Oct 25

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Oct  25, 2018 Week: 43 \ Day: 298

86004 Today: H 61° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 78°[1959]   Record Low: 11°[1975]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

All I ask is the chance to prove that

money can't make me happy.

Spike Milligan

Harper’s Index

93

Percentage chance that a bottle of water contains

microplastic particles

Observances This 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   

23-31

Red Ribbon Week Link  
Disarmament Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

24-11/11

World Origami Days

25-31

International Magic Week

Observances for Today

Chucky, The Notorious Killer Doll Day Link
International Artists Day Link
National Greasy Foods Day

Punk for a Day

Read for The Record Day  Link
Sourest Day
World Pasta Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1780 John Hancock becomes the first Governor of Massachusetts

1800’s                                         

1854 The infamous Charge of Light Brigade during the Battle of Balaclava in the Crimean War; over 100 killed

1870 Postcards first used in USA

1900’s                                         

1929 Former Interior Secretary Albert B. Fall convicted of accepting $100,000 bribe in the Teapot scandal - 1st US Cabinet member to go to jail

1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to General Chiang Kai-shek

1955 Tappan sells 1st microwave oven

1962 American author John Steinbeck awarded Nobel Prize for Literature

1962 US Ambassador to the UN Adlai Stevenson demands USSR UN rep Zorin answer regarding Cuban missile bases saying "I am prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over"

1971 General Meeting of UN agrees to admit People's Republic of China

1971 United Nations votes to expel the Chinese Nationalist ruled Taiwan and admit the Communist People's Republic of China

1978 "Halloween", directed by John Carpenter, starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, is released

1986 International Red Cross ousted from South Africa

2000’s                                         

2001 Windows XP first becomes available

2004 Fidel Castro, Cuba's President, announces that transactions using the American Dollar will be banned by November 8

2012 Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Cuba and Haiti killing 65 people and causing over $80 million in damage

2017 Chinese Premier Xi Jinping unveils his new ruling council in the Great Hall of the People, none of the five are young enough to succeed him

2017 First fossil of a ichthyosaur (marine reptile, 152 million years old) found in India. Reports published in "Plos One" science journal.

My Rambling Thoughts

I’m sure the Mega Millions machine made a small mistake. I had 5 rows of numbers, all the winning numbers were on my card. The error is that they were not all on the same line. Just doesn’t seem right.

One of the best things about living in a smaller town is that All my doctors are within 1 mile of each other. Today, after my physical therapy for my wrist I stopped by each office and let them copy my new Medicare Card. Since I only see most of them once every 6 months, I knew I would forget to give them my new card. And the therapist says my wrist is doing very well and will probably just have one more appointment. That may be a tad optimistic, but it is getting better.

Saddened to hear that Justice Sandra O’Conner has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She is AZ born and raised, retired from the Supreme Court to care for her husband who had Alzheimer’s.

I was watching CNN this morning when their fire alarm went off and they had to evacuate. We are still learning about the mailed bomb sent to them, to the Obamas, the Clinton’s, and others. Very disturbing to say the least. It seems, so far, that only Dems have gotten the bombs, except for CNN. It the individual who made and sent the bombs used the Post Office or a delivery service, that person also lied to the person taking the package. I haven’t mailed a package in the last five years that I am not asked if it contains any explosive devices.  The chances that someone will send me a bomb are the about the same as me winning the lottery.  Terrorism lives by the motto “who knows, it could happen” to keep us scared.

Had a very good night’s sleep, with my new CPAP mask. Glad I got this thing figured out.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92→Pablo Picasso,

Spanish artist (3 Dancers, Guernica), born in Malaga, Andalusia, Spain (d. 1973)

90→Marion Ross,

American actress (Marion-Happy Days, Bkln Bridge), born in Watertown, Minnesota

80’s

@85→Emma "Grandma" Gatewood,

American ultra-light hiking pioneer and 1st woman to hike the Appalachian Trail alone, born in Mercerville, Ohio (d. 1973)

@83→Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley],

American country comedienne (Grand Old Opry, Hee-Haw), born in Centerville, Tennessee (d. 1996)

70’s

@77→Klaus Barbie,

Gestapo chief (Butcher of Lyon), born in Godesberg, German Empire (d. 1991) cancer in prison

@77→Anthony "Tony" Franciosa [Papaleo],

American actor (Career, Ben-Hur, Jeff-Name of the Game), born in NYC, stroke

77→Helen Reddy,

Australian rock vocalist (I Am Woman), born in Melbourne, Victoria

60’s

@60→Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,

last Shah of Iran (Persia) (1941-79), born in Tehran, Iran (d. 1980) cancer

40’s

49→Samantha Bee,

Canadian-American comedian, actress, and television host, born in Toronto, Ontario

30’s

@36→Georges Bizet,

French composer (Carmen), born in Paris (d. 1875) heart attacks

34→Katy Perry [Katheryn Elizabeth Hudson],

American Pop Singer (I Kissed A Girl, Waking Up In Vegas), born in Santa Barbara, California

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@82→1993 Vincent Price,

American actor (House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura), lung cancer

70’s

@77→1995 Bobby Riggs,

American tennis player ("The Battle of the Sexes", US Open 1939, 41), prostate cancer

@72→2002 Richard Harris,

Irish actor (A Man Called Horse, This Sporting Life) and singer (MacArthur Park) Hodgkin's disease

@70→2013 Marcia Wallace,

American actress, pneumonia

60’s

@67→1921 Bat Masterson,

American gunfighter in the Wild West, heart attack

@67→1986 Forrest Tucker,

American actor (F Troop, Dusty Trail, The Crawling Eye), lung cancer and emphysema

50’s

@56→1992 Roger Miller,

country singer (King of the Road), cancer

40’s

@42→1999 Payne Stewart,

American golfer (US Open 1991, 99; PGA 1989), plane crash