World Food Day was created to commemorate the 1945 creation of the UN Food and Agricultural Organization. If you go to this page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Food_Day and scroll down a bit, you'll find a picture of the U.S. National Committee for World Food Day offices in Washington, D.C. It appears to be 12 stories tall. According to the UNFAO, between 691 and 783 million people faced hunger in 2022. Furthermore, according to the USDA:
89.8 percent (118.5 million) of U.S. households were food secure throughout 2021. ... Food insecure—At times during the year, these households were uncertain of having or unable to acquire enough food to meet the needs of all their members because they had insufficient money or other resources for food. Food-insecure households include those with low food security and very low food security. 10.2 percent (13.5 million) of U.S. households were food insecure at some time during 2021. Essentially unchanged from 10.5 percent in 2020.
Maybe the U.S. National Committee for World Food Day needs a bigger building?
Just so you know your place in the greater scheme of things, it is Boss's Day in the United States and Canada, something we clearly really need.
On this day in history:
1384 -- Jadwiga was crowned King of Poland, although she was a woman.
1841 -- Queen's University was founded in Kingston, Ontario
1843 -- Sir William Rowan Hamilton invented and described quaternions, non-commutative complex numbers
1847 -- Jane Eyre was published
1859 -- John Brown led a raid on Harpers Ferry
1869 -- Girton College, Cambridge, England's first residential college for women, was founded
1875 -- Brigham Young University was founded, before Lavell Edwards was even born
1916 -- Margaret Sanger opened the US' first family planning clinic
1934 -- Chinese Communists begin the Long March (alternate date)
1940 -- The Warsaw Ghetto was established.
1943 -- Raid on the Rome Ghetto
1946 -- Execution of the convicted Nazi leaders from the Main Nuremberg Trial
1950 -- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was published
1964 -- China detonated its first nuke
1968 -- Tommie Smith and John Carlos were kicked off the US team for the 1968 Olympics Black Power salute.
1978 -- Wanda Rutkiewicz was the first European woman to summit Mount Everest.
1984 -- Desmond Tutu got the Nobel Peace Prize.
1995 -- The Million Man March in Washington, D.C.
Some people who were born on this day:
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
~~ Oscar Wilde
1620 -- Pierre Paul Puget, painter and sculptor
1678 -- Anna Waser, painter
1679 -- Jan Dismas Zelenka, composer and viol player
1729 -- Pierre van Maldere, violinist and composer 1
758 -- Noah Webster, lexicographer
1854 -- Oscar Wilde, wit, playwright, poet and novelist
1888 -- Eugene O'Neill, playwright
1898 -- William O. Douglas, jurist
1900 -- Primo Conti, futurist painter
1927 -- Gunter Grass, novelist
1931 -- Charles Colson, evangelical lawyer and criminal, Nixon's hatchet
1938 -- Nico, as in "The Velvet Underground and Nico"
1943 -- Fred Turner, bassist, singer, songwriter, co-founder of Bachman-Turner Overdrive
1945 -- Roger Hawkins, session drummer
1947 -- Bob Weir, singer, songwriter, guitarist
1952 -- Cordell Mosson, bassist, took over for Bootsy Collins
1953 -- Tony Carey, keyboardist
1960 -- Bob Mould, singer, songwriter, guitarist (husker du)
1962 -- Flea, bassist, Chili Pepper
1969 -- Wendy Wilson, singer and songwriter
Some people who died on this day:
Believe me, as one who has seen a number of international crises firsthand, they cannot be handled without an understanding of history.
~~ Pierre Salinger
1553 -- Lucas Cranach the Elder, painter
1959 -- George Marshall, general, planner, politician
1972 -- Leo G. Carroll, Topper
1973 -- Gene Krupa, Drummer
1990 -- Art Blakey, drummer, bandleader, messenger
1997 -- James A. Michener, author
2001 -- Etta Jones, singer, and songwriter
2004 -- Pierre Salinger, journalist and politician
Some Holidays, Holy Days, Festivals, Feast Days, Days of Recognition, and such: World Food Day (International) World Anaesthesia Day (International) Teachers' Day (Chile) Boss's Day (United States and Canada) - I shit you not.
Today's Tunes
John Brown
Jan Dismas Zelenka (Two-Fer)
Pierre van Maldere
Oscar Wilde
Nico
Fred Turner
Roger Hawkins
Bob Weir
Cordell Mosson
Tony Carey
Bob Mould
Flea
Wendy Wilson
Gene Krupa
Art Blakey
Etta Jones
Bonus:
"The Velvet Underground and Nico"
Bachmann-Turner Overdrive
Bob Weir
Ok, it's an open thread, so it's up to you folks now. So what's on your mind?
Cross posted from http://caucus99percent.com Open Thread, quaternions, Jane Eyre, Jadwiga, Desmond Tutu, John Brown, Margaret Sanger, Art Blakey, Flea, Nico, Boss' Day, Fred Turner, Gene Krupa, Jan Dismas Zelenka, Bob Weir, Etta Jones