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Today is the 6th day of the 43rd week, the 26th day of the 10th month, the 299th day of 2018 [and there are only 59 shopping days left until Christmas], and:
- Frankenstein Friday
- Horseless Carriage Day
- Intersex Awareness Day
- National Bandanna Day
- National Breadstick Day
- National Day of the Deployed
- National Mincemeat Day
- National Mule Day
- National Pharmacy Buyer Day
- National Pumpkin Day
- World Lemur Day
- Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night
ON THIS DAY IN ...
1670 - Louis Gaboury jailed for eating meat during Lent. Québec, Québec
1825 - The Erie Canal opened in upstate New York. The 363-mile canal connected Lake Erie and the Hudson River at a cost of $7,602,000.
1861 – The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
1863 – The Football Association is founded.
1881 – Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang in a gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. Three members of Clanton's gang were killed; Earp's brothers were wounded.
1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
1958 – Pan American Airways makes the first commercial flight of the Boeing 707 from New York City to Paris, France.
1970 – Muhammad Ali faces off against Jerry Quarry in Atlanta, Georgia for the first time after Ali's three-year hiatus from evading to be drafted in the Vietnam War.
1977 – Ali Maow Maalin, the last natural case of smallpox, develops rash in Merca district, Somalia. The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1984 A newborn with a severe heart defect was given the heart of a baboon in an experimental transplant in Loma Linda, Calif. She lived for 21 more days.
2004 – Grand Theft Auto San Andreas makes its debut.
2005 - The Chicago White Sox won their first World Series since 1917 by defeating the Houston Astros 1-0 in Game 4.
Quote of the day:
"Effort is more important than so-called success because effort is a real thing."
~ Brad Warner, “Think Not Thinking”
I remember vividly how much I used to annoy my mother back in the day when I would grandiosely announce that I would never be just a cog in the wheel; MY life was going to make a difference in the world. Fortunately for me, my measurement and definition of ‘making a difference’ changed as I grew and matured because there is little doubt that I am very much another cog in the wheel of society and thus far have shown no inkling of being a world-shaker in any way. But I don’t feel that my life, or the lives of the worker bees around me or preceding me, have been in vain for we have all made the best choices that we know how and lived with the consequences. Every day living – getting up and getting to work, raising a family, all the little chores that need to be done – takes real effort, and it counts in the global scheme of things.
I can only hope the hymn is apt and that peace will indeed start with me….
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