September 10th is

Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day*

International Drive Your Studebaker Day *

National Hot Dog Day

National Swap Ideas Day

World Suicide Prevention Day *
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MORE! Nathan Hale, Simón Bolivar and TV’s Gunsmoke, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Eid al-Adha, Feast of the Sacrifice, Muslim holiday honoring Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son at God’s command

Belize – Saint George’s Caye Day

China – Teacher’s Day

Egypt – Wakfet Arafat

Gibraltar – National Day

India –Baba Sri Chand Ji Birthday

Malaysia – State Public Holiday

Spain – Sant Antoni de Portmany:
The Zoo Project Ibiza

Turkey – Kurban Bayramy Holiday

United Kingdom –
Petersfield: Butserfest

United States –
Brooklyn NY: Brooklyn Kite Festival
Seattle WA: Night Market & Autumn Moon Festival

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On This Day in HISTORY

1509 – An earthquake, known as “The Lesser Judgement Day,” hits Constantinople

1570 – Spanish Jesuits attempt to establish a mission near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay in what they call Ajacán (present-day Virginia), but they are killed by local Native Americans five months later

1515 – Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal

1608 – John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown VA council

1776 – Nathan Hale volunteers to spy on the British for the Continental Army

1823 – Simón Bolivar is named president of  Peru

1862 – Rabbi Jacob Frankel becomes the first Jewish U.S. Army chaplain

1898 – Empress Elisabeth of Austria is stabbed to death by an Italian anarchist

1913 – The Lincoln Highway opens, the first paved coast-to-coast U.S. highway

1937 – Nine nations meet at the Nyon Conference to discuss the international piracy problem in the Mediterranean

1953 – Swanson sells its first “TV dinner”

1955 – Western series Gunsmoke premieres on CBS television, then airs for 20 years, with a record 635 episodes

1960 – Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia wins the marathon at the Rome Olympics, running barefoot, the first of his nation to win a medal at the Olympic games

1964 – The Kinks single “You Really Got Me” hits #1 in the UK

1966 – The Beatles album Revolver is #1 on the U.S. album chart, while The Supremes are #1 on the U.S. singles chart with “You Can’t Hurry Love”

1967 – Gibraltar voters choose to remain a British dependent instead of part of Spain

1968 – “Hey Jude” is #1 on the UK singles chart for The Beatles

1974 – Guinea-Bissau becomes independent from Portugal

1977 – A convicted torturer-murderer is the last person executed in France by guillotine

1981 – Farmer Dennis Higashiyama of Quincy WA decided that too many consumers had no idea where their food really came from, so he founded Farmer-Consumer Awareness Day * to invite the public to see how crops get from farm fields to processing plants on the way to their kitchens

1996 – Walmart bans Sheryl Crow’s second album because of this lyric: “Watch out sister/Watch out brother/Watch our children as they kill each other/with a gun they bought at the Wal-Mart discount stores”  in the song “Love is A Good Thing”

2002 – Switzerland, a long-time neutral country, joins the United Nations

2003 – The International Association for Suicide Prevention and the World Health organization join together to launch World Suicide Prevention Day *

2008 – The Large Hadron Colider at CERN, “largest scientific experiment in history” powers up in Geneva, Switzerland

2009 – First ‘Drive Your Studebaker Day’ * sponsored by the Studebaker Drivers Club

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Visuals

• Vintage Studebakers
• International flags
• Cardinal Wolsey at Christ Church (1610) by Sampson Strong
• Uncredited artist’s drawing of the assassination of Empress Elisabeth
• Gunsmoke with Marshall Dillon
• Abebe Bikila of Ethiopia in the 1960 Rome Olympics
• Album cover of The Beatles Revolver
• Harvesting tomatoes
• Large Hadron Colider at CERN
• Fozzie Bear and Muppets in his Studebaker

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