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Oct 31, 2017 Week: 44 \ Day: 304
86004 Today: H 69° \ L 35°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave.: 8mph\Gusts: 19mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1999] Record Low: 7°[1935]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Golda Meir
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Observances Today
Beggars' Night
Books For Treats Day
Day of the Seven Billion Link
Girl Scout Founder's Day Link
Halloween or All Hallows Eve
National Caramel Apple Day Link
National Knock-Knock Jokes Day
National Magic Day
National UNICEF Day
Samhain Link
World Cities Day
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Observances This Week
Red Ribbon Week: 23-31 Link
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week: 24-31
World Origami Days: 24-11/11
International Magic Week: 25-31
International Dyslexia Association Reading Week: 25-28
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week: 29-11/4 Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◘ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
◘1517 Martin Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church - precipitates the Protestant Reformation
◘1541 Michelangelo Buonarroti finishes painting "The Last Judgement" in the Sistine Chapel, Vatican City
◘1587 Leiden University Library opens its doors after its founding in 1575.
1700’s
◘1756 Giacomo Casanova escapes from prison in Venice by climbing onto the roof
1800’s
1846 Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp
◘1863 The Maori Wars resumed as British forces in New Zealand led by General Duncan Cameron began their Invasion of the Waikato.
1864 Nevada admitted as 36th state of the Union
1868 Standard uniform approved for US postal carriers
◘1892 Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1900’s
1906 George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar & Cleopatra" premieres in NYC
◘1908 4th Olympic games end in London
1913 1st US paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway is dedicated
◘1917 World War I: Battle of Beersheba in southern Palestine - "last successful cavalry charge in history" performed by the 4th Australian Light Horse
1918 Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in US in 1 week
◘1921 Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track & field association)
◘1926 Failed assassination attempt on Benito Mussolini by 15-year-old Anteo Zamboni, who was lynched on the spot.
◘1936 The Boy Scouts of the Philippines formed.
1938 Great Depression: In an effort to try restoring investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
1941 Mount Rushmore Monument is completed
◘1949 Dutch Nazi Henri 'Hakkie' Holdert, director of Amsterdam paper De Telegraaf and member of the SS, sentenced to 12 years imprisonment
◘1956 Britain and France join Israeli forces in Egypt and begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal
1956 Brooklyn, NY ends streetcar service
1961 Federal judge rules that law in Birmingham, Alabama, against integrated playing fields are illegal
1964 Barbra Streisand's "People" album goes #1 for 5 weeks
◘1968 US President Lyndon B. Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam
◘1982 Pope John Paul II becomes first pontiff to visit Spain
◘1984 Puerto Rican tanker 'San Francisco' explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire
◘1984 Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by her bodyguards, Satwant Singh and Beant Singh at her home in New Delhi
1988 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23
◘1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years
◘1999 Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Had teeth cleaning this morning. He found a cavity so I go in Wed. to get that taken care of.
Waiting for the Broncos game…hoping for a big win.
Will 45’s base ever open their eyes? Two indicted and suddenly, they were minor ‘volunteers’ or ‘short-term’ employees of the campaign. Guess all 45’s talk about ‘only the best’, and ‘good people’ doesn’t mean as much as it used to. I like a good soap opera but this is our country we are watching.
Warm day with an overcast sky. No moisture in any forecast near here.
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Bizarre News
Giant Glowing Ball Definitely Not UFO - Probably
Russia has been hit by a wave of reports of a giant UFO in the night sky with spectacular pictures of an enormous glowing ball illuminating northern Siberia. The extraordinary scene, which was almost certainly NOT a portal to an alternate dimension created by a secret government experiment, was captured by photographer Sergey Anisimov in the town of Salekhard which straddles the Arctic Circle. "My first thought was about a powerful searchlight, but the speed of changing everything around changed the idea of what was happening," said Anisimov. "The ball began to turn into an arc and gradually dissipated." While the source of the light has not been confirmed, some have suggested that it was the trace of four rockets launched by the Russian military that caused this extraordinary phenomenon in the night sky. That, or alien death ray technology.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
91- Lee Grant [Lyova Haskell Rosenthal],
American actress (Shampoo, Mulholland Drive), born in NYC
80’s
@88- Dale Evans, [Frances Butts],
Uvalde Tx, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)
(d. 2001)
@87- Chiang Kai-shek,
Chinese political and military leader who served as the leader of the Republic of China (1928-1975), born in Xikou, Zhejiang, China
(d. 1975)
87- Michael Collins,
Mjr Gen USAF/astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11), born in Rome, Italy
86- Daniel "Dan" Rather,
American news anchor (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes), born in Wharton, Texas
@82- Barbara Bel Geddes,
actress (Vertigo, Miss Ellie-Dallas, Caught), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2005)
@80- Ethel Waters,
American actress (Beulah), singer (Stormy Weather), born in Chester, PA
(d. 1977)
@80- Hobart "Hobie" Alter,
American surf and sailing entrepreneur and pioneer who created the Hobie Cat, born in Ontario, California
(d. 2014)
80- Tom Paxton,
folk singer/songwriter (Forest Lawn), born in Chicago
70’s
75- David Ogden Stiers,
Peoria Ill, actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc)
@72- Georg A Erman,
German Egyptologist (Grammar of Ancient Egypt)
(d. 1877)
70- Frank Shorter,
US marathoner (Oly-gold/silver-72, 76), born in Munich. Germany
60’s
67- Jane Pauley,
newscaster (Today, NBC Weekend), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
@66- Juliette Gordon Low,
American activist and founder of the Girl Scouts of America, born in Savannah, Georgia
(d. 1927)
50’s
56- Peter Jackson,
New Zealand film director (Lord of the Rings - Academy Award, Best Director, 2003), born in Wellington, New Zealand
@54- Michael Landon,
actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven), born in Forest Hills, NY
(d. 1991)
54- Rob Schneider,
actor (SNL, Jamie Coleman-Men Behaving Badly)
50- Vanilla Ice,
American rapper (Ice Ice Baby) and actor (Cool as Ice), born in Miami, Florida
40’s
@43- John Candy,
Canadian actor and comedian (SCTV, Uncle Buck), born in Newmarket, Ontario
(d. 1994)
20’s
@25- John Keats,
English Romantic poet (Ode to a Grecian Urn), born in London
(d. 1821)
Teen’s
17- Willow Smith,
American actress
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@88-1983 George Halas [Papa Bear],
NFL pioneer and owner of the Chicago Bears
@86-1988 John Houseman,
actor (The Paper Chase, Rollerball, The Fog)
@84-2016 Natalie Babbitt,
American children's writer (Tuck Everlasting)
@82-2016 Tammy Grimes,
American stage actress (Unsinkable Molly Brown)
70’s
@73-1993 Federico Fellini,
director (La Dolce Vita),
stroke
60’s
@66-1984 Indira Gandhi,
4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84),
assassinated by two of her bodyguards
50’s
@52-1926 Harry Houdini, [Erich Weisz],
magician,
gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured
20’s
@27-1968 Malcolm Hale,
American musician (Spanky and Our Gang),
monoxide poisoning
@23-1993 River Phoenix,
actor (Stand By Me),
drug overdose
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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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