Almanac for November 14th

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Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for November 14th: https://ko-fi.com/post/November-14-The-Girls-in-Their-Summer-Dresses-L4L615VZB9

Today's Observance: St. Lawrence O'Toole's Day
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: Pippi Longstocking

Bummer November 14th

November 14, 1916: Masterful British short story writer H.H. Munro, who published under the pen name Saki, is killed by a German sniper while serving in the First World War. His last words are reportedly, “Put that bloody cigarette out!”

November 14, 1928: Dr. Sabin Arnold von Sochocky, the inventor of radium dial paint used to make wristwatches that glow in the dark, dies of aplastic anemia caused by his exposure to radium. His death helps make the legal case for the so-called “radium girls,” workers in the watch factories who became sick and often died from the same exposure to radioactivity, who sued their employer for the unsafe conditions in the factories.

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November 14, 1965: The 5-day Battle of la Drang, the first battle between the U.S. Army and the People’s Army of Vietnam, begins.