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Oct 1, 2017 Week: 40 \ Day: 274
86004 Today: H 70° \ L 40°
Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 27mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 85°[1980] Record Low: 23°[1982]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
Sophocles
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Observances Today
Ashura
CD Player Day
Change A Light Day Link
Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day
Fire Pup Day
International Coffee Day Link
International Day of Older Persons
Intergeneration Day
International African Diaspora Day
International Blessings of The Fishing Fleet Day (South Africa)
International Music Day Link
International Music Day Link
Model T Day
National Book It! Day
National Lace Day Link
Vegan Baking Day
World Communion Day
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Observances This Week
Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week: 1-5 Link
Universal Children's Week: 1-7
4-H Week: 1-7 Link (1st Full Week)
Great Books Week: 1-7 (1st Full Week)
International Post Card Week: 1-7 Link (1st Full Week)
Mental Illness Awareness Week: 1-7 (1st Full Week)
Mystery Series Week: 1-7 (1st Full Week)
National Carry A Tune Week: 1-7 (Always had 7th in it)
National Chimney Safety Week: 1-7 (Week before Fire Prevention Week)
National Midwifery Week:1-7 (1st Full Week) Link
National Work From Home Week: 1-7 (1st Full Week)
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week : 1-7 (1st Full Week)
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
◄1661 Yachting begins in England; King Charles II beats his brother James, Duke of York racing from Greenwich to Gravesend
1800’s
◄1814 Opening of the Congress of Vienna, redrew Europe's political map after the defeat of Napoléon Bonaparte
◄1829 South African College is founded in Cape Town, South Africa; later to separate into the University of Cape Town and the South African College Schools.
1837 Treaty with Winnebago Indians
◄1843 News of the World begins publication in London
1851 1st Hawaiian stamps issued
1854 The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American System of Watch Manufacturing.
◄1864 Cyclone strikes Calcutta: 70,000 killed
◄1867 Karl Marx' "Das Kapital" published
◄1868 "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott is published in America by Roberts Brothers of Boston
◄1869 1st postcards are issued (Vienna, Austria)
1880 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of US Marine Corps Band
1888 National Geographic magazine publishes for the 1st time
1890 Congress creates Weather Bureau
1890 Congress establishes Yosemite National Park (California)
1891 In the U.S. state of California, Stanford University opens its doors
1892 University of Chicago opens
◄1898 The Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration is founded under the name k.u.k. Exportakademie.
1900’s
1903 1st baseball World Series, Pittsburgh Pirates vs Boston Pilgrims (Red Sox)
1907 Plaza Hotel (5th Av & 59th Str, NY) opens
1907 A downturn in the stock market leads to a run on the dollar; US President Theodore Roosevelt will be forced to call on financier JP Morgan to help manage the financial crisis
1908 Henry Ford introduces the Model T car (costs $825)
◄1914 The first division of Canadian troops, 33,000 sail for Britain; most Canadians are volunteers, anxious to prove their loyalty to the Commonwealth
◄1918 World War I: Arab forces under T. E. Lawrence("Lawrence of Arabia") capture Damascus
1919 World Series begins as a best of 9 affair, White Sox intentionally throw this series to satisfy gamblers (Black Sox Scandal)
1926 An oil field accident cost aviator Wiley Post his left eye, but he used the settlement money to buy his first aircraft.
◄1928 USSR launches its first 5-year plan
1931 The second (and current) Waldorf-Astoria Hotel is opened in New York.
◄1934 Adolf Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1942 Little Golden Books (children's books) begins publishing
◄1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed by Mao Zedong (National Day)
◄1949 Republic of China (Taiwan) forms on island of Formosa
1957 First appearance of "In God We Trust" on U.S. paper currency.
1958 US space agency NASA begins operations incorporating earlier National Advisory Council on Aeronautics and other bodies
◄1960 Nigeria gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1962 Barbra Streisand signs her 1st recording contract (with Columbia)
◄1962 Brian Epstein signs a contract to manage Beatles through 1977
1962 James Meredith becomes the 1st black student at the University of Mississippi
1964 Free Speech Movement launched at University of California, Berkley
1982 EPCOT Center opens in Orlando Florida
1982 The Sony CDP-101, world's first commercially released Compact Disc player released in Japan for 168,000 yen ($730)
◄1989 Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
◄1994 South African President Nelson Mandela visits US
2000’s
◄2000 27th Olympic Games closes at Sydney, Australia
2012 California becomes the first US state to ban conversion therapy for minors
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice fall Saturday. Took a nice walk this morning. Aspens on the Peaks are starting to change color. Beautiful.
Lots of weekend traffic and lots of fender benders. Tourists seem to believe that they can stop anywhere on the highway to look at a tree or a motel. Never mind that locals have places to go, people to see, and things to do. One of the joys of living in a beautiful place. I paid the BBB tax for decades when I came into town for the weekend. Recently the geniuses at that board decided that our town needed ‘street art’. Not like the various street art of 3D art, they have put up around our town, but actual ‘paint it on the street’ art. At a busy intersection downtown, they have painted an ad for tourism. Lots of money for something that will probably last a year in good shape and then have a long slow death. Our town has lots of snow in the winter months, they use cinders on the roads as chemicals are hard on the environment, and then there are the snow plows. The ‘art’ is taking up the entire intersection where two busy two-lane streets cross. The long-time locals are not at all happy, but the board doesn’t seem phased. Well, it is a little late, since it was a secret project until the painting started. The board promises to get more input on their next project. We’ll have to wait and see.
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Bizarre News
*--------------- The Pink Panther ---------------*
A Russian mining company has unearthed a massive pink diamond they believe could be the most expensive gem yet recovered by the group. The 27.85-carat pink gem was recovered by Alrosa PJSC from the company's alluvial mines in the northwest part of Yakutia in Russia's Far East. According to Alrosa, the pink gem is of jewelry quality with almost no defects. It measures 22.47 by 15.69 by 10.9 millimeters. Until the latest diamond was unearthed, the biggest pink gem recovered by Alrosa measured 3.86-carats. "Experts of Alrosa are currently studying this gem to decide on whether to sell it as a raw diamond or cut it," Evgeny Agureev, head of the United Selling Organization of ALROSA, said in a news release. "Big gems, especially of rare colors, traditionally enjoy high demand at auctions. Considering that no similar gems have been before in Alrosa's history, we can say it will be the most expensive diamond of all time in Alrosa, if it is decided to cut the diamond in the company." Earlier this year, a humongous pink diamond, measuring 59.60-carats, sold at auction in Hong Kong for $71.2 million -- the most ever paid for a gem at auction.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
93- Jimmy Carter,
American politician, 39th US President (D) (1977-81), born in Plains, Georgia
80’s
@87- James Whitmore,
actor (Give 'em Hell Harry), born in White Plains, NY
(d. 2009)
@83- Tom Bosley,
actor (Howard-Happy Days, Murder She Wrote), born in Chicago,
(d. 2010)
82- Julie Andrews,
British actress and singer (Sound of Music, Mary Poppins), born in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey
@80- William Rehnquist,
Ws, Supreme Court (1972-86)/chief justice
(d. 2005)
70’s
@79- Yip Man,
Martial Arts Master
(d. 1972)
@74- William Edward Boeing,
founded aircraft co (Boeing)
(d. 1956)
@72- Richard Harris,
Irish actor (Man Called Horse) and singer (MacArthur Park), born in Limerick, Ireland
(d. 2002)
60’s
@65- George Peppard,
actor (Banacek, A-Team, Blue Max), born in Detroit,
(d. 1994)
61- Theresa May,
British Prime Minister (Conservative: 2016-), born in Eastbourne, England
40’s
48- Zach Galifianakis,
American actor (The Hangover, Birdman) born in Wilkesboro, NC
20’s
28- Brie Larson [Brianne Sidonie Desaulniers],
actress (Room), singer and director, born in Sacramento, California
@23- Bonnie Parker,
American outlaw of Bonnie and Clyde fame, born in Rowena, Texas
(d. 1934)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@83-1990 Curtis E LeMay,
USAF General/VP candidate
70’s
@74-1997 Jerome H. Lemelson,
American inventor, (held more than 600 patents),
liver cancer
60’s
@69-1972 Louis Leakey,
Kenyan paleoanthropologist and archaeologist (Olduvai Gorge),
heart attack
@66-2013 Tom Clancy,
US Author 'The Hunt for Red October',
undisclosed
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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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