Oct 2


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Oct  2, 2018 Week: 40 \ Day: 275
86004 Today: H 70° \ L 50° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 
Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 82°[1991]   Record Low: 18°[1971]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

Power is like being a lady...
if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
Margaret Thatcher


Harper’s Index
            8
            Number of US counties that have refused to issue
            Licenses for same-sex marriages since the Supreme
            Court legalized them

            8
            Number of those counties that are in Alabama


More Observances This Month

Bat Appreciation Month
Black Speculative Fiction Month  
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Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month 
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(World) Blindness Awareness Month 
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Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month 
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Contact Lens Safety Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Corn Month L
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Country Music Month 
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Cut Out Dissection Month


Observances This Week
1-5
Customer Service Week Link
Drive Safely Work Week Link 
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week


1-7
National Chimney Safety Week
National Health Care Food Service  Link 
National Heimlich Heroes Week

National Primary Care Physicians Week Link
National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link
National Work From Home Week
Spinning & Weaving Week 
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Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week 
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Universal Children's Week

2-7
World Dairy Expo


Observances for Today

Guardian Angels Day
International Day of Non-violence
National Custodial Worker Day
Peanuts (Cartoon) Day
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
Simchat Torah
World Farm Animals Day


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1200’s                                         
  1263 The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians
             and Scots.

1500’s                                         
  1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)

1800’s                                         
  1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy

  1872 Morgan State University founded

  1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in
            silver during the last great silver boom of the American
            Old West.

1900’s                                         
  1902 Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published
           by Frederick Warne & Co. in London

  1916 San Diego Zoo founded

  1935 Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

  1950 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts",
             by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers

  1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme
            Court Justice

  1971 Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an
            1100km race in Australia

  1979 Pope John Paul II visits New York City, and at
            the U.N. denounces all concentration camps & torture

  1981 17-year-old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest
            winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for
            most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307

  1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David
            Souter's appointment to Supreme Court

2000’s                                         
  2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11

  2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over
            three weeks

  2016 Colombia votes against a peace agreement with
            rebel group FARC in a national referendum

My Rambling Thoughts
Healing is progressing….think itching under bandage! Guess that’s a good thing.

AZ Cardinals lost another one yesterday. Now let’s all hope the Broncos do better tonight.

I’ve lived in the high desert for over 40 years, on and off the Rez. I do not recall a time when a hurricane brought rain to us. But that is what is happening as you read (Hurricane/tropical storm Rosa). It’s a gentle rain. Some last night, more early this morning, more expected later today. Guess the dry state of AZ will take its moisture anyway it comes.

Attention Sen. McConnell, stop talking, let the process take its due course. You sound bitter, you sound like a spoiled privileged jerk. You will never get it.


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

0’s
  @78Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]
               Indian pacifist and spiritual leader, born in Porbandar,
               Kathiawar Agency, India (d. 1948)
  @73Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Famous
              Russian clown, born in Dvinsk, Russian Empire (d. 1974)
  70Donna Karan, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977),
          born in Forest Hills, New York
  @67Johnnie Cochran, attorney (O.J. Simpson defense
               attorney) (d. 2005) brain tumor
  67Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) singer (Police)
  48Kelly Ripa, TV host
  @31Nat Turner, Civil Rights Leader (d. 1831) hung


Historical Obits Today

0’s
  @911998 Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry, American cowpoke,
                        singer, actor (The Gene Autry Show), and
                        business tycoon (California Angels)
@811968 Marcel Duchamp, French painter and
                      sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase)
@811803 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary
                     (Boston Massacre-Tea Party) and politician (Lt Gov-
                     Mass, 1789-94)
  @691973 Paul Hartman, American actor (Petticoat Junction,
                     Inherit the Wind), heart attack
  @662017 Tom Petty, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty
                     and the Heartbreakers), accidental overdose
  @591985 Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), AIDS
  @581985 George Savalas, Greek-American actor
                    (Kojak, Kelly's Heroes), leukemia


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