Doing Double Duty: Here's July 6th's JS, Holidays and Notables

[Mustafa]

Jubilee Saint, Holidays, and Notable Occurrences for July 6, 2004 e.v. (era vulgaris)

St. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, presiding (Master Cuban filmmaker, iconoclast)

http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?409

Other Potential Jubilee Saints for Today:
St. William Faulkner (American novelist of the magical South)
St. Frida Kahlo (Bisexual Mexican Surrealist painter and Communist activist)
St. Jan Hus (Theological reformer, martyr)
St. Louis Armstrong (Jazz Legend)

Holidays:
Independence Day (Comoros)
Jan Hus Day (Czech Republic)
Day of Statehood (Lithuania)
Independence Day (Malawi)
Republic Day (Malawi)
Old Albums Are Frisbees Day
Festival of Buddha's Eyetooth begins (Ceylon)
Nothing Day
Julian the Blessed's Day (restored Old Rome to Paganism)
National Fried Chicken Day
St. Maria Goretti's Day (patron of teenage girls)
Colette Encarnado (Portugal)
St. Fermin's Day (patron of Pamploma)
Turkey Rama begins (McMinnville, Oregon)
Millennial Fairy Olympics begin (Fairy)
St. Goar's Day (patron of potters; against whirlpools)
National Pickle Festival
Time of Music begins (Finland)
St. Godeleva's Day (patron of Flanders; for/against rain)
Rememberance Day (Luxembourg - in honor of their liberation from Germany by General George S. Patton in WW2)


Notables:

1415 - Jan Hus burned at the stake in Konstanz.
1483 - Richard III crowned king of England.
1535 - Uppity philosopher, Sir Thomas More, beheaded by order of Henry VIII.
1609 - Bohemia is granted Freedom of religion.
1699 - Pirate, Captain Kidd, captured in New York.
1785 - The dollar is unanimously chosen as the money unit for the United States marking the first decimal based currency system.
1799 - Ranjit Singh's 25,000 men start march towards Lahore.
1809 - Pope Pius VII arrested for excommunicating Napoleon.
1854 - In Jackson, Michigan, the first convention of the U.S. Republican Party is held. However a curable vaccine for this ailment was not invented until ...
1885 - Louis Pasteur successfully tests his vaccine against rabies. The patient is Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.
1892 - Dadabhai Naoroji elected as first Indian MP in Britain.
1892 - US Steelworkers killed by Pinkerton men during strike at Carnegie plant.
1908 - Robert Peary sets sail for the Arctic on the expedition on which he later reaches the North Pole.
1919 - The British dirgible R-34 lands in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic by an airship.
1928 - The then world's largest hailstone falls in Potter, Nebraska.
1928 - 1st All-Talking Movie, "Lights of New York" shown.
1933 - 1st All-Star Baseball Game played.
1939 - Holocaust: The last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1945 - "Operation Overcast" began transporting German & Austrian scientists to US during WWII.
1957 - Althea Gibson wins the Wimbledon championships becoming the first black athlete to do so.
1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet.
1964 - "A Hard Day's Night," the first Beatles film, premieres.
1964 - Malawi declares its independence from the United Kingdom.
1966 - Malawi becomes a republic.
1968 - A 145 years overdue library book returned to the University of Cincinnati Library(the fine was $22,646.00)
1974 - The radio program, "A Prairie Home Companion" makes its first live broadcast.
1975 - The Comoros declare their independence from France.
1984 - Scandal-laden Jackson's Victory Tour began.
1988 - The Piper Alpha drilling platform in the North Sea is destroyed by explosions and fires killing 167 oil workers.
1988 - Controverial presidential election held in Mexico.
1990 - NATO declared Warsaw Pact no longer a military threat.

Originally posted by Mustafa


Holidays:

Old Albums Are Frisbees Day

1957 - John Lennon and Paul McCartney (The Beatles) first meet.
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hmmm, time to test the old arm out!!


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little did they know

[Funkenstein]

Originally posted by Mustafa
Jubilee Saint, Holidays, and Notable Occurrences for July 6, 2004 e.v. (era vulgaris)

St. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, presiding (Master Cuban filmmaker, iconoclast)

http://www.culturebase.net/artist.php?409

Other Potential Jubilee Saints for Today:
St. William Faulkner (American novelist of the magical South)
St. Frida Kahlo (Bisexual Mexican Surrealist painter and Communist activist)
St. Jan Hus (Theological reformer, martyr)
St. Louis Armstrong (Jazz Legend)

Offbrand question, I saw your original post on this some time ago. How would one go about nominating Joel Chandler Harris ("Uncle Remus Stories") and Harriet Beecher Stowe ("Uncle Tom's Cabin")? To show the "darker" side of life as well, I think Frederick Douglass should be there as well (if he isn't already).

People bringing about change and capturing the experience of the slave in a manner for ALL to see.

A response would be cool or even a PM. Either or. Thanks. Interesting stuff to read.

[Mustafa]

Both Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14 and July 1) and Joel Chandler Harris (December 8 and July 3) have been Jubilee Saints before. The reason for their exclusion in recent posts (July 1 and 3) is simply one of laziness; their respective contributions as abolitionist and folklorist have been honored by the Jubilee Calendar Committee.

Since most saint days are chosen from either the date of birth, date of death, or some other date of extreme significance each nominee has at least two chances to be the listed saint on a particular day. Stowe, unfortunately, has the same b-day as Che Guevara. Therefore her saint day is often celebrated July 1st instead (although this year went to David Brower.) Harris' b-day is on the same day as Diego Rivera's, ergo his saint day is more often than not on July 3 (except this year, the saint was Charlotte Perkins Gilman.) The process is very disorganized, but due to this disorganization you end up learning a lot about folks you might have never heard of.

The "official" calendar produced yearly by Autonomedia is usually chalk full of errors (especially for lunar based holidays,) and after playing with this calendar for almost a decade now, I've learned to double check my facts against other, more stringent data sets.

If you're interested in nominating a Saint, I would strongly advise you to first get a calendar, make sure they aren't already nominated, and then use the following outline:

(From the Mastering the Art of Jubilation Thread)

Nomination For Sainthood & Inclusion In The World's Columbian Grand Jubilee Calendar Of Saints
Please copy this form [or make your own] to offer any number of candidates you wish, and circulate additional copies to friends throughout the world.

Note:
Saints need not have lived in the last 500 years. They need not have any direct connection with the New World. Living persons may not qualify for sainthood. No popes or heads of state please.

1. Sponsor: (you may be anonymous if you prefer)

Name: ______________________
Address: ___________________
City: ______________________ State: ___________________
Country: ___________________ Telephone: _______________

2. Name of Candidate (groups will also be considered):


3. Proposed Feast Day:

4. Alternate Feast Day:

4a. Reason for Day:


5. Brief Argument for Inclusion:

6. Brief Biographical Sketch:

7. Suggested Symbols and Motifs for Artwork:

Biographic references and supporting materials are very welcome. We especially seek portraiture and other graphic work, original or copies, in color or black and white. Documents, quotations or miscellaneous ephemera will all be very helpful. The decisions of the Committee for the Causes of Saints will be final only in the context of the first calendar, which is meant to be spiritually nourishing and inspirational, not authoritative or exhaustive. Thanks in advance for your help

Sent to:

Jubilee Saints Calendar c/o Autonomedia,
POB 568, Brooklyn, NY 11211-0568

or by fax at -
Jubilee Saint Calendar Nominations, c/o Autonomedia,
(718) 963-2603

or by e-mail -
info@autonomedia.org
subject line: 2002 Jubilee Nominations

P.S. St. Frederick Douglass (Feb. 20)

[MysteryMeat]

Originally posted by Mustafa
chalk full

*chock full?

[Funkenstein]

Originally posted by Mustafa


If you're interested in nominating a Saint, I would strongly advise you to first get a calendar, make sure they aren't already nominated, and then use the following outline:



P.S. St. Frederick Douglass (Feb. 20)

Danke!