Nov 3

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Nov 3, 2018 Week: 44s \ Day: 307

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 30° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   2mph\Gusts:  7mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 74°[1977]   Record Low: 8°[1922]

Nov Averages: 51°\23°

Today’s Quote

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

e. e. cummings

More Observances This Month

           

Family Stories Month Link
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month Link
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Manatee Awareness Month Link
Movember Link
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/16-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month Link

Observances This Week

           

1-3

National Farm Toy Show Days
Sherlock Holmes Weekend   LINK

1-7

National Fig Week
World Communication Week

3-9

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link   
National Radiologic Technology Week Link

Observances for Today

           

Book Lovers Day

Cliché Day
International Day of Prayer

for The Persecuted Church  Link  
Housewife's Day

National Medical Science Liaison Awareness & Appreciation Day: 3  
National Sandwich Day

Public Television Day: 3
Sandwich Day: 3 Link
SOS Day: 3 
Zero Tasking Day: 3

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1791 Battle at Wabash: Indians assault general St Clair, 637 soldiers killed

1800’s                                         

1868 First black US Congressman elected (John W Menard, Louisiana)

1868 Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)

1883 US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)

1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses

1900’s                                         

1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

1913 1st modern elastic brassiere is patented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob

1953 First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)

1961 UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant as acting Secretary-General after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash

1979 Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC

1987 Gordon Gould issued US patent US4704583 for the laser, ending his 30-year battle to be credited as the inventor of the laser

1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping

1992 Democrat Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent President George H. W. Bush

2000’s                                         

2014 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists

2014 New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks

My Rambling Thoughts

I had my last PT appointment this morning. Wrist is doing fine, still healing, so only wear the sleeve at night, but during the day I can just show off my fantastic scar along with my shaved arm. I never expected this to take almost 6 months, but thinking back, that’s what the surgeon said…’due to your age’. I had my ‘grip strength’ and my ‘pinch strength’ tested today. Both are within normal range…’for my age’.

Obama is out campaigning, and I have to say his positive, upbeat candor is really quite refreshing after 2 years of the exact opposite. And the crowd was diverse, another positive.

One big lesson from the 2016 election was that polls don’t really know squat. I guess it’s not surprising that there are so many ‘dead heat’ elections this year. I think the pollsters are just saying ‘dead heat’ to keep their somewhat sketchy conclusions seem believable.

Fall has definitely arrived here at 7000’. Chilly nights, cool mornings, semi-warmth during the afternoon, and then chilly again.  

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

85►Amartya Sen,

Indian economist and Nobel Prize laureate (welfare economics and social choice theory), born in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India

@81►Charles Bronson,

American actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen), born in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania (d. 2003)

70’s

70►Lulu [Marie Lawrie],

Scottish singer (Together) and actress (To Sir, With Love), born in Glasgow, Scotland

60’s

69►Anna Wintour,

English-American editor (Editor of US Vogue), born in London, England

66►Roseanne Barr,

American comedienne and TV star (Roseanne), born in Salt Lake City, Utah

65►Dennis Miller,

comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

64►Adam Ant, [Stuart Goddard],

English punk rocker (If I Strip For You), born in London, England

61►Dolph Lundgren, actor (Rocky IV, The Expendables 2), born in Stockholm, Sweden

40’s

@43►Stephen F. Austin,

Founded and helped colonize the US state of Texas, born in Austinville, Virginia (d. 1836) pneunomia

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@84►1954 Henri Matisse,

French painter and sculptor (Dance II)

@83►1998 Bob Kane,

American comic artist and Batman co-creator

70’s

@76►1990 Mary Martin,

actress (Peter Pan), cancer

60’s

@66►1926 Annie Oakley,

US sharp shooting star, anemia

30’s

@37±1873Kintpuash, "Captain Jack",

chief of Modoc, hanged