Oct 9

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Oct  9, 2018 Week: 41 \ Day: 282

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 90% 

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

Record High: 81°[1996]   Record Low: 20°[1993]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

The earth is the mother of all people,

and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Chief Joseph

Harper’s Index

            $9,500,000

            Amount a US company is charging for an 11-night

            stay at a luxury space hotel scheduled to open

            in 2022

            22

            Number of reservations made during the first

            month bookings were available

More Observances This Month

Tackling Hunger Month Link 
Talk About Medicines Month
Vegetarian Month
Wishbones for Pets Month (10/15 - 11/30)
Women Walking In Their Own Shoes Month
Workplace Politics Awareness Month
World Menopause Month

Observances This Week

3-10

No Salt Week

World Space Week Link

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
National Physicians Assistant Week

7-13

4-H Week Link  
Death Penalty Focus Week

Fire Prevention Week Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Great Books Week 
International Post Card Week Link   
Mental Illness Awareness Week  
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week
Teen Read Week

8-13

Health Information and Technology Week Link
National School Lunch Week

9-14
World Rainforest Week Link

Observances for Today

Ada Lovelace Day
Curious Events Day

Fire Prevention Day

International Beer and Pizza Day  Link
Leif Erikson Day

Moldy Cheese Day

National Chess Day   Link    
National Pizza and Beer Day

National Hoagy Day

National Pro-Life Cupcake Day
National Face Your Fears Day
Nautilus Night (Cephalopods)  Link
World Child Development Day
World Post Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1000’s                                         

1000 Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly L'Anse aux Meadows, Canada) reputedly becoming first European to reach North America

1700’s                                         

1701 Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U), chartered in New Haven

1800’s                                         

1835 The Royal College, Colombo, established with the name Hillstreet Academy in Sri Lanka

1837 Meeting at the U.S. Naval Academy establishes the U.S. Naval Institute.

1865 First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania

1900’s                                         

1936 Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to Los Angeles

1941 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program - beginning of the Manhattan project

1962 Uganda becomes independent from the United Kingdom

1965 Beatles' "Yesterday" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 4 weeks

1970 Khmer Republic (Cambodia) declares independence

1975 Soviet dissident Andrei Sakharov wins Nobel Peace Prize

1980 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee

1992 A 13 kilogram (est.) meteorite lands in the driveway of Knapp residence, Peekskill, New York, destroying family's 1980 Chevrolet Malibu

2000’s                                         

2012 Women's rights and education activist Malala Yousafzai is shot three times by a Taliban gunman as she tried to board her school bus in Swat district of northwest Pakistan

2017 Producer Harvey Weinstein is fired from The Weinstein Company after allegations of sexual abuse

My Rambling Thoughts

Cold rain over night. Any snow was gone before I got up.

Packed away most of my short sleeve shirts and brought out the long sleeve ones. Fall is here. Even though It is a Federal Holiday, so I'm not out to any stores today. I'm old school and believe that everyone should be able to celebrate a Federal Holiday.

Some people win and move on. Not so much for 45 as he continues his hateful speech regarding the Dems. Come on, we need to unite, not divide. I do my best not to listen to him anymore. He is not for building a great country, he is only happy after all his perceived enemies…anyone who disagrees…have been demolished. Sad!

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

0’s

@69►Mary Ann Shadd Cary,

American-Canadian publisher and anti-slavery campaigner, 1st African American newspaper publisher ('Provincial Freeman'), born in Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1893)

@86►Camille Saint-Saëns,

French composer (Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso), born in Paris (d. 1921)

73►Jeannie C. Riley,

American singer (Harper Valley PTA, Hee Haw), born in Stamford, Texas

70►Jackson Browne,

American rock vocalist (Lawyers in Love), born in Heidelberg, Germany

66►Sharon Osbourne,

English-American music manager, TV personality (X-Factor, America's Got Talent) and wife of Ozzy Osbourne, born in London

65►Tony Shalhoub,

American actor (Antonio Scarpacci-Wings, Big Night), born in Green Bay, Wisconsin

64►Scott Bakula,

American actor (Quantum Leap, Gung Ho, Murphy Brown), born in St Louis, Missouri

52►David Cameron,

British Prime Minister (Conservative: 2010-16), born in London

43►Sean Ono Lennon,

Son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's, born in NYC, New York

@40►John Lennon,

British musician, pop star and member of The Beatles (Imagine), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1980) shot

37►Zachery Ty Bryan,

actor (Brad-Home Improvement), born in Aurora, Colorado

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@93►1906 Joseph Glidden,

American inventor (barbed wire) and businessman

@92►2005 Louis Nye,

American comedian and actor (Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Steve Allen Plymouth Show)

80’s

@84►1987

Clare Boothe Luce,

American politician and U.S. ambassador to Italy

70’s

@74►1806

Benjamin Banneker,

African American astronomer, mathematician and surveyor of Washington D.C.

60’s

@66►1974 Oskar Schindler,

Austrian businessman and subject of the novel "Schindler's Ark" and the film "Schindler's List"

30’s

@39►1967 Ernesto "Che" Guevara,

Argentine Marxist revolutionary and physician, executed in Bolivia