Nov 1

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Nov  1, 2018 Week: 44s \ Day: 305

86004 Today: H 54° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   16mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1916]   Record Low: 11°[1943]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

We don't see things as they are,

we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Observances This Month

           

Adopt A Senior Pet Month Link  Link
Adopt A Turkey Month Link
American Diabetes Month
American Indian Heritage Month Link 
Aviation History Month
Banana Pudding Lovers Month
Critical Infrastructure Security

& Resilience Month  Link
Diabetic Eye Disease Month
Epilepsy Awareness Month Link
Eye Donation Month

Observances This Week

           

1-3

National Farm Toy Show Days
Sherlock Holmes Weekend   LINK

1-7

National Fig Week
World Communication Week

Observances for Today

           

All Saint's Day

Author's Day Link
Autistic Speaking Day  Link
Calzone Day Link
Dios Los Muertos (Days of The Dead)
Extra Mile Day
Fountain Pen Day  Link  
Give Up Your ‘Should’s Day Link
Hockey Mask Day
Love Your Lawyer Day Link
Men Make Dinner Day

National Authors' Day
National Bison Day

National Brush Day  Link
National Calzone Day  Link
National Deep Fried Clams Day Link 
National Family Caregiver Day
National Family Literacy Day
National Go Cook For Your Pets Day
National Jersey Friday  Link 
National Pâté Day

National Sports Fan Day
Plan Your Epitaph Day
Prime Meridian Day
World Vegan Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

800’s                                           

835 All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom

1500’s                                         

1512 Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel in the Vatican first exhibited

1600’s                                         

1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" first presented

1683 The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

1800’s                                         

1800 John Adams becomes the first US President to live in the White House

1848 First US women's medical school opens (Boston)

1870 US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)

1878 Edward Scripps & John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press)

1896 First bare-breasted women (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Magazine

1900’s                                         

1910 First issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois

1922 Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire

1936 Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (then Cowboys' Turtle Association) is established after disagreement with rodeo promoter W.T. Johnson, who finally gives in to cowboys' pay demands

1941 Ansel Adams shoots 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico', one of his most famous photographs

1954 US Senate admonishes Joseph McCarthy because of his slander campaigns

1955 Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont, Colorado

1968 University of Suriname opens

1971 Eisenhower dollar put into circulation

1977 US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981

1979 Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster

1982 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.

2000’s                                         

2012 Google's Gmail becomes the world's most popular email service

2017 UK Defense Secretary Michael Fallon resigns due to his behavior towards women, part of wider scandal of sexual harassment by UK politicians

My Rambling Thoughts

A friend called me Monday afternoon and had a free night’s stay at the White Mountain Apache Casino. I’m not a gambler but had never seen the casino. Nice drive through the White Mountains, nice people at the casino, good food, good band, and overall a nice visit. Didn’t get home until early Tuesday evening.  

Making reservations for my Christmas Chicago visit. Getting excited already. Haven’t seen my brother or his wife or her family for a year.

Sitting on the outside looking in, sometimes a job can look really simple, and something almost anyone can do. Then, usually, reality sets in when one gets the job. 45 has not seen that reality after 2 years. As ‘leader of the free world’ he believes he can do whatever he wants. I agree there needs to be immigration reform. For 45 to think and say out loud, he can change the 14^th amendment with an executive order is absurd. And if, by some technicality, he gets away with it, our country will be changed forever, as every president will be able to do it.  

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

83►Gary Player,

South African golfer (9-time major title winner), born in Johannesburg, South Africa

83►Charles Koch,

American businessman and philanthropist (Koch Industries billionaire), born in Wichita, Kansas

@80►Carlos Saavedra Lamas,

Argentine politician (Nobel Peace Prize 1936), born in Buenos Aires, Argentina (d. 1959)

70’s

76►Larry Flynt,

American magazine publisher (Hustler), born in Lakeville, Kentucky

@70►Marcia Wallace,

actress (Carol-Bob Newhart Show), born in Creston, Iowa (d. 2013) sepsis

60’s

61►Lyle Lovett,

country singer (God Will, Joshua Judges Ruth), born in Klein, Texas

50’s

58►Tim Cook,

American businessman (CEO of Apple Inc. 2011-), born in Mobile, Alabama

@50►Alfred Wegener,

 German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist (continental shift), born in Berlin (d. 1930) overexertion on expedition

40’s

@49►Barry Sadler,

American singer (d. 1989) cardiac arrest

46►Jenny McCarthy, playmate (Oct, 1993)/host (Singled Out), born in Chicago, Illinois

20’s

@28►Stephen Crane,

novelist/poet (Red Badge of Courage), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1900) hemorrhages

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87►1972 Ezra Loomis Pound,

US poet (Throne)

@85►1903 Theodor Mommsen,

German historian and scholar (Nobel Prize in Literature 1902)

@82►1979 Mamie Eisenhower,

First Lady of the United States (1953-61)

70’s

@73►2015 Fred Thompson,

 US senator (R-Tenn)/actor (In the Line of Fire), lymphoma

60’s

@66►1955 Dale Carnegie,

American writer (b. 1888)

40’s

@45►1999 Walter Payton,

American Football Hall of Fame Running Back, bile duct cancer

Oct 30

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Oct  30, 2018 Week: 44s \ Day: 303

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Wind:   20mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1934]   Record Low: -2°[1971]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

Research is creating new knowledge.

Neil Armstrong

Observances This Week

23-31

Red Ribbon Week Link  
Disarmament Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

24-11/11

World Origami Days

25-31

International Magic Week

28-31

Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link

30-10/6

National Midwifery Week Link

           

Observances for Today

Checklist Day

Create A Great Funeral Day Link

Devil's Night or Mischief Night

Haunted Refrigerator Night

National Candy Corn Day  Link

National Publicist Day  Link

Mischief Night

Speak Up For Service Day  Link

World Audio Drama Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1768 First Methodist church in North American colonies initiated (Wesley Chapel, NYC)

1800’s                                         

1864 Helena, Montana's capital, founded

1873 P T Barnum's circus, "Greatest Show on Earth", debuts (New York City)

1894 Daniel Cooper patents time clock

1900’s                                         

1952 Clarence Birdseye sells first frozen peas

1961 Soviet Party Congress unanimously approves a resolution removing Stalin's body from Lenin's tomb in Red Square

1973 The Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time

2000’s                                         

2017 President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort and associate Rick Gates are indicted on fraud charges, advisor George Papadopoulos pleads guilty to lying to the FBI

2017 US federal judge blocks President Trump's ban on transgender people in the military

My Rambling Thoughts

Watched football with friends yesterday. Good company, good conversation, happy for the Cards win, not happy about the Broncos.

Our HOA is having our parking lot re-sealed. Looks good but vehicle must be parked a block away until 6p. They put flyers on our doors and on all the vehicles twice before this morning. Still they had to tow 5 vehicles from our ‘parking by permit only’ area. Guess they didn’t read the flyer…and that is costing them $150 + $50/day fee at the tow place. Hmmm

Industrialize the Amazon? I was just in the Peru portion, and that is sad indeed. So many Indigenous tribes as well as animals and flora will be destroyed in Brazil.

Sad to hear 45 say that the Synagogue should have had armed guards, even though armed SWAT were wounded in the crazy attack. He says so much without thinking. Also, sad that Press Secretary said the press who are enemies of the people know who they are, and she isn’t naming them, while admitting that it is not all of the press or even not all in any one news corporation is the enemy. WTH? The unseen enemy always creates the greatest fear. I guess that is what she wants.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@90→John Adams,

2nd US President (1797-1801), born in Braintree, Massachusetts (d. Jul 4, 1826)

80’s

@88→Ruth Gordon,

American actress (Rosemary's Baby, Harold & Maude), born in Quincy, Massachusetts (d. 1985)

@87→Ezra Loomis Pound,

American poet (Cantos), born in Hailey, Idaho (d. 1972)

70’s

79→Grace Slick,

rock vocalist (Jefferson Airplane-White Rabbit), born in Chicago

@76→Ernest Flatt,

American choreographer (Carol Burnett Show), born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1995)

73→Henry Winkler,

American actor (Fonz-Happy Days), born in NYC

72→Robert L "Hoot" Gibson,

American aviator, aeronautical engineer and astronaut (STS 41B,61C,27,47,71), born in Cooperstown, New York

30’s

37→Ivanka Trump,

American businesswoman and daughter of Donald Trump, born in New York

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96→2015 Albert "Al" Molinaro,

American actor (The Odd Couple, Happy Days)

80’s

@83→1956 Pío Baroja y Nessi,

Spanish Basque writer, author of over 100 novels (The Struggle for Life, Zalacain the Adventurer),

70’s

@78→2000 Steve Allen,

American comedian, composer, actor and TV host (Tonight Show, Steve Allen Show), heart attack

@74→1985 Kirby Grant,

American actor (Sky King), auto accident

@73→2007 Robert Goulet,

American singer and actor, pulmonary fibrosis