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Today is: I’m Not Going To Take It Anymore Day: Stand firm, stand strong and refuse to be a victim any longer. Today is the day to assert to the world that you are not going to take it any longer!

BIRTHDAYS

William Peter Blatty (The Exorcist)-82
Kathy Valentine (The Go-Gos)-51
Jann Wenner (Rolling Stone publisher)-64
Kenny Loggins-62
Nicolas Cage-46
John Ondrasik (Five For Fighting)-45
David Caruso -54
Dustin Diamond (Saved by the Bell: Screech)-33
Katie Couric-53

TODAY IN HISTORY

1785 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)
1789 1st national (Presidential) election in US
1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing
1927 Harlem Globetrotters play 1st game (Hinckley IL)
1929 “Buck Rogers”, 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres
1929 “Tarzan”, one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears
1934 “Flash Gordon” comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1982 “Fame” premieres on NBC TV
1990 The Leaning Tower of Pisa closes to the public after leaning too far.

HOOD ORNAMENT
Corrine Hines-Smith was upset with her boyfriend when she got in her car and sped off. Jerome Simmons had jumped on the hood trying to stop her. She reached speeds of 60 MPH before police pulled her over with Jerome on the hood. Hines-Smith was arrested for aggravated assault. Simmons was unharmed.

SORRY BRO
A Bay County Fl. thief had some remorse for his crime. The thief took $550 worth of tools from the back of a pickup truck left a note apologizing for the crime. “Sorry, bro times are hard. But I cant take food out UR familys mouth Im so sorry.” The theft was $550 worth of tools from the back of a pickup truck including a chain saw and tool set.

GRAND THEFT AUTO RECORD
A Tennessee man said he broke a Guinness World Record for playing “Grand Theft Auto IV” to raise money for the nonprofit swimming team he coaches. David Scherer, 19, of Clarksville, an assistant coach for parent-run team The Swimming Eagles, finished playing the popular video game Tuesday after 55 hours, shattering the 40-hour, 20-minute record set by Chirantan Patnaik of India.

SWIMMING STEER
Walter is a 6 year old steer described as an escape artist. Well he wandered out of his pasture and straight into the deep end of Becky Freson’s swimming pool. Fortunately they were able to rope him and empty the pool while coaxing Walter to the shallow end of the pool. Freson said the steer, which she described as an “escape artist,” appeared to be uninjured and was warmed by fresh blankets after he calmed down a bit.

DANGEROUS POLE DANCING
Sue Ann Wee is suing a Manhattan gym over a pole-dancing injury. Wee charges she slid down a pole and fell on the floor during a class at a Crunch fitness center. She says there wasn’t proper oversight.

USELESS TRIVIA

Congress voted to raise the minimum wage on October 26, 1949 from 40 cents an hour to 75 cents an hour.

In February 1887 Oregon was the first state in the nation to recognize Labor Day as a legal holiday. It was followed later the same year by Colorado, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York.

The hymn “Autumn,” (by Francois Barthelemon) was being played by the band while the Titanic was sinking; not “Nearer My God To Thee,” as is popularly believed.

Annie Oakley (known as “Little Miss Sure Shot”) had all her gold medals melted down, then sold the gold and gave the money to charity.

Most people answered the telephone when it was first introduced at the end of the nineteenth century by using the word “Ahoy.” Thomas Edison later suggested replacing it with a simple “Hello.”

IMPOSSIBLE QUESTION:

Q..According to Scholastic, the first one of these was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1968. It was originally called the “X-Y Position Indicator”. What is it better known as today?

A..Computer mouse

WINNER: Jimmy of Brook Park