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Oct 29, 2017 Week: 44 \ Day: 302
86004 Today: H 61° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave.: 16mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1950] Record Low: 9°[1971]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Research is creating new knowledge. Neil Armstrong
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Observances Today
Internet Day Link
Reformation Sunday
Visit A Cemetery Day
World Psoriasis Day Link
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Observances This Week
Red Ribbon Week: 23-31 Link
Disarmament Week: 24-30
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week: 24-31
World Origami Days: 24-11/11
International Magic Week: 25-31
International Dyslexia Association Reading Week: 25-28
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week: 29-11/4 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1300’s
◘ 1390 First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1600’s
◘ 1618 English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1700’s
1792 Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1900’s
1904 First intercity trucking service (Colorado City & Snyder, Texas)
1923 Gibbs/Grey/Wood's revue "Runnin' Wild" (introducing Charleston) opens on Broadway, New York City
1940 Lottery for 1st US WWII draftees held; #158 drawn 1st
1945 First ballpoint pen goes on sale, manufactured by Biro
◘ 1954 Colonel Nasser disbands Muslim Brotherhood
1956 Chet Huntley & David Brinkley, NBC News, team up
◘ 1958 Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 Dr F Mason Sones is first doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1964 Star of India & other jewels are stolen in NY
◘ 1964 The United Republic of Tanganyika & Zanzibar renamed The United Republic of Tanzania
1966 National Organization of Women founded
1969 Supreme Court orders end to all school desegregation "at once"
1974 Law bans discrimination of sex or marital status in credit application
◘ 1983 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise missile
1988 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested for blocking clinics
1994 National Museum of American Indian opens (NYC)
◘ 1998 Hurricane Mitch, the second deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history, made landfall in Honduras.
1998 Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into space.
2000’s
◘ 2001 ExxonMobil announces that a consortium it leads will spend $4 billion over 5 years to develop large offshore oil and natural gas fields in Russia's far eastern Sakhalin region
◘ 2002 Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store with 1,500 people shopping. Over 60 people died and over 100 are missing. It is the deadliest disaster in Vietnam during peacetime.
◘ 2004 Arabic news network, Al Jazeera broadcasts an excerpt from a video of Osama bin Laden in which the terrorist leader first admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references the 2004 U.S. presidential election
2008 Delta Air Lines merges with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2011 Record-breaking snowstorm in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without power for more than 36 hours.
2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
2012 Publishing companies Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher
◘ 2015 China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years
2015 Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner (R-Ohio)
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cleaned my stove and oven…a mess that needed to be done. Looks much better now.
So, the media wins again or maybe not. Late on Friday, it was leaked that the Special Prosecutor had issued some indictments. So, the entire media grabbed that tidbit and began the endless game of speculating. Who? For What? Every commentator on TV has an opinion. I quit listening after I heard it would be ‘sometime next week’ before we know more. I wonder how many news channels will post their audience numbers or their rivals numbers? I can’t be the only one who stopped listening. I’ll get an alert on my phone when names and charges are made public. That is good enough for me.
Saddened to see what is going on in Spain. I found Barcelona to be one beautiful town with very friendly people. I didn’t really know what to expect when we landed, but our few days there let us see beautiful architecture, nice beaches, and quite the active town. I hope they settle this soon.
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Bizarre News
*-- You Really Can Get Everything from Amazon --*
A Florida couple who ordered some storage totes from Amazon said their package arrived with a little something extra -- 65 pounds of marijuana. The Orlando woman said she and her fiancé ordered four 27-gallon storage totes from Amazon recently so they could put some items in storage. She said they were immediately suspicious when the packages arrived. "They were extremely heavy, heavier than you would think from ordering four empty bins," said the woman, who did not want to be identified by name. She said the cause of the extra weight became clear from the smell when they opened the boxes. "When the first officer got here, she was in disbelief," the woman said. The boxes contained the plastic bins the couple ordered, but the totes themselves contained boxes filled with a total 65 pounds of marijuana. The marijuana was turned over to police and the couple spent more than a month attempting to get answers from Amazon in a series of email exchanges. Amazon said it is cooperating with law enforcement to investigate the unusual incident.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@91- Carl Djerassi,
Austrian-born American chemist, father of the contraceptive pill, born in Vienna
(d. 2015)
80’s
@83- Dominick Dunne,
American author
(d. 2009)
@81- Bill Mauldin,
American cartoonist famous for his World War II cartoons depicting American soldiers (Pulitzer-1945, 59), born in Mountain Park, New Mexico
(d. 2003)
70’s
79- Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,
President of Liberia (2006 -) and the first elected female head of state in Africa, born in Monrovia, Liberia
72- Melba Moore, [Beatrice],
American singer/actress (Ellis Island), born in NYC
70- Richard Dreyfuss,
American actor (Jaws, Nuts, Mr Holland's Opus), born in Brooklyn
60’s
69- Kate Jackson,
actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels), born in Birmingham, Alabama
@65- Charles Ebbets,
(namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
(d. 1925)
50’s
@52- Bob Ross,
American artist and television host
(d. 1995)
@59- Fanny Brice,
American singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks), born in NYC,
(d. 1951)
40’s
@47- Joseph Goebbels,
German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany (1933-45), born in Rheydt, Germany
(d. 1945)
46- Winona Ryder,
American actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand), born in Winona, Minn.
30’s
30- Derek Theler,
actor, producer (Baby Daddy)
20’s
@28- Johnny Lewis,
actor (Sons of Anarchy, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem), born in Los Angeles, California
(d. 2012)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@92-1993 Roger Turner,
American figure skater (7x US National Champion)
70’s
@74-1994 Pearl Primus,
Trinidad-born American dancer (popularized African dance),
diabetes
@74-1987 Woody Herman,
American bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds)
@71-1957 Louis B Mayer,
MGM producer,
Leukemia
60’s
@68-2004 Vaughn Meader,
American comedian and musician,
heart disease
@64-1911 Joseph Pulitzer,
American newspaperman,
in bed
@64-1618 Walter Raleigh,
English scholar, poet, historian, and explorer,
beheaded
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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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