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Tomorrow's food holiday will be 'National Yorkshire Pudding Day'. A gift from the East side of the Big Pond. Made with flour, eggs, salt, milk, and pan beef drippings.
Tomorrow is the US celebration of 'Columbus Day'. In the US, it is always the second Monday in October, as of a 1937 Presidential proclamation. Other countries of the world, may call it something different and celebrate on the 12th (the actual day of the landing).
Tomorrow is 'Native American Day'. In the US states of California (Sept. 26) and South Dakota (Oct. 13).
Tomorrow is 'National Train Your Brain Day'. Feed it something new, extended or even controversial. Your brain needs exercise also.
Following right alon we will observe 'Day For Failure' (don't let the fear of failure get in the way of the attempt) and 'International Skeptics Day'.
And let us not forget 'National Kick Butt Day'. A day on which you look yourself in the mirror and at the same time kick yourself for making excuses and half-efforts. Note, this is not the Kick Butt's Day, which is a kids anti-tobacco movement.
The US Navy, at least the US Continental Navy (1775-1783), has a birthday tomorrow. It will be 'Navy Birthday'.
We have an awareness day tomorrow, which reminds us that October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month . Tomorrow will be 'Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day'.
Oliver Wendell Holmes once said:
"Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes
Is a miser who always wants guineas for groats;
He keeps all his customers still in arrears
By lending them minutes and charging them years."
Let us withdraw a few of those notes from Old Time's bank, and redeem at least October 13 from the past, for a quick look-see.
In 1792, The 'Old Farmer's Almanac' is first published.
In 1914, Garrett Morgan invents and patents a 'protective respiratory hood/ (gas mask).
In 1947, The kids TV show 'Kukla, Fran and Ollie'ts premieres.
In 1958, Paddington Bear, a classic character from English children's literature, makes his debut.
In 1976, The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F.A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.
In 1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now AT&T Inc.) launched the first US cellular network in Chicago.
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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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