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Almanac - Friday 10/11/19

It's World Egg Day!

Today is Friday, October 11, 2019, the 284th day of the year, with 81 days remaining.  And only 389 days until the 2020 Presidential Election.    

  • Sunrise: 7:15am     
  • Sunset: 6:38pm ...giving us 11 hours and 26 minutes of daylight.   91% of the waxing gibbous moon will be visible, rising at 6:07pm.  

Tides at the Golden Gate            

  • High: 11:19am/11:13pm       
  • Low: 4:35am/5:04pm

Special celebrations & commemorations today…

  • Antifascist Uprising Day - Macedonia 
  • Revolution Day - Palau 
  • International Day of The Girl Child
  • General Pulaski Memorial Day
  • World Egg Day
  • National Family Bowling Day
  • National Sausage Pizza Day 
  • National Coming Out Day
  • Southern Food Heritage Day
  • Stem Cell Awareness Day

On this day in…

1776 - During the American Revolution the first naval battle of Lake Champlain was fought. The forces under Gen. Benedict Arnold suffered heavy losses.

1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, was put into operation by the inventor John Stevens. The ferry went between New York City,NY, and Hoboken,NJ.

1869 - Thomas Edison filed for a patent on his first invention. The electric machine was used for counting votes for theU.S. Congress, however the Congress did not buy it.

1881 - David Henderson Houston patented the first roll film for cameras.

1890 - The Daughters of the American Revolution was founded in Washington, DC.

1899 - The Boer War began in South Africa between the British and the Boers of the Transvaal and Orange Free State.

1929 - JCPenney opened a store in Milford,DE, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 states.

1932 - In New York, the first telecast of a political campaign was aired.

1936 - The radio show, "Professor Quiz", aired for the first time.

1939 -U.S. President Roosevelt was presented with a letter from Albert Einstein that urged him to develop theU.S. atomic program rapidly.

1942 - The Battle of Cape Esperance, during World War II, began in the Solomons.

1958 - Pioneer 1, a lunar probe, was launched by theU.S. The probe did not reach its destination and fell back to Earth and burned up in the atmosphere.

1968 - Apollo 7 was launched by the U.S. The first manned Apollo mission was the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit. Wally Schirra, Don Fulton Eisele and R. Walter Cunningham were the astronauts aboard.

1971 - Hugh Downs left the "Today" show and "Concentration". He later became the host of ABC's "20/20".

1975 - "Saturday Night Live" was broadcast for the first time. George Carlin was the guest host.

1975 - Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham were married in Fayetteville,AR.

1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in theU.S. went out of service. The 440 telephone customers of Bryant Pond,ME, were switched to direct-dial service.

1984 - Construction began on the Kamric/Cinergy Futursonics Studio in Houston,TX.

1984 - American Kathryn D. Sullivan became the first female astronaut to space walk. She was aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

1984 - Mario Lemieux (Pittsburgh Penguins) made his debut in theNational Hockey League (NHL) against the Boston Bruins. He scored a goal on his first shot on his firstNHL shift.

1994 -U.S. troops in Haiti took control of the National Palace.

1994 - Iraqi troops began moving away from the Kuwaiti border.

1994 - The Colorado Supreme Court declared that the anti-gay rights measure in the state was unconstitutional. 

If today’s your birthday, you share it with…

  • Parson Mason Weems 1759 
  • Henry Heinz 1884
  • Eleanor Roosevelt 1884
  • Willie Hoppe 1887
  • Charles Revson 1906
  • Joseph Alsop 1910
  • Jerome Robbins 1918
  • Art Blakey 1919
  • Linda Stirling 1921
  • Ron Leibman 1937
  • Gene Watson 1943
  • Daryl Hall (Hall & Oates) 1948
  • Catlin Adams 1950
  • Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind and Fire) 1950
  • David Morse 1953
  • Paulette Carlson 1953
  • Lindy Boone (The Boone Family) 1955
  • Steve Young (NFL) 1961
  • Joan Cusack 1962
  • Sean Patrick Flanery 1965
  • Luke Perry 1966 

 

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David Latulippe is host of On the Arts, KALW's weekly radio magazine of the performing arts, as well as for Explorations in Music, and the Berkeley Symphony broadcasts. He has also hosted and produced the radio series From the Conservatory, Music from Mills, and Music at Menlo, and is principal guest host for Revolutions Per Minute.