Today in History...Sept 30th

[Prerunner1982]

Events:
1882 – The world's first commercial hydroelectric power plant (later known as Appleton Edison Light Company) begins operation on the Fox River in Appleton, Wisconsin, United States.
1888 – Jack the Ripper kills his third and fourth victims, Elizabeth Stride and Catherine Eddowes.
1901 – Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
1927 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 60 home runs in a season
1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
1941 – World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre. According to the Einsatzgruppen Operational Situation Report No. 101, at least 33,771 Jews from Kiev and its suburbs are killed at Babi Yar on September 29 – 30, 1941.
1945 – Bourne End rail crash, Hertfordshire, England killed 43
1947 – The World Series, featuring the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Dodgers, is televised for the first time.
1954 – The U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus is commissioned as the world's first nuclear reactor powered vessel.
1955 – Film icon James Dean dies in a road accident at age 24.
1968 – The Boeing 747 is rolled out and shown to the public for the first time at the Boeing Everett Factory.
1971 - The Soviet Union and the United States signed pacts that were aimed at avoiding an accidental nuclear war.
1971 - A committee of nine people was organized to investigate the prison riot at Attica, NY. 10 hostages and 32 prisoners were killed when National Guardsmen stormed the prison on September 13, 1971.
1975 – The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache makes its first flight
1976 - California enacted the Natural Death Act of California. The law was the first example of right-to-die legislation in the U.S.
1977 – Because of US budget cuts and dwindling power reserves, the Apollo program's ALSEP experiment packages left on the Moon are shut down.
1982 – Cyanide-laced Tylenol kills six people in the Chicago area. Seven are killed in all. The incident is known as the Tylenol murders.
1993 – An earthquake hits India's Latur and Osmanabad district of Marathwada (Aurangabad division) in Maharashtra state leaving tens of thousands of people dead and many more homeless.
1994 – Aldwych tube station (originally Strand Station) of the London Underground closed upon September 30th, after eighty-eight years of service.
1999 – Japan's worst nuclear accident at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai-mura, northeast of Tokyo.
2004 – The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo.
2004 – The AIM-54 Phoenix, the primary missile for the F-14 Tomcat, is retired from service. Almost two years later, the Tomcat is retired.

Births:
1917 – Buddy Rich, American big band drummer (d. 1987)
1926 – Robin Roberts, American baseball player
1931 – Angie Dickinson, American actress
1932 – Johnny Podres, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1935 – Johnny Mathis, American singer
1945 – Bob Lassiter, American radio personality
1948 – Craig Kusick, American baseball player
1953 – Deborah Allen, American singer
1954 – Barry Williams, American actor
1954 – Patrice Rushen, American musician
1957 – Fran Drescher, American actress
1958 – Marty Stuart, American musician
1961 – Crystal Bernard, American actress
1963 – David Barbe, American musician (Sugar)
1964 – Trey Anastasio, American musician (Phish)
1964 – Robby Takac, American singer and bassist (Goo Goo Dolls)
1969 – Chris Von Erich, American professional wrestler (d. 1991)
1972 – Jamal Anderson, American football player
1974 – Jeremy Giambi, American baseball player
1978 – Candice Michelle, American female wrestler
1981 – Dominique Moceanu, American gymnast
1981 – Brandon Watson, American baseball
1982 – Seth Smith, American baseball player
1982 – Tory Lane, American nude model, exotic dancer, and pornographic actress
1983 – Adam Jones, American football player

[95cherokee]

thats alot of info but doesent hurt to now

[SMXJ]

Love it. When they found the giant squid it blew my mind. The oceans huge.

[2000XJ]

Wow, lots 'o bdays today.

[flawlesslydisturbed]

I remember that. Hard to believe we didn't find them until 04. Makes you wonder what else is out there that we haven't found yet.......Bigfoot maybe. lol

[Prerunner1982]

Bigfoot in Ohio- Reports for Ohio

Oh.. he's out there.

[flawlesslydisturbed]

Some of the locals here swear they have seen Bigfoot. The only thing I have seen, out of the norm, is a very large cat of some sort. Not a Bobcat because it had a tail that looked three feet long. I've seen it twice in five years but never close enough to tell exactly and both times it was early in the morning just before dawn.

[Prerunner1982]

Something like this?

[flawlesslydisturbed]

Could be. I was over 200 yards away both times I saw it, looked jet black.
I could tell it was bigger because it was running across the road and the length of the cat was over half the length of one lane, around four feet. Did that make sense? lol It was fast and seemed to be crouched down as it ran so that leads me to believe it wasn't a dog.

[Prerunner1982]

Black Panther... AKA Mountain Lion or Puma.

[flawlesslydisturbed]

Looks more like what I saw.

A lot of people around here say that's what it is but the "experts" say it isn't.
I have talked to forest rangers, while deer hunting, and they say there is no evidence of big cats in this area. I beg to differ. I just don't want to run into one unarmed while mushroom hunting, camping or hiking. Looks like that thing could f*** a man up.

[Prerunner1982]

They are not native to your are, but you never know someone may have tried to have it as a pet and let it go. If there is only one the evidence maybe isolated or bio-degraded by the time someone comes through the area.

[flawlesslydisturbed]

Very true. Kinda like the Boa's in the Everglades.
I'm sure it would be hard to track down. They look pretty elusive. Thanks for the pics.

[Prerunner1982]

The mountain lion (first pic) would be more likely to be seen though still not native to your area.

My father is a long distance trail runner in CO, and though they have had some mountain lions in town I don't think he has ever come across one on the trail. He does advise to not where bells (or noisy equipment) as this will only give the cats a way to track you. And if you have ever had a house cat, they love bells.