September 23rd is
Checkers/Dogs in Politics Day *
Celebrate Bisexuality Day *
Great American Pot Pie Day
National Singles Day *
Restless Legs Awareness Day *
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
In Shinto – Shūbun no Hi – Autumnal Equinox Day
Bhutan – Thrue Bab
(Blessed Rainy Day)
India – Haryana: Haryana Veer and
Shaheedi Diwas (Martyrs’ Day)
Japan – Autumnal Equinox Celebration
Micronesia – Chuuk Liberation Day
Puerto Rico – Grito de Lares *
(Revolt against Spanish rule)
Saudi Arabia – Al-Yaom Al-Watany
(National Day)
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On This Day in HISTORY
63 BC – Augustus born, considered the first Roman Emperor (27 BC – AD 14)
1122 – The Concorat of Worms: agreement between Pope Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V concerning the power struggle between the Papacy and the Holy Roman Emperors over the investing of bishops; Henry renounced the right of sovereigns to invest bishops with sacred authority, and guaranteed election by the canons of cathedral or abbey, setting up the distinction that bishops would be endowed by Kings with secular authority (“by the lance”), and by the Church with sacred authority (“by ring and staff”)
1215 – Kublai Khan born, Mongolian Emperor
1642 – The first commencement at Harvard College, in Cambridge MA
1642 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini born, Italian composer, father of composers Giovanni Bononcini and Antonio Maria Bononcini
1740 – Empress Go-Sakuramachi born, the last of eight women to rule Japan as Empress regnant according to the traditional order of succession
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
1800 – William H. McGuffey born, author of the McGuffey Readers, which sold 122 million copies between 1836 and 1960
William H. McGuffey – Eclectic First Reader – Lesson I
1806 – The Corps of Discovery, the Lewis and Clark expedition, reach St. Louis on their return trip from exploring the Pacific Northwest
1823 – Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott born, better known as by her pen-name Grace Greenwood; American author, poet, journalist and advocate for abolition and women’s rights; first woman reporter on the payroll of the New York Times; one of the first women in the Congressional press galleries
1838 – Victoria Claflin Woodhull born; 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
1838 – Helen Almira Shafer born, professor of mathematics and president of Wellesley College (1887-1894)
1846 – Astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle, in collaboration with Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams, discovers the planet Neptune
1861 – Robert Bosch born, German industrialist, engineer and inventor of the first commercially viable high-voltage spark plug
1863 – Mary Church Terrell born, African American author, teacher and activist; first black woman appointed to Washington DC’s school board; founding member of the NAACP; first president of the National Association of Colored Women
1865 – Emma Orczy born in Hungary, Baroness Orczy, English novelist and painter, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel
1868 – Grito de Lares * (“Cry of Lares”- Puerto Rico) uprising against Spanish rule
1889 – Walter Lippmann born, American newspaper commentator and author
1899 – Louise Nevelson born, American sculptor and painter
1905 – Karlstad Treaty: Norway and Sweden dissolve the union between them
1907 – Karl-Acel Ekborn, Swedish neurologist who first investigated Restless Legs * Syndrome, is born
1907 – Anne Desclos born, pen-names Dominique Aury and Pauline Réage, French author of Histoire d’O (Story of O)
1908 – The University of Alberta is founded in Edmonton, Alberta in Canada
1909 – French author Gaston Leroux’s novel, Le Fantôme de l’Opéra (The Phantom of the Opera), is first published, serialized in Le Gaulois, a daily newspaper
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)
1926 – John Coltrane born, American jazz saxophonist and composer
1930 – Johannes Ostermeier patents flashbulbs
1930 – Ray Charles born, American singer-songwriter and pianist
1932 – The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd is renamed the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1943 – Julio Iglesias born, Spanish singer-songwriter
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-writes the constitution, silences the press, and ruthlessly uses violence and suppression against political opposition
1980 – Bob Marley plays his last concert in Pittsburgh PA
1990 – Iraq threatens to destroy Middle East oil fields and attack Israel if other nations try to force it to leave Kuwait
1993 – The South African Parliament votes to allow black South Africans a role in the nation’s government
1999 – Bisexual rights activists start Celebrate Bisexuality Day * in Maine, Florida and Texas
2001 – The first National Singles Day * is celebrated in January, but in 2017 had been moved to coincide with September’s National Singles Week
2002 – Mozilla Firefox “Phoenix 0.1” is released
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OMG I never saw that Chagall ceiling before; I love it! Once I had a book of postcards called “The Great Housewives of Art,” showing postcards in the style of famous artists and the captions were about the wives shown in them doing chores. In the Chagallian one, a woman appears in a weird messy kitchen as a baby floats overhead and the mom is holding a big spoon if I remember correctly. The caption is: “Mrs. Chagall tries to feed the baby.”
LOL!
That Chagall ceiling reminded me. If anyone is ever near Ocean Springs, MS, be sure to make a stop at the Walter Anderson museum. He was a brilliant artist and troubled man. His story is legendary, but few have heard of him outside the Gulf Coast area. The museum is next to the old community center. He painted a mural on the large meeting room of the community center, using every flat surface. There are several pictures of the walls in this Google picture quilt. He was paid $1.00 for his work. It is now worth into the millions, even if you could buy it. The first time I walked into that room, it was pure visual overload.
WOW – I hope Anderson at least got room and board with his $1 – glorious visual overload indeed – Thanks for posting Chuck
Watch the video. It is the teaser for a longer documentary about him. I saw the documentary on PBS when it was first released.
I gave Brandi one of his prints. It is the letter “C” in his alphabet series. C is for Cat, which is why it was perfect for her room.
https://walterandersonart.com/collections/blockprints-alphabet
Love the alphabet!
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