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Today's Celebrations

All Saints' Day:
Give Up Your Shoulds Day
National Authors' Day
National Family Literacy Day
National Go Cook For Your Pets Day
Prime Meridian Day
Pumpkin Chunkin Days

Celebrity Birthdays

1935 - Gary Player (78) World Golf Hall of Famer: British Open champion [1959, 1968, 1974]; Masters [1961, 1974, 1978]; PGA [1962, 1972]; PGA Seniors [1986, 1988, 1990]; U.S. Senior Open [1987, 1988]

1937 - ‘Whispering’ Bill (James) Anderson (76) songwriter: Still, City Lights, I Missed Me, Happy Birthday to Me; singer: Three Times a Lady, My Life, 8x10; [w/Jan Howard]: For Loving You, If It’s All the Same to You, Someday We’ll Be Together; member of Grand Ole Opry

1953 - Producer-songwriter Keith Stegall (60) is born in Wichita Falls, Texas. Stegall produces Alan Jackson, The Zac Brown Band and Craig Campbell, and writes such hits as "Don't Rock The Jukebox," Mickey Gilley's "Lonely Nights," Glen Campbell's "A Lady Like You" and Mark Wills' "I Do (Cherish You)"

1956 - Singer-songwriter Lyle Lovett (57) is born in Klein, Texas. Following his 1986 debut album, his eclectic music reaches a national audience, making him one of the ambassadors for the Texas red-dirt scene

1963 - Kenny Alphin (50) is born at the Culpeper County Hospital in Culpeper, Virginia. As Big Kenny, he co-founds Big & Rich, a boundary-pushing duo that nets hits with "Lost In This Moment," "Comin' To Your City" and "Save A Horse (Ride A Cowboy)"

Tabloid News

School Shut Down And Kids Hospitalized After Boys Spray Too Much AXE

From Time.com -

It is hardly news that pre-pubescent boys have no idea how to properly administer Axe body spray.
It is news when said inappropriate Axe use causes a school-wide shutdown.
Eight students were hospitalized, and two others were taken to their own doctors, after someone released the especially pungent body spray in a sixth grade classroom at 1 p.m. Emergency crews rushed to Medgar Evers College Preparatory School in Brooklyn to investigate the “hazardous” smell.
This isn’t the first time Axe body spray has terrorized educational facilities.
A Pennsylvania high school had to ban the spray in March after a student was hospitalized after exposure to its fumes. A year earlier, Connecticut high school officials said that a fire alarm went off after a student’s “overabundance” of Axe spraying in a locker room.