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Tomorrow's food holiday will be ' National Bologna Day'. I have never eaten Bologna. I was however, raised on fried Baloney sandwiches. The two look alike. I bet there is a copyright suit just waiting.
Following along on a grander scale is tomorrow's 'Food Day'. A year of projects for healthy, affordable and sustainably produced food, that culminates on October 24
For you extreme Easterners, in the UK, tomorrow will be ''Wear It Pink Day', in conjunction with Breast Cancer Month.
Tomorrow is ' United Nations Day'. It celebrates the ratification of the UN Charter in 1945.
Tomorrow is ''World Development Information Day'. A 1972 UN day to consider the problems faced by developing nations.
Elbert Hubbard once said 'If you want work well done, select a busy man — the other kind has no time.' Well, let's git er done, and and look back at October 24 in the past.
In 1836, Alonzo Dwight Phillips gets an American patent for the phosphorus friction match. These matches still used White Phosphorus, which was dangerous and poisonous. It was later that Red Phosphorus, was used and the matches became safer by putting the Red Phosphorus mixture on the outside of a match box as a striking surface to make the Safety Match.
In 1882, Robert Koch discovers the germ that causes tuberculosis.
In 1908, The song 'Take Me Out To the Ball Game', by Bill Murray, hits the charts.
In 1929, The great Wall Street Crash begins with Black Thursday setting off a chain of events which would lead to the Great Depression.
In 1929, The radio show 'Fleishmann (Yeast) Hour', with Ruby Vallee, premiers.
In 1939, Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time. During WW II, DuPont turned nylon production to parachutes. After the war, DuPont began making nylon stockings again, but couldn't keep up with the demand. This led to several disturbances at stores, call the Nylon riots. At one disturbance 40,000 women queued up for what was only 13,000 pairs of stockings.
In 1945, The United Nations is founded.
In 1946, A camera on board a US V-2 rocket (captured from Germany) takes the first photograph of earth from space.
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Celiac Disease Awareness Month, Class Reunion Month, Down Syndrome Awareness Month,
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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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