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Oct 24, 2017 Week: 43 \ Day: 297
86004 Today: H 70° \ L 40°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts: 21mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 79°[1959] Record Low: 9°[1975]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
Quality is everyone's responsibility.
W. Edwards Deming
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Observances Today
Food Day Link
World Development Information Day
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Observances This Week
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
National Nuclear Science Week: 23-27
Red Ribbon Week: 23-31 Link
Disarmament Week: 24-30
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week: 24-31
World Origami Days: 24-11/11
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1200’s
◄1260 The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
1800’s
◄1818 Felix Mendelssohn aged 9 performs his first public concert in Berlin
1836 Earliest American patent for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia
1871 Mob in Los Angeles, California hangs 18 Chinese
1881 Levi P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty
1900’s
◄1901 First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
◄1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
◄1924 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven "for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram"
1931 George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day
1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
1938 US forbids child labor in factories
◄1939 Nazi require wearing of Star of David by Jews
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (Wilmington, Delaware)
1940 US Fair Labor Standards of 1938 comes into effect - minimum wage, 44 hr week
◄1945 Charter of United Nations comes into effect
1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 Series of forest fires burn over $30 million of timber across the New England States
1948 Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
1953 KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States' support to South Vietnam
1962 Cuban missile crisis: US blockade of Cuba begins
1962 "The Manchurian Candidate", directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, is released
◄1964 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan
◄1964 Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
◄1971 A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast
◄1972 2 Catholic men are found dead at a farm at Aughinahinch, near Newtownbbutler, County Fermanagh - British soldiers carry out the killings
◄1981 Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth
◄1982 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
2000’s
2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice weather Monday. Wind gusts not very pleasant. Just enjoying our fall.
Presidents have seldom written their own speeches. That’s why there are speechwriters. When 45 is on a teleprompter, reading what the speechwriters wrote, he does as good a job as any president. Watching the Medal of Honor ceremony, it reminds me of the greatness of our country’s fighting men. Now, if 45 would only talk when there was a teleprompter, we would be in good shape. Hint to 45: let your speech writers make all your tweets.
Here’s hoping for a new app that will allow 45 to only speak when there is a teleprompter for him to read. It will keep our country out of lots of trouble.
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Bizarre News
Seems like some people would go to any length to get cosmetic surgery done at a low price. Police in Canada, believe that this includes going to an unlicensed teenage doctor.
Toronto Police announced that they arrested a teenager who ran an unlicensed medical clinic. According to the police report, 19-year-old Jingyi "Kitty" Wang advertised her services, offering cosmetic surgical procedures under the name "Dr. Kitty."
A woman who responded to the advertisement was invited to the basement of a home, where "Dr. Kitty" performed a "face-filler" procedure to smooth out wrinkles. Within a few weeks, the woman developed an infection and had to seek medical help from a licensed plastic surgeon in Toronto.
The victim required corrective surgery and reported Dr. Kitty to police. Police arrested Wang on charges of aggravated assault.
Investigators believe there may be other victims and are urging those people to contact them.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@90- Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch tradesman and scientist known as "the Father of Microbiology", born in Delft, Dutch Republic (d. 1723)
80’s
@82- Edmund Taylor Whittaker, Southport, Lancashire, U.K., British mathematician (applied mathematics and the theory of special functions) (d. 1956)
70’s
@74- David Nelson, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), born in NYC (d. 2011)
70- Kevin Kline, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill), born in St. Louis, Missouri
50’s
@57- Moss Hart, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1), born in The Bronx, (d. 1961)
57- B.D. Wong (Bradley Darryl), American actor (M. Butterfly; Law & Order), born in San Francisco
@56- Melvin Purvis [Little Mel], American FBI agent that lead the manhunt for outlaws like Baby Face Nelson, Pretty Boy Floyd, and John Dillinger, born in Timmonsville, SC (d. 1960)
30’s
31-Drake (Aubrey Drake Graham), rapper
20’s
@28- Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace) (d. 1959)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@95-2015 Maureen O'Hara [FitzSimons], Irish-American actress and singer (Miracle on 34th St, The Quiet Man)
@92-2005 Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist who refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white passenger
80’s
@83-1869 Joseph Jackson Lister, British optician who perfected the optical microscope by designing the achromatic objective lens
70’s
@74-1955 Alfred Radcliffe-Brown, British Anthropologist (Structural Functionalism and studies of Andaman Islanders and Australian Aborigines)
@73-2016 Bobby Vee, American pop singer (Night has a Thousand Eyes), Alzheimer’s
@70-1991 Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), cardiac arrest
@70-1852 Daniel Webster, US Secretary of State (1841-43, 1850-52), politician and lawyer, fall/stroke
60’s
@64-1842 Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule, cardiac issues
50’s
@54-1994 Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), stroke
@53-1972 Jackie Robinson, 1st African American baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), heart attack
30’s
@36-1983 Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), auto accident
20’s
@28-1537 Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, childbirth issues
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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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