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Oct 21, 2017 Week: 42 \ Day: 294
86004 Today: H 66° \ L 32°
Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind ave: 27mph\Gusts: 38mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[2003] Record Low: 5°[1949]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Observances Today
Birth of the Bab
Bridge Day Link
Celebration of The Mind Day Link
Global Iodine Deficiency Disorder (IDD) Prevention Day
Reptile Awareness Day Link
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Observances This Week
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week: 15-21
Freedom From Bullies Week: 15-21
International Infection Prevention Week: 15-21 Link
Mediation Week: 15-21 Link
National Character Counts Week: 15-21
National Business Women's Week: 15-21 Link
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week:15-21 Link
National Food Bank Week: 15-21
National Forest Products Week: 15-21
National Friends of Libraries Week:15-21
National Pharmacy Week: 15-21 Link
National Save For Retirement Week: 15-21 Link
National Teen Drivers Safety Week: 15-21 Link
Freedom of Speech Week: 16-22 Link
Asexuality Week: 17-23 Link
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week: 17-24
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
◄1520 Explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his fleet reach Cape Virgenes and become the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean
1700’s
1774 First display of the word "Liberty" on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts and which was in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.
◄1789 French Revolution: The National Assembly declares martial law in France to prevent uprisings
1800’s
◄1805 Battle of Trafalgar: British Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats combined French and Spanish fleet. Nelson shot and killed during battle.
◄1816 The Penang Free School is founded in George Town, Penang, Malaysia, by the Rev Hutchings. It is the oldest English-language school in Southeast Asia.
◄1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement (Yorkshire, England)
◄1854 Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses is sent to the Crimean War
◄1858 In Paris, the Can-Can is 1st performed
1902 In the United States, a five-month strike by United Mine Workers ends.
1900’s
◄1917 1st Americans to see action on front lines of WWI: US troops enter front lines at Sommervillier under French command
◄1945 Women in France allowed to vote for 1st time
◄1949 Author of 'Brave New World' Aldous Huxleywrites to congratulate George Orwell on his new novel '1984'
◄1950 Death penalty abolished in Belgium
◄1958 1st women in British House of Lords
1959 Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens in New York
◄1964 Abebe Bikila runs Olympic/World record marathon (2:12:11.2)
1964 Film version of "My Fair Lady" directed by George Cukor and starring Rex Harrison and Audrey Hepburn premieres in New York (Academy Awards Best Picture 1965)
◄1969 Bloodless coup in Somalia (National Day)
◄1971 Nobel prize for literature awarded to Pablo Neruda
1975 Coast Guard Academy 1st allows women to enroll
1976 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American Saul Bellow
1987 Senate debate begins rejecting Robert Bork's Supreme Ct nomination
◄1988 Philippine former first couple Ferdinand & Imelda Marcos indicted on racketeering charges
1989 Betram Lee & Peter Bynoe purchase the Denver Nuggets for $65m - 1st African American owners of a major sports team,
◄1991 US hostage Jesse Turner released from 5 years in captivity in Beirut
2000’s
2001 "United We Stand" benefit concert for September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks victims, held at RFK Stadium Washington, D.C. organized and headlined by Michael Jackson and featuring Aerosmith, Mariah Carey and The Backstreet Boys
◄2013 The Parliament of Canada confers Honorary Canadian citizenship on women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai
◄2014 Oscar Pistorius is sentenced to five years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp
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My Rambling Thoughts
Very windy day here. Long, clumped pine needles on deck, sidewalk, vehicles, parking lot. A real mess. Expected to continue until sunset. A little cooler than yesterday, but don’t want to spend much time outside.
Having traveled with Focus Travel Club and HLO Tours to Africa many times, I was confused when 45 added Chad to the list. I’ve never been there, but it just seemed odd. Turns out, it was more than odd. Chad has been sending its army around to most of its neighboring countries to fight Boko Haram as everyone in the region knows they have the best fighters. Then 45 sent letters to a whole slew of countries asking for a newly printed Passport so the US could be sure that they can’t be easily counterfeited. Chad replied that they did not have any of the special paper used for passports and as they waited for a new shipment, they would miss the deadline. They couldn’t send a new one but would send one printed previously. 45’s Team said, no deal. Chad made the terrorist country list. Chad then pulled all of its army out of the regional countries. Then 4 American soldiers were ambushed. Hmmm.
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Bizarre News
*----------- This Story Sounds Fishy -----------*
A British man's heart stopped after he accidentally swallowed a 6-inch long Dover sole on a fishing trip in Boscombe, in southern England. The man, 28, who was not named, went into cardiac arrest after the fish jumped in his mouth, blocking his throat. However, paramedics were able to clear his airway after drawing the sole free with forceps. Matt Harrison, an emergency responder for the South Western Ambulance Service, said he was on the scene in under two minutes. When he arrived on the dimly lit pier where the man was fishing, a friend of the man’s was already performing CPR. This friend, also not named, told Harrison the 28-year-old had jokingly placed a fish he had just caught over his mouth. The sole then wriggled free and jumped in. "It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive the short journey to the Royal Bournemouth Hospital," Harrison said. After six attempts, the fish finally came out in one piece. To the paramedic's amazement, it was a whole Dover sole, measuring about 6 inches. After the patient arrived at hospital, he was able to respond to some questions, and has since made a full recovery.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
70’s
@77- Celia Cruz,
Cuban singer, Queen of Salsa
(d. 2003)
77- Manfred Mann, [Michael Lubowitz], South Africa, rocker (Mighty Quinn)
@75- Dizzy Gillespie, [John B],
jazz trumpeter, a creator of modern jazz
(d. 1993)
75- Judith Sheindlin,
Jurist and Television personality (Judge Judy), born in Brooklyn
60’s
68- Benjamin Netanyahu,
Israeli prime minister, born in Tel Aviv, Israel
@63- Alfred Nobel,
Swedish chemist, invented dynamite and foundered Nobel Prizes, born in Stockholm
(d. 1896)
@62- Samuel Taylor Coleridge,
English romantic poet (Rime of Ancient Mariner), born in Ottery St Mary, Devon
(d. 1834)
@60-1956 Carrie Fisher,
American actress (Princess Leia in Star Wars, When Harry Met Sally...) and writer (Postcards from the Edge), born in Beverly Hills, California
(d. 2016)
30’s
37- Kim [Kimberly] Kardashian,
American TV personality (Keeping Up with the Kardashians)
20’s
24-Kane Brown,
country singer
Teens’s
@18-1986 Natalee Holloway,
U.S teen, disappeared in Aruba
(d. 2005)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@90-2012 George McGovern,
US Politician
70’s
@79-2015 Marty Ingels,
American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster),
stroke
@72-1992 Jackson Weaver,
voice of Smokey the Bear,
diabetes complications
@70-1992 Jim Garrison,
Louisiana DA (investigate JFK assassination),
cancer
@70-1970 John T Scopes,
US teacher (Scopes "monkey trial" 1925),
cancer
@70-1969 Jack Kerouac,
American (Doctor Sax, On the Road),
cirrhosis
60’s
@66-1993 James Leo Herlihy,
American novelist (Midnight Cowboy),
suicide
40’s
@47-1805 Admiral Horatio Nelson,
dies in Battle of Trafalgar
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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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