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

Oct 2

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Oct  2, 2018 Week: 40 \ Day: 275

86004 Today: H 70° \ L 50° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

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

Record High: 82°[1991]   Record Low: 18°[1971]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

Power is like being a lady...

if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.

Margaret Thatcher

Harper’s Index

            8

            Number of US counties that have refused to issue

            Licenses for same-sex marriages since the Supreme

            Court legalized them

            8

            Number of those counties that are in Alabama

More Observances This Month

Bat Appreciation Month
Black Speculative Fiction Month  Link
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month Link
(World) Blindness Awareness Month Link

Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign (10/1-12/31)
Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month Link
Contact Lens Safety Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Corn Month Link
Country Music Month Link
Cut Out Dissection Month

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

Observances for Today

Guardian Angels Day
International Day of Non-violence
National Custodial Worker Day

Peanuts (Cartoon) Day
Phileas Fogg's Wager Day
Simchat Torah
World Farm Animals Day

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1200’s                                         

  1263 The battle of Largs fought between Norwegians

             and Scots.

1500’s                                         

  1535 Jacques Cartier discovers Mount Royal (Montreal)

1800’s                                         

  1871 Brigham Young, mormon leader, arrested for bigamy

  1872 Morgan State University founded

  1889 In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in

            silver during the last great silver boom of the American

            Old West.

1900’s                                         

  1902 Beatrix Potter's "The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is published

           by Frederick Warne & Co. in London

  1916 San Diego Zoo founded

  1935 Mussolini's Italian army attacks Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

  1950 1st strip of Charlie Brown, "Li'l Folks", later "Peanuts",

             by Charles M. Schulz published in 9 papers

  1967 Thurgood Marshall sworn in as 1st black Supreme

            Court Justice

  1971 Homing pigeon averages a record 133kph in an

            1100km race in Australia

  1979 Pope John Paul II visits New York City, and at

            the U.N. denounces all concentration camps & torture

  1981 17-year-old gelding Behavin Jerry, the oldest

            winning racehorse in modern times, sets record for

            most career starts by a thoroughbred, 307

  1990 US Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David

            Souter's appointment to Supreme Court

2000’s                                         

  2001 NATO backs US military strikes, following 9/11

  2002 The Beltway sniper attacks begin, extending over

            three weeks

  2016 Colombia votes against a peace agreement with

            rebel group FARC in a national referendum

My Rambling Thoughts

Healing is progressing….think itching under bandage! Guess that’s a good thing.

AZ Cardinals lost another one yesterday. Now let’s all hope the Broncos do better tonight.

I’ve lived in the high desert for over 40 years, on and off the Rez. I do not recall a time when a hurricane brought rain to us. But that is what is happening as you read (Hurricane/tropical storm Rosa). It’s a gentle rain. Some last night, more early this morning, more expected later today. Guess the dry state of AZ will take its moisture anyway it comes.

Attention Sen. McConnell, stop talking, let the process take its due course. You sound bitter, you sound like a spoiled privileged jerk. You will never get it.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

0’s

  @78►Mahatma Gandhi [Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi]

               Indian pacifist and spiritual leader, born in Porbandar,

               Kathiawar Agency, India (d. 1948)

  @73►Coco the Clown [Nicolai Poliakoff], Famous

              Russian clown, born in Dvinsk, Russian Empire (d. 1974)

  70►Donna Karan, fashion designer (Coty Award-1977),

          born in Forest Hills, New York

  @67►Johnnie Cochran, attorney (O.J. Simpson defense

               attorney) (d. 2005) brain tumor

  67►Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) singer (Police)

  48►Kelly Ripa, TV host

  @31►Nat Turner, Civil Rights Leader (d. 1831) hung

Historical Obits Today

0’s

  @91►1998 Orvon Grover "Gene" Autry, American cowpoke,

                        singer, actor (The Gene Autry Show), and

                        business tycoon (California Angels)

@81►1968 Marcel Duchamp, French painter and

                      sculptor (Nude Descending a Staircase)

@81►1803 Samuel Adams, American revolutionary

                     (Boston Massacre-Tea Party) and politician (Lt Gov-

                     Mass, 1789-94)

  @691973 Paul Hartman, American actor (Petticoat Junction,

                     Inherit the Wind), heart attack

  @662017 Tom Petty, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty

                     and the Heartbreakers), accidental overdose

  @591985 Rock Hudson, actor (MacMillian & Wife), AIDS

  @581985 George Savalas, Greek-American actor

                    (Kojak, Kelly's Heroes), leukemia