Heroes and Heroines by date of birth, death, event, commemoration
JAN - YEAR BEGINNING
Give up drink for a month.
Jan 1 New Year's Day. UK created.
Jan 2 b of James Wolfe (d 1727) who captured Quebec in Canada from French.
Jan 3 b of J RR Tokein, author of Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings.
Jan 4 Birthday of Louis Braille. Jacob Grimm (Snow White.)
Jan 5 Death of Edward the Confessor.
Jan 6 b of Richard II, boy king introduced cutlery and hankies. Demo of electric telegraph by inventor Samuel Morse.
Jan 7 Calais lost.
Jan 8 birth of Frederick Abberline who hunted Jack the Ripper.
Jan 9 b Gracie Fields CBE, gave home in Bishops Ave to a maternity hospital. Buried Capri (2nd husband). in Protestant ceremony. d 1979. I went to Capri on a side trip with my parents and met and were photographed with her family. As a teenager I was not interested.
Jan 10 Thomas Paine published Common Sense which sold a million copies in the USA.
Jan 11 death of Thomas Hardy, author.
Jan 12 death of Agatha Christie.
Jan 13 death of George Fox, founder of Quakers. (Birthday in July but day not known.) W
Jan 14 Birth of Albert Schweizer, OM, founded hospital in Gabon, Africa, author, travelled with piano organ adapted to tropics. 3 museums in Germany. Died 4th Sept 1965.
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20 President Ronald Reagan took office age 69.
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Jan 25 Burns Night. Robert Burns. Auld lang syne.
Jan 26 Holocaust Memorial Day. Anne Frank.
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Jan 30 Death of Charles Bradlaugh founder of National Secural Society, 1888 oaths act allowed non-Christians and atheists to affirm in Parliament and courts of law
Jan 31 Guy Fawkes executed.
FEB VALENTINE/LOVE
Feb 1
2 Charles Maurice de TALLEYRAND-Perigord, bortn 1754 , died May 17, 1838, French PM in 1815, said (translated from French) 'Words are given to us to clothe our thoughts'.
3 World Cancer Day.
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7 birth in 1812 of Charles Dickens.
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Feb 11 USA National Inventors' Day because it's the birthday of Thomas Alva Edison who had more than 1000 patents, invented light bulb, phonograph, said 'Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration'.
Feb 12 birth of Abraham Lincoln
Feb 13 World Radio Day (UNESCO)
Feb 14 St Valentine's Day
Feb 15 1564 Birth of Galileo Galilei, died 1642.
Feb 18
Feb 19 Copernicus, Nicolaus, born 1473 in Poland, died 1543. Saw that sun was the centre of the universe, not the earth.
Donner party rescued in USA.
Yul Brynner (1920-1985) ad anti-smoking, saying he would be dead by the time viewers saw the ad. 'Don't smoke'. See the ad on YouTube.
Feb 20
Feb 21 International Mother Language Day
Feb 22 Washington's birthday, national holiday USA.
Feb 24 Wilhelm Grimm, co-author of Snow White.
Feb 25
Feb 26
Feb 27 Birth of Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882, wrote the Song of HIAWATHA, and Paul Revere's Ride.
Birth of John Steinbeck, 1902, Nobel prize for literature in 1962 wrote Of Mice And Men in 1937, also The Grapes of Wrath, died 20 Dec1968.
Feb 28 Birth of Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, d Sept 13. "When I play with a cat is she amusing me or am I amusing her?""I gather other men's flowers (quotations/thoughts). Only the thread binding them is mine."
Feb 29
MARCH
March 1
March 2 1859 b of Sholom Aleichem (Fiddler on the Roof; monument Kiev) Jewish Mark Twain
March 3 1847, b of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone
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March 8 International women's day.
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March 16 D of Titus Oates 'I may be gone some time' Scotts expedition to S Pole
March 17 St Patrick's Day
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March 20 International Day of Happiness
March 21 UNESCO World Poetry Day. International Day of forests and the tree. (Celebrate both by finding or wiring a poem about a forest or tree.)
22 World Water Day.
23 World Metereological Day.
24 World TB day (WHO).
25 International Day of Remembering the Victims of Slavery.
March 26 Birth of Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor, founded Logotherapy, Man's Search For Meaning.
APRIL
April 1 April Fool's Day.
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6 International Dy of Sport for Development and Peace
April 7 World Health Day.
April 12 International Day of Human Space Flight.
April 15 Titanic sank. (Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, US President.) Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.
April 23 Birth of William Shakespeare. World book and copyright day. Shakespeare is out of copyright. English language day.
April 24
April 25 World Malaria Day (WHO).
April 26
April 27 Christina Rossetti.
April 28 World Day for Safety and Health at Work (ILO). Birth of 7th earl of Shaftesbury (remembered by Shaftesbury Avenue and Eros statue Piccadilly Circus, the poor man's earl, helped lunatics, miners, chimney sweeps, women and children, shortened working day to 10 hours.)
April 29
April 30 International Jazz Day.
MAY
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May 3 World Press Freedom Day
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May 8 1906 Tuvia Bielski birthday, Belararus forest WWII, saved more than 1000.
May 8-9 Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War.
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May 11-12 World Migratory Bird Day (UNEP).
May 12 b Florence Nightingale
May 13 b Trevor Baylis, inventor of wind-up radio. D of Sholem Aleichem (Fiddler on Roof) '12a'
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May 15 International Day of Families
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17 World Telecommunication and Information Society Dy (ITU).
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24 Day of the Full Moon 'Vesak'.
May 30 Joan of Arc
May 31 World No-Tobacco day (WHO).
JUN
Jun 1 Global Day of Parents. Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, who spent childhood in foster homes.
Jun 2
Jun 3rd Emily Davison, suffragette, killed by king's horse.
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Jun 8 World Oceans Day
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Jun 11 b Jacques Cousteau 1910-Jun 25 1997.
Jun 12 Birthday of Anne Frank; day she received her diary. World day against child labour.
Jun 13 Hungarian Inventors Day, birthday of inventor of synthetic Vitamin C, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Jun 17 b Escher, M S, Dutch artist of tromp l'oeuil pictures
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20 World Refugee Day
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23 International Widows' Day
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Jun 26 birth of Violette Szabo, WWII heroine. International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit trafficking.
Jun 27th birth Sir John Monash
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JULY
July Exact day unknown: Samuel Goldwyn
July 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe
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July 5 International Day of Cooperatives
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July 7 Birth of Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr, who made Time and Motion Study popular in USA, had heart trouble and 12 children, featured in book Cheaper By the Dozen, and film.
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July 11 World Population DayJuly 17 b Hannah Senesh
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July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day. Birth of Molly Brown of Titanic fame.
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July 20 bday Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb summit of Everest with Sherpa Norbay Tensing. First man on the moon. Neil Armstrong. American.
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July 30 International Day of friendship. William Wilberforce (v slavery); Lord Shaftesbury.
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AUG
Aug1 Swiss National Day
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Aug 5 1962, death of Marilyn Monroe
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Aug 9 d Edith Stein, born Jewish, Roman Catholic saint.
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Aug 12 Florence Nightingale
Aug 21 Senior Citizens Day, USA.
Aug 31 (1997) death of Princess Diana.
Sept 8 International Literacy Day (UNESCO). (Dolly Parton has distributed books in USA.)
Sept 10 World Suicide Prevention Day (WHO).
Sept 13 Michel de Montaigne, b Feb 28,1533-1592, d Sept 13. "When I play with a cat is she amusing me or am I amusing her?""I gather other men's flowers (quotations/thoughts). Only the thread binding them is mine."
Sept 15 International Day of Democracy.
Sept 21 International Day of Peace.
Sept 29 birth of Laszlo Biro, invented ballpoint pen - Inventors Day, Argentina
Oct 1 Day of Older Persons. (Feature at age 69 Ronald Reagan became president of USA in 1981.)
Oct 2 International Day of Non-Violence. (You could feature Mohantma Gandhi.)
Oct 5 World Teachers Day (UNESCO).
Oct 9 b Alfred Dreyfus. World Post Day. World Sight Day.
Oct 10 World Mental Health Day (WHO).
Oct 11 International Day of the Girl Child.
Oct 12 Columbus Day
Oct 15 birthday of Roman poet Virgil, epic poet Laureate.
Oct 16 World Food Day (FAO).
Oct 18 birthday of Isabel Briggs-Myers, personality type indicator (MBTI)
Oct 19 Mother Teresa Day, Albania
Oct 21 Birth of Alfred Nobel, Swedish, Nobel prize.
Oct 22 b Sarah Bernhardt, actress
Oct 24 United Nations Day (193 States are members).
NOVEMBER
Write a novel month. Grow a moustache for charity month.
Nov 1 b L S Lowry, English painter
Nov 5 Guy Fawkes night, Parliament saved from plot.
Nov 9 birthday of Hedy Lamarr therefore inventors' day in Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Nove 12 birth of Chad Varah, OBE, CBE, Anglican Priest, vicar who founded Samaritans 1953 after funeral (1935) of suicide. He died Nov 8, 2007.
Nov 17 Sikhs celebrate birth of founder Guru Nanak Jayanti
Nov 19 World Toilet Day.
Nov 20 Universal Children's Day. World Philosophy Day.
Nov 21 World TV Day.
Nov 22 1963 Assassination of JFK, US President
Nov 24 Birth of Grace Darling, lifeboat; b Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher.
Nov 27 Celcius, Anders, Swedish, temperature measure
DECEMBER
Dec 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
Dec 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (Feature Paralympics founder.)
Dec 4 b Edith Cavell
Dec 7 International Civil Aviation Day.
Dec 9 Birth of Clarence Birdseye, invented fast frozen food
Dec 11 International Mountain Day. (Feature: Sir Edmund Hillary reached summit of Everest in 1953. Heidi. Mallory and Irvine failed and died in 1921.)
Dec 16 b Veuve Cliquot, champagne
Dec 21 b Benjamin Disraeli, PM
Dec 25 Xmas day, birth of Jesus.
Angela Lansbury note on compiling entries
Jan - 17 entries Feb - 13 entries - but I am adding more daily. At first I typed in every day of the year but the list looked empty so I deleted empty days. Than I found I was adding entries in the wrong month. It's easier to add in the right place if you list all the days. I am aiming for a complete list, so I shall update until I have 365.
Angela Lansbury Author
After talking about travel on a Jewish radio station I have written Jewish Travel Tales and Guide, a popular guide to places to visit and learn about heroes and villains, success and failure, including Anne Frank House, Schindler Museum, Levi jeans, Biro pen, Marilyn Monroe movie star, Babe Ruth US baseball hero, Al Jolson singer etc. For details of my recently published books go to Lulu.com
JAN - YEAR BEGINNING
Give up drink for a month.
Jan 1 New Year's Day. UK created.
Jan 2 b of James Wolfe (d 1727) who captured Quebec in Canada from French.
Jan 3 b of J RR Tokein, author of Hobbit and Lord Of The Rings.
Jan 4 Birthday of Louis Braille. Jacob Grimm (Snow White.)
Jan 5 Death of Edward the Confessor.
Jan 6 b of Richard II, boy king introduced cutlery and hankies. Demo of electric telegraph by inventor Samuel Morse.
Jan 7 Calais lost.
Jan 8 birth of Frederick Abberline who hunted Jack the Ripper.
Jan 9 b Gracie Fields CBE, gave home in Bishops Ave to a maternity hospital. Buried Capri (2nd husband). in Protestant ceremony. d 1979. I went to Capri on a side trip with my parents and met and were photographed with her family. As a teenager I was not interested.
Jan 10 Thomas Paine published Common Sense which sold a million copies in the USA.
Jan 11 death of Thomas Hardy, author.
Jan 12 death of Agatha Christie.
Jan 13 death of George Fox, founder of Quakers. (Birthday in July but day not known.) W
Jan 14 Birth of Albert Schweizer, OM, founded hospital in Gabon, Africa, author, travelled with piano organ adapted to tropics. 3 museums in Germany. Died 4th Sept 1965.
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20 President Ronald Reagan took office age 69.
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Jan 25 Burns Night. Robert Burns. Auld lang syne.
Jan 26 Holocaust Memorial Day. Anne Frank.
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Jan 30 Death of Charles Bradlaugh founder of National Secural Society, 1888 oaths act allowed non-Christians and atheists to affirm in Parliament and courts of law
Jan 31 Guy Fawkes executed.
FEB VALENTINE/LOVE
Feb 1
2 Charles Maurice de TALLEYRAND-Perigord, bortn 1754 , died May 17, 1838, French PM in 1815, said (translated from French) 'Words are given to us to clothe our thoughts'.
3 World Cancer Day.
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6
7 birth in 1812 of Charles Dickens.
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9
10
Feb 11 USA National Inventors' Day because it's the birthday of Thomas Alva Edison who had more than 1000 patents, invented light bulb, phonograph, said 'Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration'.
Feb 12 birth of Abraham Lincoln
Feb 13 World Radio Day (UNESCO)
Feb 14 St Valentine's Day
Feb 15 1564 Birth of Galileo Galilei, died 1642.
Feb 18
Feb 19 Copernicus, Nicolaus, born 1473 in Poland, died 1543. Saw that sun was the centre of the universe, not the earth.
Donner party rescued in USA.
Yul Brynner (1920-1985) ad anti-smoking, saying he would be dead by the time viewers saw the ad. 'Don't smoke'. See the ad on YouTube.
Feb 20
Feb 21 International Mother Language Day
Feb 22 Washington's birthday, national holiday USA.
Feb 24 Wilhelm Grimm, co-author of Snow White.
Feb 25
Feb 26
Feb 27 Birth of Henry Wadsworth LONGFELLOW, 1807-1882, wrote the Song of HIAWATHA, and Paul Revere's Ride.
Birth of John Steinbeck, 1902, Nobel prize for literature in 1962 wrote Of Mice And Men in 1937, also The Grapes of Wrath, died 20 Dec1968.
Feb 28 Birth of Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, d Sept 13. "When I play with a cat is she amusing me or am I amusing her?""I gather other men's flowers (quotations/thoughts). Only the thread binding them is mine."
Feb 29
MARCH
March 1
March 2 1859 b of Sholom Aleichem (Fiddler on the Roof; monument Kiev) Jewish Mark Twain
March 3 1847, b of Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of telephone
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March 8 International women's day.
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10
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March 16 D of Titus Oates 'I may be gone some time' Scotts expedition to S Pole
March 17 St Patrick's Day
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March 20 International Day of Happiness
March 21 UNESCO World Poetry Day. International Day of forests and the tree. (Celebrate both by finding or wiring a poem about a forest or tree.)
22 World Water Day.
23 World Metereological Day.
24 World TB day (WHO).
25 International Day of Remembering the Victims of Slavery.
March 26 Birth of Viktor Frankl, Holocaust survivor, founded Logotherapy, Man's Search For Meaning.
APRIL
April 1 April Fool's Day.
2
3
4
5
6 International Dy of Sport for Development and Peace
April 7 World Health Day.
April 12 International Day of Human Space Flight.
April 15 Titanic sank. (Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, US President.) Birthday of Leonardo da Vinci.
April 23 Birth of William Shakespeare. World book and copyright day. Shakespeare is out of copyright. English language day.
April 24
April 25 World Malaria Day (WHO).
April 26
April 27 Christina Rossetti.
April 28 World Day for Safety and Health at Work (ILO). Birth of 7th earl of Shaftesbury (remembered by Shaftesbury Avenue and Eros statue Piccadilly Circus, the poor man's earl, helped lunatics, miners, chimney sweeps, women and children, shortened working day to 10 hours.)
April 29
April 30 International Jazz Day.
MAY
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May 3 World Press Freedom Day
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5
6
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May 8 1906 Tuvia Bielski birthday, Belararus forest WWII, saved more than 1000.
May 8-9 Time of Remembrance and Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives during the Second World War.
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May 11-12 World Migratory Bird Day (UNEP).
May 12 b Florence Nightingale
May 13 b Trevor Baylis, inventor of wind-up radio. D of Sholem Aleichem (Fiddler on Roof) '12a'
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May 15 International Day of Families
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17 World Telecommunication and Information Society Dy (ITU).
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24 Day of the Full Moon 'Vesak'.
May 30 Joan of Arc
May 31 World No-Tobacco day (WHO).
JUN
Jun 1 Global Day of Parents. Birthday of Marilyn Monroe, who spent childhood in foster homes.
Jun 2
Jun 3rd Emily Davison, suffragette, killed by king's horse.
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Jun 8 World Oceans Day
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Jun 11 b Jacques Cousteau 1910-Jun 25 1997.
Jun 12 Birthday of Anne Frank; day she received her diary. World day against child labour.
Jun 13 Hungarian Inventors Day, birthday of inventor of synthetic Vitamin C, Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
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Jun 17 b Escher, M S, Dutch artist of tromp l'oeuil pictures
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20 World Refugee Day
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23 International Widows' Day
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Jun 26 birth of Violette Szabo, WWII heroine. International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit trafficking.
Jun 27th birth Sir John Monash
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JULY
July Exact day unknown: Samuel Goldwyn
July 1 Harriet Beecher Stowe
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July 5 International Day of Cooperatives
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July 7 Birth of Frank Bunker Gilbreth Sr, who made Time and Motion Study popular in USA, had heart trouble and 12 children, featured in book Cheaper By the Dozen, and film.
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July 11 World Population DayJuly 17 b Hannah Senesh
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July 18 Nelson Mandela International Day. Birth of Molly Brown of Titanic fame.
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July 20 bday Sir Edmund Hillary, first to climb summit of Everest with Sherpa Norbay Tensing. First man on the moon. Neil Armstrong. American.
July 21
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July 30 International Day of friendship. William Wilberforce (v slavery); Lord Shaftesbury.
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AUG
Aug1 Swiss National Day
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3
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Aug 5 1962, death of Marilyn Monroe
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7
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Aug 9 d Edith Stein, born Jewish, Roman Catholic saint.
10
Aug 12 Florence Nightingale
Aug 21 Senior Citizens Day, USA.
Aug 31 (1997) death of Princess Diana.
Sept 8 International Literacy Day (UNESCO). (Dolly Parton has distributed books in USA.)
Sept 10 World Suicide Prevention Day (WHO).
Sept 13 Michel de Montaigne, b Feb 28,1533-1592, d Sept 13. "When I play with a cat is she amusing me or am I amusing her?""I gather other men's flowers (quotations/thoughts). Only the thread binding them is mine."
Sept 15 International Day of Democracy.
Sept 21 International Day of Peace.
Sept 29 birth of Laszlo Biro, invented ballpoint pen - Inventors Day, Argentina
Oct 1 Day of Older Persons. (Feature at age 69 Ronald Reagan became president of USA in 1981.)
Oct 2 International Day of Non-Violence. (You could feature Mohantma Gandhi.)
Oct 5 World Teachers Day (UNESCO).
Oct 9 b Alfred Dreyfus. World Post Day. World Sight Day.
Oct 10 World Mental Health Day (WHO).
Oct 11 International Day of the Girl Child.
Oct 12 Columbus Day
Oct 15 birthday of Roman poet Virgil, epic poet Laureate.
Oct 16 World Food Day (FAO).
Oct 18 birthday of Isabel Briggs-Myers, personality type indicator (MBTI)
Oct 19 Mother Teresa Day, Albania
Oct 21 Birth of Alfred Nobel, Swedish, Nobel prize.
Oct 22 b Sarah Bernhardt, actress
Oct 24 United Nations Day (193 States are members).
NOVEMBER
Write a novel month. Grow a moustache for charity month.
Nov 1 b L S Lowry, English painter
Nov 5 Guy Fawkes night, Parliament saved from plot.
Nov 9 birthday of Hedy Lamarr therefore inventors' day in Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Nove 12 birth of Chad Varah, OBE, CBE, Anglican Priest, vicar who founded Samaritans 1953 after funeral (1935) of suicide. He died Nov 8, 2007.
Nov 17 Sikhs celebrate birth of founder Guru Nanak Jayanti
Nov 19 World Toilet Day.
Nov 20 Universal Children's Day. World Philosophy Day.
Nov 21 World TV Day.
Nov 22 1963 Assassination of JFK, US President
Nov 24 Birth of Grace Darling, lifeboat; b Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher.
Nov 27 Celcius, Anders, Swedish, temperature measure
DECEMBER
Dec 2 International Day for the Abolition of Slavery.
Dec 3 International Day of Persons with Disabilities. (Feature Paralympics founder.)
Dec 4 b Edith Cavell
Dec 7 International Civil Aviation Day.
Dec 9 Birth of Clarence Birdseye, invented fast frozen food
Dec 11 International Mountain Day. (Feature: Sir Edmund Hillary reached summit of Everest in 1953. Heidi. Mallory and Irvine failed and died in 1921.)
Dec 16 b Veuve Cliquot, champagne
Dec 21 b Benjamin Disraeli, PM
Dec 25 Xmas day, birth of Jesus.
Angela Lansbury note on compiling entries
Jan - 17 entries Feb - 13 entries - but I am adding more daily. At first I typed in every day of the year but the list looked empty so I deleted empty days. Than I found I was adding entries in the wrong month. It's easier to add in the right place if you list all the days. I am aiming for a complete list, so I shall update until I have 365.
Angela Lansbury Author
After talking about travel on a Jewish radio station I have written Jewish Travel Tales and Guide, a popular guide to places to visit and learn about heroes and villains, success and failure, including Anne Frank House, Schindler Museum, Levi jeans, Biro pen, Marilyn Monroe movie star, Babe Ruth US baseball hero, Al Jolson singer etc. For details of my recently published books go to Lulu.com
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