Oct 6

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Oct  6, 2018 Week: 40 \ Day: 279

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 81°[1997]   Record Low: 18°[1912]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

            The nice thing about being a celebrity is that,

  if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

  Henry Kissinger

Harper’s Index

96

Percentage of US pet-custody cases that involve dogs

1

That involve cats

More Observances This Month

I'm Just Me Because Month  Link
Italian-American Heritage Month Link
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month  Link
Intergeneration Month

Learn To Bowl Month  Link
LGBT History Month Link
Long Term Care Planning Month

Observances This 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

3-10

No Salt Week

World Space Week Link

5-7

National Storytelling Weekend
6-7

Old-time Fiddler Days

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
National Physicians Assistant Week

Observances for Today

American Libraries Day

Cephalopod Awareness Day  
Come and Take it Day

Frugal Fun Day 
Inter-American Water Day  Link
International Frugal Fun Day

Jackie Mayer Rehab Day
Mad Hatter Day Link
National German-American Day
National Plus Size Appreciation Day  Link
Physician Assistant Day

World Card Making Day 
World Porridge Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1683 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Philadelphia

1800’s                                         

1853 4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio

1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn

1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia

1900’s                                         

1911 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot

1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya

1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters

1966 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.

1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House in Washington, D.C.

2000’s                                         

2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

My Rambling Thoughts

Senator Collins sure gave a passionate speech. America will survive. Lots of good points. Let the healing begin now and continue. The healing will be apparent on Election Day.

While I am enjoying a beautiful, fall day here, the people on the Rez are still dealing with washed out roads. Highway 89 is still closed. Travel is treacherous. I have moved to long pants but am still wearing my Teva’s and short sleeve shirts.

Looks like it will be a wet weekend as another storm is moving in. On Wednesday our local news, broadcast by the local university, has returned until the December break. All college students learning their profession. Nice to see local stories. Too bad it isn’t on year round.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87►Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), born in Larvik (d. 2002)

60’s

@67►George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system), born in Central Bridge, New York (d. 1914)

@67►JennyLind, Opera Singer (Swedish Nightingale) (d. 1887)

@66►Fred Travalena, American comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell), born in NYC, (d. 2009)

50’s

55►Elisabeth Shue, American actress (Cocktail, Back to the Future Part II), born in Wilmington, Delaware

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91►1951 Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg's cereal brand)

80’s

@83►1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate

@81►1989 Bette Davis, American actress (All About Eve, White Mama)

60’s

@64►1985 Nelson Riddle, American Grammy Award winning bandleader, conductor and orchestrator for Capitol Records (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Dean Martin), cirrhosis of the liver

@62►1981 Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers

50’s

@57►1975 Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), throat cancer

30’s

@37►1841 George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide