October 1st is
Inter-American Water Day *
International Music Day *
National Homemade Cookies Day
National Lace Day
Pumpkin Spice Day
Raccoon Appreciation Day
U.N. International Day of Older Persons
National Walk Your Dog Day
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MORE! Bloody Mary, Electric light and Robert Redford, click
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World Festivals and National Holidays
Cyprus, Nigeria, Palau and Tuvalu – Independence Days
Cameroon – Unification Day
China – Guiqing Jie
(National Day)
French Polynesia – Stone Fishing Ceremony
(Recreating ancient fish-harvest)
India – Rajasthan: Navratra Stapana
(Hindu Goddess Durga Festival)
Micronesia – Chuuk (Constitution Day)
Nepal – Ghatasthapana
(Invocation of the Goddess Shakti)
San Marino – Captains Regent Investiture Day
Uzbekistan – O’qituvchi va Murabbiylar Kuni
(Teachers and Instructors Day)
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On This Day in HISTORY
1553 – Coronation of Mary I (‘Bloody Mary’) of England
1569 – Elizabeth I imprisons Duke of Norfolk for trying to wed Mary Queen of Scots
1800 – Spain cedes back to France the Louisiana territory that U.S would later purchase
1811 – The first steamboat on the Mississippi River arrives in New Orleans LA
1814 – Congress of Vienna opens, tasked with redrawing national borders in Europe after the defeat of Napoleon
1880 – The Edison Lamp Works begins commercial production of electric lamps, and John Philip Souza is named director of the U.S. Marine Corps Band
1885 – Special delivery mail service begins in the U.S. with first routes in West Virginia
1890 – U.S. Congress passes the McKinley Tariff Act, raising rates to record levels, and also establishes Yosemite National Park
1891 – Stanford University opens its doors as a coeducational, tuition-free (until 1920) institution near Palo Alto CA
1896 – U.S. Post Office begins Rural Free Delivery
1908 – The Model T Ford goes on sale for $825.00, or $850.00 for the touring car
1910 – The Los Angeles Times building is badly damaged by a bomb that went off prematurely, igniting gas lines, killing 21 people and injuring 100
1928 – The Soviet Union introduces its first 5-year plan
1936 – General Franco, ‘El Caudillo’ (the leader) proclaimed Spain’s head of state
1940 – The Pennsylvania Turnpike opens as the first U.S. toll superhighway
1949 – Mao Tse-tung raises flag of the People’s Republic of China as the Nationalists forces flee to Taiwan.
1952 – This is Your Life debuts on NBC-TV
1962 – Johnny Carson begins his 29-year stint as host of the Tonight show on NBC, following after Jack Paar
1964 – The Free Speech Movement starts at the University of California at Berkeley
1969 – The Concorde breaks the sound barrier for the first time
1971 – Walt Disney World opens in Orlando FL
1975 – Yehudi Menuhin joins with UNESCO to initiate International Music Day * to promote the musical arts and UNESCO’s International Music Prize
1976 – Styx releases Crystal Ball album
1979 – U.S. hands control of the Panama Canal Zone over to Panama
1980 – Robert Redford becomes the only male featured on the cover of The Ladies’ Home Journal in its 97 years
1984 – U.S. Secretary of Labor Raymond Donovan announces his leave of absence after he’s indicted on larceny and fraud charges, but he is later acquitted
1988 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes President of the Soviet Union
1990 – In Croatia, minority Serbs proclaim autonomy
1992 – Western Hemisphere water conservation groups joined together to designate the first Saturday of October as Inter American Water Day * to spotlight the importance of water to all life on earth
1999 – Beijing celebrates 50th anniversary of founding of Peoples Republic of China
2010 – Animal Advocate Colleen Paige founds National Walk Your Dog Day * to encourage dog owners to overcome the growing canine obesity problem
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Visuals
- Glass of water
- International flags
- Mary I of England
- 1911 replica of first Mississippi steamboat built for centennial
- The Concorde
- Ladies Home Journal cover with Robert Redford
- Beijing celebration of People’s Republic 50th anniversary
- Walk Your Dog poster
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Pumpkin Spice Day
and
Raccoon Appreciation Day
(there’s a Donald Trump joke in there somewhere)
LOL –
If this was CURB Your Dog Day, it might work!
@pete
Well played.