Hot Pastrami Day
International Kite Day
Vision Board Day *
National Ratification Day *
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYSHinduism – harvest festival of Makar Sankranti aka Pongal
Abkhazia – Azhirnikhua
(Day of world’s creation)
Bosnia & Herzegovina –
Orthodox New Year
India – Bikaner, Rajastan:
Bikaner Camel Festival
Serbia – Orthodox New Year
Sri Lanka – Tamil Thai Pongal Day
(harvest thanksgiving, new beginnings)
Tunisia – Revolution & Youth Day
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On This Day in HISTORY 83 BC – Marc Antony born, Roman general and politician, who paid a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the autocratic Roman Empire
1301 – Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Hungarian Árpád dynasty; Wenceslaus III of Bohemia, betrothed to Andrew’s only daughter Elizabeth, is elected King of Hungary by the majority of Hungarian lords and prelates
1539 – Spain annexes Cuba
1639 – The “Fundamental Orders,” sometimes considered the first written constitution that created a government, are adopted in Connecticut; the orders state that government is founded on the rights of individuals, including the right of all free men to share in electing their magistrates, and to use secret, paper ballots
1741 – Benedict Arnold born, American Revolutionary War officer and turncoat
1784 – The Treaty of Paris is ratified at the Maryland State House, officially ending the American Revolutionary War – celebrated in the U.S. as National Ratification Day *
1841 – Berthe Morisot born, French painter; one of “les trois grandes dames” of Impressionism with Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt
1873 – John Hyatt’s 1869 invention ‘Celluloid’ is registered as a trademark
1875 – Albert Schweitzer born, Alsatian-German doctor and humanitarian who receives the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize
1878 – Alexander Graham Bell demonstrated the telephone for Britain’s Queen Victoria
1886 – Hugh Lofting born, English author of the Doctor Dolittle books
1904 – Sir Cecil Beaton born, British-American photographer and designer
1905 – Emily Hahn born, American journalist, author, biographer and feminist; her loves of travel and animals greatly influenced her work, a significant chronicle of Asia and Africa in the 1930s and 40s for Western readers
1911 – Roald Amundsen’s South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf
1912 – Tillie Ollsen born, American writer, union organizer, Socialist and feminist; Tell Me a Riddle won the 1961 O. Henry Award for Best American Short Story
1939 – Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
1943 – Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first U.S. President to travel by airplane while in office in order to meet with Britain’s Prime Minister Winston Churchill in Casablanca to review the wartime situation and discuss strategy
1943 – Shannon Lucid born, American biochemist and NASA astronaut; set the records for longest stay in space by an American, and by a woman, on a mission aboard the Mir space station, the only American woman to serve aboard Mir
1950 – The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight
1952 – NBC’s long-running news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway
1953 – Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia
1954 – The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation to form American Motors Corporation
1957 – Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars
1963 – George Wallace sworn in as Alabama’s governor, pledging “segregation forever”
1967 – The Human Be-In, takes place in San Francisco CA Golden Gate Park, inspiring the ‘Summer of Love’
1972 – Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513
1973 – Elvis Presley’s concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, setting a record for most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history
1989 – Paul McCartney releases his album Back In The U.S.S.R. in Russia1994 – U.S. President Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin signed Kremlin Accords to end aiming missiles at any nation; dismantle the Ukrainian nuclear arsenal
1998 – Whitewater prosecutors question Hillary Rodham Clinton about gathering of FBI background files on past Republican political appointees
1998 – In Dallas, researchers report an enzyme slows the aging process and cell death
1999 – The U.S. proposes lifting the U.N. ceilings on the sale of oil in Iraq, if profits are restricted to use in buying medicine and food for the Iraqi people
2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims
2004 – The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called “five cross flag”, is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years
2004 – Enron finance chief Andrew Fastow pleads guilty to conspiracy, accepting a 10-year prison sentence
2005 – A European space probe sends back first detailed pictures of Saturn’s moon, Titan’s frozen surface
2010 – Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda
2010 – The first Vision Board Day * launched to encourage people to put dreams and aspirations up on the wall where they can see them and be reminded of their goals
2015 – Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson complete the first-ever free climb of the Dawn Wall of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park
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