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All Saints Day
Today is the 4th day of the 44th week, the 1st day of the 11th month, the 305th day of 2017 [with only 53 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- All Saint's Day
- Autistic Speaking Day
- Dia de Los Muertos: 1 (Day of The Dead)
- Extra Mile Day
- Give Up Your Should's Day
- Hockey Mask Day
- Independence Day: Antigua and Barbuda from the United Kingdom in 1981.
- International Stress Awareness Day
- National Author's Day
- National Calzone Day
- National Deep Fried Clams Day
- National Eating Healthy Day
- National Family Literacy Day
- National Go Cook For Your Pets Day
- National Vinegar Day
- Prime Meridian Day – set up in 1884
- World Vegan Day
On this day:
1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time. He had begun working on it in 1508
1520 – The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first discovered and navigated by European explorer Ferdinand Magellan during the first recorded circumnavigation voyage.
1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – Shakespeare's play The Tempest is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the Thirteen Colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America. It required revenue stamps to be placed on commercial and legal documents, pamphlets, newspapers, almanacs, playing cards and dice. It was repealed in 1766. Historians tend to see the colonists' reactions to this as the beginning of the American revolution because it was seen as taxation without representation and a violation of their rights as Englishmen.
1894 – Thomas Edison films American sharpshooter Annie Oakley, which is instrumental in her hiring by Buffalo Bill for his Wild West Show in 1885. She promoted the service of women in combat operations for the United States armed forces as 'lady sharpshooters'.
1895 - First Paid Film Screening The Griffo-Barnett prize boxing fight is shown to a paying audience in a store on lower Broadway. This was the first paying audience for a film.
1896 – A picture showing the bare breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time as a result of an editorial decision to show pictuares of natives as they actually are
1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography
1944 - Harvey by Mary Coyle Chase opens in New York, featuring a giant imaginary rabbit. Most folks don’t realize that it was a play first since the 1950 movie is remembered so fondly
1950 – Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary. Popes are only considered infallible when speaking ex cathedra [with papal authority], otherwise he is as prone to error as any human. Although it was always part of Roman Catholicism, it was affirmed by Vatican I in 1870 and since then this is the only example.
1952 – The United States successfully detonates Ivy Mike, the first hydrogen bomb in a test at Eniwetok atoll in the Marshall Islands.
Word of the day:apodictic – an adjective defined as expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty
Actually, bread wasn’t sold already sliced until 1928 – and not everyone was impressed. It was even banned during WWII because the steel that went into the slicing machines was supposedly needed for military purposes, but there was such a public outcry that the ban was quickly lifted, the government claiming the steel savings weren’t as much as projected. Having worked for a couple of years in a bakery, this particular saying has always amused me because when buying fresh bread, people have pretty strong opinions on how it should be sliced. And if you have ever baked bread, cutting it can be a bit of a challenge to do without squashing the bread!
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