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Oct 22, 2017 Week: 43 \ Day: 295
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 30°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 76°[2003] Record Low: 9°[1906]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more.
Jonas Salk
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Observances Today
Caps Locks Day
International Stuttering Awareness Day
Kof Awareness Day Link
Smart is Cool Day
Xterra World Championships
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Observances This Week
Freedom of Speech Week: 16-22 Link
Asexuality Week: 17-23 Link
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week: 17-24
Kids Care Week: 22-28
National Chemistry Week: 22-28
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week: 22-28 Link
National Massage Therapy Week: 22-28 Link
National Respiratory Care Week: 22-28 Link
Pastoral Care Week: 22-28 Link
Pro Bono Week: 22-28 Link
Rodent Awareness Week: 22-28
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
300’s
◄362 The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside of Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire
1500’s
◄1575 Foundation of Aguascalientes (one of 32 Federal Entities of Mexico)
1700’s
◄1721 Tsar Peter the Great becomes "All-Russian Imperator"
1746 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter
1797 Andre-Jacques Garnerin makes 1st parachute descent from a balloon in Paris
1800’s
1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas
1861 1st telegraph line linking West & East coasts completed
1862 Confederate troops reconquer Cumperland Gap, Tennessee
◄1877 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners. Those widows and orphans who were unable to support themselves were evicted by the mine owners and likely sent to the Poor House.
1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb
1881 Boston Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert
1883 Original Metropolitan Opera House (NYC) grand opening (Faust)
◄1884 International Meridian Conference in Washington, D.C. adopts Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) worldwide, creating 24 international time zones with longitude zero at the Greenwich meridian
◄1897 World's first car dealer opens in London
1900’s
1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus
◄1924 Toastmasters International is founded
1928 Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"
◄1928 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus.
◄1936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii
1938 Chester Carlson demonstrates 1st Xerox copying machine
◄1953 Laos gains full independence from France
1962 JFK addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba
1963 225,000 students boycott Chicago schools in Freedom Day protest
◄1964 French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartrerefuses Nobel prize
◄1969 Paul McCartney denies rumors of his death
◄1978 Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope
1979 Walt Disney World's 100-millionth guest
1988 Elton John sells out Madison Square Garden for a record 26th time
2000’s
◄2012 Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
2016 AT&T buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion
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My Rambling Thoughts
The wind stopped, but the temps dropped a bit more…guess it is fall.
Cleanup day at my place. Laundry, vacuuming, changing linens, mopping floors, and last but not least, gutter cleaning and sweeping up pine needles on deck and front area. Looks and feels much better. Also updated the Focus Travel Club site and added a new logo on certain pages.
Hard for me to believe that people are continuing to listen to Steve Bannon. He has declared war on the Republican Party. He wants to get rid of ‘establishment’ people…that really means those who don’t agree with me. Crazy.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@96- Joan Fontaine,
British-American actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca), born in Tokyo, Japan
(d. 2013)
80’s
@86- Dory Previn [Dorothy Veronica Langan],
singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas), born in Woodbridge, NJ
(d. 2012)
70’s
79- Christopher Lloyd,
American actor (Taxi, Back to the Future), born in Stamford, Connecticut
@78- Sarah Bernhardt,
French actress (Camille, Queen Elizabeth), born in Paris, France
(d. 1923)
@74- Franz Liszt,
Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), born in Raiding, Hungary
(d. 1886)
74- Catherine Deneuve, [Dorleac],
actress (Repulsion, Hunger), born in Paris, France
@70- Annette Funicello,
singer and actress (Mickey Mouse Club), born in Utica, New York,
(d. 2013)
60’s
69- Lynette Fromme,
American who attempted to assassinate US President Gerald Ford
65- Jeff Goldblum,
actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day), born in Pittsburgh
40’s
@48- Curly Howard (Jerome Lester Horwitz),
vaudevillian actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), born in Brooklyn
(d. 1952)
@47- Magnus Huss,
Swedish Physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease
(d. 1899)
42-Jesse Tyler Ferguson,
actor (Modern Family)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@86-1975 Arnold J. Toynbee,
English historian (A Study of History)
@83-2009 Soupy Sales (Milton Supman),
American comedian and television personality
70’s
@74-1989 Ewan MacColl [James Miller],
Scottish folk singer-songwriter (The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face),
complications of surgery
@73-1963 Elvin M. Jellinek,
American Physiologist and pioneer in the study of alcoholism
@72-2012 Russell Means,
Native American (Lakota Sioux) activist,
esophageal cancer
60’s
@67-1906 Paul Cézanne,
French artist and Post-Impressionist painter (The Basket of Apples),
pneumonia
@62-1993 Fred C Shapiro,
US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989),
pancreatic cancer
30’s
@30-1934 Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd,
gangster, shot by FBI in Ohio
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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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