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