Good Spiritual Sunday, Yonkersites, at 5:46 AM it is partly cloudy and 46 degrees with west winds at 11 mph, 58% humidity, the dew point is 31 degrees, the barometer is 29.8 inches and rising, and the visibility is 10 miles. Sunny for today, a high of 61 degrees with west winds at 10 to 15 mph. Clear skies tonight, a low of 49 degrees with south-west winds at 5 to 10 mph. Sun-up occurs at 6:57 AM and descends gracefully beyond the Palisades at 6:30 PM. You’ll have 11 hours and 33 minutes of available daylight. Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, Population: 89,407. At 5:52 AM EDT Boca Raton is clear and 69 to 72 degrees. Boca Raton will have a mix of sun and clouds today, a high around 85 degrees with north-winds at 10 to 15 mph. Partly cloudy tonight, a low of 68 degrees with north winds at 10 to 15 mph. Flin Flon, Manitoba, Canada, Population: 5,592. At 4:56 AM CDT Flin Flon is clear and 31 to 34 degrees. Flin Flon will be sunny to partly cloudy, a high near 40 degrees with north-west winds at 10 to 20 mph. Becoming cloudy with snow likely overnight, a low of 29 degrees with north-west winds at 10 to 20 mph. The chance of snow is 70% with an accumulation around 1 inch. Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. At 5:00 AM CDT Dothan is clear and 45-46 degrees. Dothan will have plenty of sunshine today, a high of 74 degrees with winds light and variable. Clear skies tonight, a low of 51 degrees with light and variable winds. Today 10/05 In HISTORY (Courtesy of the History Channel) : 1 - 1775 - American Revolution - General George Washington writes to the president of the Continental Congress, John Jay, to inform him that a letter from Dr. Benjamin Church, surgeon general of the Continental Army, to Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Gage, British commander in chief for North America, had been intercepted. Washington wrote, I have now a painful tho a Necessary Duty to perform respecting Doctor Church, Director General of the Hospital. Washington described how a coded letter to a British officer, Major Crane, came into Washingtons possession by a convoluted route from a Woman who was kept by Doctor Church. Washington immediately secured the Woman, but for a long time she was proof against every threat and perswasion[sic] to discover the Author, however at length she was brought to a confession and named Doctor Church. I then immediately secured him and all his papers. The woman Washington interrogated was the mistress of Dr. Benjamin Church, a renowned Boston physician, who was active in the Massachusetts Committee of Safety and served as a member of the Provincial Congress. In July 1775, Washington had named Church the first surgeon general of the Continental Army, only to find out three months later that he had been spying for the British since 1772. Church faced an army court martial on October 4, 1775. Despite Churchs plea of innocence, and the inconsequential nature of the information he provided to Crane, the contents of the letter included Churchs statement of allegiance to the British crown. He was charged with treason, convicted and sentenced to life in prison. After becoming ill while incarcerated, Dr. Church was exiled to the West Indies. The ship in which he traveled is believed to have been lost at sea. On November 7, 1775, shortly after the conviction of Dr. Church, the Continental Congress added a mandate for the death penalty as punishment for acts of espionage to the articles of war. 2 - 1864 - Civil War - After losing the city of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood attacks Union General William T. Shermans supply line at Allatoona Pass, Georgia. Hoods men could not take the Union stronghold, and they were forced to retreat into Alabama. Hood took charge of the Rebel army in late July 1864, replacing the defensive-minded Joseph Johnston. Confederate President Jefferson Davis had been frustrated with Johnstons constant retreating, so he appointed Hood, who was known for his aggressive style. Hood immediately attacked Shermans larger army three times: at Atlanta, Peachtree Creek, and Ezra Church. All of the attacks were unsuccessful, and they destroyed the Confederate armys offensive capabilities. After evacuating Atlanta in early September 1864, Hood planned to draw Sherman back northward. Hood did not have the troop strength to move against Sherman, so he swung west of Atlanta and moved against the railroad that supplied the Yankee army from Chattanooga, Tennessee. At first, this worked well. Retracing Shermans advance on Atlanta, Hoods men began to tear up the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Starting on September 29, the Rebels destroyed eight miles of track and captured 600 prisoners. Hood sent General Alexander Stewarts corps to secure Allatoona, site of a large Federal supply depot. Sherman realized the threat to his lines and dispatched a brigade under General John Corse to secure the area. Corses 2,000 men arrived at Allatoona before one of Stewarts divisions, led by Samuel French, attacked on October 5. French had over 3,000 troops, but the Yankees overcame the difference with their new Henry repeating rifles. French attacked and pushed the Federals back at first, but Allatoona was easily defended. By midday, French realized that he could not take the depot. He withdrew and rejoined Hoods army. French lost 897 men, while the Union lost 706. Realizing that his army was in no shape to fight, Hood took his force west into Alabama. In November, he would invade Tennessee. 3 - 1986 - Iran-Contra Affair - After losing the city of Atlanta, Confederate General John Bell Hood attacks Union General William T. Shermans supply line at Allatoona Pass, Georgia. Hoods men could not take the Union stronghold, and they were forced to retreat into Alabama. Hood took charge of the Rebel army in late July 1864, replacing the defensive-minded Joseph Johnston. Confederate President Jefferson Davis had been frustrated with Johnstons constant retreating, so he appointed Hood, who was known for his aggressive style. Hood immediately attacked Shermans larger army three times: at Atlanta, Peachtree Creek, and Ezra Church. All of the attacks were unsuccessful, and they destroyed the Confederate armys offensive capabilities. After evacuating Atlanta in early September 1864, Hood planned to draw Sherman back northward. Hood did not have the troop strength to move against Sherman, so he swung west of Atlanta and moved against the railroad that supplied the Yankee army from Chattanooga, Tennessee. At first, this worked well. Retracing Shermans advance on Atlanta, Hoods men began to tear up the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Starting on September 29, the Rebels destroyed eight miles of track and captured 600 prisoners. Hood sent General Alexander Stewarts corps to secure Allatoona, site of a large Federal supply depot. Sherman realized the threat to his lines and dispatched a brigade under General John Corse to secure the area. Corses 2,000 men arrived at Allatoona before one of Stewarts divisions, led by Samuel French, attacked on October 5. French had over 3,000 troops, but the Yankees overcame the difference with their new Henry repeating rifles. French attacked and pushed the Federals back at first, but Allatoona was easily defended. By midday, French realized that he could not take the depot. He withdrew and rejoined Hoods army. French lost 897 men, while the Union lost 706. Realizing that his army was in no shape to fight, Hood took his force west into Alabama. In November, he would invade Tennessee. 4 - 1930 - A British dirigible crashes in Beauvais, France, killing 49 people. The blimp, which was Great Britains biggest, had first been launched about a year earlier. 5 - 1969 - Cold War - In an embarrassing breach of the United States air-defense capability, a Cuban defector enters U.S. air space undetected and lands his Soviet-made MiG-17 at Homestead Air Force Base, south of Miami, Florida. The presidential aircraft Air Force One was at the base at the time, waiting to return President Richard M. Nixon to Washington. The base was subsequently put on continuous alert, and it opened a new radar tracking facility to prevent the repetition of a similar incident in the future. 6 - 1974 - American David Kunst completes the first round-the-world journey on foot, taking four years and 21 pairs of shoes to complete the 14,500-mile journey across the land masses of four continents. He left his hometown of Waseca, Minnesota, on June 20, 1970. Near the end of his journey in 1974 he explained the reasons for his epic trek: I was tired of Waseca, tired of my job, tired of a lot of little people who dont want to think, and tired of my wife. During the long journey, he took on sponsors and helped raise money for UNICEF. 7 - 1989 - The Dalai Lama, the exiled religious and political leader of Tibet, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his nonviolent campaign to end the Chinese domination of Tibet. 8 - 1829 - Future President Chester Alan Arthur is born in North Fairfield, Vermont. 9 - 1963 - Vietnam War - Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge reports to President John F. Kennedy from Saigon that South Vietnamese generals are planning a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem. Kennedy and his administration had become increasingly concerned about Diem because of the rising tide of dissent against the Diem regime in South Vietnam. Diem, a Catholic in a predominantly Buddhist nation, refused to institute promised political reforms. He was opposed by numerous factions, not the least of which were the Buddhist priests. Several South Vietnamese generals led by General Duong Van Minh met with CIA operative Lucien Conein to ask for assurances that the United States would not thwart a coup, and that economic and military aid would continue. Kennedy had already come to the conclusion that Diem could never provide the necessary leadership to unite his country against the Communist insurgents. He told Conein to give the South Vietnamese generals the assurances they wanted. Kennedy also warned that, as a representative of the United States, Conein should avoid getting involved with operational details. The coup plotters received additional motivation in the wake of another Buddhist monks self-immolation (on June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc had set fire to himself in protest; his self-immolation was followed by several others) when Diem reacted with intensified political repression, including the arrest of scores of women and children who had marched against the government. Another attempt was made by the Kennedy administration to convince Diem to make the necessary reforms, but once again he refused. There was disagreement among Kennedys advisors as to what to do about Diem; some believed that Diem had to go and others were unsure. Ultimately the president decided to do nothing. In this case, that was tantamount to support of the coup plotters. On November 1, rebel forces seized the radio station and police headquarters while laying siege to the presidential palace. In the early morning hours of the next day, Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu surrendered to representatives from the rebel generals. They were later found murdered in the back of an M-113 armored personnel carrier. What followed was a period of extreme political instability as a series of revolving door governments took turns in an attempt to rule and stem the tide of the ongoing insurgency in the countryside. 10 - 1964 - Vietnam War - Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisconsin), disturbed by growing reports that the Johnson administration is preparing to escalate U.S. operations in Vietnam, states that Congress did not intend the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution to endorse escalation. The resolution had been passed on August 7 in response to what became known as the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Allegedly, North Vietnamese patrol boats had fired on U.S. warships in the waters off North Vietnam on two separate occasions between August 2-4. Though the second attack on August 4 was questionable, the incident provided the motivation for the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. The resolution, which passed unanimously in the House of Representatives and with only two dissenting votes in the Senate, gave the president power to take all necessary measures to repel an armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression. Johnson used the resolution as the basis for his escalation of the war. In 1966, Senator Wayne Morse (D-Oregon) would propose repealing the resolution, but there would be little support to do so at that time. However, as the war progressed, sentiment shifted and Congress repealed the resolution in 1970. 11 - 1915 - World War One - At the request of the Greek prime minister, Eleutherios Venizelos, Britain and France agree on October 5, 1915, to land troops at the city of Salonika (now Thessaloniki), in northern Greece, during World War I. Earlier in the war, David Lloyd George, Britain’s minister of munitions, had argued for sending Allied troops to Salonika instead of the Gallipoli Peninsula; the idea was shelved when the ill-fated invasion of Gallipoli went ahead in the late spring of 1915. In early October of that year, however, Britain and France each agreed to contribute 75,000 troops to establish a base of operations in Salonika, from which they would attempt to aid their battered ally in the Balkans, Serbia, in its struggle against the Central Powers. The expedition had three major drawbacks, however: First, it would conflict with the demands of Gallipoli operation, which was ongoing but locked in a virtual stalemate. Second, such a large Allied force could not be fully established in Salonika until the following January, which would undoubtedly be too late to aid the Serbs. Finally, such an operation would violate the neutrality of Greece. Though many in that country, including Venizelos, favored intervention in the war on the side of the Allies, King Constantine remained steadfastly neutral; married to a relative of Kaiser Wilhelm II, his natural sympathies lay with Germany. Lloyd George, for one, dismissed the idea of a violation of Greek neutrality, arguing disingenuously that there was no comparison between going through Greece and the German passage through Belgium. In fact, a goal of the Salonika expedition, expressed by Lord H.H. Kitchener, the British secretary of war, was to provoke Greece into intervening and aiding Serbia against the Central Powers. Another objective of the operation in October 1915 was to defend Greece against invaders from Bulgaria, which entered the war that same month on the side of the Central Powers. In the end, however, the Anglo-French force began arriving too late to aid the Serbs—the Serbian capital, Belgrade, was evacuated and occupied by the enemy on October 9—and was not strong enough for an aggressive offensive against the Bulgarian invaders. Against the objections of Constantine and his supporters, the Allies remained in Salonika, as yet another front in World War I became bogged down in stalemate over the course of the next year. 12 - 1942 - World War Two - Joseph Stalin, premier and dictator of the Soviet Union, fires off a telegram to the German and Soviet front at Stalingrad, exhorting his forces to victory. That part of Stalingrad which has been captured must be liberated. Stalingrad was a key to capturing the Soviet Union, in many ways as important as capturing Moscow itself. It stood between the old Russia and the new, a center of both rail and river communications, industry and old-world Russian trade. To preserve Stalingrads integrity was to preserve Russian civilization past and present. As the Germans reached the Volga, thrust and counterthrust brought the battle to a standstill. Everyone from Russian factory workers to reinforcements of more than 160,000 Soviet soldiers poured into Stalingrad to beat back the German invader. Despite dwindling supplies, such as tanks and troop reserves, Hitler would not relent, convincing himself that the Russians could not hold out for long. But Stalin appealed not only to Russian patriotism but also to Allied armaments. Requests to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill for aid had not gone unheeded, as five British merchant ships arrived in northern Russia, loaded with supplies. 13 - 1947 - President Harry Truman (1884-1972) makes the first-ever televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in order to help starving Europeans. At the time of Trumans food-conservation speech, Europe was still recovering from World War II and suffering from famine. Truman, the 33rd commander in chief, worried that if the U.S. didnt provide food aid, his administrations Marshall Plan for European economic recovery would fall apart. He asked farmers and distillers to reduce grain use and requested that the public voluntarily forgo meat on Tuesdays, eggs and poultry on Thursdays and save a slice of bread each day. The food program was short-lived, as ultimately the Marshall Plan succeeded in helping to spur economic revitalization and growth in Europe. In 1947, television was still in its infancy and the number of TV sets in U.S. homes only numbered in the thousands (by the early 1950s, millions of Americans owned TVs); most people listened to the radio for news and entertainment. However, although the majority of Americans missed Trumans TV debut, his speech signaled the start of a powerful and complex relationship between the White House and a medium that would have an enormous impact on the American presidency, from how candidates campaigned for the office to how presidents communicated with their constituents. Each of Trumans subsequent White House speeches, including his 1949 inauguration address, was televised. In 1948, Truman was the first presidential candidate to broadcast a paid political ad. Truman pioneered the White House telecast, but it was President Franklin Roosevelt who was the first president to appear on TV--from the Worlds Fair in New York City on April 30, 1939. FDRs speech had an extremely limited TV audience, though, airing only on receivers at the fairgrounds and at Radio City in Manhattan. The four day Extended Yonkers Weather Forecast is: Monday, mostly sunny, 0% chance of rain, 69/60; Tuesday, partly cloudy, 20% chance of rain, 71/60; Wednesday, partly cloudy, 20% chance of rain, 73/50; and Thursday, sunny, 0% chance of rain, 66/52. Yesterday in MLB action in the NLDS the Giants edged the Nationals 2-1 in a marathon 18 inning game to take a 2-0 lead in their series, the Dodgers topped the Cardinals 3-2 to even their series at 1 apiece. Today in the ALDS the Tigers host the Orioles and the Angels visit the Royals. Academy football: Air Force beat Navy 30-21 while Army defeated Ball State 33-24. NHL Exhibition: The Devils beat the Rangers 3-0, Det 4-Bos 3 (SO), CLB 3-Nas 2, TB 4-Fla 1. Ott 4-Mtl 2, WPG 4-CGY 1, Min 5-StL 4 OT, Van 3-Edm 2, Ana 2-SJ 1. Tonight Car vs Was to end the pre-season. NFL: The Falcons take on the Giants at MetLife at 1:00 PM on FOX. Today is Spiritual Sunday, give an extra special thank you to the people who must work on this day, not everyone gets to relax on the weekends. Remember to pray for comfort for the sick, for our nation, the world, and for guidance for our politicians to make the correct decisions in the governance of the people. I hope everyone gets a chance to see family today, but if not - just give them a call and see how they are doing. Have a beautiful Sunday and as always keep safe, (P)ray (U)ntil (S)omething (H)appens, and keep smiling!
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