Nov 1

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Nov 1, 2017 Week: 44 \ Day: 305

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 32°

Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Wind ave.:   12mph\Gusts:  -mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1916]   Record Low: 11°[1943]

Nov Averages: 50°\23°

Nov Records: H: 74° (1977) L: -13° (1958)

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Quote of the Day

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

  Anais Nin

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Observances Today

All Saint's Day

Autistic Speaking Day  Link

Birth of Baha'U'Llah

Birth of The Bab

Hockey Mask Day

Dia de Los Muertos (Day of The Dead)

Extra Mile Day

Give Up Your Shoulds Day Link

International Stress Awareness Day  Link  

National Authors' Day

National Calzone Day  Link

National Family Caregiver Day

National Family Literacy Day

National Go Cook For Your Pets Day

Stress Awareness Day  Link  

Prime Meridian Day

World Vegan Day Link

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Observances This Week

1-7

National Fig Week

National Patient Accessibility Week

World Communication Week

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

800’s                                   

835 All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom

900’s                                   

996 First recorded use of modern name for Austria in the 'Ostarrîchi Document'

1500’s                                 

1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited

1600’s                                 

1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented

1611 Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" first presented

1683 The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

1700’s                                 

1755 Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 in Portugal

1765 Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies

1787 First free school in NYC (African Free School) opens

1800’s                                 

1800 John Adams becomes the first US president to live in the White House

1814 Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.

1834 First published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game)

1848 First US women's medical school opens (Boston)

1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)

1884 The Gaelic Athletic Association is founded to promote Irish sport and games; The association denies membership to the police and army and is immediately infiltrated by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB)

1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris

1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine

1900’s                                 

1913 Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns

1915 Parris Island is officially designated a US Marine Corps Recruit Depot.

1921 National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League

1931 Dupont introduces synthetic rubber

1936 Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded

1939 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed

1941 Ansel Adams shoots 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico', one of his most famous photographs

1945 First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H Johnson

1950 Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill US President Harry Truman at Blair House

1950 Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

1951 Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson

1954 General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba 1954 US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthybecause of his slander campaigns

1957 World longest suspension bridge opens (Mackinac Straits Mich)

1967 "Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released

1969 The Beatles' "Abbey Road" album goes #1 in US & stays #1 for 11 weeks

1971 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

1972 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer"

1977 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981

1979 Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice's musical "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat" premieres

1979 US Federal government made $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler

1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster

1982 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

1987 22,000 run in NYC Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01)

1997 "Titanic" directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet premieres at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Academy Awards Best Picture 1998)

2000’s                                 

2009 The inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix is held at the Yas Marina Circuit.

2012 Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service

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My Rambling Thoughts

Decided it would be a lazy day. Stayed home, straightened up, rearranged my bedroom for a change.

What a horrible thing on a bike path in Manhattan. Every major channel has been broadcasting since about 20 minutes after it happened. I wish all the major channels would be much more careful in their reporting. Everyone knows that during a situation like this, ‘facts’ change rapidly. Not everyone is retired and can listen to all the coverage. When they give out an incorrect ‘fact’, many don’t hear the changes that take place later. Sad.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@89- James J Kilpatrick,

columnist (60 Minutes), born in Oklahoma City,

(d. 2010)

82- Gary Player,

South African PGA golfer (British Open-1959, 68, 74), born in Johannesburg, South Africa

82- Charles Koch,

American businessman and philanthropist (Koch Industries billionaire), born in Wichita, Kansas

70’s

75- Larry Flynt,

American magazine publisher (Hustler), born in Lakeville, Kentucky

60’s

60- Lyle Lovett,

Klein Tx, country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth)

50’s

57- Fernando Valenzuela,

Navajua Mexico, pitcher (LA Dodgers, SD Padres)

57- Tim Cook,

American businessman (CEO of Apple Inc. 2011-), born in Mobile, Alabama

@50- Alfred Wegener,

German polar researcher, geophysicist, and meteorologist (continental shift), born in Berlin

(d. 1930)

40’s

45- Jenny McCarthy,

playmate (Oct. 1993)/host (Singled Out), born in Chicago, Illinois

20’s

@28- Stephen Crane,

novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), born in Newark, New Jersey

(d. 1900)

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2005 Skitch Henderson,

English-born bandleader

@87-1972 Ezra Loomis Pound,

US poet (Throne)

@82-1979 Mamie Eisenhower,

First Lady of the United States (1953-61)

70’s

@73-2015 Fred Thompson,

US senator (R-Tenn)/actor (In the Line of Fire),

cancer

@73-1985 Phil Silvers,

comedic actor (Sgt Bilko),

in his sleep

60’s

@66-1955 Dale Carnegie,

American writer

40’s

@45-1999 Walter Payton,

American Football Hall of Fame Running Back,

Rare liver disease

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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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