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Oct 3, 2017 Week: 40 \ Day: 276
86004 Today: H 66° \ L 35°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts: 27mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 83°[1980] Record Low: 21°[1902]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Just because something doesn't do what you planned
it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison
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Observances Today
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Observances This Week
Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week: 1-5 Link
Universal Children's Week: 1-7
4-H Week: 1-7 Link
Great Books Week: 1-7
International Post Card Week: 1-7 Link
Mental Illness Awareness Week: 1-7
Mystery Series Week: 1-7
National Carry A Tune Week: 1-7
National Chimney Safety Week: 1-7
National Midwifery Week:1-7 Link
National Work From Home Week: 1-7
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week : 1-7
Customer Service Week: 2-6 Link
Drive Safely Work Week: 2-6 Link
Health Information and Technology Week: 2-6 Link
Kids' Goal Setting Week: 2-6 (First Week)
National Heimlich Heroes Week: 2-6
Spinning & Weaving Week: 2-6 Link
Financial Planning Week: 2-8
National Health Care Food Service Week: 2-8 Link
World Dairy Expo: 3-8
No Salt Week: 3-10
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
◄1691 English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
1700’s
◄1712 The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor
1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
1800’s
1849 American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
1863 Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
1872 Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
◄1888 New Zealand Natives, a privately organized and mainly Māori rugby team, plays first game in the UK; the first national rugby team to wear the silver fern
1900’s
1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
◄1908 Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna
1913 US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%) by President Woodrow Wilson
1919 Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series
1922 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
1940 US forms parachute troops
◄1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" & would "never rise again"
1941 "The Maltese Falcon" directed by John Huston and based off Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, premieres in NYC
1942 FDR forms Office of Economic Stabilization
1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)
1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca
1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
1957 Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
1960 US sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" premieres in CBS (runs till 1968)
1961 "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV
◄1963 Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
◄1968 The proposed civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city center and the Waterside area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig, then Home Affairs Minister
1971 Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 ◄1974 Pele retires as soccer player
1974 Watergate criminal trial begin
1984 US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills
1992 Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on "Saturday Night Live"
1994 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon
1995 O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, California
2000’s
2003 Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one othe show's tigersrs, canceling the show for good.
2008 The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush
2008 O.J. Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery
2014 83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber-attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions
◄2016 Yoshinori Ohsumi from Japan wins Nobel Prize for Medicine for research into autophagy
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My Rambling Thoughts
This is a horrific day for the US. Las Vegas now has become the sight of the worst terrorist attack in our history…not including the deaths of so many Native Americans. Thank you to all the first responders who found the guy, and to all the everyday Americans who helped the wounded. Crazy people have no business having guns. No American needs an assault rifle in their collection. There exists the technology to have every gun in the US set to only work with a fingerprint. Congress needs to allow a full study of gun violence. The NRA needs to make a strong statement against all gun violence.
45 read an emotional statement, thank you to his writers.
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Bizarre News
Investigators are trying to figure out how a young child got hold of a gun and shot two young children at a day care facility, according to police in Michigan.
According to the Dearborn police, the toddler found the gun around 10:30 a.m. and shot the two 3-year-old children at the care facility located in a private residence.
They were taken to the Children's Hospital, where they are being treated for severe injuries.
There were other children in the house at the time of the shooting.
All the children were removed from the home and taken to the police station.
The parents later picked them up from the police station.
The daycare was run by Tim and Samantha Eubanks at their home in the 3600 block of Harding Street.
So far, no charges have been filed.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@90- George Bancroft, American historian (History of the United States), born in Worcester Massachusetts (d. 1891)
80’s
@86- Gore Vidal, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), born in West Point, New York (d. 2012)
70’s
@78- James Herriot [Alfred Wight], English veterinarian and novelist (All Creatures Great and Small), born in Sunderland, County Durham (d. 1995)
76- Chubby Checker [Ernest Evans], American singer-songwriter (The Twist, Limbo Rock), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
@75- John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation (d. 1866)
73- Roy Horn, German-American Las Vegas entertainer (Siegfried & Roy)
60’s
68- Lindsey Buckingham, American guitarist/lead singer (Fleetwood Mac), born in Palo Alto, California
@66- Clara Noyes, American nurse (head of the American Red Cross WW1), born in Port Deposit, Maryland (d. 1936)
63- Al Sharpton [Alfred Charles], American minister and civil rights activist (Keepin' It Real), born in Brooklyn
50’s
55- Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe)
53- Clive Owen, British actor
40’s
48- Gwen Stefani, American singer-songwriter (No Doubt), born in Fullerton, CA
44- Neve Campbell, Canadian actress (Party of 5, Scream), born in Guelph Ontario
30’s
@37- Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d.1938)
@35- Stevie Ray Vaughan, guitarist (Sky is Crying, Texas Flood), born in Dallas, (d. 1990)
20’s
@21- Eddie Cochran, rock vocalist/guitarist (C'Mon Everybody), born in Oklahoma City, (d. 1960)
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Historical Obits Today
70’s
@72-1656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, strangury (bladder)
@72±1838 Black Hawk (chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe
@70-1998 Roddy McDowall, English actor, lung cancer
60’s
@66-1936 John Heisman, American football coach, pneumonia
@61±-1704 Jean-Baptiste Denys, French physician who performed the 1st human blood transfusion, a xenotransfusion
50’s
@55-1967 Woodrow Wilson ‘Woody’ Guthrie, rocker, Huntington's Chorea
@53-2000 Benjamin Orr, American bassist and singer (The Cars) pancreatic cancer
40’s
@48-1867 Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer. gout
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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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