Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Oct.8th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories.
It's National: National Fluffernutter Day Today in History: 1938-G Kaufman & Moss Hart's "Fabulous Invalid" premieres in NYC 1945-Microwave oven patented 1958-Dr Ake Senning installs first pacemaker (Stockholm) 1962-Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN 1964-Ringo Starr passes his driving test 1965-Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest building in England 1986-Mike Scott ties playoff record of 14 strikeouts, beats Mets 1-0 1992-Pioneer Venus Orbiter (1st Venus orbiter-1978), crashes into Venus 1992-Video game Mortal Kombat first released as a 2D fighting game by Midway Games 2003-Peter Agre and Roderick MacKinnon win the 2003 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discoveries concerning channels in cell membranes 2003-Clive Granger and Robert F. Engle awarded Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences “for methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH)” 2004-Kenyan Wangari Maathai is the first African woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize for "her contribution to sustainable development, democracy and peace" 2012-John B. Gurdon and Shinya Yamanaka win the 2012 Nobel Prize for Medicine for their work on reprogramming end stage cells to become pluripotent Celebrities Birthdays: Johnny Ramone [Cummings], American rock guitarist Hamish Stuart, Scottish guitarist and singer Robert Saxton, British classical composer Nick Cannon, American actor and rapper Bruno Mars [Peter Gene Hernandez], American singer Matt Damon, American actor Dylan Neal, American-Canadian actor Jeremy Davies, American actor Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra], American actress Chevy Chase, American comedian and actor Paul Hogan, Australian actor Movies Released on this day: 1927 "The Second Hundred Years" Songs Released on this day: 1971-John Lennon "Imagine" Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend.
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