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Thursday, October 5, 2006

OCTOBER, 1st Thursday

by @ 4:00 am. Date Category: Movable Dates

Nottingham Goose Fair begins (UK)

HOLIDAYS 10.5

by @ 3:00 am. Date Category: Holidays

Universal Children’s Day
Feast of the Empire of Lies
Outer Space Nation of Celestia Independence Day
Pilsner Day
Brewing Industry Day
National Noisy Munching Day
Be Nice to a Lawyer Day
Sea Serpant Day
Mania Mundus (Festival to remember departed ancestors)
Indian Day (Oklahoma)
St. Placid’s Day (patron against chills, drowning)
National Apple Betty Day
Autumn Leaf Festival
Festival of the Five Toes (Fairy)
Bulgaria Independence Day
Dionysiad (Husi, Romania)
National Storytelling Festival
Wild Turkey Calling Tournament
Unicorn Questing Season begins

BIRTHDAYS 10.5

by @ 2:00 am. Date Category: Birthdays

Karen Allen
Ray Kroc
Chester A. Arthur
Dionysius Diderot
Fracesco Guardi
Robert Goddard
Paul Reising (1819)
Karl Strauss (1912)
Thomas Anshutz
Bob Geldof
Johnathan Edwards
Chevalier d’Eon
Glynis Johns
Joshua Logan
Robert Adams
Vaclav Havel
Penny Baker (Pb 1/84)
Steve Miller
Jeanne Evert
Bill Dana
Jean-Louis Lumiere
Donald Pleasance
Larry Fine
Pavel R. Popovich
Bill Willis
Richard Gehr
Jeff Conaway
Walter Dale Miller
Randy Bush
Trace Armstrong
Jimmy Cefalo
Mario Lemieux
Bil Keane

EVENTS 10.5

by @ 1:00 am. Date Category: Events

PBS debuted
2 states had the same winning lottery numbers (NJ & PA)
Detective Story Magazine debuted
You Bet Your Life debuted (1950)
Declaration of the Rights of Man published (1789)
Beatles’ Love Me Do went gold
Columbus discovered Costa Rica
Jarrow Hunger March Crusade (UK; 1936)
Dalton Gang robbed two banks
Pope Gregory drops 14 days from calendar (1582)
Monty Python’s 1st season debuted (1969)
1st UK Hunger March held (1936)
Frodo crossed the Bridge of Mitheithel (Hobbit)
Columbus discovered Costa Rica
Gumby cancelled (1957)
Antioch College founded (1853)
Moulin Rouge opened in Paris (1889)
1st Submarine attack (US Civil War; 1863)
Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce surrendered (1877)
Earl Warren sworn in as Chief Justice of US Supreme Court (1953)
Citizen Brewery, brewers of Pilsner Urquell, started brewing beer in the town of Pilsen, in what is now the Czech Republic (1842)
Treaty of Ildefonso signed between Spain and France (1796)
Bobby Darin’s Mack the Knife reached No. 1 (1959)
1st Baby show
Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad premiered (1949)
Rosanne found her daughter’s pot stash, smoking it with Dan for old times sake (on Rosanne; 1993)
James T. Mangan charges the USSR with trespassing after Sputnik claiming that he filed a formal charter with the Cook County Recorder making outer-space his private domain (1957)
Citizen Brewery, Plzen, Bohemia, began brewing Pilsner Urquell (1842)
Los Gatos Brewing opened (California; 1992)
Atlantic Brewing opened (New York; 1995)
Hunter Gatherer Brewery opened (South Carolina; 1995)
Spanish Springs Brewing opened (Florida; 1996)



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