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From Wikipedia:
Hangul Day – also called Hangul Proclamation Day or Korean
Alphabet Day – is a Korean national commemorative day marking the
invention and the proclamation of Hangul,
the native alphabet
of the Korean
language, by King
Sejong the Great. It is observed on October
9 in South
Korea and on January
15 in North
Korea.
According to the Chronicle of King
Sejong, King Sejong proclaimed publication of Hunmin
Jeongeum (detail pictured), the document introducing the newly-created
alphabet which was also originally called by the same name, in the
ninth month of the lunar
calendar in 1446.
In 1926,
the Hangul
Society celebrated the octo-sexagesimal
(480th) anniversary of the declaration of Hangul on the
last day of the ninth month of lunar calendar, which is on November
4 of the Gregorian
calendar. Members of the Society declared it the first
observance of 'Gagyanal'. The name came from 'Gagyageul', an early
colloquial name for Hangul, based on a mnemonic recitation beginning
'gagya geogyeo'. The name of the commemorative day was changed to 'Hangullal'
in 1928,
soon after the term 'Hangul'
coined originally in 1913
by Ju
Si-gyeong, became widely accepted as the new name for the
alphabet. The day was then celebrated according to the lunar
calendar.
In 1931,
the celebration of the day switched to October
29 of the Gregorian calendar. In 1934
arose the claim that they must assume that Julian
calendar (Julian day calculator (pop-up)
) was used in 1446, so the day was again changed to October
28.
The discovery in 1940 of an original copy
of the Hunmin
Jeongeum Haerye, a volume of commentary to the Hunmin
Jeongeum that appeared not long after the document it commented
upon, revealed that the Hunmin Jeongeum was announced during
the first ten days (sangsun) of the ninth month. The tenth
day of the ninth month of 1446 of the lunar calendar was
equivalent to October
9 of the Julian
calendar. After the South
Korean government was established in 1945,
Hangul Day was declared as a legal holiday to be marked on October
9, on which governmental workers are excused from work.
Its legal status as a holiday was removed
in 1991
due to pressure from major
employers to increase the number of working days, along with the
introduction of the Korean United
Nations Day. However, Hangul Day still retains legal status as a
national commemoration day. Hangul Society has campaigned to restore
the holiday's former status, but with little impact.
North
Korea celebrates the equivalent Chosŭn'gŭl Day on
January 15 to mark the day in 1444
(1443
in the lunar calendar), which is believed to be that of the actual
creation of Hunmin Jeongeum.
Some American
and German
linguists,
including the late James
D McCawley, celebrate this day yearly to recognise the creation
of the Korean alphabet as a linguistic achievement of global
significance.
Ram Mating
Ceremony, Anatolia, Turkey (Oct 1 - 20)
Feast day of St Aaron the
Patriarch
Feast day of St Abraham the
Patriarch
Feast day of St Anicet
Adolfo
Feast day of St Augusto
Andrés
Feast day of St Benito de
Jesús
Feast day of St Benjamín
Julián
Feast day of St Cirilo
Bertrán
Feast day of St Dionysius the
Aeropagite
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Immaculada
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Bridlington
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Norway, USA and elsewhere
(Various
spellings: Leifur Eiriksson, Leif Erikson, Leif Ericsson, Leif Eriksson,
Leif Erickson, Leiv Eiriksson, Leiv Eriksson)
Leif Erikson, known as Leif the Lucky,
the alleged European discoverer of America some 500 years before
Christopher Columbus,
is commemorated in Norway and the USA. President William J Clinton
proclaimed
October 9, 1997 Leif Erikson Day.
"The discovery of
Wineland the Good and other lands on the eastern coast of North America
is recorded at greater length in two mediaeval Iceland sagas, the Saga
of Eric the Red and the Saga of the Greenlanders. These were probably
written around or soon after the year 1200, just over two centuries
after the events they record." Source
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proclaim Leif Ericson Day in Canada (petition failed)
Black Walnut Festival, Spencer, Roane County,
West Virginia, USA (Oct 9 - 12)
Wina'Kwari, Mexico
Green
squash festival of Ojos de Dios (God's Eye).
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Day, Uganda
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Day, Ecuador
(from Spain 1820)
(Dia de la independencia de Guayaquil) Romanian
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1201
Robert
de Sorbon (d. 1274),
French theologian and founder of the Sorbonne
1221
Salimbene
di Adam, Italian chronicler
1261
King Dinis of Portugal
1328
King Peter
I of Cyprus (d. 1369)
1585 Heinrich Schütz, composer
1757 King
Charles X of France
1835 Camille Saint-Saëns (d. 1921), French composer
(Samson et
Dalila;
Danse
Macabre)
1859 Alfred
Dreyfus (d. 1935), French
military officer
1864
Brigadier-General
Reginald Dyer,
CB (d.
July 23,
1927),
British Indian Army officer infamous for
initiating the
Jallianwala
Bagh Massacre of
1919
1873 Charles Walgreen (d. 1939), entrepreneur
1879 Bertram
Stevens (d. February
14, 1922), Australian
literary and art critic, anthologist (An Anthology of Australian
Verse [which contained five poems by Henry Lawson]; The Golden Treasury of Australian Verse).
He succeeded AG Stephens as editor of the
'Red Page' of The
Bulletin. Stevens was a member of the exclusive Dawn
and Dusk drinking club, along with Victor
Daley, Henry Lawson and other Sydney bohemians. At the time of his death he was preparing A History
of Australian Literature (unpublished).
"Stevens was a modest man of quiet charm. He was completely unselfish, always anxious to help the literary beginner or struggling poet. He was a sound, though not great critic of both literature and art, for both of which he did an immense amount of work, which had much influence on the cultural life of Australia."
Source
"Bertram Stevens was born at Inverell, New South Wales. In 1882 he moved with his family to Sydney where he was educated at public schools. In 1895 he began a fifteen-year period as a solicitor's clerk. During this time he read widely and worked as a freelance journalist, coming into contact with a number of literary figures. He was a founding member of the Dawn and Dusk Club, a society of artists and writers that included Victor Daley, F. J. Broomfield, Norman Lindsay, Henry Lawson …"
Source
Not
to be confused with this Bertram
Stevens, UAP
Premier
of New South Wales May
16, 1932
- August
5, 1939.
Lawson & Co:
associations with Henry and Louisa Lawson
1888 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian
politician
1890 Aimee Semple McPherson (d. 1944),
American evangelist
1892 Marina Tsvetaeva, Russian poet
1892 Ivo
Andrić (d. 1975), Croatian writer
1900 Alastair
Sim (d. 1976), actor
1907 Quintin
Hogg (d. 2001), later Lord Hailsham of St Marylebone,
British politician
 1908 Harry Hooton (b.
Henry Arthur Hooton; d. 1961),
Australian anarchist poet.
Hooton was
an Australian poet and philosopher ahead of his time. He was part of the
libertarian Sydney Push in Sydney
during the 1950s.
In 1943, Hooton met
the authors Nettie Palmer and Miles Franklin
while they were travelling through Newcastle.
Through Franklin, he was introduced to the writings of Carl
Sandburg and the American literary scene.
Living in Sydney after WWII, Hooton moved in similar
intellectual circles as Professor
John
Anderson, attracted to intellectual discourse and philosophical
debate. Both exerted certain influences on the crowd of young
intellectuals that became known as the Sydney Push.
While Hooton was living a very bohemian life in
Sydney, he was also connecting with literary people in Japan, India,
Greece, South Africa, England, France, New Zealand and the USA. Hooton had
corresponded with counterculture figures in California, and with
Tuli Kupferberg, later to form the nihilist rock group The Fugs. Hooten's last book was
It Is Great To Be Alive, published by Margaret
Fink (then Margaret Elliot, whom he'd met in 1952 and lived with) just before he died.
His works were edited by Australian writer and editor, Sasha
Soldatow (1947 - 2006).
Source: Wikipedia
Harry Hooton
(1908-1961): Poet and philosopher of the 21st Century, by Sasha
Soldatow, his editor
Anarcho-technocracy
and The
Politics of Things, by Harry Hooton More
1909 Jacques
Tati (d. 1982),
French actor, film director and screenwriter (Monsieur Hulot's Holiday;
Mon Oncle)
1911 Joe
Rosenthal, photographer
1920 Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian
author
1923 Fyvush Finkel, actor
1928 Einojuhani Rautavaara, composer
1937 Brian
Blessed, actor
1938
Heinz
Fischer, Austrian politician
1939
John Pilger,
progressive Australian
journalist,
author (The
New Rulers of the World) and maker of documentary films (Stealing
a Nation)
 1940 John Lennon (d. December 8, 1980), British musician, songwriter.
Lennon
was a master singer-songwriter and a political activist, a hero to many
and a villain to others. What is the real legacy of this man?
Lennon's
influence from 1963 - '70 as a Beatle was profound. It was brought about by a
combination of prodigious talent, aggressive self-promotion, and
technological opportunities. The ability of a single musical act to have
the vast reach that the Beatles enjoyed was only made possible by
technological advances – satellites, recording techniques, advances in
shipping technologies, air travel, even new printing technology aided the
Fab Four.
For
example, in 1967, the Beatles recorded
'All
You Need is Love' in a London studio, watched live by millions of
people all around the world in the first ever global telecast, Our
World (see video of the recording at June
25 in the Book of Days). Fortunately, it was also a great song (yet another Number
One), though almost everything they did had the stamp of greatness on it.
They never seemed to let their fans down and kept getting better and
better.
However,
despite that song, and Sgt
Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and a phenomenal 31 Number One
Beatle hits (in Australia), John Lennon's intellectual star shone most
brightly in the decade following the 1970 acrimonious demise of the band.
It was then that full vent was given to the acuity of his mind in
combination with his musical gifts.
His
influence was profound in the realm of the personal/political. The song 'Imagine' represented much of what Lennon was saying, and it became a standard.
However, some of his best work, written and recorded in his first few
years as 'former-Beatle John Lennon', did
not sell as well and is not so well known.
Such songs as 'Woman is the Nigger of the World', 'Luck of the
Irish' and 'Attica
State' brought an overtly leftist political dynamic to pop music.
The album
Some Time in New York City was fiercely alternative and
made Lennon many enemies, such that Sean
Lennon, his son, claimed that his father might have been killed by the
CIA. It seems a paranoid conclusion to draw, and it is not a theory I
subscribe to, but certainly Lennon was a target of the Nixon
administration and investigated by the USA's
FBI and Britain's
MI5 spooks.
He had the same drug convictions as George
Harrison, but he, and not George, was refused a Green Card by the US
Immigration Department ...
Read on at the John Lennon
page in the Scriptorium
"The Lennon family of Liverpool is
descended from the O'Leannain's [sic] of Western Ireland.
"Tracing the genealogy of Irish
families has become exceedingly difficult, due to a fire in 1922 in which
records for 1821 to 1851 were wiped out. Sadly, records for 1861 to 1871
were destroyed by Government order. However, there is a clue to the Lennon
heritage in the Irish Lennon family crest.
"The use of a stag as an icon can be
seen in Irish art and ancient stone carvings across four millennia. The
stag symbolises chieftaincy, fertility and the sun. A browsing stag also
denotes contentment, lack of concern and a beast that is secure in its
power. In the ancient Celtic world the stag was ruler of the animal
kingdom. Its use in a family crest indicates the family was descended from
ancient Irish stock and were acknowledged as leaders in the community,
educators, nobility or priests. This is reflected in the Lennon family
motto 'Prisco Stripe Hibernice' which translates as 'Of Ancient
Irish Stock'.
"For the ancient Irish Celts the stag
was depicted as a guide for people journeying from this world to the other
world. That is, from this life to the next. Its usage in the crest
provides more evidence that people bearing the Lennon name were spiritual
guides, or priests.
"The stag is portrayed on a hilltop,
again suggesting nobility or chieftainship. Logically, the background to
the scene would be a blue sky, but the crest shows the sky as white. White
has been used from ancient times to denote purity, again suggesting
spiritual leadership and nobility.
"The name Lennon is an anglicised
version of O'Leannain, which in Irish Gaelic means 'love'. Love, for
the early Celts as much as for people today, was acknowledged as the most
potent of all human emotions.
"The family tree shows
five successive generations of Lennons, all of whom made at least part of
their living through music. John Lennon sang professionally in pubs in
Ireland in the first half of the nineteenth century. John's son Jack
joined a minstrel group that toured in America in the late 1800's.
Jack's son Alfred
ran away from an orphanage to join a children's music hall troupe in the
1920's and later entertained his shipmates in the merchant navy with his
impersonations of famous singers. Alfred's son John formed The
Beatles and his son Julian
carries the musical tradition into the twenty-first century." Source
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1941
Trent
Lott, American politician
1944 John
Entwistle
(d. 2002), British bassist (The Who)
1944 Peter
Tosh, Jamaican
reggae
musician, founder member of Bob
Marley's
Wailers. He was murdered by a burglar (an acquaintance) in his home
on September 11,
1987.
"In 1963, Trench Town's aspiring
musicians gathered at the house of a local celebrity named Joe
Higgs. Higgs was a calypso-pop singer esteemed as much for his
critical ear as for being a star with a local hit and for being a
hero on the streets. Hanging out at Higgs', Tosh was one of few
Jamaicans who owned – and knew how to play – a guitar.
One day, while passing by Higgs' place,
Tosh heard the harmonizing of Marley and Neville O'Riley
Livingston, who would later become Bunny Wailer. Assertive and
outspoken, Tosh took it upon himself to join them." Source
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1948
Jackson Browne, American
singer
"Jackson
Browne was born in Germany. His father, Clyde Jack Browne, worked for
the US army. His mother's name is Beatrice Amanda Dahl. Jacksons
musical career began in the late 60's. He played with the Nitty Gritty
Dirt Band before they released their first album, played with Tim
Buckley who introduced him to Nico. On Nico's first album
"Chelsea Girls" are three songs (co-)written by JB. His first
own record was released in 1972. From the very beginning he played with
some of the best and famous musicians, among those are David Crosby,
Joni Mitchell, The Eagles, David Lindley, Warren Zevon, Bonnie Raitt.
Jackson was part of 'Artists United against Apartheid' and 'Musicians United for Save [sic]
Energy (MUSE)' (No Nukes)." Source
1950
Jody Williams,
American teacher
and aid worker who on October
10, 1997
received the Nobel
Peace Prize jointly with the campaign she led, the International
Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL).
1952
Sharon Osbourne, wife of Ozzy
Osbourne
1953 Tony
Shalhoub, actor
1954 Scott
Bakula, American television actor (Quantum
Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise)
1962 Tommy Lee,
American
drummer
1969 PJ
Harvey, musician
1970 Savannah (d. 1994), pornographic
movie actress
1973
Steven Burns, actor/musician
1975
Sean
Lennon, musician, son of John
Lennon and Yoko Ono
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28 BCE The Temple of Apollo on the Palatine Hill at Rome was
dedicated.
1000 Leif
Erikson discovered Vinland, becoming the first known European to set
foot in North America.
1047 Death of Pope
Clement II.
1192 King Richard I
('Coeur de Lion'; 'the Lionheart';
1157 - '99)
abandoned Palestine ('the
Holy Land') after an unsuccessful invasion ('crusade'), leaving
Jerusalem in Muslim hands. Palestine
has been a hotbed of conflict since around 500; the Crusades were
started on the pretext of 'recovering' the region. More recently, the
region has been at the centre of the religious arguments of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
1238 James
I of Aragon conquered Valencia and founded the
Kingdom of Valencia.
1253 Death of Robert Grosseteste, English
statesman and bishop.
1446 The Hangul alphabet is
created in Korea.
1635 Founder of Rhode
Island Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony as a religious
dissident after he spoke out against punishments for religious offences and
giving away Native American land.
1651 The
Navigation Act was passed in England as a counter to Dutch
maritime supremacy, allowing only English ships to import goods from Africa,
America and Asia to England.
1684
England:
An entry in the Wakefield Sessions recorded
an "Order for Constable of Sandal to pay John Ramsden 10s 6d for the Constable
of Sandal and William Hardcastle gentleman, three days conveying one Nevison,
a highwayman, to the Castle of York, and 2s 6d for obtaining the order".
Highwaymen,
outlaws, bushrangers, pirates, gangsters, etc in the Book of Days
1701 The Collegiate
School of Connecticut (later renamed Yale
University) was chartered in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, USA.
1709 Death
of Barbara
Palmer, 1st Duchess of Cleveland (b. 1640),
English mistress of Charles
II of England.
1760 Russians and
Austrians sacked Berlin.
1776 Father Francisco Palou founded Mission San Francisco de Asis in what
is now San Francisco, California, USA.
1793 Death of Jean Joseph Marie Amiot, French missionary.
1799 HMS Lutine left Yarmouth, England, for Cuxhaven,
a town in Lower
Saxony, Germany, carrying bullion and valuables worth some £500,000. The same night,
it was
wrecked on a sandbank off the Zuyder Zee with the loss of every soul on board
save one, who died as soon as rescued. The tragedy was a black day for Lloyd's
of London, the insurer.
La Lutine ('The
Sprite') was commissioned in the French Navy in 1785, just four years before the
start of the French Revolution. In 1799,
she was employed in carrying about £1,125,000 in bullion
and coin from Yarmouth
to Cuxhaven for the purpose of supporting German banks
in the climate of monetary inflation
brought about by the French Revolutionary wars.
The ship, having made
unexpected leeway, was drawn by the tidal
stream flowing into the Waddenzee,
onto a sandbank off the island of Terschelling.
There, she became a total loss. All but one of her 200 passengers and crew
perished in the breaking seas.
More than 100 victims were buried near a lake in the
dunes of Terschelling. This lake is known today as the "doodemanskisten"
(dead man's coffins) because it is also close to the place from which the wood
for the coffins originated.
In 1858, a lot of the Lutine and
her rich cargo was salvaged, as well as her bell and rudder. The latter was made
into the official chair for Lloyd's chairman and a secretary's desk. The
bell was re-hung on the rostrum
of the Underwriting
Room at Lloyd's and is rung once whenever a total wreck is reported,
and twice for an overdue ship.
In 1963, the Lutine Bell, as it is
known, was rung to signal the death of US President John Kennedy and in 1965 for
that of Sir Winston Churchill who was an honorary member of Lloyd's.
It was rung, too, for New York's 9/11
disaster, the Asian
Tsunami and the London
Tube Bombings.
"In the fall of 1799, a
consortium of London merchants anxious over the worsening conditions in Europe
prevailed upon the Admiralty to allow them to ship a cargo of some £2 million
in gold bullion, some of it intended for payment of British soldiers, to the
continent. It was a tense time for merchants and military strategists alike, as
the Anglo-Russian coalition against the French in Holland was on the verge of
collapse. Lutine sailed for Cuxhaven under Captain Lancelot Skynner on
October 9. At about midnight that night she was blown ashore in a gale on the
coast of Vlieland, near the Zuider Zee, and lost with all hands but two, both of
whom died shortly thereafter. Despite many attempts, little of the ship's cargo
has ever been recovered." Source
"Until 1997 the wreckage of the Lutine was always blamed on an unfortunate coincidence of circumstances.
"But, when the Musea of Vlieland and Terschelling wanted to organize a Lutine commemoration-year at 1999, they made some unexpected discoveries. The case became more and more mysterious.
"At first the wreckage wasn't due to the storm but to human failure.
"The ship was in a perfect state of maintenance, the crew was highly experienced and a north-westerly gale must have been no problem for a frigate like the
Lutine.
"Well, everyone can make mistakes, so why not the captain and navigator of the
Lutine?
"That's not so simple, for the British Royal Navy at that time didn't except
[sic] any human failure. Every minor mistake of a captain, and certainly one that directed to the loss of a ship, was investigated to the bottom by the Admiralty. A captain's failure could bring a death penalty or disgraced
[sic] his name forever.
"And, what more, for a disgraced captain's widow there was no payment.
"But this case wasn't sorted out; at least there are no archive records. Even the letters, written by the English commander of Vlieland were taken out. All the evidences are
[sic] systematically removed.
"There was one survivor. The man is heard. But that's it. Obviously his story wasn't acceptable for the Navy.
Money
"Its all about the money of course.
"Lloyd's insurance company insured the ships
[sic] cargo. When the ship was lost by human failure, the Navy was to blame and Lloyd's would have refused to pay out in insurance money. And what about the passengers? Among them there was a group of high-class civilians, nobility of England, France and Luxembourg. Their relatives would certainly have demanded some satisfaction if the Navy was to blame."
Source: The Eternal
Mystery of Lost Gold
1806 Death of Benjamin
Banneker, American astronomer.
1812 War of 1812:
In a naval engagement on Lake Erie, American
forces captured two British ships; the HMS
Detroit
and the HMS Caledonia.1820 Guayaquil
declared independence from Spain.
1864 American Civil War:
Battle of Tom's Brook – Union
cavalrymen in the Shenandoah Valley defeated Confederate forces at
Toms Brook, Virginia.
1871 The Great Chicago Fire was brought under control.
1876 The first two-way telephone conversation was conducted.
1888 USA: The Washington Monument officially opened to the
general public.
1897 Henry Sturmey set off to be the first to drive the 1486 km
(923 mi) from
Land's End to
John o' Groats (the length of England and
Scotland).
1914 World War I:
Siege
of Antwerp – Antwerp, Belgium fell to German troops.
1936 USA:
Generators at Boulder Dam (later renamed the Hoover Dam)
began the transmission of electricity from the Colorado River 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
1940 World War
II: Battle of Britain – During a night-time air raid
by the German
Luftwaffe,
St Paul's Cathedral was pierced by a bomb.
1942
The Statute of Westminster Adoption Act formalized Australian
autonomy.
1944 World War
II: British Prime Minister Winston
Churchill and Soviet Union Premier Joseph
Stalin began a nine-day conference in Moscow to discuss
the future of Europe.
1957 Neil
H McElroy was sworn in as the 6th Secretary of Defense of United
States.
1962 Uganda gained independence from Great Britain.
1963 Uganda became a
republic.
1963 In northeast Italy,
more than 2,000 people were killed when a large landslide behind the Vajont Dam
caused a giant wave of water to overflow it.
1967 A day
after being caught, Che Guevara was executed for attempting to incite a
revolution in Bolivia.
Hero or murderous henchman? More on Guevara,
May 14 at the Book of
Days
1969 In Chicago,
Illinois, the United States National Guard was called
in for crowd control as demonstrations continued in connection to the trial of
the Chicago
Eight (trial started on September 23).
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1970 The Khmer
Republic was proclaimed in Cambodia.
1970 Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was unable to attend the ceremony to
receive his Nobel Prize for Literature because of disapproval by the Soviet
authorities.
1973 Elvis and
Priscilla Presley were divorced.
1984 Egypt's president Hosni Mubarak made a peace visit to Jordan.
1986 United
States District Court Judge Harry E Claiborne became the fifth federal
official to be removed from office through impeachment.
1989 An official news agency in the Soviet
Union reported the landing of a UFO in Voronezh.
1989 In Leipzig,
East
Germany protesters demanded the legalization of opposition groups and democratic
reforms.
1989 The Tanzanian Director of Wildlife revealed that half of the
estimated 50,000 elephants in southern Tanzania had been killed by poachers
since 1986.
1991
Ecuador became a
member of the Berne
Convention copyright treaty.2004
The tri-annual federal
election was held in Australia
and Liberal
Party of Australia leader, John
Howard, won a fourth term as Prime
Minister in a landslide victory over opponent, Mark
Latham of the Australian
Labor Party.
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In 1989,
the Republic of Abkhazia (in
the former Soviet Georgia)
proclaimed independence.
To show the world they were rejecting their Communist past, they issued two
postage stamps
of Groucho Marx and
John Lennon (as opposed to communist theoreticians Karl
Marx and VI Lenin).
Wikipedia
and David Brown's prodigious Daily Bleed
are both excellent resources that aid my research.
I frequently make use of their generously liberal 'fair use', 'copyleft'
and 'anti-copyright' policies, with much gratitude.
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