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Oct 25, 2017 Week: 43 \ Day: 301
86004 Today: H 64° \ L 34°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 13mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 74°[1950] Record Low: 13°[1954]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
A promise must never be broken.
Alexander Hamilton
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Observances Today
Champagne Day Link
National Chocolate Day Link
Pit Bull Awareness Day Link
St. Jude's Day
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Observances This Week
Kids Care Week: 22-28
National Chemistry Week: 22-28
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: 22-28 Link
National Massage Therapy Week: 22-28 Link
National Respiratory Care Week: 22-28 Link
Pastoral Care Week: 22-28 Link
Pro Bono Week: 22-28 Link
Rodent Awareness Week: 22-28
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
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1400’s
◄1492 Christopher Columbus discovers Cuba and claims it for Spain
1500’s
◄1538 The first university in the New World, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established on Hispaniola
◄1574 Prince Willem of Orange installs university
1600’s
1636 Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts founded
1646 First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
◄1664 The Duke of York and Albany's Maritime Regiment of Foot, later to be known as the Royal Marines, is established.
1700’s
◄1726 "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London
1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
1800’s
1846 Pioneers suffer blizzard in the Sierra Nevada; 42 die
◄1848 The first railroad in Spain - between Barcelona and Mataró - is opened.
1858 R. H. Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $11.06
1886 Statue of Liberty dedicated by US President Grover Cleveland, celebrated by first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
◄1891 Quake strikes Mino-Owari, Japan kills 7,300
◄1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts first performance of his Symphony Number Six in B minor, "Pathetique"
1900’s
◄1900 After over 5 months second Olympic games in Paris, France, close
1904 St Louis police try a new investigation method-fingerprints
◄1916 Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected
◄1918 Czechoslovakia gains independence as Austria-Hungary breaks up
1922 First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
◄1922 Benito Mussolini takes control of Italy's government
◄1924 Miner M.de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, "Taung child" in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa. Paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus.
1936 FDR rededicates Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary
1941 "How Green Was My Valley" based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, directed by John Ford and starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O'Hara premieres in New York (Best Picture 1942)
1954 Nobel Prize for Literature is awarded to Ernest Hemingway
◄1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, elected Pope, taking name John XXIII
◄1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
◄1965 Pope Paul VI proclaims Jews not collectively guilty for crucifixion
◄1971 Great Britain becomes 6th nation to have a satellite (Prospero) in orbit
◄1975 Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976
1986 The centennial of the Statue of Liberty's dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor.
1988 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen gives $10 million to University of Washington library
2000’s
◄2015 World Health Organization ranks Tuberculosis alongside HIV as world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million (2014)
◄2015 Research indicating Plague dates back to the Bronze age in skeletons 5,783 years old, published by University of Copenhagen team in "Cell"
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Friday…a little cooler but still very nice.
Kellogg’s blew it big time. They made an ad with a town of corn pop people doing things. One brown corn pop was made a janitor. No other corn pops of color. As a cultural linguist, I am glad they were called out. All the reviews by all the people in advertising at Kellogg didn’t catch it, because they didn’t notice it, but the community of color did. For those thinking this is taking the issue too far, why was there only one brown corn pop? And why was that one corn pop made a janitor? They did apologize.
I was in 9th grade when JFK was assassinated. And we are still having documents released. Not as much as 45 promised, but lots of stuff. Now, since 45 promised all then didn’t come through, there is new fuel for conspiracy…”what exactly are they holding back?” Guess it won’t come out until everyone who was alive at the time is dead and buried. Future generations will just look back and shake their heads.
Read an interesting satire yesterday. Since Betsy DeVos is busy dismantling our education system, it has been suggested in Congress that she be sent to N. Korea to negotiate by tearing up their education system so they can’t continue to build nuclear devices. Hmmm
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Bizarre News
*-------------- Pumpkin Paddlers --------------*
An Oregon city hosted an unusual race when paddlers climbed into hollowed-out giant pumpkins for the 14th annual Pumpkin Regatta. The event in Tualatin featured thousands of spectators braving the rain to watch racers, many in elaborate costumes, padding their hollow pumpkin boats across the water. The first race pitted growers against sponsors, while subsequent races featured police officers, firefighters and pumpkin-paddling members of the public. The event featured one particularly elaborate pumpkin boat carved to look like a giant duck. The pumpkins converted into boats for the race were supplied by the Pacific Giant Vegetable Growers.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@94- Adolfo Camarillo,
prominent land owner, horse breeder, and rancher
(d. 1958)
@93- Dody Goodman,
comedienne (Mary Hartman!, Max Duggan), born in Columbus, Ohio
(d. 2008)
80’s
@89- Anna Elizabeth Dickinson,
orator (Joan of Arc of the Civil War)
(d. 1932)
@84- Elsa Lanchester,
British actress (The Bride of Frankenstein), born in London, England
(d. 1986)
@83- Edith Head,
Hollywood costume designer (8 Oscars), born in San Bernardino, California
(d. 1981)
83- Jim Beatty,
track runner (1st sub 4-minute indoor mile)
81- Charlie Daniels,
singer (Devil Went Down to Georgia), born in Wilmington, NC
@80- Jonas Salk,
American medical scientist (created the polio vaccine), born in NYC, NY
(d. 1995)
60’s
68- Wayne Fontana,
rocker (Groovy Kind of Love), born in Manchester, England
68- Caitlyn (born Bruce) Jenner
American decathlete (Olympic gold 1976), born in Mt Kisco, NY
65- Annie Potts,
actress (Mary Jo-Designing Women), born in Nashville, Tennessee
62- Bill Gates [William Henry],
American businessman and billionaire (founder and CEO of Microsoft, richest person in the world), born in Seattle
61- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad,
President of Iran (2005-13), born in Aradan, Iran
50’s
51- Andy Richter,
Yorkville IL, writer/sidekick (Conan O'Brien)
50- Julia Roberts,
American actress (Mystic Pizza, Pretty Woman), born in Smyrna, Georgia
40’s
45- Brad Paisley,
American musician
43- Joaquin Leaf Phoenix,
PR, actor (Russkies, Space Camp)
30’s
30- Frank Ocean [Christopher Breaux],
American singer-songwriter (Thinkin Bout You), born in Long Beach
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@89-2006 Red Auerbach,
American basketball coach and executive
@87-1996 Morey Amsterdam,
American comedian and actor (Dick Van Dyke Show)
@86-1703 John Wallis,
English mathematician and cryptographer who introduced ∞ as a symbol for infinity
@80-2007 Porter Wagoner,
American country singer
@80-1993 Doris Duke,
heiress (American Tobacco Co)
70’s
@73-1818 Abigail Adams,
2nd first lady (1797-1801),
typhoid fever
@72-2010 James MacArthur,
American actor (original Hawaii 5-0),
cancer
@72-1704 John Locke,
English empiricist philosopher; influential Enlightenment thinker and "Father of Liberalism" (Two Treatises of Government)
@71-1998 James Goldman,
American screenwriter/playwright (The Lion in Winter),
heart attack
60’s
@68-1998 Ted Hughes,
Poet and British Poet Laureate (1984-98),
heart attack
20’s
@27-1959 Camilo Cienfuegos,
Cuban revolutionary hero,
disappeared
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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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