Albariño (wine) Day
Coloring Book Day
Earth Overshoot Day *
Ice Cream Sandwich Day
Take a Penny/Leave a Penny Day
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYSBarbados – Bridgetown: Crop Over Week
(cane harvest festival)
Costa Rica – Virgen de los Angeles
(Patron Saint- Our Lady of the Angeles)
Macedonia – Ilinden and Republic Day **
Spain – Ibiza: Amnesia Ibiza Fest (Wk 6)
Sri Lanka – Kandy: Dalada Maligawa
(Buddha’s Tooth Festival)
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On This Day in HISTORY338 BC – Phillip II’s Macedonian army defeats combined forces of Athens and Thebes
216 BC – Hannibal’s Carthaginian army wins Battle of Cannae against Romans
1610 – Henry Hudson sails into the bay which will be named after him
1754 – Pierre-Charles L’Enfant born in France, American engineer, architect and city planner; initial designer of Washington DC
1775 – Josè Angel Lamas born, Venezuelan composer1776 – Continental Congress delegates begin signing the Declaration of Independence
1790 – The first U.S. census begins
1798 – British Royal Navy under Horatio Nelson defeats Napoleon in Battle of the Nile
1824 – Fifth Avenue is opened in New York City
1834 – Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi born, French sculptor; Statue of Liberty designer
1835 – Elisha Gray born, co-founder of Western Electric Manufacturing Company; develops a telephone prototype
1858 – Sir Arthur Bliss, English composer-conductor – for classical orchestral, ballet and films; BBC Director of Music during WWII; 1950s Master of the Queen’s Music1858 – The first mailboxes are installed along streets in Boston and New York City
1858 – Catharina van Rennes born, Dutch composer and music educator; composed music for the International Alliance meeting of the Woman’s Suffrage movement1866 – Charles Francis Adams III (“Deacon”) born, Massachusetts Historical Society president, heads campaign to restore the USS Constitution and open her to the public; skipper of 1920 America’s Cup defender Resolute; U.S. Secretary of the Navy (1929-1933); great-grandson of John Quincy Adams
1869 – Japan’s Shinōkōshō class system is abolished during Mejii Restoration
1870 – Tower Subway, world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London
1871 – John French Sloan born, American painter, etcher and lithographer
1873 – Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating first cable car line in San Francisco
1876 – “Wild Bill” Hickok is shot dead while playing poker in a Deadwood, SD saloon
1878 – Aino Kallas born, notable Finnish-Estonian author, who wrote in both Finnish and English
1884 – Romulo Gallegos born, Venezuelan novelist and politician; first cleanly-elected president of Venezuela in its history (1947), but only served from February to November 1948, then overthrown by a military coup d’état and went into exile until 1958, when he was awarded Venezuela’s National Literature Prize for La doncella
1887 – Rowell Hodge patents barbed wire
1892 – Charles Wheeler patents the first escalator
1896 – Sarah Tilghman Hughes born, American federal judge, first woman to swear in a U.S. President, Lyndon Johnson, after John F. Kennedy was assassinated
1903 – The Ilinden *–Preobrazhenie Uprising against the Ottoman Empire begins
1907 – Mary Hamman born, American writer and editor, worked for LIFE magazine
1918 – Canada’s first general strike begins in Vancouver BC
1923 – V.P. Calvin Coolidge becomes U.S president when Warren G. Harding dies
after the sudden death of President Warren G. Harding on August 2, 1923 1924 – James Baldwin is born, author and playwright; The Fire Next Time
1925 – John Dexter born, distinguished British stage and opera director at the National Theatre, the Royal Opera, Covent Garden, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York
1929 – Fats Waller records “Ain’t Misbehavin”1932 – American Carl D. Anderson discovers the positron (the electron antiparticle)
1934 – Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany
1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act effectively renders marijuana illegal
1939 – Albert Einstein signs letter to FDR urging U.S. atomic weapons research
1943 – Jewish uprising fails at Nazi Treblinka extermination camp
1944 – The Republic * of Macedonia is declared
1955 – The USSR tests a nuclear device in Kazakhstan
1962 – Robert Zimmerman legally changes his name to Bob Dylan
1964 – North Vietnamese may have fired on USS Maddox in Gulf of Tonkin
1967 – In the Heat of the Night, starring Sidney Poitier and Rod Steiger premieres1972 – The price of gold reaches a new record of $70 an ounce in London
1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to Commonwealth of Nations after democracy restored
1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, and President George H.W. Bush orders U.S. troops to Saudi Arabia
1999 – The Sixth Sense premieres, starring Bruce Willis and Haley Joel Osment2006 – The first Earth Overshoot Day * is launched in October by the New Economics Foundation, now co-sponsored by the Global Footprint Network; the day when humanity’s demand on the planet’s ecological resources exceeds what the Earth will generate in that year, creating an ever-growing deficit in resources, and an escalating excess of waste byproducts, such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In 2017, today is the day we exceed this year’s resources
2007 – Mattel recalls almost a million Chinese-made toys because of lead contaminants
2011 – President Obama signs legislation to avert an unprecedented national default
2016 – The U.S. Military announces an ongoing airstrike campaign against ISIS, focusing on Sirte in Libya, with the approval of the Libyan ‘unity government’, one of the three competing governments claiming to be Libya’s legitimate government
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