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Oct 8, 2017 Week: 41 \ Day: 281
86004 Today: H 72° \ L 37°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 15mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 80°[1980] Record Low: 21°[1900]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
The soul that is within me no man can degrade.
Frederick Douglass
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Observances Today
Alvin C. York Day
National Pierogy Day
National Salmon Day
World Octopus Day Link
Clergy Appreciation Day
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Observances This Week
Financial Planning Week: 2-8
World Dairy Expo: 3-8
No Salt Week: 3-10
World Space Week: 4-10 Link
National Storytelling Weekend: 6-8
National Physicians Assistant Week: 6-12
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta: 7-15 Link
Death Penalty Focus Week: 8-14
Drink Local Wine Week: 8-14
Earth Science Week: 8-14 Link
Emergency Nurses Week: 8-14
Fire Prevention Week: 8-14 Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week: 8-14
National Chestnut Week: 8-14
National Metric Week: 8-14
Teen Read Week: 8-14
Veterinary Technicians Week: 8-14Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
1633 Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first government
1700’s
1775 Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army
◄1779 English engraver and poet William Blake begins study at the Royal Academy, Old Somerset House, London
1800’s
◄1806 British forces lay siege to French port of Boulogne using Congreve rockets, invented by Sir William Congreve
◄1818 Two English boxers are first to use padded gloves
1871 Great Fire kills 200, destroys over 4 square miles (10 square km) of Chicago buildings, & original Emancipation Proclamation
1873 First women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute
1900’s
◄1906 Karl Nessler demonstrates first 'permanent wave' for hair in London
◄1918 American soldier Alvin York single-handedly attacks German gun nest, killing 25 and capturing 132 Germans
1942 Comedy duo Abbott and Costello launch their weekly radio show
◄1945 US President Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain and Canada
1945 Microwave oven patented
◄1962 Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN
◄1962 North Korea reports 100% election turnout, miraculously 100% vote for the Workers' Party
◄1965 Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England
◄1967 Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia.
◄1970 Soviet author Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn wins Nobel Prize for Literature
◄1971 John Lennon releases his megahit "Imagine"
◄1992 Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott
1992 Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus
◄1993 UN lifts remaining economic sanctions against South Africa
◄1999 New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar.
2000’s
2001 U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
◄2015 Nobel prize for Literature awarded to Belarusian journalist and author Svetlana Alexievich
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cannot believe it’s another day with no clouds, warm temps, and just a breeze. Checking my calendar to be sure it is fall.
Media is not spending a lot of time on 45’s court appointees, but he is packing the lower courts with very conservative ideas. Hmmm.
Learning how Puerto Rico got such a huge debt. It has to do with Congress giving tax breaks to companies that set up business there. Many did. Then Congress took away the tax breaks and most of the companies shut down and moved away. Hardly seems fair.
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Bizarre News
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A lonely man who was unable to find a woman willing to go out on a date with him broke into a home in order to have the company of a woman. Police in Pennsylvania, said that 39-year-old Sean Patrick Haller of Stewartstown did not want to drink alcohol alone so he forced his way into a woman's home. Haller, who was already drunk, brought along two 12-packs of beer and sat down at a table at the home of Carrie Harding, to drink the beverage. Harding, who did not know the suspect, was concerned for the safety of her children and asked the stranger to leave, but he refused. At some point, Haller fell into the table and broke a glass plant holder and a glass lamp. The woman called police to remove Hallar from her home. When Hallar was arrested, police found three Xanax pills in his possession. He now faces charges of criminal trespass, possession of a controlled substance, defiant trespass, loitering and prowling at nighttime, disorderly conduct, and public drunkenness. There is no plan for a second date.
Bonus:
A woman who could not afford meals at restaurants put glass in her food and cut her lips to avoid paying for meals, according to police in Florida.
Stuart Police Department said that they have arrested 31-year-old Kaitlyn Murphy, after being accused of defrauding at least 11 restaurants in recent weeks.
According to the police investigation, Murphy carried glass in her purse and used it to put in her food while eating at restaurants. She also cut her lips before telling the managers that she found glass in the food.
The establishments canceled her charge and allowed her to eat for free. Some establishments even provided her with free vouchers.
Her crime came to light when one restaurant posted Murphy's story on their Facebook page. Other restaurant managers then posted comments that they had similar stories recently.
During questioning, Murphy told police that she did this because she could not afford the meals.
She was booked at the Martin County Jail, and her bail has been set at $5,000.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@97- J. Frank Duryea,
American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company, first auto built in the US), born in Washburn, Illinois
(d. 1967)
80’s
@82- Eddie Rickenbacker,
aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I)
(d. 1973)
70’s
@78- Juan Perón,
Argentine military officer and President of Argentina (1946-55, 73-74), born in Buenos Aires
(d. 1974)
78- Paul Hogan,
Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack)
76- Jesse Jackson,
clergyman, presidential candidate (D), born in Greenville, South Carolina
74- Chevy Chase,
American comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack), born in NYC
74- R. L. Stine,
children's book writer (Goosebumps), born in Columbus, Ohio
60’s
68- Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra],
American actress (Alien, Working Girl), born in Manhattan
@65- Frank [Patrick] Herbert,
American sci-fi author (Dune)
(d. 1986)
61- Stephanie Zimbalist,
actress (Remington Steele, Centennial), born in NYC
50’s
52- Matt Biondi,
US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)
40’s
47- Matt Damon,
American actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy, Bourne trilogy), born in Cambridge
30’s
37- Nick Cannon,
American actor and rapper (Love Don't Cost a Thing), born in San Diego
32- Bruno Mars [Peter Gene Hernandez],
American singer ("Just the Way You Are", "Grenade"), born in Honolulu
20’s
24- Angus T. Jones,
American actor (Two and a Half Men)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@82-2011 Al Davis,
American football executive
70’s
@78-1992 Willy Brandt,
Chancellor of West Germany (1969-74, Nobel 1971),
cancer
60’s
@67-1982 Fernando Lamas,
Argentine American actor/director (Lost World),
cancer
@64-1869 Franklin Pierce,
14th US President (Democrat: 1853-57),
cirrhosis
50’s
@56-1793 John Hancock,
American merchant and statesman who was 1st to sign the Declaration of Independence,
long illness
@52-1944 Wendell Lewis Wilkie,
Republican politician,
4 heart attacks
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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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