It's always a red letter day!

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It's Indigenous Peoples Day in the US and the Americas, y Día de la Hispanidad en España. It's also the UN Day of the Spanish Language, again due to the 1492 event. The Siege of Orléans began in 1428, Pedro I proclaimed himself Brazilian Emperor in 1822, the Warsaw ghetto was formed in 1940, ABC began broadcasting in 1943, Equatorial Guinea gained independence in 1968, and the Brighton bombing occurred in 1984. Born today were Edward VI (1537), Pedro I (1798), Ramsay McDonald (1866), Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872), Pavarotti (1935), Carlos the Jackal (1949), Hugh Jackman (1968) and Marion Jones (1975). Passing on were Piero della Francesca (1492), Robert E Lee (1870), Edith Clavell (1915), Anatole France (1924), Nancy Spungen (1978), René Lacoste (1996) and John Denver (1997).

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Today's International Day for the Prevention of Catastrophes. Nero became Roman emperor in AD 54, the Knights Templar were arrested in 1307, the US Navy was founded in 1775, the Vatican recognised the Marian apparitions of Fatima in 1930, Islamic State was founded in 2006, and Bob Dylan received the Nobel for Literature in 2016. Lenny Bruce and Margaret Thatcher were born on the same day in 1925 (though the former died before the latter gained prominence), along with Nana Mouskouri (1934), Paul Simon (1941), Nusret Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Marie Osmond (1959), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), Sacha Baron Cohen (1971) and Ian Thorpe (1982). Claudius (54), Murat (1815), Canova (1822), Milton Hershey (1945), Ed Sullivan (1974), Le Duc Tho (1990), Dario Fo and Rama IX (both 2016) all died today.

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Today's International Day for the Prevention of Catastrophes. Nero became Roman emperor in AD 54, the Knights Templar were arrested in 1307, the US Navy was founded in 1775, the Vatican recognised the Marian apparitions of Fatima in 1930, Islamic State was founded in 2006, and Bob Dylan received the Nobel for Literature in 2016. Lenny Bruce and Margaret Thatcher were born on the same day in 1925 (though the former died before the latter gained prominence), along with Nana Mouskouri (1934), Paul Simon (1941), Nusret Fateh Ali Khan (1948), Marie Osmond (1959), Nancy Kerrigan (1969), Sacha Baron Cohen (1971) and Ian Thorpe (1982). Claudius (54), Murat (1815), Canova (1822), Milton Hershey (1945), Ed Sullivan (1974), Le Duc Tho (1990), Dario Fo and Rama IX (both 2016) all died today.

Also the birthday of a certain VARophile OTF poster

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Sadly for Anglo-Saxons, today was the Battle of Hastings. Greece annexed the Albanian district of South Epirus in 1914, Germany quit the League of Nations in 1933, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Bell X1 in 1947, Brezhnev succeeded Khrushchev in 1964 and Felix Baumgartner conducted his skydive in 2012. Akbar was born in 1542, with James II (1633), William Penn (1644), Jules Rimet (1873), Éamon de Valera (1882), Katherine Mansfield (1888), Eisenhower (1890), Hannah Arendt (1906), Le Duc Tho (1911), Roger Moore (1927), Cliff Richard (1940), George Floyd (1973) and Usher (1978). Dying were Harold II (1066), Rommel (1944), Errol Flynn (1959), Bing Crosby (1977), Leonard Bernstein (1990), Julius Nyerere (1999) and Benoît Mandelbrot (2010).

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It's the International Day of Food and against Food Waste, and Teacher's Day in Chile. Mont St-Michel was founded in 708, Marie Antoinette was executed in 1793, Napoleon began his journey to St Helena in 1815, the Houses of Parliament burnt down in 1834, the Walt Disney Co was founded in 1923, the first Chinese atomic bomb was detonated in 1964, and Pope John Paul II was elected in 1978. Born today were James II of Scotland (1430), Noah Webster (1758), Oscar Wilde (1854), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Angela Lansbury (1925), Günter Grass (1928), Nico (1938) and Casey Stoner (1985). Latimer and Ridley died today in 1555, while in 1946, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher were executed following Nuremberg. George Marshall (1959), Gene Krupa (1973), Moshe Dayan (1981), Art Blakey (1990), James Michener (1997), Deborah Kerr (2007) and Anthony Foley (2016) also died today.

[Levin]

Mont St-Michel is man made?

[Guy Profumo]

Sadly for Anglo-Saxons, today was the Battle of Hastings. Greece annexed the Albanian district of South Epirus in 1914, Germany quit the League of Nations in 1933, Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier in Bell X1 in 1947, Brezhnev succeeded Khrushchev in 1964 and Felix Baumgartner conducted his skydive in 2012. Akbar was born in 1542, with James II (1633), William Penn (1644), Jules Rimet (1873), Éamon de Valera (1882), Katherine Mansfield (1888), Eisenhower (1890), Hannah Arendt (1906), Le Duc Tho (1911), Roger Moore (1927), Cliff Richard (1940), George Floyd (1973) and Usher (1978). Dying were Harold II (1066), Rommel (1944), Errol Flynn (1959), Bing Crosby (1977), Leonard Bernstein (1990), Julius Nyerere (1999) and Benoît Mandelbrot (2010).

Sadly for the whole of England

(Not that the slave-state of Anglo-Saxon England was a paragon of virtue, mind you)

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Mont St-Michel is man made?

He means the abbey, not the island

[Benjm]

It's the International Day of Food and against Food Waste, and Teacher's Day in Chile. Mont St-Michel was founded in 708, Marie Antoinette was executed in 1793, Napoleon began his journey to St Helena in 1815, the Houses of Parliament burnt down in 1834, the Walt Disney Co was founded in 1923, the first Chinese atomic bomb was detonated in 1964, and Pope John Paul II was elected in 1978. Born today were James II of Scotland (1430), Noah Webster (1758), Oscar Wilde (1854), David Ben-Gurion (1886), Eugene O'Neill (1888), Angela Lansbury (1925), Günter Grass (1928), Nico (1938) and Casey Stoner (1985). Latimer and Ridley died today in 1555, while in 1946, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg and Julius Streicher were executed following Nuremberg. George Marshall (1959), Gene Krupa (1973), Moshe Dayan (1981), Art Blakey (1990), James Michener (1997), Deborah Kerr (2007) and Anthony Foley (2016) also died today.

These are tomorrow's entries, I think. Not that Angela Lansbury's 95th doesn't merit a two day celebration.

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Yesterday was International Day of the Rural Woman, and World Handwashing Day. The first Siege of Vienna ended in 1529, Dreyfuss was arrested in 1894, Mata Hari was executed in 1917, the execution of Lluis Companys and the premiere of The Great Dictator both occurred in 1940, the Black Panthers were founded in 1966, Sadat became Egyptian president in 1970, and the Cassini-Huygens mission launched in 1997. Virgil was born in 70 BC, along with Torricelli (1608), Nietzsche (1844), Marie Stopes (1880), PG Wodehouse (1881), JK Galbraith (1908), Yitzhak Shamir (1917), Mario Puzo (1920), Italo Calvino (1923), Michel Foucault (1926), Fela Kuti (1938), David Trimble (1944), Sarah Ferguson (1959), Didier Deschamps (1968) and Mesut Ozil (1988). Teresa of Avila (1582), Akbar (1605), Goering (1946), Jules Rimet (1956) and Cole Porter (1964) all died.

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It's International Day for the Elimination of Poverty, and World Transplant Day. The Battle of Yorktown ended in 1781, while the first Oktoberfest began in 1810, as did the First Balkan War in 1912. Al Capone was sentenced for tax evasion in 1931, and the Black Power protest occurred at the Mexico Olympics of 1968. Georg Büchner was born in 1813, along with John Paul I (1912), Arthur Miller (1915), Rita Hayworth (1918), Montgomery Clift (1920), The Singing Nun (1933), Evel Knievel (1938), Margot Kidder and George Wendt (both 1948), Wyclef Jean (1969), Eminem (1972) and Kimi Raikkonen (1979). Dying today were Chopin (1849), Pu Yi (1967), Joan Hickson (1998) and Joey Bishop (2007).

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World Menopause Day, Azerbaijan Independence Day (1991) and Alaska Day (1867) are all celebrated. The Edict of Nantes was revoked in 1685, leading to the Huguenot departure, the Battle of Leipzig occurred in 1813, Moby Dick was first published in 1851, Puerto Rico was annexed by the US in 1898, and the USSR "liberated" Czechoslovakia in 1944. Lotte Lenya was born in 1898, along with Felix Houphouet-Boigny (1905), Pierre Trudeau (1919), Jesse Helms (1921), George C Scott (1927), Violeta Chamorro (1929), Lee Harvey Oswald (1939), Martina Navratilova (1956), Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960), Wynston Marsalis (1961) and Zac Efron (1987). Passing on were King John (1216), Sarah Churchill (1744), Charles Babbage (1871), Gounod (1893), Edison (1931), Elizabeth Arden (1966) and Johnny Haynes (2005).

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Mother Theresa Day in Albania marks her beatification, and Niue celebrates its internal autonomy (1974). Scipio defeated Hannibal in 202 BC's Battle of Zama, the first hot-air balloon was flown in 1783, the Jacobin Club was founded in 1789, and Maurice Bishop was assassinated in Grenada in 1983. Among those born today were Auguste Lumière (1862), Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910), John Le Carré (1931), Michael Gambon (1940), Jon Favreau (1966) and Louis Oosthuizen (1982). Leaving us were Jonathan Swift (1745), Ernest Rutherford (1937), Samora Machel (1986), Jacqueline du Pré (1987), Alija Izetbegovic (2003) and Tom Bosley (2010). One curiosity was Thomas Browne, whose birthday (1605) and death day (1682) coincide.

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Baha'i celebrate the Day of the Bab, the International Days of Osteoporosis and Air Traffic Controllers happen, along with World Statistics Day. The Battle of Navarino occurred in 1827, the Sino-Indian War began in 1962, the Sydney Opera House opened in 1973, and ETA announced a permanent ceasefire in 2011. Christopher Wren was born in 1632, along with Rimbaud (1854), Bela Lugosi (1882), Jomo Kenyatta (1894), Mickey Mantle (1931), Tom Petty (1950), Claudio Ranieri (1951), Danny Boyle (1956), Viggo Mortensen (1958), Kamala Harris (1964) and Snoop Dogg (1971). Dying were Richard Burton (1890), Herbert Hoover (1964), Paul Dirac (1984), Burt Lancaster (1994), and Colonel Gaddafi (2011).

[Benjm]

Day of the Bab could work as a celebration in the West Midlands too.

[DCI Harry Batt]

https://twitter.com/FvHtweets/status/1450735532242358272?s=20

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Happy Trafalgar Day to you all, also Egyptian Armed Forces and Honduran Marines Day. The Siege of Antioch occurred in 1097, St-Pierre and Miquelon was discovered in 1520, Venice was annexed by Italy following a controversial 1866 referendum, the Nazis annexed the Sudetenland in 1938, and Willy Brandt became German Chancellor in 1969. Entering the world were Coleridge (1772), Alfred Nobel (1833), Georg Solti (1912), Dizzy Gillespie (1917), Ursula Le Guin (1929), Tariq Ali (1943), Benjamin Netanyahu (1949), Peter Mandelson (1953), Carrie Fisher (1953), Kevin Sheedy (1959), Andrew Scott (1976), Kim Kardashian (1980) and Nemanja Vidic (1981). Leaving it were Nelson (1805), Jack Kerouac (1969), François Truffaut (1984), George McGovern (2012) and Gough Whitlam (2014).

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International Stuttering Awareness Day is marked today. The Dreikaserbund was signed in 1873, Edison invented the light bulb in 1879, Laos gained independence in 1953, Venera 9 landed on Venus in 1975, and Naruhito was crowned in 2019. Among those born today were Liszt (1811), Louis Riel (1844), Robert Capa and Bao Dai (both 1913), Joan Fontaine (1917), Doris Lessing (1919), Timothy Leary (1920), Lev Yashin (1929), Derek Jacobi and Christopher Lloyd (both 1938), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Arsène Wenger (1949) and Shaggy (1968). Dying were Charles Martel (741), Karl Bayer (1904), Paul Cezanne (1906), Bob Fitzsimons (1917), Pablo Casals (1973), and Kingsley Amis (1995).

[Sporting]

I was reading an article today about stutterers. Evidently, one should never try to finish what they are saying even if thinking it helps

By the way, is there a difference between stammering and stuttering?

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Thankfully, neither an issue I've had to deal with, but presumably stuttering is more of a psychological block, whereas stammering can simply arise through nervousness?

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Mole Day celebrates Avogadro's number, rather than taupe burrowers, while it's Doctors' Day in Mexico and Chulalongkorn Day in Thailand. The Battle of Philippi occurred in 42 BC, while the Auld Alliance began in 1295. The Irish Confederate Rebellion began in 1641, as did the English Civil War at Edgehill a year later. The Meiji Era began in 1868, Hitler met Franco in 1940, the Battle of El Alamein occurred in 1942, the Hungarian Uprising began in 1956, the Smurfs first appeared in 1958, and China unseated Taiwan at the UN in 1971. Sarah Bernhardt was born in 1844, along with Gertrude Ederle (1905), Johnny Carson (1925), Diana Dors (1931), Pelé (1940), Michael Crichton (1942), Ang Lee (1954), and Ryan Reynolds (1976). Brutus (42 BC), John Dunlop (1921), and Al Jolson (1950) died today.

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Zambian Independence Day (1964), Azad Kashmir Day, Suez Day, and UN Day all occur. Historians now estimate the 79 AD eruption of Vesuvius to have occurred today, rather than August 24, the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years War, the 1795 partition of Poland ended its independence, Sheffield FC were founded in 1857, the Great Depression began in 1929, and Concorde last few in 2003. Births include Domitian (51 AD), van Leeuwenhoek (1632), Sarah Hale (1788), Wilhelm Weber (1804), Rafael Trujillo (1891), Bob Kane (1915), Bill Wyman (1936), Kevin Kline (1947), Roman Abramovich (1966), Wayne Rooney (1985) and Drake (1986). Dying were Jane Seymour (1537), Tycho Brahe (1601), Vidkun Quisling (1945), Franz Léhar (1948), Christian Dior (1957), Gene Roddenberry (1991), Raul Julia (1994), Rosa Parks (2005), Maureen O'Hara (2015) and Fats Domino (2017).

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Scorpio begins today, though we Geminis are too rational to believe in astrology.

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It's the European Day of Justice, Republic Day in Kazakhstan and Armed Forces Day in Romania. The 732 Battle of Poitiers saw Charles Martel defeat the Umayyads, Stephen died today in 1154, and the Battle of Agincourt occurred in 1415. The Battle of Balaclava in 1854 saw the Charge of the Light Brigade, the Yom Kippur War ended in 1973 and the Grenada invasion occurred in 1983. In 1800, Macaulay was born, along with Johann Strauss the younger (1825), Bizet (1838), Picasso (1881), Klaus Barbie (1913), Michael of Romania (1921), Nancy Cartwright (1957), Oleg Salenko (1969) and Katy Perry (1984). Dying were Torricelli (1647), Harry Ferguson (1960), Abeba Bikila (1973), Vincent Price (1993), Bobby Riggs (1995), Richard Harris (2002), and John Peel (2004).

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Intersex Visibility Day and the National Day of Austria occur. The Directory took over France in 1795, the Battle of the OK Corral happened in 1881, Brazil entered WWI in 1917, Vietnam became a republic in 1955, Ardern became NZ PM in 2017, and Michael D Higgins was re-elected in 2018. Among those born were Scarlatti (1685), Danton (1759), van Moltke (1800), Primo Carnera (1906), Mitterrand (1916), Shah Reza Pahlavi (1919), Hillary Clinton (1947), Evo Morales (1959) and Keith Urban (1967). Alfred the Great (899), Carlo Collodi (no relation - 1899), César Ritz (1918), Hattie McDaniel (1952) and Igor Sikorski (1972) died today.