Oct 27

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Oct 27, 2017 Week: 43 \ Day: 300

86004 Today: H 70° \ L 34°

Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  --mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 74°[1995]   Record Low: 10°[1970]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

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

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Quote of the Day

Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

  T. S. Eliot

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Observances Today

Black Cat Day  Link   Link

Cranky Co-workers Day

Frankenstein Friday

International Bandanna Day  Link  

National Breadstix (Bread Sticks) Day 

National Tell a Story Day - in Scotland and the U.K.

Navy Day  Link

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage Link

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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

National Nuclear Science Week: 23-27 

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 

1200’s                                 

◄ 1275 Traditional founding of the city of Amsterdam

1600’s                                 

1682 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is founded by Englishman William Penn

1700’s                                 

1775 US Navy forms as the Continental Navy

◄ 1780 Samuel Williams and the first U.S. astronomical expedition to record an eclipse of the sun observes the event at Penobscot Bay

1800’s                                 

1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption

1900’s                                 

1904 First section of New York subway - Lower Manhattan to Broadway Harlem, opened by Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), fare one nickel

1913 President Woodrow Wilson says US will never attack another country

1917 20,000 women march in a suffrage parade in New York, US

1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day (USA)

1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic polyamide fiber will be called "nylon"

1947 "You Bet Your Life" with Groucho Marx premieres on ABC radio

1955 "Rebel Without a Cause", directed by Nicholas Ray, starring James Dean and Natalie Wood, is released

1961 American Basketball League starts play

1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records

1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization knowns as Nader's Raiders

◄ 1971 Republic of Congo-Kinshasa becomes Republic of Zaire

◄ 1971 Gerard Newe becomes the first Catholic to serve in any Northern Ireland government since 1920; Newe was appointed to try to improve community relations

1975 Covers of both Time & Newsweek picture rock singer Bruce Springsteen

◄ 1982 China announces its population has reached 1 billion plus people

◄ 1992 Great Britain issues postage stamp on 100th anniversary of JRR Tolkien

1992 Tipper Gore (wife of future VP) admits to covering clock on her VCR with black tape so she wouldn't have to watch it blink

2000’s                                 

◄ 2005 Riots begin in Paris after the deaths of two Muslim teenagers.

◄ 2016 6.6-magnitude quake hits central Italy - strongest earthquake in Italy for 36 years

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My Rambling Thoughts

Good weather day. Not getting tired of this.  Nice lunch with our retirement group. Caught up on lots since our last lunch about 3 weeks ago.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

100’s

@102- Joseph Medicine Crow,

Crow chief and historian, born near Lodge Grass, Montana

(d. 2013)

90’s

@91- Ruby Dee,

American actress (A Raisin in the Sun, American Gangster), born in Cleveland, Ohio

(d. 2014)

70’s

78- John Cleese,

English actor and comedian (Monty Python), born in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset

75- Lee Greenwood,

American country singer (God Bless the USA), born in Los Angeles, California

@73- Roy Lichtenstein,

Pop art painter (painted comic book panels), born in NYC, New York

(d. 1997)

70- Terry Anderson,

AP correspondent/US hostage held in Lebanon (1985-91)

60’s

65- Roberto Benigni,

Italian director and actor (Life Is Beautiful, The Tiger and the Snow), born in Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy

@64- Floyd Cramer,

La, hall of fame pianist (Last Date, On the Rebound)

(d. 1997)

@63- Isaac Singer,

American inventor (1st practical home sewing machine), born in Pittstown New York

(d. 1875)

@61- John Gotti,

mafia head of the Gambino family, born in The Bronx,

(d. 2002)

@60- Theodore Roosevelt,

26th US President (R: 1901-09; Nobel 1906), born in NYC, New York

(d. 1919)

50’s

@58- Carrie Snodgress,

Park Ridge Ill, actress (Diary of Mad Housewife)

(d. 2004)

54- Marla Maples,

45’s wife #2

@50- James Cook,

British explorer, navigator and cartographer who was the first European to explore much of Australia, the Pacific Islands and New Zealand, born in Marton, Yorkshire, England

(d. 1779)

@50- Edward Lee Howard,

American CIA Case Officer and alleged Soviet spy who defected to the Soviet Union in 1985, born in Alamogordo, New Mexico

(d. 2002)

30’s

@39- Dylan Thomas,

poet (Child's Christmas in Wales), born in Swansea, Wales

(d. 1953)

33- Kelly Osbourne,

English television personality

@30- Sylvia Plath,

American poet and novelist (Colossus, 3 Women, Bell Jar), born in Boston,

(d. 1963)

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-1990 Xavier Cugat,

Spanish-American bandleader

80’s

@85-2011 James Hillman,

founder of Archetypal Psychology

@83-1988 S B Fuller,

founder (Fuller products)

70’s

@71-2013 Lou Reed,

American musician (Velvet Underground), 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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