October 15^th is

National Mushroom Day

National Red Wine Day

World Maths Day *

World Rural Women’s Day *

World Students Day *

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MORE! Edward Gibbon, Charlotte Brontë, and Abe Lincoln’s beard, click

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Burkina Faso – Rectification Day

Cambodia – Norodom Sihanouk
(Hommage for late King Father)

French Guiana – Cayenne Festival

Germany – Köln:
Titania Music Festival

Laos – Boun Ok Phansa
(End of Buddhist Lent)

Malawi –  Mother’s Day

Sri Lanka – National Tree Planting Day

Tunisia – Evacuation Day *

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On This Day in HISTORY

1764 – Edward Gibbon sees friars singing in the ruins of the Temple of Jupiter and is inspired to begin The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

1793 – French Queen Marie Antoinette is tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal for everything from misappropriating Treasury funds to incest with her son Louis Charles

1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte begins his exile on St. Helena

1847 – Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is published in London

1860 – Grace Bedell, 11 years old, writes a letter to presidential candidate Abraham Lincoln, telling him he would look better if he grew a beard

1883 – The U.S. Supreme Court strikes down part of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, so individuals and corporations can discriminate based on race

1886 – Modest Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain premieres in St. Petersburg, Russia

1892 – U.S. government announces 1.8 million acres in western Montana, bought from the Crow Indians for 50 cents per acre, are open to settlers.

1914 – The Clayton Antitrust Act is passed by U.S. Congress.

1937 – To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway is published

1939 – New York Municipal Airport is dedicated, later renamed La Guardia Airport

1945 – Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, is executed for treason

1946 – Hermann Goering, Gestapo founder convicted as a Nazi war criminal, poisons himself hours before his scheduled execution

1951 – I Love Lucy premieres on CBS-TV

1953 – Teahouse of the August Moon opens on Broadway

1963 – Retreat of the last French troops from Bizerte in Tunisia *

1966 – Huey Newton and Bobby Seale found the Black Panther Party

1969 – The Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam draws over two million demonstrators across the U.S., including about 250,000 in Washington DC

1971 – The start of Iran’s celebration of the 2.500 year Persian Empire

1977 – “Slip Slidin’ Away,” by Paul Simon, is released

1984 – The Freedom of Information Act is passed by U.S. Congress

1998 – The U.N. condemns U.S. for Cuba embargo for the seventh time

2001 – NASA’s Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter’s moon Io

2007 – First World Maths Day * an online international mathematics competition, powered by educational resource provider 3P Learning

2008 – The first United Nations World Rural Women’s Day *

2010 – The United Nations marks the importance of India’s former President, the distinguished scientist and educator APJ Abdul Kalam, declaring his birthday the date for World Students Day *
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Visuals

• Mushrooms with beef, and a glass of  Red Wine
• International flags
• Cover of a more recent edition of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
• Quote from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
•  Newspaper version of the story of Abe Lincoln’s beard
• Book jacket on first edition of Hemingway’s To Have and Have Not
• Original Broadway production of Teahouse of the August Moon
• Jupiter’s Moon Io
• Rural Women in Bangladesh at a women’s meeting

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