Fred Hollows, doughnuts and the weather

Video and photos by Rosalie Liddle Crawford.

Good morning today is Friday October 19 2018.

It's a three-clothing layer day today with a high of 18 and an overnight low of 8 degrees. Humidity is 65 per cent.

Low tide is at 9.10am and high tide at 3.30pm.(Tay Street times). There's a sea swell of 0.3m and the water temperature is 16 degrees. Sunset today is at 7.32pm.

If you're going fishing, the next best fish bite time is between 8 and 10pm.

In NZ history this day in 1966 President Lyndon Johnson's 24-hour visit was aimed at shoring up support for the war in Vietnam. Protesters were outnumbered by enthusiastic crowds.

In 1992 the Fred Hollows Foundation was launched in New Zealand. The foundation was established in Australia by the Kiwi-born ophthalmologist to treat eye problems in poorer countries. Within six years 200,000 people had their sight restored through cataract surgery.

In world history on this day in 1216 King John of England died and was succeeded by his nine-year-old son Henry.

In 1739 England declared war on Spain over borderlines in Florida. The war is known as the War of Jenkins' Ear because the Spanish coast guards cut off the ear of British seaman Robert Jenkins.

In 1914 the German cruiser Emden captured her thirteenth Allied merchant ship in 24 days. In 1917 the first doughnut was fried by Salvation Army volunteer women for American troops in France during World War I.

In 1949 the People's Republic of China was formally proclaimed. In 1954 Egypt and Britain concluded a pact on the Suez Canal, ending 72 years of British military occupation. Britain agreed to withdraw its 80,000-man force within 20 months, and Egypt agreed to maintain freedom of canal navigation. In 2005 former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's trial for crimes against humanity began in Baghdad.

Today is the birthday of Alice Josephine McLellan Birney, child welfare worker whose ideas evolved into the PTA. She worked tirelessly to reform child labour laws, and to promote hot lunch programmes, mandatory immunization and a public health service for children. Born in 1858, she once said "Let us have no more croaking as to what cannot be done. Let us see what can be done, and above all, see what is done.”

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Have a great day!

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