Oct 2

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Oct  2, 2018 Week: 40 \ Day: 275

86004 Today: H 70° \ L 50° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 82°[1991]   Record Low: 18°[1971]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

Power is like being a lady...

if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Harper’s Index

            8

            Number of US counties that have refused to issue

            Licenses for same-sex marriages since the Supreme

            Court legalized them

            8

            Number of those counties that are in Alabama

More Observances This Month

Bat Appreciation Month
Black Speculative Fiction Month  Link
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month Link
(World) Blindness Awareness Month Link

Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month Link
Contact Lens Safety Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Corn Month Link
Country Music Month Link
Cut Out Dissection Month

Observances This Week

1-5

Customer Service Week Link
Drive Safely Work Week Link 
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week

1-7

National Chimney Safety Week

National Health Care Food Service  Link 
National Heimlich Heroes Week
National Primary Care Physicians Week Link
National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link
National Work From Home Week
Spinning & Weaving Week Link
Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link
Universal Children's Week

2-7
World Dairy Expo

Observances for Today

Guardian Angels Day
International Day of Non-violence
National Custodial Worker Day

Peanuts (Cartoon) Day
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
Simchat Torah
World Farm Animals Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s                                         

  1263 The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians

             and Scots.

1500’s                                         

  1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)

1800’s                                         

  1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy

  1872 Morgan State University founded

  1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in

            silver during the last great silver boom of the American

            Old West.

1900’s                                         

  1902 Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published

           by Frederick Warne & Co. in London

  1916 San Diego Zoo founded

  1935 Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

  1950 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts",

             by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers

  1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme

            Court Justice

  1971 Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an

            1100km race in Australia

  1979 Pope John Paul II visits New York City, and at

            the U.N. denounces all concentration camps & torture

  1981 17-year-old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest

            winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for

            most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307

  1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David

            Souter's appointment to Supreme Court

2000’s                                         

  2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11

  2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over

            three weeks

  2016 Colombia votes against a peace agreement with

            rebel group FARC in a national referendum

My Rambling Thoughts

Healing is progressing….think itching under bandage! Guess that’s a good thing.

AZ Cardinals lost another one yesterday. Now let’s all hope the Broncos do better tonight.

I’ve lived in the high desert for over 40 years, on and off the Rez. I do not recall a time when a hurricane brought rain to us. But that is what is happening as you read (Hurricane/tropical storm Rosa). It’s a gentle rain. Some last night, more early this morning, more expected later today. Guess the dry state of AZ will take its moisture anyway it comes.

Attention Sen. McConnell, stop talking, let the process take its due course. You sound bitter, you sound like a spoiled privileged jerk. You will never get it.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

0’s

  @78►Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]

               Indian pacifist and spiritual leader, born in Porbandar,

               Kathiawar Agency, India (d. 1948)

  @73►Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Famous

              Russian clown, born in Dvinsk, Russian Empire (d. 1974)

  70►Donna Karan, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977),

          born in Forest Hills, New York

  @67►Johnnie Cochran, attorney (O.J. Simpson defense

               attorney) (d. 2005) brain tumor

  67►Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) singer (Police)

  48►Kelly Ripa, TV host

  @31►Nat Turner, Civil Rights Leader (d. 1831) hung

Historical Obits Today

0’s

  @91►1998 Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry, American cowpoke,

                        singer, actor (The Gene Autry Show), and

                        business tycoon (California Angels)

@81►1968 Marcel Duchamp, French painter and

                      sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase)

@81►1803 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary

                     (Boston Massacre-Tea Party) and politician (Lt Gov-

                     Mass, 1789-94)

  @691973 Paul Hartman, American actor (Petticoat Junction,

                     Inherit the Wind), heart attack

  @662017 Tom Petty, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty

                     and the Heartbreakers), accidental overdose

  @591985 Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), AIDS

  @581985 George Savalas, Greek-American actor

                    (Kojak, Kelly's Heroes), leukemia