Oct 11

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Oct  11, 2018 Week: 41 \ Day: 284

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 37° \ Average Sky Cover: 85% 

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 80°[1965]   Record Low: 19°[1920]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

The world is round

so that friendship may encircle it.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Harper’s Index

            1 in 5

            Chance that an ad for a Chinese central gov’t job

            Specifies a preference for men

            1 in 31,733

            That is specifies a preference for women

Observances This Week

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  

10-17

Take Your Medicine Americans Week

Observances for Today

International Day of The Girl Child Link
General Pulaski Memorial Day  Link   
International Day of The Girl Child Link
It's My Party Day

National Sausage Pizza Day

Myths & Legends Day For All Fantasy Movie, Books and Legends Cephalopods  Link
National Coming Out Day
National Depression Screening Day Link 
Southern Food Heritage Day
World Sight Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                         

1852 The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

1890 Daughters of American Revolution founded

1900’s                                         

1906 San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis

1922 First woman FBI "special investigator", Alaska Davidson, appointed

1929 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.

1975 "Saturday Night Live" created by Lorne Michaels premieres on NBC with George Carlin as host

1985 President Reagan bans import of South African Krugerrands to the USA

1987 200,000 march for gay and lesbian civil rights in Washington D.C.

1990 Mexican writer Octavio Paz is awarded the Nobel Prize for literature

2000’s                                         

2001 Caribbean writer V.S. Naipaul is awarded the Noble Prize for Literature

2012 Mo Yan, a Chinese hallucinatory realist writer, wins the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature

2013 The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

My Rambling Thoughts

Another cloudy, rainy day. No complaints…glad I’m not in hurricane country.

If one good thing comes from Hurricanes, the news channels go full out and there is no other news. No politics and that is really pleasant. Watching the wind from the current hurricane I was thinking about my time in Boulder. My sophomore year I lived at Willam’s Village…the fairly new high rises way off campus, with every 15-minutes bus service to campus. One afternoon the wind picked up. By 5p it was 109mph. We had moved down to the ground floor into a very crowded living room. We watched all kinds of debris fly by the few living room windows. The wind lasted well into the night. I do not want to re-live that experience. My ’59 Chevy survived, but some of the small cars were damaged.

Flagstaff has always had a high cost of living. It is hard for those with minimum wage jobs. Two years ago, our voters decided  to raise the minimum wage to $15/hr by 2020. The state was mad but lost in court. Now outsiders ($$ from outside our city) have been able to put a proposition to stop this on the Nov. ballot. My phone, email, and social media is blowing up with ads to get rid of our required minimum wage. It ain’t none of their damn business…

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@93►Fred Trump,

American real estate developer, father of Donald Trump, born in NYC, New York (d. 1999)

80’s

@84►George Williams,

English philanthropist and founder of YMCA, born in Dulverton, West Somerset, England (d. 1905)

70’s

@78►Eleanor Roosevelt,

American 1st lady (1933-1945) human rights advocate (UN), born in NYC, New York (d. 1962) TB

@74►Henry John Heinz,

German-American entrepreneur who founded prepared-foods company (H.J. Heinz Company-57 varieties), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1919) pneumonia

72►Daryl Hall [Hohl],

American rocker, soul singer and songwriter (Hall & Oates), born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania

50’s

@58►Dottie West (Dorthy Marsh),

American country singer (Here Comes My Baby), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 1991) following car crash

57►Steve Young,

NFL quarterback (SF 49ers, NFL Player of Year '92), born in Salt Lake City, Utah

56►Joan Cusack,

American actress (Working Girl, SNL, Addams Family Values), born in Evanston Illinois

52►Luke Perry,

American actor (Beverly Hills 90210), born in Mansfield, Ohio

20’s

29►Michelle Wie,

American golfer (US Open 2014), born in Honolulu, Hawaii

26►Cardi B [Belcalis Almanzar],

American rapper, born in NYC

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@96►1999 J. Franklin Hyde,

American inventor (created silica)

@91►2007 Werner von Trapp,

member of the Trapp Family Singers

40’s

@48►1988 Wayland Flowers,

ventriloquist (Madame), AIDS

@47►1963 Édith Piaf,

French singer (No, I don't regret anything), liver cancer

30’s

@35►1809 Meriwether Lewis,

American soldier, public administrator and explorer (Lewis & Clark Expedition), murder or suicide