Oct 20

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Oct 20, 2017 Week: 42 \ Day: 293

86004 Today: H 70° \ L 40°

Average Sky Cover: 55% 

Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  23mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 7700°[2003]   Record Low: 4°[1949]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)

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Quote of the Day

When all else is lost, the future still remains.

 Christian Nestell Bovee

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Observances Today

Brandied Fruit Day

Mammography Day 

Miss American Rose Day

National Pharmacy Buyer Day  Link 

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Observances This Week

Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week: 12-20 Link

Bullying Bystanders Unite Week: 15-21 

Freedom From Bullies Week: 15-21 

International Infection Prevention Week: 15-21 Link

Mediation Week: 15-21 Link  

National Character Counts Week: 15-21  

National Business Women's Week: 15-21   Link

National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week:15-21 Link  

National Food Bank Week: 15-21 

National Forest Products Week: 15-21 

National Friends of Libraries Week:15-21  

National Pharmacy Week: 15-21  Link   

National Save For Retirement Week: 15-21 Link  

National Teen Drivers Safety Week: 15-21 Link 

Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week: 16-20  Link

Medical Assistants Recognition Week: 16-20  Link

National Health Education Week: 16-20 Link

National School Bus Safety Week: 16-20 

YWCA Week Without Violence: 16-20 Link 

Freedom of Speech Week: 16-22   Link   

Asexuality Week: 17-23 Link

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week: 17-24

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                 

◄1603 Chinese uprising in the Philippines fails after 23,000 killed

1700’s                                 

1774 American Continental Congress orders discouragement of entertainment

1800’s                                 

1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase

◄1822 1st edition of London Sunday Times

1864 US President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday

1873 PT Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth" opens (NYC)

◄1891 1st International 6-day bike race at New York's Madison Square Garden begins

1900’s                                 

◄1905 Russian Tsar allows Polish people to speak Polish

1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)

◄1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen sets out a race to the South Pole

1917 US suffragette Alice Paul begins a 7-month jail sentence for protesting women's rights in Washington

◄1935 400,000 demonstrators against fascism in Madrid

◄1935 Communist forces end their Long March at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedong to prominence

◄1945 US Supreme Court Justice Geoffrey Lawrence opens the Nuremberg Nazi war crime trials

1955 Harry Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)

◄1955 Publication of "The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord of the Rings" by J. R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London

1963 Jim Brown sets NFL single-season rushing record, 1,863 yds

1967 A purported bigfoot is filmed at Bluff Creek by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin in Northern Califonia

◄1971 West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is awarded Nobel Peace Prize

◄1973 OPEC oil embargo begins

1973 President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century

◄1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens Sydney Opera House

1973 US president Nixon fires Watergate accuser Archibald Cox

1975 Supreme Court rules teachers could spank their pupils after warning

1978 Police's 1st US concert (NYC's CBGBs)

1998 Comedian Richard Pryor is awarded the 1st ever Mark Twain Prize for American Humor

2000’s                                 

◄2011 The former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.

2014 Laquan McDonald (17) is shot dead by Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke while jaywalking, the murder caught on video footage

◄2015 Migrants arriving in Greece top 500,00 for the year, according to the UN

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My Rambling Thoughts

Still nice and warm, but getting more clouds, with the hope of some moisture for our dry forest. Weatherman says most of the moisture will evaporate before finding its way to a tree.

Today is my brother’s birthday. He is enjoying it at their place in Mexico.

Gen. Kelly led a press conference today. Powerful words from a man who lost his son in Afghanistan. Lots of people are not happy with the current President, many are not happy with the current Congress. That is fine and good, but everyone must maintain some sense of decorum. I must add, words from a General and Gold Star family member carry much more weight than someone who never served. Earlier in the day Bush-43 also gave a good speech about remembering that our country is ‘the beacon on the hill’. Nice to see people trying to stop the vile rhetoric from so many sides. And that bullying must stop.

And there was a leader of the white supremacy movement spoke at Florida State. It remained peaceful with a huge presence of law-enforcement and National Guard. That is what free speech is all about.  

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Bizarre News

*-- I Know a Little Romanian; He's Over There --*

It was a mystery that had police puzzled for a while: a rash of thefts reported by passengers who had taken the 75-minute bus trip between Paris and Beauvais airport. A driver has been credited with helping crack the case after he spotted a suspicious suitcase being loaded onto his bus as he prepared to drive from Paris to the airport. Acting on his tip-off about a large brown bag that appeared to be moving on its own, police at Beauvais pounced on a Romanian man who picked up the suitcase and a smaller black rucksack as he arrived. After arresting him, detectives found an accomplice hidden inside the case who, once alone in the baggage hold during the trip, would pull a strap to unzip himself and then begin his thieving. Both men, aged around 40, were from Romania and had criminal records for theft.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- John Dewey,

American philosopher, educational theorist, and writer (learn by doing), born in Burlington, Vermont

(d. 1952)

@90- Christopher Wren,

English astronomer and architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), born in East Knoyle, Wiltshire

(d. 1723)

80’s

@85- Joyce Brothers,

American pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun), born in NYC, New

(d. 2013)

@84- William Christopher,

Evanstown Ill, actor (Father Mulcahy-M*A*S*H)

(d. 2016)

@82- James Chadwick,

English physicist (Nobel 1935 discovered neutron), born in Bollington, Cheshire

(d. 1974)

@81- Tommy Douglas,

Canadian politician (Father of Medicare), born in Falkirk, Scotland

(d. 1986)

70’s

78- Jay Siegel,

rock bassist (Tokens-Lion Sleeps Tonight), born in Brooklyn

@73- Bela Lugosi [Blaskó],

Austrian actor (Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), born in Lugos, Austro-Hungarian Empire

(d. 1956)

72- Connie Chung,

American news anchor (NBC, CBS), born in Washington, D.C.

60’s

@69 Jerry Ohrbach,

actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing), born in The Bronx,

(d. 2004)

@66- Tom Petty,

American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), born in Gainesville, Florida

(d. 2017)

@63- Mickey Mantle 

"The Commerce Comet", NY Yankee, home run slugger (1956 Triple Crown), born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma

(d. 1995)

50’s

59- Viggo Mortensen,

American Actor (Lord of the Rings, The Road), born in NYC, New York

@50- Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton,

jazz pianist/composer, born in New Orleans,

(d. 1941)

40’s

46- Snoop Dogg [Calvin Broadus], 

rapper (What's My Name, Gin & Juice), born in Long Beach, California

30’s

@37- Arthur Rimbaud,

French poet and adventurer (Illuminations), born in Charleville, France

(d. 1891)

@30- The Báb (Sayyed ʿAli Muhammad Shirāzi),

Persian founder of the Bábí Faith

(d. 1850)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96-2006 Jane Wyatt,

American actress (Father Knows Best)

@90-1964 Herbert Hoover,

31st President of US (1929-33)

80’s

@84-1990 Joel McCrea,

actor (Ramrod)

@80-1994 Burt Lancaster,

actor (Elmer Gantry)

70’s

@79-2010 Bob Guccione,

American publisher (Penthouse magazine),

multiple cancers

@79-1871 Charles Babbage,

English mathematician/inventor (calculator),

renal failure

@77-2016 Junko Tabei,

Japanese mountain-climber, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest,

cancer

@74-2015 Cory Wells [Emil Lewandowski],

American rock vocalist (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World),

blood disease

@70-1936 Anne Sullivan,

American teacher.

stroke

60’s

@69-1890 Richard Francis Burton,

English explorer and translator (Arabian Nights),

heart attack

@69±-2011 Muammar Gaddafi,

Libyan revolutionary, political theorist, and dictator (1969-2011),

beaten to death in captivity by a Misratan militia

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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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