October 2^nd is

Custodial Worker Day

International Day of Non-Violence *

Guardian Angels Day

Name Your Car Day

U.N. World Farm Animals Day

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Jewish – Rosh Hashanah (New Year) begins at sunset
Islamic New Year also begins at sunset

Guinea – Republic Day

India – Mahatma Gandhi’s Birthday

United States – Kahului HI:
45th Ukulele Festival Hawaii

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On This Day in HISTORY

1535 – Jacques Cartier is the first European to see what will be Montreal

1615 – Pope Paul V adds a Feast Day for Guardian Angels * to the Roman calendar

1780 – British Major John André is hanged as a spy for trying to help Benedict Arnold turn over West Point to the British forces

1789 – George Washington sends proposed Constitutional amendments (the Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification

1835 – The Texas Revolution begins at the Battle of Gonzales when local militia – waving a hastily-printed flag ‘Come and Take It’ – refuses to give their cannon back to Mexican troops

1885 – Ruth Bryan Owen born, first southern woman representative to the US Congress, first woman on House Foreign Affairs Committee, first woman appointed as a US Ambassador (1933-36, to Denmark)

1919 – President Woodrow Wilson suffers a major stroke, which partially paralyzes him

1928 – Opus Dei (Praelatura Sanctae Crucis et Operis Dei – The Prelature of the Holy Cross and Work of God) is founded by Spanish Catholic priest Josemaria Escrivá

1937 – Dominican Republic dictator Raphael Trujillo orders the execution of all the Haitians living within the borderlands, over 20,000 are killed over 5 days.

1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schultz is first published

1959 – Rod Serling’s  The Twilight Zone debuts on CBS-TV

1961 – Joan Baez releases “Banks of the Ohio”

1967 – Thurgood Marshall sworn in as first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice

1980 – Michael Myers (D-PA) becomes first member of either chamber of U.S> Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, because of the Abscam scandal.

1995 – Iron Maiden releases their 10^th album, The X Factor

1996 – President Clinton signs the Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments

2007 – The U.N. General Assembly passes a resolution establishing October 2, the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, as the International Day of Non-Violence *

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Visuals

• Cartoon farmer with farm animals
• International flags
• Jacques Cartier Canadian postage stamp
• Replica of the Gonzales battle flag
• Congresswoman Ruth Bryan Owen in her office – April 13, 1929
• First Peanuts comic strip
• Thurgood Marshall in front of the Supreme Court
• Mahatma Gandhi 1940s photo by FPG/Getty images

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