Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day
Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day *
Madame Curie Day *
International Merlot Day
Journée Très Absurde * (Very Absurd Day)
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYSAustralia – Melbourne VIC:
Melbourne Cup Day
Bangladesh – Revolution Day
Belarus – October Revolution Day
Hungary – Opera Day
Kyrgyzstan – Social Revolution Day
Russia – Accord & Reconciliation Day
Senegal – Grand Magal de Touba
(Pilgrimage to the city of Touba)
Transdniestria – October Revolution Day
Tunisia – Commemoration Day
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On This Day in HISTORY680 – Sixth Ecumenical Council of Orthodox, Catholic and other Christian leader meets in Constantinople to condemn as heresy the idea that Jesus Christ has single energy and will instead of two energies and two wills (divine and human)
994 – Ibn Ḥazm, also called al-Andalusī aẓ-Ẓāhirī, born in Córdoba (now in Spain) Andalusian poet, historian, philosopher and theologian; leading proponent/codifier of Zahiri school of Islamic thought; a leading thinker of the Muslim world; pioneer in comparative religious studies
1492 – The Ensisheim meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, hits Earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published
1775 – John Murray, Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore’s Offer of Emancipation, to free slaves who abandon their colonial masters to fight with the British
1786 – Stoughton Music Society, oldest U.S. performing musical organization, founded
1837 – Abolitionist Elijah P. Lovejoy is shot dead by a mob in Alton IL, while attempting to protect his printing press from being destroyed a third time
1867 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, is born, winner of two Nobel Prizes for her work on radioactivity – Madame Curie Day *
1872 – Leonora von Stosch Speyer, Lady Speyer, born in America, poet who won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her book Fiddler’s Farewell; played violin professionally before her first marriage, which ended in divorce; her second husband was Sir Edgar Speyer, a British banker
1874 – Thomas Nast’s cartoon, published in Harper’s Weekly, is considered the first important use of an elephant as a symbol for the Republican Party
1878 –Lise Meitner born in Austria-Hungary, Austrian-Swedish physicist; co-leader with Otto Hahn of the scientists who discovered the nuclear fission of uranium when it absorbed an extra neutron, a process which was the basis of the WWII nuclear weapons developed by the U.S. at Los Alamos
1879 –Leon Trotsky born, Russian theorist and politician, founder of the Red Army
1884 – “Cissy” Eleanor Medill Patterson born, editor and publisher of the Washington Times-Herald; early crusader for home rule for the District of Columbia; novelist, Glass Houses and Fall Flight
1885 – Canadian Pacific Railway, Canada’s first transcontinental railway is completed at the Last Spike ceremony at Craigellachie, British Columbia
1893 – Margaret Leech born, American historian and fiction writer; won the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in History in 1942 for Reveille in Washington, the first woman to win for history, and again in 1960 for In the Days of McKinley, also awarded the Bancroft Prize; married to Ralph Pulitzer, Joseph Pulitzer’s son
1893 – Women in Colorado are granted the vote, the second U.S. state to do so
1901 – Norah McGuinness born, Irish painter and illustrator
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reported killed in Bolivia
1909 –Ruby Hurley, American Civil Rights leader; administrator for the NAACP, setting up and running their first office in the Deep South, in Birmingham AL; was on the committee that helped arrange the venue change for Marian Anderson to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, after she was barred by the DAR from singing at Constitution Hall because of her race
1910 – The Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse undertake the first air freight shipment, from Dayton to Columbus in Ohio
1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio 1913 – Albert Camus born, French philosopher and author, 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature, Journée Très Absurde *
1914 – The New Republic publishes its first issue
1914 – R.A. Lafferty born, American writer, primarily of scifi and fantasy; Past Master, The Devil is Dead, Aurelia
1915 – M. Athalie Range, born in the Bahamas, American Civil Rights activist and Florida politician; first black person to serve on the Miami City Commission, and African-American since Reconstruction, and first woman, to head a Florida state agency, the Department of Community Affairs
1916 – Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress
1917 – Gregorian calendar date of the October Revolution, named for the Julian calendar date, 25 October. On this day, the Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace
1918 – The influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing about 20% of the population by the end of the year
1919 – Ellen Stewart born, influential American theatre director-producer, founder of La MaMa, an experimental theatre company in NYC, which produced the first plays of many new playwrights, including Sam Shepard, Lanford Wilson, and Harvey Fierstein, and gave actors like Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Bette Midler some of their first roles
1921 – Susanne Hirzel born, a German music student who became a member of the White Rose, an anti-Nazi resistance group; she was arrested and convicted in 1943 of distributing leaflets, but sentenced to six months in prison, because the prosecution was unable to establish that she had knowledge of the leaflets’ contents; after 1945, she became a cello teacher, and wrote a series of books on cello technique
1922 – Al Hirt born, American trumpet player and bandleader 1926 – Joan Sutherland, Australian-Swiss soprano, is born1929 – In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public
1933 – Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City
1937 – Mary Dalheim born, American journalist and historical romance and mystery author; noted for the Bed & Breakfast series; nominated for an Agatha Award for her first mystery, Just Desserts
1939 – Barbara Liskov, American computer scientist; one of the first U.S. women to be granted a doctorate in computer science; Turing Award winner for the Liskov substitution principle; Institute Professor at MIT
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as U.S. President
1944 – Hannah Szenes, Hungarian Jewish poet; at age 23, she is one of 37 Mandate Palestine paratroopers dropped into Hungary by the British Army during WWII to rescue Hungarian Jews about to be deported to Auschwitz; she is arrested near the Hungarian border, imprisoned and tortured, but refuses to reveal any details of her mission, and after a pro forma trial, is executed by firing squad on this day. A national heroine of Israel, where her poetry is widely known; Israel Hatzeira headquarters and several streets are named for her
1962 – Poor loser Richard Nixon, defeated in his race for governor of California, tells reporters, “You won’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”
1967 – Carl B. Stokes is elected mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, the first African American mayor of a major American city
1967 – LBJ signs the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1972 – Richard Nixon is re-elected U.S president
1973 – U.S. Congress overrides Nixon’s veto of the War Powers Resolution, limiting presidential power to wage war without congressional approval
1979 – The Rose, movie starring Bette Midler, premieres in Los Angeles CA
1987 – Singapore’s first Mass Rapid Transit line opens
1990 – Mary Robinson elected as the first woman president of the Republic of Ireland
1991 – Magic Johnson announces he has tested positive for the AIDS virus and is retiring from basketball
1994 – WXYC, student radio station of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, does the world’s first internet radio broadcast
1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor
2000 – George W. Bush is put in the White House on a partisan vote of the Supreme Court, after a month of controversy over election results in Florida
2000 – Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the U.S. Senate (D-NY), the first First Lady to win public office
2009 – The Democratic-controlled House narrowly passes, 220-215, the ACA, landmark health care legislation expands coverage to tens of millions without insurance, placing tough new restrictions on the insurance industry
2015 – Terry Simons starts Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day *
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