Celebrations!
Icono Clast
many peoples for many reasons. Here are some dates you might have
already celebrated, some you might want to celebrate, and some you
might consider celebrating when they come again, and a few solemn
occasions lest we forget.
Whichever, however, you wish to celebrate, I hope that you do so
in peace and harmony and that your life in the coming year will be
graced with even more harmonious peace.
2 PAN AMERICAN HEALTH DAY
10 United Nations' HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
12 National DING-A-LING DAY
14-21 HANUKKAH
15-28 HALCYON Days
15 BILL of RIGHTS DAY
17-18 SATURNALIA
19 UNDERDOG DAY
20 RAMADAN begins
21 SOLSTICE
22 International ARBOR DAY
24 Christmas Eve
25 CHRISTMAS Peace on Earth to Men of Good Will;
25 to Hell with the Rest!
26 BOXING DAY
26 National WHINER'S DAY
31 NEW YEAR's EVE
31 MAKE UP YOUR MIND DAY
INDEPENDENCE/BIRTHS of Nations: Portugal, 1640; Dominican Republic,
1821; Iceland, 1918; Central African Republic, 1958; Lao People's
Democratic Republic, 1975; Finland, 1917; Ivory Coast, 1960;
Tanganyika, 1961; Zanzibar, 1963; Bourkina Fasso, 1958; Kenya, 1963;
Maltese Republic, 1974; Niger, 1958; USSR, 1922; Libya, 1951.
BIRTHDAYS: Minoru Yamasaki, 1912; William Randolph Hearst, 1915;
Maria Callas, 1923; George Armstrong Custer, 1839; Walter Elias
Disney, 1901; Little Richard, 1932; Diego Rivera, 1886; Frank
Sinatra, 1915; Nostradamus, 1503; Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, 1832;
Charles Edgar Duryea, 1861; Ludwig von Beethoven, 1770; Jesus of
Nazareth, -4.
EVENTS: Rosa parks keeps her seat, 1955; Joseph McCarthy censured by
U.S. Senate, 1954; Roald Amundsen reaches South pole, 1912; Panama
Pacific International Exposition opens, 1915; Quito founded, 1534;
Delaware ratifies Constitution, becomes 1st state, 1787; Pearl Harbor
attacked, 1941; Martin Luther publicly burns papal edict demanding he
recant, 1520; Women granted right to vote: Wyoming Territory, 1869;
Universal Declaration on Human Rights: UN General Assembly, 1948;
Snow in San Francisco; frost in Hell, 1932; Boston Tea Party, 1773;
Aztec calendar stone found in Mexico City, 1790; Slavery abolished in
USA, 1865; USA buys Lousiana, 1803; Celebration of Christmas on
December 25, 336; "Aida" premiers, 1871.
INVENTIONS: Telescope by Galileo, 1621; Powered flight by Wright
Brothers, 1903; Phonograph by Thomas Edison, 1877.
CREATIONS: Drive-up gasoline station: Pittsburgh, 1913; Skywriting
over the US: "Hello USA" by RAF Capt. Turner, 1922; Everglades
National Park, Harry S Truman, 1947; New York Philharmonic, 1842;
Daily newspaper, Noah Webster, 1793; Bill of Rights, 1791; Kwanzaa,
M. Ron Karenga, 1966; San Francisco Symphony, 1911; Kyoto, 794; Ellis
Island, 1890.
--
ICONO CLAST: A San Franciscan in (where else?) San Francisco.
Ming Mar
>22 International ARBOR DAY
>24 Christmas Eve
Ironic, isn't it, that we celebrate International Arbor Day with
a world-wide slaughter of millions of innocent Christmas trees.