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Tomorrow's food holiday is 'National Gumbo Day'. The word Gumbo, is from the Angolan word for Okra (which was used as a thickening agent), it's still Louisiana stew and mighty tasty.
Tomorrow is 'National Free Thought Day'. Feel free to think, just like me.
Tomorrow we celebrate those who grow our food. It will be 'National Farmers Day' Originally Old Farmers day. You Aggies settle down. We celebrated your schools founding a few days ago.
We have an awareness day tomorrow. It will be 'World Arthritis Day'.
Tomorrow is also 'Spanish Language Day'. A UN - UNESCO observance.
It was once said: "Who forces time is pushed back by time; who yields to time finds time on his side. " Fortunately, we do not need to force or yield, to the past. However we should certainly remember it. Let's remember some of October 12 in the past.
In 1492, Columbus reaches the New World. But, what does commerce, and the need for a Monday holiday count. It's on the 13th in 2014 (always second Monday of October).
In 1609, What became a Children's rhyme, 'Three Blind Mice', IS published in London.
In 1773, The Eastern State Hospital was the first psychiatric institution to be founded in the United States. It was America's first 'insane asylum' for 'Persons of Insane and Disordered Minds'.
In 1792, The first celebration of Columbus Day, in the US was held.
In 1810, The first Oktoberfest:was held. Bavarian royalty invited the citizens of Munich to celebrate a royal wedding..
In 1823, Charles Macintosh of Scotland sells the first raincoat. It was, of course, called the Macintosh. That is a great relief. I just can't think of Sherlock Holmes telling Watson to grab his clear water-proof polyester coat. Must better to say 'Watson, the game is afoot, grab your Mac, and let's be off.'.
In 1901, President Theodore Roosevelt officially renames the 'Executive Mansion' to the White House, by referring to it, as such, on his stationary, while in office.
In 1928 - An 'iron lung' respirator (Negative pressure ventilator) is used for the first time at the Children's Hospital, Boston.
In 1931, Five-time Olympic gold medal swimmer Johnny Weissmuller was chosen as Tarzan for the movie series.
In 1945, In WW II, Private First Class Desmond T. Doss, a medical corpsman, and
conscientious objector, wins the Medal of Honor. We mentioned Alvin York, a few days ago. At first he was a conscientious objector in WW I.
In 1979, The book 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy', the first of five books in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy comedy science fiction series by Douglas Adams was published.
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October is:
October origin (from Wikipedia): October is the tenth month of the year
in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months with a
length of 31 days. The eighth month in the old Roman calendar, October
retained its name (from the Greek meaning 'eight') after January
and February were inserted into the calendar that had originally been
created by the Romans.
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October is commonly associated with the season of autumn in the Northern
hemisphere and spring in the Southern hemisphere, where it is the seasonal
equivalent to April in the Northern hemisphere and vice versa.
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