<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Candy Corn Day'.
- From Wikipedia (Candy corn):
'Candy corn is a candy most often found in the United States and Canada,
popular primarily around Halloween. The three colors of the candy – a broad
yellow end, a tapered orange center, and a pointed white tip – mimic the
appearance of kernels of corn. Each piece is approximately three times the
size of a real kernel from a ripe or dried ear.
Candy corn is made primarily from sugar, corn syrup, confectioner's wax,
artificial coloring and binders.
Candy corn was created in the 1880s by George Renninger of the
Philadelphia, PA-based Wunderle Candy Company. The Goelitz Confectionery
Company began production at the turn of the 20th century and called the
product Chicken Feed. In 2001 the company was renamed the Jelly Belly Candy
Company'.
[The Hankster says] One of my favorites. Here is a tip. If you snap off the little white tip, all the calories fall out. that's my story, and I am sticking to it.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Speak Up For Service Day:'.
A youth speaking contest, with the theme of community service, by the
'Lions of North Dakota'.
* 'Create A Great Funeral Day:'.
Talk with loved ones to plan for the kind of funeral they would want.
[The Hankster says] Your last chance to have the last word.
* 'National Publicist Day*.
Remembering the first 'press release'. It was in the New York Times and
concerned a train wreck two days earlier, in which 50 died.
[The Hankster says] Does the word spin ring a bell.
* 'Haunted Refrigerator Night'.
[The Hankster says] A once a year search into the depths of your refrigerator. It could be
frightening, frightening.
* 'Checklist Day'.
The origin of the day, may go back to the first checklist, created by
airplane pilots.
[The Hankster says] Couldn't remember a thing without ..., without ... oh yes, one.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'International Orthopaedic Nurses Day'. Since 1990 on a U.S. level. Since
2001 on an international level.
- From Wikipedia (Orthopaedic nursing):
'Orthopaedic nursing (or orthopedic nursing) is a nursing specialty focused
on the prevention and treatment of musculoskeletal disorders. Orthopaedic
issues range from acute problems such as fractures or hospitalization for
joint replacement to chronic systemic disorders such as loss of bone
density or lupus erythematosus.
Orthopaedic nurses have specialized skills such as neurovascular status
monitoring, traction, continuous passive motion therapy, casting, and care
of patients with external fixation'.
<> Historical events on October 30
* 'In 1938, The radio presentation of 'The War of the Worlds', produced by
Orson Welles, causes anxiety and in some cases hysteria among it's
listeners. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The War of the Worlds is an episode of the American
radio drama anthology series The Mercury Theatre on the Air. It was
performed as a Halloween episode of the series on Sunday, October 30, 1938,
and aired over the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network. Directed and
narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, the episode was an
adaptation of H. G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds (1898). It became
famous for allegedly causing mass panic, although the reality of the panic
is disputed as the program had relatively few listeners.
The first two-thirds of the one-hour broadcast was presented as a series of
simulated news bulletins, which suggested an actual alien invasion by
Martians was currently in progress. The illusion of realism was furthered
because the Mercury Theatre on the Air was a sustaining show without
commercial interruptions, and the first break in the program came almost 30
minutes into the broadcast. Popular legend holds that some of the radio
audience may have been listening to Edgar Bergen and tuned in to The War of
the Worlds during a musical interlude, thereby missing the clear
introduction that the show was a drama, but recent research suggests this
only happened in rare instances.:67–69
In the days following the adaptation, widespread outrage was expressed in
the media. The program's news-bulletin format was described as deceptive by
some newspapers and public figures, leading to an outcry against the
perpetrators of the broadcast and calls for regulation by the Federal
Communications Commission. The episode secured Welles's fame as a
dramatist'.
* 'In 1960, The first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom,
by Michael Woodruff, is performed. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Sir Michael Francis Addison Woodruff, FRS, FRCS (3 April
1911 – 10 March 2001) was an English surgeon and scientist principally
remembered for his research into organ transplantation. Though born in
London, Woodruff spent his youth in Australia, where he earned degrees in
electrical engineering and medicine. Having completed his studies shortly
after the outbreak of World War II, he joined the Australian Army Medical
Corps, but was soon captured by Japanese forces and imprisoned in the
Changi Prison Camp. While there, he devised an ingenious method of
extracting nutrients from agricultural wastes to prevent malnutrition among
his fellow POWs.
At the conclusion of the war, Woodruff returned to England and began a long
career as an academic surgeon, mixing clinical work and research. Woodruff
principally studied transplant rejection and immunosuppression. His work in
these areas of transplantation biology, led Woodruff to perform the first
kidney transplant in the United Kingdom, on 30 October 1960. For this and
his other scientific contributions, Woodruff was elected a Fellow of the
Royal Society in 1968 and made a Knight Bachelor in 1969. Although retiring
from surgical work in 1976, he remained an active figure in the scientific
community, researching cancer and serving on the boards of various medical
and scientific organizations. He died on 10 March 2001, at the age of 89'.
* 'In 1961, The Soviet Union detonates the hydrogen bomb Tsar Bomba over
Novaya Zemlya at 50 megatons of yield, it remains the largest explosive
device ever detonated, nuclear or otherwise. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Tsar Bomba (Russian Tsar-bomb) was the Western nickname
for the Soviet RDS-220 hydrogen bomb (code name Vanya), the most powerful
nuclear weapon ever detonated. Its test on October 30, 1961, remains the
most powerful human-made explosion in history. It was also referred to as
Kuzkina mat (Russian: Kuzma's mother), possibly referring to Nikita
Khrushchev's promise to show the United States a Kuzkina mat (an idiom
roughly translating to We'll show you!) at a 1960 session of United Nations
General Assembly. Developed by the Soviet Union, the bomb had a yield of 50
megaton TNT (210 PJ). In theory, the bomb had a maximum yield of 100
megatons if it were to have included a U-238 tamper, but because only one
bomb was built, this theory was never demonstrated. The single bomb was
detonated at the Sukhoy Nos cape of Severny Island, part of Novaya Zemlya.
The remaining bomb casings are located at the Russian Atomic Weapon Museum
in Sarov and the Museum of Nuclear Weapons, All-Russian Research Institute
of Technical Physics, at Snezhinsk. Neither of these casings has the same
antenna configuration as the device that was tested'.
* 'In 1964, The song 'Pretty Woman' by Roy Orbison, reaches gold, selling
500,000 copies. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Oh, Pretty Woman is a song recorded by Roy Orbison,
written by Orbison and Bill Dees. It was released as a single in August
1964 on Monument Records and spent three weeks at number one on the
Billboard Hot 100 on September 26, 1964 - the second single by Orbison to
top the US charts. It was also Orbison's third single to top the UK Singles
Chart (for a total of three weeks). The record ultimately sold seven
million copies and marked the high point in Orbison's career. Within months
of its release, in October 1964, the single was certified gold by the RIAA.
At the year's end, Billboard ranked it the number four song of 1964.
The lyrics tell the story of a man who sees a pretty woman walking by. He
yearns for her and wonders if, as beautiful as she is, she might be lonely
like he is. At the last minute, she turns back and joins him. The title was
inspired by Orbison's wife, Claudette, interrupting a conversation to
announce she was going out. When Orbison asked if she had enough cash, his
co-writer Bill Dees interjected, A pretty woman never needs any money.
Orbison's recording of the song, which used four guitars, was produced by
Fred Foster.
Orbison posthumously won the 1991 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance for his live recording of Pretty Woman on his HBO television
special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night. In 1999, the song
was honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award and was named one of the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. In 2004,
Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #222 on their list of the 500 Greatest
Songs of All Time. On May 14, 2008, The Library of Congress selected the
song for preservation in the National Recording Registry and in 2012, Texas
Music magazine ranked the song No. 7 on its list of The Top 50 Classic
Texas Songs'.
* 'In 1990, Britain and France connect the 'Chunnel' under the English
Channel via a 2 inch pilot hole. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Channel Tunnel (French: Le tunnel sous la Manche
also nicknamed and shortened to Chunnel) is a 50.5-kilometre (31.4 mi) rail
tunnel linking Folkestone, Kent, in the United Kingdom, with Coquelles,
Pas-de-Calais, near Calais in northern France, beneath the English Channel
at the Strait of Dover. At its lowest point, it is 75 m (250 ft) deep. At
37.9 kilometres (23.5 mi), the tunnel has the longest undersea portion of
any tunnel in the world, although the Seikan Tunnel in Japan is both longer
overall at 53.85 kilometres (33.46 mi) and deeper at 240 metres (790 ft)
below sea level. The speed limit for trains in the tunnel is 160 kilometres
per hour (99 mph).
The tunnel carries high-speed Eurostar passenger trains, the Eurotunnel
Shuttle for road vehicles—the largest such transport in the world—and
international freight trains. The tunnel connects end-to-end with the LGV
Nord and High Speed 1 high-speed railway lines.
Ideas for a cross-Channel fixed link appeared as early as 1802, but British
political and press pressure over the compromising of national security
stalled attempts to construct a tunnel. An early attempt at building a
Channel Tunnel was made in the late 19th century, on the English side in
the hope of forcing the hand of the English Government The eventual
successful project, organised by Eurotunnel, began construction in 1988 and
opened in 1994. At £4.65 billion, the project came in 80% over its
predicted budget. Since its construction, the tunnel has faced several
problems. Both fires and cold weather have disrupted its operation. Illegal
immigrants have attempted to use the tunnel to enter the UK, causing a
minor diplomatic disagreement over the siting of the refugee camp at
Sangatte, which was eventually closed in 2002.
A two-inch (50-mm) diameter pilot hole allowed the service tunnel to break
through without ceremony on 30 October 1990. On 1 December 1990, Englishman
Graham Fagg and Frenchman Phillippe Cozette broke through the service
tunnel with the media watching. Eurotunnel completed the tunnel on time,
and it was officially opened, one year later than originally planned, by
Queen Elizabeth II and the French president, François Mitterrand, in a
ceremony held in Calais on 6 May 1994. The Queen travelled through the
tunnel to Calais on a Eurostar train, which stopped nose to nose with the
train that carried President Mitterrand from Paris. Following the ceremony
President Mitterrand and the Queen travelled on Le Shuttle to a similar
ceremony in Folkestone. A full public service did not start for several
months.
The Channel Tunnel Rail Link (CTRL), now called High Speed 1, runs 69 miles
(111 km) from St Pancras railway station in London to the tunnel portal at
Folkestone in Kent. It cost £5.8 billion. On 16 September 2003 the prime
minister, Tony Blair, opened the first section of High Speed 1, from
Folkestone to north Kent. On 6 November 2007 the Queen officially opened
High Speed 1 and St Pancras International station, replacing the original
slower link to Waterloo International railway station. High Speed 1 trains
travel at up to 300 km/h (186 mph), the journey from London to Paris taking
2 hours 15 minutes, to Brussels 1 hour 51 minutes.
In 1994, the American Society of Civil Engineers elected the tunnel as one
of the seven modern Wonders of the World. In 1995, the American magazine
Popular Mechanics published the results'.
No. 1 song
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in October
Food
American Cheese Month
Apple Month
Corn Month
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Caramel Month
National Cookbook Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
Pizza Month
Sausage Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Vegetarian Month
Health
AIDS Awareness Month
American Pharmacists Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Christmas Seal Campaign
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Global ADHD Awareness Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Depression Education and Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stop Bullying Month
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
World Menopause Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Dog Month
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
Bat Appreciation Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
Wishbones for Pets Month
Other
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Class Reunion Month
Country Music Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair
Fair Trade Month
Financial Planning Month
German-American Heritage Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Intergeneration Month
Learn To Bowl Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Chili Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Field Trip Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Work and Family Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Self-Promotion 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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