Both the day and the week has been set asidefor young people and adults to learn how to make their homes safer against accidental fires.
A wiser man than I once said - A corpse is meat gone bad. Well, and what then, is cheese? Corpse of milk, which leads us to the fact that today is also Moldy Cheese day.
Am I really going to encourage you to eat rotting cheese, (while bleu, Camembert, Gorgonzola, maytag blue, Roquefort, brie, and Stilton are perfectly fine,) I also never thought I'd live through the age of a virus ridden White House.
The celebrations of Cephalopod Awareness Days keep rolling along - Today we celebrate Nautilus Night, highlighting all the lesser-known extant cephalopods -
Hopefully the shocking nature of the documentary wasn't too off-putting for your holiday celebrations
October 9, 1969 -
BBC's Top Of The Pops refused to play the No. #1 hit in the country, Je T'Aime Moi Non Plus, on this date.
Gainsbourg, a French poet/actor/musician, originally recorded the risqué number in 1967 with Parisian actress Brigitte Bardot, who was both his musical partner and lover. When Bardot asked him to write her a love song, he came up with Je T'aime… Moi Non Plus. At the time, Bardot was married to German industrialist Gunter Sachs, and news of the star cozying up in the recording booth with the provocative poet was a tabloid reporter's dream. The papers titillated readers with descriptions of the erotic tune. When the press contacted Sachs for a comment on the hot-and-heavy session, he demanded Bardot pull the plug on the project – which she did, along with her relationship with Gainsbourg.
October 9, 1969 -
The Supremes released the single Someday We'll Be Together, on this date. It will be Diana Ross' last recording with the group. Ross announced she was leaving The Supremes in November, and by the end of December that year, it hit #1 on the Hot 100, giving the group one last chart-topper, bringing their total to 12.
This was originally recorded by the duo Johnny & Jackey (Johnny Bristol and Jackey Beavers) in 1961. Their version went nowhere, and the duo were defunct a short time later. Jackey Beavers and Johnny Bristol wrote this song while they were touring in the Midwest. Most of it was written while they were driving from gig to gig. Harvey Fuqua, who was their label boss at Tri-Phi Records, also is credited as a writer. Fuqua was married to Berry Gordy's sister, Gwen, and later joined Berry's company, Motown Records, where he worked when this song was issued by The Supremes.
October 9, 1971 -
Van Morrison released one of his most popular songs, Wild Night, on this date.
Ted Templeman, who would later produce another Van (Halen), produced the Tupelo Honey album with Morrison. Musicians to perform on this track include Ronnie Montrose on electric guitar, John McFee on pedal steel guitar, Jack Schroer on saxophone and Luis Gasca on trumpet.
October 9, 1984 -
The popular children's show Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends begins its run on BBC-TV, featuring a narrator by the name of Ringo Starr on this date.
PBS aired a spin-off called Shining Time Station from 1989-1993. This was created to introduce Thomas the Tank Engine to American viewers.
October 9, 1986 -
The FOX network debuted Joan Rivers' new The Late Show on this date.
At first, Tribune Entertainment was supposed to hire Nell Carter as a talk show hostess for her own show, when it didn't work, consequently, the job was given to Joan Rivers, and the show was retooled.
Another book from the back shelves of The ACME Library
Today in History:
October 9, 28 BC -
Caesar Augustus dedicated the Temple of Apollo to his patron god Apollo, on the Palatine Hill in Rome, on this date.
October 9, 1000 -
Leif Ericson discovered Vinland and became the first known European to walk in North America, on this date (or not). In 1964, the United States Congress authorized and requested the President to proclaim October 9 of each year as Leif Erikson Day.
Still more exciting are recent scientific findings that suggest Caucasians may have existed in North America prior to being displaced by the so-called native-Americans who were later visited by Vikings prior to being utterly displaced by still more Caucasians.
But this is also deeply troubling, because there was probably someone here before those original Caucasians.
In the interests of fairness, I enthusiastically endorses the endowment of every American with their own casino.
October 9, 1582 -
It's true - tomorrow never knows.
Once again, because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain. This leads to more mass confusion and most of the populace just go back to bed and give up belief in calendars.
On this date in 1776 a group of Spanish Missionaries, led by Father Francisco Palou founded Mission San Francisco de Asis in what is today San Francisco.
October 9, 1855 -
Isaac Singer was issued a patent (US No. 13,661) for the sewing machine motor, which went on to revolutionize the textile industry.
That same year, SINGER becomes the largest selling brand of sewing machines internationally. The SINGER brand is awarded the first prize at the World’s Fair in Paris, France.
October 9, 1872 -
A traveling dry goods salesman named Aaron Montgomery Ward launches the world’s first mail-order general merchandise business on this date. His first catalog, which was a page long, listing 163 items, would be the first to be called a Wish Book. Ward initially writes all of the catalog’s copy himself.
The catalog will rapidly grow in popularity, so much so that it will soon be imitated by other enterprising merchants, most notably Richard Warren Sears, who published his first general catalog in 1896. Montgomery Ward will grow into one of the largest retailers in the U.S., but its sales will decline through the late twentieth century, forcing the chain to close in early 2001.
October 9, 1888 -
The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, was completed and the public was first admitted on this date.
Steam powered elevators carried visitors to the top in 12 minutes. It underwent a $1.5 million renovation in 1998.
October 9, 1915 -
Took my girl to a baseball game, sat her in the front ...
October 9, 1934 -
While the Boomtown Rats don't like Mondays, King Alexander I of Yugoslavia didn't like Tuesdays.
The film record of Alexander I's assassination remains one of the most historic pieces of newsreel in existence (film footage), alongside the film of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia's coronation, the funerals of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, and Emperor Franz Josef of Austria, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
October 9, 1958 -
Pope Pius XII suffered a most 'unfortunate' accident after his demise. The Pope died during an exceptionally hot summer.
When Pius died, Professor Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi who was treating the ill pontiff (Galeazzi-Lisi was not a doctor but an optometrist) turned embalmer, trying to hide his crimes.
Very messy indeed.
October 9, 1967 -
On October 8th, Che Guevara was captured while leading a detachment with Simeon Cuba Sarabia in Bolivia. According to some soldiers present at the capture, during the skirmish as they approached Guevara, he allegedly shouted, "Do not shoot! I am Che Guevara and worth more to you alive than dead." Upon hearing of Guevara's capture, news was relayed to CIA headquarters at Langley, Virginia, via CIA stations in various South American nations.
Che Guevara had some last words before his death; he allegedly said to his executioner, "I know you are here to kill me. Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man." His body was lashed to the landing skids of a helicopter and flown to neighboring Vallegrande where it was laid out on a laundry tub in the local hospital and displayed to the press.
After the execution, Rodriguez took several personal items of Guevara's including a Rolex watch, often proudly showing them to reporters during the ensuing years. Today, some of these belongings, including his flashlight, are on display at the CIA headquarters. After a military doctor surgically amputated his hands, Bolivian army officers transferred Guevara's cadaver to an undisclosed location and refused to reveal whether his remains had been buried or cremated.
And that boys and girls, was your US dollars at work in 1967.
October 9, 1973 -
My emotion is real, and my everyday life is filled with the same feeling.
Sister Rosetta Tharpe, pioneering gospel singer and recording artist, died on this date.
October 9, 1974 -
Obscure German businessman Oskar Schindler, passed away at the age of 66 in Frankfurt, Germany on this date. A member of the Nazi Party, he ran an enamel-works factory in Krakaw during the German occupation of Poland, employing workers from the nearby Jewish ghetto. When the ghetto was liquidated, he persuaded Nazi officials to allow the transfer of his workers to the Plaszow labor camp, thus saving them from deportation to the death camps.
In 1944, all Jews at Plaszow were sent to Auschwitz, but Schindler, at great risk to himself, bribed officials into allowing him to keep his workers and set up a factory in a safer location in occupied Czechoslovakia. By the war's end, he was penniless, but he had saved 1,200 Jews. In 1962, he was declared a Righteous Gentile by Yad Vashem, Israel's official agency for remembering the Holocaust. According to his wishes, he was buried in Israel at the Catholic cemetery on Mount Zion.
October 9, 1978 -
Jacques Brel was certainly not alive and well and living in Paris on this date.
Mr. Brel, the Belgian-born French cabaret singer, had died earlier in the day.
October 9, 1985 -
Happy Birthday John (and Sean.)
Central Park's Strawberry Fields was dedicated on John Lennon's birthday, by Yoko Ono, who had underwritten the project, on this date.
Before you go -
Diwali is in 15 days,
Halloween is in 22 days,
and Christmas is in 77 days.
Plan accordingly!
And so it goes
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