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Samhain
Today is the 2nd day of the 44th week, the 31st day of the 10th month, the 305th day of 2016, and:
- Beggars' Night
- Books for Treats Day
- Carve a Pumpkin Day
- Day of the Seven Billion
- Girl Scout Founder's Day
- Halloween or All Hallows Eve
- National Caramel Apple Day
- National Increase Your Psychic Powers Day
- National Knock Knock Jokes Day
- National Magic Day
- Reformation Day
- Samhain
- Scare a Friend Day
- Sneak Some of the Candy Yourself Before the Kids Start Knocking Day
- Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Day
- World Cities Day
- World Savings Day
ON THIS DAY: In 475 Romulus Augustulus was proclaimed Western Roman Emperor. In 1517 Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. In 1913 the Lincoln Highway, the first automobile highway across United States, was dedicated. In 1923 it was the first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia. In 1926 magician Harry Houdini died of gangrene and peritonitis that develops after his appendix ruptures. In 1938, the day after his "War of the Worlds" broadcast had panicked radio listeners, Orson Welles expressed "deep regret" but also bewilderment that anyone had thought the show was real. In 1941, after 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore was completed. In 2000 Soyuz TM-31 launched, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station, which has been crewed continuously since then. In 2011 the global population of humans officially reached seven billion.
My memories of Halloween as a kid are of roving groups of kids running through the neighborhood, knocking on doors and jostling each other to grab treats as soon as dusk fell. The little kids would come out first and the groups would get progressively older as the night wore on. I don’t remember there being a lot of parents out there with us. I do remember that we used to get home fairly early and I would dump out my “take” to be recycled and given out. The unwrapped candy was usually thrown out, not because we were worried about it but because it was unsanitary -- back then we were just starting to hear things about razor blades in apples and the like, but we still got invited into some house and ate cupcakes and drank cider or hot chocolate if it was a cold night. In later years it was more fun to dress up and give the candy out, and no matter how much we bought, it seemed to run out before the trick-or-treaters did, and we would turn off the light and stop answering the door.
By the time I was a parent, things had already changed and my kids never went running through the night, squealing as they ran into other kids, comparing costumes and giving tips on where the best treats were to be found. We went to the mall to trick-or-treat [not sure stores do that anymore], and to parties.
And nowadays, I don’t even answer the door or give out candy. But I usually do kinda dress up, wearing Halloween themed outfits, or western garb, or even mouse ears to work...
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