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Oct 13, 2017 Week: 41 \ Day: 286
86004 Today: H 69° \ L 36°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 20mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 79°[1950] Record Low: 12°[1969]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
Blaise Pascal
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Observances Today
English Language Day Link
International Day for Disaster Reduction
International African Penguin Awareness Day Link
International Day for Failure Link
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day Link
Navy Birthday Link
Silly Sayings Day
Simchat Torah
World Egg DayLink
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Observances This Week
National Physician’s 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
1300’s
◄1307 French King Philip IV has Grand Master Jacques de Molay and Knights Templar arrested and charged with idolatry and corruption
1700’s
1775 First US Navy forms when Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
1792 "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published and edited by Robert Thomas
1792 Cornerstone laid for the Executive Mansion (White House) in Washington
1800’s
◄1843 B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
◄1884 Greenwich in London established as the universal time meridian of longitude
1900’s
1902 US President Theodore Roosevelt threatens to start using army troops to work coal mines struck since 12 may; this brings the owners to agree to abide by a Commission of Arbitration
1903 Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland" premieres in NYC
◄1923 Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1947 "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1950 "All About Eve" directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and starring Bette Davis and Anne Baxter premieres (Academy Awards Best Picture 1951)
1978 US President Jimmy Carter answers callers' questions on National Public Radio
◄1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected President of Egypt
◄1982 IOC Executive Committee approves the reinstatement of Jim Thorpe's gold medals from the 1912 Olympics
1983 Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago, Illinois.
1999 The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2000’s
◄2008 HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to avert a financial sector collapse.
◄2010 The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground.
2016 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another great day here. Warm, breezy, nice!
45 is staying busy, doing everything possible to erase whatever Obama did. So sad. Today he’s back on ending the ASA. Couldn’t help but chuckle when he talked about all the choices Americans will have with his new plan. [Working for the Feds, we had many choices for health insurance, at least 15. Most of my colleagues tried to read the reams of each policy’s coverage, then gave up and just asked trusted colleagues what they had.] I’m sure the poor and undereducated will look forward to picking a policy that is good for them.
Really?!? 45 told the people in Texas ‘we will be there as long as needed’, then tells the people of Puerto Rico ‘we can’t be here forever.’ What am I missing?
As an ESL teacher, always liked Friday the 13th. Got to explain the history of the day and teach the kids the word: Triskaidekaphobia!
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Bizarre News
Five Times Your Wife's Weight Sounds About Right
Dozens of husbands swept their wives off their feet in Maine for the North American Wife Carrying Championships. The annual contest at the Sunday River resort in Newry, Maine, featured men carrying their wives -- usually on their backs and shoulders -- through an obstacle course that included log hurdles and a mud pit dubbed the Widow Maker due to its tendency to topple competitors. Jake and Kirsten Barney of Lexington, Va., last year's runner-ups, came out on top with a time of 58.26 seconds, two seconds ahead of last year's winners, Giana and Elliot Storey of Westbrook, Maine. The Barneys' victory earned them 12 cases of beer and five times Kirsten's weight in cash -- a total $630. The pair also qualified for the World Wife Carrying Championships in Finland, where the unusual sport originated.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@87- Margaret Thatcher,
British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1979-90), born in Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
(d. 2013)
70’s
76- Paul Simon,
singer/actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony), born in Newark, NJ
72- Demond Wilson,
Valdosta GA, actor (Sanford & Son, Baby I'm Back)
@70± Jacques de Molay,
French last Grand Master of the Knights Templar
(d. 1314)
@70- Arna Bontemps,
American poet (100 years of negro freedom), born in Alexandria, Louisiana
(d. 1973)
@70- Yves Montand,
French actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix)
(d. 1991)
70- Sammy Hagar,
American rock vocalist (I Can't Drive 55), born in Monterey California
60’s
@68- Burr Tillstrom,
puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie), born in Chicago,
(d. 1985)
61- Chris Carter,
American television producer (The X-Files), born in Bellflower, California
50’s
58- Marie Osmond,
singer/actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts), born in Ogden, Utah
52- Linda Brenneman,
Wheat Ridge Colo, cyclist (Olympics-11th-96)
54- Rob Schneider,
actor (Saturday Night Live, Men Behaving Badly)
50- Kate Walsh,
American TV actress
40’s
46- Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Ali G, Borat), born in London, England
@40- Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider],
comedian, arrested on obscenity
(d. 1966)
30’s
37- Ashanti,
American singer
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@88-2016 Bhumibol Adulyadej [Rama IX],
King of Thailand (1946-2016), was world's longest reigning monarch
@86-1945 Milton S. Hershey,
American chocolate tycoon (The Hershey Chocolate Company)
@85-1987 Walter Houser Brattain,
American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956)
70’s
@78-1997 Richard Mason,
English author (The World of Suzie Wong),
cancer
@73-1974 Ed Sullivan,
TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town),
cancer
60’s
@67-1905 Henry Irving [John Brodribb],
British Victorian actor, 1st actor to receive a knighthood (knighted 1895),
stroke
@66-1965 Paul H Muller,
Swiss chemist (DDT-Nobel 1948)
@64-2007 Tom Dawes,
American rock musician and composer who wrote music for commercial jingles ("Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz” for Alka-Seltzer and “7Up, the Uncola”),
stroke
@62-1968 Bea Benaderet,
actress (Petticoat Junction),
lung cancer
40’s
@43-1938 Elzie C. Segar,
American cartoonist (Popeye),
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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