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Today is the 4th day of the 44th week, the 31st day of the 10th month, the 304th day of 2018, and:
Beggars' Night
Books for Treats Day
Carve a Pumpkin Day
Day of the Seven Billion
First day of the Day of the Dead, celebrated until November 2 (Mexico)
Girl Scout Founder's Day
Halloween or All Hallows Eve
National Caramel Apple Day
National Doorbell 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 ...
683 – During the Siege of Mecca, the Kaaba catches fire and is burned down.
1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
1614 – First performance of Ben Jonson's comedy Bartholomew Fair by the Lady Elizabeth's Men company at the Hope Theatre in London.
1920 - Frederick Banting discovers a treatment for diabetes
1923 – The first of 160 consecutive days of 100° Fahrenheit at Marble Bar, Western Australia.
1924 – World Savings Day is announced in Milan, Italy by the Members of the Association at the 1st International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks).
1926 – Last issue of the independent Italian newspaper Il Mondo, thereafter suppressed by the Mussolini regime
1938 – In an effort to restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing public.
1941 – After 14 years of work, Mount Rushmore is completed.
2000 – Soyuz TM-31 launches, carrying the first resident crew to the International Space Station. The ISS has been crewed continuously since then.
2011 – The global population of humans reaches seven billion. This day is now recognized by the United Nations as the Day of Seven Billion.
Although you will hear folks referring to October 31st interchangeably as Halloween [AKA All Hallows’ Eve] and Samhain, they are actually very distinct, albeit related celebrations. As indicated by the name, Halloween is a holiday that was created by the Church when it designated November 1st as All Saints Day [AKA Hallows’ Day] and therefore the night before became the time when the veil between the dead and the living thinned. Samhain was a Celtic holiday, one of the cross quarter days that indicate the change of seasons, in this case the change from fall to winter, that shifts even as the Spring and Fall equinoxes do. Halloween therefore is a fixed date and always occurs on the last day in October while the date for Samhain drifts according to the stars, for example, when the Pleiades is high in the sky of the Northern Hemisphere. According to the calendars I have found, this year Samhain is actually on November 7th.but it can be as late as November 20th.
In the United States Halloween, due to its pagan roots, was not welcome in the northern colonies, but in the South [including Maryland] it was celebrated. However as the millions of Irish fled from the Potato Famine, they brought with them the popular celebrations of dressing up and asking for food or money, By the 1920’s it was an established community tradition and today a quarter of all the candy sold in the US is purchased around Halloween.
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