Today is October 11 2014

National Sausage Pizza Day: More

• General Pulaski Memorial Day: More
  residential Proclamation
• International Day of the Girl : More
  UN - International Day of the Girl Child
• It's My Party Day : More
• National Costume Swap Day: More
  Second Saturday of October
• Universal Music Day: More
  Second Saturday of October
• Southern Food Heritage Day: More
• National Coming Out Day: More

• In 1950, CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
  From Wikipedia: 'A field-sequential color system is a color television system in which the primary color information is transmitted in successive images, and which relies on the human vision system to fuse the successive images into a color picture. One field-sequential system was developed by Dr. Peter Goldmark for CBS, which was its sole user in commercial broadcasting. It was first demonstrated to the press on September 4, 1940, and first shown to the general public on January 12, 1950. The Federal Communications Commission adopted it on October 11, 1950 as the standard for color television in the United States, but it was later withdrawn.
  
  The concept of sequential color systems in moving images predates the invention of fully electronic television. Although known contemporarily as "additive" rather than sequential color systems, two-color Kinemacolor, in commercial use since 1906, and its predecessor three-color format invented by Edward Raymond Turner and patented in 1899, were both sequential natural color systems utilizing rotating color wheels, where each sequential image alternatingly included a different color's information and was dyed such in order to merge in the viewer's eye during projection, and were used for natural color motion picture film. When due to litigation by William Friese-Greene, Kinemacolor ended up in the public domain by c. 1914, many derivative sequential color processes (such as Friese-Greene's Biocolour or the original Prisma Color) were developed that were in use until the late 1920s, with increasing rivalry by bipack color processes since c. 1920 that were not using sequential color anymore'.
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• In 1968, NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
  From Wikipedia: 'Apollo 7 was a 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out by the United States of America. It was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of Gemini XII in November 1966. The AS-204 mission, also known as "Apollo 1", was intended to be the first manned flight of the Apollo program, scheduled to launch in February 1967. However, a fire in the cabin during a January 1967 test killed the crew. Manned flights were then suspended for 21 months, while the cause of the accident was investigated and improvements made to the spacecraft and safety procedures, and unmanned test flights of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo Lunar Module were made. Apollo 7 essentially fulfilled Apollo 1's mission of testing the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) in low Earth orbit.
  
  The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with senior pilot / navigator Donn F. Eisele, and pilot / systems engineer R. Walter Cunningham. (Official crew titles were made consistent with those that would be used for the manned lunar landing missions: Eisele was Command Module Pilot and Cunningham was Lunar Module Pilot.) Their mission was Apollo's 'C' mission, an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to check out the redesigned Block II CSM with a crew on board. It was the first time a Saturn IB vehicle put a crew into space; Apollo 7 was the first three-person American space mission, and the first to include a live TV broadcast from an American spacecraft. It was successfully launched on October 11, 1968, from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a complete technical success, giving NASA the confidence to send Apollo 8 into orbit around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would prove to be the final space flight for all of its three crew members when it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on October 22, 1968. It was also the final manned launch from Cape Kennedy'.
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• In 1975, The TV show 'Saturday Night Live' premieres. It is still running as of 2015 in it's 41st season.
  From Wikipedia: 'Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show'.
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• In 1976, George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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• In 1983, The last hand-cranked telephones in the US went out of service. The customers moved to direct-dial.
  From Wikipedia: 'Many early manual telephones had an attached hand-cranked magneto that produced an alternating current (AC) at 50-100V for signaling to ring the bells of other telephones on the same (party) line and to alert an operator at the local telephone exchange. These were most common on long rural lines served by small manual exchanges which did not use a common battery circuit. The telephone instrument contained a local battery, consisting of two large "N° 6" zinc-carbon dry cells, to provide the necessary current for the transmitter. By around 1900, large racks of motor-generator sets in the telephone exchange could supply this ringing current remotely instead and the local magneto was often no longer required, but their use continued into the mid-20th century.
  
  Telephone magnetos featured a large gear rotated by hand with a handle, that drove a much smaller gear on the armature rotor, providing a high gear-ratio to increase the rotational speed of the magneto armature. A mechanical switch on the output terminals engaged only when the rotor was turning, so that the magneto was normally disconnected from the telephone circuitry.
  
  Ringing current magnetos were used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) as late as the 1980s, when they were still used with private manual branch exchanges (PMBX), small business switchboards worked by operators. Rather than have a motor generator set for such a small installation, which generated noise and required maintenance, these systems used a hand magneto. Unlike on the public telephone network, which has a standard ringing cadence (the repeating pattern of ringing and silence), the ringing cadence on a PMBX depended upon the skill of the operator. When ringing local extensions, some switchboard operators used local codes of ringing to indicate internal, external or urgent calls.
  
  Linesman's test sets also included a magneto, for use when ringing out to either the exchange or the subscriber, from anywhere along the line. Their use extended into the 1980s'.
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Tomorrow's food holiday is 'National Sausage Pizza Day'. For me, peperoni sausage, yes, otherwise no.

Tomorrow is also 'General Pulaski Memorial Day'. Presidential Proclamation for a Polish Revolutionary War hero.

A more general, but tasty holiday tomorrow is 'Southern Food Heritage Day'.

Of course, if you want both Sausage Pizza and some Southern Fried Chicken, that will be find tomorrow, since it is also 'It's My Party Day'. If it is your party, eat what you want. Just remember your social network friends.

And a UN proclamation tomorrow, 'International Day of the Girl '. UN - International Day of the Girl Child. Appropriate with the just announced Nobel Prize winners for 2014.

With Halloween soon upon us, tomorrow, the second Saturday of October, will be 'National Costume Swap Day'. Save money, have fun and resell.

Another second Saturday holiday will be 'Universal Music Day'. If 'Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, we can use a bunch of it, from all peoples.'

J.K. Rowling, in 'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire', said: 'It's a strange thing, but when you are dreading something, and would give anything to slow down time, it has a disobliging habit of speeding up". The past, holds no dread for us, only the future, so let's take a look back at October 11:

In 1936, The radio show 'Professor Quiz' (the first radio quiz show )premieres.

In 1950, CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

In 1968, In the Apollo program: NASA, launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

In 1975, the TV show 'Saturday Night Live' premieres.

In 1976, George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

In 1979, - Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win the Nobel Prize for medicine for developing CAT scan.

In 1983, Last hand-cranked telephones in the US, went out of service. The last 440 customers moved to direct-dial.

No. 1 song

• Oh, Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison: More
  'The House of the Rising Sun' has been displaced by 'Oh, Pretty Woman', which will hold the no. 1 spot until October 17 2014, when 'Do Wah Diddy Diddy', takes over.

Top movie

• Fail-Safe More
  Having displaced 'Cheyenne Autumn', it will be there until the weekend box office of October 18 1964 when, 'Send Me No Flowers', takes over.

• FamousBirthdays.com: October 11 Birthdays More
• FamousDaily.com: October 11 History More
• History.com: Historical Events on 11th October More
• HistoryOrb.com: Famous Deaths on 11th October More
• On-This-day.com history 11th October More
• On-This-day.com music history 11th October More
• Wikipedia.com: History October 11 More

Food: Apple Month, Rhubarb Month, Sausage Month, Spinach Lovers Month, National Chili Month, National Popcorn Poppin' Month, National Seafood Month Pear and Pineapple Month, , Vegetarian Month
Other
AIDS Awareness Month, Breast Cancer Awareness Month, Bullying Prevention Month, Celiac Disease Awareness Month, Class Reunion Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Dyslexia Awareness Month, National Book Month, National Dental Hygiene Month, National Down Syndrome Month, National Spina Bifida Awareness Month, National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month

October is:

October origin (from Wikipedia): October is the tenth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October retained its name (from the Greek meaning 'eight') after January and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been created by the Romans. "
October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern hemisphere and spring in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal equivalent to April in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.

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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago, or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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Best selling books of 1964 More

• Astronomy Picture of the Day: More
• NOAA: - National Hurricane Center - Atlantic Graphical Tropical Weather Outlook: More
• Listen to Old Radio Shows: (streaming mp3 with schedule) More
• NASA TV: (video feed) More
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• Public Domain eBook Links

  Sites for downloading or reading free Public Domain eBooks. Available in various formats. More

• Podcast: A Moment of Science. Approximately 1 minute general science facts.
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• Podcast: The Naked Scientists. Current science, medicine, space and other science
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• Podcast: Quirks & Quarks. Current science news.
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• Articles and videos: Universe Today. Current space and astronomy news.
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• Old Picture of the Day - "Each day we bring you one stunning little glimpse of history in the form of a historical photograph."
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Below, are listed several holiday sites that I reference in addition to other holiday researches.

US Government Holidays

• 2014 Postal Holidays More
• 2014 Official Federal Holidays More

Holidays Worldwide

• List of holidays by country More
• Holidays and Observances around the World More