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Tuesday October 8, 2013 This is the 281st day of the year, with 84 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: super glue Super glue deserves its name: a one-square-inch bond can hold more than a ton of weight. It was invented by accident in 1942 by Dr. Harry Coover of Kodak Laboratories. The main ingredient in super glue is cyanoacrylate, which bonds almost instantly when exposed to moisture; since there is no moisture inside the bottle or tube of glue, it does not stick to the inside. If you stick your fingers together with super glue, there is no need to panic. The best way to loosen the bond is to use acetone nail polish remover, although soap and warm water and your sweat and natural skin oils will also loosen the bond. A medical form of super glue can be used to close wounds and surgical incisions, and super glue fuming is sometimes used in criminal investigations to detect latent fingerprints. Approximately 90% of U.S. homes have a tube of super glue.
Holidays Feast day of St. Simeon Senex, St. Pelagia (or Margaret) the Penitent, St. Demetrius, St. Keyne, St. Thaïs, St. Marcellus, and St. Reparata of Caesarea.
Peru: Day of the Navy.
Events 1085 - St. Mark's Cathedral in Venice was consecrated.
1840 - King William I of Holland abdicated.
1862 - Union and Confederate forces fought at Perryville, Kentucky in a one-day battle that stopped the South's attempt to bring that border state into the Confederacy.
1871 - The Great Chicago Fire started after a cow reportedly kicked over a lantern in the barn of Mrs. O'Leary. Damage was estimated at $200 million, 90,000 Chicagoans were made homeless, and at least 300 people died.
1871 - One of the most disastrous forest fires in history began at Peshtigo, Wisconsin, burning six counties and killing more than 1,100 people.
1906 - Karl Ludwig Nessler of London demonstrated the first machine to put permanent waves in hair. It was a six-hour process.
1912 - The First Balkan War (against Turkey) began -- from which World War I arose.
1915 - The Battle of Loos, in World War I, ended.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race in the U.S. began; 63 planes competed in the round-trip aerial derby between California and New York. Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard, flying a Havilland-4 with a Liberty motor, won the 5,400-mile race across the continent and back.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant son of Charles A. Lindbergh.
1938 - Norman Rockwell published his famous self-portrait in the "Saturday Evening Post."
1939 - Western Poland was incorporated in the Third Reich.
1945 - President Harry Truman announced that the secret of the atomic bomb would be shared only with Britain and Canada.
1956 - Don Larsen pitched the first (and only, to date) perfect game in the World Series as the New York Yankees beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 2-0.
1970 - Soviet Union author Alexander Solzhenitsyn was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature.
1982 - All labor organizations in Poland, including Solidarity, were banned.
1989 - The Latvian Popular Front announced its intention to seek independence from the USSR.
2004 - Martha Stewart reported to the Alderson Federal Prison in West Virginia to begin serving her sentence for lying about a stock sale.
Births 1810 - James Wilson Marshall, American carpenter and wheelwright, discoverer of gold in the American West.
1838 - John Milton Hay, American diplomat and statesman, poet, and author.
1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker, American fighter pilot in World War I, aviation pioneer, and airlines executive.
1895 - Juan Perón, President of Argentina (1946-1955 and 1973-74).
1941 - Rev. Jesse Jackson, American civil rights leader.
1965 - Christopher Joseph Ward, better known as "C.J. Ramone," an American musician best known as the bassist for punk rock group The Ramones from 1989 to 1996.
Deaths 1869 - Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States of America (1853-1857).
1985 - Leon Klinghoffer was murdered by Palestinian terrorists who hijacked the cruise ship Achille Lauro. Klinghoffer was disabled from a stroke and used a wheelchair for mobility.
1992 - Willy Brandt, West German statesman and chancellor (1969–74), born in Lübeck, Germany.
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