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Oct  22, 2018 Week: 43 \ Day: 295

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind:   13mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 76°[2003]   Record Low: 9°[1986]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

The reward for work well done

is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

Harper’s Index

            $957

            Average amount of Australian loses in

            Gambling each year

7.7

Percentage of Australian state & territory

Tax revenue that comes from gambling

Observances This Week

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

20-27

INVICTUS Games
Asexuality Week Link  Link
Freedom From Bullies Week
Kids Care Week
National Character Counts Week
National Business Women's Week  Link
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link 
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Pharmacy Week 
National Save For Retirement Week Link 
National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link 
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link  )
National Massage Therapy Week Link 
National Respiratory Care Week Link
Pastoral Care Week Link
Pro Bono Week  Link
Rodent Awareness Week

22-28

Freedom of Speech Week Link

Observances for Today

Caps Locks Day  
International Stuttering Awareness Day
Kof Awareness Day  Link
National Nut Day Link
Smart is Cool Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1746 Princeton University (NJ) received its charter

1800’s                                         

1836 Sam Houston inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas

1879 Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb

1900’s                                         

1907 Ringling Brothers Greatest Show on Earth buys Barnum & Bailey circus

1924 Toastmasters International is founded

1928 Herbert Hoover speaks of "American system of rugged individualism"

1936 1st commercial flight from mainland to Hawaii

1962 Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis

1964 French philosopher and author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize

1975 World Football League disbands after the Week 12 of their second season

1978 Pope John Paul II is inaugurated as Pope

1981 US national debt tops $1 trillion

2000’s                                         

2012 Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea

2016 AT&T buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice quiet Sunday. Caught up on the news with the Sunday news programs. If the commercials are correct, the world as we know it will end on Nov. 7 when the winners are announced. They say the AZ governor’s race is close, the AZ Senate race is closer. If the Dems win, on Nov. 7 there will be hordes of illegals crossing the unprotected border and we will go bankrupt helping the poor. If the Republicans win, our healthcare will disappear, paychecks will decrease, all abortions will be illegal, and everyone will be standing in food lines. Such hogwash is getting tiresome.

My annual ‘Christmas is in December’ rant is starting. It isn’t even Halloween and already almost every store has up their Christmas decorations. I was raised Christian (Episcopalian) and I get that Christmas is a big holiday for the devout. I just don’t think truly religious people want to celebrate the birth for 3 months of decorations, false sales, and commercialism gone awry. I also feel that it is inappropriate to push Christmas with so many in this country not Christian. Living a Christian life is fine, just don’t make others do it.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@86→Dory Previn [Dorothy Veronica Langan],

singer-songwriter (Mythical Kings and Iguanas), born in Woodbridge, New Jersey, (d. 2012)

@83→Bảo Đại,

Vietnamese emperor and chief of state (Annam 1926-1945; State of Vietnam, 1949-1955), born in Hue, French Indochina (d. 1997)

@82→Magnus Huss,

Swedish Physician who coined the word alcoholism and was the first to define it as a disease (d. 1890)

80→Chrisopher Lloyd,

 actor (Taxi, Back to the Future)

70’s

@74→Franz Liszt,

Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist (Faust Symphony), born in Raiding, Hungary (d. 1886)

@70→Annette Funicello,

singer and actress (Mickey Mouse Club), born in Utica, New York, (d. 2013) MS

60’s

66→Jeff Goldblum,

American actor (Fly, Jurassic Park, Independence Day), born in West Homestead, Pennsylvania

50’s

50→Shaggy [Orville Richard Burrell],

Jamaican-American reggae musician and rapper (Boombastic), born in Kingston, Jamaica

40’s

@48→Curly Howard {Jerome Lester Horwitz},

American vaudevillian actor and comedian (The Three Stooges), born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1952) demientria

@41→Louis Riel,

Canadian politician, founder of the province of Manitoba and leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies, born in Red River Colony, Rupert's Land, British North America (d. 1885) executed for treason

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96→1973 Pablo Casals [Pau Casals i Defilló],

Spanish cellist, conductor and composer

80’s

@86→1975 Arnold J. Toynbee,

English historian (A Study of History)

@85→1994 Rollo May,

founder (Humanistic Psychology Movement)

@84→1992 Red Barber,

sportscaster (Dodgers, Yankees)

@84→1915 Andrew Noble,

Scottish physicist who was a founder of the science of ballistics

@83→2009 Soupy Sales, (Milton Supman)

American comedian and television personality

70’s

@79→1995 Mary Wickes,

actress (Sister Act)

@72→2012 Russell Means,

Native American (Oglala) activist, esophageal cancer

60’s

@67→1906 Paul Cézanne,

French artist and Post-Impressionist painter (The Basket of Apples), pneumonia

50’s

@52→1994 James "Jimmy" Miller,

American record producer and musician (The Rolling Stones), liver failure