71st anniversary of War of the Worlds Broadcast

In 1938 on the night of October 30th, CBS aired War Of th Worlds. It was a radio drama that for the first 2/3 of the hour was a series of simulated news broadcasts suggesting that the Earth was being attacked by Aliens. People thought it was real and totally freaked out. It made lots of people really scared.

Anniversary of the internet (1969)

At 10:30 pm on the night of October 29th 1969 in UCLA. It was a simple transmission that took place, a remote log in. Actually the transmission crashed during the login and the lo of login was all that went through. 40 years later I am using the same technology to write of the event and publish it for the entire world.

The Day the Infant Internet Uttered its First Words

Leonard Kleinrock

Below is a record of the first message ever sent over the ARPANET. It took place at 22:30 hours on October 29, 1969. This record is an excerpt from the "IMP Log" that we kept at UCLA. I was supervising the student/programmer Charley Kline (CSK) and we set up a message transmission to go from the UCLA SDS Sigma 7 Host computer to the SRI SDS 940 Host computer. The transmission itself was simply to "login" to SRI from UCLA. We succeeded in transmitting the "l" and the "o" and then the system crashed! Hence, the first message on the Internet was "Lo!". We were able to do the full login about an hour later.

Statue of Liberty Day

The Statue of Liberty is gift from France commemorating the 100th year of our Countries Independence. It represents a woman in a stola, wearing a crown and sandals, crushing a chain with a torch in her right hand and a tablet with MDCCLXXVI which is 1776 written in Roman Numerals. At the time it was given and erected it was designed to greet people as they came to this country from Europe and into Ellis Island. This was of course before the Jet Age when people travelled mainly by ship. Frederic Bartholdi designed the statue.

Navy Day USA

The US Navy goes all the way back to the Continental Army. One of the first jobs of the US Navy was to defend trade ships from pirates near the Barbar Coast. The Navy also flies jets from the tops of large ships called battleships.

National Mule Day

A mule is the offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. The sound it makes is different than the sounds made by donkeys and horses but the mule sound has characteristics of both animals. They are highly intelligent animals and tend to be quite curious. They are still used today in place of tractors by some farmers to work the fields.

National Mole Day

Mole Day is the day nerdy types celebrate the discovery of Avogado's number which is 6.02 x 10^23 which is a constant that signifies the molecular weight of a given molecule equal to that molecules atomic weight. If we could determine the atomic weight of a Mole, one mole of that mole would be a Mole that weighs the same as the atomic weight of a Mole. 10^23 = 10/23 or October 23.

Ringling Brothers circus buys Barnum and Bailey's Circus

The Ringling Brothers Circus was started when the barnum and Bailey Circus was at it,s peak. When P.T Barnum died The zringling Brothers bought ther barnum and bailey Circus. They ran the two circuses independantly until finally merging the show in 1918. The show was a huge success throughout the 1920's and only saw a decline due to the great depression.

Alfred Nobel's Birthday

Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, engineer, and armament manufacture. He also invented dynamite. In his last will he set up the foundation that gives awards in physical science, chemistry, medical science, literary work, and peace. It is said that he decided to set up these awards in response to criticism for inventing dynamite. President Barack Obama is this years Peace Prize winner.

30th anniversary of the JFK Library/Museum

The Library was designed by an architect named I.M.Pei. It is located in Columbia Point. The Library holds items from Kennedy's election campaign as well as his boat, pictures and items he head when he was serving in the Navy and his college notebooks from his political science classes.

ALASKA DAY

Today is Alaska Day which is the day commemorating the official transfer of the Russian Territory to The United States in 1867. Alaska is the largest US State. It is larger than the smallest 22 states combined. The highest North American Peak is there, Mt Mckinley (Denali)

Recently Vice-presidential candidate Sara Palin was the Governor which brought the state National Attention. Alaska has vast energy resources. Alaska (including water territories) is larger than California, Texas and Montana combined

Egg and Cheese Micromuffin

So I learned this method when I worked at Dunking Donerds. You take an egg and put it in a bowl. Using a fork, whip the egg so you don't make the yolk explode. Microwave it for one minute. Then Toast an english muffin, or a slice of bread or use a croissant, of even a honey dipped donut. Then put the egg from the bowl you just microwaved and throw a piece of cheese on top and put you assembled sandwich in the microwave for like 10 seconds, just enough to melt the cheese. You can add a drop of milk to the egg before y0u cook it to make it even better. The entire sandwich can be made for under a fifty cents if you plan right and can deal with non organic food.

National Love Your Body Day

Human body loses an average of 40 to 100 strands of hair a day. A cough releases an explosive charge of air that moves at speeds of 60 mph. A sneeze can exceed 100 miles per hour.A finger nail takes about 6 months from By licking one stamp the human body burns 1/10 of a calorie. An average human scalp has 100,00 years. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 43 to frown. A beard would grow about 30 feet by the end of his life if it went uncut.

National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work Day

Thoedore (Teddy) Rooselvelt, was invited on a hunting trip, on this trip one of the men had captured a Black Bear clubbed it, and tied it to a tree. The man told President Roosevelt he could shoot the bear, but President Roosevelt said he would not because he felt that it was rather unsportsman-like. He ordered that the bear be shot to be put out of it's misery. One shop owner after receiving permission from The Roosevelt's administration, sold a stuffed bear as Teddy's Bear. This soon caught on and became an industry.

I am afraid of meatloaf

I remeber as a kid looking through my Dad,s record collection and being kind of afraid of MEatloaf's "Bat Out of Hell" Album. As it turned out that record was nothing to be afraid of. It is a perfect example of things that look scary but really should have actually had a picture of meatloaf on it. Meatloaf, after all can be somewhat scary.

World Egg Day

On the second Friday in October the entire world celebrates Egg Day. Thus it is known as World Egg Day. Egg whites make up 67% of the egg's totla liquid volume. When whipped it contains more than half of the egg's total protein, niacin, riboflavin, chlorine, magnesium, potassium, sodium and sulfur. Eggs are super nutritious but contain cholesterol so go easy. Brown eggs are eggs that come from a particular kind of Chicken which happen to be somewhat larger than "White Egg" chickens and as a result eat more. For this reason The eggs cost more. Eggs are eggselent and eggsiting. I am not eggsagerating.

fluffernutter anniversary.

I used to eat these all the time back in the day. I met a couple kids from California and they had never had one before. I brought over a jar and went to town on some official fluffernutters. If you want to go all out use chunky peanut butter and artisian bread. Fluffernutters are not very healthy but they sure taste good. Not recomended for people with peanut allergies or diabetes. One of those foods that have somehow gained legitamcay as actual food but in reality are more like candy bars. Turns out cookiecrisp really is not good for breakfast.

14th anniversary of the Fleet Center (formerly Boston Garden

The last game of the Boston Garden was played in September 0f 1995. It had been built in 1928 by Ted Rickard, the builder of Madison Square Garden. In fact the original name was The Boston Madison Square Garden. It was originally built to host boxing matches for the most part and then became home to the Boston Celtics and Boston Bruins. It was actually smaller than the official size of a NHL Hockey Rink, but was grandfathered in because these regulations hadnot been officiated at the time it bagan hosting hockey games.

German American Day

German Americans are the largest immigrant group in the USA. Between 1840 and 1900, the largest migration of Germans came to this country. What would BBQ's be without Hamburgers and Frankfurters. Hamburg and Frankfurt are both German cities where these foods are named for (respectively). It is no coincidence that the breweries in this country are located in Milwaukee, a city founded by may German Americans.

Smiley Face Anniversary

The smiley face was created in 1963 by a freelance designer named Harvey Ball. In the 1970s was commercialized to sell button, mugs and t-shirts. It is very common for people to include a smiley face in an email by pressing a colon followed by a close parenthsis. Smiling is part of a universal language of facial expressions that infers happiness.

Anniversary of the CD player

The CD player was first introduced in 1982. It initially was made to play music. It allowed the user to skip between tracks and enabled concepts such repeat and shuffle, concepts unheard in music listening via media such as tapes and records. CDs changed the culture of music with the advent of digital media.