote of the Day

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.

Sophocles

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Observances Today

Ashura

CD Player Day

Change A Light Day Link 

Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day  

Fire Pup Day

International Coffee Day  Link

International Day of Older Persons

Intergeneration Day  

International African Diaspora Day 

International Blessings of The Fishing Fleet Day (South Africa)
International Music Day Link

Model T Day

National Book It! Day

National Homemade Cookies Day

National Lace Day Link

National Walk Your Dog Day Link  Link

Vegan Baking Day

World Vegetarian Day

World Communion Day  

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Observances This Week

Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week: 1-5  Link

National Walk Your Dog Week: 1-7 Link   Link

Universal Children's Week: 1-7

4-H Week: 1-7 Link (1st Full Week) 

Great Books Week: 1-7  (1st Full Week) 

International Post Card Week: 1-7 Link   (1st Full Week) 

Mental Illness Awareness Week: 1-7  (1st Full Week) 

Mystery Series Week: 1-7 (1st Full Week) 

National Carry A Tune Week: 1-7 (Always had 7th in it)

National Chimney Safety Week: 1-7 (Week before Fire Prevention Week)

National Midwifery Week:1-7 (1st Full Week) Link

National Work From Home Week: 1-7 (1st Full Week) 

Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week : 1-7  (1st Full Week) 

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                 

◄1661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James, Duke of York racing from Greenwich to Gravesend

1800’s                                 

◄1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, redrew Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte

◄1829 South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.

1837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians

◄1843 News of the World begins publication in London

1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued

1854 The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.

◄1864 Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed

◄1867 Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published

◄1868 "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston

◄1869 1st postcards are issued (Vienna, Austria)

1880 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of US Marine Corps Band

1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time

1890 Congress creates Weather Bureau

1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)

1891 In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors

1892 University of Chicago opens

◄1898 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.

1900’s                                 

1903 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)

1907 Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens

1907 A downturn in the stock market leads to a run on the dollar; US President Theodore Roosevelt will be forced to call on financier JP Morgan to help manage the financial crisis

1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)

◄1914 The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth

◄1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence("Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus

1919 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)

1926 An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.

◄1928 USSR launches its first 5-year plan

1931 The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.

◄1934 Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles

1942 Little Golden Books (children's books) begins publishing

◄1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day)

◄1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa

1957 First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.

1958 US space agency NASA begins operations incorporating earlier National Advisory Council on Aeronautics and other bodies

◄1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)

◄1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977

1962 James Meredith becomes the 1st black student at the University of Mississippi

1964 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley

1982 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida

1982 The Sony CDP-101, world's first commercially released Compact Disc player released in Japan for 168,000 yen ($730)

◄1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany

◄1994 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US

2000’s                                    

◄2000 27th Olympic Games closes at Sydney, Australia

2012 California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice fall Saturday. Took a nice walk this morning. Aspens on the Peaks are starting to change color. Beautiful.

Lots of weekend traffic and lots of fender benders. Tourists seem to believe that they can stop anywhere on the highway to look at a tree or a motel. Never mind that locals have places to go, people to see, and things to do. One of the joys of living in a beautiful place. I paid the BBB tax for decades when I came into town for the weekend. Recently the geniuses at that board decided that our town needed ‘street art’. Not like the various street art of 3D art, they have put up around our town, but actual ‘paint it on the street’ art. At a busy intersection downtown, they have painted an ad for tourism. Lots of money for something that will probably last a year in good shape and then have a long slow death. Our town has lots of snow in the winter months, they use cinders on the roads as chemicals are hard on the environment, and then there are the snow plows. The ‘art’ is taking up the entire intersection where two busy two-lane streets cross. The long-time locals are not at all happy, but the board doesn’t seem phased. Well, it is a little late, since it was a secret project until the painting started. The board promises to get more input on their next project. We’ll have to wait and see.

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Bizarre News

*--------------- The Pink Panther ---------------*

A Russian mining company has unearthed a massive pink diamond they believe could be the most expensive gem yet recovered by the group. The 27.85-carat pink gem was recovered by Alrosa PJSC from the company's alluvial mines in the northwest part of Yakutia in Russia's Far East. According to Alrosa, the pink gem is of jewelry quality with almost no defects. It measures 22.47 by 15.69 by 10.9 millimeters. Until the latest diamond was unearthed, the biggest pink gem recovered by Alrosa measured 3.86-carats. "Experts of Alrosa are currently studying this gem to decide on whether to sell it as a raw diamond or cut it," Evgeny Agureev, head of the United Selling Organization of ALROSA, said in a news release. "Big gems, especially of rare colors, traditionally enjoy high demand at auctions. Considering that no similar gems have been before in Alrosa's history, we can say it will be the most expensive diamond of all time in Alrosa, if it is decided to cut the diamond in the company." Earlier this year, a humongous pink diamond, measuring 59.60-carats, sold at auction in Hong Kong for $71.2 million -- the most ever paid for a gem at auction.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

93- Jimmy Carter,

American politician, 39th US President (D) (1977-81), born in Plains, Georgia

80’s

@87- James Whitmore,

actor (Give 'em Hell Harry), born in White Plains, NY

(d. 2009)

@83- Tom Bosley,

actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote), born in Chicago,

(d. 2010)

82- Julie Andrews,

British actress and singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins), born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey

@80- William Rehnquist,

Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice

(d. 2005)

70’s

@79- Yip Man,

Martial Arts Master

(d. 1972)

@74- William Edward Boeing,

founded aircraft co (Boeing)

(d. 1956)

@72- Richard Harris,

Irish actor (Man Called Horse) and singer (MacArthur Park), born in Limerick, Ireland

(d. 2002)

60’s

@65- George Peppard,

actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max), born in Detroit,

(d. 1994)

61- Theresa May,

British Prime Minister (Conservative: 2016-), born in Eastbourne, England

40’s

48- Zach Galifianakis,

American actor (The Hangover, Birdman) born in Wilkesboro, NC

20’s

28- Brie Larson [Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers],

actress (Room), singer and director, born in Sacramento, California

@23- Bonnie Parker,

American outlaw of Bonnie and Clyde fame, born in Rowena, Texas

(d. 1934)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83-1990 Curtis E LeMay,

USAF General/VP candidate

70’s

@74-1997 Jerome H. Lemelson,

American inventor, (held more than 600 patents),

liver cancer

60’s

@69-1972 Louis Leakey,

Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (Olduvai Gorge),

heart attack

@66-2013 Tom Clancy,

US Author 'The Hunt for Red October',

undisclosed

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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Sep 30

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Sep 30, 2017 Week: 39 \ Day: 273

86004 Today: H 73° \ L 42°

Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  20mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20° (1912)

Record High: 83°[2010]   Record Low: 24°[1907]

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Quote of the Day

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

 Kin Hubbard

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Observances Today

National Mud Pack Day

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Observances This Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                 

1659 Peter Stuyvesant of New Netherlands forbids tennis playing during religious services (1st mention of tennis in US)

1700’s                                 

◄1791 Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna

1800’s                                 

1846 Anesthetic ether used for 1st time by American dentist Dr William Morton who extracts a tooth

1880 American amateur astronomer Henry Draper takes the 1st ever photograph of the Orion Nebula

1898 City of NY established

1900’s                                 

1935 The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated by FDR

◄1946 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1953 Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court

1960 On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"

1960 "The Flintstones" the first animated sitcom created by Hanna-Barbera premieres on ABC in the US

1962 Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers.

1965 Donovan's 1st US TV appearance (Shindig)

◄1966 Botswana (formerly Bechuanaland) gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1970 New American Bible published

◄1977 Due to US budget cuts, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.

1980 Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

1984 CBS' premiere of "Murder She Wrote", starring Angela Landsbury

◄1990 The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in Canada's capital city of Ottawa.

◄1993 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed

1993 US General Colin Powell retires at 56

1997 Hooters agrees to pay $2 million in discrimination suits

2000’s                                 

◄2005 The Parliament of Catalonia passes with 120 plus votes and 15 against, the Project of New Catalan Statute of Autonomy, proclaiming in its article 1, "Catalonia is a nation".

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My Rambling Thoughts

Our retirement group had a nice long lunch yesterday. By the time I got home, it was time to get other things done, thus, no posting yesterday.

I headed out early today for my appointment about my CPAC machine. Yesterday I had to pick up a copy of my usage from the machine provider. I have had this on my mind since I got the letter about denial of service from Medicare. Turns out, all the worrying was for naught. The letter was because a month ago I met with the Dr. about my CPAP machine and he talked about my meds at the same time. Medicare doesn’t let the Dr. do that, so they denied paying for that visit. Too bad it just didn’t say that. Dr. is happy with my use and results, so I don’t have to see him until Spring. That’s nice. About the CPAC yearly review, he looked at the results I brought him. ‘I see you are using it regularly. Good.’ Then ‘Do you have any questions about the machine?’ ‘Nope’. ‘OK thanks for coming in.’ This review, like others, is just a rule of Medicare and must be done in person, with the Dr. and only one thing can be discussed. Crazy.

My tech guy is amazing. I purchased a 5 year Norton subscription a year ago. Turns out they must install the newest version. When I called they also offered me a great deal on Office 365 Professional, which has everything and since it is subscription, it is now upgraded for free. I’ve been using an older version of Office Home and Student which is not everything by far.

‘Clean the Swamp’ battle cry has kinda proven to be words with no action. Several of his ‘GREAT’ cabinet have been bilking the taxpayers on private/chartered jets to attend meetings. One trip cost $400K and the Sec. Price says he will pay for his seat, $50K. Really? No matter what these newbies think, they have NOT been anointed. Also, tired of 45’s words about the ‘great job’ we are doing in Puerto Rico. We are not. Finally, so many on the right were against opening diplomatic channels with Cuba. I am concerned that some diplomats have suffered injury from unknown origin in Cuba. So, 45 says they didn’t find out what it was and Cuba didn’t help enough so he is pulling many diplomats and cutting VISA’s to Cuba. Glad I made it twice in the tiny window that was opened by Obama.

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Bizarre News

Was Adolf Hitler a boxer or briefs man? This 70-year-old question was finally answered recently when a pair of the fuhrer's underpants was sold at auction. 

The answer: boxers, more or less. 

The underwear was left behind in a suite at the luxury Parkhotel Graz in Austria after he stayed there in April 1938.

Auctioneer Bill Panagopulos said he believed the underwear was sent to the hotel's laundry department and were only returned after Hitler and his entourage had checked out. The seller was the grandson of the hotel's owners at the time.

The 19-inch long white linen shorts have a 'surprisingly large' 39-inch waist and are embroidered with the initials 'A.H.'. 

Panagopulos, who owns Alexander Historical Auctions in Chesapeake City, Maryland, said, "We've sold underwear belonging to Eva Braun, but never any belonging to Hitler himself. I think this is the first pair to come to market.

"It's a fascinating thing. It's as close as you can get to Adolf Hitler, literally."

The shorts were sold to a private buyer for $6,737. 

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87- Lester Garfield Maddox,

(Gov-D-Ga)/restaurant owner

(d. 2003)

@87- Elie Wiesel,

Jewish Auschwitz survivor and author (Night), Nobel Prize winner 1986, born in Sighet, Romania

(d. 2016)

86- Angie Dickinson, [Angeline Brown],

Kulm ND, actress (Police Woman)

82- Johnny Mathis,

SF, voclaist (Chances Are, 12th of Never)

70’s

74- Marilyn McCoo,

host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension), born in Jersey City, NJ

@70- William Wrigley Jr.,

American industrialist (Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company)

(d. 1932)

60’s

@69- Buddy Rich,

American jazz drummer and band leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go), born in Brooklyn

(d. 1987)

@66- Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi,

Persian mystic and poet, born in Khorassan, Afghanistan

(d. 1273)

64- Deborah Allen,

country singer (Jim Stafford Show), born in Memphis, Tennessee

@60- Truman Capote,

American author (In Cold Blood), born in New Orleans,

(d. 1984)

60- Fran Drescher,

actress (Cadillac Man, Nanny), born in Queens

50’s

59- Marty Stuart,

Philadelphia Miss, country singer (Hillbilly Rock)

56- Crystal Bernard,

actress (Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings), born in Garland, Texas

40’s

46- Jenna Elfman,

American actress (Townies, Dharma & Greg), born in Los Angeles

30’s

37- Martina Hingis,

Swiss tennis star (5 Grand Slam singles titles), born in Košice, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-1948 Edith Roosevelt,

First Lady of the United States

70’s

@75-1978 Edgar Bergen,

ventriloquist (Charlie McCarthy),

kidney disease

60’s

@64-1985 Simone Signoret,

German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina),

pancreatic cancer

50’s

@59-2003 Robert Kardashian,

Armenian-American lawyer,

cancer

@55±-1877 Toohoolhoolzote,

prophet of Nez Perce indians,

in battle

20’s

@24-1955 James Dean,

actor (Rebel Without a Cause),

car crash

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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Sep 28

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Sep 28, 2017 Week: 39 \ Day: 271

86004 Today: H 60° \ L 35°

Average Sky Cover: 80% 

Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  15mph

          Nearest Lightning: 3m

Visibility: 10 mi

Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20° (1912)

Record High: 82°[1963]   Record Low: 21°[1900]

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Quote of the Day

The young man knows the rules,

but the old man knows the exceptions.

 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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Observances Today

Ask a Stupid Question Day

Fish Tank Floorshow Night

National Drink Beer Day Link

National Good Neighbor Day

Native American Day 

International Right To Know Day Link

World Maritime Day  

World Rabies Day

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Observances This Week

24-30

Banned Books Week

Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link 

International Interpreters and Translators Week 

National Dog Week    Link and  Link

National Fall Foliage Week  Link    

National Keep Kids Creative Week  

Remember to Register to Vote Week 

Sea Otter Awareness Week Link   

World Hearing Aid Awareness Week    Link  

World Reflexology Week 

25-29

Ally Week Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                 

◄1542 Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay, naming it San Miguel and claims it for Spain

1600’s                                 

◄1621 Battle at Chocim Dniester: King Sigismund IIIPolish-Lithuanian Commonwealth defeats an invading Ottoman Imperial army

1700’s                                 

1701 Divorce legalized in Maryland

◄1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)

1800’s                                 

1850 US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment

◄1867 Toronto becomes capital of Ontario

1867 The United States takes control of Midway Island.

◄1879 Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route

◄1889 The first General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) defines the length of a meter as the distance between two lines on a standard bar of an alloy of platinum with ten percent iridium, measured at the melting point of ice

1900’s                                 

1920 8 White Sox indicted, threw 1919 World Series (Black Sox scandal)

◄1923 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of Nations

◄1928 UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.

1953 KOAT TV channel 7 in Albuquerque, NM (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting

1957 "Honeycomb," by Jimmie F. Rodgers hits #1

◄1958 Guinea votes for independence from France

1959 "Hennesey" debuts on CBS-TV

◄1959 Edward Franklin Albee's "Zoo Story" premieres in Berlin

1961 "Hazel" starring Shirley Booth debuts on NBC-TV

1961 "Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV

1963 "Shari Lewis Show" last airs on NBC-TV

1963 "Tennessee Tuxedo" cartoon debuts on CBS-TV

1968 Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1 and stays #1 for 9 weeks

◄1970 Anwar Sadat replaces Gamal Abdel Nasser as acting Egyptian President

◄1971 Hungarian cardinal József Mindszenty after 15 years refuge in US Embassy in Budapest is allowed to leave the country

1975 Bill authorizes admission of women to military academies

1980 Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on PBS

◄1981 “Physical” single released by Olivia Newton-John (Billboard Song of the Year 1982)

1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules

◄1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico City)

1997 Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years in broadcasting

2000’s                                 

◄2008 SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

◄2016 Hurricane Matthew forms near the Windward Islands, will go on to kill over 1000 in Haiti, the Caribbean and the US

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My Rambling Thoughts

Day started out a little cloudy. I headed out to do my weekly shopping. By the time I got back there was a huge very dark cloud up in the sky. About 5 minutes after I brought in my supplies, the rain started. Still coming down. Welcomed by most of us, unless you had to be outside.

Goodness. 45 is telling Indiana people that Healthcare will be back on the ‘front burner’ next year as soon as reconciliation starts again. And now he is ready to do tax reform. Promises are cheap. Not very much information, if any, in his speech…the speech that promised to give us serious information. Not a surprise.

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Bizarre News

*- World's first Sand Hostel open in Australia -*

A handful of lucky winners were given the opportunity to stay in a hostel made entirely out of sand in Australia. Mad Max and The Blue Lagoon World production designer Jon Dowding designed the "Sand Hostel" on The Gold Coast, Kurrawa Terrace. "Hostelworld North America and Destination Gold Coast have transformed beautiful Broadbeach into a hostel made out of sand - featuring everything your dream hostel would include: an outdoor bar, beach volleyball, comfy beds, good vibes, DJs and live music," the hostel's Facebook page states. Denis "Sandman" Masoud used 24 tons of sand to craft the unique hostel featuring an eight-bed dorm and a private double room. A total of 10 people were chosen to stay at the pop-up hostel, complete with free food, drinks, and other luxuries.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- William Windom,

American actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), born in NYC

(d. 2012)

@87- Avery Brundage,

CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72), born in Detroit,

(d. 1975)

83- Brigitte Bardot,

sex kitten (And God Created Women), born in Paris, France

70’s

@74- Freidrich Engels,

German social philosopher

(d. 1895)

@73- Thomas Crapper,

English plumber and inventor (ballcock), born in Thorne, Yorkshire

(d. 1910)

@73- Ed Sullivan,

TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show), born in NYC

(d. 1974)

@71±  Confucius,

Chinese philosopher and founder of Confucianism, born in Zou, Lu state, China

(d. ~479 BC)

@70- Al Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin],

cartoonist (Li'l Abner), born in New Haven, Connecticut

(d. 1979)

60’s

@60- Peter Finch,

actor (Network, Windom's Way, Raid on Entebbe), born in London,

(d. 1977)

50’s

@54- Henri Moissan,

French chemist who isolated the element "fluorine" from its compounds (Nobel 1906), born in Paris

(d. 1907)

53- Janeane Garofalo,

American comedienne (SNL, Truth about Cats & Dogs), born in Newton, NJ

40’s

49- Naomi Watts,

English actress and producer

30’s

30- Hilary Duff,

actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire), born in Houston, Texas

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93-2016 Shimon Peres,

Israeli Prime Minister (Labor), President (2007-14) and Nobel Peace Prize recipient (1994)

@93-2016 Agnes Nixon,

American television producer, director, and writer (All My Children)

80’s

@80-2000 Pierre Trudeau,

15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84)

70’s

@76-2003 Althea Gibson,

American golfer and 1st African American tennis champion in a major event,

infections

@75-1964 Harpo [Arthur] Marx,

comedian (Marx Bros),

following heart surgery

@72-1989 Ferdinand Marcos,

President of Philippines (1965-86),

organ failure

@72-1895 Louis Pasteur,

French bacteriologist (invented pasteurization),

stroke

@72-1891 Herman Melville,

American writer (Billy Budd, Moby-Dick),

stroke

60’s

@65-1991 Miles Davis,

jazz trumpeter,

pneumonia

@65-1978 Pope John Paul I [Albino Luciani],

263rd Roman Catholic Pope dies after 33 days as Pope,

heart attack?

@63-1953 Edwin Hubble,

American astronomer, first to announce existence of other galaxies,

stroke

50’s

@52-1970 Gamal' Abd al-Nassar,

Egypt Pres (1953-70),

heart attack

@50-1914 Richard Sears,

businessman (Sears, Roebuck, and Company)

Bright’s disease

40’s

@42-1968 Dewey Philip "Daddy-O",

American pioneering DJ,

heart failure

@41-1966 Eric Fleming,

actor (Gil-Rawhide),

movie accident

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.

All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.

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