Today is October 11 2015

National Sausage Pizza Day: More

• General Pulaski Memorial Day: More
  Since 1929. From Wikipedia: 'This holiday is held every year on October 11 by Presidential Proclamation, to commemorate his death from wounds suffered at the Siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779 and to honor the heritage of Polish Americans'. Chicago holds a regional event each year at another time.
• National Food Truck Day Weekend: More
  At Clearfork Food Park,Ft Worth TX.
• It's My Party Day: More
  It's yours, do what you want.
• Southern Food Heritage Day: More

• Health
  • Dyspraxia Awareness Week: More
    October 11-17 in Great Britain. Dyspraxia is 'inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage'.
  • Haemophilia Awareness Week: More
    October 11-17. In Australia. AKA: Red Hat Day. From Wikipedia: 'Haemophilia, also spelled hemophilia, is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that impair the body's ability to control blood clotting, which is used to stop bleeding when a blood vessel is broken'.
  • International OCD Awareness Week: More
    October 11-17. From Wikipedia: 'Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, have certain thoughts repeatedly, or feel they need to perform certain routines repeatedly'.
  • National Nutrition Week: More
    October 11-17 in Australia.
  • National School Lunch Week - Day 1: More
    Started in 1946 by National School Lunch Act, in 1962 Congress designated the week beginning on the second Sunday of October in each year.
  • Carers Week: More
    October 11-17 in Australia.
    
• Other
  • Anti-Poverty Week: More
    October 11-17 in Australia.
  • World Science Day for Peace and Development: More
    A U.N. UNESCO observance since 2001.
  • International Day of The Girl: More
    Focuses on the neglect and devaluation of girls around the world.

• In 1950, CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
  From Wikipedia: 'A field-sequential color system is a color television system in which the primary color information is transmitted in successive images, and which relies on the human vision system to fuse the successive images into a color picture. One field-sequential system was developed by Dr. Peter Goldmark for CBS, which was its sole user in commercial broadcasting. It was first demonstrated to the press on September 4, 1940, and first shown to the general public on January 12, 1950. The Federal Communications Commission adopted it on October 11, 1950 as the standard for color television in the United States, but it was later withdrawn.
  
  The concept of sequential color systems in moving images predates the invention of fully electronic television. Although known contemporarily as "additive" rather than sequential color systems, two-color Kinemacolor, in commercial use since 1906, and its predecessor three-color format invented by Edward Raymond Turner and patented in 1899, were both sequential natural color systems utilizing rotating color wheels, where each sequential image alternatingly included a different color's information and was dyed such in order to merge in the viewer's eye during projection, and were used for natural color motion picture film. When due to litigation by William Friese-Greene, Kinemacolor ended up in the public domain by c. 1914, many derivative sequential color processes (such as Friese-Greene's Biocolour or the original Prisma Color) were developed that were in use until the late 1920s, with increasing rivalry by bipack color processes since c. 1920 that were not using sequential color anymore'.
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• In 1968, NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.
  From Wikipedia: 'Apollo 7 was a 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out by the United States of America. It was the first mission in the United States' Apollo program to carry a crew into space. It was also the first U.S. spaceflight to carry astronauts since the flight of Gemini XII in November 1966. The AS-204 mission, also known as "Apollo 1", was intended to be the first manned flight of the Apollo program, scheduled to launch in February 1967. However, a fire in the cabin during a January 1967 test killed the crew. Manned flights were then suspended for 21 months, while the cause of the accident was investigated and improvements made to the spacecraft and safety procedures, and unmanned test flights of the Saturn V rocket and Apollo Lunar Module were made. Apollo 7 essentially fulfilled Apollo 1's mission of testing the Apollo Command/Service Module (CSM) in low Earth orbit.
  
  The Apollo 7 crew was commanded by Walter M. Schirra, with senior pilot / navigator Donn F. Eisele, and pilot / systems engineer R. Walter Cunningham. (Official crew titles were made consistent with those that would be used for the manned lunar landing missions: Eisele was Command Module Pilot and Cunningham was Lunar Module Pilot.) Their mission was Apollo's 'C' mission, an 11-day Earth-orbital test flight to check out the redesigned Block II CSM with a crew on board. It was the first time a Saturn IB vehicle put a crew into space; Apollo 7 was the first three-person American space mission, and the first to include a live TV broadcast from an American spacecraft. It was successfully launched on October 11, 1968, from what was then known as Cape Kennedy Air Force Station, Florida. Despite tension between the crew and ground controllers, the mission was a complete technical success, giving NASA the confidence to send Apollo 8 into orbit around the Moon two months later. However, the flight would prove to be the final space flight for all of its three crew members when it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on October 22, 1968. It was also the final manned launch from Cape Kennedy'.
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• In 1975, The TV show 'Saturday Night Live' premieres. It is still running as of 2015 in it's 41st season.
  From Wikipedia: 'Saturday Night Live (abbreviated as SNL) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol. The show premiered on NBC on October 11, 1975, under the original title NBC's Saturday Night. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest (who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast) and features performances by a musical guest. An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!", properly beginning the show'.
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• In 1976, George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
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• In 1983, The last hand-cranked telephones in the US went out of service. The customers moved to direct-dial.
  From Wikipedia: 'Many early manual telephones had an attached hand-cranked magneto that produced an alternating current (AC) at 50-100V for signaling to ring the bells of other telephones on the same (party) line and to alert an operator at the local telephone exchange. These were most common on long rural lines served by small manual exchanges which did not use a common battery circuit. The telephone instrument contained a local battery, consisting of two large "N° 6" zinc-carbon dry cells, to provide the necessary current for the transmitter. By around 1900, large racks of motor-generator sets in the telephone exchange could supply this ringing current remotely instead and the local magneto was often no longer required, but their use continued into the mid-20th century.
  
  Telephone magnetos featured a large gear rotated by hand with a handle, that drove a much smaller gear on the armature rotor, providing a high gear-ratio to increase the rotational speed of the magneto armature. A mechanical switch on the output terminals engaged only when the rotor was turning, so that the magneto was normally disconnected from the telephone circuitry.
  
  Ringing current magnetos were used in the public switched telephone network (PSTN) as late as the 1980s, when they were still used with private manual branch exchanges (PMBX), small business switchboards worked by operators. Rather than have a motor generator set for such a small installation, which generated noise and required maintenance, these systems used a hand magneto. Unlike on the public telephone network, which has a standard ringing cadence (the repeating pattern of ringing and silence), the ringing cadence on a PMBX depended upon the skill of the operator. When ringing local extensions, some switchboard operators used local codes of ringing to indicate internal, external or urgent calls.
  
  Linesman's test sets also included a magneto, for use when ringing out to either the exchange or the subscriber, from anywhere along the line. Their use extended into the 1980s'.
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Tomorrow's food holiday will be: 'National Sausage Pizza Day'.
[The Hankster says] Actually, that is my least favorite topping, not considering Peperoni, of course

There are two additional food related days tomorrow:
- 'National Food Truck Day Weekend. At Clearfork Food Park,Ft Worth TX.

- 'Southern Food Heritage Day'.

[The Hankster says] I am one of those people that like to please everyone, if possible. So, I will have a sausage pizza, sold from a food truck down here in the South.


Tomorrow we have 'General Pulaski Memorial Day'. Since 1929. From Wikipedia: 'This holiday is held every year on October 11 by Presidential Proclamation, to commemorate his death from wounds suffered at the Siege of Savannah on October 9, 1779 and to honor the heritage of Polish Americans'. Chicago holds a regional event each year at another time.
[The Hankster says] We just had Pirogi Day a few days ago. Wouldn't it make sense to have both on the same day.

Just for the heck of it. Tomorrow is 'It's My Party Day'. No rules, just party..
[The Hankster says] Well, here is a quandary. If it is my party day, then it can't be your party day, but if is your party day, it can't be mine. I don't see anything about sharing. Life is so complicated. Perhaps we can agree on a, don't ask me and I won't tell you, if I will celebrate.


Awareness / Observance Days on: October 11
o Health
- 'Dyspraxia Awareness Week'. October 11-17 in Great Britain. Dyspraxia is 'inability to perform particular purposive actions, as a result of brain damage'.

- 'Haemophilia Awareness Week'. October 11-17. In Australia. AKA: Red Hat Day. From Wikipedia: 'Haemophilia, also spelled hemophilia, is a group of hereditary genetic disorders that impair the body's ability to control blood clotting, which is used to stop bleeding when a blood vessel is broken'.

- 'International OCD Awareness Week'. October 11-17. From Wikipedia: 'Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder where people feel the need to check things repeatedly, have certain thoughts repeatedly, or feel they need to perform certain routines repeatedly'.

- 'National Nutrition Week'. October 11-17 in Australia.

- 'National School Lunch Week - Day 1'. Started in 1946 by National School Lunch Act, in 1962 Congress designated the week beginning on the second Sunday of October in each year.

- 'Carers Week'. October 11-17 in Australia.

o Other
- 'Anti-Poverty Week'. October 11-17 in Australia.

- 'World Science Day for Peace and Development'. A U.N. UNESCO observance since 2001.

- 'International Day of The Girl'. Focuses on the neglect and devaluation of girls around the world.


Historical events in the past on: October 11

In 1950, CBS's mechanical color system is the first to be licensed for broadcast by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

In 1968, NASA launches Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard.

In 1975, The TV show 'Saturday Night Live' premieres. It is still running as of 2015 in it's 41st season.

In 1976, George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.

In 1983, The last hand-cranked telephones in the US went out of service. The customers moved to direct-dial.

No. 1 song

• Yesterday - The Beatle: More
  'Hang on Sloopy' has been displaced by 'Yesterday', which will hold the no. 1 spot until October 23 1965, when 'A Lover's Concerto - The toys', takes over.

Top movie

• The Agony and the Ecstasy More
  Having displaced 'Mickey One', it will be there until the weekend box office of Oct 17 1965 when, 'The Cincinnati Ki', takes over.

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• HistoryOrb.com: Famous Deaths on 11th October More
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• Wikipedia.com: History October 11 More

Monthly holiday / awareness days in October

Adopt a Dog Month
Adopt a Shelter Dog Month
American Cheese Month
American Magazine Month
American Pharmacists Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Bat Appreciation Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Campaign for Healthier Babies Month
Car Care Month
Celebrating the Bilingual Child Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Celiac Sprue Awareness Month
Child Health Month
Children's Magazine Month
Christmas Seal Campaign Church Library Month
Church Safety and Security Month
Class Reunion Month
Clergy Appreciation Month
Computer Learning Month
Consumer Information Month
Cookbook Month
Co-op Awareness Month
Country Music Month
Crime Prevention Month
Cut Out Dissection Month
Dollhouse and Miniatures Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Eat Better, Eat Together Month
Eat Country Ham Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Awareness Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair - Improve Your Home Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Fair Trade Month
Family Health Month
Feral Hog Month
or Hog Out Month
Financial Planning Month
Fire Prevention Month
Gay and Lesbian History Month
German-American Heritage Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Go Hog Wild-Eat Country Ham Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Healthy Lung Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Hunger Awareness Month
International Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
Long-Term Care Planning Month
Lupus Awareness Month
Medical Ultrasound Awareness Month
Mental Illness Awareness Month
Month
of Freethought National AIDS Awareness Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
National Apple Month
National Applejack Month
National Audiology Awareness Month
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Book Month
National Breast Cancer Awareness Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Caramel Month
National Chili Month
National Chiropractic Health Month
National Cookie Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Depression Education and Awareness Month
National Dessert Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Awareness Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Family Sexuality Education Month
- Let's Talk National Farm to School Month
National Gain the Inside Advantage Month
National Go on a Field Trip Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarians Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Pasta Month
National Pet Wellness Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Pickled Peppers Month
National Pit Bull Awareness Month
National Pizza Month
National Popcorn Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Pretzel Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National RSV Awareness Month
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
National Seafood Month
National Service Dog Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Spinning and Weaving Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month
National Window Covering Safety Month
National Work and Family Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Patient-Centered Care Awareness Month
Pear and Pineapple Month
Persimmons Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish-American Heritage Month
Positive Attitude Month
Quality Month
Raptor Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Rhizomes Month
Right Brainers Rule Month
Sausage Month
Self-Promotion Month
Sexuality Education Month
SIDS, Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
Spina Bifida Prevention Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Spinal Health Month
Squirrel Awareness Month
Stress Awareness Month
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) Month
Tackling Hunger Month
Talk about Prescriptions Month
UNICEF Month
Vegetarian Awareness Month
Vegetarian Month
Wishbones for Pets Month
Workplace Politics Awareness Month
World Animal Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
World Menopause Month
Youth Against Tobacco Month

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. "
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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If you couldn't afford 90 cents for a movie ticket, 50 years ago, or your 45 RPM record player was broke, you might watch one of these shows on TV.
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Below, are listed several holiday sites that I reference in addition to other holiday researches.

US Government Holidays

• 2015 Postal Holidays More
• 2015 Official Federal Holidays More

Holidays Worldwide

• List of holidays by country More
• Holidays and Observances around the World More