National Brownie Day
Official Lost & Found Day *
Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day *
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYSChristianity – Immaculate Conception Day (feast day of belief God preserved Mary from original sin from the moment of conception – Roman Catholic dogma since 1854)
Albania – Dita Kombëtatr e Rinisë
(national youth day)
Falkland Islands – Battle Day
Equatorial Guinea – Patrona de Guinea
(patron saint of Equatorial Guinea)
Guam – Santa Marian Kamalen
(patron saint of Guam)
Kiribati – Human Rights and Peace Day
Macedonia – St. Kliment Ohridski
(patron saint of Macedonia)
Northern Mariana Islands –
Constitution Day
Panama – Mothers Day
Paraguay – Caacupé: Santa María
de Caacupé (festival of the Virgin)
Uzbekistan – Konstitutsiya Kuni
(Constitution day)
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On This Day in HISTORY 877 – Louis the Stammerer, son of Charles the Bald, is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne
1626 – Christina, Queen of Sweden, born
1660 – A woman –likely Margaret Hughes, but possibly Anne Marshall – appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare’s play Othello
1724 – Claude Balbastre born, French composer and notable keyboardist1730 – Jan Ingenhousz born, Dutch physiologist, biologist and chemist; discovered that light is essential to photosynthesis and that plants have cellular respiration
1765 – Eli Whitney born, inventor of the cotton gin
1776 – American Revolution: George Washington’s retreating army crosses the Delaware River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania
1790 – Richard Carlile born, English tinsmith, printer-publisher, advocate for universal suffrage and freedom of the press; publisher of Sherwin’s Political Register and The Republican, journals which reported on political meetings and included extracts from works by supporters of reform; it was shut down by the government after he printed his eye-witness report on the Peterloo massacre, and he was arrested, tried for blasphemy and sedition, sentenced to prison and fined ₤ 1,500, which he refused to pay, so his premises were raided and stock confiscated; he continued to write articles for The Republican from his jail cell, now published by his wife Jane; when she was arrested, his sister Mary took over, who was also arrested. At one time, over 150 men and women were in prison for printing or selling The Republican; when Carlile was finally released, he campaigned against child labor, and in favor of women’s equality, advocating for birth control and women’s sexual emancipation, and was sent back to jail, which ruined him financially; he died after several years of living in extreme poverty
1832 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson born, Norwegian author, playwright and poet; 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature, primarily for his poetry; a staunch supporter of Alfred Dreyfus who wrote many articles proclaiming his belief in Dreyfus’ innocence; wrote the lyrics for the Norwegian National Anthem
1854 – In his Apostolic constitution Ineffabilis Deus, Pope Pius IX proclaims the dogma of Immaculate Conception, that the Blessed Virgin Mary was conceived free of Original Sin
1861 – Aristide Maillol born, French artist
1862 – Georges Feydeau born, French playwright; master of one of theatre’s most difficult forms, the Farce
1863 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln announces plans for Southern Reconstruction
1864 – Camille Claudel born, French sculptor
1886 – At a convention of union leaders in Columbus OH, the American Federation of Labor (AFL) is founded
1886 – Diego Rivera born, Mexican painter and muralist; commissioned by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to to paint a mural at Rockefeller Center in 1932; two years later, after Rivera refused to remove Lenin from the painting, and repaint his portrait of Rockefeller Sr., John Jr. had Man at the Crossroads chiseled off the wall; Rivera painted a slightly different version of it, Man, Controller of the Universe, seen here:
1894 – E. C. “Elzie” Segar born, American cartoonist; creator of Popeye
1897 – Josephine Bell born, British physician, novelist and mystery writer under her birth name, Doris, as Doris Bell Collier; noted for her series featuring Dr. David Wintringham; one of the founders of the Crime Writer’s Association
1911 – Nikos Gatsos born, Greek poet, lyricist, and translator
1913 – Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer; youngest-ever recipient of the Bollingen Prize in 1959, for Summer Knowledge: New and Selected Poems
1914 – The first musical revue featuring a score completely by Irving Berlin, Watch Your Step, opens at NYC’s New Amsterdam Theatre
1919 – Julia Robinson born, American mathematician and theorist; noted for work on decision problems and Hilbert’s 10th problem
1919 – Kateryna Yushchenko born, Ukrainian computer and information research scientist, developed the Address programming language; first woman in the USSR to become a Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences in programming
1922 – Northern Ireland ceases to be part of the Irish Free State
1922 – Jean Ritchie born, American folk song collector, singer-songwriter and mountain dulcimer player, dubbed “The Mother of Folk”; her family, the Ritchies of Perry County, Kentucky, were noted as a “great ballad-singing family” among folk music scholars; her husband was a dulcimer maker 1925 – Sammy Davis Jr. born, African American entertainer famous for singing, dancing and comedy1925 – Carmen Martin Gaite born, Spanish novelist, essayist, and screenwriter
1927 – The Brookings Institution, one of the oldest think tanks in the U.S., is created by merging three organizations founded by philanthropist Robert S. Brookings
1935 – Tatiana Zatulovskaya born in Soviet Russia, chess player, emigrated to Israel; three times Soviet Women’s Champion, and twice Women’s Senior World Champion
1939 – James Galway, world-renowned Irish flute player
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s famous Pearl Harbor Address to Congress and the nation: “Yesterday, December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy…” The U.S. Congress declares war against Japan
1943 – Jim Morrison born, American singer-songwriter and poet; lead singer of The Doors1947 – Margaret J. Geller born, American astrophysicist; noted for work on mapping the nearby universe, and her study of relationships between galaxies and their environment
1949 – The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is established to provide aid to Palestinian refugees who left their homes during the 1948 Palestinian exodus.
1949 – Mary Gordon born, American novelist and literary critic; The Company of Women
1949 – Nancy Meyers born, mainstream American film director-producer and screenwriter
1951 – Bill Bryson born, American essayist, travel and science writer who has lived much of his life in Britain; A Short History of Nearly Everything (2003)
1952 – On I Love Lucy, pregnancy is talked about on a TV show for the first time
1953 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivers his “Atoms for Peace” speech, leading to government program to supply equipment and information on nuclear power to schools, hospitals, and research institutions around the world
1968 – Graham Nash announces formation of Crosby, Stills and Nash three days after he quits the Hollies 1980 – In New York City, Mark David Chapman shoots John Lennon to death, who had autographed an album for Chapman earlier in the day
1984 – In Roanoke, Virginia, a jury finds Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt innocent of libeling Reverend Jerry Falwell with a parody advertisement. However Falwell was awarded $200,000 for emotional distress
1987 – Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories began an intefadeh (uprising)
1987 – U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev sign a treaty to destroy their nations’ arsenals of intermediate-range nuclear missiles
1993 – U.S. President Clinton signs into law the North American Free Trade Agreement.
1994 – In Los Angeles, 12 alternate jurors are chosen for the O.J. Simpson murder trial
1997 – Jenny Shipley sworn in as first female prime minister of New Zealand
1998 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that police could not search a person or their cars after ticketing for a routine traffic violation
1999 – In Memphis, TN, a jury found that in 1968, Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. had been the victim of a vast murder conspiracy, not a lone assassin
2007 – First Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day * created by the Koala Wallop online community
2013 – First celebration of Official Lost & Found Day * – make a list of what’s gone missing, your keys, a hat or sweater, whatever, and try again to track them down. The first Lost and Found office was set up in the city of Paris in 1805
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