November 15th is
America Recycles Day *
Entrepreneur’s Day *
I Love to Write Day *
Philanthropy Day *
Sadie Hawkins Day *
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WORLD FESTIVALS AND NATIONAL HOLIDAYS
Shinto – Shichi Go San (“Seven-Five-Three”) festival celebrating children of these ages, blessing their growth and well-being
Austria – Saint Leopold’s Day
(Patron saint of Vienna)
Belgium – King’s Birthday
Brazil – Republic Day
Côte d’Ivoire –
National Peace Day
Sri Lanka –
National Tree Planting Day
Turkish North Cyprus –
Republic Day
West Bank and Gaza – Independence Day
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On This Day in HISTORY
1492 – “We found a man in a canoe going from Santa Maria to Fernandia. He had with him some dried leaves which are in high value among them, for a quantity of it was brought to me at San Salvador” – from Christopher Columbus’ Journal. A few days before meeting canoe man, Arawaks gave him a gift of “certain dried leaves,” along with some fruit – back on the ship, the fruit was eaten, but the leaves were thrown away
1532 – Francisco Pizarro, with a force of only 106 foot-soldiers and 62 horsemen, arrives at Cajamarca, where the last Sapa Inca (emperor) Atahualpa is camped, with his army of 80,000 men
Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru, painted by John Everett Millais – 1846
1533 – Francisco Pizarro enters Incan capital, Cuzco, to complete the conquest of Peru
1607 – Madeleine de Scudéry born, French writer and salon host; often published her work under her brother’s name; her 10-volume novel Artamène, ou le Grand Cyrus, which contains over two million words, is believed to be the longest novel ever published; acknowledged as the foremost “bluestocking” of Paris in the last half of the 17th century
1708 – William Pitt the elder, first Earl of Chatham, born, British leader of the Whigs during the Seven Years’ War in America (1756-1761); Prime Minister and Lord Privy Seal (1766-1768)
1738 – William Herschel born in Germany, English astronomer and composer
1777 – After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation
1791 – The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors
1806 – Lt. Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains, later named Pikes Peak
1849 – Mary E. Byrd born, American astronomer who used photography to determine cometary positions, and a pioneer in astronomy teaching at the college level, designing a method of teaching Astronomy as a laboratory science combined with field work, and writing one of the first teacher training manuals on the subject; She was the director of the observatory at Smith College (1887-1906), but resigned her position because she disapproved of the college accepting money from Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller
1867 – The first stock ticker is demonstrated in New York City
1873 – Sara ‘Doctor Jo’ Baker born, American physician and medical inspector for the New York City Department of Health, fought against urban poverty and ignorance to save newborns and children; a pioneer in preventative medicine; invented a safe infant formula which helped women return to work and support their families, an eye drop system to prevent infants from becoming blind as a result of transmitted gonorrhea, and safety lessons and licenses for midwives which reduced childbirth fatalities. She said it was more dangerous to be a child in Hell’s Kitchen than it was to be a soldier on the front lines of World War I, as their mortality rate was three times higher; tracked down Mary Mallon, the infamous ‘Typhoid Mary’
1881 –Franklin ‘Pierce’ Adams born, American newspaper columnist, radio show personality; Algonquin Round Table member 1920s-1930s; wrote “Baseball’s Sad Lexicon,” a lament over Chicago Cubs’ “Tinker to Evers to Chance”
1882 – Felix Frankfurter born, American legal scholar; U.S. Supreme Court associate justice (1939-1962)
1887 – Georgia O’Keeffe born, one of America’s foremost 20th century painters, known for landscapes and oversized, close-up paintings of flowers
Red Poppy, painted by Georgia O’Keeffe – 1927
1887 – Marianne Moore born, influential American poet and translator
1889 – Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca declares Brazil a republic as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup
1891 – Averell Harriman born, American statesman; U.S. Ambassador, to the Soviet Union (1943-1946), then to Great Britain (1946); U.s. Representative in Europe during implementation of the Marshall Plan (1948-1950); Ambassador-at-Large and head of the U.S. delegation for the Vietnam War Paris peace talks (1968-1969)
1901 – Miller Reese patents an electrical hearing aid
1915 – WWI: Winston Churchill tenders his letter of resignation as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, leaving office ten days later, to command the 6th Battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Western Front
1916 – Nita Barrow born, Barbadian nurse, humanitarian activist and politician; Governor-General of Barbados (1990-1995)
1920 – The League of Nations meets for the first time in Geneva, Switzerland
1926 –NBC’s radio network of 24 stations opens with a 4-hour broadcast spectacular
1932 – Petula Clark born, English vocalist, composer and actress; her singing career began at age nine, during WWII, performing for the studio audience at a BBC radio broadcast delayed by a bombing raid; she became part of a WWII troupe entertaining the troops, making hundreds of appearances, often with another child performer, Julie Andrews
1933 – Thailand holds its first election
1934 – Peter Dickinson born, British composer
1937 – Sadie Hawkins Day * is first mentioned in the Li’l Abner daily comic strip
1939 – FDR lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
1940 – Under the first peacetime conscription, 75,000 American men are called to Armed Forces duty
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi
1955 – The first phase of the Saint Petersburg Metro opens
1956 – Elvis Presley makes his acting debut in “Love Me Tender”
1959 – The Clutter family of Holcomb KS murdered, which will inspire Truman Capote’s non-fiction book In Cold Blood
1966 – NASA’s Gemini 12 splashes down in the Atlantic, completing its final mission
1969 – A peaceful demonstration against the Vietnam War is staged by 250,000 protesters in Washington DC
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus declares independence, but only Turkey recognizes it
1984 – An infant who received a baboon’s heart to replace her own congenitally deformed one dies at a California medical center three weeks after the transplant
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald
1986 – The first Philanthropy Day * is proclaimed by Ronald Reagan, sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals
1988 – The Palestine National Council, the legislative body of the PLO, proclaims the establishment of an independent Palestinian state
1990 – David Bowie debuts on Broadway as The Elephant Man
1997 – America Recycles Day * is started by the National Recycling Coalition, and declared by Presidential Proclamation, now a Keep American Beautiful program
2002 – John Riddle starts I Love to Write Day *
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide
2010 – Entrepreneur’s Day * is started by David Hauser and Siamak Taghaddos, co-founders of Grasshopper, and Amir Tehrani of the Legacy Foundation
2011 – Hundreds of police officers in riot gear raid the Occupy Wall Street encampment in New York City, evicting hundreds of protesters, then demolishing the tent city
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