Daily Calendar for Wednesday, October 2, 2024

Rosh Hashanah Begins

Rosh Hashanah begins at sundown on this day. Literally “Head of the Year” in Hebrew, Rosh Hashanah is the beginning (first two days) of the Jewish New Year. It is the first of the High Holidays or “Days of Awe,” ending 10 days later with Yom Kippur. This two-day festival marks the anniversary of human’s creation—and the special relationship between humans and God, the creator.

I live in Chicago and have Stargazer lilies in large plastic containers. How should I winterize them?

Dig up the bulbs and store them in ventilated bags (onion sacks) in a cool room out of the sun. Make sure to wrap the bulbs in moist (damp, not wet) newspaper, or put the bulbs in bags of barely moist peatmoss sphagnum. The material must be damp, not wet. If the bulbs are allowed to dry out, they will die. If kept too wet, the bulbs will rot. Check the material (sphagnum/newspaper) every few weeks to re-wet it if necersssary. The cooler you keep the bulbs the better (above freezing).

If you encounter yourself in your dreams, there’s something you need to confront.

Use a cream-type silver polish to remove stains and water marks from marble tabletops.

Right ascension

The celestial longitude of an object in the sky, measured eastward along the celestial equator in hours of time from the vernal equinox; analogous to longitude on Earth.

How do you fix a jack-o’-lantern?

With a pumpkin patch.

Born

Nat Turner (A deeply religious enslaved man who in August 1831 led a violent rebellion of enslaved people in Southampton County, Virginia ) – 1800
Julius von Sachs (botanist) – 1832
Sir William Ramsay (chemist) – 1852
Mahatma Gandhi (Indian spiritual leader) – 1869
Wallace Stevens (poet) – 1879
Groucho Marx (actor) – 1890
Bud Abbott (comedian) – 1895
Alex Raymond (cartoonist, creator of Flash Gordon) – 1909
Jack Finney (author) – 1911
Don McLean (musician) – 1945
Donna Karan (fashion designer) – 1948
Sting (singer) – 1951
Lorraine Bracco (actress) – 1955
Kelly Ripa (actress & television host) – 1970
Tiffany (singer) – 1971

Died

Rock Hudson (actor) – 1985
Adrian Spies (television writer) – 1998
Gene Autry (singer & songwriter) – 1998
Nipsey Russell (actor) – 2005
Tom Petty (musician) – 2017

Events

Brigham Young, Mormon leader, is arrested in Salt Lake City on polygamy charges– 1871
Estimated 7.1 earthquake, Pleasant Valley, Nevada– 1915
President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke leaving him partially paralyzed– 1919
Peanuts cartoon debuted– 1950
Bob Shaw set an NFL record with five touchdown passes– 1950
Alfred Hitchcock Presents made its television debut– 1955
The Twilight Zone premiered– 1959
Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as a U.S. Supreme Court justice– 1967
President Lyndon Johnson signed a bill establishing the Redwood National Park in California– 1968
Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski retired after 3308 major league games, 3419 hits and a .285 lifetime batting average– 1983
Eastern Maine was shook by a magnitude 3.9 earthquake– 2006

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Racer’s Storm - named for the H.M.S. Racer, which had encountered it in the Caribbean - began its rampage of the South near Brownsville, Texas. It was one of the most destructive hurricanes of the 19th century, covering more than 2,000 miles.– 1837
A severe windstorm hit northern California and Oregon, causing crop damage in the Sacramento Valley– 1882

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