Oct 3

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Oct  3, 2018 Week: 40 \ Day: 276
86004 Today: H 62° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 
Wind:   15mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 3 mi
Record High: 87°[1980]   Record Low: 21°[1902]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote
           
 Just because something doesn't do what you
 planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
 Thomas A. Edison


Harper’s Index

            1/4
            Portion of US women who believe it’s inappropriate
            to have a work meeting alone with a man who is
  not their spouse


More Observances This Month
  Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  Down Syndrome Awareness Month 
Link
  Dyslexia Awareness Month
 
  Eat Better, Eat Together Month
  Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
  Emotional Wellness Month
  Employee Ownership Month 
Link
  Energy Management is a Family Affair-
       Improve Your Home Month (10/1-3/31/13)
  Eye Injury Prevention Month 
Link  Link  
  Fair Trade Month 
Link
  Financial Planning Month Link
  Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month  
Link


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 
Link
Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week 
Link
Universal Children's Week

2-7
      World Dairy Expo

3-10
      No Salt Week
      World Space Week
Link


Observances for Today
Techies Day  Link
Coffee With A Cop Day  
Link
Balloons Around The World Day
National Kale Day Link 
National Pumpkin Seed Day  Link 
National Soft Taco Day
Pet Obesity Awareness Day  Link   
Virus Appreciation Day
Walk To School Day  Link  


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1600’s                                         
     1691 English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland

1700’s                                         
     1712 The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the
               arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor

      1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving
                Day on Nov 26

1800’s                                         
      1849 American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious
                in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious
                circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public
                before his death.

     1872 Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens

1900’s                                         
      1908 Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph
                Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles
                in Vienna

      1913 US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%)
                by President Woodrow Wilson

     1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League
              of Nations

1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)

1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres

1957 Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled
         not obscene.

2000’s                                         
2008 The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial
           system is signed by President George W. Bush

My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday was on and off rain. Today Rosa brings us a gentle all-day rain. Quite nice. Since my ‘local TV stations’ are Phoenix stations, it seems they are dealing with lots of flash flooding in the greater metro-area. Glad to be ‘up north’ where it is just a nice rain.

Could not believe the Bronco game last night. So depressing watching their lead vanish. Their next to the last play looked more like our old neighborhood games than professional football.

I’m still healing well. Every day brings new things to see. Now I have a bruise on my arm, way above the surgery, that matches the bruise from the block injection at my clavicle, and the bruise from the IV on the other arm. Glad I don’t have pain from any of it. Just exciting to wait for the next new thing.


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

80’s
@86Gore Vidal, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), born in West Point, New York (d. 2012)

70’s
@78James Herriot [Alfred Wight], English veterinarian and novelist (All Creatures Great and Small), born in Sunderland, County Durham (d. 1995)  prostate cancer

60’s
64Al Sharpton [Alfred Charles], American minister and civil rights activist (Keepin' It Real), born in Brooklyn, New York

50’s
56Tommy Lee, drummer

40’s
49Gwen Stefani, singer

45Neve Campbell, actress

30’s
@37Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d.1938) miliary tuberculosis.

@35Stevie Ray Vaughn, guitarist (d. 1990) helicopter crash


Historical Obits Today

90’s
@952017 Isabella Karle, American scientist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride

80’s
@821953 Florence Sabin, American Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences

70’s
@721656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, strangury

@71±1838 Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak,)(chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe

40’s
@481867 Elias Howe, American inventor (invented sewing machine), gout, blood clot


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