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Oct 7, 2017 Week: 40 \ Day: 280
86004 Today: H 70° \ L 34°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 80°[1965] Record Low: 19°[2007]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
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Observances Today
Cephalopod Awareness Day
Inter-American Water Day Link
National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day Link
National Forgiveness Day
National Personal Safety Day Link
Woofstock
You Matter To Me Day Link
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Observances This Week
Universal Children's Week: 1-7
Great Books Week: 1-7
International Post Card Week: 1-7 Link
Mental Illness Awareness Week: 1-7
Mystery Series Week: 1-7
National Carry A Tune Week: 1-7
National Chimney Safety Week: 1-7
National Midwifery Week:1-7 Link
National Work From Home Week: 1-7
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week : 1-7
Financial Planning Week: 2-8
World Dairy Expo: 3-8
No Salt Week: 3-10
World Space Week: 4-10 Link
Great American Beer Festival: 5-7 Link
Old-time Fiddler Days: 6-7
National Storytelling Weekend: 6-8
National Physicians Assistant Week: 6-12
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta: 7-15 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
BC’s
◄3761 BC The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar).
1400’s
◄1492 Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1500’s
◄1520 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
◄1542 Explorer Juan RodrÃguez Cabrillo discovers Catalina Island off the coast of California
1700’s
◄1737 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft and kill 300,000 near Bengal, India
◄1763 George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north and west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1800’s
◄1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood
1868 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1900’s
1916 Georgia Tech, coached by John Heisman, defeat Cumberland 222-0, most lopsided score in the history of US college football
◄1919 KLM, Royal Dutch Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
◄1950 US forces invade North Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1952 First "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)
1960 TV series "Route 66" premieres on CBS
1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1971 "The French Connection" directed by William Friedkin and starring Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider and Fernando Rey premieres in the US (Academy Awards Best Picture 1972)
1982 Musical "Cats" opens at Winter Garden Theater on Broadway NYC and runs for nearly 18 years before closing on September 10, 2000.
1985 Lynette Woodward chosen as 1st woman in Harlem Globetrotters
◄1990 Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
◄1996 Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News with Roger Ailes as CEO
1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.
2000’s
2001 Crude oil resumes flowing through the trans-Alaska pipeline after workers welded shut a bullet hole that caused 260,000 US gallons of oil to spill out
2003 American gubernatorial recall election is held in California. Governor Gray Davis is recalled and Arnold Schwarzenegger becomes governor.
2008 Music, podcast, and video streaming service Spotify is launched by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon
◄2009 A digital version of psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung's 'Red Book' is published 48 years after his death and contains personal notes on his subconscious during the period in which he developed his principal theories
2015 US President Barack Obama apologizes to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz
◄2016 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end conflict with FARC
2016 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another beautiful, warm fall day. I could get really used to this.
Did some quick shopping this morning. Got a great looking pot roast with veggies in the slow cooker. Yummy.
I must have moved into an ‘older American’ category. This morning I was on a local FB page about our town. The headline was ‘Senior Pictures’. I clicked on it, expecting to see pictures of older people in our community. Big surprise, it wasn’t that. It was a local photographer showing pics of HS seniors and encouraging others to use him for their graduation pics. Hmmm.
‘Calm before the storm’ and ‘you’ll see’ are a tad frightening as they come from 45.
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Bizarre News
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A man who wanted to look cool in the eyes of his girlfriend stole his uncle's police uniform and cruiser. Deputy Yoandy Miranda of Florida told investigators that someone broke into his locked bedroom and his patrol car while he was out of town over the weekend. He found the burglary to be bizarre as no valuables were stolen. However, he did not have to wait long to solve the mystery. On Sunday, Belleview Police Department officer Sergeant Bobby Levay contacted Deputy Miranda about a disturbance call that took place on Saturday. When they met, Sergeant Levay realized that Deputy Miranda he had met on Saturday, was not the same deputy that was standing in front of him. After reviewing surveillance videos, Deputy Miranda saw his nephew, 18-year-old Isael Ibrain Lima, wearing his uniform and driving his vehicle. Police released a dashcam video, showing Lima initiating a traffic stop with his uncle's patrol car. A person, who is allegedly his girlfriend, was in the car with Lima. The person was heard saying that she recorded the traffic stop. Lima was arrested and charged with several offenses, including impersonating a law enforcement officer.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@88- June Allyson,
actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas), born in The Bronx,
(d. 2006)
86- Desmond Tutu,
Anglican Archbishop of South Africa and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa
@82- Al Martino (Jasper Cini),
singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (The Godfather), born in Philadelphia,
(d. 2009)
70’s
@77- Niels Bohr,
Danish physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922), born in Copenhagen
(d. 1962)
@77- Elijah Muhammad [Elijah Robert Poole],
American religious leader (Nation of Islam), born in Sandersville, Georgia
(d. 1975)
@76- Martha McChesney Berry,
American educator who founded Berry School for Children, born near Rome, Georgia
(d. 1942)
75- Oliver North,
US colonel (Irangate), born in San Antonio, Texas
75- Joy Behar,
American television personality, comedian
@71- Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz],
actor (Andy's Gang), born in Flagstaff, AZ, raised in Kingman AZ
(d. 1977)
60’s
66- John Cougar Mellencamp,
American musician, actor (Jack & Diane), born in Seymour, Indiana
65- Vladimir Putin,
Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad
62- Yo-Yo Ma,
world famous cellist (2001 National Medal of Arts, 2011 Presidential Medal of Freedom), born in Paris, France
50’s
58- Simon Cowell,
English recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol), born in London
50- Toni Braxton,
American singer
30’s
@36- Joe Hill,
Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr
(d. 1915)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@86-1991 Leo Durocher,
baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants)
70’s
@73-1950 Willis Carrier,
American engineer (developed modern air conditioning)
60’s
@69-1956 Clarence Birdseye,
American inventor,
heart attack
40’s
@40-1849 Edgar Allan Poe,
American writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue),
alcoholism?
30’s
@38-1959 Mario Lanza,
opera singer,
heart attack
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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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