Oct 11

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Oct  11, 2018 Week: 41 \ Day: 284
86004 Today: H 55° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 
Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 80°[1965]   Record Low: 19°[1920]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

The world is round
so that friendship may encircle it.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin



Harper’s Index

            1 in 5
            Chance that an ad for a Chinese central gov’t job
            Specifies a preference for men

            1 in 31,733
            That is specifies a preference for women


Observances This Week
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
National Physicians Assistant Week

7-13
4-H Week Link  
Death Penalty Focus Week
Fire Prevention Week Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Great Books Week
 
International Post Card Week
Link   
Mental Illness Awareness Week  
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week
Teen Read Week


8-13
Health Information and Technology Week Link
National School Lunch Week

9-14
World Rainforest Week
Link  

10-17
Take Your Medicine Americans Week

Observances for Today
International Day of The Girl Child Link
General Pulaski Memorial Day  
Link   
International Day of The Girl Child Link
It's My Party Day
National Sausage Pizza Day
Myths & Legends Day For All Fantasy Movie, Books and Legends Cephalopods  Link
National Coming Out Day
National Depression Screening Day
 Link 
Southern Food Heritage Day
World Sight Day 
Link


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1800’s                                         
1852 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

1890 Daughters of American Revolution founded

1900’s                                         
1906 San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis

1922 First woman FBI "special investigator", Alaska Davidson, appointed

1929 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.

1975 "Saturday Night Live" created by Lorne Michaels premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host

1985 President Reagan bans import of South African Krugerrands to the USA

1987 200,000 march for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington D.C.

1990 Mexican writer Octavio Paz is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature

2000’s                                         
2001 Caribbean writer V.S. Naipaul is awarded the Noble Prize for Literature

2012 Mo Yan, a Chinese hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

2013 The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

My Rambling Thoughts
Another cloudy, rainy day. No complaints…glad I’m not in hurricane country.

If one good thing comes from Hurricanes, the news channels go full out and there is no other news. No politics and that is really pleasant. Watching the wind from the current hurricane I was thinking about my time in Boulder. My sophomore year I lived at Willam’s Village…the fairly new high rises way off campus, with every 15-minutes bus service to campus. One afternoon the wind picked up. By 5p it was 109mph. We had moved down to the ground floor into a very crowded living room. We watched all kinds of debris fly by the few living room windows. The wind lasted well into the night. I do not want to re-live that experience. My ’59 Chevy survived, but some of the small cars were damaged.

Flagstaff has always had a high cost of living. It is hard for those with minimum wage jobs. Two years ago, our voters decided  to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr by 2020. The state was mad but lost in court. Now outsiders ($$ from outside our city) have been able to put a proposition to stop this on the Nov. ballot. My phone, email, and social media is blowing up with ads to get rid of our required minimum wage. It ain’t none of their damn business…


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

90’s
@93Fred Trump,
American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump, born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)

80’s
@84George Williams,
English philanthropist and founder of YMCA, born in Dulverton, West Somerset, England (d. 1905)

70’s
@78Eleanor Roosevelt,
American 1st lady (1933-1945) human rights advocate (UN), born in NYC, New York (d. 1962) TB

@74Henry John Heinz,
German-American entrepreneur who founded prepared-foods company (H.J. Heinz Company-57 varieties), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1919) pneumonia

72Daryl Hall [Hohl],
American rocker, soul singer and songwriter (Hall & Oates), born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

50’s
@58Dottie West (Dorthy Marsh),
American country singer (Here Comes My Baby), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1991) following car crash

57Steve Young,
NFL quarterback (SF 49ers, NFL Player of Year '92), born in Salt Lake City, Utah

56Joan Cusack,
American actress (Working Girl, SNL, Addams Family Values), born in Evanston Illinois

52Luke Perry,
American actor (Beverly Hills 90210), born in Mansfield, Ohio

20’s
29Michelle Wie,
American golfer (US Open 2014), born in Honolulu, Hawaii

26Cardi B [Belcalis Almanzar],
American rapper, born in NYC


Historical Obits Today

90’s
@961999 J. Franklin Hyde,
American inventor (created silica)

@912007 Werner von Trapp,
member of the Trapp Family Singers

40’s
@481988 Wayland Flowers,
ventriloquist (Madame), AIDS

@471963 Édith Piaf,
French singer (No, I don't regret anything), liver cancer

30’s
@351809 Meriwether Lewis,
American soldier, public administrator and explorer (Lewis & Clark Expedition), murder or suicide


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