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Oct 9, 2017 Week: 41 \ Day: 282
86004 Today: H 70° \ L 31°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 18mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 81°[1996] Record Low: 20°[1970]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Chief Joseph
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Observances Today
International Beer and Pizza Day Link
National Online Banking Day Link
National Pro-Life Cupcake Day
National Kick Butt Day Link
Native American Day
Nautilus Night (Cephalopods) Link
World Post Day
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Observances This Week
No Salt Week: 3-10
World Space Week: 4-10 Link
National Physicians Assistant Week: 6-12
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta: 7-15 Link
Death Penalty Focus Week: 8-14
Drink Local Wine Week: 8-14
Earth Science Week: 8-14 Link
Emergency Nurses Week: 8-14
Fire Prevention Week: 8-14 Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week: 8-14
National Chestnut Week: 8-14
National Metric Week: 8-14
Teen Read Week: 8-14
Veterinary Technicians Week: 8-14Link
National School Lunch Week: 9-13
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
700’s
◄ 768 Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1000’s
◄1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America
1600’s
1635 Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1700’s
1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven
1800’s
◄1817 University of Gent officially opens
1855 American inventor Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor
1855 Joshua Stoddard of Worcester, Massachusetts, patents first calliope (musical instrument)
1864 Battle of Tom's Brook; Confederate cavalry that harassed Sheridan's campaign is beaten by General George A. Custer & Merrit's cavalry divisions
1877 American Humane Association organizes (Cleveland)
1888 Washington Monument opens for public admittance
1900’s
1915 Woodrow Wilson becomes first US President to attend a World Series game
1926 NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles
1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program - beginning of the Manhattan project
1946 First electric blanket manufactured; sold for $39.50
1946 Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" premieres in NYC
◄1962 Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom
◄1968 2,000 students from Queen's University Belfast try to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against 'police brutality', but blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley; leads for formation of student civil rights group People's Democracy
◄1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence
◄1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize
◄1981 Abolition of capital punishment in France.
◄1989 Penthouse Magazine's Hebrew edition hits newsstands
1992 Great meteorite seen from Kentucky to New York, 13 kilograms (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of Knapp residence, Peekskill, New York, destroying family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu
2000’s
◄2012 Women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan
2016 Second US Presidential debate: Hostile confrontation between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at Washington University, St. Louis
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My Rambling Thoughts
Out town is celebrating ‘Indigenous People’s Day’ today, one of many towns and cities who has decided it is time to honor the first people on this land. I spent my career working with Native People. This was always a hard day to discuss. First, Columbus did NOT discover America or any part of North America. The Italians on the East Coast were just trying to improve their image as they were immigrants and not being welcomed with very open arms. The myth continued. Even when it was learned that Leif Erickson was in Canada 500 years before Chris, nothing changed. Changing a myth is very difficult. So, it wrongly continues. Those who did come to America, those who founded it, believed they owned any land they wanted. The massacred millions of Native, Indigenous People, as they moved in every direction possible. It is time for our country to recognize the Columbus Myth for what it is…Fake History. Have a great Indigenous People’s Day.
Weather is great. Windows open. Fresh air everywhere!
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Bizarre News
*------------ How's That For Luck? ------------*
Charles Svatos of Iowa City is just the third Iowan to win the 'Lucky for Life' for life drawing which entitled him to $25,000 per year for life. Charles is 92-years-old. Players can win Lucky for Life's top prize of $1,000 a day for life by matching all six numbers selected in one of its drawings. The game's second prize - for matching the first five numbers but missing the Lucky Ball - is $25,000 a year for life. Oddly enough, Svatos said he bought a fortune cookie last month at a casino that said, "You will discover an unexpected treasure." Probably wisely Svatos chose to receive his prize as a lump sum of $390,000, which he plans to use to travel. His winnings ended up being $273,000 after taxes.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@93- Fyvush Finkel,
actor (Middle Ages, Picket Fences), born in Brooklyn, New York
(d. 2016)
80’s
@82- Ivo Andric,
Yugoslavia, novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel Prize for Literature 1961)
(d. 1985)
70’s
77- Joe Pepitone,
MLB 1st baseman (NY Yankees), born in Brooklyn, New York
60’s
65- Sharon Osbourne,
English/American music manager, TV personality (X-Factor, America's Got Talent) and wife of Ozzy Osbourne, born in London
64- Tony Shalhoub,
actor (Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Monk)
63- Scott Bakula,
actor (Quantum Leap, NCIS, Murphy Brown), born in St Louis, Missouri
50’s
51- David Cameron,
British Prime Minister (Conservative: 2010-16), born in London
40’s
42- Sean Ono Lennon,
Son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's, born in NYC
@40- John Lennon,
British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1980)
30’s
38- Brandon Routh,
American actor
36- Zachery Ty Bryan,
actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Denver, Colorado
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@93-1906 Joseph Glidden,
American inventor (barbed wire) and businessman
@92-2005 Louis Nye,
American comedian and actor
80’s
@84-2015 Richard F. Heck,
American chemist who discovered the Heck Reaction (Nobel Prize 2010)
@82-1958 Pius XII, [Eugenio Pacelli],
Pope (1939-58)
70’s
@74-2001 Herbert Ross,
American film director and producer (Goodbye. Mr. Chips),
heart failure
@74-1806 Benjamin Banneker,
African American astronomer, mathematician and surveyor of Washington D.C.,
alcoholism
60’s
@66-1974 Oskar Schindler,
Austrian businessman and subject of the novel "Schindler's Ark" and the film "Schindler's List"
30’s
@39-1967 Ernesto "Che" Guevara,
Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician,
executed in Bolivia
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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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