Daily Calendar for Monday, October 28, 2024

The trees in our New Hampshire town are covered with ugly cocoonlike things that look as if they’re destroying the foliage. What are these?

Most likely you’re seeing the webs of fall webworms. These can appear from late July through October. The caterpillars are greenish yellow with lots of hair and black dots, and they feed on leaves. As feeding continues, their silken webs enlarge to cover the areas they plan to eat. This can indeed make it look as if the tree is being destroyed. Insecticides can control the worms, but each web must be penetrated for success. Infected branches also can be removed and the caterpillar webs destroyed. Bad as the webs may look, however, the damage they cause is usually minimal, and most leaves will return the following spring.

Neither fear to die nor refuse to live.

To clean rust from a woodstove, give it a good scrubbing with a dry wire brush.

Lunar eclipse

The full Moon enters the shadow of Earth, which cuts off all or part of the Moon’s light. Total: The Moon passes completely through the umbra (central dark part) of Earth’s shadow. Partial: Only part of the Moon passes through the umbra. Penumbral: The Moon passes through only the penumbra (area of partial darkness surrounding the umbra).

What is everyone doing at the same time?

Growing older.

Died

John Locke (philosopher) – 1704
Abigail Adams (U.S. First Lady) – 1818
Red Auerbach (basketball coach) – 2006
Porter Wagoner (country music singer) – 2007
Matthew Perry (actor) – 2023

Born

Francis Bacon (painter) – 1909
Dr. Jonas Salk (discovered polio vaccine) – 1914
Cleo Laine (singer) – 1927
Joan Plowright (actress) – 1929
Charlie Daniels (musician) – 1936
Lenny Wilkens (basketball player, coach) – 1937
Jane Alexander (actress) – 1939
Dennis Franz (actor) – 1944
Bill Gates (Microsoft founder) – 1955
Lauren Holly (actress) – 1963
Jami Gertz (actress) – 1965
Julia Roberts (actress) – 1967
Brad Paisley (country singer) – 1972
Joaquin Phoenix (actor) – 1974
Stephen Nedoroscik (Olympic gymnast ) – 1998

Events

Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba and claimed it for Spain– 1492
Harvard College founded in Massachusetts– 1636
The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in the New York Harbor– 1886
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was dedicated by President Cleveland– 1886
St. Louis police became the first in the U.S. to use fingerprinting– 1904
The Jack Benny Show made its television debut– 1950
Ernest Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature– 1954
An X17.2 solar flare occurred that, at the time, was the third most powerful ever recorded– 2003
The Boston Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies to win the World Series– 2007
Mike Lowell of the Boston Red Sox was named World Series MVP– 2007

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Lander, Wyoming, received 27 inches of snow– 1971
The temperature at Big Piney, Wyoming, plunged to -15 degrees F– 1971
The Georgia mountains received five inches of snow– 1973
Cyclone 05B in the Indian Ocean became a Category 5– 1999

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