Daily Calendar for Thursday, October 17, 2024

Full Hunter's Moon

Native Americans named October’s Moon the Hunter’s Moon because it was the time to hunt in preparation for winter. Other tribes called it the Travel Moon and the Dying Grass Moon. See ��.com/moon-october for more information!

Can I use pine needles as a plant cover in my garden throughout the winter?

Pine needles are great for insulation. They make a wonderful mulch for perennials, strawberries, and any shrubs and trees that like acid conditions. They also can prevent problems with shallow-rooted plants caused by freezing and thawing.

Spare well and have well.

Basic tools to outfit a home workshop — Part IV: 2-foot framing square, adjustable wrench (about 10 inches long), fine (1/16 inch) nail set, hacksaw with coarse and fine blades, coping saw and blades, and bevel square.

Equinox

When the Sun crosses the celestial equator. This occurs two times each year: Vernal around March 21 and Autumnal around September 23.

You may travel abroad in a carriage whose name read backward or forward is always the same.

Gig (a light, two-wheeled sprung cart pulled by a single horse)

Died

Frederic Chopin (composer) – 1849
Laura Secord (Canadian heroine) – 1868
Julia Ward Howe (author) – 1910
S. J. Perelman (writer) – 1979
Joan Hickson (actress) – 1998
Betty Hill (the woman known as the first lady of UFOs.” Hill and her late husband had the first publicized and best-documented UFO experience”) – 2004
Ray Boone (baseball player) – 2004
Joey Bishop (comedian) – 2007
Levi Stubbs (lead singer of The Four Tops) – 2008

Born

Buck Ewing (first catcher to be elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame) – 1859
Arthur Miller (author) – 1915
Rita Hayworth (actress) – 1918
Tom Poston (actor) – 1921
Jimmy Breslin (columnist) – 1930
Evel Knievel (stunt motorcyclist) – 1938
Michael McKean (actor) – 1947
Margot Kidder (actress) – 1948
George Wendt (actor) – 1948
Mae Jemison (astronaut, physician, professor) – 1956
Alan Jackson (country musician) – 1958

Events

Charles II of England sold Dunkerque to France for 40,000 pounds– 1662
Sam Patch, the Yankee Leaper, jumped 120 feet from a platform atop Niagara Falls into the river below. He survived.– 1829
Al Capone is convicted of income tax evasion by a federal court in Chicago and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939.– 1931
Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the U.S. as a refugee from Nazi Germany– 1933
Huey, Dewey, and Louie (Donald Duck’s nephews) first appeared in a comic strip– 1937
An earthquake 50 miles out at sea shook eastern Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island– 1963
Mother Teresa of India was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.– 1979
Frank Giannino completed his run across the United States. It took him 46 days, 8 hours, and 36 minutes.– 1980
A meteorite chunk struck a house in the San Francisco Bay Area– 2012
Ashrita Furman balanced 100 ice cream scoops on cone– 2013

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Three inches of snow fell on Huntertown, Indiana– 1846

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