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Oct 10, 2017 Week: 41 \ Day: 283
86004 Today: H 52° \ L 26°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 19mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 81°[1996] Record Low: 20°[1973]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey
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Observances Today
Ada Lovelace Day
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
International Stage Mangement Day Link
National Face Your Fears Day
National Handbag Day
Naval Academy Day
Squid & Cuttlefish Day Link
World Child Development Day
World Day Against The Death Penalty Link
World Homeless Day Link
World Mental Health Day
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Observances This Week
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: 8-14 Link
National School Lunch Week: 9-13
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
◄1780 Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean, hitting Barbados first. Atlantic's deadliest recorded hurricane.
1800’s
1845 Naval School (now called US Naval Academy) opens at Annapolis
1865 John Hyatts patents the billard ball
◄1868 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1886 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY
1889 Barnard College is founded in New York City after Columbia University refuses to accept women
1899 African-American inventor Issac R. Johnson patents the bicycle frame
1900’s
◄1903 The Women's Social and Political Union was formed by Emmeline Pankhurst to fight for women's rights in Britain.
◄1911 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow Manchus (Taiwan National Day)
1933 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale
1935 George Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway NY
◄1935 League of Nations denounces Italian invasion of Abyssinia
◄1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal of French troops
◄1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
◄1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in Cumbria, England becomes the world's first major nuclear accident
◄1959 Pan Am begins regular flights around the world
◄1964 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo
◄1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer Lief Eriksson
1973 US Vice President Spiro Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to allegations of tax fraud
1978 US Congress approves dollar coin honoring women's suffrage campaigner Susan B. Anthony
1982 US imposes sanctions against Poland for banning Solidarity trade union
1996 Cornerstone dedication for Holocaust Museum in NYC
2000’s
◄2014 Malala Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cold front arrived. Temps are much cooler. Long sleeves, long pants, and shoes & socks needed to go outside for any length of time.
As is my practice, I am not buying anything on this Federal Holiday. Workers need to have paid time off too. Don’t know why we are celebrating this particular Federal Holiday so my US Flag is not flying. Hope 45 doesn’t come after me on twitter.
I remember a Candid Camera episode where they did a man in the street segment. Who is the current VP? They showed lots of wrong answers. I was a teenager and couldn’t believe that adults didn’t know the answer. Times have not changed. The VP is seldom in the news for doing anything. However; how current VP is seen a lot, always talking about how proud he is to be working with 45 or how he won’t ever be seen alone with any female but his wife. How cute. On Sunday he flew, on taxpayer’s dollars, to watch a football game. Everyone who knows anything about football or ever watches the news knew that the 49’s team would be taking a knee during the National Anthem…against racial issues, especially with the police. Well, they did, and the VP and his wife walked out of the stadium and flew home, again on taxpayer’s dollars. Then he tweeted out about how 45 had told him to walk out for the disrespect to the flag. What a minion who is only a heartbeat away from the presidency.
The Rez draws lots of various people to work in the schools. Most are good, hard-working people who work out well. However, there have been a few of these non-natives who were down and out, drove to the school, met with the principal and got a ‘teaching assistant’ job (a non-certified job that required only 2 semesters of college). They understandably praised the principal. However, they usually were very difficult to supervise, and seldom worked that hard. But they always talked about how great the principal was. The current VP reminds me of a couple of those people.
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Bizarre News
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Surgeons have removed more than 100 pieces of metal from a French man's stomach, including knives, nails and screws. The 52-year-old man with chronic psychosis first presented with a gastric obstruction due to swallowing metal items in 2012. Although he was receiving treatment for his mental health he still had a tendency to swallow metal objects. The obstruction was removed endoscopically - using a flexible tube that is fed along his digestive tract - and the man was sent home. Eight months later the man was readmitted with the same symptoms. This time he was operated on to remove all of the metal pieces. Medics found nails, knifes, screws, nuts, spoon handles, a screwdriver head, washer, pebbles, coins and iron wire inside the man.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@92- Helen Hayes,
American actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday), born in Washington, D.C.
(d. 1993)
@91- Claude Simon,
Malagasy-French writer (Nobel Prize Literature 1985), born in Tananarive, Madagascar
(d. 2005)
80’s
@87- Giuseppe Verdi,
Italian opera composer (Rigoletto, La traviata), born in Busseto
(d. 1901)
70’s
@78- Henry Cavendish,
England, physicist and chemist (discovered hydrogen), born in Nice
(d. 1810)
76- Peter Coyote [Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon],
American actor (ET, Raiders of the Lost Ark), born in NYC, New York
60’s
@68- Fridtjof Nansen,
Norwegian Arctic explorer and advocate for refugees (Nobel Peace Prize 1922), born in Store Frøen, Christiania
(d. 1930)
67- Nora Roberts,
American novelist
62- David Lee Roth,
American rock singer (Van Halen), born in Bloomington Indiana
50’s
59- Tanya Tucker,
Seminole Tx, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)
@54- Ed Wood,
American filmmaker and director (Plan 9 from Outer Space), born in Poughkeepsie, New York
(d. 1978)
40’s
48- Brett Favre,
NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31), born in Gulfport, Mississippi
44- Mario Lopez,
actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell), born in San Diego
43- [Ralph] Dale Earnhardt Jr.,
American racing driver (Two-time Daytona 500 winner), born in Kannapolis, North Carolina
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@96-1966 Charlotte Cooper,
English tennis champion and the 1st female Olympic champion in 1900
80’s
@88-2013 Scott Carpenter,
American pilot and astronaut
@86-1929 Elijah McCoy,
Canadian-American inventor (57 patents)
70’s
@70-1985 Orson Welles,
American actor and director (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds),
heart attack
60’s
@68-1991 Redd Foxx,
comedian (Sanford & Sons),
heart attack
@65-1985 Yul Brynner,
Russian-Swiss actor (The King and I, The Ten Commandments),
cancer
50’s
@58-1875 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy,
Russian novelist, poet and dramatist (Prince Serebrenni),
suicide
@56±1659 Able J Tasman,
navigator/discovered (Tasmania, NZ)
@52-2004 Christopher Reeve,
American actor (Superman, Somewhere in Time),
adverse reaction to an antibiotic
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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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