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Oct 6, 2017 Week: 40 \ Day: 279
86004 Today: H 73° \ L 39°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 16mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 81°[1997] Record Low: 18°[1912]
Oct Averages: 63°\31°
Oct Records: H: 85° (1980) L: -2° (1971)
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Quote of the Day
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
Milton Berle
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Observances Today
American Libraries Day
Jackie Mayer Rehab Day
Lee's National Denim Day
Manufacturing Day Link
National Diversity Day
National German-American Day
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Observances This Week
Universal Children's Week: 1-7
Great Books Week: 1-7
Mental Illness Awareness Week: 1-7
Mystery Series Week: 1-7
National Carry A Tune Week: 1-7
National Chimney Safety Week: 1-7
National Work From Home Week: 1-7
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week : 1-7 )
Customer Service Week: 2-6 Link
Health Information and Technology Week: 2-6 Link
Kids' Goal Setting Week: 2-6 (First Week)
National Heimlich Heroes Week: 2-6
Spinning & Weaving Week: 2-6 Link
Financial Planning Week: 2-8
World Dairy Expo: 3-8
No Salt Week: 3-10
World Space Week: 4-10 Link
Great American Beer Festival: 5-7 Link
Old-time Fiddler Days: 6-7
National Storytelling Weekend: 6-8
National Physicians Assistant Week: 6-12
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
◄ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1600’s
◄1683 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Philadelphia
1700’s
1783 Benjamin Hanks patents self-winding clock
1800’s
1857 American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1882 1st World Series game, Cincinnati (AA) beats Chicago (NL) 4-0
1893 Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat
1900’s
1927 "The Jazz Singer", directed by Alan Crosland, starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy, released, 1st film with a soundtrack (Honorary Academy Award 1928)
1940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in SF
◄1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya
◄1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
◄1949 US President Harry Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
◄1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)
1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters
1966 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.
1967 Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco) hippies throw a funeral for "Hippie" to mark the end of "the summer of love".
1995 Colorado Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit
2000’s
◄2012 Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict XVI's butler, is found guilty of leaking confidential documents and is sentenced to 18 months imprisonment
◄2013 53 people are killed in political clashes in Egypt
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My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful weather has returned… more like summer than fall. Nice walk this morning. Took the car in for a nice wash. We have this new place that lets you vacuum for free and drive through a nice wash with lots of flashing colors for a very reasonable price. Guess I will have to wash the interior car windows.
I am a senior citizen who is totally baffled by 45. I cannot recall any President who makes so many ‘off-the-cuff’ remarks. He seems to think if he says it, it will become true. He made a comment yesterday about ‘forgiving Puerto Rico’s debt’. Really? Not in his power…that’s why we have a Congress. He and many of his ‘base’ believe that as President he has ALL the power in this country. I blame much of this on the dropping of Civics in HS graduation requirements. My HS Civics teacher, Ms. Stienmeyer, was not the most exciting teacher I had, but she sure made sure we understood Civics. How can we expect people to understand what it means to live in a democracy unless they learn what a democracy is?
Our local paper is publishing a series on the BASIS charter school. It was started in Tucson and now has campuses around the country. A great program for many of its students. However, like most charter schools does not meet the needs of special needs or ESL students. They seem to get great test scores by encouraging those students who don’t learn by their methodology to transfer out. WOW! That sure sounds elitist to me. I have a hard time understanding why these schools get my tax dollars to educate the elite. They do admit students according to the law. The problem is convincing parents that the child would do better somewhere else. I’m reading about some horror stories of how they convince parents to leave the school.
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Bizarre News
A South Carolina woman expecting a new yoga mat opened a package that arrived at her home and instead discovered $400,000 worth of illicit prescription drugs.
The Rock Hill Police Department said the woman thought the package was a new yoga mat when it was handed to her by the mail carrier. The woman opened the box and found it actually contained nearly 20,000 pills of opiate drug oxycodone.
The woman turned the package and its contents over to police, who passed them along to the York County Multijurisdictional Drug Enforcement Unit.
Marvin Brown, commander of the unit, said each pill has a street value of about $20, bringing the package's total worth to approximately $400,000.
Brown said the package was intended for the woman's former address, a currently vacant apartment, but was forwarded by the U.S. Postal Service. He said such drug packages are often mailed to vacant residences, where the intended recipient will wait for them to arrive.
"The dealers weren't as intelligent as they thought they were," Brown said.
The box was shipped from Newport Beach, Calif. Police said the oxycodone are likely counterfeits pressed into pills from powder in Mexico.
The investigation is ongoing.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@83- Henry Chadwick, baseball pioneer, developed 1st rulebook (d. 1908)
@87- Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), born in Larvik (d. 2002)
70’s
@77- Le Corbusier [Charles Jeanneret], Swiss-French architect, city planner and artist (Urbanisme), born in La Chaux-de-Fonds (d. 1965)
60’s
@67- Jenny Lind, Swedish Nightingale (d. 1887)
@67- George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system), born in Central Bridge, New York (d. 1914)
@66- Fred Travalena, American comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell), born in NYC, (d. 2009)
50’s
@59- Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (Freedom Summer, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), born in Montgomery County, Mississippi (d. 1977)
54- Elisabeth Shue, American actress (Cocktail, Back to the Future Part II), born in Wilmington, Delaware
52- Jim "Razor" Sharp, American rodeo rider (Las Vegas 1988), Kermit, Texas
30’s
@37- Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord (d. 1991)
@33- Carole Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], American actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only), born in Fort Wayne, Indiana (d. 1942)
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-1951 Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg's cereal brand)
80’s
@83-1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer, and British Poet Laureate
@81-1989 Bette Davis, American actress (All About Eve, White Mama)
70’s
@70-1956 Charles E. Merrill, American investment banker (Merrill Lynch)
60’s
@66-2015 Kevin Corcoran, American actor (Disney’s ‘Moochie’, Babes in Toyland), colon cancer
@64-1985 Nelson Riddle, American bandleader, cirrhosis
@62-1981 Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers
@61-1996 Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), aneurysm
30’s
@37-1841 George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), suicide
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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