Hingham Public Library Trustees, Fall Sale & Wine Tasting

1. The Hingham Public Library Trustees-Operations Committee meets at 10 a.m. at the library.

2. There is a Fall Sale & Wine Tasting at Andrea Savoy at 4 p.m. Friday. Click here for more information. 

3. Activities today at the Senior Center include:

8:30-10:30 Coffee Shop

9:00 Men’s Cribbage

9:30 “Slammers”

10:00 Discovery -Discussing theNew Yorker

11:00-2:00 The Upside of Downsizing

1:00 Drop-in Mah Jongg

4. There is a chance of showers after 3 p.m. today, with a high around 75 degrees, according to the National Weather Service. Chance of showers tonight, low around 54.

5. On this day in 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first man-made satellite, Sputnik, into outer space.

How about this for foresight, from a New York Times article at the time: "Military experts have said that the satellites would have no practicable military application in the foreseeable future. ... Nor could they be used in connection with the proposed plan for aerial inspection of military forces around the world."