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World Teachers' Day
"On 5
October, teachers' organisations worldwide mobilise to ensure that
the needs of future generations are taken into consideration in this
increasingly complex, multicultural and technological world.
"UNESCO inaugurated 5 October as World
Teachers' Day in 1994 to commemorate the joint signing of the UNESCO/ILO
Recommendation concerning the Status of Teachers (PDF 116
kb) on 5 October 1966. World Teachers' Day also highlights the
Recommendation
concerning the Status of Higher Education Teaching Personnel
(PDF 6.6 mb) adopted in 1997."
Source
October 5 is most common birthday in USA;
May 22 least common
"A recent in depth database query conducted by Anybirthday.com suggests that October 5th is the United States most popular birth date. It seems that on average more people are born on this day than any other.
"According to the inquiry, an average of 12,576 people are born each year on the 5th of October. It also suggests that some 968,000 Americans celebrate this day annually.
"What makes this early October birth date so fashionable? October 5th however held a not-so-suprising significance, as conception would have fallen right on New Years Eve.
"Which birth date is the least common? May 22nd with an average of 10,259 persons born each year."
Source
Audlem Wakes, Cheshire, England
Traditionally, the first person to get drunk at the event was
proclaimed Mayor of Audlem for the coming year.
Source: The Daily Bleed
 Dionysiad, Rumanian wine festival (see also Dionysus);
Ariadne and the Maenads
perhaps also commemorated, according to one source.
Deities
of many cultures in the Book of Days
Nubaigai, The Festival of the Old Woman,
Lithuania
"The Festival of the Old Woman (Nubaigai) is celebrated annually on this date by farm workers in Lithuania. The last sheaf of grain is dressed up as a woman and a festival of feasting, merriment, and games is held to honor the goddess of the corn."
Source
Feast day of St Anna
Schaeffer
Feast day of St Attilanus
Feast day of St Bartholomew
Longo
Feast day of St Flora of
Beaulieu
Feast day of St Francis
Xavier Seelos
Feast day of St Galla of
Rome, widow
"Daughter
of Roman patrician Symmachus the Younger who served as consul in
485; sister-in-law of Boethius. Lay woman, marrying soon after her father's murder, but widowed after a year of marriage;
legend says she grew a beard to avoid
further offers of marriage."
Source
Feast day of St John Hewitt
Feast day of St Philip of
Moscow
Feast day of St Placidus, abbot, and companions
(Starlike camomile [False aster; White doll's daisy], Boltonia asteroides is
today's plant, dedicated to these saints.)
Feast day of St Raymond of
Capua
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Day of the Holy Spirit
(Byzantine)
Ram
Mating Ceremony, Anatolia, Turkey (Oct 1 - 20)
First week in October, Salters' tradition, London, UK
Beadles and Servants of the guild of salters traditionally attended a service at St Magnus
Church, London-bridge. Sir John Salter had been a good benefactor to their company, and he ordered in his will that the beadles and servants should go three times each in the first week of October and say to each other,
"How do you do brother salter? I hope you are well!"
World Space Week (Oct 4 - 10)
Oktoberfest
(Sep 20
- Oct 5)
Eastern
Orthodox name day for St Charitini; see
also October
5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Republic
Day, Portugal
Celebrates the overthrow of the Monarchy in 1910.
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1703 Jonathan Edwards,
evangelical Christian leader
1713 Denis Diderot, French
encyclopaedist.
His Pensees philosophiques (1746), in which he attacked both
atheism and the received Christianity, was burned by order of the
Parliament of Paris.
1715
Victor
de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau (d. 1789), French economist
1717
Marie-Anne
de Mailly-Nesle duchess de Châteauroux (d. 1744),
French mistress of King Louis
XV of France
1728
Chevalier d'Éon,
French spy in the service of Louis XV who conducted missions for his
country disguised as a woman. A brilliant fencer, he gave
exhibitions in London and was fatally wounded in 1810. An autopsy
revealed his true sex.
1878 Louise Dresser (d. 1965), actress
1830 Chester A Arthur (d. 1886), 21st President of the United
States
1882 Robert Goddard, rocket
scientist
1902 Larry
Fine (d. 1975), American actor (Three Stooges)
1902 Ray Kroc (d. 1984),
entrepreneur (founded McDonald's)
Other
late starters
and late achievers in the Scriptorium
1903 M King Hubbert (d. 1989), geophysicist
1907 Mrs
Miller (d. 1997), singer
1908 Joshua Logan (d. 1988), film director, writer
1911
Flann O'Brien
(Brian O'Nolan; d. 1966),
Irish humourist
and novelist (An
Béal Bocht;
At Swim-Two-Birds;
The Third Policeman)
1917 Allen Ludden (d. 1981), television
game
show host
1919 Donald Pleasence (d. 1995),
British character actor (Halloween)
1923
Philip Berrigan, American
peace
activist, Christian
anarchist and Roman
Catholic priest.
Along with his brother Daniel
Berrigan, he was for a time on the FBI
Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list for actions against war.
1923 Glynis
Johns, actress
1924
Bill Dana, actor, comedian
1930 Pavel Popovich,
cosmonaut
1933 Diane Cilento, Papua New Guinea-born, Brisbane, Australia-raised actress
1935 Diahann Carroll, actress
1936
Václav Havel, Czech playwright, human rights campaigner and president, one of the leading intellectual
figures and moral forces in Eastern Europe, especially Czechoslovakia. He satirised the
communist bureaucracy and supported the Prague Spring reform
movement in 1968. He was co-founder of the human rights organization
Charter
77 and the Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly
Prosecuted.
In
November 1989, Vaclav Havel was one of the leading initiators of the
founding of the Civic Forum, an association uniting opposition civic
movements and democratic initiatives. From the very first days of
its existence, he was the head of the Civic Forum, becoming a key
figure of the 'Velvet
Revolution', when, beginning on November 17,
1989, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators for freedom took to the
streets of Prague. This became a popular uprising that seized the reins
of power from the incumbent Communist Party.
Havel's works were banned
by the government, but the manuscripts circulated privately and were
printed in Western Europe. He has been awarded numerous international prizes and honorary
doctorates.
Rock music, especially that of Frank Zappa and
Lou Reed,
and the Czech band Plastic People of
the Universe, inspired Havel and other
dissidents during their struggle against Soviet rule:
"From 1964 until August 21, 1968, Bohemia rediscovered bohemia, producing arguably the most dynamic artistic flowering communism ever tolerated, highlighted by Milos Forman and the Czech New Wave of cinema, novelist Bohumil Hrabal's Slavic take on magical realism, and the madcap theatrical rock band The Plastic People of the Universe. Havel spent this period at the influential and radical Theatre of the Balustrade, where he gobbled speed and pushed the free expression envelope with absurdist topical plays such as The Memorandum and The Increased Difficulty of
Concentration.
"In 1968 a rare copy of the Velvet Underground's first record somehow found its way to Prague. It became a sensation in music circles and beyond, eventually inspiring the Czech name for their bloodless 1989 overthrow of Communist rule,
'the Velvet Revolution.' The Plastic People, then a newly formed troupe that borrowed heavily from Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, quickly added a half-dozen songs from The Velvet Underground & Nico to their repertoire. The group was banned not long after the Prague Spring concluded but continued to play at weddings and secret shows.
"Then, in 1976, four members were arrested on charges of
'disturbing the peace.' The Czech dissident movement, newly roused by Havel's open letter, made the trial an international cause. Havel, who intuitively grasped the symbolism of the case, was in the courtroom every day to witness and document the judicial farce. Just as George Orwell saw picking up a gun to shoot fascists in the Spanish Civil War as
'the only conceivable thing to do,' Havel understood this assault on freedom as one outrage too far. It was a turning point in his life.
'Everyone understood,' he wrote later, 'that an attack on the Czech musical underground was an attack on a most elementary and important thing, something that in fact bound everyone together: it was an attack on the very notion of living within the truth, on the real aims of life.'"
Source
"The Plastics held a Second Music Festival of the Second Culture, also known as
'Magor's Wedding', in the small town of Bojanovice on February 21, 1976. In response to this festival, on March 17, 1976, the Secret Police arrested 27 musicians and their friends including all the Plastic People. In addition, over 100 fans were interrogated. The band's homemade equipment was seized, their homes were searched and tapes, films and notebooks were confiscated. Paul Wilson was expelled from the country soon after and returned to Canada.
"Six months later, the trial of the Plastic People and the other arrested artists began. The majority of the Plastic People were released due to international protests. However, four musicians including Vratislav Brabenec and Ivan Jirous from the Plastics, as well as Pavel Zajicek from the Plastics' sister band DG 307, and singer Svatopluk Karasek, were held for disturbing the peace.
"On that day, September 21, 1976, as the four defendants sat handcuffed in the dock, rock and roll went on trial. It was the hippies versus the Communist
state ...
"Among the supporters was avant-garde playwright Vaclav Havel who had met Jirous a week earlier and had been impressed with the man and his philosophy. Havel left the trial feeling disgusted with the world and resolved to make a difference."
Source
During
Havel's 1998 visit to the US, Lou Reed played at the state dinner in
the White House at his request:
"Reed recalls the interference he faced from White House Staff.
'What I remember is doing a soundcheck and somebody said you have to play softly. [I said,]
"we can't play softly – this is my idea of softly."'"
Source
Reed
visits Havel when he is in Prague.
"Last September [September, 2002 –
PW] he delivered a rousing anti-communist speech over Radio Martí, a much-mocked station funded by Washington and beamed to Cuba.
'When the internal crisis of the totalitarian system grows so deep that it becomes clear to everyone,' he declared,
'and when more and more people learn to speak their own language and reject the hollow, mendacious language of the powers that be, it means that freedom is remarkably close, if not directly within reach.' He also nominated Oswald Paya Sardinas – the Cuban spokesman for the Varela Project, an opposition group modeled directly on Havel's 1970s movement Charter 77 – for the Nobel Peace Prize. The speech was virtually ignored by the American press."
Source
Plastic People of the
Universe, film Rich literary world of
the Czech undersground
Official website
Velvet
Revolution Havel,
Lou Reed: A friendship goes public for art More
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1941 Eduardo Duhalde, Argentinan president
1943 Steve Miller, musician
1948 Tawl
Ross, musician (P Funk)
1951 Karen
Allen, actress
1952 Clive Barker, writer
1954 Bob
Geldof (Robert Frederick Xenon Geldof), Irish
(b. in
Dún
Laoghaire, County
Dublin) singer,
songwriter,
actor
and instigator of Live
Aid, famine
relief concert, and also Live8.
Geldof is shown at Live Aid being held aloft by rock musicians Pete
Townshend and Paul
McCartney.
Geldof came to fame in the mid-1970s
as leader of the Boomtown
Rats, a rock group closely linked with the punk
movement. In 1978,
they had their first Number 1 single with 'Rat Trap', which was the
first new
wave chart-topper in the UK. A follow-up, 'I Don't Like
Mondays', was equally successful and also controversial, as Geldof
wrote it in the aftermath of Brenda
Ann Spencer's attempted massacre
at her school in San
Diego, California
at the beginning of 1979.
Geldof has received many awards for this
work, including an honorary knighthood
from Queen Elizabeth
II. As he is not a British
or Commonwealth
citizen, Geldof is precluded from using the title 'Sir'. Regardless,
the nickname 'Sir Bob' has stuck, and even media reports will
frequently refer to him as 'Sir Bob Geldof'. On July
7, 2005,
Geldof was nominated for the 2006
Nobel
Peace Prize because of his dedication to fighting poverty and
AIDS in Africa. Bob Geldof is also an active fathers'
rights spokesperson in the United Kingdom.
www.bobgeldof.com/
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1958 Bernie
Mac, actor, comedian
1960 Daniel Baldwin, actor (Homicide: Life on the Street)
1963 Caron Keating (d. 2004), former Blue
Peter presenter
1967 Guy
Pearce, actor
1975
Kate Winslet, actress
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578
Death of Justin II, Byantine
Emperor.
877 Death of Charles
the Bald.
1056 Death
of Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor.
1112 Death
of Sigebert
of Gembloux, French chronicler.
1582
Pope Gregory
XIII, having annulled 14 days yesterday, made today October 15 in Italy,
Poland, Portugal
and Spain. However,
his Gregorian calendar was
off 11 minutes every 100 years, creating even more complex problems.
1665 Kiel,
Germany:
The University
of Kiel was founded.
1791 Death
of Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman.
1793 The French
revolution disestablished Christianity
in France. The
National Convention
also adopted the French Revolutionary
Calendar retrospectively as from September 22, 1792. Napoleon abolished it
and restored the Gregorian calendar on January 1, 1806.
1813 Death
of Tecumseh,
Native
American leader.
1829
Gunpowder was first made in Australia.
1837 Death
of Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and
mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France.
1864 Calcutta, India was almost
totally destroyed by a cyclone; 60,000 died.
 1877 USA: At Eagle Creek in Bear Paw
Mountains, Montana, Nez Percé leader
Chief
Joseph (In-mut-too-yah-lat-lat – Thunder coming up over the land
from the water), surrendered his rifle to General Nelson A Miles after months in which his
starving band eluded pursuing federal troops.
On December 15, 1970,
US President Richard Nixon signed the Taos Land Bill by which 48,000 acres of land were
returned to the Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, the first US legislation ever to
return a sizable amount of federal land to the Native Americans from whom it was
borrowed.
"October 5,
2003 was a cloudless, warm day on the northern fringe of the Bear Paw Mountains,
unlike that same date in 1877 when snow blanketed the ground and a bitter wind
blew. Nez Perce children were crying from the cold and lack of food when Chief
Joseph made his famous speech: 'From where the sun now stands I shall fight no
more forever.' After a trek of 1,300 miles in an attempt to reach safety in
Canada and after numerous battles with army soldiers, he had to stop just 40
miles from the border in order to save the youngsters and keep his people
together." Source
"Earlier in the
year, the U.S. government broke a land treaty with the Nez Perce Indians,
forcing the group out of their homeland in Wallowa Valley in the Northwest for
relocation in Idaho. In the midst of their journey, Chief Joseph learned three
young Nez Perce warriors, enraged at the loss of their homeland, had massacred a
band of white settlers. Fearing retaliation by the Army, he began one of the
greatest retreats in American military history. For over three months, Chief
Joseph led less than 300 Nez Perce Indians toward the Canadian border, covering
a distance of over 1,000 miles as the Nez Perce outmaneuvered and battled over
2,000 pursuing U.S. soldiers. Finally, only 40 miles short of his Canadian goal,
they were cornered, and forcibly relocated."
Source: The
Daily Bleed
"Although
he had surrendered with the understanding that he would be allowed to return
home, Joseph and his people were instead taken first to eastern Kansas and then
to a reservation in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma) where many of them
died of epidemic diseases. Although he was allowed to visit Washington, D.C., in
1879 to plead his case to U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes, it was not until
1885 that Joseph and the other refugees were returned to the Pacific Northwest.
Even then, half, including Joseph, were taken to a non-Nez Percé reservation in
northern Washington, separated from the rest of their people in Idaho and their
homeland in the Wallowa Valley.
"In his last
years, Joseph spoke eloquently against the injustice of United States policy
toward his people and held out the hope that America's promise of freedom and
equality might one day be fulfilled for Native Americans as well. An indomitable
voice of conscience for the West, he died in 1904, still in exile from his
homeland, according to his doctor 'of a broken heart.'"
Source: Ezine Place Dream catcher, by Black
Bear
Nez Percé culture
1908 Bulgaria
declared its independence from the Ottoman
Empire. Ferdinand I of Bulgaria became Tsar.
1910 Portugal
overthrew the monarchy.
1917 Sir
Arthur Lee donated his country
residence Chequers to Britain as a
retreat for its prime ministers.
1917 Anarchist Emma
Goldman, her niece Stella Ballantine, and M Eleanor
Fitzgerald began publication of Mother Earth Bulletin. See also Mother
Earth magazine.
Early
progressives in the Book of Days
1929 Australia: Hereward de Haviland
won the Sydney-Perth Transcontinental Air Race.
1930 British Airship R101c crashed near
Beauvais,
France, en route to
India
on its maiden voyage.
The
R-101 rigid airship crashed on the edge of
a wood, killing 48 passengers including British Air Minister Lord Thompson, who
may well have contributed to the disaster by bringing on board luggage that
weighed as much as 24 people.
1931 Clyde Pangborn made the first non-stop trans-Atlantic flight.
1936 The Jarrow
March: Two hundred unemployed men set off on a 'hunger march'
from Jarrow in England's north to London to
petition the government.
1944 Canadian Air Force
pilots shot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1947 In the first televised White House
address, US President Harry S Truman urged Americans to refrain from
eating meat on Tuesdays and poultry on Sundays to help starving people in other
countries.
1952 Tea went off the list of
Britain's rationed commodities.
1953 USA: The first documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous was held. On August 17 of that year,
Frank Carnahan, Doris Carnahan, Guilda Krause, Paul Rosenbluth, Steve
Ryan and Jimmy Kinnon had met "for the purpose of organizing an AANA group".
The name was to be San Fernando Valley Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics
Anonymous.
1953 Earl
Warren was sworn in as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.
1962 The Beatles single,
'Love Me Do'/'PS I Love You'
(Parlophone 45-R 4983) was released in the UK. It was the first
'just Beatles' single, but on January 5, 1962 they had released 'My Bonnie'/'The Saints'
(Polydor NH 66833), billed as 'Tony Sheridan & the Beatles'.
1966 Near Detroit,
Michigan a sodium cooling system malfunction caused a partial core meltdown
at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear
breeder reactor, killing three
workers. The radiation was contained.
1968 Police used water cannons and
batons to break up a civil rights march in Londonderry, Ireland.
1969
Monty Python's Flying Circus debuted
on BBC One.
Some rejected alternative names for the show:
1 2 3 / It's Them! / Arthur Megapode's
Flying Circus / The Horrible Earnest Megapode / The Panic Show / The Plastic Mac
Show / Ow! It's Colin Plint! / Vaseline Review / Vaseline Parade / The Keen
Show / Brian's Flying Circus / The Year of the Stoat / Cynthia Fellatio's
Flying Circus / Owl Stretching Time / The Whizzo Easishow! (Guaranteed to last
1/2 hour! Money back if not!)
From Kim 'Howard' Johnson's Life
Before and After Monty Python
Monty
Python Monty Python and the Holy Grail Life of Brian The Meaning of Life
1970 USA: PBS became a television network.
1970 Montreal, Quebec: British
Trade Commissioner James Cross was kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group.
1973 Signature of the European Patent Convention.
1977 Maria Rubio
noticed that marks on her tortilla looked like Jesus Christ. In the small town of
Lake Arthur, New Mexico, USA, near the famous
'alien town' of Roswell,
Mrs Rubio was rolling a burrito for her husband Eduardo's breakfast, when she
noticed a 3-inch impression of skillet burns on the tortilla that resembled the
face of Jesus. She convinced a reluctant priest to bless the piece of bread,
then built a shrine around it, for which she quit her job to devote her full
time to tending the sacred tortilla. Thousands of pilgrims have
since visited the site.
New Mexico
is also home of the historic Chimayo
Shrine, which commemorates an event during
Holy Week on the night of Good
Friday, c. 1810, when
a Chimayo friar, Don Bernardo Abeyta,
who was a member in good standing of the Hermandad de Nuestro Padre Jesus el
Nazareno (Penitentes), was performing the customary penances of the Society
around the hills of El Potrero. There he saw a light bursting from a
hillside near the Santa Cruz River.
He dug and found a crucifix, quickly dubbed the miraculous crucifix of
El Santuario de
Nuestro Señor de Esquípulas – The Sanctuary of Our Lord of
Esquipulas.
A local priest, Fr Sebastian Alvarez, took the
crucifix to Santa Cruz, but it disappeared three times and was later found back
sitting in the hole the friar had dug, leading believers to understand that El
Señor de Esquipulas wanted to remain in Chimayo. Consequently, a small
chapel was built on the site, following which miraculous healings started
occurring. These were so frequent that the chapel was replaced by the larger,
current adobe Chimayo Shrine in 1816. El
Santuario was a privately owned chapel until the year l929, when several
benefactors bought it and turned it over to the
Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
El
Santuario de Chimayo is now known locally as the 'Lourdes of America'.
The crucifix still resides on the chapel altar, although its curative powers
have been overshadowed by El Posito, the 'sacred sand pit' from which
it sprang, now behind the main altar. More than 300,000 pilgrims visit
Chimayo's strange shrine each year.
(Note: On June 15, 1963, the face
of cult leader JR 'Bob' Dobbs
appeared on a tortilla of a humble Mexican woman in Plano, Texas, USA.)
1981 Long-missing Swedish diplomat
Raoul
Wallenberg (1912 - 1945?) became an honorary American citizen.
1983 Britain's
Trade and Industry
Secretary, Cecil Parkinson, admitted that he had been having an adulterous affair
with his secretary, Sara Keays, who was expecting his child.
1984 Marc
Garneau became the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger (41-6).
1990 Melbourne, Australia: After one hundred and
fifty years The Herald broadsheet
newspaper was published for the last time as a separate newspaper.
1991 An Indonesian military transport crashed
after takeoff from Jakarta, killing
137.
1991
Linux version 0.01 was released.
1991 'Stop the hatred to stop the war'
demonstration, Belgrade,
Yugoslavia.
2000
The defeat of Slobodan Milosevic in earlier elections led to
mass demonstrations in Belgrade and the ultimate collapse of the regime's
authority. Opposition leader
Vojislav Koštunica took office as Yugoslav
president on October
6.
2003 Akhmad
Kadyrov (1951 - 2004)
was elected President of Chechnya.
2003 "Arnold
Schwarzenegger assures Tom Brokaw that he will respond to the allegations of
sexual misconduct at the earliest possible opportunity: 'As soon as the campaign
is over I will – I can get into all of the specifics and find out what is really
going on. But right now I'm just really occupied with the campaign.'" Source
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