October 7^th is

Frappé Day

LED Light Day

You Matter to Me Day *

Fallen Firefighters Memorial *

Inter-American Water Day *

International Personal Safety Day *

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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS

Antiqua and Barbuda – Merchant Holiday

Germany – Dortmund: Nature One Festival

India – Jodhpur:
Rajasthan International Folk Festival

Laos – BOL Foundation Day
(National Bank of Laos – bankers’ holiday)

Malaysia – Sabah: State of Sabah Day

South Africa – Port Elizabeth:
Bay Hip Hop Festival

Spain – Virgen del Rosario
(Our Lady of the Rosary)

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On This Day in HISTORY

3761 BC – The epoch reference day, origin date of the modern Hebrew calendar

1477 – Uppsala University, the oldest university in Sweden, opens its doors

1542 – Juan Cabrillo sees Santa Catalina, now Catalina Island, off the southern coast of California, frequently-used ‘exotic’ location for Hollywood movies in the 1920s and 30s

1576 – John Marston, English Jacobean poet and playwright; has an ongoing feud with Ben Jonson, who satirizes Marston as Clove in Every Man Out of His Humour

1691 – British monarchs William and Mary grant the charter for the Massachusetts Bay Colony

1746 – William Billings born, first American choral composer

1763 – King George III of Great Britain and Ireland issues the Royal Proclamation of 1763 banning any British settlement of lands west or south of a map line drawn along the Appalachian Mountains

1765 – Nine American colonies send 28 delegates to the Stamp Act Congress in NY, which adopts the ‘Declaration of Rights and Grievances’

1798 – Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume born, French luthier, made reproductions of old instruments; won gold medals at Paris Universal Exhibitions 1839, 1844 and 1855

1826 – The Granite Railway begins operations in Massachusetts, the first chartered railway in the U.S.

1832 – Charles Crozat Converse born, American lawyer, composed music for Joseph Scriven’s “What a Friend We Have in Jesus”

1849 – James Whitcomb Riley born, American poet and author

1862 – Royal Columbian Hospital becomes the first hospital in British Columbia, Canada

1865 – Martha McChesney Berry born, educator, founder of Berry College in Georgia

1868 – Cornell University holds opening day ceremonies; initial enrollment: 412 students

1873 – George Cram Cook born, American writer and producer-director; co-founder of the Provincetown Players; produced Eugene O’Neill’s first plays, and his wife Susan Glaspell’s 

1885 – Niels Bohr born, Danish physicist and philosopher, 1922 Nobel Prize laureate

1893 – Alice Dalgliesh born in Trinidad, American author, mainly for young readers; founding editor of Scribner’s and Sons Children’s Book Division; first president of the Children’s Book Council

1907 – Helen MacInnes born in Scotland, American author of spy thrillers; The Unconquerable, The Venetian Affair, The Salzburg Connection

1909 – Anni Blomqvist born, Finnish author, Against the Forces of the Sea

1911 – Vaughn Monroe born, American singer, trumpet player, and bandleader

1911 – Jo Jones, American Jazz drummer and percussion pioneer

1913 – Ford’s Highland Park factory first runs on a continuously moving assembly line

October 7, 1913 – Elizabeth Janeway born, author, social analyst of 20th century women’s equality drive, wrote Man’s World, Women’s Place and Powers of the Weak

1916 – Georgia Tech sets the record for most lopsided football game in U.S. history, defeating Cumberland University 222-0

1918 – Poland declares its independence from the German empire and becomes the Republic of Poland

1919 – Henriette Avram born, American computer scientist and academic; developed the MARC format (Machine Readable Cataloging), the international data standard for bibliographic and holdings information in libraries

1919 – The oldest airline still operating under its original name, KLM of the Netherlands, is founded

1920 – Kathryn Clarenback born, founding member of the National Organization for Women (NOW), executive director of the National Committee on the Observance of International Women’s Year (1977)

1927 – R. D. Laing born, controversial Scottish psychiatrist and author of books on mental illness; The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness

1928 – Lorna Wing born, British physician-psychiatrist, childhood developmental disorders pioneer, developed treating Autism as a spectrum disorder, coined term Asperger Syndrome, leader in founding UK National Autistic Society

1931 – Desmond Tutu born, South African archbishop and activist, 1984 Nobel Peace Prize; Honorary Co-Chairman for the World Justice Project

1933 – Five French airlines merge into Air France

1934 – LeRoi Jones born, name changed in 1960s to Amiri Baraka, African-American poet, playwright, and non-fiction author

1935 – Thomas Keneally born, Australian novelist, playwright, essayist; author of Schindler’s List

1937 – Maria Szyszkowska born, Polish politician, senator for the Warsaw district, president of the Association of Free Thought

1940 – Artie Shaw’s orchestra records “Stardust”

1944 – WWII: Jewish prisoners burn down Crematorium IV at Birkenau concentration camp during an uprising

1946 – Catherine A. Mackinnon born, American extreme radical feminist, lawyer, and legal scholar; argues sexual harassment is a form of sexual discrimination under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act; is against all pornography as objectifying women and a form of sexual trafficking; has stated that all sex is an act of oppression of women

1948 – Diane Ackerman born, American poet, essayist, and naturalist

1954 – Marian Anderson is the first black singer to be hired by the NY Metropolitan Opera Company

1955 – Yo-Yo Ma born in France, internationally renowned Chinese-American cellist; United Nations Messenger of Peace since 2006

1955 – Allen Ginsberg performs his poem Howl for the first time at the Six Gallery in San Francisco

1958 – NASA’s manned space-flight project is named Project Mercury

1959 – Lourdes Flores Nano born, Peruvian lawyer and politician; councilwoman of Lima, former member of the Chamber of Deputies (1990-1992); first woman to chair the Partido Popular Cristiano (Christian People’s Party – 2003-2011)

1959 – USSR probe Luna 3 transmits the first photographs of the Moon’s far side

1963 – President Kennedy signs the ratification of the Partial Test Ban Treaty

1963 – The Beach Boys release “Little Deuce Coupe”

1968 – Motion Picture Association of America adopts a film-rating system

1971 – The French Connection, starring Gene Hackman, premieres in New York City

1981 – The National Fallen Firefighters Memorial is unveiled; in 2004, the first plaque with names of firefighters who died in the line-of-duty that year is added to the Wall of Honor; this ceremony is now an annual two-day event in October

1982 – The musical Cats opens on Broadway, #1 of 7,485 performances

1985 – The U.S. announces it will no longer automatically comply with World Court decisions

1985 – Palestinian gunmen hijack the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro in the Mediterranean with more than 400 people aboard

1986 – U.K. estate agent Suzy Lamplugh disappears, and is never found. Her parents create a ‘National Personal Safety Day’ * Trust to make people more aware of the measures they can take to stay safe, and how to get help quickly, which has now become an international day

1989 – Hungary’s Communist Party renounces Marxism in favor of democratic socialism

1992 – Western Hemisphere water conservation groups join together to designate the first Saturday of October as Inter-American Water Day * to spotlight the importance of water to all life on earth

1996 – Fox News Channel begins airing its version of the news

1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student attending the University of Wyoming is found tied to a fence, left to die after two men savagely beat and tortured him – they were pretending to be gay so they could gain his trust – international outcry over hate crimes leads to the Matthew Shepard-James Byrd Hate Crime Prevention Act in 2009

2001 – The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan begins with an air assault and covert operations on the ground, joined by the British in the air strikes

2003 – Governor Gray Davis is recalled; body-builder and action movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, with no prior political experience, becomes governor of California

2006 – Anna Politkovskaya, journalist who chronicled Russian military abuses against civilians in Chechnya, is found shot to death in Moscow

2008 – Asteroid 2008 TC3 impacts the Earth over Sudan, the first time an asteroid impact is detected prior to its entry into earth’s atmosphere

2008 – U.S. Federal Reserve announces plan to buy massive amounts of short-term debt, ‘commercial paper’, to get credit markets moving again

2009 – ‘You Matter to Me Day’ * started by Linda Jew after her best friend’s brother and nephew were killed in an accident. Words to say while we still can, because we don’t know what the future will bring

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