September 15th is

Greenpeace Day *

International Dot Day *

Felt Hat Day

National Crème de Menthe Day

National RAINN Day *
(Rape-Abuse-Incest National Network)

UN International Day of Democracy

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MORE!  Autumn Festivals, Charles Darwin, and The Lone Ranger, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

China – Zhongqui Jie
(Mid-Autumn Festival)

Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala
Honduras and Nicaragua – Independence Day

Nepal – Kathmandu: Indra Jātrā and
Kumāri Jātrā (dance/procession festivals)

North Korea – Han’gawi
(Mid-Autumn Holiday)

Spain – Nuestra Senora de la Bien Aparecida
(Our Lady of the Good Advent)

Slovakia – Our Lady of Many Sorrows

South Korea – Chusok
(Harvest Moon Festival)

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On This Day in HISTORY

1616 – First non-aristocratic free public school in Europe opens in Frascati, Italy

1789 – U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs renamed Department of State

1830 – The Liverpool-to-Manchester railway line opens in Great Britain

1835 – Charles Darwin, aboard HMS Beagle, arrives at the Galápagos Islands

1853 – Reverend Antoinette Brown Blackwell ordained, first U.S. female minister

1857 – Timothy Alder patents a typesetting machine

1883 – The University of Texas at Austin opened

1916 – Tanks are first used in warfare, at the WWI Battle of the Somme

1923 – Oklahoma Governor John Calloway Walton declares martial law – Ku Klux Klan terrorism and illegal activities headlined in national newspapers

1928 – Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin in the mold Penicillium notatum

1930 – Hoagy Carmichael records his song  “Georgia on My Mind”

1935 – Nazi Germany enacts the Nuremberg Laws, stripping all German Jews of civil rights, and they adopt the swastika as their official symbol

1948 – F-86 Sabre sets the world aircraft speed record of 671 mph

1949 – “The Lone Ranger” premieres on ABC with Clayton Moore as the Lone Ranger and Jay Silverheels as Tonto

1955 – Betty Robbins, first woman cantor officially appointed by a congregation, leads Rosh Hashanah services at Temple Avodah in Oceanside NJ

1963 – Four children are killed when the African American 16^th Street Baptist Church is bombed in Birmingham, Alabama

1966 – President Lyndon Johnson, reacting to the sniper shootings at the University of Texas at Austin, urges Congress to enact gun control legislation

1965 – “Green Acres” and “Lost in Space” premiere on CBS

1968 – Soviet spaceship Zond launched, becomes first space craft to circle the Moon and re-enter Earth’s atmosphere

1971 – Greenpeace is founded by 17 activists in Vancouver protesting off-shore nuclear testing in Alaska – in 2011, on the 40^th anniversary of Greenpeace, Vancouver city officials plant a yellow cedar tree and proclaim Greenpeace Day *

1982 – “USA Today” first issue goes to press

1994 – RAINN founded in 1994 by Scott Berkowitz. National RAINN Day * soon followed, a campus-based event – supporters wear red, decorate umbrellas, and attend programs

1995 – U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women was held in Beijing

2009 – Terry Shay started International Dot Day * when he shared The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds with his students, which is the story of a teacher who challenges her insecure student to “Just make a mark and see where it takes you.”

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Visuals

• International Dot Day Poster
• International flags
• Traveling on the Liverpool to Manchester, S.G. Hughes 1833
• HMS Beagle, artist not credited
• Ku Klux Klan in Tulsa OK
• An F-86 Sabre
• Russian Zond commemorative postal stamp
• 1995 – U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing – Hillary Clinton speaking

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