ON THIS DAY: September 30, 2016

Posted on September 30, 2016 by

September 30 is

KoalaInternational Blasphemy Day *

International Translation Day *

National Mulled Cider Day

Purple for Platelets Day *

Save the Koala Day *

Vegan Baking Day

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MORE! The Magic Flute, TV’s Cheers and Israeli shekels, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Abkhazia – National Liberation Day

Australia – Victoria: Aussie Footballinternational Flags
League Grand Final Holiday

Cambodia – Bonn Phchum Ben
(Ancestors’ Day)

India –
Karnataka, Orissa and Tripura:
Mahalaya (Mother Goddess Invocation)
Telangana: Bathukamma
(Goddess Flower Festival)

Marshall Islands – Manit Day
(Culture Day)

Sao Tome and Principe –
Agricultural Reform Day

Turks and Caicos Islands –
National Youth Day
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On This Day in HISTORY

1207 – Rumi, Persian mystic and poet, is born

rumi-quotes-separation

1791 – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) premiered at Theater auf der Wieden in Vienna, Austria

1846 – Dr. William Morton performed a painless tooth extraction using ether

1882 – First hydroelectric power plant begins operation Appleton WI

1907 – McKinley National Memorial for the president dedicated in Canton, OH

1935 – Porgy and Bess premiered in Boston MA, then went on to Broadway

1938 –League of Nations outlaws “intentional bombings of civilian populations”

1946 – Nuremberg International Tribunal finds 22 top Nazis guilty of war crimes

1949 – After delivering 2.3 million tons of food to West Berlin despite the Soviet blockade, the Berlin Airlift ends

berlin-airlift

1951 – The Red Skelton Show first airs on NBC-TV

1953 – The International Federation of Translators claims September 30 as International Translation Day * to pay tribute to the work of translators

1954 – Julie Andrews makes her Broadway debut in The Boy Friend

1966 – Albert Speer, Nazi armaments minister, and Baldur Von Schirach, Hitler Youth founder, are released from Spandau prison after completing 20-year sentences

1971 – Soviet Union and U.S. sign pacts to prevent accidental nuclear war

1976 – California enacts Natural Death Act, first U.S. right-to-die legislation

1980 – Israel issues new currency, the shekel, to replace the pound

1982 – First episode of Cheers airs on NBC-TV

1986 – The Australian Koala Foundation is started in January, and designates September as Koala Month and the last day of the month as Save the Koala Day *

1989 – Thousands of East Germans emigrate under NATO-Soviet Union accord

1997 – France’s Roman Catholic Church apologizes for keeping silent during persecution and deportation of Jews under pro-Nazi Vichy regime

2005 – Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten prints controversial Muhammad drawings. 

2006 – After Jyllands-Posten published editorial cartoons depicting Islam’s prophet Muhammad, there were world-wide protests and even violence and riots in some Muslim countries. The Center for Inquiry establishes International Blasphemy Day * to counteract oppressive laws and social prohibitions against free expression, and to support the right to challenge prevailing religious beliefs without fear of violence, arrest, or persecution

2011 – The Platelet Disorder Support Association, a support group for people with ITP 
(immune thrombocytopenia),  announces the first Purple for Platelets Day  * – supporters wear purple today 

purple-itp-awareness

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Visuals

  • Young Koala
  • International flags
  • Children wave at plane during Berlin Airlift
  • Bumper sticker for ITP support

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Nona Blyth Cloud has lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for the past 45 years, spending much of that time commuting on the 405 Freeway. After Hollywood failed to appreciate her genius for acting and directing, she began a second career managing non-profits, from which she has retired. Nona has now resumed writing whatever comes into her head, instead of reports and pleas for funding. She lives in a small house overrun by books with her wonderful husband and a bewildered Border Collie.
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4 Responses to ON THIS DAY: September 30, 2016

  1. Chuck Stanley says:
    September 30, 2016 at 10:17 am

    Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein had a thought on blasphemy:

    “Of all the strange crimes that humanity has legislated out of nothing, blasphemy is the most amazing – with obscenity and indecent exposure fighting it out for second and third place.”

    [from “Time Enough for Love” (1973)]

  2. wordcloud9 says:
    September 30, 2016 at 12:07 pm

    Odd that trying to impose your religious beliefs on someone else seems more socially acceptable

  3. pete says:
    September 30, 2016 at 9:08 pm

    It’s a toss-up on who’s worse Muslims, Mormons or Southern Baptists. I didn’t include Jehovah Witnesses because while annoying they’re not generally violent about it.

    • wordcloud9 says:
      September 30, 2016 at 9:29 pm

      I don’t think it matters which brand of fundamental extreme “-ism ” it is — or even whether it’s religious or political — they’re all based on hatred and intolerance, and exploiting the fears and misfortunes of desperate, ignorant people.

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