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TODAY IS: UN World Teacher’s Day: Participate in this UN holiday that honors the contributions of teachers around the world. ALSO: Child Health Day – Improve Your Home Office Day

BIRTHDAYS

Bil Keane (Family Circus)-87
Daniel Baldwin-49
Michael Andretti -47
Richard Street (The Temptations)-67
Steve Miller-66
Karen Allen -58
Kate Winslet-34
Clive Barker (Director)-57
Harold Faltermeyer -57

TODAY IN HISTORY

1921 1st World Series radio broadcast, Yanks beat Giants 3-0 (World Series #18)
1945 “Meet the Press” premieres on radio
1962 Beatles release their 1st record “Love Me Do”
1970 PBS becomes a network
1974 “I Honestly Love You” by Olivia Newton-John peaks at No. 1.
1982 Unmanned rocket sled reaches 9,851 kph at White Sands, NM
1989 PTL preacher Jim Bakker is convicted in Charlotte, North Carolina, of using his TV show to defraud followers out of $158 million.
1999 Kevin Spacey star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2002 “A Moment Like This” by Kelly Clarkson peaks at No. 1.
2004 Tiger Woods marries Swedish model Elin Nordegren.

SHOW ME THE GUN
Police in Haverhill, Mass. say Adam Alsarabi entered the White Hen Pantry convenience store and demanded money from the clerk, saying he had a gun. The clerk said, OK, but that he had to show her the gun 1st. Adam apparnetly was flustered by the counter demand and fled into some nearby woods where he was pick up by cops. He pleaded not guilty Friday in Haverhill District Court to trespassing, resisting arrest and attempting to commit a crime.

FREE MONEY
Four kids (10-13) found 15,000 euros (22,000 dollars) in a dirty brown envelope on the way into their school in Frankfurt on Tuesday morning. Then the foursome started doling the money out to their friends on the playground, with everyone making plans on how to spend their new found wealth. Police were called and teachers made an appeal to the kid’s conscience to try and collect the cash back: “collecting the money proved to be harder than handing it out,” police said in a statement.

BIG ‘UN
The 27th annual World Pumpkin Confederation competition was held over the weekend in Clarence, NY. and the winner comes in at a whopping 1,040.5-pounds. Mike Matto says the key to his success is water, lots of it.

NO LOITERING IN OUR TOWN
Police in Australia ‘arrested’ a crocodile and locked it up in a cell after it was discovered loitering in a town. Cops in Arrakuluk Territory snag the 7 foot gator saying she was “trying to look innocent.” They kept her in custoday in a cell for 3 days until experts from a crocodile farm came to pick her up.

FISHING DOG
Din Ding likes to swim … and catch fish. Mr. Lin of Wuchang in central China’s Hubei province now has a local celebrity dog on his hand after the dog followed him into the lake for a swim and has been bringing back fish after each swim.

IG-NOBEL AWARDS
The Ignobel awards are a parody on the Nebel prize and highlight some of the less that bright moments in human exisitence:

* The Public Health prize went to Elena Bodnar of Hinsdale, Illinois and colleagues who designed and patented a bra that can be quickly converted into a pair of gas masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.
* Pathologist Stephan Bolliger and colleagues at the University of Bern in Switzerland won for a study they did to determine whether an empty beer bottle does more or less damage to the human skull than a full one in a bar fight. …”Both suffice in breaking the human skull. However, the empty ones are more sturdy,” Bolliger said by e-mail. This is because the pressure of the beer, aided by carbonation, makes a full beer bottle explode quickly.
* Donald Unger of California was honoured for a lifelong, experiment in which he cracked the knuckles of his left hand but never his right for more than 60 years to prove that cracking your knuckles does not cause arthritis.

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