Oct 3

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Oct  3, 2018 Week: 40 \ Day: 276

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 47° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind:   15mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 3 mi

Record High: 87°[1980]   Record Low: 21°[1902]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

           

 Just because something doesn't do what you

 planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.

 Thomas A. Edison

Harper’s Index

            1/4

            Portion of US women who believe it’s inappropriate

            to have a work meeting alone with a man who is

  not their spouse

More Observances This Month

  Domestic Violence Awareness Month
  Down Syndrome Awareness Month Link
  Dyslexia Awareness Month
 

  Eat Better, Eat Together Month
  Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
  Emotional Wellness Month
  Employee Ownership Month Link
  Energy Management is a Family Affair-

       Improve Your Home Month (10/1-3/31/13)
  Eye Injury Prevention Month Link  Link  
  Fair Trade Month Link
  Financial Planning Month Link
  Feral Hog Month or Hog Out Month  Link

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

3-10
      No Salt Week
      World Space Week Link

Observances for Today

Techies Day  Link
Coffee With A Cop Day  Link
Balloons Around The World Day
National Kale Day Link 
National Pumpkin Seed Day  Link 
National Soft Taco Day

Pet Obesity Awareness Day  Link   
Virus Appreciation Day

Walk To School Day  Link  

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

     1691 English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland

1700’s                                         

     1712 The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the

               arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor

      1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving

                Day on Nov 26

1800’s                                         

      1849 American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious

                in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious

                circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public

                before his death.

     1872 Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens

1900’s                                         

      1908 Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph

                Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles

                in Vienna

      1913 US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%)

                by President Woodrow Wilson

     1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League

              of Nations

1950 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)

1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres

1957 Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled

         not obscene.

2000’s                                         

2008 The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial

           system is signed by President George W. Bush

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday was on and off rain. Today Rosa brings us a gentle all-day rain. Quite nice. Since my ‘local TV stations’ are Phoenix stations, it seems they are dealing with lots of flash flooding in the greater metro-area. Glad to be ‘up north’ where it is just a nice rain.

Could not believe the Bronco game last night. So depressing watching their lead vanish. Their next to the last play looked more like our old neighborhood games than professional football.

I’m still healing well. Every day brings new things to see. Now I have a bruise on my arm, way above the surgery, that matches the bruise from the block injection at my clavicle, and the bruise from the IV on the other arm. Glad I don’t have pain from any of it. Just exciting to wait for the next new thing.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@86►Gore Vidal, author (Myra Breckinridge, Lincoln), born in West Point, New York (d. 2012)

70’s

@78►James Herriot [Alfred Wight], English veterinarian and novelist (All Creatures Great and Small), born in Sunderland, County Durham (d. 1995)  prostate cancer

60’s

64►Al Sharpton [Alfred Charles], American minister and civil rights activist (Keepin' It Real), born in Brooklyn, New York

50’s

56►Tommy Lee, drummer

40’s

49►Gwen Stefani, singer

45►Neve Campbell, actress

30’s

@37►Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel), born in Asheville, North Carolina (d.1938) miliary tuberculosis.

@35►Stevie Ray Vaughn, guitarist (d. 1990) helicopter crash

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@95►2017 Isabella Karle, American scientist who was instrumental in developing techniques to extract plutonium chloride

80’s

@82►1953 Florence Sabin, American Scientist who was the first woman to graduate from Johns Hopkins and the first lifetime woman member of the National Academy of Sciences

70’s

@72►1656 Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader, strangury

@71±►1838 Black Hawk (Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak,)(chief), Leader of the Sauk Native American tribe

40’s

@48►1867 Elias Howe, American inventor (invented sewing machine), gout, blood clot