September 13th is
International Chocolate Day
Peanut Day
Defy Superstition Day
Fortune Cookie Day
Positive Thinking Day
Roald Dahl Day *
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MORE! Howard Hughes, NYC Marathon and Desmond Tutu, click
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
Muslim Eid al-Adha festivals
continue world-wide
Argentina – Librarian’s Day
Peru – Mahuayani:
Qoyllur Rit’i (Star Snow Festival)
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On This Day in HISTORY
1583 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer, is born
1584 – San Lorenzo del Escorial Palacio is completed near Madrid
1789 – The U.S. Government took out its first loan
1814 – Frances Scott Key is inspired to write his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”
1898 – Hannibal W. Goodwin patented celluloid film, used to make movies
1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the U.S. killed in an automobile accident
1916 – Roald Dahl, * author of James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is born in Wales
1922 – Highest shade temperature 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit recorded at El Azizia, Libya
1924 – Maurice Jarre, French composer noted for film scores, is born
1933 – Elizabeth McCombs is the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament
1935 – Howard Hughes sets new airspeed record, 352 mph, in his H-1 plane
1938 – Judith Martin is born, aka modern etiquette author ‘Miss Manners’
1948 – Margaret Chase Smith is elected U.S. Senator, first woman to serve in both house of Congress, and the School of the Performing Arts, the first specialized public school for the arts, opens in New York
1956 – IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, first computer to use disk storage
1960 – The FCC bans payola (bribes for more airplay of a record company’s product)
1970 – First New York City Marathon
1989 – Desmond Tutu leads largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chair Yasser Arafat sign first major agreement, granting Palestine limited self-government in Gaza Strip and Jericho
2001 – U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell calls Osama bin Laden a prime suspect in 9-11 attacks on the U.S. Some U.S. commercial flights resume after being grounded for 2 days
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Visuals
- Chocolate
- International flags
- El Escorial Biblioteca (library), Spain
- Roald Dahl with some of his books
- Hughes H-1 airplane
- Desmond Tutu
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