Almanac for October 9th

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Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 9th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-9-Karen-Lee-Boren-T6T414B3C8

Beatles Trivia: October 9, 1940: John Winston Lennon is born in Liverpool, England, U.K. at Liverpool Maternity Hospital.

October 9, 1971: On her husband’s 31st birthday, Yoko Ono Lennon’s solo art exhibition This Is Not Here opens in New York City. Among the guests who attend opening night is Allen Ginsberg.

Bummer October 9th

October 9, 1740: More than 10,000 civilians of Chinese ethnicity are murdered by the Dutch East Indies Company and its Javanese collaborators in what was then called the city of Batavia (now Jakarta, Indonesia). The massacre was a retaliation for a revolt of Chinese sugar mill workers who burned mills and killed 50 Dutch soldiers. 

On the 9th of October, Dutch troops entered a Chinese neighborhood and began burning houses. Some people died in their burning houses; others were shot as they fled the fire. If they reached the Besar River, they were shot down by Dutch troops waiting on boats. The killing continued until October 22nd.

October 9, 1816: Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley's half sister, Fanny Imlay, dies by suicide via an overdose of laudanam.

October 9, 1967: Baylor University student John Clifton dies of cardiac arrest after drinking a mixture of laxatives and garlic while running in place as part of a Baylor Chamber of Commerce hazing ritual. Clifton aspirates the mixture, has difficulty breathing, and collapses. He has a hemorrhage in his lungs before his heart stops.

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Almanac for October 7th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 7th: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-7-The-Giving-Tree-H2H0142DY2

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Artist Birthday: Tim Minchin
Author Julie S. Howlin post of the day: "We Are the Champions"

Bummer October 7th

October 7, 1849: In Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe dies. 

October 7, 1914: Julian Carlton, having murdered seven people and drunk hydrochloric acid in an attempt to commit suicide, starves to death due to the injures to his esophagus caused by the acid. He has been receiving medical attention the whole time he is in police custody.

October 7, 1957: Santa Barbara College student Max Caulk drowns during a Delta Tau Delta fraternity hazing ritual in which his fraternity brothers threw him off a pier.

October 7, 1992: The last fluent speaker of the Ubykh language, Tevfik Esenç, dies at the age of 88. The Ubykh people are a subset of the Circassian people, who were the victims of ethnic cleansing by the Russians in the 18th and 19th centuries.

What was Diane Meyer grateful for on October 7, 2024?

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smoked salmon and dipping bagels in cream cheese
bought a new antique fork that says bloom!
growth mindset
looking forward to the future
sand
long walks
cold air
country roads
long books
plum muffin
barbecue ribs! risotto! green beans!
girls loving themselves! -- working on it always
roasted vegetables

Almanac for October 6th

Erin O'Riordan's Almanac for October 6: https://ko-fi.com/post/October-6-Swedish-Nightengale-X8X2141YBO

https://ala.org/bbooks

Bummer October 6th

October 6, 2017: Travis Maldonado, an employee of Greater Wynewood Exotic Animal Park run by Joe Exotic (Joseph Schreibvogel, who became well-known through the Netflix documentary Tiger King) is known to point guns at other employees of the park. According to Maldonado, the gun is a Luger, which will not fire without a magazine. To prove this point to one of Joe Exotic’s associates, Maldonado places the gun to his head and pulls the trigger. Despite not having a magazine in it, the gun does fire, killing Maldonado. Maldonado is 23 years old.

Photo (c)2007 Derek and Julie Ramsey (Ram-Man) edit by Chris_huh., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

October 6, 2018: Seventeen people board a limousine, headed for a birthday celebration at a brewery near Cooperstown, New York State. Unknown to the passengers, the limo driver should have had his license suspended but hasn’t due to a clerical error. The limo itself had been observed by patrons who’d previously rented it to be in a state of disrepair, with an unusually loud engine.

The limousine, speeding, failed to make a stop at an intersection with a stop sign. It continued on into a parking lot, where it struck a parked car, struck two pedestrians, and came to rest in a gully. The driver, all 17 passengers, and the two pedestrians were killed.

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