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KALW Almanac ~ Tuesday, October 6, 2015

It's Mad Hatter Day...or is it?

279th day of 2015, 86 days remain

  • Sunrise: 7:10am
  • Sunset: 6:46pm
  • Moonrise: 1:26am (40% visible)
  • Moonset: 3:28pm

Tides at the Golden Gate

  • High: 8:34am/7:40pm
  • Low: 1:20am/1:50pm

Special celebrations today...

  • Armed Forces Day -  Egypt
  • National German-American Day
  • October Revolution War -  Syria
  • Physician Assistant Day
  • Remembrance Day -  Turkmenistan
  • Ecological Debt Day
  • Mad Hatter Day
  • American Libraries Day
  • National Noodle Day

On this day in...

1683 - The first Mennonites arrived in America aboard the Concord. The German and Dutch families settled in an area that is now a neighborhood in Philadelphia, PA.

1847 - "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Bronte was first published in London.

1848 - The steamboat SS California left New York Harbor for San Francisco via Cape Horn. The steamboat service arrived on February 28, 1849. The trip took 4 months and 21 days.

1857 - The American Chess Congress held their first national chess tournament in New York City.

1863 - The first Turkish bath was opened in Brooklyn, NY, by Dr. Charles Shepard.

1866 - The Reno Brothers pulled the first train robbery in America near Seymour, IN. The got away with $10,000.

1880 - The National League kicked the Cincinnati Reds out for selling beer.

1884 - The Naval War College was established in Newport, RI.

1889 - In Paris, the Moulin Rouge opened its doors to the public for the first time.

1889 - The Kinetoscope was exhibited by Thomas Edison. He had patented the moving picture machine in 1887.

1890 - Polygamy was outlawed by the Mormon Church.

1928 - War-torn China was reunited under the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai-Shek.

1939 - Adolf Hitler denied any intention to wage war against Britain and France in an address to Reichstag.

1949 - U.S. president Harry Truman signed the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. The act provided $1.3 billion in the form of military aid to NATO countries.

1954 - E.L. Lyon became the first male nurse for the U.S. Army.

1961 - U.S. president John F. Kennedy advised American families to build or buy bomb shelters to protect them in the event of a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union.

1973 - Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in an attempt to win back territory that had been lost in the third Arab-Israel war. Support for Israel led to a devastating oil embargo against many nations including the U.S. and Great Britain on October 17, 1973. The war lasted 2 weeks.

1979 - Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit the White House.

Birthday celebrants today include (or included)...

  • Jenny Lind 1820
  • George Westinghouse 1846
  • Reginald Fessenden 1866
  • Le Corbusier 1887
  • Jerome Cowan 1897
  • Florence Seibert 1897
  • Jack Sharkey 1902
  • Helen Wills Moody 1905
  • Janet Gaynor 1906
  • Carole Lombard 1908
  • Shana Alexander 1925
  • Elisabeth Shue 1963
David Latulippe is host of On the Arts, KALW's weekly radio magazine of the performing arts, as well as for Explorations in Music, and the Berkeley Symphony broadcasts. He has also hosted and produced the radio series From the Conservatory, Music from Mills, and Music at Menlo, and is principal guest host for Revolutions Per Minute.