September 23rd is
Celebrate Bisexuality Day *
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Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day *
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Great American Pot Pie Day
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Restless Legs Awareness Day *
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MORE! Kublai Khan, Victoria Woodhull and Marc Chagall, click
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
In Shinto – Shubun no Hi – Autumnal Equinox Day
Bhutan – Thrue Bab
(Blessed Rainy Day)
India – Haryana: Haryana Veer/Shahidi Divas
(First war of independence)
Puerto Rico – Grito de Lares
(Lares revolt against Spanish rule)
Saudi Arabia – Al-Yaom Al-Watany
(National Day)
United Kingdom – Liverpool
Psych Fest 2016
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On This Day in HISTORY
1215 – Kublai Khan, Mongolian Emperor, is born
1642 – The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge MA
1779 – American commander John Paul Jones, aboard the warship Bon Homme, says “I have not yet begun to fight!”
1780 – John Andre, a British spy, is captured with papers revealing that Benedict Arnold was going to surrender West Point
1806 – The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reach St. Louis on their return trip from exploring the Pacific Northwest
1838 – Victoria Claflin Woodhull is born. She becomes the first female candidate to run for U.S. president in 1872, three years after Wyoming gave women the vote, but 48 years before the 19th Amendment finally made it a constitutional right for women
1846 – Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, in collaboration with Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams, discovers the planet Neptune
1907 – Karl-Acel Ekborn, Swedish neurologist who first investigated Restless Legs * Syndrome, is born
1908 – University of Alberta is founded in Canada
1911 – First official U.S. Post Office airmail delivery is made by pilot Earle Ovington
1913 – Roland Garros is first to fly across the Mediterranean (from France to Tunisia)
1930 – Johannes Ostermeier patents flashbulbs
1949 – “The Boss” Bruce Springsteen is born (in the U.S.A.)
1952 – The “Checkers” Speech, made by Vice Presidential candidate Richard Nixon. When he was accused of misuse of monies and gifts in a fund established by his backers, he gave a televised speech defending himself and attacking his opponents, but saying regardless of what anyone thought, he intended to keep one gift: a black-and-white dog his children had named Checkers *
1957 – Nine black students withdraw from Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas because of the white mob outside
1962 – First phase of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Philharmonic Hall opens (later renamed Avery Fisher Hall)
1964 – The Paris Opera’s new ceiling, painted by Marc Chagall, is unveiled
1967 – The Doors release “People Are Strange”
1972 – Ferdinand Marcos issues proclamation placing the Philippines under martial law while he re-wrote the constitution, silenced the press, and ruthlessly used violence and suppression against political opposition
1993 – The South African Parliament votes to allow black South Africans a role in the nation’s government
1999 – First Celebrate Bisexuality Day * started in Maine, Florida and Texas
2002 – Mozilla Firefox “Phoenix 0.1” is released
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Visuals
- President Obama with Bo, the current White House Dog
- Kublai Khan
- Victoria Claflin Woodhull’s nomination for U.S. President
- The Nixon family with Checkers
- Marc Chagall ceiling of Opéra National de Paris
- Mozilla Firefox Phoenix logo
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