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Oct 14, 2017 Week: 41 \ Day: 287
86004 Today: H 69° \ L 35°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 27mph\Gusts: 8mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 78°[1991] Record Low: 18°[1975]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
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Observances Today
I Love Yarn Day Link
National Motorcycle Ride Day Link
Spider-Man Day Link
Universal Music Day
World Standards Day Link
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Observances This Week
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: 8-14 Link
World Rainforest Week: 9-15 Link
Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week: 12-20 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1300’s
◄1322 Robert the Bruce of Scotland defeats King Edward II of England at Byland, forcing Edward to accept Scotland's independence
1800’s
1834 First African-American granted a US patent, Henry Blair, for a corn planter
1834 In Philadelphia, Whigs and Democrats stage a gun, stone and brick battle for control of a Moyamensing Township election, resulting in one death, several injuries, and the burning down of a block of buildings.
1865 Cheyennes & Arapahos sign "peace treaty" then chased out Colorado
◄1882 University of the Punjab is founded in present day Pakistan.
1900’s
1916 Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
1922 1st Thom McAn shoe store opens on Third Avenue NYC
◄1926 A. A. Milne's book "Winnie the Pooh" released
1939 BMI (Broadcast Music Incorporated) formed
◄1952 UN General Assembly first meets at its new headquarters in New York
1957 Everly Brothers' "Wake Up Little Susie" reaches #1
1958 The District of Columbia Bar Association votes to accept black Americans as members.
1960 Peace Corps 1st suggested by John F. Kennedy at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor
1968 1st live telecast from a manned US spacecraft (Apollo 7)
◄1968 Opening of the rebuilt Euston railway station in London, England ◄1976 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to American economist Milton Friedman
1979 1st Gay and Lesbian Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. by over 100,000 people
1982 US President Reagan proclaims a war on drugs
◄1986 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Auschwitz survivor Elie Wiesel, for his efforts to ensure the Holocaust was remembered
◄1988 Naguib Mahfouz is the 1st Arabic writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature
◄1991 Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyiwins Nobel Peace Prize
◄1994 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres
2000’s
2014 Utah State University receives terrorist threats pertaining to Anita Sarkeesian's planned lecture the following day
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My Rambling Thoughts
I figured by now we would be having cold temps and night and cool temps during the day. Not this year. Still cloudless sky with warm temps. Not complaining.
A few months ago I thought I was living in a nightmare as I watched our country move to what I consider the far right. Now I am beginning to think that I was actually living in a dream for all of the Obama administration and this is now our new reality. This is very frightening. I was raised to believe everyone was created equal, that everyone had something to offer our culture, that it was better to talk to your enemy than to kill them. As I have traveled to many countries, I have found that the people are kind, friendly, and doing what needs to be done to survive. Live and let live.
Some live in a reality I am not familiar with, but that doesn’t make them bad. Here in the US we were raised to believe that Chris discovered a continent that already had millions of people living here. In Viet Nam those around Hanoi are raised to believe that the US dropped an atomic bomb on them and they still won. Wrong information doesn’t make them evil or bad. Education is the key to finding truth.
I took one course in Economics in College. I started the second course and quickly realized it wasn’t for me. I transferred to another course that made sense to me. Listening to 45 compare the National Debt and the Stock Market numbers makes no sense to me and thankfully, it makes no sense to the many economists who took more than one course in college. The misinformation must be stopped. As a teacher I worked with colleagues who had very uninformed ideas that they passionately believed. Some could be educated, others, not so much. I was helping on a project at a school when a well-respected teacher told me how hard it was to get a left-handed student learn to write with her right hand. I said that I would never change a student’s preferred hand. She informed me that all left-handed students were ‘that way’ because during the birth process, they received a brain injury that had made them become left-handed. Hmmm. I looked at her and said, ‘well, since you aren’t a brain surgeon, you shouldn’t be changing their preference.’ Live and let live.
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Bizarre News
*---- Woman Charged With Frying Pan Murder ----*
In what might be the most cliched murder in recent history, a woman is facing charges for the beating of her boyfriend to death with a frying pan. It was Labor Day weekend when police were called to a convenience market. Jason Lewis, 35, was conscious, but bleeding from the head after he said he had been beaten by his girlfriend with a pair of frying pans, according to the Camden County Prosecutor. The woman, 31-year-old Maleia Cole, fled to her home about a block away. Lewis later underwent emergency surgery but later succumbed to his injuries. Cole was apprehended without incident after being charged with murder and awaits a pre-trial detention hearing.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@96- C Everett Koop,
13th US Surgeon General (1982-89), born in Brooklyn
(d. 2013)
80’s
@89-- Roger Moore,
British actor (The Saint, James Bond), born in London
(d. 2017)
70’s
@78- Dwight D. Eisenhower,
34th US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, born in Denison, Texas
(d. 1969)
78- Ralph Lauren,
fashion designer (Chaps, Polo Ralph Lauren), born in The Bronx
@73- William Penn,
English Philosopher, Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania, born in London
(d. 1718)
60’s
@68- Sumner Welles,
US undersecretary/diplomat (Good neighbor policy)
(d. 1961)
@67- James Stuart,
King James VII of Scotland / James II of England
(d. 1688)
@67- E.E.Cummings (Edward Estlin),
poet (Tulips & Chimneys), born in Cambridge, Mass.
(d. 1962)
30’s
39- Usher (Usher Raymond IV),
American singer (My Way, Confessions) and actor, born in Dallas, Texas
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@82-2012 Arlen Specter,
American Senator (Republican-PA, 1981- 2011)
70’s
@74-1977 Bing Crosby [Harry Lillis Crosby],
American singer and actor (Going My Way),
heart attack
@72-1990 Leonard Bernstein,
American conductor and composer (West Side Story),
heart attack
@70-1986 [Francis XA] Keenan Wynn,
US actor (Dr Strangelove),
pancreatic cancer
60’s
@69-2006 Freddy Fender,
American musician ("Before the Next Teardrop Falls"),
lung cancer
50’s
@52-1944 Erwin Rommel,
German Field Marshal (WWII - African campaign),
suicide
@50-1959 Errol Flynn,
Australian-born US actor (Captain Blood),
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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