Sunday, the 26th of October, 2014 is the 299th day in 2014 and in the 43rd calendar week.
General Events:
Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night
October 26, 2014 in the World
It’s time to release your inner wolf . . . or maybe just break out your five year old self’s joy of pretending (especially if it involves making fun animal noises!). October 26th is Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night.
Today you have a reason to show off your best wolf howl!
Awoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Where is Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night?
Worldwide
Intersex Awareness Day
October 26, 2014 in the World
Intersex Awareness Day is observed on October 26, 2014. Intersex Awareness Day (also spelled as Inter Sex Awareness Day or abbreviated as IAD) is an internationally observed civil awareness day designed to highlight the challenges faced by intersex individuals. IAD is an international day of grass-roots action to end shame, secrecy and unwanted genital cosmetic surgeries on intersex children.
On October 26, 1996, intersex activists from Intersex Society of North America and allies from Transexual Menace held the first public intersex demonstration in Boston, where American Academy of Pediatrics was holding its annual conference. Intersex is a variation in sex characteristics including chromosomes, gonads, and/or genitals that do not allow an individual to be distinctly identified as male or female.
Intersex infants with ambiguous outer genitalia may be surgically ‘corrected’ to more easily fit into a socially accepted sex category. Others may opt, in adulthood, for surgical procedures in order to align their physical sex characteristics with their gender identity or the sex category to which they were assigned at birth. Others will not become aware that they are intersex – unless they receive genetic testing – because it does not manifest in their phenotype.
Where is Intersex Awareness Day?
Worldwide
Mother-In-Law Day
October 26, 2014 in the World
Mother-In-Law Day is celebrated on October 26, 2014. It is celebrated each year on the fourth Sunday in October. A mother-in-law is the mother of a person’s spouse. Two women who are mothers-in-law to each other’s children may be called co-mothers-in-law.
In comedies, the mother-in-law is sometimes shown as the bane of the husband, who is married to the mother-in-law’s daughter. Mothers-in-law are often stereotyped in mother-in-law jokes.
A parent-in-law is a person who has a legal affinity with another by being the parent of the other’s spouse. Many cultures and legal systems impose duties and responsibilities on persons connected by this relationship.
Where is Mother-In-Law Day?
Worldwide
Angam Day 2014
October 26, 2014 in Republic of Nauru
Angam Day is celebrated on October 26, 2014. Angam Day is a holiday recognized in the Republic of Nauru. Angam Day is a day of celebration and a time of reflection for the Nauruan people. Twice in its history, the Nauruan population fell below 1,500, and the Nauruan ethnic group have been considered in danger of extinction. On both occasions the Nauruan population recovered. Upon eclipsing a population of 1,500, a number considered to be the minimum required for the survival of a race, Angam Day was declared. The first Angam was in 1932 and the second occasion in 1949.
Where is Angam Day?
Nationwide Republic of Nauru
National Mincemeat Day
October 26, 2014 in the USA
National Mincemeat Day takes place on October 26, 2014. Mincemeat is a mixture of chopped dried fruit, distilled spirits and spices, and sometimes beef suet, beef, or venison. Originally, mincemeat always contained meat.
Many modern recipes contain beef suet, though vegetable shortening is sometimes used in its place. Variants of mincemeat are found in Australia, Brittany, Canada, northern Europe, Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States. In some countries the term mincemeat refers to minced or ground meat.
Mincemeat is frequently consumed during the Christmas holiday season when mince pies or mincemeat tarts are served. In the northeast United States, mincemeat pies are also a traditional part of the Thanksgiving holiday, sometimes served with a piece of Cheddar cheese.
Where is National Mincemeat Day?
Nationwide USA
Historical Events on 26th October:
740 – An earthquake strikes Constantinople, causing much damage and death.
1492 – Lead pencils first used
1662 – Charles II of England sold Dunkirk to France
1774 – Minute Men organized in colonies
1795 – Pinckney’s Treaty between Spain & US is signed, establishing southern boundary of US & giving Americans right to send goods down Mississippi
1858 – Hamilton Smith patents rotary washing machine
1863 – Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1881 – Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Clanton involved in gunfight at OK Corral, in Tombstone, Az
1901 – 1st use of “getaway car” occurs after holding up a shop in Paris
1905 – Union of Sweden & Norway ends
1916 – Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1922 – Italian government resigns under pressure from fascists & Benito Mussolini
1950 – Mother Teresa founds Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta, India
1962 – JFK warns Russia US will not allow Soviet missiles to remain in Cuba
1962 – Nikita Khrushchev sends note to JFK offering to withdraw his missiles from Cuba if US closed its bases in Turkey offer is rejected
1967 – Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
1970 – “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1972 – Henry Kissinger declares “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam
1977 – The last natural case of smallpox was discovered in Merca district, Somalia. The WHO and the CDC consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination.
1984 – “Baby Fae” gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1994 – Jordan & Israel sign peace accord
1999 – Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
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