<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Dessert Day'. .
[The Hankster says] This is a big category. You guessed it. to give it all the proper attention the day needs, I will have to try them all. Someone has to do it.
* 'World Egg Day'. . Second Friday in October. Promotes the nutritional
value of eggs and their ability to help feed the peoples of the world.
- From Wikipedia (World Egg Day):
'World Egg Day is a unique opportunity to help raise awareness of the
benefits of eggs and is celebrated in countries all around the world.World
Egg Day was established at the IEC Vienna 1996 conference when it was
decided to celebrate World Egg Day on the second Friday in October each
year.
For centuries, eggs have played a major role in feeding families around the
globe. They are an unbeatable package when it comes to versatility and
top-quality protein at a very affordable price. And they are also an
excellent source of choline, essential in memory and brain development.
When you factor in convenience and terrific taste, there is just no
competition.
Eggs are one of nature's highest quality sources of protein, and indeed
contain many of the key ingredients for life. The proteins contained within
eggs are highly important in the development of the brain and muscles, have
a key role to play in disease prevention and contribute to well being in
latter life, particularly in relation to eyesight (avoiding macular
degeneration).:-
Peoples across the globe celebrate this day by making variety of egg dishes
and recipes'.
[The Hankster says] I'm an eggwhite guy myself.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'Spider-Man Day'.
In New York City.
[The Hankster says] Oh, what a tangled wed they will weave.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'The Big Pink'. In Great Britain. Breast cancer awareness and fund
raiser.
* 'Retina Sub-Specialty Day'. October 14-15 in the U.S.A. Supported by the
American Society of Retina Specialists, the Macula Society, the Retina
Society and Club Jules Gonin
o Other:
* 'World Standards Day'. Since 1970 by International Organization for
Standardization.
- From Wikipedia (World Standards Day):
''World Standards Day'/International standards day is celebrated
internationally each year on 14 October. The day honours the efforts of the
thousands of experts who develop voluntary standards within standards
development organizations such as the International Electrotechnical
Commission (IEC), International Organization for Standardization (ISO),
International Telecommunication Union (ITU), Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
The aim of World Standards Day is to raise awareness among regulators,
industry and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the
global economy.
14 October was specifically chosen to mark the date, in 1946, when
delegates from 25 countries first gathered in London and decided to create
an international organization focused on facilitating standardization. Even
though ISO was formed one year later, it wasn't until 1970 that the first
World Standards Day was celebrated.
Around the globe, various activities are chosen by national bodies to
commemorate the date. The United States held a 2014 U.S. Celebration of
World Standards Day on 23 October 2014. The Standards Council of Canada
(SCC), Canada's national accreditation body, celebrates World Standards Day
together with the international community by observing the day near the
dates of the international observance. In 2012 SCC celebrated World
Standards Day on Friday, 12 October'.
<> Historical events on October 14
* 'In 1888, The first film by Louis Le Prince, widely known as 'The Father
of Cinematography' was made. It was the 'Roundhay Garden Scene' filmed at a
friends house. It was filmed at 12 frames per second for 2.11 seconds.
- From Wikipedia: 'Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short silent film
recorded by French inventor Louis Le Prince. Shot at Oakwood Grange in
Roundhay, Leeds in the north of England, it is believed to be the oldest
surviving film in existence, as noted by the Guinness Book of Records.
According to Le Prince's son, Adolphe, the film was made at Oakwood Grange,
the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, Leeds, West Riding of
Yorkshire, England on 14 October 1888.
It features Adolphe Le Prince, Sarah Whitley (née Robinson, 1816 – 24
October 1888), Joseph Whitley (1817 – 12 January 1891) and Annie Hartley in
the garden, walking around. Note that Sarah is walking backwards as she
turns around, and that Joseph's coat tails are flying as he also is
turning. Joseph and Sarah Whitley were Louis Le Prince's parents-in-law,
being the parents of his wife Elizabeth, and Annie Hartley is believed to
be a friend of Le Prince and his wife. Sarah Whitley died ten days after
the scene was taken. She was the earliest born person ever to appear in a
film her husband Joseph was the second earliest born person and the
earliest born male person. Sarah Whitley was also the first person who had
appeared in a film to die.
In 1930 the National Science Museum (NSM), London, produced photographic
copies of surviving parts from the 1888 filmstrip. This sequence was
recorded on an 1885 Eastman Kodak paper base photographic film through Le
Prince's single-lens combi camera-projector. Le Prince's son, Adolphe,
stated that the Roundhay Garden movie was shot at 12 frames/s (and a second
movie, Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge, at 20 frames/s), however the later
digital remastered version of Roundhay Garden produced by the National
Media Museum, Bradford, which contains 52 frames, runs at 24.64 frames/s, a
modern cinematographic frame rate, so it plays in only 2.11 seconds. The
National Science Museum copy has 20 frames at 12 frames/s, this produces a
run time of 1.66 seconds'.
* 'In 1926, The book 'Winnie-the-Pooh' was first published. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Winnie-the-Pooh, also called Pooh Bear, is a fictional
anthropomorphic teddy bear created by English author A. A. Milne. The first
collection of stories about the character was the book Winnie-the-Pooh
(1926), and this was followed by The House at Pooh Corner (1928). Milne
also included a poem about the bear in the children's verse book When We
Were Very Young (1924) and many more in Now We Are Six (1927). All four
volumes were illustrated by E. H. Shepard.
The Pooh stories have been translated into many languages, including
Alexander Lenard's Latin translation, Winnie ille Pu, which was first
published in 1958, and, in 1960, became the only Latin book ever to have
been featured on The New York Times Best Seller list.
Hyphens in the character's name were dropped by Disney when the company
adapted the Pooh stories into a series of features that became one of its
most successful franchises. In popular film adaptations, Pooh Bear has been
voiced by actors Sterling Holloway, Hal Smith, and Jim Cummings in English
and Yevgeny Leonov in Russian.
A. A. Milne named the character Winnie-the-Pooh for a teddy bear owned by
his son, Christopher Robin Milne, who was the basis for the character
Christopher Robin. The rest of Christopher Robin Milne's toys, Piglet,
Eeyore, Kanga, Roo and Tigger, were incorporated into Milne's stories. Two
more characters, Owl and Rabbit, were created by Milne's imagination, while
Gopher was added to the Disney version. Christopher Robin's toy bear is on
display at the Main Branch of the New York Public Library in New York City.
Christopher Milne had named his toy bear after Winnie, a Canadian black
bear he often saw at London Zoo, and Pooh, a swan they had met while on
holiday. The bear cub was purchased from a hunter for $20 by Canadian
Lieutenant Harry Colebourn in White River, Ontario, Canada, while en route
to England during the First World War. He named the bear Winnie after his
adopted hometown in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Winnie was surreptitiously brought
to England with her owner, and gained unofficial recognition as The Fort
Garry Horse regimental mascot. Colebourn left Winnie at the London Zoo
while he and his unit were in France after the war she was officially
donated to the zoo, as she had become a much loved attraction there. Pooh
the swan appears as a character in its own right in When We Were Very
Young.
In the first chapter of Winnie-the-Pooh, Milne offers this explanation of
why Winnie-the-Pooh is often called simply Pooh:
But his arms were so stiff ... they stayed up straight in the air for more
than a week, and whenever a fly came and settled on his nose he had to blow
it off. And I think – but I am not sure – that that is why he is always
called Pooh'.
* 'In 1934, The radio show 'Lux Radio Theater' premieres. It started
broadcasting adaptations of Broadway plays (2 years) then Hollywood films.
It ran from Blue Network (1934-35) CBS Radio (1935-54), and NBC Radio
(1954-55 for 21 series and 926 ep.
- From Wikipedia: 'Lux Radio Theatre, sometimes spelled Lux Radio Theater,
a long-run classic radio anthology series, was broadcast on the NBC Blue
Network (1934–35) CBS Radio (1935-54), and NBC Radio (1954–55). Initially,
the series adapted Broadway plays during its first two seasons before it
began adapting films. These hour-long radio programs were performed live
before studio audiences. The series became the most popular dramatic
anthology series on radio, broadcast for more than 20 years and continued
on television as the Lux Video Theatre through most of the 1950s. The
primary sponsor of the show was Unilever through its Lux Soap brand.
Broadcasting from New York, the series premiered at 2:30 p.m., October 14,
1934, on the NBC Blue Network with a production of Seventh Heaven starring
Miriam Hopkins and John Boles in a full-hour adaptation of the 1922–24
Broadway production by Austin Strong. The host was the show's fictional
producer, Douglass Garrick (portrayed by John Anthony). Doris Dagmar played
another fictional character, Peggy Winthrop, who delivered the Lux
commercials. Each show featured a scripted session with Garrick talking to
the lead actors. Anthony appeared as Garrick from the premiere 1934 episode
until June 30, 1935. Garrick was portrayed by Albert Hayes from July 29,
1935 to May 25, 1936, when the show moved to the West Coast.
Cecil B. DeMille took over as the host on June 1, 1936, continuing until
January 22, 1945. That initial episode with DeMille featured Marlene
Dietrich and Clark Gable in The Legionnaire and the Lady. On several
occasions, usually when he was out of town, he was temporarily replaced by
various celebrities, including Leslie Howard and Edward Arnold.
Lux Radio Theatre strove to feature as many of the original stars of the
original stage and film productions as possible, usually paying them $5,000
an appearance. In 1936, when sponsor Lever Brothers (who made Lux soap and
detergent) moved the show from New York City to Hollywood, the program
began to emphasize adaptations of films rather than plays. The first Lux
film adaptation was The Legionnaire and the Lady, with Marlene Dietrich and
Clark Gable, based on the film Morocco. That was followed by a Lux
adaptation of The Thin Man, featuring the movie's stars, Myrna Loy and
William Powell'.
* 'In 1938, The song 'Big Noise from Winnetka' was recorded by Bob Crosby
and The Bob Cats. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Big Noise from Winnetka is a jazz song co-written by
composer and bass player Bob Haggart and drummer Ray Bauduc, who were
members of a sub-group of the Bob Crosby Orchestra called The Bobcats They
also were the first to record it, in 1938. That recording is remarkable for
its unusual duet feature: Haggart whistles the melody and plays the bass,
while only Bauduc accompanies him on the drums. Halfway through the solo,
Bauduc starts drumming on the strings of the double bass, while Haggart
continues to play with his left hand, creating a percussive bass solo. The
original version was just bass and drums but many other arrangements have
been performed including one by the Bob Crosby big band with the band's
vocal group.
After the success of the initial recording, Haggart and Bauduc performed
the song frequently for the rest of their careers, including in several
films, most notably in 1941's Let's Make Music and 1943's Reveille with
Beverly. The original recording was featured on the soundtrack of Raging
Bull. Nick Nolte and Debra Winger danced to a version credited to Bob
Crosby and the Bobcats in the 1982 film Cannery Row'.
* 'In 1947, Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Charles Elwood Chuck Yeager, born February 13, 1923) is
a former United States Air Force officer and record-setting test pilot. In
1947, he became the first pilot confirmed to have exceeded the speed of
sound in level flight.
After the war, Yeager became a test pilot of many types of aircraft,
including experimental rocket-powered aircraft. As the first human to
officially break the sound barrier, on October 14, 1947, he flew the
experimental Bell X-1 at Mach 1 at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m).
Although Scott Crossfield was the first to fly faster than Mach 2 in 1953,
Yeager shortly thereafter set a new record of Mach 2.44.
Yeager later commanded fighter squadrons and wings in Germany, and in
Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, and in recognition of the
outstanding performance ratings of those units he was promoted to brigadier
general. Yeager's flying career spans more than 60 years and has taken him
to every corner of the globe, including the Soviet Union during the height
of the Cold War.
Yeager broke the sound barrier on October 14, 1947, flying the X-1 at Mach
1.07 at an altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m). over the Rogers Dry Lake in
the Mojave Desert. Yeager was awarded the MacKay and Collier Trophies in
1948 for his mach-transcending flight, and the Harmon International Trophy
in 1954. The X-1 he flew that day was later put on permanent display at the
Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum'.
* 'In 1957, Everly Brothers' 'Wake Up Little Susie' reaches #1. .
- From Wikipedia: ''Wake Up Little Susie is a popular song written by
Felice and Boudleaux Bryant and published in 1957.
The song is best known in a recording by The Everly Brothers, issued by
Cadence Records as catalog number 1337. The Everly Brothers record reached
number one on the Billboard Pop chart and the Cash Box Best Selling Records
chart, despite having been banned from Boston radio stations for lyrics
that, at the time, were considered suggestive, according to a 1986
interview with Don Everly. Wake Up Little Susie also spent seven weeks atop
the Billboard country chart and got to number two on the UK Singles Chart.
The song was ranked at #318 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500
Greatest Songs of All Time.
In an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show during the 2000 U.S.
presidential election, then-Governor George W. Bush named Wake Up Little
Susie as his favorite song. Wake Up Little Susie was the first single
filmmaker David Lynch bought.
The song is written from the point of view of a high school boy to his
girlfriend, Susie. In the song, the two go out on a date, only to fall
asleep during the movie. They do not wake up until 4 o'clock in the
morning, well after her 10 o'clock curfew. They then contemplate the
reactions of her parents and their friends.
Don Everly reported it had been banned in Boston'.
* 'In 1962, U.S. intelligence personnel analyzing data discovered Soviet
medium-range missile sites in Cuba. On October 22 U.S. President John F.
Kennedy announced that he had ordered the naval 'quarantine' of Cuba. .
- From Wikipedia: The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October
Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de octubre), the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile
Scare, was a 13-day (October 16–28, 1962) confrontation between the United
States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment
in Cuba. Along with being televised worldwide, it was the closest the Cold
War came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.
In response to the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961, and the presence of
American Jupiter ballistic missiles in Italy and Turkey, Soviet leader
Nikita Khrushchev decided to agree to Cuba's request to place nuclear
missiles in Cuba to deter future harassment of Cuba. An agreement was
reached during a secret meeting between Khrushchev and Fidel Castro in July
1962 and construction of a number of missile launch facilities started
later that summer.
The 1962 midterm elections were under way in the United States and the
White House had denied charges that it was ignoring dangerous Soviet
missiles 90 miles from Florida. These missile preparations were confirmed
when an Air Force U-2 spy plane produced clear photographic evidence of
medium-range (SS-4) and intermediate-range (R-14) ballistic missile
facilities. The United States established a military blockade to prevent
further missiles from entering Cuba. It announced that they would not
permit offensive weapons to be delivered to Cuba and demanded that the
weapons already in Cuba be dismantled and returned to the USSR.
After a long period of tense negotiations, an agreement was reached between
President John F. Kennedy and Khrushchev. Publicly, the Soviets would
dismantle their offensive weapons in Cuba and return them to the Soviet
Union, subject to United Nations verification, in exchange for a U.S.
public declaration and agreement never to invade Cuba again without direct
provocation. Secretly, the United States also agreed that it would
dismantle all U.S.-built Jupiter MRBMs, which were deployed in Turkey and
Italy against the Soviet Union but were not known to the public.
When all offensive missiles and Ilyushin Il-28 light bombers had been
withdrawn from Cuba, the blockade was formally ended on November 20, 1962.
The negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union pointed out
the necessity of a quick, clear, and direct communication line between
Washington and Moscow. As a result, the Moscow–Washington hotline was
established. A series of agreements sharply reduced U.S.–Soviet tensions
during the following years.
'The United States had been sending U-2 surveillance over Cuba since the
failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. The first issue that led to a pause in
reconnaissance flights took place on August 30, when a U-2 operated by the
US Air Force's Strategic Air Command flew over Sakhalin Island in the
Soviet Far East by mistake. The Soviets lodged a protest and the U.S.
apologized. Nine days later, a Taiwanese-operated U-2 was lost over western
China to an SA-2 SAM. U.S. officials were worried that one of the Cuban or
Soviet SAMs in Cuba might shoot down a CIA U-2, initiating another
international incident. In a meeting with members of the Committee on
Overhead Reconnaissance (COMOR) on 10 September, US Secretary of State Dean
Rusk and National Security Advisor McGeorge Bundy heavily restricted
further U-2 flights over Cuban airspace. The resulting lack of coverage
over the island for the next five weeks became known to historians as the
Photo Gap. During this period, no significant U-2 coverage was achieved
over the interior of the island. U.S. officials attempted to use a Corona
photoreconnaissance satellite to obtain coverage over reported Soviet
military deployments, but imagery acquired over western Cuba by a Corona
KH-4 mission on 1 October was heavily covered by clouds and haze and failed
to provide any usable intelligence. At the end of September, Navy
reconnaissance aircraft photographed the Soviet ship Kasimov with large
crates on its deck the size and shape of Il-28 light bomber fuselages.
In September 1962, analysts from the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
noticed that Cuban surface-to-air missile sites were arranged in a pattern
similar to those used by the Soviet Union to protect its ICBM bases,
leading DIA to lobby for the resumption of U-2 flights over the island.
Although in the past the flights had been conducted by the CIA, due to
pressure from the Defense Department, the authority was transferred to the
Air Force. Following the loss of a CIA U-2 over the Soviet Union in May
1960, it was thought that if another U-2 were shot down, an Air Force
aircraft arguably being used for a legitimate military purpose would be
easier to explain than a CIA flight.
When the reconnaissance missions were re-authorized on October 9, poor
weather kept the planes from flying. The U.S. first obtained U-2
photographic evidence of the missiles on October 14, when a U-2 flight
piloted by Major Richard Heyser took 928 pictures on a path selected by DIA
analysts, capturing images of what turned out to be an SS-4 construction
site at San Cristóbal, Pinar del Río Province (now in Artemisa Province),
in western Cuba'.
* 'In 1968, Apollo 7 makes the first live telecast from a manned
spacecraft. .
- From Wikipedia: Apollo 7 was a 1968 human spaceflight mission carried out
by the United States. 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. It was scheduled to launch in February 1967,
but 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 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 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. The flight would prove to be the final
space flight for all of its three crew members — and the only one for both
Cunningham and Eisele — when it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean on
October 22, 1968. It was also the final manned launch from Cape Kennedy.
Another mission goal was the first live television broadcast from an
American spacecraft (Gordon Cooper had transmitted slow scan television
pictures from Faith 7 in 1963, which were never broadcast). It was
initially scheduled for midday on day two, but Schirra was concerned with
the broadcast interfering with the rendezvous test'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in October
Food
American Cheese Month
Apple Month
Corn Month
Go Hog Wild - Eat Country Ham
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Caramel Month
National Cookbook Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month
Pizza Month
Sausage Month
Spinach Lovers Month
Vegetarian Month
Health
AIDS Awareness Month
American Pharmacists Month
Antidepressant Death Awareness Month
Breast Cancer Awareness Month
Bullying Prevention Month
World Blindness Awareness Month
Caffeine Addiction Recovery Month
Celiac Disease Awareness Month
Christmas Seal Campaign
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Down Syndrome Awareness Month
Dyslexia Awareness Month
Emotional Intelligence Awareness Month
Emotional Wellness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Global ADHD Awareness Month
Global Diversity Awareness Month
Health Literacy Month
Home Eye Safety Month
Long Term Care Planning Month
National AIDS Awareness Month
National Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Depression Education and Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Protect Your Hearing Month
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stop Bullying Month
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month
Rett Syndrome Awareness Month
Organize Your Medical Information Month
Talk About Prescriptions Month
World Menopause Month
Animal and Pet
Adopt A Dog Month
Adopt A Shelter Dog Month
Bat Appreciation Month
National Animal Safety and Protection Month
Wishbones for Pets Month
Other
Celebrating The Bilingual Child Month
Children's Magazine Month
Class Reunion Month
Country Music Month
Employee Ownership Month
Energy Management is a Family Affair
Fair Trade Month
Financial Planning Month
German-American Heritage Month
Halloween Safety Month
Head Start Awareness Month
Italian-American Heritage Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month
Intergeneration Month
Learn To Bowl Month
National Arts and Humanities Month
National Chili Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
National Ergonomics Month
National Field Trip Month
National Kitchen and Bath Month
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Work and Family Month
Photographer Appreciation Month
Polish American Heritage Month
Self-Promotion 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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